Fetish play is serious business at Up Your Alley, this weekend in San Francisco
Calling all leather daddies, puppies, furries, and other fetish aficionados: the Up Your Alley street fair is this weekend in San Francisco

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Odell Beckham Jr. ‘Wasn’t Offended’ Over Speculation That He’s Gay: ‘Love Is Love’

In December 2015, then New York Giants star receiver Odell Beckham Jr. got into a series of on-field altercations with Carolina Panthers cornerback Jason Norman culminating in a helmet to helmet clash that would land Beckham with a one-game suspension. According to Beckham and the Giants, the conflict between Beckham and Norman was instigated by Norman who physically threatened Beckham Jr. with a baseball bat and shouted homophobic gay slurs at him before the game began.

After that altercation, speculation exploded about Beckham on mostly black gossip sites.

In a new interview, GQ asked Beckham, who is now a receiver for the Cleveland Browns, how it felt for him to constantly be called closeted or ‘excited’ when seen in a hot tub photo with teammates.

Said Beckham: “I’ve never had an opportunity to talk about this. Honestly wasn’t offended. I’ve never once had no problem with anybody who has their own personal life that they live. I have friends who are gay. It was almost more funny to me. I almost messed with them even more. It’s like when someone gives me an ultimatum, I’m usually always going to go to the opposite way of what you want me to go. So when they would say that, I would almost mess with them even more. I have no problem with anyone’s sexual orientation.”

Added GQ: “I feel like posts like that only contribute to homophobia in the black community. The idea that someone must be gay—or that being gay is in any way shameful—because they’re dancing or have blond hair seems so small-minded.”

Replied Beckham: “Or because they’re ‘close with other men.’ Even like little videos where they see me leaned back or something, they’ll say that I’m looking at a guy’s ass. And I’m like, ‘Bro! You don’t even know where my mind is at.’ It was just a lose-lose. They’d see me with a white woman and be like, ‘Why don’t you be with any sisters?’ I have no problem with any race. Love is love. If you’re attracted to somebody, you’re attracted to somebody. There was such a stigma built up, [as though] I don’t like my own women. It’s like, no, I don’t like anybody who annoys me. [laughs]”

Read the full interview HERE.

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My Vulnerability Could be My Strength
A couple of weeks ago, I was able to find my childhood mentor, Dr Dominic Brewer. As a young boy he provided me a view of masculinity that was both tender, and caring. He told me that my vulnerability could be my strength . Because of him, I have maintained relationships in Queer community throughout my life. It is my community . You are my sibs, across the gender spectrum,

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The Stunning Tales of South Africa Are Even Sexier In Person

Traveling through South Africa in the shadow of Black Panther — and Nelson Mandela — is totally worth it. 

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Gay Adult Performers Michael DelRay and Dante Colle Strip Down and Make Out for Homophobic Street Preachers: WATCH

Gay adult film performers Michael DelRay and Dante Colle ran into a group of homophobic street preachers on the Santa Monica pier. Colle tweeted that they asked the religious extremists how to be forgiven for their sins. When they were told “there’s no helping you guys,” they decided they “might as well enjoy it then.”

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Gay Adult Performers Michael DelRay and Dante Colle Strip Down and Make Out for Homophobic Street Preachers: WATCH

#AM_Equality Tipsheet: July 23, 2019

VP PENCE’S COLORADO CAMPAIGN $$ EVENT WITH SEN. CORY GARDNER (I???-CO) SHOWS GARDNER IS NO INDEPENDENT VOICE: Joining Pence at a fundraiser yesterday, Gardner proves yet again he’s willing to align himself with the Trump-Pence administration and its discriminatory actions targeting the LGBTQ community. While attempting to portray himself as pro-LGBTQ, Gardner has failed to support the Equality Act, has rubber stamped the anti-LGBTQ Trump-Pence agenda and now has shown his willingness to campaign with Pence, whose entire political career has been built on anti-LGBTQ animus. For more on Pence’s LGBTQ record, check out our report diving into his attacks on LGBTQ people. More from The Aspen Times.

