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Seth Meyers Assesses the Fallout from Omarosa’s Secret Recording Spree: WATCH
Seth Meyers Assesses the Fallout from Omarosa’s Secret Recording Spree: WATCH
Seth Meyers looked at Omarosa’s secret recording spree on last night’s A Closer Look, mocking Trump’s threat to have Omarosa arrested.
Said Meyers: “You think you could arrest Omarosa?!? This is a person you tried to fire four times and you still can’t get rid of her! If you threw Omarosa in jail, she would tunnel her way out with a spoon Shawshank style. And when you woke up the next morning, she’s gonna be standing over your bed with a copy of the Russian Pee Tape.”
Meyers then examined Lara Trump’s offer to Omarosa that she could have a job on the campaign to keep her quiet, and the recording of that offer in which Trump added up the offer on the phone call.
Quipped Meyers: “Maybe next time you’re offering hush money to keep them quiet, do the math before you get on the phone.”
Added Meyers: “So first, they hire Omarosa. Then they fired her. Then they try to hire her again to buy her off. This is how Trumpism works. Everyone is conning everyone else.”
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In Meyers’ monologue, he also touched on Omarosa, Tom Arnold, Mike Pence, freedom of the press, and Trump’s military parade.
Said Meyers: “Democrats and some Republicans are voicing concerns about President Trump’s proposed military parade, and feel the event may come off as totalitarian. Ya think? That’s like someone being worried that the Pride Parade is going to come off as a little bit gay. That’s what they were going for!”
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Seth Meyers Assesses the Fallout from Omarosa’s Secret Recording Spree: WATCH
#AM_Equality Tipsheet: August 17, 2018
#AM_Equality Tipsheet: August 17, 2018
HRC’S SARAH MCBRIDE ON THE ROAD ACROSS WISCONSIN TO #TURNOUT VOTERS AHEAD OF THE MIDTERMS:
So excited to be headed to one of my favorite states, Wisconsin, for a week-long swing through the state with @HRC_WI! Join us as we mobilize Equality Voters ahead of November! The road to a pro-equality majority in Congress goes through Wisconsin! t.co/MSXfeh4IAm pic.twitter.com/a50lgz1Vmf
— Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) August 16, 2018
PENNSYLVANIA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION DETERMINES STATE NONDISCRIM LAWS PROTECT LGBTQ PEOPLE: While the Pennsylvania Fairness Act would make the Human Rights Commission’s decision solidified into law, the determination will help countless LGBTQ people in the Keystone State seek justice. More from BillPenn.
FEEL GOOD FRIDAY — HEATHER MATARAZZO RECEIVES HRC’S VISIBILITY AWARD IN SAN DIEGO: Actress, writer and producer Matarazzo (@HeatherMatarazz) shared the powerful story of meeting her partner and the vital importance of visibility and vulnerability, saying, “We’re all worthy of love. We’re all worthy of life. Every single one of us — we are worthy of being seen, we are worthy of being here. We are worthy. Period.” Watch here.
FATHER OF MURDERED TRANS WOMAN — “MY DAUGHTER… WAS A FUN PERSON, A LOVING PERSON”: Cathalina Christina James, 24, was fatally shot in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 24 — the third transgender woman murdered and the fourth shot in the Florida city this year. More from News4jax.
Cathalina Christina James would have been 25 this weekend. Instead of celebrating, her father is sharing his grief since his transgender daughter was murdered in June. “It’s a deep hurt. I feel like no parent should ever have to bury a child.” #SayHerName t.co/EX680qi94O
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) August 16, 2018
ICYMI — CLARKSDALE BECOMES THIRD MISSISSIPPI CITY TO PASS LGBTQ-INCLUSIVE NONDISCRIM ORDINANCE: “This is exciting for the community of Clarksdale and shows the LGBTQ community that Mississippi is a place of acceptance,” said HRC Mississippi State Director Rob Hill. “It means a lot for myself, as an LGBTQ Mississippian. To have a community say that people like me are valuable. That we are worth protecting.” More from Into.
HRC DEPLOYS STAFF ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO #TURNOUT THE VOTE: More from HRC.
MAN CHARGED IN SHOOTING OF TRANS WOMAN IN DETROIT TO BE TRIED UNDER MICHIGAN’S HATE CRIME LAW: Deonton A. Rogers is accused of shooting a trans woman outside of a gas station last month. The woman was hospitalized and survived. More from Click On Detroit.
UTAH PARENT-ADVOCATES MEET WITH LAWMAKERS ABOUT NEED TO ALLOW YOUTH TO UPDATE GENDER ON BIRTH CERTIFICATES: More from The Associated Press.
SETTLEMENT IN ACLU LAWSUIT ALLEGING LGBTQ INMATES IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY WERE KEPT IN CELL FOR 23 HOURS A DAY: The county will be required to explore more housing options for LGBTQ inmates; lift restrictions on participation in activities including work and religious meetings; and establish a committee that meets with LGBTQ inmates. More from Los Angeles Times.
GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS
GERMANY’S CABINET APPROVES THIRD GENDER OPTION FOR OFFICIAL IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS: It requires parliamentary approval before becoming law. More from Deutsche Welle.
PROFESSOR AND TV PERSONALITY IN JAPAN COMES OUT IN RESPONSE TO POLITICIAN’S ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS: Robert Campbell noted he and his partner will celebrate their 20th anniversary next year. More from The Asahi Shimbun.
