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Sense8’s Brian J Smith Comes Out as Gay

Sense8’s Brian J Smith Comes Out as Gay

Actor Brian J. Smith, best known for playing Will Gorski in the Netflix series Sense8, has come out as gay. Smith, who also stars in the USA Network’s Treadstone and BBC One’s World On Fire, grew up in rural Texas and told Attitude magazine, “I could never be who I was. I was constantly having to check myself and make sure I wasn’t looking at someone too long or making someone feel uncomfortable.”

Said Smith: “At school I really couldn’t fit in anywhere. I wasn’t a jock or a nerd. Forget about any LGBTQ union or groups. There was absolutely nothing. I was completely alone. I heard all the names: pussy, faggot. … I had to be very, very careful about telling people the truth about myself. It still reverberates. A lot of my work is about that. The things that move me as an actor are those echoes that come up.”

Smith, 38, says he came out to his family eight years ago: “When I came out to my parents they were wonderful. They said they were just waiting for me to say something. They were a lot more advanced than I gave them credit for. I think that’s when I became OK with it, too. Just in terms of being, ‘Oh that’s the world, it’s not as dangerous as I thought it was’.”

Said Smith on Instagram Thursday: “I knew it was time. Hoping there’s other people out there like me (and not like me!) who can relate. Nothin but love! Now let’s go party.”

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Sense8’s Brian J Smith Comes Out as Gay

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Mission ImPAWsible Magazine Feature – Attention Magazine November 2019

Mission ImPAWsible Magazine Feature – Attention Magazine November 2019

TheIrishDevil posted a photo:

Mission ImPAWsible Magazine Feature - Attention Magazine November 2019

Sometimes the worst part of letting go
Is when your heart starts losing hope
You feel a whole lot of nothing
But you gotta keep on running

When it seems like the love is gone
And you think that you’re on your own
Just take a look around
Open up your eyes, you see the love never dies

—

We’re getting sappy up in here. Hang on to your hats and monocles.

As of this early autumn I joined the Attention Magazine team as Copy Editor. I was immediately made to feel wholly welcome, valid, and worthwhile by most everyone I met… and it turns out that was exactly what I needed. After a lengthy period of feeling busted and broken in a way that I just could not shake, it was the folks at Attention Magazine – and some other new friends introduced to me through them – that have been the ones to show me that I’m still “in here”. That I have sincere value of my own, my own shine still exists under the tarnish, and that actual healing and moving forward is possible.

Even for me.

Now, the position of Copy Editor is often a very quiet and behind-the-scenes sort of gig. But, Attention is a Second Life photography and lifestyle magazine, and everyone here knows that I enjoy SL photography as a hobby. When I heard that the November issue of Attention was going to be themed around spies and espionage, I realized that I wanted to pitch an idea. Something not all that serious, but entirely within theme.

I was shocked when Athena, owner of Attention, said “I love it. Make it happen.”

Getting so ill mid-October and having my usual photo tools crap out on me after I’d taken two photos for the spread put the project in jeopardy, but I did indeed make it happen in the end.

And so! Over the next few days I’ll be uploading each of the photos from my November 2019 Attention Magazine feature. If you’d like to check out the magazine as a whole and what the feature looks like in e-print, you can find an inworld version available via the Attention Magazine kiosk at my gacha shop, OR you can follow this link for the web version.

More tomorrow!

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NEWS

Jeff Sessions is a Dangerous Opponent of Equality

Jeff Sessions is a Dangerous Opponent of Equality

HRC announced our opposition to the newly announced U.S. Senate bid of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“At every point in his career, Jeff Sessions has used his power to discriminate against LGBTQ people, people of color and anyone who doesn’t look or think like him,” said HRC President Alphonso David. “From his time as Alabama Attorney General to the Senate to his horrific leadership at the Department of Justice, Sessions has systematically worked the levers of government to deny the rights of others. In 2017, Alabama voters chose equality by electing Sen. Doug Jones. We are hopeful that Alabamians will continue along that path, and deny Jeff Sessions, Roy Moore, or any of the anti-equality politicians who are seeking this office as a means to discriminate.”

In the Alabama special election for U.S. Senate in 2017, HRC organized more than 20 GOTV events — including phone banks, canvasses, and community events in the closing weeks of the campaign. For two months, more than 160 HRC volunteers and 11 HRC staff worked to reach the nearly 200,000 “Equality Voters” across Alabama — a voting bloc comprised of not only the 100,000 LGBTQ voters in the state but also the thousands of additional allies HRC has identified statewide. HRC also partnered with allied civil rights organizations, including the NAACP of Alabama and others, to increase voter turnout.

For more on Sessions’ anti-LGBTQ record, go to HRC’s Sessions Report.

www.hrc.org/blog/jeff-sessions-is-a-dangerous-opponent-of-equality?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed

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