Fresh Prince’s Alfonso Ribeiro on How Intersectionality Saves Lives
The actor appeared at LoveLoud in order to support LGBT youth with an empowering message and a surprise dance.
www.advocate.com/people/2018/7/30/fresh-princes-alfonso-ribeiro-how-intersectionality-saves-lives
Land O’Lakes’ Beth Ford Becomes First Out Woman to Run a Fortune 500
Ford is also only the third gay person and the 25th woman to run a Fortune 500 company.
www.advocate.com/business/2018/7/30/land-olakes-beth-ford-becomes-first-out-woman-run-fortune-500
Pride is about more than partying. It’s about giving back.
Luke Evans, Masha Gessen, Brett Kavanaugh, Iran, Quiet Skies, Guy Branum, Jack’d, Lindsay Lohan, John Kelly: HOT LINKS
RIP. Patriarch of An American Family, Bill Loud dies at 97.
LUNCH DATE. Obama and Biden grabbed lunch at Georgetown bakery.
Look who stopped by @DogTagBakery for lunch today! Thank you @BarackObama and @JoeBiden for supporting our mission of empowering veterans with service-connected disabilities, military spouses, and military caregivers! #BakingADifference #veterans #milspouses #caregivers pic.twitter.com/bLHttsgXJF
— Dog Tag Bakery (@DogTagBakery) July 30, 2018
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BRETT KAVANAUGH. Trump SCOTUS nominee sided with Trump in 2012 casino dispute: ‘Kavanaugh was one of three Republican-appointed judges who in 2012 voted unanimously to set aside an order by the National Labor Relations Board that would have required the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to bargain with the United Auto Workers.
SHE’S BACK. Lindsay Lohan releases teaser for MTV reality show set in Mykonos.
QUIET SKIES. TSA program surveilled ordinary Americans not under any type of investigation.
NO PRECONDITIONS. Trump says he’d meet with Iranian president. “I’m ready to meet any time they want to,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. “If they want to meet, I’ll meet.”
MASHA GESSEN. What the Provincetown AIDS Memorial leaves out. “All memorials smooth over history, leaving out much of the passion, the tragedy, and, most of all, the stories of the victims. (The two-hundred-and-fifty-foot Pilgrim Monument that towers over Provincetown, indeed almost directly over the new aids memorial, is a study in omissions.) The AIDS monument, too, is remarkable for what it omits.”
RON DESANTIS. Florida gubernatorial candidate teaches kids about Trump in stomach-churning new campaign ad.
CHIEF IN NAME ONLY. John Kelly’s impotence: “A year into the job, Kelly’s attempts to implement traditional processes in an untraditional White House have failed, according to a dozen people in and outside the administration — though virtually all concede the West Wing runs better than it used to.”
VOGUE ITALIA. New Madonna shoot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot.
NASHVILLE. Man uses social app Jack’d to meet and rob gay man. ‘Desmond S. Clements, who has a lengthy criminal background and lives in Atlanta, is charged with robbery, criminal impersonation and vandalism following the weekend incident and, as of Monday, was being jailed in Nashville on $11,500 bond. According to an arrest affidavit, Clements met the man on Jack’d, a dating app for gay men, and arranged for him to come to the home where he was staying. When the man arrived, the affidavit states, Clements demanded $100 from him causing the man fear.’
LUKE EVANS. Speedoed out in Portofino.
GUY BRANUM. My gay voice: ‘We have to sound “like that” so we can find each other. Gays are a small, diffuse, physically invisible minority. This is deeply isolating. We spend most of our lives in a world built for straight people, where only 70 to 80 percent of our actual life is executable. It takes other gay people for us to have sex, but also for other, less basic operations of identity. Sharing experiences, building relationships and fighting for equality. Silent, we are isolated. Using our voices, we become a culture and a family.’
TEXTING WHILE DRIVING OF THE DAY. A stationary bicyclist gets clobbered by a cop who isn’t paying attention.
SURVIVOR OF THE DAY. A dog is found living in a burnt-out house in Mati, Attica, Greece, after wildfires raged through.
TRAILER OF THE DAY. Maniac starring Jonah Hill and Emma Stone, Justin Theroux and Sally Field.
MONDAY MUSCLE. Mehcad Brooks.
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HRC Mourns the Passing of Former Congressman and Mayor Ron Dellums
Today, HRC mourned the passing of former U.S. Representative and former Oakland mayor Ron Dellums.
“Throughout his life, Ron Dellums was a courageous voice in the fight for justice at home and abroad,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “From his historic fight against South Africa’s apartheid to his early support of lesbian, gay and bisexual service members and advocacy for HIV research, prevention and services, Ron Dellums leaves behind a legacy of action on behalf of those facing discrimination and prejudice. HRC extends our deepest condolences to the Dellums family and all those who knew this champion of equality.”
As a member of Congress, Dellums consistently earned a perfect score of 100 on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard. Then-Representative Dellums was a co-sponsor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and voted against the so-called Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. As the chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Dellums was an early supporter of allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans to serve openly in the military.
