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GLAAD Media Institute Partners With them. To Mobilize Next Generation of LGBTQ Media Ambassadors
GLAAD Media Institute Partners With them. To Mobilize Next Generation of LGBTQ Media Ambassadors
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GLAAD has partnered with the LGBTQ community platform them. to share a series of GLAAD Media Institute training videos over the next five weeks. By promoting various media techniques and skills that can enhance LGBTQ advocacy and storytelling, the partnership aims help to train and mobilize the next generation of LGBTQ media ambassadors. The five-week video series will cover a wide range of topics, including how to prepare for a successful interview, target the right audience, and use storytelling to change hearts and minds. Check out the first of GLAAD x them. video series here.
The GLAAD Media Institute enables people to build the core skills and techniques that effectuate positive cultural change and accelerate acceptance for the LGBTQ community through training, consulting and research. As a whole, these pillars aim to enhance effective activist storytelling, position organizations to take a stand for justice, and develop data and metrics for LGBTQ representation and acceptance.
Through its training, workshops and courses, the GLAAD Media Institute is establishing a nationwide network of 10,000 LGBTQ and allied students, activists and spokespeople who aim to move hearts and minds in national and local media markets. The Institute’s training has helped to increase accurate and inclusive storytelling in media, educate Hollywood film and TV creators to create compelling LGBTQ storylines, improve reporting about LGBTQ issues and people by media outlets, and create a database of research and resources on best practices.
Make sure to visit them.’s website each week to find the latest videos in the series.
April 9, 2019
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Salzburg Global LGBT Forum 2019: Advancing Legal and Social Equality in South Asia
(February 24 to March 1, 2019)
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#AM_Equality Tipsheet: April 9, 2019
#AM_Equality Tipsheet: April 9, 2019
TODAY — HRC LEGAL DIRECTOR SARAH WARBELOW (@SarahWarbelow) TO TESTIFY AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON THE EQUALITY ACT: The hearing on the legislation will take place this morning in the Education and Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services. Backed by nearly 70 percent of Americans, hundreds of members of Congress, more than 180 major businesses and more than 350 statewide and national organizations, the Equality Act has growing, unprecedented support. More from HRC.
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business organization representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses, wrote a letter to Congress in support of the Equality Act. Read it here.
TAYLOR SWIFT DONATES $113,000 TO FIGHT “SLATE OF HATE” ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS IN HER HOME STATE OF TENNESSEE: In a handwritten note to the Tennessee Equality Project, the singer said she was inspired by the group’s work, and in particular a recent petition it organized from Tennessee faith leaders. Chris Sanders, the organization’s executive director, said Swift has been a “long-time ally to the LGBTQ community. She sees our struggle in Tennessee and continues to add her voice with so many good people, including religious leaders who are speaking out for love in the face of fear.” Read more at USA Today and Variety.
- Nashville Public Radio rounds up the ‘slate of hate’ anti-LGBTQ bills. More from Sergio Martínez-Beltrán (@SergioMarBel) here.
- The Tennessee House yesterday passed a bill that advocates are calling an anti-transgender public accommodations bill in disguise. More from Tennessean.
- Want to know who’s behind behind Tennessee’s “copy cat” anti-LGBTQ legislation? Check out reporter Mike Reicher’s (@mreicher) story to find out how measures targeting LGBTQ people are being seeded around the country. More from Tennessean.
INCREDIBLE: Taylor Swift just made a sizable donation to @tnequality and wrote a heartfelt note thanking the organization for its work in trying to defeat the anti-LGBTQ “slate of hate” in Tennessee. #tnleg pic.twitter.com/cChF3Esd4Q
— Nick Morrow (@NRMorrow) April 8, 2019
MASSACHUSETTS GOV. CHARLIE BAKER SIGNS LAW PROTECTING YOUTH FROM DANGEROUS “CONVERSION THERAPY”: Massachusetts is the 16th state in the U.S. to protect youth from this egregious practice. Read more at HRC and the Boston Globe.
MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF ED QUASHES EXTREMIST PLOT TO REMOVE REFERENCES TO LGBTQ PEOPLE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE FROM CURRICULUM: But the practice of redlining, as well as references to Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement, were not included in the final curriculum revisions. More from New York Intelligencer and the Detroit Metro Times.
TUESDAY TWEET — IN NEW HRC VIDEO, REP PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-WA) ENCOURAGES CONGRESS TO PASS THE EQUALITY ACT:
“I’m an immigrant, woman of color and I’ve faced racism, sexism, discrimination my whole life, and there are so many people that face this on multiple levels, and LGBTQ communities in particular are the tip of the spear right now.” – @RepJayapal
Let’s pass the #EqualityAct now. pic.twitter.com/mexRTE3glp
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) April 8, 2019
CONVICTION IN ANTI-LGBTQ HARASSMENT COMMITTED IN PORTLAND, OREGON: Scott Wayne Smith pled guilty last week for shouting death threats at two gay men. More from Portland Mercury.
OPENLY LESBIAN SOCCER STAR JOANNA LOHMAN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT: Congratulations and thank you for your tireless efforts on behalf of LGBTQ people around the world. Check out HRC’s interview with Lohman (@JoannaLohman) here.
