One Million Moms Petitions to Ban Super Bowl Drag Queen Ad, 19000 Sign

The conservative group claims an ad for Sabra hummus promotes “an agenda of sexual confusion.”

www.advocate.com/business/2020/1/30/one-million-moms-petitions-ban-super-bowl-drag-queen-ad-19000-sign

Trump’s border wall blown over by light breeze, Twitter responds accordingly

Perhaps you’ve heard that a portion of Donald Trump’s border wall collapsed yesterday after it was unable to withstand extreme wind gusts… of 37 MPH.

The collapse happened in Calexico, California shortly after Trump held a rally in New Jersey where he lied about how “beautiful” and “powerful” his new wall was.

“We are now building that beautiful wall,” Trump said. “This powerful border wall is going up at record speed, and we just reached over 100 miles of wall. And next year we’ll be over 400 miles. And shortly thereafter it will be complete.”

And now, the responses…

Even Ann Coulter, author of In Trump We Trust, isn’t pleased about this wall business:

Someone please remind us… Is this what winning looks like?

Related: Yet another super embarrassing tweet from Ivanka Trump completely backfires

www.queerty.com/trumps-border-wall-blown-light-breeze-twitter-responds-accordingly-20200130?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Kobe Bryant, Alan Dershowitz, Lady Gaga, Kendall Jenner, Adam Lambert, Ken Paxton, Wilbur Ross, RuPaul: HOT LINKS

SWAMP THING: Coronavirus could mean U.S. jobs. Wilbur Ross goes there. “I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America,” Trump’s commerce secretary said.

TOO LATE: After blowback, Dershowitz walks back alarming ‘public interest’ defense Of Trump. Alan Dershowitz, one of President Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers, claimed on Thursday that the media “willfully distorted” his shocking argument that presidents can do whatever they want to get reelected because said reelection is “in the public interest”–even though that’s precisely the argument he made.

FLOWER CHILD: Adam Lambert joins forces with Nile Rodgers for “Roses.”

View this post on Instagram

ROSES f. @nilerodgers out Feb 4th (presave link in bio)

A post shared by ADAM LAMBERT (@adamlambert) on Jan 29, 2020 at 6:23pm PST

CANCELLED CHECKS: Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Bank pull Florida voucher donations over anti-gay school policies.

DO YOUR JOB: Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton sidesteps gay marriage case that conflicts with his beliefs. It’s the most recent in a handful of cases in which Paxton, a Republican, has stepped away from one of the basic requirements of his job because the state’s actions conflict with his views of the Constitution.

THURSDAY THROWBACK: No, this won’t be the first time drag queens are in a Super Bowl ad. Amid the claims that RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Miz Cracker and Kim Chi would make history by being the first drag queens to appear in a Super Bowl commercial, RuPaul herself kindly stepped in to correct the misinformation in the best way possibly.

View this post on Instagram

My Super Bowl commercial from 2000.

A post shared by RuPaul Charles (@rupaulofficial) on Jan 29, 2020 at 9:02am PST

AT LONG LAST: A transgender flag emoji is finally coming to smartphones in 2020.

CYNTHIA’S SECRETS: Lady Gaga’s mom opens up about her daughter’s depression and bullying in school. “We tried our best as parents to help her, but [we] didn’t know everything. I felt where I made mistakes was I didn’t really know the warning signs to look for.”

BREAKING HER SILENCE: Vanessa Bryant released a statement on the death of Kobe and their daughter Gianna. “There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved.”

View this post on Instagram

My girls and I want to thank the millions of people who’ve shown support and love during this horrific time. Thank you for all the prayers. We definitely need them. We are completely devastated by the sudden loss of my adoring husband, Kobe — the amazing father of our children; and my beautiful, sweet Gianna — a loving, thoughtful, and wonderful daughter, and amazing sister to Natalia, Bianka, and Capri. We are also devastated for the families who lost their loved ones on Sunday, and we share in their grief intimately. There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever. They were our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon. I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way. Our love for them is endless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and bless them. Have them here with us, forever. Thank you for sharing your joy, your grief and your support with us. We ask that you grant us the respect and privacy we will need to navigate this new reality. To honor our Team Mamba family, the Mamba Sports Foundation has set up the MambaOnThree Fund to help support the other families affected by this tragedy. To donate, please go to MambaOnThree.org. To further Kobe and Gianna’s legacy in youth sports, please visit MambaSportsFoundation.org. Thank you so much for lifting us up in your prayers, and for loving Kobe, Gigi, Natalia, Bianka, Capri and me. #Mamba #Mambacita #GirlsDad #DaddysGirls #Family

A post shared by Vanessa Bryant (@vanessabryant) on Jan 29, 2020 at 4:59pm PST

DRAWING THE DIVAS: Gay artist creates comic book covers of iconic albums by female singers.

View this post on Instagram

Madonna – True Blue Comic Cover Project • • I didn’t mean for True Blue to take so long. I’ve had to do it twice because my laptop broke and I lost what I’d done (which was almost the whole thing). After falling out with myself, I found the courage to do it again. It’s been quite dramatic. • • I love this album but it’s not one that I listen to often. It has some all time classics and a handful of forgettable songs. I generally go to anything from Like A Prayer onwards but it was great to sit down and listen to them all again. White Heat is probably my favourite. And Live To Tell. And Open Your Heart, Papa Don’t Preach and La Isla Bonita are pretty much perfect pop songs. And the Rebel Heart tour version of True Blue made me fall in love with that song again. • • I feel like this is her sunniest and most celebratory album so I wanted to bring that feeling out. Again, there’s a reference to every song and prints are available through the link my bio.

