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Why a Trans Group Interrupted Phoenix Pride
Why a Trans Group Interrupted Phoenix Pride
The disrupters in Arizona were inspired by Black Lives Matter’s action at Toronto Pride.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/4/07/why-trans-group-interrupted-phoenix-pride
Change Project
Male rape victims share their harrowing stories in this powerful new documentary
Andrew Rannells is Worried for the Future Gay Children of America: WATCH
Andrew Rannells is Worried for the Future Gay Children of America: WATCH
Andrew Rannells is “nervous that the future gay children of America” won’t get to be introduced to musical theater as he was by PBS because Donald Trump has it “on the chopping block.”
Rannells tells Seth Meyers that he recently filmed a performance of his Broadway show Falsettos for PBS and explains that the network is where he discovered Broadway.
So naturally, he’s worried for the children. Actually, “not just the gay children, all the children.”
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HRC & Equality NC: NBA Decision to Reward North Carolina for Discrimination is Deeply Disappointing
HRC & Equality NC: NBA Decision to Reward North Carolina for Discrimination is Deeply Disappointing
HRC and Equality NC released the following statements after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced North Carolina is now eligible to host future All-Star Games. The NBA decision comes in the wake of the discriminatory back-room “deal” made by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and the state’s GOP leadership that doubles down on many of the worst aspects of the anti-LGBTQ HB2 law.
“It is deeply disappointing to see the NBA reward North Carolina for doubling down on discrimination,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “North Carolina has enacted a statewide ban on non-discrimination protections, and it remains the only state that has made it the state’s exclusive business to decide where transgender people may use the restroom. These are dangerous laws that must change, and if the NBA decides to bring games to North Carolina — which is not yet clear — we expect that they will also be actively working to repeal laws that endanger LGBTQ players, fans, and employees.”
“It is disheartening to see the NBA fall for the fake repeal passed by lawmakers in Raleigh,” said Equality NC Executive Director Chris Sgro. “The NBA has been a staunch opponent of HB2 and should be standing strong against HB142. The new law continues to put LGBTQ North Carolinians at risk and does little to alleviate the harm and discrimination put in place by the original HB2.”
With today’s announcement, Commissioner Silver said the NBA would develop a non-discrimination policy and require NBA partners to sign on to it. Unfortunately, Governor Roy Cooper’s back-room deal with Republican leadership in the General Assembly currently prevents North Carolina cities from meeting non-discrimination requirements.
The NBA’s announcement comes as a growing list of states and cities have issued or re-affirmed their bans on taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina, including Minnesota, New York City, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Oakland, Portland, Santa Fe, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Palm Springs, and Wilton Manors.
The legislation passed last week, HB 142, is not HB2 repeal, and it makes North Carolina the latest state to enact an anti-LGBTQ bill into law this year. The new law replaces one discriminatory, anti-transgender, bathroom bill with another. It bans local LGBTQ non-discrimination protections statewide through 2020 and substitutes the previous anti-transgender bathroom provisions with a new provision that forbids state agencies, public universities, primary and secondary schools, and cities from adopting policies ensuring transgender people have access to restrooms consistent with their gender identity.
Former North Carolina Gov. Pat. McCrory — who lost his seat because of his role in HB2 — and the Family Research Council — an anti-LGBTQ hate group — have come out in favor of the new law, but condemnation for this sham “deal” has been widespread. Indeed, news of the fake repeal was met with a huge national outcry from major civil rights organizations, including HRC, Equality North Carolina, the National Center for Transgender Equality, Lambda Legal, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Voto Latino, The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; corporations including IBM, Salesforce, Dow and Levi’s; and celebrities like Ellen Page, Jane Fonda, Janet Mock, Tegan and Sara, Montel Williams, Rob Reiner, Jason Collins, Martina Navratilova and Raymond Braun.
Civil rights groups have been working to correct the record on the discriminatory measure, and the tide has turned in calling out this sham “deal” exactly for what it is. Top headlines include: The New York Times editorial board, “North Carolina’s Bait-and-Switch on Transgender Restroom Law;” Steven Petrow for The Washington Post, “You can’t compromise on civil rights. But North Carolina just did;” The Charlotte Observer editorial board, “HB2 repeal: Cooper turns back on LGBT community;” Slate, “The HB2 “Repeal” Bill Is an Unmitigated Disaster for LGBTQ Rights and North Carolina;” Mother Jones, “Don’t Be Fooled. The North Carolina “Compromise” Doesn’t Actually Protect Trans Rights;” ESPN, “NCAA, NBA and ACC say they’re pro-LGBT — now’s their chance to prove it;” The Nation, “The So-Called ‘Repeal’ of North Carolina’s Bathroom Bill Is a Terrible Deal for Civil Rights.” Further articles and statements from other major publications, as well as the business and entertainment community, can be found here.
'Moonlight,' 'This Is Everything,' Ellen DeGeneres and more pick up MTV Movie and TV Awards nominations
'Moonlight,' 'This Is Everything,' Ellen DeGeneres and more pick up MTV Movie and TV Awards nominations
Photo Credit: GLAAD
Yesterday, the nominees for MTV’s inaugural Movie and TV Awards were announced, and included nods for several LGBTQ-inclusive films and series. This new show is the updated version of the long-running MTV Movie Awards, and in addition to introducing new TV categories, there are a few other format changes. The acting categories will include both film and television actors competing in the same categories, and the awards have also moved to non-gendered categories. MTV has added five new awards with two that were created specifically to speak to the current societal climate: Best American Story will be “awarded to the show or film that shows America at its best, open and diverse,” and the Best Fight Against the System award will be given to “the film or show whose characters best exemplify fighting against a system that tries to keep them down.”
