This homophobic senator is being epically trolled by men wearing tutus
From this day forward, Sen. Mike Enzi and tutus will be forever inseparable.
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Shirtless Violinist Aces Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ While Swinging in a Giant Hoop: WATCH
Shirtless Violinist Aces Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ While Swinging in a Giant Hoop: WATCH
This is the chandelier everyone should have above their banquet table.
YouTube’s Shirtless Violinist has followed up his gay Beauty and the Beast extravaganza with a stunning acrobatic performance of Sia’s “Chandelier” in which he manages to remain perfectly composed while spinning through the air in a ring in all manner of positions.
I hope you like my cover of “Chandelier” by Sia. This is one of my all-time favorite pop songs and I think it sounds beautiful on the violin. I almost called this video “Shirtless Violinist In Space” – watch and you’ll see why. It’s kind of like that movie “Gravity” but with more violins and fewer shirts…
I have a confession: If I had any clue how much this was going to HURT before we filmed this video, I would have said “forget it!!” You guys, aerial arts are no joke! They require a lot of strength and skill and above all else…a willingness to take physical punishment! Those silks whipped my ass and that hoop pummeled me hard! When you watch the video it isn’t hard to see the red welts along my back – ouch!
However, I expected some pain – so I can’t say I was too surprised by that part. What I didn’t expect was the motion sickness!! I always thought I was impervious to such things. I’ve never been car sick and I love riding roller coasters. But neither of those things could have prepared me for playing my violin upside-down while spinning on a giant hoop for 4 straight hours! Note to self: You’re not 7 years old any more!
I have never felt so sick in my life! I spent every second between takes laying flat on my back.
But you know what? It was totally worth it, and now I have a ton of respect for the aerial arts. If you haven’t done it before, I highly recommend you give it a try. Just don’t do what I did…maybe take a beginner’s class? Yeah, that would be far more sensible…
Check out the beautiful track:
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Shirtless Violinist Aces Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ While Swinging in a Giant Hoop: WATCH
Why The Equality Act Can’t Wait Any Longer
Why The Equality Act Can’t Wait Any Longer
Today, millions of LGBTQ Americans still lack basic legal protections in states across the country – leaving our community vulnerable to discrimination that compromises our safety, families, jobs and our lives.
In fact, in a majority of states, LGBTQ people can get married on Saturday and risk being fired from their job on Monday because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That’s wrong and it’s dangerous- and that’s why Congress must pass the Equality Act.
Tomorrow, Congress will reintroduce the Equality Act with bipartisan and unprecedented corporate support. The Equalityl would extend existing civil rights protections to LGBTQ people by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity across key areas of life, including employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally-funded programs and jury service.
Discrimination is still a real and persistent problem for many LGBTQ Americans. HRC polling from 2015 found that nearly two-thirds of self-identified LGBTQ Americans report experiencing discrimination — including people like Carter Brown, a transgender man from Texas who lost his job after he was outed by his colleagues.
And Brown isn’t alone in his quest for non-discrimination protections — roughly 50 percent of LGBTQ Americans live in states where they’re at risk of being fired, denied housing, or refused service because of who they are. There is no federal law explicitly protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination and 31 states still lack fully-inclusive non-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community. Passing this law would not only protect thousands of LGBTQ people from losing their jobs, but will help our community to thrive in the workplace and in society.
As momentum for full equality continues to grow, Congress must act to combat and extinguish LGBTQ discriminaiton once and for all.
Stay tuned to HRC’s blog and social media channels for more information about the Equality Act.
www.hrc.org/blog/why-the-equality-act-cant-wait-any-longer?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
Self-Important Hacker Leaks ‘Orange Is the New Black’
Self-Important Hacker Leaks ‘Orange Is the New Black’
A hacker has stolen episodes of the most culturally diverse, queer, and women-centric series on TV.
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/5/01/self-important-hacker-leaks-orange-new-black
Justin Timberlake May Day memes and GIFS are blowing up the internet
Justin Timberlake May Day memes and GIFS are blowing up the internet
NSYNC released “It’s Gonna Be Me” way back in 2000. Who knew 17 years later it would still be so relevant?
Preservationists Create Interactive Map of Historic LGBT Sites in New York City
Preservationists Create Interactive Map of Historic LGBT Sites in New York City
The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project has produced an interactive map featuring their work to exhaustively identify and document sites in New York City pivotal to LGBT history. The project’s founders, Andrew Dolkart, Ken Lustbader, and Jay Shockley, have spent 25 years in research and advocacy and sought to contextualize events and places that had an impact on LGBT lives and progress.
Including sites such as Christine Jorgensen‘s childhood home to Julio Rivera Corner to pre-Stonewall activist gathering spaces, the Project officially began in August 2015 and actively seeks input from members of the community for suggestions and feedback. They described their mission to local NYC site DNAInfo:
Of the 92,000 sites on the National Register of Historic Places, about a dozen are listed for their association with LGBT history.
The historic sites project hopes to change that.
The project, which was established in 2014, recently launched an interactive map featuring 100 sites organized by type of space, including bars, residences, medical facilities, performance venues, community spaces and more.
There are many challenges when it comes to sifting through records related to LGBT history, explained Ken Lustbader, who directs the project with Columbia professors of architectural history Andrew Dolkart and retired historian from the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Jay Shockley.
“We’re talking about LGBT history, which is often covert, hidden, transitory, dismissed,” said Lustbader, who started mapping out significant LGBT sites for a project for his Columbia thesis nearly 25 years ago.
The Project’s website also highlights the present-day importance and current relevance of recalling this history:
We hope that our website inspires the LGBT community and youth, who are often not taught this history, in particular. Now more than ever it is important to raise public awareness about the community’s contributions to American history as well as the struggles it has faced in achieving acceptance and equality under the law.
Our project encourages you to take a second look at the physical places you walk past every day and to appreciate a history that, until our initiative, has largely been invisible.
The Project has put together an explainer video, which you can watch below:
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Preservationists Create Interactive Map of Historic LGBT Sites in New York City
Reading the Far Right: Glowing Reviews for Trump’s First 100 Days
Reading the Far Right: Glowing Reviews for Trump’s First 100 Days
We read the extreme right’s “alternative facts” on Trump’s record and more, so you don’t have to.
www.advocate.com/media/2017/5/01/reading-far-right-glowing-reviews-trumps-first-100-days
I’m about to come out to my wife. What’s the best way to do it?
I’m about to come out to my wife. What’s the best way to do it?
In the moment, I get scared and freeze up.”
Randy Rainbow Celebrates Donald Trump’s First 100 ‘Unpopular’ Days in Office: WATCH
Randy Rainbow Celebrates Donald Trump’s First 100 ‘Unpopular’ Days in Office: WATCH
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, or under a rock, or have completely given up on TV after the last election, you know that Saturday marked Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.
And there’s no one better to put a tune to those 2,400 hours of “Wicked” failure than Randy Rainbow.
Watch:
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Randy Rainbow Celebrates Donald Trump’s First 100 ‘Unpopular’ Days in Office: WATCH
HRC Activates Its Members During Trump’s First 100 Days
HRC Activates Its Members During Trump’s First 100 Days
A message to HRC members from Chad Griffin after Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.
