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Cis Male Legislator Quits After Repeatedly Using Women’s Restroom
Cis Male Legislator Quits After Repeatedly Using Women’s Restroom
A Republican colleague accused the Colorado state senator of using the ladies’ room on three seperate occassions.
The Golden Globe nominations are here and they’re super gay
The Golden Globe nominations are here and they’re super gay
Nominations for the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards are in and they include a record number of LGBTQ roles, actors, allies, movies, and TV shows.
ACLU Files Suit Against School That Won’t Allow a Student Gay-Straight Alliance to Call Itself ‘Gay’
ACLU Files Suit Against School That Won’t Allow a Student Gay-Straight Alliance to Call Itself ‘Gay’
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against East Allen County Schools in Indiana after the school district told students in the school’s gay-straight alliance that it could not use the words “gay, GSA, or LGBT+, or similar language, in any of the announcements or promotions for the club” and must call itself something different.
The ACLU writes: ‘Throughout the country student clubs such as Leo Pride Alliance are known as “gay straight alliances” or “GSAs.” When Leo students sought to establish a GSA as one of the clubs at the high school, administrators would not allow the club to be called “Leo GSA.” They insisted the club be called “Leo Pride Alliance,” with “Pride” referring to an acronym used by the school, “Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diligence, and Excellence.”…Unlike other clubs, the Leo Pride Alliance is not allowed to meet outside of a single classroom, or participate in school fundraisers. The faculty advisor of Leo Pride Alliance is also required to send a list of all club members to all faculty. Since this has started some students have stopped attending the group.’
Said Jane Henegar, executive director of ACLU of Indiana: “This group aims to create an environment that provides social, emotional and educational support to students, during a time that otherwise might be increasingly difficult for LGBTQ students. The differential treatment aimed at Leo Pride Alliance by administrators is unwarranted.”
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ACLU Files Suit Against School That Won’t Allow a Student Gay-Straight Alliance to Call Itself ‘Gay’
#AM_Equality Tipsheet: December 6, 2018
#AM_Equality Tipsheet: December 6, 2018
HRC RESPONDS TO LAME DUCK POWER GRAB BY WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS: HRC is calling on Governor Scott Walker to veto legislation designed to strip power from incoming Governor Tony Evers and incoming Attorney General Josh Kaul. “Elections matter and on November 6, Wisconsin voters came out in record numbers to reject the toxic leadership of Governor Scott Walker and Attorney General Brad Schimel,” said HRC Wisconsin State Director Wendy Strout. “Rather than accept the will of the people, Republican legislators have vindictively jammed through a sweeping set of bills designed to undermine the power and authority of our incoming, democratically-elected leaders. This illegitimate power grab is an affront to our state’s values.” Read more from HRC.
TRUMP-PENCE ADMINISTRATION REFUSES TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS ABOUT ITS “RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TASK FORCE”: “Since their first day in office, Trump and Pence have ruthlessly attacked the rights of LGBTQ people, often working to license discrimination against LGBTQ people under the guise of respecting personal belief,” David Stacy, HRC’s director of government affairs, said. “The lack of transparency in seeking to codify a license to discriminate across the federal government should alarm not just LGBTQ people but all Americans.” More from MetroWeekly.
HRC RAISES BISEXUAL PRIDE FLAG TO CELEBRATE ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY: Yesterday, HRC was proud to celebrate this symbol of bisexual pride and visibility with the bi community around the world.
THROWBACK THURSDAY — IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, EMBRACED A NON-DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE PROTECTING ITS LGBTQ CITIZENS: “What we are seeing other cities notice in Birmingham is the formation of a model and a conversation that they haven’t yet considered,” said HRC Alabama State Director Eva Kendrick. “It has started the thought process with elected officials around the state and community leaders who are saying, ‘This does matter. This matters to my neighbor. This matters to my employee. This matters to the person that I attend church with and I want to listen more carefully.'” More from AL.com.
A year later, discrimination protections for Birmingham’s LGBTQ citizens moves forward t.co/Va7ELpMbdQ pic.twitter.com/nAHTESscFI
— AL.com (@aldotcom) December 4, 2018
HORRIBLE — ANTI-GAY STICKERS SCATTERED AROUND ATTLEBORO, MASS.: “It’s very disappointing that we would see this here in Attleboro,” said Mayor Paul Heroux. “We’re a very inclusive community. It’s a very diverse community. It’s something that we don’t want to see here.” More from 7News and NBC 10 News.
