A Two-Part Plenty of Fish Member Guide to Dating Virtually

A Two-Part Plenty of Fish Member Guide to Dating Virtually

It isn’t a secret that COVID-19 has changed the way people do almost everything nowadays. But, this doesn’t mean that your dating life has to plummet with it. That’s why…

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Evelyn Lovers: It’s My Heart

Evelyn Lovers: It’s My Heart

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Man who grabbed male flight attendant’s butt and called him “gay boy” has 105 prior offenses

Man who grabbed male flight attendant’s butt and called him “gay boy” has 105 prior offenses

An unruly airline passenger with a long history of bad behavior is headed off to prison after pinching a male flight attendant’s butt and calling him “gay boy” during an international flight.

Gavin Capps was just sentenced to six months behind bars after pleading guilty to one count of sexual assault and one count of threatening words or behavior.

The assault happened last January on an EasyJet flight from Manchester, U.K. to Iceland.

After consuming three alcoholic beverages, 51-year-old Capps stumbled up to the front of the cabin to demand another drink. He was told to go back to his  seat and wait for the in-flight service.

When the victim passed by with the trolley a few minutes later, Capps reached out to “take hold of his left buttock and squeeze with a lot of force,” prosecutor David Calder told the Minshull Street Crown Court this week.

“He could feel his fingers between his buttocks,” Calder described.

When the victim confronted Capps, Capps replied by shouting, “You are gay saying that I touched your bum!”

And when the victim accused him of sexual assault, Capps said, “You are not British if you think that is sexual assault!” Then he got up from the seat and went around the plane telling other passengers “The gay boy is getting me arrested for sexual harassment!”

At trial, the victim told the court he was “humiliated and embarrassed” by what happened, noting that several other people, including children, witnessed the assault.

Meanwhile, Capps’s lawyer, Rachel White, said that, after the attack, her client lost his job and home, but “I fully understand why the victim is so angry.”

“The defendant has struggled to accept that he behaved in this way,” White said.

She added that Capps has since “turned his life around.” He has secured new employment, gotten married, and is caring for his 25-year-old son, who suffers from depression.

Unfortunately, Judge Bernadette Baxter was unmoved by his tale of redemption. She told Capps he “drank too much” and “behaved appallingly,” then she noted his 105 (yes, 105) prior offenses.

“You have done exactly the same many times before,” she scolded. “This time you were on an aircraft. In this circumstance, the situation becomes a lot more serious.”

She continued, “You verbally abused [the flight attendant] in a homophobic way then sexually assaulted him by grabbing his bottom,” adding that the victim didn’t go to work to be “abused by people like you.”

Capps was sentenced to six months in prison. After his release, he will have to register as a sex offender for seven years.

Related: Flight attendant demands more paid time off then sues airline after pilot calls him “hot” on Grindr

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Activist, Author and Playwright Larry Kramer Has Died at 84

Activist, Author and Playwright Larry Kramer Has Died at 84

Larry Kramer

Activist, author, and playwright Larry Kramer has died at the age of 84. Kramer was a lifelong AIDS activist, raising his voice when others wouldn’t. He helped co-found the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). He was the author of numerous works, including the groundbreaking 1978 novel Faggots and the Tony Award-winning play The Normal Heart.

The NYT reports: “His husband, David Webster, said the cause was pneumonia. Mr. Kramer had weathered illness for much of his adult life. Among other things he had been infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, contracted liver disease and underwent a successful liver transplant.”

Kramer was writing a new play, An Army of Lovers Must Not Die, which dealt in part with the COVID-19 crisis. 

“It’s about gay people having to live through three plagues,” he told the New York Times in a recent profile which also revealed that Kramer, 84, was isolating by himself in Greenwich Village as his husband David Webster was away from home on a work project. 

The NYT reported: “The three plagues are H.I.V./AIDS, Covid-19 and the decline of the human body — specifically, a broken leg that Mr. Kramer, 84, suffered last April, when he fell in his apartment and lay on the floor until his home attendant arrived hours later. … He did not find that his experience during the AIDS crisis gave him perspective on the coronavirus pandemic, he said. Rather, the two eras merge into each other.”

The profile noted Kramer’s friendship with Dr. Anthony Fauci, once an enemy he targeted over the government’s response to the AIDS crisis in the ’80s. Fauci and Kramer had since mended ways, and recently corresponded over the current virus.

“Hunker down,” was the advice Fauci gave him.

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Human Rights Campaign Endorses Pro-Equality Leaders Across California

Human Rights Campaign Endorses Pro-Equality Leaders Across California

Today, the Human Rights Campaign announced the endorsement of numerous pro-equality leaders for reelection across California.

Last year, the U.S. House passed the Equality Act, historic and crucial federal legislation that would finally guarantee explicit, permanent protections for LGBTQ people under our nation’s existing civil rights laws. But rather than giving LGBTQ people a fair shot, Sen. McConnell has blocked the bill from coming up for a vote. Reelecting a pro-equality House will be absolutely crucial to not only pass the Equality Act, but ensure access to quality, affordable health care is protected, common sense gun safety legislation can be considered and voting rights can be advanced.

