Exhibition will shed new light on Andy Warhol and his drag and trans portraits

Exhibition will shed new light on Andy Warhol and his drag and trans portraits
The show will explore how “A shy, gay man from a religious, migrant, low-income household … forged his own distinct path to emerge as the epitome of the pop art movement.”

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HRC to Trump and Pence: Stop Attacking LGBTQ Youth and Families

HRC to Trump and Pence: Stop Attacking LGBTQ Youth and Families

HRC responded to Vice President Mike Pence’s address commemorating National Adoption Month with a reminder of the Trump-Pence White House’s track record of attacking LGBTQ children and adults in the adoption and foster care systems.

Trump and Pence relentlessly marginalize LGBTQ people and attempt to erase our existence,” said HRC President Alphonso David. “Their disturbing worldview extends into the adoption and foster care systems, where they support giving federally-funded foster and adoption agencies a license to discriminate against LGBTQ children and prospective parents, religious minorities and other vulnerable groups. LGBTQ youth are tragically overrepresented in foster care, and this White House continues to exacerbate the marginalization, harassment and discrimination that LGBTQ youth in foster care and families face.”

This month, Trump and Pence proposed a federal regulation that would strip away nondiscrimination requirements and permit all HHS grant recipients, notably adoption and foster care agencies, to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and in many circumstances religious minorities and women, and still receive federal funding.

In April, HHS announced a proposed federal rule that would abandon data collection on the sexual orientation of youth in foster care and foster and adoptive parents and guardians in the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).

In January of this year, Trump-Pence’s HHS granted a waiver from federal non-discrimination requirements to South Carolina’s Foster Care Program, which has contracted with a child welfare provider who seeks permission to refuse to serve prospective parents who do not share their religious beliefs, but who want to continue to receive federal funding to provide those services. South Carolina requested the waiver to allow federal funds to go to a child welfare agency that refused to work with Jewish and Catholic people who were otherwise eligible to support children in need.

In May of 2017, the Trump-Pence White House put out an executive order mandating the Department of Justice to work agency by agency to regulatory create broad exemptions allowing faith-based organizations to discriminate against those who do not agree with their personal beliefs.

In 2017, HRC released a report, titled Disregarding the Best Interest of the Child: License to Discriminate In Child Welfare Services, detailing the harms of efforts to write anti-LGBTQ discrimination by child welfare agencies into law. Statistics suggest that an estimated two million LGBTQ adults in the U.S. are interested in adoption, but the LGBTQ community often remains an untapped resource when it comes to finding families for children and youth in foster care. The report debunks the myth that having more providers is the key to higher rates of placement in homes; the bottleneck is not the number of providers, but the number of prospective parents. Where providers have ceased to provide services rather than comply with nondiscrimination laws, placement rates did not decrease significantly as a result.

Further, research consistently shows that LGBTQ youth are overrepresented in the foster care system, as many have been rejected by their families of origin because of their LGBTQ status, and are especially vulnerable to discrimination and mistreatment while in foster care. This regulation would only exacerbate these challenges faced by LGBTQ young people.

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He’s really into kink, but his fiancé isn’t… so now what?!

He’s really into kink, but his fiancé isn’t… so now what?!

A 32-year-old man says he’s engaged to the most wonderful guy in the world who he truly can’t wait to marry one day, there’s just one teensy tiny problem…

“My interests trend to the kinkier side of the spectrum, while my fiancé is much more ‘traditional’ in bed,” he writes in a letter to Daniel Mallory Ortberg over at Slate.

And it’s causing some tension in their otherwise great relationship.

“My fiancé has experimented with some things that I’ve brought up, and he truly has been a good sport,” the man writes. “But it’s obvious it’s not really for him, and that comes across during these sessions.”

Despite trying his best, the fiancé just isn’t into the kinky stuff and, the man says, “it makes me a bit embarrassed.” Other than that, though, their sex life is “great.”

Now, here’s where it gets tricky…

The man explains that his friends are planning a trip to San Francisco to attend the Folsom Street Fair next year.

“I have never been and would really love to go,” he says. “The issue is that I don’t want to go with my fiancé.”

If his fiancé were into kink, he would love for him to tag along, but he isn’t, and so the man feels “as if I would constantly be worrying about him having fun and feeling too weird. And that would ruin the experience for me.”

He wonders: “How do I talk to him about the fact that I would prefer to have this experience without him? Is that even a good idea, or am I being selfish and prioritizing my desires over his feelings?”

In his response, Ortberg tells the man it’s time for the guys to have a serious conversation about what being a “good sport” truly is.

“Obviously you don’t want him to just put on a mask and power through something he actively dislikes,” Ortberg writes, “but if his good-faith effort to participate in your kink still makes it really obvious he’s totally turned off, then … it’s time for him to take a long, restorative break from participating.”

