Dr. Ruth Cites AIDS Crisis in Condemnation of One-Night Stands
While the 90-year-old sex therapist condones dating apps, she is taking a stand against one-night stands.
www.advocate.com/love-and-sex/2019/1/28/dr-ruth-cites-aids-crisis-condemnation-one-night-stands
Troye Sivan introduces the world to his ‘new BF,’ but is it just a showmance?
Troye Sivan’s love life has Internet sleuths working overtime today.
Chadwick Boseman, Madonna, Alan Cumming, Pink, a Sneak Peek At The New Harley Quinn, and Dido’s New Single Is To Die For: HOT LINKS
PETTY AF “Are we going to need a congressional bouncer to keep Trump from delivering the State of the Union in the House chamber next week?” Trevor Noah asks.
PRESIDENT’S BLEND Former Starbucks’ Howard Schultz told 60 Minutes: “I am seriously thinking of running for president … I am not … in bed with a party,” says Schultz, who is considering running as a “centrist independent.”
Schultz would be America’s first Jewish President if elected.
YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED Dido until you listen to this live acoustic version of ‘Give You Up’, the first single from her upcoming album, Still On My Mind (out March 8th, 2019). It’s everything you need to end Monday on a high note.
UP AND CUMMER In honor of Alan‘s 54th birthday, he hosted a Studio 54 themed party and got totally decked out in a leopard print suit and wig!
“I had the best Studio 54 themed birthday party at @thewatertowerbar of the @wburghotel last night, and then we headed over to @clubcumming for more japes! ‘Twas a good night!” Alan wrote on his Instagram.
WAKANDA FOREVER Black Panther will be free when it returns to theaters.
Black Panther is first comic book movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and, as such, the box office phenom will return to theaters for a one-week run next month. Better yet? In honor of Black History Month, all the screenings will be free. They kick off this Friday, February 1, and roll on through February 7 at 250 AMC locations throughout the country. In conjunction with the announcement, Disney has also revealed that it will donate a $1.5 million grant to the United Negro College Fund.
Get more information on the screenings here.
.@theblackpanther takes home the Actor® for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture! #sagawards
Great and moving speech from @chadwickboseman pic.twitter.com/Nw2UGbs712
— TNT Drama (@tntdrama) January 28, 2019
WHERE ELDERS ARE ALLIES LGBT Navajos Discover Unexpected Champions: Their Grandparents “It’s not unusual that Navajo grandparents are accepting of being LGBT while parents are not. Historians say federally run boarding schools and other assimilation tactics taught a generation of Navajos that same-sex relationships are wrong. says NPR.
“We are seeing clearly the aftereffects of what colonialism can look like and how it really shifted our values as Navajo people,” Nelson says. “Whereas at the time, if you were LGBTQ and growing up in Navajo traditional families, families celebrated that fact. They said that we were sacred. They said that we had sacred roles.”
But returning to understandings that predate colonialism has helped the families of LGBT Navajos. Traditionalists believe that the “two spirited,” as they’re sometimes called, are powerful and that not all humans can be classified as male or female.
Navajo historian Jennifer Denetdale says the Diné creation story includes a nádleehí.“Today we take the nádleehí as a being who was what we would call an intersex person today, meaning that this is a person who has sexual organs of the male and the female and is considered to be a third gender in Navajo society,” Denetdale says.
When the first man and the first woman weren’t getting along, it was the nádleehí who intervened.”
GOTHAM ORNITHOLOGY Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is the upcoming DC film that places Arkham’s most adorable psychotic psychiatrist in the centre of the action. DC and Warner Bros. have been smart enough to know that Margot Robbie’s performance is one of the things about the DCEU that unequivocally worked and deserves to be given room to flourish. With Robbie also producing and Cathy Yan directing, the film has been billed as a vibrant heist movie but little else is known. It is assumed that the story will follow Harley as she joins up with the most famous members of the Birds of Prey – Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya – to save the young Cassandra Cain from the crime lord Black Mask. A very brief sneak peek at the cast offers the shortest glimpses of Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, Rosie Perez as Renee, Ewan McGregor as Black Mask, Chris Messina and his new bleach blonde hair as Victor Zsasz, and of course, more Harley Quinn.
Now she’s dressed in tinsel and ready for Coachella.
POSITIVELY GEEKY Josh Robbins over at I’m Still Josh introduces us to “the most unique HIV advocacy online is a 4 hour show called: Jason Is A Social Scientist.”
It’s like if Adult Swim did a show about HIV.
