Daily Archives: May 6, 2020



You Might Like

Videos | Dating

Live Cams | Live Chats

 

NEWS

Annie Lennox, Maluma, Chris Evans, Utah, Chromatica, Betsy DeVos’s New Rules, X Æ A-12: HOT LINKS

Annie Lennox, Maluma, Chris Evans, Utah, Chromatica, Betsy DeVos’s New Rules, X Æ A-12: HOT LINKS

Trump gay power couple

HIS NEXT STRATEGY. Trump to begin public questioning of coronavirus death toll. “A senior administration official said he expects the president to begin publicly questioning the death toll as it closes in on his predictions for the final death count and damages him politically.”

AHMAUD ARBERY. Disturbing video shows two white men shooting down black jogger, claiming they thought he was a burglar.

FLORIDA. Coronavirus infection began as early as December: “State health officials have documented at least 170 COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms between Dec. 31, 2019, and February 29, according to a Miami Herald analysis of state health data. Of them, 40 percent had no apparent contact with someone else with the virus. The majority had not traveled.”

10TH ANNIVERSARY. Actor T.R. Knight celebrates meeting his husband a decade ago.

WOOF. Chris Evans is not going to be a dog groomer anytime soon, though.

X Æ A-12. Here’s what’s behind Elon Musk and Grimes’s child’s name, which is pronounced Sasha Archangel.

TENNIS, ANYONE? Novak Djokovic slammed for flouting quarantine guidelines in Spain. “The tennis club that allowed Djokovic to play Monday is taking the blame for the violations … saying it misinterpreted the rules and mistakenly gave Novak permission to train on its courts.”

FLAUNTING IT. Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler is hoping her cash can bail her out: “She’s unlikely to quell the criticism from opponents in both parties that erupted over her stock trades. But allies and supporters of the senator’s campaign had been eager for her to go on offense and end a cycle of negative attention spotlighting the relatively unknown lawmaker. And Loeffler, who has already loaned $10 million to her own campaign and has pledged to spend more, has vast resources available to try to push her message.”

UTAH. COVID-19 outbreak of 68 cases traced to businesses that defied lockdown. “Nearly half of the employees of a Utah County business tested positive for COVID-19 after the business instructed employees to not follow quarantine guidelines and required staff who had tested positive to report to work, according to a written statement from county executives.”

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DAY. Lady Gaga says her next album, Chromatica, will be out May 29.

SCOTLAND. First gay couple to get access to fertility treatment from NHS speaks out: “Ross and Chris Muller say they and their families can’t wait to meet their baby boy, who is due to be born to a surrogate mum in early August.”

MUSKY. Tom Cruise plans to shoot movie in space.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. Betsy DeVos alters school rules: “The new regulations narrow the definition of sexual harassment and require colleges to hold live hearings during which alleged victims and accused perpetrators can be cross-examined to challenge their credibility.”

KEVIN MAXWELL. Black, gay police officer who was forced to quit the service after years of abuse, publishes book: “The biggest regret I have, which also blurs into shame, is that I allowed it to happen and that I said nothing for such a long time. I also feel a lot of shame that I joined the force in the first place and didn’t listen to the friends who warned me not to. Perhaps if my mum had tried to stop me I would have listened to her but she had respect for the police and she encouraged me. Now when I think about those wasted years, which I will never get back – I can’t describe how that feels. I lost everything – my marriage, my home, my income, my mental health. All of it.”

NEKKID. A Netflix eye candy round-up.

PANDEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE DAY. Annie Lennox “A Thousand Beautiful Things”

HOME TOUR OF THE DAY. Maluma.

HUMP DAY HAIRY. Dan Roberge.

View this post on Instagram

Quarantine day 🤷🏻‍♂️🧔🏻

A post shared by DAN ROBERGE (@danroberge) on

The post Annie Lennox, Maluma, Chris Evans, Utah, Chromatica, Betsy DeVos’s New Rules, X Æ A-12: HOT LINKS appeared first on Towleroad Gay News.


Annie Lennox, Maluma, Chris Evans, Utah, Chromatica, Betsy DeVos’s New Rules, X Æ A-12: HOT LINKS

NEWS

The men of ‘Hollywood’ reveal the show’s immensely explicit secrets

The men of ‘Hollywood’ reveal the show’s immensely explicit secrets

Darren Criss, Jeremy Pope, David Corenswet & Jake Picking in ‘Hollywood’

With Hollywood winning viewers on Netflix, the show’s leading actors have revealed that the original tone was to be far more explicit. In fact, actors David Corenswet and Jeremy Pope had to go through a fitting for prosthetic penises.