As for Folsom Street Fair, Ortberg assures him that there’s still plenty of time to figure that out, so don’t rush anything. When it comes to kink, in general, it’s always best to take things slow.

“Since it’s still a year off, you don’t have to rush into having the Folsom conversation with your fiancé right away,” he advises, “although you certainly can start establishing ground rules about how/when/if you might want to engage with your kink without him.”

“Mostly, though, I hope you know that it’s not selfish to want to stop playing together because you’re not feeling it. Don’t force yourself to push through lackluster and alienating kink encounters just because you think you ought to be grateful for your fiancé’s efforts.”

What advice would you give this man? Share your pearls of wisdom in the comments section below…

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Deval Patrick, Sonic the Hedgehog, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Southwest, Stephen Miller, Freddie Highmore, Impeachment Dumpster Fire: HOT LINKS

Deval Patrick, Sonic the Hedgehog, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Southwest, Stephen Miller, Freddie Highmore, Impeachment Dumpster Fire: HOT LINKS

2020. Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick mulls entering race: “Mr. Patrick, a respected two-term governor and one of the highest-profile black leaders in the party, has told some of the Democratic officials that he doesn’t think any of the candidates have established political momentum and that he thinks there is an opening for somebody who can unite both liberal and moderate voters, according to Democrats who have spoken to him.”

THE QUEEN IS NEVER LATE. Madonna responds to lawsuit over her late show start times.

GOLDEN GLOBES. Guess who’s back to host, ensuring a very interesting telecast? “Once again, they’ve made me an offer I can’t refuse. But this is the very last time I’m doing this, which could make for a fun evening.”

IMPEACHMENT. Investigators release testimony of Laura Cooper, Catherine Croft and Christopher Anderson. “Laura Cooper, a deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Russia and Ukraine, told investigators Trump’s abrupt hold on the critical security assistance sent all corners of the administration into a frenzy to get it released — and to understand what motivated Trump’s decision.”

IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS. The GOP strategy. ‘House Republicans plan to argue that “the President’s state of mind” was exculpatory.’

STEPHEN MILLER. White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller’s white nationalist affinities revealed in leaked emails. “The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency.”

CNN. Trump met at least 10 times with Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine henchmen he recently claimed he didn’t know. “There was an intimate dinner at the White House or at a Trump hotel. There was VIP access to Trump rallies. There was inauguration galas in which they’re feet from the president at these exclusive events, just days before the inauguration.”

JOHN BOLTON. What he said “off the record” about Trump’s foreign policy crimes: “Former national security adviser John Bolton derided President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law during a private speech last week and suggested his former boss’ approach to U.S. policy on Turkey is motivated by personal or financial interests, several people who were present for the remarks told NBC News.”

MINA CHANG. Senior Trump administration presented completely fraudulent resume: “An NBC News investigation found that Mina Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, has inflated her educational achievements — like claiming, falsely, to be a Harvard grad — and exaggerated the scope of her nonprofit’s work.”

JIMMY CARTER. Former president hospitalized for brain procedure: “Former President Jimmy Carter was admitted into Emory University Hospital on Monday for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, stemming from his recent falls, the Carter Center said.”

Statement on President Carter’s Health pic.twitter.com/Yn8iIYVWZc

— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) November 12, 2019

UNSAFE TO FLY? FAA threatens to ground Southwest if it can’t meet safety standards. “The issue involves 88 planes that Southwest has bought from more than a dozen foreign airlines since 2013. According to the Senate Commerce Committee, Southwest hired contractors to review maintenance records and then used authority delegated to it by the FAA to grant certificates that let it carry passengers on the planes.”

GALLUP. 34 million U.S. adults know somebody in the last five years who died because they couldn’t afford proper health care.

KENTUCKY. Thousands of Twitter bots spread misinformation about rigged election on night of vote: ‘Gideon Blocq, the founder and CEO of VineSight, told The Courier Journal his company witnessed thousands of accounts with “bot-like” automated behavior spreading misinformation about the race, including a screenshot of a tweet by one account claiming to have destroyed ballots with votes for incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin.’

RHODE ISLAND. Governor signs bill to help gay veterans get benefits

A ONE DIRECTION REUNION. What Simon says

CASTING. Freddie Highmore joins cast of Leonardo: “The Good Doctor star Freddie Highmore will executive produce and join the cast of Frank Spotnitz and Steve Thompson’s Leonardo, a drama series that takes a fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self.”

MONOLOGUE OF THE DAY. Brian Jordan Alvarez welcomes you to his home.

TRAILER OF THE DAY. The new and improved Sonic the Hedgehog.

TV TRAILER OF THE DAY. Homeland‘s final season.

TORSO TUESDAY. Mehcad Brooks.

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