40 and Nobody to Drop Off at Hebrew School

What happens when your life doesn’t like how you imagined it to be?

www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/3/28/40-and-nobody-drop-hebrew-school

시골 소년이 왕자님과 사랑에 빠지는 동화가 나왔다
새로 출간되는 동화책 하나는 시골 소년이 왕자님을 만나 우정을 쌓다가 사랑에 빠지는 내용을 담는다.

아담 …

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www.huffingtonpost.kr/2017/03/27/story_n_15648974.html

‘Sexiest’ Man Alive’, An Epic ‘Feud’, Ab Fab’ and More TV This Week

Check out our weekly guide to TV this week, and make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

If you’re as man-crazy as we are, you’ll want to relive the hunks of decades past with People Icons Tuesday at 10 p.m. Eastern on ABC. The season finale focuses on the hotties that have snatched the title of Sexiest Man Alive on the magazine’s cover.

The weird and wild X-Men spinoff Legion wraps its strange first season Wednesday at 10 p.m. Eastern on FX. Here’s hoping Aubrey Plaza returns for next season, because she’s the best part of this series starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens.

Hello, hello, hello! Valerie Cherish herself Lisa Kudrow makes a guest spot on the next episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. This Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern we’ll (hopefully) get to learn the identity of the mystery queen and more bewigged bedlam from the competition. Miss the first episode? Catch up with our recap.

We’re going to assume you already saw Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie in theaters (at least once), but if you’re looking to rewatch at home with a cocktail in hand, catch the HBO premiere Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Fans of Feud: Bette and Joan should be strap in for a real doozy Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern on FX. The series will tackle one of the most memorable moments in their epic rivalry, and you will not want to miss it. Want to relive the season so far? Catch up with our recaps.

What are you watching this week on TV?

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The New Numbers on What N.C. Is Losing

The state has already lost billions of dollars in business that went elsewhere.

www.advocate.com/politics/2017/3/27/new-numbers-what-nc-losing

Andrew Rannells on Elijah’s game-changing episode of ‘Girls’

If New York was the fifth rich white lady on Sex and the City, Elijah is the fifth girl on Girls. Introduced in the show’s first season as Hannah’s college ex who had only recently come out as gay, the character, played by Tony nominee Andrew Rannells, quickly became a fixture. In a show that has been characterized by its “unlikeable” characters, Rannells has played Elijah as a viper-tongued, unflinchingly bitchy gay guy whose self-involvement has been rivaled only by Allison Williams’s Marnie—who he fully slapped in one episode! And yet, Elijah never came off as a one dimensional caricature; he was less a stereotype than a very specific type of gay guy that you might actually meet at a gay bar and, unlike the mopey homos on Looking, actually want to hang out with.

The most recent episode of Girls’ sixth and final season devoted more time to Elijah than ever before, following the seemingly feckless man-child from his day job at Henri Bendel to an audition for a musical adaptation of White Men Can’t Jump opening on Broadway. It’s an episode that propels the character into whatever comes next for him once the final credits roll on Girls. On the Monday after “Bonce” premiered on HBO, Rannells called Queerty to discuss his character’s moment in the spotlight, what kind of gay uncle he would be, and why Elijah can’t have a spin-off.

So by 10:30 last night, there were already like two posts about you and your character on Vulture. Did you expect the episode to create such a stir?
It’s very nice that it did. No, I didn’t. I didn’t expect it, but I’m happy that people enjoyed it. I have to say, when we filmed it over the summer—it’s always sort of hard to tell what reactions are gonna be, because I think we filmed that episode in late July, like the first part of August. So, so much time has passed that it’s not like I forgot about it, but all of a sudden seeing it, it’s like, Oh, god! People are actually going to watch that! You sort of forget.

When you are filming, how much of a sense do you get of what the episode is going to ultimately be like?
It’s tricky, because, you know, as an actor you only have control over so much, and then your performance gets put in the hands of the director and the editor. At this point, six seasons in, I feel like I have a pretty good sense of what things might look like based on our different directors. Last night’s episode was directed by Richard Shepherd who’s also one of our producers and I’ve worked with him quite a bit on Girls. So I felt like I sort of know Richard’s style and I sort of know what he goes for. You can kind of get a sense, even while you’re doing it, of what takes might be used. But last night was also sort of a departure—my storyline anyway—from what Girls normally is, and there were a lot of moving parts to the episode. New characters, people we haven’t seen before. Obviously musical elements and dance elements, things that we generally don’t do on Girls. So that was a little bit of a mystery. It was exciting to see it all come together.