GLAAD denounces Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement of a ‘Religious Liberty’ Task Force
GLAAD today denounced Attorney General Sessions’ announcement of his new Religious Liberty Task Force at the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Summit. As stated by Sessions, the group’s purpose is to ensure that the Justice Department upholds the administration’s guidance for religious exemptions, which he released in October.
“Though freedom of religion is a core American value, religious exemptions from adhering to non-discrimination protections are not,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “Sessions’ announcement today is yet another example of the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ agenda as they seek to weave protections for those seeking anti-LGBTQ religious exemptions into the government.”
Sessions claimed that the goal of this task force is to accommodate people of faith, but his explanation of its purpose and his extensive anti-LGBTQ record suggest otherwise. Sessions has a long history of defending the use of “religious exemptions” to discriminate against LGBTQ people and opposing non-discrimination protections for the community. In his announcement, Sessions called attention to legal battles such as Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom argued that Jack Phillips had the right to discriminate against two men who were seeking a wedding cake based on their sexual orientation.
Today’s Religious Liberty Summit featured a number of panelists, each boasting a lengthy anti-LGBTQ record. Among those honored in Sessions’ speech were Kerri Kupec, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, Jack Phillips, Senator Lankford, and Emilie Kao. Their anti-LGBTQ records are detailed below.
Today’s event comes on the heels of the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, hosted last week by the vehemently anti-LGBTQ Ambassador of International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback. The ministerial was largely focused on global issues that the administration frames as pertaining to religious freedom, but invited a multitude of prominent anti-LGBTQ figures to speak, including Tony Perkins, the most frequently booked anti-LGBTQ pundit and president of the anti-LGBTQ group Family Research Council (FRC), and ADF CEO Michael Farris. ADF was intimately involved in the Religious Liberty Summit, issuing a press release a few days prior calling attention to the event.
ANTI-LGBTQ RECORDS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY SUMMIT PANELISTS
Former ADF staffer and current DOJ Media Affairs Specialist Kerri Kupec’s anti-LGBTQ record:
—Condemned Yelp for supporting trans students, saying “Big business shouldn’t be advocating for boys to share the girls’ locker rooms and showers — and vice versa — in our public schools.”
—Claims transgender support “renders sex meaningless” and that money and politics are the reasons the Obama administration took a favorable stand
–Against all available evidence, argued that North Carolina’s infamous HB2 was “good for business” and “absolutely not” anti-transgender
President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Archbishop Joseph Kurtz’s anti-LGBTQ record:
—Referred to marriage equality as a “tragic error”
Jack Phillips’ anti-LGBTQ record:
–Plaintiff in the recent Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission Supreme Court case, which he narrowly won on grounds particular to his case
—Represented in this case by ADF, which consistently litigates for religious exemptions from non-discrimination laws
Senator James Lankford’s anti-LGBTQ record:
—Believes it is acceptable to fire people based on their sexual orientation
Heritage Foundation staffer Emilie Kao’s anti-LGBTQ record:
–In a piece called “The Left’s Assault on Adoption,” argued that adoption agencies have the right to discriminate against LGBTQ couples based on their sexual orientation
Imagine Dragons Frontman Dan Reynolds to LGBTQ Youth: ‘We Need You. We Love You. We Accept You.’ – WATCH
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds spoke out for LGBTQ equality (above) at the Love Loud Festival Sunday night at the Rice Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. The festival supports LGBTQ charities.
Reynolds spoke at the end of an Imagine Dragons set before launching into the track “Believer”.
Said Reynolds. “We’ve got one last song for you. We love you. We love you. To our LGBTQ youth, stay with us every day. We need you, we love you, we accept you. Your love is valid, it’s pure, it’s true, it’s beautiful. We stand with you. Love Loud will be here. We’re just going to stay here. Thank you for raising over a million dollars tonight. Peace, love, equality. We’ll see you again soon.”
Reynolds, a straight Mormon, is the subject of the new documentary Believer, directed by Don Argott (DeLorean, Batman & Bill, The Art of the Steal), which follows Reynolds as he explores how the LDS church treats its LGBTQ members.
The doc, which premiered at Sundance, began airing on HBO this summer.
Reynolds told Billboard in 2017: “One of the reasons I’ve felt such a need to speak out on this is I’ve gotten countless emails and letters from fans around the world who said, ‘I’m gay, but I know you’re Mormon so that probably means you don’t accept my lifestyle, but I love ‘It’s Time’ and your music.’ That was devastating and it broke my heart to get letters like that. I’ve written back to these people to tell them, “No, I do support you and I’m here for you.” It’s been a driving force for me to raise awareness and make a difference and not just sit back to let people feel that hurt. “It’s Time” reached a lot in a lot of different ways.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook also spoke at the concert: “I stand before you tonight as an uncle, a sports nut, a CEO, a lover of the beautiful Utah outdoors, and a proud gay American. I’ve come to deliver a simple message that I want every LGBTQ person to hear and to believe: You are a gift to the world, a unique and special gift just the way you are. Your life matters. To you I say, find your truth, speak your truth, live your truth.”
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