“People often wonder what my show is about…the premise is deceptively simple…I take my HIV medication live on the book of face in front of friends, family, and strangers…I embrace stigma of all kinds including substance use mental illness and polyamory…hopefully dispelling ignorance and finding support.
If I were to have people take only one thing away from this show…then it would be the knowledge that HIV is preventable…if you are HIV negative there is a once a day pill that works like a highly effective chemical condom it is called #PrEP or preexposure protocol [sic]…and for people who are HIV+ treatment is prevention…by taking my medication everyday and maintaining an undetectable viral load…I am keeping myself and the people around me healthy… undetectable equals untransmissible #UequalsU…you could fuck me bareback all day long and never catch HIV from me…the future is now and it is 1969…free love baby RAmen”
IMPRESARIOPink‘s smash hit 2001 single “Get The Party Started” was originally intended for a different singer: Madonna. Linda Perry, the song’s writer and producer, revealed the surprising news in an interview with Rolling Stone.
“’Get the Party Started’ was just me figuring out what all this stuff does. I came up with that beat, laid it down, found all these weird chords and sounds and put the horns…I picked up a microphone and said, ‘I’m just going to say every clichéd line I can think of.’ And I came up with, ‘Get the party started on a Saturday night’ and wrote a bunch of stuff down. I called up my manager afterwards and said, ‘I just wrote a damn hit.’ It was too easy,” Linda explained of the making of the song.
“I sent it to Madonna and she passed, but a week later, Alecia [a.k.a. Pink] called. She left me this really crazy message how she would come find me if I didn’t call her back. I saw what she looked like — she was a bling-bling girl — and I said, ‘I think you have the wrong Linda Perry.’ She’s like, ‘Is this the Linda Perry who sang ‘Dear Mister President’ in 4 Non Blondes?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ She’s like, ‘Well, I have the right person.’ I had just written ‘Get the Party Started’ and I go, ‘Well, I’ve got something I wrote last week,’ and sent it to her. I guess she sent it to LA Reid and they said, ‘Okay we have our first single.’”
REMEMBER THE GREATEST GENERATION? Tom Brokaw apologized for his comments about assimilation & “brown grandbabies.”
BURNING QUESTIONS “Given Russian interference in the last U.S. presidential election, and given that Bernie Sanders’ campaign was a target of that meddling, one might imagine that Sanders would have spent the last two years leading the charge to prevent further election interference by Russia and/or any other foreign adversaries. He is a sitting Senator, after all. He has the power to introduce legislation to support federal election integrity measures.
And he has way more visibility than the average senator to call attention to and generate interest in and rally support for such legislation” says Melissa McEwan.
OUR COVER BOY Is Yaio-za!
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LGBTQ Asylum Seekers and Refugees Must Be Welcome Here
Post submitted by HRC Foundation Outreach & Research Coordinator Katalina Hadfield
The recent government shutdown highlighted the humanitarian crisis facing asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, which is part of this administration’s ongoing, disgraceful policies targeting asylum seekers and refugees around the world.
Over the last two years the Trump-Pence administration has more than halved the number of refugees per year it is allowing to resettle in the U.S. and has put thousands of refugee resettlement applications on hold. The administration’s “travel ban” on people from seven Muslim-majority countries has created an uncertain future for thousands.
According to a 2017 report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “more people are living today as refugees or displaced persons than at any time since the end of World War II.” Yet, 2017 marked the lowest number of refugees admitted to the U.S. in more than 40 years.
Many LGBTQ asylum seekers are among those seeking safety and shelter in the U.S., which must continue to be a beacon of hope for many around the world.
These three regions are among those that urgently need our support:
The “Northern Triangle” of Central America
El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have high levels of violence and political instability — and life in this region can be particularly treacherous for LGBTQ people. “I asked for asylum because of prosecution in my country,” said Karolina López, who left Mexico in 2009, in an interview with Remezcla. “A gang raped me and wanted to mutilate my genitals, so I asked for political asylum in the United States.” Traveling through Mexico can be particularly difficult for LGBTQ migrants, who frequently report suffering sexual and gender-based violence while crossing through Mexico.
