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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Speak Before Hate Group Repping Anti-Gay Baker in SCOTUS Case
Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Speak Before Hate Group Repping Anti-Gay Baker in SCOTUS Case
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will speak at a summit for the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group that is representing the anti-gay baker at the center of Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado, the religious freedom case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
JUST IN: AG Sessions will speak at summit for group behind Christian baker who refused a wedding cake to gay couple. Case heading to SCOTUS. pic.twitter.com/XgsBClHVNB
— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) July 11, 2017
Here’s the description of Alliance Defending Freedom from the SPLC:
Founded by some 30 leaders of the Christian Right, the Alliance Defending Freedom is a legal advocacy and training group that specializes in supporting the recriminalization of homosexuality abroad, ending same-sex marriage, and generally making life as difficult as possible for LGBT communities in the U.S. and internationally. Despite its regular defamation of LGBT people, the group has managed to win special advisory status at the United Nations, in the European Union, and with the Organization of American States.
In Its Own Words
“The only surprise is the rapidity with which this degradation of our human dignity has occurred. It has occurred, with raging effect, and within twelve months, on the heels of government mandated recognition of same-sex ‘marriage’ – an oxymoronic institution if ever there was one. And, for its radical adherents, this has led to a deification of deviant sexual practices. It has further resulted in the inevitable and aggressive persecution of devout Christians who refuse to bow to the false god of sexual license.”
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Speak Before Hate Group Repping Anti-Gay Baker in SCOTUS Case
HRC’s Bold, Proactive New Expansion Plan in Battleground States
HRC’s Bold, Proactive New Expansion Plan in Battleground States
The Human Rights Campaign just announced a bold, proactive and transformational investment with the launch of HRC Rising — the largest grassroots expansion in our 37-year history.
Nelsan Ellis died because of drug and alcohol addiciton — and his family wants the public to know
Nelsan Ellis died because of drug and alcohol addiciton — and his family wants the public to know
“His family believes that in death he would want his life to serve as a cautionary tale.”
Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Full Emails About Meeting with Russian Lawyer ‘in Order to Be Totally Transparent’
Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Full Emails About Meeting with Russian Lawyer ‘in Order to Be Totally Transparent’
Today, The New York Times published details of the email chain between Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone, a publicist, arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer with information that “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.”
RELATED: Publicist Who Brokered Meeting Between Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer Checked In at Trump Tower That Day
In the email chain, Trump Jr. replies “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer” and says he’d bring Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort to the meeting.
Donald Trump Jr just tweeted evidence that his brother-in-law lied on his SF-86 security clearance form — a federal crime t.co/EQWrsIuptq
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 11, 2017
The precise nature of the promised damaging information about Mrs. Clinton is unclear, and there is no evidence to suggest that it was related to Russian-government computer hacking that led to the release of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails. But in recent days, accounts by some of the central organizers of the meeting, including Donald Trump Jr., have evolved or have been contradicted by the written email records.
On Monday, Donald Trump Jr. said on Twitter that it was hardly unusual to take information on an opponent. And on Tuesday morning, he tweeted, “Media & Dems are extremely invested in the Russia story. If this nonsense meeting is all they have after a yr, I understand the desperation!”
Rather than comment to the New York Times, the paper says, Trump Jr. late on Tuesday morning released the full emails along with a statement, saying he released them “in order to be totally transparent.”
Trump Jr. repeated his claim that he thought the information was “Political Opposition research” and wanted to have a phone call with the lawyer but it “didn’t work out” so he had a meeting instead. Trump Jr. also repeated the allegation that”she had no information to provide” and “wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act,” saying the meeting took place “before the current Russian fever was in vogue.”
He also claimed to be “agitated” by the “inane nonsense” that came from the lawyer, as Rob Goldstone told the press on Tuesday.
Trump Jr’s tweets with the emails:
Here’s my statement and the full email chain pic.twitter.com/x050r5n5LQ
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017
Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017
There is no such title as Crown Prosecutor in Russia – the Crown Prosecution Service is a British term – but the equivalent in Russia is the Prosecutor General of Russia.
That office is held by Yury Yakovlevich Chaika, a Putin appointee who is known to be close to Ms. Veselnitskaya.
And:
Mr. Goldstone’s emails contradict statements he made in his interview with The Times on Monday, when he said that he did not know whether the elder Mr. Agalarov had any role in arranging the meeting, and that he had no knowledge of any official Russian government role in the offer to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Mrs. Clinton. Instead, he said that Ms. Veselnitskaya had contacted Emin directly, and that Emin had asked him to reach out to the Trumps as a favor to her.