“LGBTQ people are facing severe economic consequences from the ongoing pandemic, working with fewer protections and dealing with disproportionate consequences compared to non-LGBTQ workers,” said Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign. “Now more than ever, we must work to ensure every American, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, has the opportunity to operate from a level playing field. These pro-equality leaders will be absolutely crucial to passing the Equality Act next year and the Human Rights Campaign will work around the clock to ensure their reelection.”

Candidates endorsed include:

  • Rep. Jared Huffman (CA-2)
  • Rep. John Garamendi (CA-3)
  • Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5)
  • Rep. Doris Matsui (CA-6)
  • Rep. Ami Bera (CA-7)
  • Rep. Jerry McNerney (CA-9)
  • Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11)
  • Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-13)
  • Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-14)
  • Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15)
  • Rep. Jim Costa (CA-16)
  • Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17)
  • Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-18)
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-19)
  • Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-20)
  • Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA-24)
  • Rep. Julia Brownley (CA-26)
  • Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27)
  • Rep. Adam Schiff (CA-28)
  • Rep. Tony Cárdenas (CA-29)
  • Rep. Brad Sherman (CA-30)
  • Rep. Pete Aguilar (CA-31)
  • Rep. Grace Napolitano (CA-32)
  • Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-33)
  • Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34)
  • Rep. Norma Torres (CA-35)
  • Rep. Raul Ruiz (CA-36)
  • Rep. Karen Bass (CA-37)
  • Rep. Linda Sánchez (CA-38)
  • Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40)
  • Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43)
  • Rep. Nanette Barragán (CA-44)
  • Rep. Lou Correa (CA-46)
  • Rep. Alan Lowenthal (CA-47)
  • Rep. Juan Vargas (CA-51)
  • Rep. Scott Peters (CA-52)

Previously in 2020, HRC announced the endorsements of these Californians:

  • Rep. Josh Harder (CA-10)
  • Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-12)
  • Rep. TJ Cox (CA-21)
  • Christy Smith (CA-25)
  • Rep. Gil Cisneros (CA-39)
  • Rep. Mark Takano (CA-41)
  • Rep. Katie Porter (CA-45)
  • Rep. Harley Rouda (CA-48)
  • Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49)
  • Georgette Gomez (CA-53)

In the 2018 midterms, HRC helped register more than 32,000 voters and recruited more than 4,200 volunteers, who worked over 8,500 shifts and clocked more than 30,000 volunteer hours. In the critical final four days of the campaign, HRC staff and volunteers in get-out-the-vote efforts alone knocked on more than 80,000 doors, and held 36,400 conversations with voters at their doors and by phone on behalf of our endorsed candidates. HRC’s unprecedented grassroots mobilization worked to recruit volunteers, mobilize constituents, register voters and grow the organization’s grassroots army in an all-out effort to pull the emergency brake on the hateful anti-LGBTQ agenda of the Trump-Pence administration and elect a Congress that would hold them accountable. In 2020, our engagement and mobilization efforts will only deepen.  HRC will have at least 45 full-time staff in seven priority states and an additional 20 staff focused on a second tier of states and districts.

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#GLAADInstitute hosts workshop for COVID-19 advocates

#GLAADInstitute hosts workshop for COVID-19 advocates

GLAAD Media Institute

On May 21st, the GLAAD Media Institute hosted a workshop for Body Politic, a support group for people with Covid-19. The workshop, led by members of the GLAAD Media Institute team, taught the group skill on how to work with the media to tell their stories in safe, effective, and impactful ways.

Body Politic is a support group that serves as a resource for people who have tested positive for COVID-19, have symptoms of COVID-19, or are recovering from the virus. Body Politic was founded by Fiona Lowenstein (also EIC) and Sabrina Bleich (also Creative Director) and is hosted on a public Slack channel of 8,000 members from across 15 countries. There is still much to learn about the long-term health (and mental health) effects of COVID-19, and Body Politic offers support to those navigating the healing process.

The workshop provided trainees with a view of how the media industry works, best practices for storytelling, and methods to ensure that interviews are as informative and impactful as possible. The workshop also shared tips and tricks about using outlets such as blog posts and op-eds to share stories.

One trainee, Judy Kottick, shared her experience battling COVID-19 on the blog Kind Body. Judy writes about her perspective of being a therapist and coping with the illness: “As a therapist who has worked with people suffering all types of illness, grief and loss, I was still entirely unprepared for my own encounter with Covid-19,” she writes. “It was harrowing, endless and challenging to every facet of my being. And in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, KindBody has asked me to share which aspects of my knowledge and experience helped pull me through.” It is important to have people like Judy share their stories so that others will better understand different aspects of COVID-19.

The May 21st workshop between GLAAD and Body Politic ran in accordance with GLAAD’s ongoing mission to amplify the voices of the LGBTQ community and its allies, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit this link to read GLAAD’s growing collection of COVID-19 stories.

The GLAAD Media Institute is offering virtual courses and workshops to activists and advocates around the country, and world, in the weeks to come, including a workshop on June 17th. Click here to learn more about how to join a course or workshop and use your voice as a GLAAD Media Institute alum.

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