In a way this episode felt similar to “Panic in Central Park” the Season 5 episode that focused solely on Marnie. Was this kind of Elijah’s swan song?
He’s still around for the rest of the season, but yes, this is definitely his big moment, and I was very grateful to Lena for sort of giving him this real estate in this final season. I’ve always felt like I’ve gotten to be a very developed character and not just a sidekick, but it’s nice to be give a chance to do a few more tricks and have a little more screen time.

What did this episode mean for the character?
I think particularly in this final season, with Elijah finding out about Hannah’s pregnancy and having that be such a huge wake-up call to basically get his shit together, I think he’s in real denial about where he is in his life and his age and where he should be in the progression of his life. I think he had to very quickly figure out what he’s going to do with himself. He can’t just be kicking around working side jobs and day-drinking for the rest of his life. So this was a big wake-up call for him. It was an important episode for him just to start to figure out what his goals are and what he actually wants to do with himself.

He definitely had a very strong reaction to hearing that Hannah is pregnant. What kind of gay uncle do you think he’d ultimately be?
I think he’d eventually be a great gay uncle. Maybe not so good with a baby.

Like you said, he’s finally getting his shit together at the ripe old age of 28. What was life as an actor like for you when you were 28?
I was a little bit further along, but I think that was around the time that I really had to make a decision, if I was really gonna go all-in for this career. I had done one Broadway show. I had done Hairspray for like a year and a half, which was a great experience, but it didn’t quite move the needle as far as I thought it was going to professionally. I realized that I needed to get very serious and really devote myself to this career if I really wanted to make a go of it. So it was around that time that I applied myself in a much different way.

Corey Stoll’s character Dill showed up again, and he mentions that he thinks he’s broken because his father abandoned him to followed the Maharishi or whatever. Why do you think Elijah is broken?
I don’t think he’s broken. It’s just that there are so many ways to get distracted in the city.

When we first meet him in Season 1, he’s just coming out, which honestly always felt like kind of a false note for this guy. Did you and Lena or Jenni Konner ever discuss why he stayed closeted for so long?
Not really. The way I always thought of it was that he was out to everybody in his life except Hannah. Which I guess isn’t that rare in that kind of college relationship.

I think gay guys have a very complicated relationship with representations of themselves in media. Do you have a sense of how other gay guys have responded to Elijah?
I never really felt any pressure to represent gay men in this role. When I was in The New Normal, that was a show about a gay couple in the surrogacy process. It was dealing with things that were very topical and it was Justin Bartha and I kind of as the focus, so I did feel a little more of that pressure on that show.

People tend to conflate some of the female characters on the show with the actresses playing them, particularly Lena Dunham. Have you experienced anything similar playing Elijah?
We’re lucky that people don’t tend to do that with the guys on the show. People don’t think that Alex [Karpovsky] is Ray. No one thinks that Ebon [Moss-Bachrach] is Desi.

This is the first character that you’ve really lived with for a number of years.
Yeah, it is, and, you know, it’s similar to what I did in theater, where I played characters for years. But you’re playing the same moments every night. With TV, there are always different situations to explore how a character would react. How would Elijah interact with a stranger? What is Elijah like in an audition?

So, what’s it like leaving him behind after playing him for six seasons?
I feel like I’ve just kind of put him in a box on a shelf. There’s always the chance to take him out again someday.

More than one person has suggested Elijah should get his own spin-off. Would you be up for it?
I’d certainly be up for it. I don’t think HBO would be up for it.

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House Intel Chair Devin Nunes Admits to Reviewing Surveillance Docs at White House Before Briefing Trump

This morning reports emerged that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the House Intelligence Committee Chair, reviewed classified documents at the White House the day before he unilaterally relayed that information to Donald Trump and later made a breathless announcement to the press that the intel contained information that Trump and his advisors may have been captured in incidental surveillance of other targets.

On Monday afternoon, Nunes admitted that he did review the documents at the White House, the Washington Post reports:

Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) went to the White House last week “in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source,” Nunes’s spokesman, Jack Langer, said in a statement. Langer said that Nunes also met an unidentified source on the White House grounds.

Langer said that because the information had not been provided to Congress, Nunes could not have used secure facilities at the Capitol to review it. He added that “the White House grounds was the best location to safeguard the proper chain of custody and classification of these documents.”

