Instagram deleted this Harvard undergrad’s photos for being ‘too sexual.’ You be the judge.
They’re certainly an eye-full.
Daily Archives: October 23, 2017
Bruce Rauner, Sydney, Mark Cuban, Faye Dunaway, James Comey, Frank Ocean, Spoon, Daniel Day Lewis: HOT LINKS
Bruce Rauner, Sydney, Mark Cuban, Faye Dunaway, James Comey, Frank Ocean, Spoon, Daniel Day Lewis: HOT LINKS
MARK CUBAN. He may run as a Republican in 2020. “I think there’s a place for somebody who’s socially a centrist but I’m very fiscally conservative.”
MEL HEIFETZ. Real estate investor gives back big time to Philadelphia’s LGBT community: “Successful he was, and now, about to turn 82, the Center City real estate investor is converting 26 of his Center City residential properties into a grand act of charity. On Friday, Heifetz announced that he has gifted them to the Philadelphia Foundation, which will in turn sell them and place the proceeds in an endowment. The expected $16 million from the sale plus cash will join Heifetz’s existing $4 million donor-advised fund at the Philadelphia Foundation, and investment income earned on the money each year will go toward LGBT groups.”
BILLS BILLS BILLS. Trump to spend at least $430,000 of his own money to pay for legal bills incurred by aides and White House staff embroiled in the Russia probe: ‘The Republican National Committee has paid roughly $430,000 to lawyers representing the president and his eldest son, Don Jr. A White House official told me Trump will not be reimbursing the RNC for these costs. However, the White House official says he has pledged to spend the same amount, from his personal finances, “to defray the costs of legal fees for his associates, including former and current White House aides.”‘
FAYE DUNAWAY. Inside her NYC hair salon meltdown.
RUSSIA PROBE. A worrying turn for the Mueller investigation?
JAMES COMEY. He’s now on Twitter. “Benjamin Wittes, a journalist and friend of Comey, confirmed on Monday that the Twitter account @FormerBu belongs to the ex-FBI director not long after it posted a photo of a person appearing to be Comey.”
Goodbye Iowa. On the road home. Gotta get back to writing. Will try to tweet in useful ways. pic.twitter.com/DCbu3Yvqt3
— Reinhold Niebuhr (@FormerBu) October 23, 2017
SAFETY INFO. Grindr and Hornet providing users in Egypt with safety info amid anti-LGBTQ crackdown.
BERNIE SANDERS. I’ll run for Senate reelection as independent: “The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and independent senator from Vermont made the news in an interview with the Monitor on Sunday evening after energizing Democratic activists packed into the American Legion hall in Rollinsford, along the Maine border. Sanders’s trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state was his second in less than two months, sparking more speculation that he just may run again for the White House in 2020.”
16 YEARS AGO TODAY. The original iPod was unveiled.
MAINE. Students protest bullying of gay student: “York High School students and their parents said their peer has been bullied so badly that they have called school administrators to complain.”
Students line Webber Rd outside York HS holding signs that say “Be Kind” and “You Are Beautiful” pic.twitter.com/wE7m9zSHzM
— Katie Bavoso (@KatieBavoso) October 23, 2017
JAMES TOBACK. Two Guys and a Girl director accused of sexual harassment by 38 women: ‘During these meetings, many of the women said, Toback boasted of sexual conquests with the famous and then asked humiliating personal questions. How often do you masturbate? How much pubic hair do you have? He’d tell them, they said, that he couldn’t properly function unless he “jerked off” several times a day. And then he’d dry-hump them or masturbate in front of them, ejaculating into his pants or onto their bodies and then walk away. Meeting over.’
BLUE PLANET. Transgender fish captured switching sexes.
