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Daily Archives: March 22, 2019
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Billboard magazine fires gay director for demanding nudes from male musicians
Studio Pressuring ‘Rocketman’ Filmmakers to Cut Taron Egerton and Richard Madden Sex Scene for PG-13 Rating: REPORT
Studio Pressuring ‘Rocketman’ Filmmakers to Cut Taron Egerton and Richard Madden Sex Scene for PG-13 Rating: REPORT
The Dexter Fletcher-directed Elton John biopic Rocketman starring Taron Egerton, Richard Madden, and Jamie Bell is getting big buzz, and now there’s an unconfirmed report that Paramount is pressuring filmmakers to cut a very gay, very nude sex scene to achieve a PG-13 rating. Madden plays John Reid, Elton’s manager and lover.
Writes Baz Bamigboye in the Daily Mail: “Paramount Pictures have demanded that Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher and producer Matthew Vaughn cut a 40-second scene that shows Egerton, who plays the singer and Madden, cast as his one-time lover and manager John Reid, writhing on a bed. Fully exposed white derrieres are on display, but the nude escapade is tastefully done. Nonetheless, Paramount are forcing the director to cut the scene so it will have an American PG 13 rating (roughly the equivalent of a British 12A).”
The report suggests the studio asked for the cut because it wants to replicate the box office success of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Egerton talked about the sex scene last November.
Egerton told The List: “I probably shouldn’t be telling you this but we have a sex scene. We went to some places together and got quite physical. I’ve watched it back and I think it looks great. The grown-up nature of the film, combined with it being a musical, makes it feel quite zeitgeisty. I don’t know if I’m allowed to say this but it’s basically about Elton in rehab, so we’re not watering anything down.”
Paramount previewed footage from the film this week at The Troubadour in West Hollywood.
Wrote Variety‘s Marc Malkin of the event: ‘Before “Bohemian Rhapsody” was even released, a trailer sent some critics into a tailspin because they thought that its lack of gay content meant the film was going to be straight-washed. How far “Rocketman” goes isn’t clear from Monday’s preview except for a glimpse at a flirtation between the singer and his future boyfriend and manager John Reid (Richard Madden). Egerton did tell MTV News in November that the two share a love scene together and predicted the LGBTQ community will whole-heartedly embrace the movie.’
Let’s hope that footage stays in.
From tonight’s @rocketmanmovie preview. pic.twitter.com/4FLTPAUptq
— Marc Malkin (@marcmalkin) March 19, 2019
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#AM_Equality Tipsheet: March 22, 2019
#AM_Equality Tipsheet: March 22, 2019
U.S. HOUSE TO VOTE ON RESOLUTION OPPOSING TRUMP-PENCE TRANS TROOPS BAN: Next week, the U.S. House will vote on a resolution opposing Donald Trump and Mike Pence’s discriminatory transgender troop ban. Since Trump’s first tweets in July 2017, a bipartisan chorus of members of Congress, leading military and national security experts and an overwhelming majority of Americans have voiced their opposition to the policy. More from The Washington Post and The Hill.
LGBTQ SINGER/SONGWRITER BETTY WHO TO PERFORM AT HRC’S LOS ANGELES DINNER: In an exclusive HRC video, Who (@BettyWho) talked about how she wants her music to be a safe space for people to be themselves openly and safely: “The thing that has excited me has been how much more normalized it has become to be a part of the LGBTQ community. The stories I want to tell in my music are specific to finding yourself, growing up a lot and falling in love. All I want to do is create a safe space for people to come and be themselves and feel like they’re not being judged.” Who, who has shared that she has been in relationships with men and women, will perform March 30 at the 2019 HRC Los Angeles Dinner. Tickets and more information available here.
.@HRC Los Angeles is proud to announce that @BettyWho will be the Featured Performer at the 2019 #HRCLADinner!
For more information and to buy tickets to the 2019 Dinner, visit t.co/BZtKtskYzF pic.twitter.com/0Wea5XiaIf
— HRC Los Angeles (@HRCLosAngeles) March 20, 2019
MAINE GOVERNOR JANET MILLS SIGNS LAW PROTECTING LGBTQ HEALTH CARE:
Governor Mills just signed LD 1 into law! Protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions means that transgender people and people living with HIV/AIDS in Maine won’t have to pay exorbitant premiums, or lose access to life saving treatment. #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/keLyuFA3pX
— EqualityMaine (@EqualityMaine) March 19, 2019
FEEL GOOD FRIDAY — MODEL NATHAN WESTLING COMES OUT AS TRANSGENDER IN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CNN: “It feels like I’ve been wearing like a mask my whole life,” Westling told CNN’s Allyssia Alleyne (@AllyssiaAlleyne). “I removed that mask, it was like I was finally… I don’t know. I’m not wearing a skin that I don’t feel I am anymore. I’m not playing a persona; I’m not trying to be something I’m not anymore.” More from CNN.
After rising to the top of the fashion industry as a womenswear model, Nathan Westling comes out as transgender in a CNN Style exclusive. t.co/tDxVNbbJFK pic.twitter.com/R64tx9u42f
— CNN Style (@CNNStyle) March 19, 2019
SAN ANTONIO MAYOR’S LGBTQ ADVISORY COMMITTEE URGES CITY TO OPPOSE ANTI-LGBTQ TEXAS STATE BILL: Senate Bill 15, as amended, would prevent municipalities such as San Antonio from fully enforcing nondiscrimination ordinances. More from Out in San Antonio.