“I actually asked him at one point how he knew her, and he said, ‘I can’t remember but, you know, I know thousands of people,’” he said in the interview.
Subsequent efforts to reach Mr. Goldstone, who acknowledged in the interview that he had spoken with someone at the Trump Organization over the weekend in anticipation of media attention, have been unsuccessful.
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PHOTOS: The boys in Brazil will bring you nothing but joy
PHOTOS: The boys in Brazil will bring you nothing but joy
Now in its second year, Joy Party is one of Rio’s most popular circuit parties.
New Videogame Simulates a Public Restroom Where Gay Men Cruise for Sex
New Videogame Simulates a Public Restroom Where Gay Men Cruise for Sex
The Tearoom, a new video game from Robert Yang described as “a (free) historical public bathroom simulator about anxiety, police surveillance, and sucking off another dude’s gun” takes you into public restrooms where gay men cruise for sex.
Writes Yang in the game’s description:
In 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio police department setup a hidden surveillance camera behind a two-way mirror, and secretly filmed dudes having sex with dudes in a public bathroom. The police used the film footage to imprison them for a year or more under Ohio’s sodomy laws.
Today in 2017, police still target men who have sex with men — and in video game land, I still have to deal with Twitch banning my gay games by secret trial as if they’re the f**king game police. So to appease this oppressive conservative gamer-surveillance complex, I have swapped out any pesky penises in my game for the only thing that the game industry will never moderate nor ban — guns. Now, there’s nothing wrong with guys appreciating other guys’ guns, right?
The game takes common video game tropes and turns them on their head, writes The Guardian:
Your goal is to engage in sexual acts with other men, but before that, you must wait for someone to enter, and then engage in a ritual that involves repeated periods of prolonged eye contact, all the while keeping an look out for the police….
…In the game, large icons clearly indicate when it is or isn’t appropriate to look towards the man at the other urinal. It’s like a subversion of the stealth genre, as this time you want to be seen (though not by the cops). Yang wrote on his blog that this mechanic was difficult to design because – as he puts it – “decades of male heterosexual hegemony have trained gamers into thinking of ‘looking’ as a ‘free’ action, with few consequences or results.” Players who are used to works that pander to the straight male gaze may struggle to empathise with someone for whom a glance may be punished.
If the other man doesn’t want to be looked at, a red eye with a line through it appears on screen. The player cannot move away from the urinal, so the only actions available to them when not soliciting or engaging in sex are to look around, perhaps glancing out of the window to check for cop cars, or to pee. Ironically, Yang wanted to create his “technologically advanced urinal” (which you can aim a stream of urine into and also flush) as a response to the habit other video games have of providing bathrooms that serve no purpose.
And substituting guns for male organs has other meaning here, aside from avoiding being censored by the game network:
Yang is also interested in the political implications, and in the “very strange relationship” that video games have with violence and gun culture. On his blog Yang also highlights the disconnect between how the US treats guns (eg with “open carry” laws) versus the depiction or display of genitals, especially if those genitals belong to a trans person.
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New Videogame Simulates a Public Restroom Where Gay Men Cruise for Sex
Ulrike Hinrichs: Jens Spahn (CDU): “Wenn zwei Männer heiraten, ist das nicht das Ende der Familie.”
Ulrike Hinrichs: Jens Spahn (CDU): “Wenn zwei Männer heiraten, ist das nicht das Ende der Familie.”
Die Zukunft der EU, deutsche Leitkultur und Integration – das sind für den Parlamentarischen Staatssekretär im Bundesfinanzministerium, Jens Spahn (CDU), drei Kernthemen für den Bundestagswahlkampf.
Weiterlesen: Jens Spahn, Cdu, Bmf, Bundestagswahl, Bundesfinanzministerium, Ehe Für Alle, Werte, Gründer, Blogs, Germany News
www.huffingtonpost.de/ulrike-hinrichs/jens-spahn-cdu-wenn-zwei-_b_17391152.html
A Queer Takeover at the Southern Baptist Convention
A Queer Takeover at the Southern Baptist Convention
A pro-LGBT organization is out to let faith groups know the harm that lack of acceptance does to LGBT kids — and it did just that recently in Phoenix.
www.advocate.com/religion/2017/7/11/queer-takeover-southern-baptist-convention
Out@NBCUniversal – Pride London 2017
Out@NBCUniversal – Pride London 2017
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