BRUCE RAUNER. Illinois governor announces reelection campaign on Harley. ‘His campaign released a two-minute-plus video in which a Harley-Davidson riding Rauner criticizes his chief political nemesis, Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. Rauner positions his re-election bid to voters as a choice: Either “throw in the towel, walk away and leave our future to the same corrupt career politicians, or we can fight.”‘
SYDNEY. City will grant free weddings to gay couples if same-sex marriage becomes legal: “Gay couples – but not straight ones – will be able to marry for free in some of the City of Sydney’s most prominent buildings and parks, in a move that will outrage the progressive council’s conservative critics. A motion passed on Monday night will allow same-sex couples to hire community facilities, halls and parks for free for 100 days if same-sex marriage is legalised following the postal survey.”
DELAWARE. Gay D.C. couple struck and killed by SUV. “A police statement says James D. Walton, 53, and Richard G. Chittick, 58, of Washington, D.C., were standing beside their bicycles on the sidewalk along Route 1 in front of the Starboard Restaurant in Dewey Beach when a 2017 Chevrolet Suburban hit them and a utility pole, severing it along the ground.”
JOE ALWYN. Actor spotted on set of gay-themed film Boy Erased.
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. Spoon “Do I Have to Talk You Into It”.
TRAILER OF THE DAY. Daniel Day Lewis in his last acting role in Phantom Thread.
MONDAY MUSCLE. Frank Ocean. Ocean created a visual essay about the team who helped him tour this summer, accompanied by a personal essay for i-D magazine.
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NY Subway Poster Campaign Wants More Love for Trans Lives
NY Subway Poster Campaign Wants More Love for Trans Lives
Brooklyn-based, black LGBT activists raise awareness of poverty through uplifting stories in an MTA poster campaign.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2017/10/23/many-voices-many-stories-communities-coming-together
The largest sex toy heist in history just happened in Berlin and nobody’s talking about it
The largest sex toy heist in history just happened in Berlin and nobody’s talking about it
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of toys were stolen.
Elton John Blasts Congresswoman for Suggesting People with HIV Should Be Quarantined
Elton John Blasts Congresswoman for Suggesting People with HIV Should Be Quarantined
Elton John blasted Betty Price, a GOP congresswoman from Georgia and the wife of former HHS Secretary Tom Price, after Price suggested that people with HIV be quarantined.
RELATED: Georgia GOP Lawmaker Suggests People with HIV Be Quarantined: ‘In the Past, They Died More Readily’
STAT reported on Price’s remarks:
“I don’t want to say the quarantine word – but I guess I just said it,” Price said to Dr. Pascale Wortley, director of the Georgia Department of Public Health’s HIV epidemiology section. “But is there an ability, since I guess public dollars are expended heavily in prophylaxis and treatment of this condition, so we have a public interest in curtailing the spread… Are there any methods we could do legally to curtail the spread?”
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“It’s almost frightening the number of people who are living that are carriers with the potential to spread,” Price said during the hearing. “Whereas in the past, they died more readily, and at that point, they’re not posing a risk. So we’ve got a huge population posing a risk if they’re not in treatment.”
Elton John released a statement through the Elton John AIDS Foundation:
“Rep. Betty Price’s comments about people living with HIV are horrific, discriminatory, and astonishingly ill-informed. As a doctor and elected official from a state where people are still contracting HIV at an alarming rate, Mrs. Price should know better than to demonize people and perpetuate myths that stigmatize people living with HIV.
“Her words smack of a dark time when there was little or no information about HIV and people were afraid of each other. Today, thanks to scientific advancements, growing acceptance and love, people living with HIV are living longer, healthier lives. We also know people living with HIV pose no public threat.
“We at the Elton John AIDS Foundation, along with several of our partners, are aggressively working in Georgia and across the South to expand access to universal testing and treatment, particularly in rural areas. We also are working to dismantle the structural barriers including poverty, inadequate education, persistent HIV stigma, racism, homophobia and transphobia that impede progress. Instead of perpetuating fear and bias, Mrs. Price should educate herself about HIV and use her position of power to provide support, resources and compassion to her constituents. Love is the cure. Not quarantines.”