RUSSIAN VILLAGE OF SEVEN RESIDENTS HOPED TO HOST COUNTRY’S FIRST LGBTQ PRIDE PARADE, UNTIL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTERFERED: More from The Washington Post.
READING RAINBOW – Bookmark now to read on your lunch break!
The New York Times offers tips for attending a same-sex wedding (otherwise known as a… wedding); Real Change reviews an art exhibit honoring transgender victims of violence; Out Magazine interviews Casey Cott (@CaseyCott), Anthony Ramos (@ARamosofficial) and Amandla Stenberg (@amandlastenberg) for its September cover; Leo Weekly profiles openly gay heavyweight champion Stu Perry; MTV previews the upcoming documentary ‘Quiet Heroes,” on the HIV and AIDS crisis
Don’t miss the @LogoTV premiere of “Quiet Heroes,” the story of one doctor’s determination to help the HIV/AIDs crisis. Check out t.co/EC7ARSqg8w for more info + watch the doc August 23rd at 8/7c. pic.twitter.com/aBR9liWKBD
— MTV (@MTV) August 16, 2018
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Solitary Confinement
Solitary Confinement
Λnya Λdora posted a photo:
Tonight when processing this recent image, i flashed on being alone in a dark jail cell all night awake for 8 months. This is the type of thing i deal with at times still in my life, flashes / flashbacks of things.
I don’t speak about it because i suffer from PTSD now, sometimes severely after what happened 10 years ago (Which i’ve explained here)
I spent the first 3 weeks of 8 months of Solitary Confinement in an ice cold ‘drunk tank’ i was kept in. I had my clothing removed and i was given a ‘suicide smock’. I literally shivered and froze night and day for 3 weeks.
I was denied psych meds, suffered multiple suicide attempts and was at times prevented from seeing both the therapist and attorney working with me. It was literally a nightmare. I ended up in jail after a medication reaction and essentially sobered up from it withdrawing over a week or two to then spent 8 months without help.
I then was transferred to another facility where two guards made me strip to change in front of them and then began making jokes about raping me in the room we had just came from which was private.
At that facility i was only given meat for 5 days to eat. Everything had meat in it, I am a vegetarian now of 23 years. I didn’t eat for 5 days.
I was then transferred back to Olympia, held for 7 more months for misdemeanors that should have been heard in Mental Health Court. I, like many minorities especially got the ‘Transgender Treatment’. I was punished much more severely than any non-trans person, but… Likely the same extent an African American or other minority would with be with a bigoted judge is my honest belief.
In the end, i spent 8 months in jail for a crime i not only felt badly about but i pled guilty to because i owned up to the fact that what happened still was wrong.
Others wanted me to fight it as a mental health issue, i did not.
To this day, a decade later i struggle feeling guilt over that day, even though i can’t change it and it wasn’t ‘me’ in that moment.
The entire experience caused me to lose my way in several aspects over years… being homeless, suicidal at times and feeling hopeless.
It wasn’t until 2016 i got help here in Seattle, finally got off the streets and am getting both Transgender Medical care i needed but also Mental & Physical Health care for my actual disabilities in life.
I am strong only because i have suffered. I have experienced days so dark most won’t ever understand the pain.
Yet somehow, I still try to connect, learn to trust others and find beauty in the world around me now in photography.
10 years later, still to this day…
Not a single Transgender group, entity, org i’ve contacted has ever cared to help with anything. I’ve learned a lot along the way about community, And it’s often cisgendered in my world.
It’s easier to pretend these things don’t happen, didn’t happen and maybe i needed help. It’s also easier to just judge and dismiss me. One thing i’ve learned about LGBT advocacy is, It’s anything but.
If any of this happened now, I’d actually have support.
Instead, It happened a decade ago, my life got ruined without any support at all… And now i’m forced to pretend i have a community among people waving pride flags too stupid to know recent history of people like me going through hell like this.
I feel like most of them lack the actual capacity to think.
So, I go to therapy and do my own thing.
A happy ending i suppose…
At least i’m real, and a hell of a lot stronger than 99% of them.
Ask anyone who knows me.
Project Contrast Throws a Lifeline to LGBTQ+ Youth
Project Contrast Throws a Lifeline to LGBTQ+ Youth
Created by Maxwell Poth, Project Contrast aims to raise awareness of the astoundingly high suicide rate of LGBTQ+ youth in America.
www.advocate.com/youth/2018/8/17/project-contrast-throws-lifeline-lgbtq-youth
It Does Matter Whether Trump Said the ‘N’ Word
It Does Matter Whether Trump Said the ‘N’ Word
If Republicans stand by Trump after a tape emerges of him saying that slur, it will confirm the GOP is the party of racism.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2018/8/17/it-does-matter-whether-trump-said-n-word
Unicorns and Mermaids – Why do LGBTI people relate to them? | Obsessions EP2
Unicorns and Mermaids – Why do LGBTI people relate to them? | Obsessions EP2
Android 9 Incompatibility Issues
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Gay Right-Winger Says Christine Hallquist Has ‘Transgender Privilege’
Gay Right-Winger Says Christine Hallquist Has ‘Transgender Privilege’
Gay journalist Chadwick Moore contended the Vermont gubernatorial candidate is known only for being trans, which is hardly the case.
www.advocate.com/media/2018/8/16/gay-right-winger-says-christine-hallquist-has-transgender-privilege