Nunes has still not relayed the specifics of the documents he reviewed to the other members of the House Intel Committee and canceled a meeting that was scheduled to be held today.

Senator Chuck Schumer on Monday called for House Speaker Paul Ryan to replace Nunes as the head of the committee.

Said Schumer: “Without further ado, Speaker Ryan should replace Chairman Nunes. If Speaker Ryan wants the House to have a credible investigation, he needs to replace Chairman Nunes.”

.@SenSchumer: “If @SpeakerRyan wants the House to have a credible investigation he needs to replace Chairman Nunes.” pic.twitter.com/UL4ihema83

— CSPAN (@cspan) March 27, 2017

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House Intel Chair Devin Nunes Admits to Reviewing Surveillance Docs at White House Before Briefing Trump

The Crucial Role Young Advocates Are Playing in Raising Transgender Visibility

This Friday, LGBTQ and allied communities around the globe will mark International Transgender Day of Visibility. This year poses new challenges for the rights of transgender people as President Trump and states across the country are aiming to roll back their rights. It’s critical — now more than ever — that we recognize the advocates and allies who are working tirelessly to bring trans issues to the forefront.

Ahead of the annual event, HRC wanted to highlight a growing group of visible trans and gender fluid youth advocates, as well as their families, who are helping change the hearts and minds of millions. Several on our list have already helped spark a national conversation around what it means to be transgender.

Last year, at just nine years old, Avery Jackson made history by becoming the first transgender person to appear on the cover of National Geographic, spurring conversations around gender identity in living rooms across the country. Throughout her journey, Avery has been supported by her mom Debi Jackson, a fierce advocate in her own right who made waves when a video of her speech advocating for her daughter before a mother’s association meeting went viral in 2014.

As more trans youth continue to live authentic lives, it’s more important than ever for their families to become vocal advocates as well. Parents like JR — who is also a member of HRC’s Trans Equality Council — became a staunch public ally for his daughter Ellie after she came out as transgender at four years old.

Trans youth need allies not only at home but in all areas of life, including school. HRC understands how crucial it is for trans students to have a safe and inclusive learning environment, which is why we initiated our Welcoming Schools program, so that transgender and gender-expansive youth know they’re supported in and outside of the classroom.

These types of programs are critical to LGBTQ young people as many lack crucial support from their families, and instead are rejected, leaving them at greater risk for homelessness, substance abuse, depression, and suicide. Up to 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ.

Thanks in large part to social media, the culture has begun to shift regarding issues of gender. Social platforms like Facebook and Tinder have dozens of options for users’ gender, a reality featured in the latest issue of TIME on the diversity of gender identities. Moreover, young people remain far more open minded to gender fluidity, with 20 percent of millennials compared to seven percent of baby boomers who say they are something other than cisgender, according to TIME.

Those changing attitudes have helped other notable trans youth like Gavin Grimm and Jazz Jennings to embrace their truest selves in the most public way possible.  

Jennings, 16, has captivated viewers by documenting her life on TLC’s GLAAD Award winning docu-series, I Am Jazz and appearing in TIME’s 25 Most Influential Teens — twice. She is also an author of a self-title memoir, Being Jazz, and co-founded the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, which helps assists trans youth.

Just a high school senior, Grimm’s fight to be respected and protected at school, including by using the restroom that corresponds with his gender identity, has catapulted his story across the national headlines. Grimm’s case was slated for the Supreme Court before it was sent back to the Fourth Circuit for further review — it would’ve been the first time the nation’s highest court heard a case regarding transgender rights.

Even though the decision to vacate Grimm’s case to a lower court is a disappointing setback, his story has already resonated with millions about what’s at stake for transgender rights.  

To learn more about the resources available to transgender children and families, please visit, our coming out guide; Schools in Transition, a best practices guide for supporting transgender youth at school; or additional resources at hrc.org/trans-youth.

www.hrc.org/blog/the-crucial-role-young-advocates-are-playing-in-raising-transgender-visibil?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed

Iowa Lawmaker: 'Anything You Say About a Gay Is a Gay Slur'

We’re just too sensitive, according to state Rep. Ralph Watts, recently accused of using the derogatory term “red rider” to describe a gay man.

www.advocate.com/politicians/2017/3/27/iowa-lawmaker-anything-you-say-about-gay-gay-slur