YOU CAN’T MAKE IT UP, FOLKS — FORMER MOUTHPIECE FOR ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUP NAMED DOJ CHIEF SPOKESPERSON:
Former Alliance Defending Freedom staffer Kerri Kupec becomes top @TheJusticeDept spokesperson.
Alliance Defending Freedom is an @splcenter-designated hate group. t.co/OFBEL0SwkA
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) December 5, 2018
OPENLY GAY, HIV-POSITIVE NAVY CADET, DISCHARGED UNDER MILITARY HIV POLICY, FIGHTS BAN: More from Pink News.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LGBTQ AND ALLIED PERFORMERS ON THEIR GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS! Good luck to Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette), Debra Messing (@DebraMessing), Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins), Lady Gaga (@ladygaga), Troye Sivan (@troyesivan), Billy Porter (@theeBillyPorter), Lucas Hedges, and the casts and crews of @PoseOnFX, @ACSFX, @BoyErased and @BoRhapMovie.
Congratulations @ladygaga on your #GoldenGlobes nomination! pic.twitter.com/R0eGGAtCWQ
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) December 6, 2018
GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS
BERMUDA MUST RECOGNIZE THAT MARRIAGE EQUALITY IS SETTLED:
SHAMEFUL: Despite marriage equality being affirmed multiple times, Bermuda’s government is weighing whether to try to block it by making a desperate appeal to the Privy Council in the U.K. t.co/4X9wJScbys
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) December 5, 2018
NIGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OBY EZEKWESILI PLEDGES TO SUPPORT LGBTQ COMMUNITY IF ELECTED: She made the remarks in response to a question from HRC Global Innovator Bisi Alimi during an event in the U.K. More from The Nigerian Voice.
ATHENS, GREECE POLICE OFFICERS TO APPEAR IN COURT AFTER FATAL ATTACK ON LGBTQ AND HIV ACTIVIST ZAK KOSTOPOULOS: More from Advocate.
READING RAINBOW – Bookmark now to read on your lunch break!
Outsports reports that transgender boxer Pat Manuel will make his first professional debut this weekend; The Associated Press reflects on how holidays can be difficult for LGBTQ young people; Nylon features queer artists memorializing Stonewall; Nicole Kidman honored with the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for her role in Boy Erased (@BoyErased);
Congratulations to Nicole Kidman on winning the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for her role in @BoyErased. It’s imperative that we continue to tell these stories and help expose the dangerous and debunked practice of “conversion therapy.” #BoyErased t.co/pANJSP1mlp
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) December 6, 2018
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GLAAD celebrates a strong year for LGBTQ-inclusive Golden Globe Awards nominations
GLAAD celebrates a strong year for LGBTQ-inclusive Golden Globe Awards nominations
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the nominees for the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday morning and it was a very good morning for out producer Ryan Murphy. Once again this year, there were several LGBTQ-inclusive nominees amongst this year’s Globes honorees.
Murphy, who received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the day before this year’s nominations were announced, was honored for his groundbreaking new series Pose, which features five transgender women of color in leading roles. Pose received two nominations; one for BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA and one for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA, for leading man Billy Porter in the iconic role of Pray Tell.
Murphy’s FX limited series The Assassination of Gianni Versace also did extremely well with nominations for BEST TELEVISION LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION, along with nominations for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION for Darren Criss playing the role of Andrew Cunanan, BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION for Edgar Ramirez playing the titular role, and BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION for Penelope Cruz as Donatella Versace. Also in the limited series category, Amazon Prime’s A Very English Scandal was nominated.
Also on the television side, ally Debra Messing was honored in the BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY category for her role as Grace Adler in NBC’s long-running gay sitcom, Will & Grace.
Recently-announced Golden Globes co-host Sandra Oh was nominated for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA for her role playing a bisexual spy in Killing Eve.
Over on the film side, queer period piece The Favourite received four nominations, one for BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY and one for each of its leading actresses. Olivia Colman was nominated for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY for playing Queen Anne, while Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz will face off against each other in the BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE category.