GLAAD Media Award-recipient and Oscars’ Best Picture-winner Moonlight picked up three nominations, including one in the new Best American Story category. The film is also nominated in Best Kiss for the moment between Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome who play teenage Chiron and Kevin, and in Tearjerker for a scene in the film’s third act where Chiron’s (Trevante Rhodes) mother, Paula (Naomie Harris), tells him she loves him and acknowledges how she has hurt him. GLAAD Media Award-recipient Transparent and Jane the Virgin are nominated alongside Moonlight in Best American Story.
The Best Documentary category this year included a nomination for I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary about the life and writing of James Baldwin, the gay African American civil rights activist and playwright. Also nominated was This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, a documentary about the life of transgender model and YouTube star GiGi Gorgeous. Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, which established that LeFou is a canonically gay character, is nominated in Movie of the Year. Josh Gad (LeFou) is also nominated in Best Duo with his co-star, out actor Luke Evans.
Ellen DeGeneres is nominated in Best Host for The Ellen DeGeneres Show. LGBTQ-inclusive series This Is Us and Game of Thrones are nominated in Show of the Year, and out actor Kristian Nairn is nominated in Tearjerker for his Game of Thrones‘ character’s final scene. The Voice is nominated in Best Reality Competition. Loving, the story of the U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down the ban on interracial marriages and which became the foundational argument for winning marriage equality, and Mr. Robot are nominated in Best Fight Against the System.
The MTV Movie and TV Awards, hosted by Adam Devine, air Sunday May 7th on MTV at 8pm ET/5pm PT.
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Hillary Clinton Doesn't Hold Back on the Subject of Misogyny
Hillary Clinton Doesn't Hold Back on the Subject of Misogyny
In her first interview since her electoral vote loss, the former Secretary of State said that hatred and distrust of women played a role in the election and that she plans on addressing the issue.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/4/07/hillary-clinton-doesnt-hold-back-subject-misogyny
Zac Efron’s new wax figure wants to drink your soul
Zac Efron’s new wax figure wants to drink your soul
Time to turn off the Internet forever.
Syria, Charlie Hunnam, Stockholm, Fareed Zakaria, Monkey Girl, Adele, Richard Gere: HOT LINKS
Syria, Charlie Hunnam, Stockholm, Fareed Zakaria, Monkey Girl, Adele, Richard Gere: HOT LINKS
OFF THE TRUMP TRAIN. Trump’s online base is pissed that he attacked Syria: “For hours, the Trump Internet warned that their president was being tricked. Mike Cernovich and Alex Jones’s Infowars — both have earned praise from President Trump or those close to him in the recent past — promoted a conspiracy theory all day Thursday that blamed the U.S. deep state for the gas attack in Syria, and not the Assad regime. Infowars called the attack a “false flag” meant to force the United States into a war.”
WHICH OF THESE PEOPLE DOESN’T BELONG? Trump’s war room.
WH photo (ed for security): @potus receives briefing on #syria military strike fr Nat Security team, inc @vp , SECDEF, CJCS via secure VTC pic.twitter.com/aaCnR7xomR
— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) April 7, 2017
FAREED ZAKARIA. “Donald Trump became president of the United States last night.”
.@FareedZakaria on Syria strikes: “I think Donald Trump became President of the United States” last night t.co/dLipRu6SZu
— New Day (@NewDay) April 7, 2017
STOCKHOLM. Stolen beer truck kills at least three after plowing through shopping area into department store: “Sweden has been attacked. All indications are that it was a terrorist attack,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in a statement.
HILLARY. More on her interview at the Women in the World conference.
FRENCH FRIES. Shia LaBeouf has serious drunken meltdown at Jerry’s Deli.
INDIA. Girl raised by monkeys found living in the Katraniaghat forest range: “A group of woodcutters had alerted authorities after spotting the girl, believed to be 10 to 12 years old. When police approached her, the monkeys surrounded the girl, protecting her as one of their own, and attacking an officer as the girl screeched at him, the New Indian Express reported this week. After rescuing the girl, the officer sped away in his patrol car, the monkeys chasing him.”
TORONTO. Prince Harry meets Invictus Games hopefuls.
RECORDS. Adele just broke a record set by Carole King’s Tapestry: “Adele’s 21 surpasses Carole King’s Tapestry
for the most weeks on the Billboard 200 chart for an album by a woman, as the 2011 album notches its 319th week on the list dated April 15, beating Tapestry’s 318 weeks. 21 (which is No. 103 on the latest chart) has been on the tally every week since its No. 1 debut on March 12, 2011. The album spent 24 nonconsecutive weeks at the top.”
RICHARD GERE. Rockin a beach bod at 67.
KING ARTHUR. Charlie Hunnam admits to crush on David Beckham: “David Beckham asked me my opinion a few times on different bits and bobs. I don’t know if it was any help or not, but I was really blown away. It became very clear why and how Beckham’s become the phenomenon that he has. Because he showed up determined to do a good job. He’d worked with a dialect coach, and maybe an acting coach. I sort of anticipated, well, he’s a superstar. This is not his primary or even his secondary focus; this is just a bit of a giggle for him. But that work ethic just shone through. And that, combined with him just being humble and kind and accessible, was very endearing. I’m not a football man, so upfront, I didn’t really have a strong feeling one or way or another. But by the time he left, I had a little bit of a crush on him. He was pretty f–king cool.”
SING OFF. Demi Lovato channels Adele in duel with James Corden.
FRIDAY FLASH. Robert Oliveira.
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