Chechnya
Earlier this month, a statement from the Russian LGBT Network confirmed reports that anti-LGBTQ violence has resurged in Chechnya, with approximately 40 people detained and two killed in a “new wave of persecution” that started at the end of 2018. Reports of anti-LGBTQ persecution began in 2017. Chechen authorities detained and tortured more than 100 gay and bisexual men in the region, killing as many as 20. While LGBTQ Chechens have been offered asylum in many parts of Europe and Canada, activists state that the U.S. has yet to accept a single Chechen refugee and some Russian advocates have been told that U.S. visas are out of reach for LGBTQ Chechens. In June 2018, HRC joined a survivor of the brutal crackdown and Kimahli Powell, executive director of Rainbow Railroad, to meet with White House and State Department officials to address the ongoing crimes against humanity occurring in Chechnya and to share the survivor’s story.
7/ In June, @HRC interviewed “AD”— a survivor of the brutal crackdown on LGBTQ people in Chechnya. He shared with us that men in police uniforms handcuffed and threw him in the trunk of a car. He assumed it would be his last day alive. #EyesOnChechnya t.co/agSx0PyKye
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) July 16, 2018
Kenya
Between 200 and 750 people living in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya identify as LGBTQ. The camp was created in 1992 to accommodate South Sudanese refugees fleeing the war, but it has now grown to house refugees from across sub-Saharan Africa, including many LGBTQ refugees who have fled neighboring Uganda. But even in the camp, LGBTQ refugees report rampant anti-LGBTQ violence. In June 2018, LGBTQ refugees were attacked and received death threats after holding a Pride. In December 2018, LGBTQ refugees were moved to safe houses in Nairobi after they were brutally attacked by a mob and by police demonstrating outside a UNHCR office in Kakuma to ask for better protections.
The Trump-Pence administration’s treatment of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees is shameful. From ripping apart families at the southern border to turning away others fleeing violence and persecution, the U.S. has made itself complicit in the crimes that marginalized people face in their home countries. It is time for Congress to restore this country’s position as a global leader for equality and send a signal to the world that our doors are open to all who seek a better life for themselves and their families.
I am proof we are not defined by our past
I posed for the NOH 8 Campaign because of being bullied as a child. I was either too overweight, or too gay as a child, or never good enough. Later because of the hate I endured I turned to drugs as an an adult to cope. I posed to make my voice heard of the damage hate and bullying can do. I’ve been clean for over a year now and I am proof we are not defined by our past. Love to
www.noh8campaign.com/article/i-am-proof-we-are-not-defined-by-our-past
GLAAD Calls on White House to Release Official Notes from Meeting with SCOTUS Spouse Ginni Thomas on Transgender Americans, Marriage Equality
GLAAD CEO: “The fact that President Trump is taking counsel from known anti-LGBTQ activists like Ginni Thomas regarding policies that could impact LGBTQ people should have Americans gravely concerned about the foundations of our government.”
The New York Times reports meeting included: “members of the group denounced transgender people” […] “someone said that gay marriage was harming the fabric of the United States”
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today called on the White House to release official bookkeeping notes from President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and her anti-LGBTQ group Groundswell last week.
According to news reports, Ms. Thomas led a meeting with President Trump at the White House where participants denounced transgender Americans and claimed the historic, nationwide marriage equality ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court was “harming the fabric of the United States.” The Supreme Court is expected to take up Trump’s ban on transgender service members sometime in the near future, and Ms. Thomas’s husband will vote on this critical case.
“The fact that President Trump is taking counsel from known anti-LGBTQ activists like Ginni Thomas regarding policies that could impact LGBTQ people and families should have Americans gravely concerned about the foundations of our government, and they deserve to see the official notes that came from that meeting,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO at GLAAD. “LGBTQ people know President Trump wants to roll back their hard-fought progress, but this clear display of coordination between the Executive Branch and the wife of a U.S. Supreme Court justice shows Americans the Trump Administration will do anything to push an agenda – even if it means shredding the checks and balances system. The White House has a responsibility to release official notes from the meeting and provide context in the violently anti-LGBTQ work that Thomas and her organization lead.”
Today GLAAD added Ginni Thomas to its Trump Accountability Project, a list of administration officials and related individuals with anti-LGBTQ activist records. According to GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project (TAP), President Trump and his administration have been the most anti-LGBTQ in recent history, authorizing attacks on the LGBTQ community more than 92 times. For more about these, go to www.glaad.org/trump.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Ginni Thomas’s Anti-LGBTQ Past
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#AM_Equality Tipsheet: January 28, 2019
DISTURBING AND INAPPROPRIATE — WIFE OF JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS MEETS WITH TRUMP DAYS AFTER SCOTUS ALLOWED DISCRIMINATORY TRANS TROOP BAN TO GO INTO EFFECT: Ginni Thomas led a group of hard-right extremists who, according to The New York Times, argued that women should not serve in the military because they have “less muscle mass and lung capacity” than men, asserted that marriage equality was harming the “fabric” of the U.S. and were “dismissive that sexual assault is pervasive in the military”. Read more at the NYT.