A post shared by Liam Alexander (@artofliamalxndr) on Jul 25, 2019 at 12:26pm PDT

TAKING A TUMBLE: Kendall Jenner learns stunts from Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ cast.

MOVIE TRAILER OF THE DAY: Fantasy Island

TV TRAILER OF THE DAY: Good Girls, Season 3

THIRSTY THURSDAY: Guto Oliveira

View this post on Instagram

Morning people! Bom dia meu povo!

A post shared by Guto Oliveira (@gutobahia) on Jan 27, 2020 at 9:01am PST

The post Kobe Bryant, Alan Dershowitz, Lady Gaga, Kendall Jenner, Adam Lambert, Ken Paxton, Wilbur Ross, RuPaul: HOT LINKS appeared first on Towleroad Gay News.

Kobe Bryant, Alan Dershowitz, Lady Gaga, Kendall Jenner, Adam Lambert, Ken Paxton, Wilbur Ross, RuPaul: HOT LINKS

Aaron Hernandez came out to his mother shortly before his suicide, brother claims

Rumors about Aaron Hernandez’s sexuality have been swirling ever since his suicide in 2017. Now, the former NFL superstar/convicted murderer’s bother is weighing in on the matter.

In an appearance on The Dr. Oz Show, which airs later today, Hernandez’s brother, Jonathan, says his brother came out to their mom during a tearful prison visit shortly before his death.

“He’s like, ‘Mom, you’re going yo die never knowing your son,’” Jonathan Hernandez says in his first interview since the release of the Netflix docuseries Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.

Jonathan continues: “My mom being my mom, started mouthing with Aaron, and they started bickering back and forth, and all of a sudden they have this conversation, and they’re both flooded with tears across from each other.”

Jonathan also goes into vivid detail about their father’s abusive behavior towards the family and how if he ever learned Aaron had same-sex attractions he would have “beat that out of him.”

Jonathan’s remarks come just days after Hernandez’s fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, told Good Morning America that she doesn’t know whether he was attracted to men.

“If he did feel that way, or if he felt the urge, I wish that I was told,” Jenkins said. “I wish that he would have told me because I wouldn’t have loved him any differently. I would have understood. It’s not shameful.”

She continued, “You can’t describe someone’s sexuality without them being here. Although I’ve had a child with Aaron, I still can’t tell you what he was feeling inside.”

Killer Inside chronicles the meteoric rise of Hernandez as a star NFL player of the New England Patriots before his shocking arrest and conviction for murder in 2013.

The series features interviews with close friends and relatives of Hernandez, including a former teammate who claims the two had a gay relationship, and suggests that Hernandez’s internalized homophobia contributed to his decaying mental state, as did drug use and brain injury.

It also hints that Hernandez may have been responsible for other murders besides that of Odin Lloyd, and that he may have killed Lloyd after he discovered Hernandez’s closeted sexuality.

Related: Aaron Hernandez’s fiancee opens up about what she knew before his death

www.queerty.com/aaron-hernandez-came-mother-shortly-suicide-brother-claims-20200130?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Aaron Hernandez Reportedly Came Out to His Mom in Tearful Prison Visit Before Suicide: VIDEO

Aaron Hernandez‘s brother, Jonathan, says the convicted murderer and former NFL superstar told his mother he was gay during a prison visit prior to his 2017 suicide.

“He’s like, ‘Mom, you’re going yo die never knowing your son,’ ” Jonathan Hernandez told The Dr. Oz Show, in his first interview since the release of the Netflix docuseries, Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.

“And my mom being my mom, started mouthing with Aaron, and they started bickering back and forth, and all of a sudden they have this conversation, and they’re both flooded with tears across from each other,” Jonathan Hernandez said, adding that “the weight of what’s on my brother is being expressed and for a mother to be looking at it across from the scratched glass.”

Earlier this week, Aaron Hernandez’s fiancee said she does not whether he was gay.

“If he did feel that way, or if he felt the urge, I wish that I was told,” Shayanna Jenkins told ABC News. “I wish that he would have told me because I wouldn’t have loved him any differently. I would have understood. It’s not shameful.”

Jonathan Hernandez told Dr. Oz he’s unsure whether his brother’s sexual orientation — and the perceived need to hide it or cover it up — was a factor in the 2015 murder of friend Odin Lloyd.

“That’s one of the questions and, you know, head scratches that they still have regarding really this entire case,” Jonathan Hernandez said. “You look at everything. There’s just so many questions regarding everything. And, for me to sit here and say it was this or that, I can’t say. All you can do is look at the evidence that was provided.”

Jonathan Hernandez also responded to the hypothetical question of how their abusive father would have reacted if Aaron tried to come out to him.

“I don’t know if he would have been able to finish his sentence,” he said. “I can’t imagine him even being able to or my dad would have thought he could beat that out of him.”

Jonathan Hernandez’s full Dr. Oz interview is scheduled to air Thursday afternoon.

The post Aaron Hernandez Reportedly Came Out to His Mom in Tearful Prison Visit Before Suicide: VIDEO appeared first on Towleroad Gay News.

Aaron Hernandez Reportedly Came Out to His Mom in Tearful Prison Visit Before Suicide: VIDEO