Queen Forces Donald Trump to Stop Usage of ‘We Will Rock You’

The famous rock group once led by Freddie Mercury reminded the president of something called ‘copyright.’ 

www.advocate.com/politics/2019/10/14/queen-forces-donald-trump-stop-usage-we-will-rock-you

Jake Gyllenhaal Announces He’s Marrying Tom Holland

Spider-Man: Far From Home star Jake Gyllenhaal joked that he and co-star Tom Holland are getting married following a panel for legions of fans.

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Forget the Biebers… We’re getting married

A post shared by Jake Gyllenhaal (@jakegyllenhaal) on Oct 12, 2019 at 6:42pm PDT

Gyllenhaal and Holland were appearing at ACE Comic Con in Chicago over the weekend.

Gyllenhaal has spoken warmly about his friendship with Holland in past interviews and the two obviously have a lot of fun together: “Disastrous times, he’s got a bland personality, he’s basically just very boring. … It was genuinely lovely. He puts everything into making Spider-Man great. He knows how much pressure there is on him and he knows how much people care about that character, and he puts everything physically, emotionally, mentally into it. I think it wasn’t until literally a day ago when he saw the movie finally that he said he could relax. He offered me a lot of advice that I needed, and he just constantly was like ‘Yes, that’s exactly how everyone feels when they first start off in this space.’ And we just became friends that way. I think he admires me, I admire him, both for very different reasons. And as much as actors in press junkets after the fact like to talk about how wonderful the other one was to work with, and who knows if it’s true or not half the time. I really like him a lot as a human being and I enjoy being with him outside of all this stuff so that all went into the movie as well.”

Enjoy this blooper video of the happy couple together.

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Miss my scene partner. #spidermanfarfromhome Out Now on Digital

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Dad finds teen son’s stash of ‘beefcake’ pics on family computer – then this happened

A New York gay man’s twitter thread for Coming Out Day (October, 11) went unexpectedly viral.

Grant Ginder (pictured above) is an author and teacher based in NYC. He’s now 36. On Friday, he posted a story about how his parents first found out about his sexuality.

“When I was 13, I began collecting pictures of hot men that I found on AOL,” he begins. “I kept them on my family’s computer, in a file called ‘downloads’ I thought no one looked at, and I labeled them with the one word I knew to describe hot men: beefcake.”

“I don’t know where I learned the word, but at night when everyone was asleep and I was at the computer I used it heavily: ‘Beefcake in a speedo,’ ‘beefcake on the beach,’ ‘beefcake standing under a waterfall’ (a personal favorite).

“(The pictures were of a very specific aesthetic that if you were gay and coming of age in the 90s you would immediately recognize: buff, hairless men in red thongs, tanned to the color of Magda from ‘Something About Mary.’ Herb Ritts, but with more grease and less hair gel).

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“I kept up my beefcake collecting for a good six months until, one day, my dad was driving me to a friend’s house and he turned down the volume on the OBC recording of ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat’ to tell me he had a question for me.

“I was not happy. I was going through a very intense ‘Joseph…’ phase and was conceiving of an adaption of it to be done in our living room, with the help of the six-year-old who lived next door. Still, I humored him. I said, ‘Yes?’

“We pulled up to a stoplight (I can still remember which one) and, turning to me, he asked ‘Who’s been downloading all the pictures of the beefcakes?’

“I froze. I panicked. I thought of water splashing across a set of airbrushed abs.

“Looking him straight in the eye, I said, very gravely, ‘Dad, I think it was Mom.’

“READER, DR. FREUD, WHOEVER: I BLAMED MY MOTHER. FOR DOWNLOADING PICTURES OF D-LIST FABIOS, WORKING ON CARS IN THONGS.

“‘Mom?’ he said. ‘Huh. You think I should talk to her?’

“Again: panic. Again: airbrushed abs.

“No – she’d probably be super embarrassed if you did.”

“I reached and turned the volume back up on ‘Go Go Go Joseph’ and he let me. The light turned green, and we drove on.

“Flash forward to now: I don’t know if he ever talked to my mom, though I suspect if he did it was so they could have a good laugh. I was very obviously gay (see: productions of ‘Joseph…’ in the living room), and if anything the beefcakes just confirmed their strong suspicions.

“But Mom! Mea culpa! I panicked, and I’m sorry about that! A braver kid would’ve said, ‘fuck it, those beefcakes are MINE.’ But alas, I was 13. I wasn’t ready. Coming out is hard, and it’s something that as LGBTQ+ people we have to do every day, in a million different ways.

“So: thank you, Mom, for taking the heat, and thank you, Dad, for suppressing your smirk for long enough that I was convinced that you believed me. I am 36 now. I’m out, happy, and in love, and that’s in no small part because of you.”

A short while after posting the initial thread, Ginder posted an update.

“My mother just called. ‘There was one of a man on a motorcycle,’ she said. ‘You had excellent taste.’”

Related: ‘Archie’ comics celebrate Coming Out Day by having Riverdale residents come out

The thread has been liked tens of thousands of times and prompted thousands of comments.

Some have shared their own stories of hiding illicit images.

“When I was 13 I thought the best place to hide the ladies’ lingerie catalogs was under the bottom drawer of my school desk. Yeah… that didn’t work either.”

One woman says her brother hid his porn, “Under the mattress of our parents’ bed. In dad’s side. The boy was a genius.”

Others said Ginder’s dad had handled the situation admirably.

Ginder, who is the author of books including Honestly, We Meant Well, told Queerty he was “absolutely” surprised the thread had proved so popular.

“I always think of Twitter as this void where I can shout things, but I never really expect that anyone cares what I’m shouting about, so to speak.

“I think what surprised me more than the thread’s popularity, though, were the incredible responses I started getting from people who shared similar experiences (the Internet in the 90s, as it turns out, was pretty perilous).

“Coming out is a weird, fraught, terrifying experience, but it’s also a universal one that we as members of the LGBTQ+ community share. This whole Twitter business has reminded me of that, and that’s a powerful thing.”

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Sickening Video Played at Trump Conference Depicts President as Gunman in Bloody Mass Shooting, Killing Media, Political Opponents, Critics

A video played for Trump supporters at his Trump National Doral Miami resort depicts the president as a gunman, blowing the heads off of various people at a church whose faces have been replaced by logos from various media outlets.

Trump then kills or maims a variety of his critics including Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Rachel Maddow, Rosie O’Donnell, Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Mika Brzezinski, and others.

Warning: video is graphic.

5. As much as I hate to post this, given how much people are talking about this story, and that it involves the president’s club, his supporters, and an organization that supports him, here’s the video in question: pic.twitter.com/qqtllitsIP

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) October 14, 2019

The NYT reports: “Several of Mr. Trump’s top surrogates — including his son Donald Trump Jr., his former spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis — were scheduled to speak at the three-day conference, which was held by a pro-Trump group, American Priority, at Trump National Doral Miami. Ms. Sanders and a person close to Mr. Trump’s son said on Sunday that they did not see the video at the conference.”

Reports describing a violent video played at a Trump Campaign event in which images of reporters & @JohnMcCain are being slain by Pres Trump violate every norm our society expects from its leaders& the institutions that bare their names. I stand w/ @whca in registering my outrage

— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) October 14, 2019

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