Kiki Fantroy Is (at Least) the 13th Black Trans Woman Killed in 2019

Only 21, Fantroy was gunned down July 31 in Miami.

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Actor Keith McDermott spills on two of Hollywood’s biggest gay icons

Veteran actor and artist Keith McDermott, known for roles in Without a Trace and in various stage productions, has spilled gossip on two gay icons, Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins.

In a new interview with Michael Musto for Logo.com, McDermott recounts his early days as a struggling actor in New York theater and a number of the strong personalities that touched him along the way. That includes Hunter, whom McDemott dated for a time.

“I met Tab through Larry Kert [of West Side Story],” McDermott explains. “Then, when I was in Equus, Tab called me out of the blue and said he was coming to New York, and somehow he ended up staying at my house. Thinking back, he obviously had some professional thing to do in New York and was thinking of it as an economic way to stay there. He was nice. He was sexy. He was 50; I was 24.”

Related: Tab Hunter pens moving essay about his secret relationship with Anthony Perkins

McDermott goes on to say that he always had a soft spot for “daddy” types and that he and Hunter remained friends ever after. The same wasn’t true for McDermott and Anthony Perkins, whom the actor describes as “a game player” and self-loathing. McDermott says, “He’d say things to me like, ‘Have you noticed, watching my performance, what I’m doing differently?’ I’d watch over a period of time, then say, ‘I can’t see anything.’ Unlike [Richard] Burton, Tony did the same thing every night. He said, ‘I’m no longer raising my eyebrows anywhere in the play.’ I’d say, ‘Amazing.’ He once said, ‘I’ll get a word for you that can be critical, good or bad, about your performance, and you do the same for me.’ His word for me was poise. He wanted me to do a word for him, and I said unbelievable.

McDermott also describes Perkins as frequently checking out men in the audience, and claims he married a woman so he could have a more “settled” life.  In the same interview, he also dishes on actors like Larry Kert, Maureen Stapleton and Richard Burton, as well as details the reasons for his retirement from acting.

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Lil Nas X Reveals What People Have Been Telling Him Since He Came Out as a Gay Man

Lil Nas X appears on the cover of British GQ Hype this month, and spoke to the magazine about what he’s doing after “Old Town Road” and what people have been saying to him since he came out as a gay man.

Said the rapper, who last week broke the record for the longest running #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100: “Live your life to its fullest potential and don’t really care too much about what other people think of you. I used to say that cliché, but I never really lived by it, until now. Since I came out, people have been coming up to me saying, ‘You’re making a way for us.’”

“I’m still in the first stage of figuring out who I am,” he added. “I don’t know what kind of music I’ll be making ten years from now. I want to do everything and I’m still learning how I work. But the one thing I’ll always know is that people don’t know what they want until they get it. They didn’t know they wanted a song about taking a horse to the old town road in 2019. But they did.”

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59 Photos of Naked Male Seduction by Wilson Carter

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Gay son of “Straight Pride” organizer speaks out against his homophobic mother

Matthew Mason, the gay son of Mylinda Mason, one of the co-organizers of a Straight Pride event planned for later this month in Modesto, California, is speaking out against his homophobic mother.

Last month, flyers for the event began circulating around town encouraging residents to “Join us to celebrate heterosexuality, masculinity, femininity, babies–born and unborn–western civilization, our wonderful country, Christianity–Celebrate Life!”

Now, Mason says he will speak before the City Council this Wednesday in hopes of getting the event shut down.

Mason worries the hate rally will incite violence after members from the local chapter of the Proud Boys, the domestic terrorist group responsible for the 2017 hate rally in Charlottesville that resulted in a car being driven into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing a woman and injuring several others, said they planned to attend.

The event’s other co-founder, Don Grundmann, has a long history of promoting hate, founding several antigay groups, including the National Straight Pride Coalition and Citizens Against Perversion.

Related: “Straight Pride” is officially coming to California

In an interview last month, Grundmann told reporters, “We’re going to change the cultural tide and make it, such things as gender fluidity and transgender, we’re going to associate them with what they are: sick and evil ideas.”

