Patricia Rodriguez: My First Blog
Tomorrow will be my first day modeling, I want to give it a try. I just want to have some fun while getting an alternative to my daily boring job.Who knows maybe I can do this full time and have fun all the time.
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Lesley Stahl: Trump Told Me He Attacks Media ‘So When You Write Negative Stories About Me, No One Will Believe You’
60 Minutes‘ Lesley Stahl appeared at the annual Deadline Club Awards Dinner in New York City on Monday night, and said that before she interviewed Donald Trump in Trump Tower shortly after the election, she asked him why he attacks the press so much, The Intercept reports.
Said Stahl: “Before the interview I met with him in Trump Tower. And he really is the same off camera that he is on camera, exactly the same. And at one point he started to attack the press. And it’s just me and my boss and him – he has a huge office – and he’s attacking the press. And there were no cameras, there was nothing going on. And I said, ‘You know, that is getting tired, why are you doing this? You’re doing it over and over and it’s boring, it’s time to end that, you’ve won the nomination [sic], and why do you keep hammering at this?’ And he said: ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.’ He said that. So put that in your head for a minute.”
Full report here.
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HRC Responds to Victory for Transgender Students in Gavin Grimm Federal Court Case
HRC responded to a federal court decision reaffirming that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects transgender students from discrimination including being forced to use separate bathroom facilities.
“No student should feel unsafe at school, regardless of gender identity. Transgender students are covered by Title IX and are entitled to the same rights and protections as every other student,” said Sarah Warbelow, HRC Legal Director. “With the Trump-Pence administration’s barrage of attacks on LGBTQ people in this country, including children, we are pleased that yet another federal court has reaffirmed legal rights and dignity of transgender people.”
In 2014, the Gloucester County School Board in Virginia voted 6-1 in favor of a discriminatory bathroom policy that segregates transgender students from their peers after Gavin Grimm, a transgender student, began using the boys restroom, with permission of school officials, that correspond with his gender identity.
In 2017, the Supreme Court sent the Grimm case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals following the Trump Administration’s decision to rescind protective school guidance for transgender students. Because the Fourth Circuit’s original ruling was heavily based on the Obama Administration’s guidance, the Supreme Court asked the lower court to revisit the case and rule on the underlying statutory question regarding the scope of Title IX. Many federal courts, including the court today, have affirmed that Title IX and other federal nondiscrimination laws prohibit discrimination against transgender people including with respect to restroom access.
This decision reaffirms a 2016 ruling by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District that held “a policy that requires an individual to use a bathroom that does not conform with his or her gender identity punishes that individual for his or her gender non‐conformance, which in turn violates Title IX.”
Tips for Navigating Your Love Life On A Dating App
Love, that ethereal four-letter word. A word that can invoke lust, dreaminess, and frustration. Most certainly never boring and oftentimes all consuming. We seek it when sometimes we shouldn’t, miss it when it’s gone, and embrace it when we find it. In today’s world of dating apps – swiping left and right to narrow down […]
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LGBT Foundation Appoints Sean Howell Its First CEO
The LGBT Foundation, the world’s only token and blockchain initiative aimed at empowering the LGBT+ community, has appointed its first CEO, Sean Howell. Howell currently serves as President of Hornet, the premier gay social network, where he has spent the last six years helping the company grow its user base to 25 million and its editorial division to become the largest global LGBT+ newsroom. At Hornet, Howell also oversaw the company’s corporate responsibility efforts under Hornet Impact, organizing thousands of social justice and health related activations annually, all over the world.
The Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to utilize blockchain technology to achieve equal rights and acceptance for all members of the LGBT+ community worldwide. The Foundation is designed as an economic model to finance causes and organizations that advance the rights of the LGBT+ community; those causes being identified, voted upon, and supported by LGBT+ Foundation members, creating a powerful and autonomous funding mechanism built and controlled by the LGBT+ community itself into perpetuity.
Prior to Hornet, Howell was a fellow of the World Affairs Council, as well as a trustee and President of the Young Professional International Network. He has helped hundreds of organizations leverage technology to expand their impact through his work with the MSM Global Forum along with serving on various nonprofit boards and committees including UNAIDS, E-CDC, PFLAG and Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins University, and is a founding member of the UN Global Coalition for HIV Prevention and technical advisor to UNDPs and the World Bank LGBTI Index.