NORTH CARLESTON, SC COMMUNITY MOURNS DENALI BERRIES STUCKEY, A TRANSGENDER WOMAN KILLED ON SATURDAY: Stuckey, 29, was a victim of deadly gun violence on Saturday, becoming one of at least 12 transgender women to have died by violent means in the U.S. this year. More from HRC, WCSC and The Post and Courier.

• “She was always a nurturing person. A very sweet person. Any anniversary, any birthday, event, anything representing or celebrating you, she was always there,” Stuckley’s friend Mercdeas Arline said. More from WCSC.
• Statement from the local police: “The motives of the death of Denali Berries Stuckey are still being investigated, but we hope that through this tragic act, greater awareness is gained of the continuing discrimination and harassment of the LGBTQ community, and hope that one day, our society will achieve true full acceptance of all.” More from WCSC.

FEDERAL JUDGE TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN CASE OF GAVIN GRIMM, TRANS STUDENT BARRED FROM USING BOY’S BATHROOM AT GLOUCESTER HIGH SCHOOL: In May 2018, a federal court decision reaffirmed that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects transgender students from discrimination including being forced to use separate bathroom facilities. More from The Associated Press, and follow along online with the ACLU of Virginia.

TUESDAY TWEET — OPENLY GAY ACTOR JONATHAN DEL ARCO JOINS STAR TREK: PICARD: Del Arco, who came out early in his career, received the HRC Visibility Award in 2013. More from Deadline.

Congratulations to longtime @HRC supporter @JonathanDelArco for joining #StarTrekPicard. #StarTrekSDCC t.co/8HzjYxamR9

— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) July 22, 2019

REP. DINA TITUS (D-NV) INTRODUCES GLOBE ACT TO PROTECT LGBTQ PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD: The bill would address a wide array of policy areas to improve the lives of LGBTQ people around the globe. More from Advocate and Las Vegas Sun.

AT THE INTERSECTION OF LGBTQ IDENTITY AND RACE — NAACP NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN DETROIT DELVES INTO PROGRESS, NEEDS OF COMMUNITY: More from the Detroit Free Press.

“AS NEW KING, SHE NEEDS TO FIND HER QUEEN” — OPENLY QUEER ACTOR TESSA THOMPSON, AS BI+ VALKYRIE, TO PLAY FIRST-EVER OPENLY LGBTQ CHARACTER IN MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: More from NBC.

GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS

HRC MOURNS YELENA GRIGORYEVA, RUSSIAN LGBTQ ACTIVIST STABBED TO DEATH IN ST. PETERSBURG: According to the Russian LGBT Network, Grigoryeva had received multiple death threats in the time leading up to her death. More from Meduza.

POLAND’S RULING PARTY CONTINUES TO ATTACK LGBTQ COMMUNITY; OFFICIALS ADVOCATING FOR “LGBT-FREE ZONES”: In the face of these attacks, LGBTQ advocates still celebrated Pride for the first time ever in Kielce, despite throngs of protestors. More from The Washington Post.

• And in Bialystok, police detained 25 people after anti-LGBTQ protestors attacked marchers at the city’s first-ever Pride parade. More from Reuters.

Unconscionable: Anti-LGBTQ protesters attacked marchers at an Eastern Poland city’s first-ever Pride parade amid growing anti-equality sentiment in the country. Police have detained 25 people in connection to the attacks. t.co/2vUlMlFWfK

— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) July 22, 2019

FOLLOWING ELECTION OF RIGHT WING PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO, MANY LGBTQ BRAZILIANS LIVE IN FEAR: Some have begun taking self-defense classes in response to increased harassment. More from The Washington Post.

OPENLY GAY TAIGA ISHIKAWA ELECTED TO JAPAN’S UPPER HOUSE: More from The Asahi Shimbun.

CHALLENGE LAUNCHED TO DOMINICA’S LAW BANNING CONSENSUAL SAME-SEX SEXUAL RELATIONS: More from Openly.

READING RAINBOW – Bookmark now to read on your lunch break!

Outsports shares the WNBA’s history of LGBTQ-inclusion efforts; Advocate reviews a biography of Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish  bullfighter who was close friends with the likes of Ernest Hemingway and James Dean; Milwaukee Business News interviews former HRC president Joe Solmonese (@JSolmonese), who is spearheading planning for the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

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