science says Attractive people are more likely to be down with gay sex
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‘Call Me By Your Name’ Director Luca Guadagnino Helming HBO Drama About Gay Teen Romance on Army Base

Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino is helming an HBO series about a gay teen who develops “an innocent romantic connection with an older soldier” on an Army base in Italy.

The series revolves around two 14-year-old friends, Caitlin and Fraser, according to Observer: “Eventually he becomes close to Caitlin, and the two embark on a period of self-discovery over the golden summer. Their friends think that he and Caitlin are a couple, but Fraser is actually missing his friend from home, Mark, while also developing an innocent romantic connection with an older soldier named Jason… She and Fraser spend the summer figuring out themselves and each other through an intimate and complicated friendship.”

More at Observer.

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‘Call Me By Your Name’ Director Luca Guadagnino Helming HBO Drama About Gay Teen Romance on Army Base

Partnerships in Innovative Advocacy: Engaging Employers as Allies for Equality

Post submitted by HRC Director of Global Partnerships Jean Freedberg

Another year of HRC Global’s Partnerships in Innovative Advocacy program is wrapping up. We hosted regional convenings of 25 advocates from 21 countries in Lima, Peru, Tirana, Albania and Hanoi, Vietnam, for three days of intensive workshops, training and sharing ideas about how to work with businesses as allies in their countries. The trainings were anchored in HRC’s new resource guide, “Engaging Employers in Advancing Equality: Lessons Learned and Practical Advice for LGBTQ Advocates around the World.”  

The resource is based on lessons learned from HRC’s thirty-plus years of experience building an LGBTQ movement in the U.S. The idea behind it and its associated workshops is to provide civil society activists from HRC’s growing alumni network, which now includes about 100 advocates from more than 70 countries, with tools and skills to engage employers and business of all sizes and in all sectors as allies. It tells the history of HRC’s success with reaching large national and multinational companies, lessons learned from our experiences and strategies for effective engagement. It also showcases the inspiring stories of fellow advocates around the globe who have already built successful models in their countries.

We were proud to partner with Presente in Lima, Open Mind Spectrum Albania (OMSA) in Tirana and iSee in Hanoi to produce the workshops. Participants shared their ideas and developed their own plans for how to reach out to employers across sectors and in businesses of all sizes, including large multinationals, mid size domestic organizations and local small businesses. In each city we also met with local LGBTQ activists, allies and supporters, to learn about the unique challenges and opportunities they face.

Peru

We were proud to partner with Presente, led by Global Innovator Gabriel de la Cruz Soler, to convene advocates from Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Jamaica in Lima. Participants discussed strategic methods to engage businesses as allies in their home countries. We also hosted a joint reception with Presente where HRC was able to meet with other LGBTQ activists from Peru.

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— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) December 19, 2018

Albania

Global Innovator Arber Kodra from OMSA was our host in Tirana, where we convened advocates from Bosnia, Czech Republic, Lebanon, Morocco and Slovenia for two full days of working together to design unique plans for employee engagement. We hosted a networking event that was attended by supportive members of parliament, the business community and local LGBTQ activists.

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— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) January 29, 2019

Vietnam

The final workshop was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, and co-hosted by former Global Fellow Thu Le. Participants came from across the region, including Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand  and Taiwan.

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— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) February 22, 2019

We are already planning next year’s program. Our upcoming resource guide will be called “Engaging Faith Leaders as Allies for Equality” and will explore HRC’s history of working with faith communities to create inclusive and welcoming places of worship. It will also examine strategies to change hearts and minds, while pushing back against anti-LGBTQ religious extremism.

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Tomi Lahren crawls out from under her bridge to attack the queer community
Lahren condemned the LGBTQ community for undermining traditional marriage and masculinity.

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Seth Meyers Rips Into Trump’s Attack on Spike Lee: WATCH

Seth Meyers eviscerated President Donald Trump last night over his penchant for wanting to cause “chaos” and be in the middle of the action.

Meyers posited that Trump’s hate tweet against Spike Lee was his way of inserting himself into a conversation that he wasn’t a part of and he desperately wants to weigh in on the Democratic nominees seeking to run against him in 2020.

READ: Trump Attacks Spike Lee for Taking ‘Racist Hit’ on Him at the Oscars: WATCH

“I love that he didn’t mention Trump by name,” Meyers says of Lee. “But [when] Trump heard hate, he assumed it was about him.”

“When Trump hears hate, it’s like the Bat-Signal for him.”

The Late Show host also unpacked Trump’s alleged strategy to disrupt the Democratic party’s growing number of presidential candidates, which includes Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand, among others.

Watch the clip below.

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HRC to Congress: Pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act Now

Today, HRC is calling on Congress to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR4) — critically important civil rights legislation that would ensure fair access to the ballot for all Americans is protected. The measure will be introduced today by Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT).

“Across the country, there are concerted efforts to strip voting rights from marginalized Americans, especially people of color,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “The Voting Rights Advancement Act is a crucial step toward ensuring the voting rights of all Americans are restored and fully protected. Full equality will not be achieved until we halt the systematic efforts to restrict access to the ballot box, disenfranchise voters and undermine our democracy. HRC will stand in coalition across social justice movements to restore crucial voting rights protections for all Americans.”

On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court delivered a huge blow to civil rights in Shelby County v. Holder by declaring a key provision in the Voting Right Act (VRA) unconstitutional. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling, states and localities have brazenly pushed forward discriminatory changes to voting practices, such as changing district boundaries to disadvantage select voters, instituting more onerous voter identification laws, and changing polling locations with little notice. These laws especially disenfranchise people of color, the elderly, low-income people, and people with disabilities. Voters are more vulnerable to discrimination now than at any time since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law more than fifty years ago.

Within the LGBTQ community, people of color, LGBTQ youth, and transgender individuals are often the most impacted by weakened voting rights laws. A recent poll found that African-American and Latino voters were three times as likely as white voters to report trouble finding their polling place. With one-third of transgender people reporting having no government identification that reflects their gender identity, voter ID laws often forcibly “out” transgender voters to poll workers, putting them at risk for discrimination and harassment.

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