Both Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant were nominated for their roles in the brilliant dark comedy Can You Ever Forgive Me? The former for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA and the latter for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE.
Mahershala Ali received a nomination for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE for playing gay piano virtuoso Dr. Don Shirley in Green Book.
Lucas Hedges was nominated for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA for his role as Jared Eamons in the conversion therapy drama Boy Erased. He’ll face off against Rami Malek, who was nominated for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.
There are two LGBTQ-inclusive nominees each this year in the BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA category; Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born. And there are three nominees in BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY; Crazy Rich Asians, The Favourite, and Green Book.
Bisexual singer/songwriter/actress Lady Gaga was double-nominated for A Star Is Born; for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA and for writing and performing the song “Shallow” from the film’s soundtrack.
In fact, there were three LGBTQ nominees in the BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE category. Joining Gaga, are Troye Sivan and Brett “Leland” McLaughlin for their song “Revelation” from the soundtrack to Boy Erased, as well as Linda Perry, who co-wrote “Girl In The Movies” with Dolly Parton for the Netflix original movie Dumplin’.
The HFPA began the day by announcing the creation of a new award this year to honor the biggest names and brightest talents in television. Likened as the equivalent of their annual Cecil B. DeMille Award for the film industry, the award will be for lifetime achievement. The award’s namesake and this year’s inaugural recipient will be announced in the coming days, along with the announcement of this year’s Cecil B. DeMille recipient.
The 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place on Sunday, January 6, 2019, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and will be co-hosted this year by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg.
December 6, 2018
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Milo Yiannopoulos Dumped by Fundraising Site Patreon After One Day
Milo Yiannopoulos Dumped by Fundraising Site Patreon After One Day
Reportedly $4 million in debt, white supremacist homocon troll Milo Yiannopoulos was kicked off the fundraising site Patreon after one day using the service, because the platform doesn’t allow “association with or [support of] hate groups.”
Hi there, thanks for the tweet. Milo Yiannopoulos was removed from Patreon as we don’t allow association with or supporting hate groups on Patreon. For more info, please see our Community Guidelines. t.co/L7737I1ENi
— Patreon (@Patreon) December 5, 2018
Wrote Yiannopoulos on his Patreon page: “I’ve had a miserable year or two, banned and de-platformed and censored and blacklisted … and now I need your help. I want to get back on my feet and come roaring back in 2019 with the fabulous comedy and insightful, serious commentary that made me famous in the first place…The past two years hasn’t been easy. I am one of the most censored and most lied-about people in the world. Even my fans sometimes believe things about me that aren’t true, because journalists lie more about me than perhaps anyone else in America. They can’t stand the idea of gay man who thinks for himself and says what he thinks.”
According to documents assembled by his former Australian tour promoters and seen by Guardian Australia, Yiannopoulos is more than $2 million in debt.
However, after that figure was reported, Yiannopoulos took to his Facebook page and claimed that the number was too small, writing, “I was shocked to read more lies in the press about me today. They say I owe $2m. I don’t! It’s at least $4m. Do you know how successful you have to be to owe that kind of money?”
The Guardian reported: ‘The documents indicate that as of April 2018, Yiannopoulos owed $1.6m to his own company, $400,000 to the Mercers, $153,215 to his former lawyers, $76,574 to former collaborator and Breitbart writer Allum Bokhari, and $20,000 to the luxury jewellery brand Cartier. As of 2 October, Yiannopoulos owed sums of several thousand dollars to far right writers including Ian Miles Cheong, anti-Islamic ideologue Pamela Geller and science fiction writer Theodore Beale, aka Vox Day, the documents indicate, amongst others. They were published on the website of an Australian far right figure and United Patriots Front member.’
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Why ‘Philadelphia’ Remains Relevant
Why ‘Philadelphia’ Remains Relevant
The AIDS-themed film, released in a new edition for its 25th anniversary, chroncles a part of queer history that’s still developing, says screenwriter Ron Nyswaner.
www.advocate.com/film/2018/12/06/why-philadelphia-remains-relevant
PHOTOS: You won’t believe the drag queen at the Best of GayCities event in Fort Lauderdale
PHOTOS: You won’t believe the drag queen at the Best of GayCities event in Fort Lauderdale