“I’m privileged to work with a talented team to execute on the exciting prospect to take cutting edge technology and make sure it benefits and empowers the LGBT+ community globally,” said Howell. “I see tremendous opportunity for blockchain to help solve problems of security and equality for LGBT+, especially in regions where either unjust laws and state sponsored homophobia exist.
“The immense opportunity for blockchain technology to have an impact on the lives of LGBT+ people around the world will get a huge boost from Sean’s appointment,” said Christof Wittig, President of the LGBT Foundation. “With his background building the largest LGBT+ media app in the world, he is uniquely positioned to make blockchain technology available to the LGBT+ community and further projects which will advance LGBT+ equality and acceptance.”
Part of the mission of the LGBT Foundation is to launch the LGBT Token, an LGBT+-specific token that will help protect the identities of its users while showcasing the global power of the pink economy. “Blockchain can help the LGBT community flex its economic muscle and fight rights abuses globally – from Chechnya to Uganda – while safeguarding the identity of members, said the charity behind a new digital initiative,” reported Reuters.
This idea has been well received by the crypto community looking for solid examples of new tokens working for good. “This kind of thoughtful use of technology, which not only caters to the needs of its community, but includes philanthropy from the ground up, undoubtedly offers a positive role model for other forms of social enterprise to build on,” said Diginomica.
The appointment of Howell as CEO means that Hornet is not just investing capital, but also personnel in its mission to bring equal rights and acceptance to every one of its members, with the help of blockchain.
The Foundation is carefully building technical technical and regulatory requirements before announcing its next steps with respect to implementation and public availability of the token to the 100 million users reached by the LGBT+ ecosystem with Hornet and other key partners. Once the platform is ready to launch, the Foundation will generate tokens that will be seeded to participating users and launch partners — so that they will be able to participate in the tokenized Pink Economy from day one.
LGBT+ and allies can stay informed by signing up to the LGBT Foundation and token newsletter here as well as following on social media:
Twitter: @LGBT_Token
Telegram: lgbt_token
Facebook: Foundation.LGBT
About The LGBT Foundation
The LGBT Foundation aims to deliver equality for the LGBT community across the world. By harnessing the power and potential of blockchain technology and other technological innovations, the Foundation will foster greater acceptance of the LGBT community, drive positive social change for the community’s benefit, and protect vulnerable community members. By tokenizing the Pink Economy, the Foundation will empower the LGBT community to flex its considerable economic might, provide a safe and secure environment to access cryptocurrencies and other products and services, and enable members to verify and protect their identities as required. foundation.lgbt
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Open Photo Shoot in Philadelphia, PA
Open Photo shoot at University of Pennsylvania’s LGBT Center
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Tony Perkins: ‘Moral Vacuum,’ Not Guns, to Blame for School Shooting
We have a “spiritually sick society,” according to the anti-LGBT Christian right activist.
www.advocate.com/religion/2018/5/22/tony-perkins-moral-vacuum-not-guns-blame-school-shooting
Ian McKellen takes Hollywood to task for its lack of gay characters in blockbuster films
“Well, nobody looks to Hollywood for social commentary, do they?”
14 Boston-Area Students Who Vandalized Own High School with Anti-Gay Slurs, Swastikas May Avoid Criminal Charges
Fourteen students at Arlington High School outside of Boston who vandalized the school, breaking glass and spray-painting swastikas and anti-gay slurs on the building will avoid criminal charges if they participate in a program called restorative justice, FOX25 Boston reports:
Officials say the boys will be offered the chance to participate in a program that gives victims the opportunity to meet with offenders and offer ideas about possible restitution. If the boys decline to participate, they could face criminal prosecution.
The decision was made in consultation with the Arlington Human Rights Commission, the Anti-Defamation League and the Arlington LGBTQIA+ Rainbow.
All the students accused were male teens. Additional vandalism included feces spread on walls, according to one student.
After the vandalism occurred the community’s newly formed Rainbow Commission got involved, and students were invited to graffiti the building with messages of love and solidarity.
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