#MustWatch: @JoannaLohman sat down with @ashlandj11 of @HRC to share her story about being an out lesbian in professional soccer. pic.twitter.com/AjsxqaC7f3
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) January 27, 2018
GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS
BISEXUAL MAN IN BRUNEI SPEAKS OUT AGAINST COUNTRY’S DRACONIAN LAW AGAINST LGBTQ PEOPLE: And he predicts it will harm the economy. “Right now, it has been a serious challenge to expand the local job market and attract outside investors into the country,” he told the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers (@mklavers81). “With these laws in place, it’s not too far of a stretch to imagine such laws as discouraging to would-be investors.” More from The Washington Blade.
- A growing number of companies and celebrities are taking a stand against Brunei’s law. More from CNN.
- The British Military is pressuring the Queen to rescind honorary titles given to the Sultan of Brunei. More from Business Insider.
- Also in the U.K., the Health and Safety Executive agency has suspended a project in Brunei as a result of this law. More from Pink News.
TASMANIA ON VERGE OF PASSING HISTORIC PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE: More from The Guardian.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU MEETS WITH LGBTQ ADVOCATES FOR FIRST TIME IN 10 YEARS TO DISCUSS EQUALITY IN ISRAEL: More from The Jerusalem Post.
READING RAINBOW – Bookmark now to read on your lunch break!
Reuters reports that “The Inheritance,” a play about the HIV epidemic, swept Britain’s Olivier Awards; Arizona Republic interviews Monica Helms (@MF_Helms), creator of the iconic transgender pride flag; NBC covers a recent project documenting LGBTQ skateboarding culture; The New York Times details the Poland Populist Party’s attacks on LGBTQ people
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The Mormon Church’s Revised Gay Policy Is for Straight People
The Mormon Church’s Revised Gay Policy Is for Straight People
The Latter-Day Saints still don’t care about LGBTQ people, they’re just trying to reverse their dwindling membership, writes Craig Mangum.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/4/09/mormon-churchs-revised-gay-policy-straight-people
Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon and Cynthia Erivo’s ‘Time After Time’ Duet is the Most Gorgeous Thing You’ll Hear Today: WATCH
Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon and Cynthia Erivo’s ‘Time After Time’ Duet is the Most Gorgeous Thing You’ll Hear Today: WATCH
American Idol moved on to the “celebrity duets” portion of its audition phase this week, knocking out 6 contestants to form a Top 20 who will perform for America’s vote.
Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon, the pastor’s kid who has been on his own coming out journey since the show’s initial auditions when he sang a tune pondering whether he’d get into heaven, blew the roof off the Wiltern Theatre with a stunning, pitch-perfect duet of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” with Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo. Harmon made the Top 20. Check out Jeremiah’s previous performances HERE.
Here’s a clip with the pre-performance coaching:
Here’s a clip with the judges remarks:
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Весна и цветущие деревья в симферопольском Воронцовском парке (он же — Ботанический сад им. Н. В. Багрова Таврической академии Крымского федерального университета им. В. И. Вернадского)
Spring and blooming trees in Vorontsov Park (a.k.a. Bagrov Botanical Gardens of the Tavrida Academy of the Crimean Federal Vernadsky University) in Simferopol (the capital of the Republic of Crimea, Russia).
Not All Daddies Are The Same
Not All Daddies Are The Same
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Gay culture, not unlike other cultures, is often perceived to be all about stereotypes. This is never truer than in any of the ‘named’ cultures (Bear, Leather, S&M, etc.). The ‘Daddy/hunter’ community is no different. As a Daddy who spends a lot of time, much too much time, I have to admit, online chatting, I get frustrated when I hear perfectly attractive hunters bemoaning the fact they can’t find a Daddy to date because they aren’t (insert stereotypical requirement here): young, slender, smooth, tall, athletic, etc.
Really, guys, Daddies don’t all expect, require, or desire the same things. All you need to do is spend 5 minutes perusing the Daddyhunt profiles to see that, just like Daddies exist in all different shapes and sizes, Daddies have every different kind of taste and interest imaginable. You can find profiles of Daddies looking for girlie guys, masculine guys, tall guys, short guys, hairy guys, smooth guys, and on and on and on.
Some Daddies seem to prefer only younger, smoother, etc., but not all. Not every Daddy lives up to the presumed stereotype. Not all Daddies spend their entire lives chronically in search of some ‘perfect’ guy who meets some idealized, unrealistic standard. Okay, I admit, Daddies do tend to prefer that the guys they desire find older guys appealing, but then, who of us doesn’t want to be thought of as sexy? I know THIS DADDY certainly does! Not all Daddies have some unreasonable expectation that any guy they pursue be both perfect and static (i.e. always looking young and hot, etc.).
Okay, stereotypes exist for a reason. Sometimes, maybe more than sometimes, people live up to one stereotype or another. Most people don’t. The trick is finding a way for the ‘right’ Daddy to meet the ‘right’ hunter. That is the beauty of online communities like Daddyhunt. Such venues are safe places where we can share information about who we are, what we seek, and what it is we have to offer, affording us unique opportunities to form connections with those with whom we have complimentary interests. So, buck up, guys, it has worked for me, it can work for you. I promise.
At least this is what THIS DADDY thinks.
