Model Behind Norman Rockwell's 'Rosie the Riveter' Dies at Age 92

Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2015/04/model-behind-norman-rockwells-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-age-92.html

Op-ed: Let the Gay Black Men Prance

Gay reality star Karamo Brown addresses the homophobic and transphobic backlash to Oxygen’s The Prancing Elites Project.

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Karamo Brown

www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/04/23/op-ed-let-gay-black-men-prance

Great News! Your Apple Watch Can Now Get You Laid

The new Apple Watch promises to do a lot of pretty cool things in addition to telling you the time. It can check the weather, email, your pulse, etc.

Thanks to the gay dating app Jack’d, it can also help also help you locate something likely to really get your heart racing: your next sex partner.

In an email to Queerty, the folks over at Online Buddies, the company that owns Jack’d, Manhunt, and Dandy, announced that they’ve been working with Apple developers to make Jack’d the first gay dating app available on the Apple Watch.

Related: Hookd Plus Six Other Dating Apps You Probably Don’t Know But Should

Sorry, kids. You’ll have to wait just a bit. Jack’d for Apple Watch will be released later this year and promises features like proximity matching.

We can’t help but wonder if Tim Cook is going to give it a personal test drive

Related: If Guys Acted In Real Life The Way They Do On Gay Apps

Graham Gremore

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Op-ed: How Many Kids Must Die Before Youth 'Treatment' Programs Are Regulated?

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s CEO explains why ‘treatment’ programs to ‘cure’ people of their homosexuality are extremely dangerous for LGBT youth.

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Lorri L. Jean

www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/04/23/op-ed-how-many-kids-must-die-youth-treatment-programs-are-regulated

My gay Ibiza: Scott Dempster on Spain's sexiest isle

Rooftop bar manager on club tips, culture and getting away from the madness

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joem

www.gaystarnews.com/article/my-gay-ibiza-scott-dempster-spains-sexiest-isle230415

#RedMyLips Combats Sexual Assault, Victim Blaming With A Splash Of Bold Color
Red lips are now a symbol of solidarity between victims of sexual assault and their allies, and a bold statement against blaming rape victims for their lifestyle choices. April is 2015’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the #RedMyLips campaign asks women to share your support by slapping on your reddest lipstick and splashing it all over social media.

Red my lips with my boo Pixie is such a babe! ❤️ Leave a lipstick print on your dog and take them for a walk to show support for @redmylipsorg. Red My Lips is an international nonprofit organization that uses red lipstick as a weapon and a tool to raise awareness about sexual violence, combat rape myths and victim-blaming, and demonstrate solidarity and support for all survivors. ❤️ #redmylips #oktoshare #sexualviolenceawareness

A photo posted by Lisa Fortuin (@lisafortuin) on Apr 22, 2015 at 6:48am PDT

The #RedMyLips campaign has already seen success. There are more than 24,000 posts with the hashtag on Instagram, thousands more on Twitter and Facebook and, according to a social map made by Vocativ, a worldwide conversation.

It all started with one woman who didn’t have a voice.

The movement’s founder, Danielle Tansino, was 29 in 2011, when she said she was sexually assaulted during a night out with people she thought were friends. She said prosecutors dropped the case because, as one district attorney told her, “Jurors don’t like girls that drink.”

@redmylipsorg Raising awareness about sexual violence and to speak out against victim blaming #Redmylips #HumberCollege

A photo posted by Michael Osei (@mkosei) on Apr 22, 2015 at 11:29am PDT

Tansino was angry. And she armed herself with lipstick.

According to her website:

“One of the most pervasive myths about sexual violence is that it is provoked by attraction or desire. Connected with this, victims are often blamed, shamed, and forced to suffer in silence.

Given its connection with vibrant sexuality and attraction, red lipstick seems a fitting weapon with which to combat these damaging myths and victim-blaming attitudes. It gives supporters an easy (and safe) way to stand together and make the bold statement that victims are NEVER responsible for sexual violence. EVER.”

Makeup doesn’t speak. Clothes don’t speak. People speak. Remember #silence is NOT #consent. #onlyyesmeansyes Thank you @aidasoetopo for this powerful shot! #redmylips #redmylips2015 #speakout #endvictimblaming #endrapemyths #ok2share www.redmylips.org

A photo posted by @redmylipsorg on Apr 22, 2015 at 11:46am PDT

After April, the movement won’t be over. Tansino said you can still wear red lipstick and support the cause by donating, fundraising, or spreading the word on social media so that all victims get a chance to be heard.

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www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/22/redmylips-campaign-instagram_n_7122580.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

Antigay Repairman Hit By Vandals, Promptly Uses It For Publicity

Brian Klawiter manages to keep his name in the news for the second week.

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Neal Broverman

www.advocate.com/business/2015/04/22/antigay-repairman-hit-vandals-promptly-uses-it-publicity

The Iceman Becometh Gay: Realism Over Diversity
Surveying the boards out there, it appears that many a young, heterosexual comic-book fanboy has become agitated by the recent news that Iceman of All-New X-Men is gay.

To these colicky fanboys I say: Aside from completely missing the point of the spectral pluralism that the X-Men themselves have come to represent, you’re ignoring the time-travel element involved here.

The young Bobby Drake of 1963 didn’t feel that, in 1963, he could live his life as a gay man, so he became the woman pursuer we’ve known his older incarnation to be all these years — with even the film version of Iceman choosing for himself a woman (Rogue) whom he can’t (and doesn’t have to) touch.

However, that same young Bobby Drake of 1963, now newly living in the world of 2015, discovers that he can live his life as a gay man and doesn’t try to change himself into someone he’s not, as his original-timeline counterpart had done.

What would be the point of bringing 1963 X-Men into the present if nothing about any of them were to change? 

Forgetting even the 10-percent figure that is often alleged, the complainers out there would suggest that not even one of the first 30 X-Men (that is, 3 percent of X-Men team members from 1963 to 1999) could or should or would ever evolve into being openly gay or bisexual before going to the grave.

Having Iceman be gay means exactly that: that a whopping 3 percent of the first 30 X-Men has now evolved into being openly gay.

And somehow this isn’t realistic or legit?

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www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bower/the-iceman-becometh-gay-r_b_7120480.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

South Carolina’s DMV Settles Lawsuit

South Carolina’s Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) has settled a lawsuit by Chase Culpepper.
HRC.org

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The Justice League and Avengers Battle in Epic Homemade Throwdown: VIDEO

Andy Towle

www.towleroad.com/2015/04/the-justice-league-and-avengers-battle-in-epic-homemade-throwdown-video.html