Pope and Corenswet, who play the aspiring writer Archie and the would-be actor Jack, respectively, tell Stars in the House that the Ryan Murphy-produced show was originally meant to have a considerable amount of full-frontal nudity. The show focuses on a group of aspiring talent who come to Hollywood to pursue their dreams, but end up working at a gas station brothel that caters to LGBTQ people instead.

“My first day on set — it’s fine, I did the camera test, it’s all good,” Pope recalls. “Then it’s like, ‘Hey, Jeremy, let us know when we can fit you for your prosthetic.’ And I’m like, ‘Ooh, does [my character] get beat up? What am I getting?’”

Related: WATCH: Jeremy Pope, Jim Parsons & Jake Picking dish on the ‘Hollywood’ casting couch

Costumers then informed Pope that he would need a prosthetic penis for certain nude scenes. The later actor had to break the news to Corenswet himself.

“I thought he meant a face prosthetic,” Corenswet admits. Pope then told him that both men would need to wear prosthetic tallywackers for certain scenes.

Ultimately, the two actors never got to meet their artificial co-stars. Before cameras even rolled, Murphy and the other products dialed back the raunchiness of the series, focusing more on the characters and scenery of old Hollywood.

Darren Criss, who also co-stars, doesn’t mince words when it comes to the original concept. “There’s no f*cking numbers on the dial anymore for how raunchy it was,” he says. “There was sh*t I clutched my pearls at.”

www.queerty.com/men-hollywood-reveal-shows-immensely-explicit-secrets-20200506?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

NEWS

GLAAD Media Institute Reading Rainbow: XOXY by Kimberly Zieselman

GLAAD Media Institute Reading Rainbow: XOXY by Kimberly Zieselman

Kimberly Zieselman

In her newly-published memoir, XOXY, interACT’s Executive Director Kimberly Zieselman shares her story of growing up intersex, finding community, and becoming the advocate she is today. We caught up with Kimberly to discuss her story, her work, and what’s next for her.

What were your motivations to write the book? Why did you feel it was important to share your story? 

I never planned to write a book, but the opportunity fell into my lap and I took a leap of faith. I’m driven by the mission to stop the harms caused by medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children and the need to raise awareness – and outrage – using any medium possible. There is an enormous need for more intersex stories. There are very few intersex narratives currently in literature, film, television or other media.  How different my life (and the lives of thousands of others) may have been had I been able to read about, or watch on screen, an intersex person’s struggles and joys in the world. And not felt instead like an isolated freak.   

What was the impact you hoped writing and publishing XOXY would have, especially for intersex people? How has that compared to the actual responses you’ve received?

My hope is that readers will become enlightened by reading my intersex story and develop a sense of empathy for the intersex community and the families who love them. Helping to change hearts and minds, one at a time. I hope readers will takeaway an understanding of what intersex means, and that it is  not something to be afraid of, but instead something to be embraced as beautiful variances in human bodies and experiences. Specifically, for parents and family members of intersex children, I hope they will better understand the realities of invisible harm that may be done to a child, despite their best intentions, and that they will see that having an intersex child is not an emergency or something that needs fixing, but perhaps just a complexity that requires love, support and space for making decisions about their own body and identity. 

After nearly two years in the works, XOXY was finally released… during an international pandemic. With bookstores shuttered and media attention singularly focused on Covid-19, the book launch felt more like a misfire. Having said that, I do think more people are finding the time to read and I have received a number of positive supportive responses and I greatly appreciate each and every one. My fingers are crossed for rescheduled book events later this year.

c/o Kimberly ZeiselmanPhoto Credit: Kimberly Zieselman

“Intersex” and “transgender” are often unfortunately conflated in news and media, such as the coverage of Caster Semenya. How would you describe the differences between these two marginalized communities?

First, I think it is helpful to recognize why intersex belongs under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Intersex refers to someone born with physical sex characteristics (such as genitals, internal reproductive organs, or chromosomes) that don’t line up with what is typically expected for either a male or female body.  It is not a sexual orientation, nor a gender identity. Intersex people as young as newborns experience discrimination, oppression and harm simply based on being perceived as “different.” In our case, bodily difference. That experience of discrimination based on other people’s fear of difference is a strong common experience that people born with intersex traits share with folks in the broader LGBTQ community. Furthermore, it’s important to respect everyone’s choices, and not all people born with variations of sex characteristics choose to identify as intersex, including Caster Semenya. In fact, many will also not identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.  

