‘Pose’ Hits Its Highest Ratings and Lands Early Third Season Renewal
In the TV equivalent of a death drop, Pose was renewed only one episode into its second season.
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Gay pride 2019! ♥
39 Photos of Iowa City Pride Bring Out the Sunshine
39 Photos of Iowa City Pride Bring Out the Sunshine
www.advocate.com/pride/2019/6/17/39-photos-iowa-city-pride-bring-out-sunshine
Photos: The shiny, happy people of Denver Pride are a mile high
Photos: The shiny, happy people of Denver Pride are a mile high
All those hiking trails and that mountain air is certainly working wonders for the people who live there because the crowd at Denver Pride this past weekend was filled with beautiful people of all shapes and sizes.
The First Transgender Contestant on ‘Naked and Afraid’ Used it as an Opportunity to Educate: WATCH
The First Transgender Contestant on ‘Naked and Afraid’ Used it as an Opportunity to Educate: WATCH
The Discovery Channel featured Quince Mountain, the first transgender contestant on its outdoor survival show Naked and Afraid, in Sunday night’s episode. On the show, two people are dumped into the wilderness with nothing, not even the clothes on their backs, for 21 days.
Mountain took it as an opportunity to educate.
The Reno Gazette Journal reports: “The episode features a tense moment when Mountain tells Owens that his surgical scars are the result of his gender transition. Mountain said producers gave him the option of keeping his gender transition private. But he declined and chose to discuss it openly. He welcomed the chance to be himself and discuss gender identity on his own terms, an opportunity transgender people are often denied.”
Mountain talked about the opportunity on Twitter (and check out the trailer below):
But if I’m honest, I wasn’t drawn to appearing on @NakedAndAfraid despite the nudity requirement–it was an alluring feature.
I felt, as a trans guy, that stripping down would be a relief, a way to get it over with & just finally say the unsayable, widely and publicly.
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
We are supposed to apologize for our bodies. This is something expected of women, and perhaps even more so for trans people.
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
These experiences were formative, and they were meant to keep me in line.
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
To be an openly trans person doing something beyond transitioning, dating, losing a job, or being harassed in a bathroom—to be in the public square, able to act rather than simply being acted upon—It’s a big deal.
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
So now I’m sharing something that is a part of my story.
But what about acting? Aren’t reality shows completely fake at worst, contrived and gimmicky at best?
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
I’m very happy to talk about acting and authenticity.
My authentic experience growing up as a trans person was one of fictional performance.
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
And yes, perhaps we have been deceivers—but not in the ways that you think, and almost always for our own security.
People mistrust us, whether or not they stop to think about it. This is the trans double bind.
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
It’s no accident that the “sports” or athletic challenges I’m involved in include outdoor survival and mushing.
Sports are divided by gender, and my experience made most of them inaccessible.
But dogs don’t ask for ID cards, and neither does the wilderness. pic.twitter.com/vZQpojWxzJ
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
Because look what we can accomplish when people just get the fck out of the way.
— Quince Mountain (@QuinceMountain) June 12, 2019
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The First Transgender Contestant on ‘Naked and Afraid’ Used it as an Opportunity to Educate: WATCH
Rainbow wave 5
Man Gives ‘Free Dad Hugs’ at Pride, Asks Parents to Accept LGBTQ Kids
Man Gives ‘Free Dad Hugs’ at Pride, Asks Parents to Accept LGBTQ Kids
Scott ‘Howie’ Dittman gave out more than 700 hugs at Pittsburgh Pride and says that as a parent he can’t wrap his head around exiling a child because they’re gay.
www.advocate.com/pride/2019/6/17/man-gives-free-dad-hugs-pride-asks-parents-accept-lgbtq-kids
Nicholas Sparks apologizes for homophobic emails but forgets to apologize for racist ones
Nicholas Sparks apologizes for homophobic emails but forgets to apologize for racist ones
In a message posted to his official Facebook Page this morning, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks said he’s really, really, really sorry for those homophobic emails that were leaked to the media last week.
It all started when Saul Benjamin, a former headmaster at the Epiphany School, accused Sparks of trying to ban an LGBTQ group from the Epiphany School of Global Studies, a faith-based prep school founded by the author in 2006.
Leaked emails showed that in 2013, a group of students began informally meeting to discuss their sexual orientations, and became the immediate subject of bullying.
When Sparks learned about the group, he ordered Benjamin to ban it, then he threatened at least two teachers with termination for defending the students.
When Benjamin pushed back, telling Sparks that banning the group was discriminatory, the author replied: “Not allowing them to have a club is NOT discrimination.”
In another email, Sparks suggested banning all forms of student protest after two lesbian students planned to come out during chapel services. When Benjamin refused to do so, Sparks accused him of secretly authorizing an “official School LGBT club.”
In another set of emails, Sparks made disparaging comments about African Americans, claiming that the dearth of Black students at his school had less to do with racist policies and more to do with African-Americans being “too poor and can’t do the academic work.”
In another email, he cited the school’s one–yes, one–Jewish student among the 500 person student body as being proof of the institution’s dedication to “diversity.”
Since the emails leaked, Sparks has received an barrage of criticism from LGBTQ activists and allies. Today, he finally addressed that outrage in a statement.
“I regret and apologize that mine have potentially hurt young people and members of the LGBTQ community,” Sparks wrote on Facebook, “including my friends and colleagues in that community.”
Sparks went on to say that he is “an unequivocal supporter of gay marriage, gay adoption, and equal employment rights and would never want to discourage any young person or adult from embracing who they are.”
Sparks then tried to clarify that the dispute surrounding the student group was never about it being an LGBTQ group, but rather how it was being formed.
