Beloved gay Israeli pop star dies in freak drowning accident
Amir Fryszer Guttman was a former member of the Israeli boy band High Five.

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Trump Steps Up Attacks: Jeff Sessions Endorsed Me Because of My ‘Massive Numbers’ and ‘I’m Very Disappointed’ in Him — WATCH

Donald Trump increased the ferocity of his attacks on “beleaguered” Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday, saying Sessions’s “loyalty” and endorsement only came because Trump was so popular in Alabama.

Said Trump to the Wall Street Journal:

“It’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement. I’m very disappointed in Jeff Sessions. I’m just looking at it. I’ll just see. It’s a very important thing.”

He added:

“When they say he endorsed me, I went to Alabama. I had 40,000 people. He was a senator from Alabama. I won the state by a lot, massive numbers. A lot of the states I won by massive numbers. But he was a senator, he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, ’What do I have to lose?’ And he endorsed me. So it’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement. But I’m very disappointed in Jeff Sessions.”

Trump also seemed to blame the entire Russia investigation on Sessions:

“If Jeff Sessions didn’t recuse himself, we wouldn’t even be talking about this subject.”

Trump also ripped Sessions at a White House press conference:

Trump’s barrage of direct attacks have been going for six days now, since a New York Times interview when he said that he wouldn’t have appointed him had he known he was going to recuse himself from the Russia probe.

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Trump Steps Up Attacks: Jeff Sessions Endorsed Me Because of My ‘Massive Numbers’ and ‘I’m Very Disappointed’ in Him — WATCH

People are pissed about Prince George being called gay, but should they be?
“I’m so happy Prince George is a f*g,” one person on Twitter wrote.

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Cries of ‘Kill the Bill’ and ‘Shame’ Break Out as Senate Votes to Open Debate on Cruel Trumpcare Bill: WATCH

As the Senate prepared to vote on a motion to proceed with a vote on the repeal and replacement of Obamacare, cries of “shame” and “kill the bill” broke out from the viewing gallery.

The Senate approved the motion to open debate with 50 ‘aye’ votes. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) were the only Republicans to vote “no”.

The Senate will now debate a bill which few know anything about but will likely remove healthcare from millions of Americans.

Watch the protesters cry out from the gallery:

Protesters chant as vote begins

KILL THE BILL, DON’T KILL US
KILL THE BILL, DON’T KILL US
KILL THE BILL, DON’T KILL US

SHAME
SHAME
SHAME pic.twitter.com/iWTJN3Fji7

— CAP Action (@CAPAction) July 25, 2017

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Cries of ‘Kill the Bill’ and ‘Shame’ Break Out as Senate Votes to Open Debate on Cruel Trumpcare Bill: WATCH

Closeted churchgoing businessman finds himself ensnared in bizarre Grindr blackmail plot
Another day, another closeted gay businessman extorted on Grindr.

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Stephen Colbert Hoped Tyler the Creator Would Talk About Coming Out as Gay, But Only Got a Butt Grab: WATCH

Much of the talk leading up to the release of star rapper Tyler the Creator’s new album Flower Boy has been that he appears to come out as gay in the album’s lyrics.

But unlike his friend Frank Ocean, who clarified his own coming out in follow-up interviews, Tyler has so far left the world speculating if he’s actually coming out, or just gay-baiting.

RELATED: Is Tyler the Creator Coming Out as Gay on His New Album? The Internet is Buzzing

Stephen Colbert tried last night in an interview to push him toward the topic but the closest he got was a quick spanking from the rapper, who arrived on the show wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.

We did learn a few other details about the 26-year-old’s interests.

“Elizabeth Taylor is my jewelry idol,” he told Colbert. “Her use of coral is crazy. She’s dead now though.”

Said Colbert: “But diamonds are forever. Diamonds are forever.”

And then we learned that Tyler knows nothing about Elizabeth Taylor aside from her outsize interest in jewelry.

“Did you ever see National Velvet?”, Colbert asked.

“What are you talking about?,” Tyler said, to a stunned and bemused Colbert. “She was in a movie? I don’t know all that stuff. I found a book one day lurking in Barnes and Nobles. It was like ‘oh my god, this little white lady got some nice stuff’ and called it a day.”

“You’re going to love it, man. Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? You’re going to love it man,” Colbert exclaimed.

“Man, these quotes are really going over my head man right now,” said Tyler.

“Let’s get together and watch some Elizabeth Taylor,” said Colbert.

Replied Tyler, “You’re asking me on a date?”

“I’m asking you on a date,” said Colbert. And the next exchange might have gone over the head of anyone not familiar with the speculation about Tyler’s sexual orientation. “Tell me about the new album. I want to hear about the new album.”

It’s out?” replied Tyler.

Quipped Colbert: “Many critics have said the same thing.”

Watch:

Meanwhile, Ben Beaumont-Thomas at The Guardian wonders if he’s coming out or just being a queer-baiting provocateur?

But what are we really witnessing here? Is this a young man’s earnest struggle to come to terms with his sexuality in a public forum, awkwardly using humor as a defense mechanism to protect himself from a potentially unforgiving rap community? Or is this just another example of a button-pushing attention-seeker, ridiculing the gay experience for puerile effect? Without explicit clarification from Tyler himself, it’s difficult to define exactly what’s at play.

In the past, when he’s been questioned about his sexuality, his answers have been able to fit into either school of thought, although probably more easily into the latter. In a Rolling Stone profile from 2015, the journalist Ernest Baker noted the constant references to being gay amid the banter of Tyler and his entourage, causing him to wonder what exactly was at the root. When queried about it, he claimed to be “gay as fuck” and said his friends were used to him “being gay”, but when asked outright, he denied it.

There’s clearly something fetishistic for Tyler about homosexuality and the latest bout of gay references could just be a more tempered iteration of calling everyone a faggot or equating gay with stupid. It’s a different way of poking (his justification for using the word faggot was that it “hits and hurts people”) and the delivery has been formatted to make it more palatable for a wider audience. He’s made it clear in the past that more mainstream success is of high importance to him. In a recent chat with Zane Lowe, he revealed that he was keen to get Nicki Minaj on the second verse of I Ain’t Got Time to open his music up to a new audience while also tweeting that he wanted a No 1 album “sooooo bad”. I’m not pushing the cynical idea that Tyler has “gone gay” to achieve the commercial success of Ocean, but his messaging has clearly been tailored to avoid limiting breakout appeal.

Watch Tyler perform “911”.

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Old gay men must stop hooking up with their friends and build healthier relationships, blogger says
Someone seems unfamiliar with the concept of “friends with benefits.”

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