TODAY — LGBTQ ADVOCATES CALL ON VA HOUSE OF DELEGATES TO PASS NONDISCRIM PROTECTIONS: Members of Equality Virginia, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Freedom for All Americans (FFAA) will gather at the Statehouse every day this week at 10:30 AM to urge the Virginia House of Delegates to pass legislation that would protect LGBT Virginians from discrimination in housing and public employment. If you are planning to attend, please RSVP to [email protected]
ICYMI — HRC COMMENDS NY GOVERNOR CUOMO AND LEADER STEWART-COUSINS ON HISTORIC PRO-LGBTQ LEGISLATION: “[Last Friday], with Governor Cuomo’s signature, New York has made bold, historic progress by making GENDA the law of the land and banning the abusive and life-threatening practice of so-called ‘conversion therapy’ on LGBTQ youth,” said HRC President Chad Griffin (@ChadHGriffin). “We also owe today’s celebration in large part to Senator Hoylman and Assembly members Gottfried and Glick for their strong leadership on this legislation and to Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, who made them a top priority this session.” More from HRC, The Advocate and The Washington Blade.
Historic victory in NY! #GENDA is now law, and young LGBTQ New Yorkers are protected from dangerous, debunked “conversion therapy.” Thanks to all who fought alongside us, and to all who voted to advance equality. This progress is because of you. t.co/sSx51w8y8X
— Chad Griffin (@ChadHGriffin) January 25, 2019
TRANS WOMAN SHOT IN HOUSTON — CURRENT CONDITION UNKNOWN: Pinky, 24, was chased and cornered at a gas station, where she was shot three times. She was taken to the hospital in unknown condition. More from TransGriot.
SOBERING STATISTICS FROM CDC HIGHLIGHT URGENT NEED TO SUPPORT TRANSGENDER AND NON-CONFORMING YOUTH: Among the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) findings — high school students who identify as transgender are at higher risk of attempting suicide. More from The Washington Post. and The Atlantic Journal-Constitution.
2/ @HRC Foundation and @UConn’s 2018 #LGBTQYouthReport underscores the alarming challenges and barriers facing transgender and gender-expansive youth around the country. t.co/tCxwDw3n2Z
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) January 26, 2019
MUST WATCH MONDAY — TRUMP-PENCE ADMINISTRATION FORCES ASYLUM SEEKERS INTO DANGER AT BORDER AS THEY AWAIT U.S. COURT DATES:
HRC FOUNDATION TO HONOR E.J. JOHNSON FOR HIS LGBTQ ADVOCACY AT 6TH ANNUAL TIME TO THRIVE: “E.J. is a powerful role model to LGBTQ youth everywhere — showing through his work to end LGBTQ homelessness that all young people deserve a safe and inclusive place to thrive and an equal chance to succeed in all aspects of their lives,” said Vincent Pompei, Director of HRC’s Youth Well-Being Project and Time to THRIVE conference. More from HRC.
E.J. Johnson is a powerful role model to LGBTQ youth — showing through his work to end LGBTQ homelessness that all young people deserve a safe and inclusive place to thrive.@HRC is proud to present @prince_ej with the Upstander Award at #TimeToTHRIVE. t.co/E8guA1TRtG
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) January 28, 2019
GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS
GAY BRAZILIAN CONGRESSMAN QUITS DUE TO DEATH THREATS, DOES NOT PLAN TO RETURN TO COUNTRY: More from The New York Times.
HORRIFIC — JAPAN SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LAW REQUIRING TRANSGENDER PEOPLE TO BE STERILIZED BEFORE TRANSITIONING: More from Japan Today and CNN.
READING RAINBOW – Bookmark now to read on your lunch break!
The Advocate features portraits of trans women from the most dangerous places in the world for trans people; Pink News highlights book recommendations in lead up to LGBTQ History Month; Openly gay athlete Timothy LeDuc and his partner Ashley Cain win the National Pairs title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships
.@HRC congratulates openly gay athlete Timothy LeDuc and his partner Ashley Cain for winning the National Pairs title at the @USFigureSkating Championships.��⛸️ #USChamps19 pic.twitter.com/ReHP5DcV5L
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) January 27, 2019
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Gov. Cuomo Signed GENDA & Protections Against “Conversion Therapy”
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