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Elton John Blasts Lawmaker for Suggesting People with HIV Should Be Quarantined
GLAAD Campus Ambassadors go purple to fight bullying and empower young LGBTQ people
GLAAD Campus Ambassadors go purple to fight bullying and empower young LGBTQ people
This year, GLAAD’s Campus Ambassadors took Spirit Day to their campuses around the country and encouraged their fellow students to go purple. Here are just a few of our remarkable campus ambassadors and how they went purple to fight against bullying and inspire other LGBTQ students.
Teagan Rabuano, New York University
T-Party, a club for trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming students and their allies at NYU, had a photoshoot facilitated by GLAAD Campus Ambassador Teagan Rabuano. The Spirit Day photoshoot promoted words that empower transgender and gender non-conforming people rather than tear them down.
Nicole Gemmiti, Berklee College of Music
At Berklee College of Music, Nicole Gemmiti’s organization, LGBT+ United, led a focused meeting on the impact of bullying, discrimination, and harassment of LGBTQ people.
Priyank Pillai, Brazosport College
The Brazosport College LGBTQSA organization held a group discussion about bullying where they talked about personal experiences with bullying growing up, and what they can do to break the culture of silence that exists around LGBTQ issues in their community.
Fausto Cardenas, University of Central Florida
Fausto invited popular youtuber Kat Blaque to speak at their university, University of Central Florida, on Spirit Day.
Sorrel Rosen, University of Oregon
Sorrel celebrated Spirit Day at the University of Oregon by wearing purple and waving her Rainbow flag high and proud for all to see!
Bobby Brooks and Dorothy McIntush, Texas A&M University
Check out some more GLAAD Campus Ambassadors and their friends rocking purple Spirit Day styles:
Palmer Haasch, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Zakiyyah Forrest, Armstrong State University
Gabriel Brown, Marshall University
Mikaela Ashburn, Ohio University
Savannah Green, Clark Atlanta University
Jackson Riemerschmid, Ohio State University
GLAAD Campus Ambassadors are a volunteer network of LGBTQ and ally college and university students who work with GLAAD and within their local communities to build an LGBTQ movement to accelerate acceptance and end hate and discrimination. If you would like to learn more about the GLAAD Campus Ambassador Program, please contact Clare Kenny, GLAAD’s Campaigns Manager spearheading youth engagement.
About Spirit Day
Each year, millions go purple for GLAAD’s Spirit Day to support LGBTQ youth in a united stand against bullying. Started in 2010 by high school student Brittany McMillan in response to numerous young LGBTQ lives lost to suicide, Spirit Day now draws the participation of celebrities, schools, faith institutions, national landmarks, corporations, media outlets, sports leagues, and advocates around the world, all joining together to stand against bullying and support LGBTQ youth.
As anti-LGBTQ policies, hate crimes, and harassment are on the rise, it is now especially important to let all marginalized youth know they are supported.
This year, Spirit Day is on October 19, 2017. Take the Spirit Day pledge to show LGBTQ youth you’ve got their backs at glaad.org/spiritday. Follow @GLAAD on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr to keep up to date with #SpiritDay news.
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Dispelling Myths and Misinformation on the Road to an AIDS-Free Generation
Dispelling Myths and Misinformation on the Road to an AIDS-Free Generation
California’s modernization of its criminal law on HIV transmission is a step forward, writes Lambda Legal’s Scott A. Schoettes.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/10/23/dispelling-myths-and-misinformation-road-aids-free-generation
Jour de fête 07
City council member to gay man: I hope you die of “AIDS (Anally Injected Death Serum)”
Putin Ally Wants Transgender People Banned from Russia
Putin Ally Wants Transgender People Banned from Russia
Transgender foreigners should not be allowed into Russia with a passport that does not show their “real” identity, one of the most vocal anti-LGBT lawmakers in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party said on Monday. Vitaliy Milonov, a member of Russia’s lower house of parliament, told Russian newspaper Parlamentskaya Gazeta that transgender people should not be…
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