“We don’t want hate in Modesto,” 28-year-old Mason, who was adopted as a baby and came out when he was 19 but became estranged from his mother a few years ago, says. “I am making sure Modesto is not a place for hate speech.”

Mason is also helping to organize a candlelight vigil before the Wednesday’s council meeting to protest the straight pride event.

Meanwhile, his mom denies being in tolerant and simply says she has an “opposing view” from her estranged son.

The “intolerance does not come from our side,” Mylinda Mason insists. “We are not happy they are going to try to shut down our side and deny us peaceable assembly. It’s obvious we have two opposing views. It’s the other side that wants the opposing view shut down. It’s not our side.”

Matthew Mason says that if the event happens, he doubts it will attract many people, despite organizers saying they expect at least 500 attendees.

“I’m fully expecting they will have a small, pitiful turnout,” he says. “They are a fringe group.”

Meanwhile, his mom says she still loves her son despite their obvious differences.

“I would say it’s heartbreaking,” she says of their fractured relationship. “Any parent feels this way.”

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Ignoring His Own Rhetoric, Trump Condemns White Supremacy, Blames Shooting on Video Games: WATCH

Donald Trump on Monday addressed the mass shootings that took 34 lives over the weekend, blaming video games and mental illness.

Trump, who has spent weeks fomenting racism and hatred with his rhetoric, said it must be extinguished: “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul.”

Trump attacked the internet and blamed video games for the shooting: “The perils of the internet and social media cannot be ignored, and they will not be ignored. … We must stop the glorification of violence in our society. This includes the gruesome and grizzly video games that are now commonplace.”

Added Trump: “We must reform our mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence and make sure those people not only get treatment, but when necessary, involuntary confinement. Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.”

Trump also said “may God bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo” even though the shooting happened in Dayton.

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Gay adult star ‘fired’ from studio for not wanting to work with HIV-positive performers

Numerous studies and the CDC have shown that HIV-positive men with undetectable viral loads are incapable of transmitting the virus. But gay adult video performer Dante Thick didn’t get the memo because he recently tweeted:

“Ya everyone SHOULD be tested. I don’t want to work with anyone who’s undetectable or detectable. Would be very nice to make this mandatory and also mandatory tests. Idk just sounds smart to me.”

The gay adult video industry blog, Str8UpGayP*rn (link NSFW), explained that Thick wrote his tweet in response to fellow performer Nick Fitt’s tweet mentioning a need to update the adult industry’s FSC PASS STI-testing system so that undetectable performers can “work equally alongside HIV-negative models.”

Related: HIV stigma summed up in one nasty 8-word Grindr message

In response to Thick’s post, several other gay adult performers questioned his opinion, worrying that viewpoints like his just further anti-HIV stigma while ignoring scientific facts. One clever commenter even called Dante “thick.”

It makes sense why Thick might not know that undetectable equals untransmittable: He’s 25-years-old, sex ed in this country is a non-existent joke and he was partially homeschooled in an ultra-religious conservative home. During his childhood, he moved 26 times in 6 different states and attended 10 different schools and over 80 different churches. That’s enough to keep anyone in the dark about sexual health, even if they are an adult performer.

Thick’s studio, Next Door Studios, responded to the backlash by saying that it decided not to renew Thick’s exclusive contract with the studio after working with him for two years.

However, Thick then posted his own Twitter video saying that he decided to no longer continue working with the studio two weeks before his anti-HIV tweet. He said he wanted to focus on expanding his opportunities in straight, bisexual and transgender adult video scenes.

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— Donte Thick (@DonteThick) August 2, 2019

Regardless of whether Thick quit or was let go, it’s noteworthy that his old employer thought it important to stand up for HIV-positive performers when barely a decade ago gay adult studios made a regular habit of quietly removing poz performers from their active rosters.

Thick’s tweet also reminds us of August Ames, a 23-year-old female adult video performer who in December 2017 said she didn’t want to work with gay or bi male performers for fear of contracting HIV. After blowback against her tweet, she killed herself by hanging. Three weeks before her suicide, Ames discussed her struggles with bipolar depression and multiple personality disorder on a podcast.

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