“My concern was that if a club were to be founded, it be done in a thoughtful, transparent manner with the knowledge of faculty, students and parents,” he explained, “not in secret, and not in a way that felt exceptional. I only wish I had used those exact words.”
Noticeably absent from his apology, however, is any mention of Sparks’ remarks about Black kids being too poor or dumb to attend his school.
Read the full statement below. Or don’t.
Related: Leaked emails reveal author Nicholas Sparks’ true feelings about LGBTQ people and they’re not nice
Robyn, Tim Cook, Jacob Wohl, Mayor Pete’s Fundraising, Laura Ingraham, Liza Minnelli, West Side Story: HOT LINKS
Robyn, Tim Cook, Jacob Wohl, Mayor Pete’s Fundraising, Laura Ingraham, Liza Minnelli, West Side Story: HOT LINKS
$7 MILLION. Pete Buttigieg’s April fundraising haul: “The huge April haul, which was previously unreported, highlights Buttigieg’s explosive rise in the Democratic presidential race — and Buttigieg hopes to do it again next month by announcing a top-tier second quarter haul that at least doubles his last campaign finance report, putting the 37-year-old among the biggest fundraisers seeking the presidency in 2020 and cementing his leap from long shot status at the beginning this year.”
A STAR IS BORN. Liza Minnelli reveals what she thinks Judy Garland’s reaction would have been to the remake.
HATE THE WEATHER? FIRE THE METEOROLOGISTS. Trump fires pollsters over horrible internal poll leaks. “The polls also show Trump underperforming in reliably red states that haven’t been competitive for decades in presidential elections.”
NOT JOKING. Trump says his supporters might demand he stays in office longer than eight years.
MALE MODEL MONDAY. Tucker Des Lauriers, Chad White, Alex Sewall, Danny Williams and more HERE.
SCOTUS. Supreme Court hands Democrats a victory in racial gerrymandering case: “Democrats had claimed that previous districts were unlawful because they featured too many black voters, diminishing their power across the state and in other districts.”
ROOSEVELT ISLAND. NYC’s largest Pride “flag” unveiled.
The great-granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt plans to celebrate her family’s legacy and the LGBTQ community by transforming the steps at Roosevelt Island’s Four Freedoms Park into what she states is “New York City’s largest LGBTQ pride flag” t.co/01jjKdynBz
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 12, 2019
STEVEN SPIELBERG’S WEST SIDE STORY. The first photo of Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as Tony and Maria.
LAURA INGRAHAM. The FOX News host’s version of Pride Month: “Fox News is under fire from media observers for hosting a virulently anti-gay group and a controversial author with anti-gay views on Laura Ingraham’s The Ingraham Angle, particularly sensitive issues as cities across the nation celebrate Pride Month.”
Here’s the full @IngrahamAngle segment regarding the “legitimate concerns” about drag queens READING BOOKS TO KIDS. It ended with a hate group leader shilling a book on “The Health Hazards of Homosexuality,” which seemed a bit too far even for Ingraham. t.co/tswxX7qw5y pic.twitter.com/c0R4ti3Ir6
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) June 14, 2019
Remember when pundits attacked Elizabeth Warren for calling Fox News a hate-for-profit racket?
Tonight Fox promoted MassResistence, a virulent anti-gay hate group that’s so toxic they were banned at CPAC. pic.twitter.com/u8o3OjkUZ5
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) June 14, 2019
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. Prince Harry tells Meghan Markle to turn around.
ROYAL FATHER’S DAY. A new photo of Baby Archie.
CAROLYNE CASS. Catfished by Jacob Wohl: ‘Furious and frightened, Cass moved to an empty row of seats at the back of the plane, where she quietly cried. When they landed in Washington, she ducked the man she now believed was Jacob Wohl, rushed to the women’s bathroom, and called B, who told her to leave for New York City. She could stay at B’s apartment and ride out the impending storm. As Cass hid in a stall, Wohl began calling incessantly and texting to ask if she’d been picked up by agents on her way to the bathroom. She knew she had to lure him out of the airport: She texted that she was waiting outside. She remained hidden until she got confirmation that he’d gone past security. After buying a spot on the next flight to New York City, she called Wohl and told him she was out.’
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS OF THE DAY. Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Stanford. “If we accept as normal and unavoidable that everything in our lives can be aggregated, sold, or even leaked in the event of a hack, then we lose so much more than data. We lose the freedom to be human. Think about what’s at stake. Everything you write, everything you say, every topic of curiosity, every stray thought, every impulsive purchase, every moment of frustration or weakness, every gripe or complaint, every secret shared in confidence. In a world without digital privacy, even if you have done nothing wrong other than think differently, you begin to censor yourself. Not entirely at first. Just a little, bit by bit. To risk less, to hope less, to imagine less, to dare less, to create less, to try less, to talk less, to think less. The chilling effect of digital surveillance is profound, and it touches everything. What a small, unimaginative world we would end up with. Not entirely at first. Just a little, bit by bit. Ironically, it’s the kind of environment that would have stopped Silicon Valley before it had even gotten started.”
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. Robyn “Ever Again”.
DEAR REFUGEES. Lena Headey, Keegan-Michael Key, Mandy Patinkin thank refugees in new video.
WORLD RECORD OF THE DAY. Largest penny pyramid.
MONDAY MOMENT. Joseph and Raif.
View this post on InstagramKISS WHOEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT #pride This week flew by and we can not wait to eat a ton of Indian food and binge watch Netflix and then sleep and dream about our next beach vacation. . . . . . . #lgbtq #instagay #lgbtqpride #gayboy #gay #husbands #gayhusbands #loveislove
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