Why is it important to talk about how prevailing attitudes as well as laws like Idaho’s HB 500 impact the intersex community, particularly intersex youth?

Intersex people are increasingly subject to the growing trend of anti-trans legislation being filed across the county. First it was the hateful “bathroom” bills that attempted to regulate use of public restrooms based on binary concepts of male and female bodies.  While aimed at transgender folks, intersex folks are getting swept up into these efforts based on outdated and unscientific notions of sex and gender. Most recently, the passage of Idaho’s HB 500 makes it legal to discriminate against young intersex and transgender athletes who identify as female and play high school or college sports. The new law permits invasive, harmful physical exams, testing and the disqualification from sport based on bodily differences.  Had this law been in effect when I was younger, because of my XY chromosomes and internal reproductive organs, I could have been banned from playing girls lacrosse in high school and college. 

How has the writing process for the book helped you grow as a person, a lawyer, a mother, and/or an advocate?

Writing the book was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but also one of the most rewarding. It allowed me an opportunity to intentionally put the many pieces of my journey together and try to make sense of it. It forced me to open myself up to being vulnerable in a way most never will experience. And I think with that ultimately comes greater self-acceptance and confidence, and ultimately peace. I hope that will only help make me a better person, mother and advocate.

What’s next for Kimberly Zieselman?

After seven years of intersex advocacy and leadership at interACT I am taking a sabbatical this summer. Planning to turn off social media and all things intersex and take a much-needed break. Then come back well rested and continue to advocate along with my amazing team for intersex representation, bodily autonomy and empowerment. There is still much work to do.

Photo Credit: Kimberly Zieselman

The intersex community is often discriminated against from birth and kept silent due to misinformation and shame. As advocates like Kimberly stand up for the visibility, respect, and bodily autonomy of her community, it is up to non-intersex individuals to listen to their stories and join their struggle. For those who want to learn more about Kimberly Zieselman and better understand her experiences as an intersex individual, please visit the XOXY website here.

Kimberly Zieselman is an alumni of the GLAAD Media Institute, which is offering virtual courses and workshops to activists and advocates around the country, and world, in the weeks to come, including a workshop on May 22nd. Click here to learn more about how to join a course or workshop and use your voice as a GLAAD Media Institute alum.

May 6, 2020

www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-media-institute-reading-rainbow-xoxy-kimberly-zieselman

NEWS

50 Cent thinks the world needs more gay jokes right now, trolls LGBTQ people on Instagram

50 Cent thinks the world needs more gay jokes right now, trolls LGBTQ people on Instagram

50 Cent isn’t letting a global pandemic stop him from cracking gay jokes on social media. Because that’s exactly what the world needs right now.

This week, the 44-year-old rapper decided to revive some old beef with former G-Unit bandmate Young Buck, who he has been harassing for years over tabloid reports of an alleged relationship he had with a trans woman.

Related: How the media totally botched the story about rapper Young Buck and his alleged transgender lover

Buck has repeatedly denied the relationship, but that hasn’t stopped 50 Cent from reviving the story every few months on social media, as well as calling Buck “gay” and posting disparaging memes about trans women on Instagram.

On Tuesday, he shared a photo of a Pride parade on Instagram, along with the caption: “👀Hey is 2020 gay pride parade cancelled? 🤔asking for a friend, 😟young Buck. LOL.”

Not only is he trolling Buck (again), but he’s also trolling LGBTQ people by making light of pride being canceled this year because of coronavirus.

View this post on Instagram

?Hey is 2020 gay pride parade cancelled? ?asking for a friend, ?young Buck. LOL #bransoncognac #lecheminduroi

A post shared by 50 Cent (@50cent) on

50 Cent’s homophobia and transphobia are nothing new, unfortunately.

In addition to endlessly harassing Buck, in February, he went after Dwyane Wade’s 12-year-old daughter, who had recently come out as trans.

In 2015, he complained that Empire, Lee Daniels’ acclaimed LGBTQ-inclusive series about a hip-hip music company, had too much “extra gay stuff.”

In 2014, he alleged Diddy, Rick Ross, and ex-record exec Steve Stout were in a gay relationship together.

And then there’s this tweet from 2010 that’s still up on his Twitter feed:

If you a man and your over 25 and you don’t eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol

— 50cent (@50cent) September 30, 2010

Related: 50 Cent gay rumors come roaring back after his ex makes surprising claims about their sex life

www.queerty.com/50-cent-thinks-world-needs-gay-jokes-right-now-trolls-lgbtq-people-instagram-20200506?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

You Might Like

Videos | Dating

Live Cams | Live Chats