Orange Is the New Black’s Final Season Trailer Is a Tearjerker

The Netflix series that broke ground in 2013 with its unprecedented cast of women of color and LGBTQ people begins to close out its run this July. 

www.advocate.com/television/2019/6/26/orange-new-blacks-final-season-trailer-tearjerker

Meet the gay teen couple making TV history

The face of Spanish-language soaps has changed courtesy of Juntos el Corazón Nunca se Equivoca, the new Mexican telenovela–the first ever to focus on a gay couple

Juntos el Corazón Nunca se Equivoca (translated as “Together the Heart is Never Wrong”) follows the love affair between Aris (played by Emilio Osorio) and Temo (played by Joaquín Bondoni), two 16 year old boys in love. Their affair began on the popular soap Mi Marido Tiene Más Familia, which became the most watched show in Mexico.

Related: Telenovela star splits with girlfriend amid bisexual rumors and after x-rated video leak

The new series finds Temo and Aris journeying to Mexico City to attend university, and going through all the expected perils of young queer love.

Juntos el Corazón Nunca se Equivoca doesn’t air in the United States just yet, but has a habit of finding its way to the internet for anyone interested in learning more about “Aristemo,” as fans refer to the couple.

Oh, and for anyone wanting the basic rundown on their relationship thus far, a devoted fan has put together a recap video of all the soapy twists that led them to this point.

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Google Employees Call on SF Pride to Drop Google’s Sponsorship and Representation in All Events Over Anti-LGBTQ Policies

A group of Google employees is calling on the San Francisco Pride Board of Directors to drop their company’s sponsorship of Pride 2019 and bar the company’s official contingent from marching in the parade over the company’s anti-LGBTQ policies.

The employees told the board they are tired of waiting for Google to change its policies: “We have spent countless hours advocating for our company to improve policies and practices regarding the treatment of LGBTQ+ persons, the depiction of LGBTQ+ persons, and harassment and hate speech directed at LGBTQ+ persons, on YouTube and other Google products. Whenever we press for change, we are told only that the company will “take a hard look at these policies.” But we are never given a commitment to improve, and when we ask when these improvements will be made, we are always told to be patient.”

Add the employees: “We feel we have no choice but to urge you to reject Google’s failure to act in support of our community by revoking their sponsorship of Pride, and excluding Google from official representation in the Pride parade. If another official platform, YouTube, allows abuse and hate and discrimination against LGBTQ+ persons, then Pride must not provide the company a platform that paints it in a rainbow veneer of support for those very persons. On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, in a Pride celebration whose very slogan is “Generations of Resistance”, we ask you to join us in resisting LGBTQ+ oppression on the internet, and the subjugation of our right to equality in favor of calculated business concerns. The first Pride was a protest, and so now must this Pride be one.”

Read the full letter HERE.

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Trump Lashes Out at Megan Rapinoe Who Won’t Go to ‘F-ing’ White House

Trump angrily tweeted at the out soccer champion insinuating she’s unpatriotic for not wanting to visit the White House. 

www.advocate.com/sports/2019/6/26/trump-lashes-out-megan-rapinoe-who-wont-go-f-ing-white-house

Few folks know about this historic mass grave of HIV-positive people near New York City

Hart Island is a small islet located a mile east of the Bronx. It’s one mile long and a third of a mile wide (roughly 213 acres), and during the mid ’80s and ’90s, New York City buried thousands of people who’d died of HIV on the island out of fear the bodies might infect others.

The island and its dark history were recently explored in season two of Ryan Murphy’s groundbreaking FX drama series Pose. Two HIV-positive queer characters visit the island in 1990 to visit the grave of their dead friend.

True to history, the friend’s grave is marked only by a number. Crates, each with a dead body (some weeks or months old) were stacked atop one another deep in the soil. Men in hazmat suits, some of them Rikers Island prisoners forced to become gravediggers, walk around the island rubble as bulldozers covered the graves in earth.

Related: PHOTOS: New museum offers rare glimpse at gay life in the 1940s, on Fire Island and beyond

Although the city only buried 17 HIV-positive people there during 1985, they continued to do so well into the ’90s. The number of HIV-positive people buried there is estimated to be in the thousands, but city officials are reluctant to provide exact numbers because of longstanding criticisms of the island’s crude handling of deaths at the time.

Often people who were buried there had been rejected by their families for their HIV-status. At the time, many funeral homes and graveyards refused to accommodate people who had died of HIV-related illnesses for fear of contagion. Hart Island became the only possible resting place for many of these unclaimed and rejected bodies as well as for poor people who couldn’t afford to bury family members killed by the epidemic.

The New York Times says Hart Island could be “perhaps the single largest burial ground in the country for people with AIDS.”

New York is considering considering policy changes to make Hart Island more accessible to those whose relatives are buried there. Until then, its history is kept alive by those who know about it, media like Pose and The Hart Island Project, an interactive website that has a database of its burials, including those who were HIV-positive.

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‘Highlights’ Magazine Denounces Trump’s Child Detention Centers with Blistering ‘Statement About Human Decency’

The CEO of popular children’s magazine Highlights has issued a statement denouncing Trump’s child detention centers following reports of horrific conditions at the facilities for migrant children.

Said Kent Johnson: “As a company that helps children become their best selves — curious, creative, caring, and confident — we want kids to understand the importance of having moral courage. Moral courage means standing up for what we believe is right, honest, and ethical — even when it is hard. Our company’s core believe, stated each month in Highlights magazine, is that ‘Children are the world’s most important people.’ That is a believe about ALL children. With this core believe in our minds and hearts, we denounce the practice of separating immigrant children from their families and urge our government to cease this activity, which is unconscionable and causes irreparable damage to young lives.”

“This is not a political statement about immigration policy,” added Johnson. “This is a statement about human decency, plain and simple. This is a plea for recognition that these are not simply the children of strangers for whom others are accountable. This is an appeal to elevate the inalienable right of all children to feel safe and to have the opportunity to become their best selves. We invite you — regardless of your political leanings — to join us in speaking out against family separation and to call for more humane treatment of immigrant children currently being help in detention facilities,” he urged. “Write, call, or email your government representatives. Let our children draw strength and inspiration from our collective display of moral courage. They are watching”

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