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CREATES POSITION TO PROTECT LGBTQ CONSUMERS: Nik Harris, who is a member of the local HRC steering committee, will serve as the state’s first LGBTQ consumer advocate, to raise “awareness of opportunities within the agriculture industry and [help] address discrimination and fraud targeted at the LGBTQ community.” More from Click Orlando.
HRC SHARES TIPS FOR DOCS ON HOW TO BETTER CARE FOR BISEXUAL PATIENTS: By following simple guidelines, health care professionals can create safe, welcoming places where bisexual people feel less anxious about coming out and seeking the health care they need and deserve. More from HRC.
GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS
CANADIAN MILITARY ISSUES GUIDANCE IN SUPPORT OF TRANSGENDER TROOPS: More from CBC.
NEW REPORT FROM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DETAILS ABUSIVE PRACTICE OF FORCED STERILIZATION FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN JAPAN: More from The Washington Post.
DATING APP FOR CHINESE LGBTQ COMMUNITY HELPING COUPLES FIND OVERSEAS SURROGACY OPTIONS: Surrogacy is illegal in China, though many advocates are working to overturn the ban. More from Bloomberg.
READING RAINBOW – Bookmark now to read on your lunch break!
France24 profiles Jean Wyllys, a gay Brazilian congressman who fled his home country after receiving death threats; Forbes highlights five financial challenges (and solutions) faced by LGBTQ people; KTLA records a podcast with actress Yeardley Smith (@YeardleySmith); PennToday looks at the history of the Wharton Alliance, UPenn’s network for LGBTQ business students; The Body reviews a documentary on the impact of crystal meth on the LGBTQ community; ABC features non-binary actor Asia Kate Dillon’s (@AsiaKateDillon) interview with gay Olympian Adam Rippon (@Adaripp)
Tonight, Actor @AsiaKateDillon uses their platform as the first non-binary TV star to help others. How the show led to a revelation about the actor’s own gender identity. t.co/FkUeXKd4Lw pic.twitter.com/b4anDWEZc9
— Nightline (@Nightline) March 21, 2019
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What President Trump’s Executive Order on Campus Free Speech is Really Meant To Do
What President Trump’s Executive Order on Campus Free Speech is Really Meant To Do
The much anticipated executive order that President Donald Trump issued March 21 to protect free speech on campus is about politics, not policy.
The proof is in the executive order itself. The order implies that campuses that limit speech will lose federal grants. However, the free speech aspects of the order demand that universities to do what they do already.
The order directs 11 federal agencies that make research and education grants “to ensure institutions that receive Federal research or education grants promote free inquiry, including through compliance with all applicable Federal laws, regulations, and policies.”
Public institutions are already bound by law to uphold the First Amendment. And, as First Amendment watchdogs note, most private universities protect speech. Universities are already required to comply with numerous civil rights and equal protection laws to qualify for federal funding.
Political context
The order comes at a time when many of Trump’s core supporters are concerned with what they perceive to be a culture of political correctness in American higher education. In response to these political concerns, Trump first threatened to pull federal research funding from the University of California at Berkeley in 2017 after the school canceled a scheduled appearance by incendiary speaker Milo Yiannopoulos. The president repeated his promise to pull federal research dollars from campuses that do not protect the First Amendment in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in February of this year.
The campus free speech executive order is the president’s attempt to make good on the promise to his political base.
It is not clear how the order would work or be enforced. But if the free speech order is political symbolism, why does it matter? As a scholar who studies the politics of higher education and research funding, I believe the order matters in the following ways.
Mostly about student outcomes
The biggest likely impact of the order has nothing to do with free speech.
The order directs the Department of Education to provide more granular information about student debt and earnings on the College Scorecard. The Obama administration set up the Scorecard to provide information about college affordability and outcomes.
Under the order, institutions will have to give the Department of Education program-specific information about how much their graduates earn and how well they are doing at paying back their student loans.
In this sense, the order is an extension of long-term and bipartisan federal market-based education policy. The idea is that college affordability and student outcomes can help students make better informed choices about which college to attend.
Federal research dollars at stake
The order may also have some potential consequences to scientific research.
In 2017 the federal government spent over US$40 billion on academic research, which supported included studies vital to improving health and public welfare. The University of California at Berkeley, for example, alone received $330 million in federal research funds. Pulling those funds to settle a political score would damage university finances and impede the course of science.
Holding a high standard for speech protection could also have consequences for the president’s base. Liberty University, headed by Trump ally Jerry Falwell Jr., has been cited by free speech advocates as having a repressive climate for free expression. However, in 2017 Liberty won only $120,000 in federal research grants – so it doesn’t have much to lose.
Brendan Cantwell, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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What President Trump’s Executive Order on Campus Free Speech is Really Meant To Do
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Banning the Death Penalty Is an LGBTQ Issue
Banning the Death Penalty Is an LGBTQ Issue
California governor Gavin Newsom placed a moratorium on the death penalty — a decision that will impact the disparate number of minorities sentenced to die.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/3/22/banning-death-penalty-lgbtq-issue
