Lady Gaga: Stonewall ‘Was When Our Community Said Enough Is Enough’

The bisexual singer delivered a stirring message for WorldPride.

www.advocate.com/people/2019/6/25/lady-gaga-stonewall-was-when-our-community-said-enough-enough

WATCH: Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon makes NYC debut at Queerty’s #Pride50

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‘Pose,’ ‘Stonewall OutLoud,’ the Original ‘Tales of the City’ and More TV This Week

Check out our weekly guide to TV this week, and make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

Pose continues its triumphant second season with a new episode written by Our Lady J and directed by Janet Mock tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern on FX.

Get to know the 19 Democrats who will not be running for President (and the one who might) at the first Democratic presidential debates Wednesday and Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. Wednesday features Booker, de Blasio, Castro, Delaney, Gabbard, Inslee, Klobuchar, O’Rourke, Ryan and Warren. Thursday’s contenders are Biden, Bennet, Buttigieg, Gillibrand, Harris, Hickenlooper, Sanders, Swalwell, Williamson and Yang.

Another stellar season of Real Housewives of New York comes to an end Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern on Bravo. After a manic trip to Miami, will it be Luann’s Christmas cabaret, Ramona’s pop-up holiday party or Bethenny’s “S’mores and Whores” party that will feature the most epic blowout in the finale?

While not necessarily new, the iconic original Tales of the City comes to Netflix Friday. The original miniseries, starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis, should be considered required viewing for its bold portrayal of 1970s San Francisco, drug use, queer people and a wild, soapy story that still shocks.

Ahead of the massive WorldPride celebration in New York City this weekend, commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings with Stonewall Outloud, a new documentary from WOW Presents available Friday on Youtube.

What are you watching this week on TV?

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Malaysian politician after leaked gay sex video: “I am very paranoid now”

Haziq Aziz is a Malaysian cabinet member who serves as the Senior Private Secretary to the Deputy Minister of Primary Industries and Commodities. Or rather, he was until earlier this month.

About two weeks ago, Aziz was ousted from his government position after a sexually explicit video of him with another man leaked online.

The video quickly made the rounds on social media and, in response, Aziz was forced to make a videotaped “confession,” admitting to appearing in the video.

He said it was shot on May 11 in his hotel room at the Sheraton Hotel Four Points. He also said it was recorded without his knowledge or consent.

After his “confession,” Aziz went into hiding, deleting his social media pages and ignoring all requests for comment from reporters.

Until now.

“This sex video scandal has affected my political dream,” he now tells The Straits Times in a heartbreaking new interview. “I have to forget about becoming a politician.”

When asked about why he made the “confession,” Aziz replies, “The Malay-Muslim community can’t accept this kind of behavior. But one thing is I admit, I did it. It was a mistake and the right thing to do was to confess.”

Aziz recalls the moment he learned about the video:

I found out about the video at 8 AM when I woke up on June 11. I was really shocked. … At first, I did not want to admit it was me. At first, I felt afraid as a personal thing about me went viral. I was thinking of [going into hiding]. That is why I deleted all my social media accounts.

…My family was very sad about this. On the day it went viral, my mum cried non-stop. My family was even afraid to leave the house. When I made the video confession, they were shocked. At first, they thought that the video confession was fake. I told them, “Look it was not fake, it was me.” They had to accept it.

Honestly, my family is very sad because my family is very conservative. And they want to [take care of] the good name of the family.

Homosexuality is considered a crime in Malaysia, punishable with up to 20 years in prison and/or whipping. The country has no legal protections for LGBTQ people, and just last year, two women were publicly caned for “attempting lesbian sex.”

The U.S. State Department warns travelers that discrimination against LGBTQ people is pervasive and that they may face discrimination or even violence while visiting the country.

Asked if he’s afraid about what will happen to him now he’s “confessed” to homosexual acts, Aziz replies, “Of course, yes. I thought about that. But I had no choice. My safety and my life are quite important.”

Aziz adds that the real person who should be punished is whoever set up the spy cam and leaked the video online, as the sex was “consensual between two adults.”

Since the scandal broke, Aziz has been laying low, living in fear as he awaits his fate.

“I don’t have my phone now,” he says. “I have thrown it away as I am afraid that someone will track me and kill me. I am very paranoid now.”

Aziz spends most of his days at home, reading books or watching TV and trying to tune out the world.

“I have not read anything posted online,” he says. “I don’t want to become stressed.”

“Right now,” he adds, “I don’t have a plan.”

Related: Politician could face prison time after being outed by an explicit gay video

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Alphonso David Named New Human Rights Campaign President: WATCH

Alphonso David has been named as the new president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights group. David is the first civil rights lawyer and the first person of color to serve as President of HRC in the organization’s nearly 40-year history.  David will take over from Chad Griffin in August.

Wrote HRC in a press release: “David most recently made history as the first openly gay Counsel to the Governor of the State of New York and, before that, served as the first Deputy Secretary and Counsel for Civil Rights in New York. In these roles, he played an integral role in securing marriage equality in New York in 2011, banning the abusive practice of so-called “conversion therapy” on minors, establishing non-discrimination protections for transgender New Yorkers, expanding Medicaid coverage to cover transition-related care, making it easier to amend gender markers on birth certificates, and enacting policies and regulations to support people living with HIV and drive new diagnoses to an all-time low statewide. He has also helped lead efforts to expand access to reproductive healthcare, restore voting rights to New Yorkers, advance workplace protections for disadvantaged communities, and require access to free translation services in essential state services. Prior to his work for New York State, David served as a staff attorney at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.”

Said David: “I believe that together, we can harness the strength that’s inherent in our differences, to stand together in the face of fear and division. And that’s exactly what the Human Rights Campaign was built for. If we want to win full equality, that’s going to require us to come together, to dig deep, to be resilient, to embrace our differences, to tenaciously defend the most vulnerable among us, to fight with every ounce of determination we have. I promise you this, I will fight for each and every one of us. All I ask is that you join me, that you join the Human Rights Campaign in our fight for true equality. In unity, we will fight back and we will win.”

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