Net Neutrality is Vital to the LGBTQ Community
Open access to the Internet altered the course of history, including the fight for LGBT rights. That online freedom is now being threatened, writes GLAAD’s Sarah Kate Ellis.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/8/30/net-neutrality-vital-lgbtq-community
Ruby Rose called “disgusting human being” for donating 10K to LGBTQ center after Hurricane Harvey
“So you are only willing to help out gay people suffering from the floods in Houston?!?! You are a disgusting human being.”
Angry Dad Goes Ballistic Over Government’s ‘$122 F—ing Million’ Spend on Gay Marriage Vote: WATCH
Angry Dad, a social media celeb famous for foul-mouthed explosions when egged on by his sons, is really, really pissed over the amount of money the Australian government is spending on the nonsensical postal vote on gay marriage.
“Don’t f**king start me on that sh*t…They’re spending $122 f**king million on that … to have us f**king vote on whether they should be allowing gay marriage? … $122 million and here’s us seeing sick kids with cancer today, and people are dying in their f**king homes cause they can’t have operations, and these f**kheads are spending $122 million!”
Watch:
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Angry Dad Goes Ballistic Over Government’s ‘$122 F—ing Million’ Spend on Gay Marriage Vote: WATCH
#AM_Equality Tipsheet: August 30, 2017
HRC MOURNS CASSIDY KARAKORN, BELOVED COLLEAGUE, FRIEND AND ADVOCATE: The HRC Family is mourning the loss of our beloved colleague and friend, Cassidy Karakorn. Over her 17-year career at HRC, Cassidy tirelessly championed civil rights for the LGBTQ community. As Director of Consumer Marketing, Cassidy’s eye for fashion and art made a transformative impact on HRC and helped us reach more people than ever before. Her work was often deeply and profoundly moving; this past June, she worked with renowned artist Meghan Geckler to bring to life an eight story public art installation remembering the 49 lives taken in the Pulse Nightclub shooting and other victims of hate violence. Cassidy was a vibrant and energetic force for change in the world. Her talents were boundless. Her creative genius and passion were unmatched. She was fun, caring, and her positivity was contagious. We loved her and loved working with her. Our hearts go out to Cassidy’s family and many friends who are grieving her loss. In every future effort, we will seek to make Cassidy proud, and will carry her memory with us always. More from HRC.
.@HRC mourns the loss of our beloved colleague, friend and advocate, Cassidy Karakorn. t.co/kdBYhK8fzD
— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) August 29, 2017
#ProtectTransTroops — MORE THAN 140 U.S. HOUSE DEMS CONDEMN TRUMP’S TRANS MILITARY BAN: In a letter to Trump, they write: “Implicitly, your ban denies the value of transgender servicemembers, and it questions the professionalism of those who serve beside them. Our Armed Forces have grown more equal and more inclusive over time, often in the face of strident opposition. In 1948, when President Truman moved to racially integrate the military, voices were raised in protest. They were raised again in 2010, when Congress at last repealed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ At every turn, those voices have been proven wrong.” Read the full letter here.
140 House Democrats are condemning @realDonaldTrump‘s trans military
ban 1/7 #ProtectTransTroops #TransBan t.co/d68Nj3bnuM pic.twitter.com/B3pYfTDukS— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) August 29, 2017
As #SecDef Mattis determines how to implement the #TransBan, @HRC will continue our work to #ProtectTransTroops. t.co/Fh8gLHu8UH pic.twitter.com/hLw8oTHr7W
— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) August 30, 2017
EVANGELICAL LEADERS ALIGNED WITH TRUMP-PENCE LAUNCH VICIOUS ATTACK ON LGBTQ PEOPLE: More than 150 conservative Evangelical Christian leaders, including prominent members of the Trump-Pence administration’s Evangelical Advisory Board who lobbied for a ban on transgender people serving in the military, released a vicious, anti-LGBTQ manifesto Tuesday attacking LGBTQ people as immoral and sinful, asserting their opposition to marriage equality and denying the dignity of transgender people. The ugly three-page document they called “The Nashville Statement,” was released as hundreds of thousands of people in Texas and beyond continued to grapple with the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, and while the attention of most of the nation’s religious leaders was focused on helping victims of the historic disaster. The statement elicited widespread condemnation from scores of national religious and political leaders, including the mayor of Nashville, and sparked outrage on social media. Read more from HRC and the Nashville Tennessean.
The violent theology found in the #NashvilleStatement against LGBT people is the same theology found in anti-LGBT “religious freedom” laws.
— Eliel Cruz-Lopez (@elielcruz) August 29, 2017
WADE HORN — JUST THE LATEST ANTI-LGBTQ EXTREMIST TO FIND A HOME IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: And though it isn’t clear what Horn is actually doing in his position at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — he’s on board full-time as a contractor — we know from his history that it most certainly will not be good. While at HHS during the Bush Administration, Horn funneled taxpayer dollars to organizations that opposed marriage equality, and to grants that propped up abstinence-only education programs. He also approved a HHS contract for Maggie Gallagher, a founder of the anti-LGBTQ “National Organization for Marriage,” to promote his own initiatives — an effort aptly characterized by some as “state-sponsored propaganda.” More from Mother Jones.
WHAT WE’RE READING WEDNESDAY — TOOLS FOR LGBTQ FAMILIES AS KIDS HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL: There are many actions LGBTQ parents can take to support their children in elementary school. With your own child, it’s important to build resilience and pride, discuss different types of families, and practice with them how to respond to questions about their family. Get involved — whether it’s volunteering in your child’s classroom, joining the PTA, or organizing a family program or teach your district about the Welcoming Schools program. More from HRC.
Have kids who are heading #BackToSchool? Check out @HRC’s Welcoming Schools guide for #LGBTQ families.����������������t.co/3eZTJWxj2e
— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) August 30, 2017
RELIGIOUS LEADERS JOIN CHORUS CALLING FOR FRESNO’S ANTI-LGBTQ SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT TO RESIGN: An interfaith group of religious leaders has called for Fresno Unified School Board President Brooke Ashjian’s resignation after he compared critics of his anti-LGBTQ comments to “Ottoman Turks.” At a recent school board meeting, Ashjian said, “It is sad, they like the Ottomans are trying to be the thought police.” HRC earlier this month called on the Ashjian to step down after he made anti-LGBTQ remarks regarding California’s LGBTQ-inclusive sex education laws. More from Your Central Valley.
CALL IT OUT — ST. PETER, MINN., SAME-SEX COUPLE RECEIVES THREATENING LETTER: According to the couple, the letter used anti-gay slurs and threatened the lives of the couple and their daughter. Local police are investigating the incident. More from the Mankato Free Press.
MARRIAGE EQUALITY IN MALTA BECOMES LAW OF LAND NEXT FRIDAY: Last month, the Mediterranean island nation’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to advance a marriage equality bill after the third and final debate on the issue. Malta will become the 23rd country with marriage equality. More from Times of Malta.
HORRIFYING — LGBTQ ADVOCATES IN COUNTRY OF GEORGIA ATTACKED BY POLICE: Levan Berianidzé and Tornike Kusiani were detained by Batumi city police, who allegedly attacked them and subjected them to anti-LGBTQ slurs. More from Tabula.
READING RAINBOW
Advocate shares LGBTQ tropes in media that need to end; Mic highlights Munroe Bergdorf (@MunroeBergdorf) as the first openly trans woman to land her own L’Oréal Paris U.K. campaign; NewNowNext guides you on LGBTQ representation in the Fall TV lineup; HRC Arizona donated $10,000 in emergency aid to assist with building costs for one•n•ten LGBTQ youth center, which was a recent victim of arson.
.@HRC Arizona donated $10,000 in emergency aid to help @1n10 rebuild their youth center. ❤️�������� t.co/Lh6HaVAVqV
— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) August 29, 2017
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Armie Hammer Has His Eyes on Henry Cavill’s Nipples
Superman actor Henry Cavill reported yesterday that he’s getting some rest and relaxation in before the summer ends, and that his moustache continues to thrive…
But that wasn’t what interested actor Armie Hammer, who commented “nice nipples” in response to Cavill’s photograph.
Can you blame him?
Hammer is starring in the upcoming gay drama Call Me By Your Name. Hammer plays the story’s “24-year old American scholar spending the summer of 1983 in Northern Italy, where he attracts the attention of a 17-year-old Jewish-American boy, played by Timothee Chalamet.”
Check out the trailer and a clip for that film HERE.
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Evangelical Leaders Aligned with Trump-Pence Launch Vicious Attack on LGBTQ People
More than 150 conservative Evangelical Christian leaders, including prominent members of the Trump-Pence administration’s Evangelical Advisory Board, released a vicious, anti-LGBTQ manifesto Tuesday attacking LGBTQ people as immoral and sinful, asserting their opposition to marriage equality and denying the dignity of transgender people.
The ugly three-page document they called “The Nashville Statement,” was released as hundreds of thousands of people in Texas and beyond continued to grapple with the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, and while the attention of most of the nation’s religious leaders was focused on helping victims of the historic disaster.
That the so-called “Christian manifesto” was issued during a national crisis and in the wake of the Trump-Pence administration’s recent action seeking to ban transgender people from serving in the military enforces its message of intolerance.
Concocted in Nashville last week during the national conference of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the statement elicited widespread condemnation from scores of national religious and political leaders. In fact, the statement runs contrary to beliefs of a majorities of Evangelical millennials and people of faith who support affirming LGBTQ people. The release also sparked swift outrage on social media.
“While the theology espoused in the Nashville Statement is not new, the recommitment to anti-LGBT theology continues these Evangelical leaders’ violence against LGBT people,” said Eliel Cruz, HRC Foundation’s Religion Council member and creator of FaithfullyLGBT. “Christians and non-Christians alike must unequivocally condemn this statement. We cannot stand for this demonization of LGBT people to go unchallenged.”
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry was among those expressing disgust over the statement, tweeting that the “so-called ‘Nashville statement’ is poorly named and does not represent the inclusive values of the city & people of Nashville.”
Among the document’s signatories are members of President Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board, including Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council, a designated hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center; James Dobson, Founder of Focus on the Family; Ronnie Floyd, Senior Pastor of Cross Church; Richard Land, President of Southern Evangelical Seminary; James MacDonald, Founder and Senior Pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel; and James Robison, Founder & President of LIFE Outreach International.
“A predominantly white male coalition of Southern Baptists and Evangelicals have defined human sexuality in the binary that secures their power, with a selective tortured reading of the Bible texts on human sexuality from a time when a woman was her husband’s property,” said Bishop Yvette Flunder, HRC Foundation’s Religion Council member and Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship.
“This is the same group that advocated for the ban on transgender people from the military.”
The New York Times has previously reported that Perkins, a signatory and president of the Family Research Council, had for months lobbied Donald Trump and Mike Pence to ban transgender people from the military.
“‘The Southern Baptist Convention is the same denomination that once used the Bible to condemn inter-racial relationships and to defend the “Godliness” of chattel slavery, and had to repent. They will need to repent again,” Bishop Flunder said.
In 1987, the same group denounced “secular” feminism and equality in marriages in a manifesto it called “The Danvers Statement.”
17 Baseball Heroes Who Came Out as Gay
www.advocate.com/sports/2017/8/30/17-baseball-heroes-who-came-out-gay
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