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Seth Rogen Ribs James Franco For Shaving His Body, Says He’s “Pretty Much A Woman”

Seth Rogen Ribs James Franco For Shaving His Body, Says He’s “Pretty Much A Woman”

Screen Shot 2014-11-13 at 2.09.10 PMJames Franco and Seth Rogen are naked again and it’s not their inevitable send-up of Kim Kardashian’s already infamous Paper mag cover. After teasing us with a few photos last month, the bromantic twosome have unveiled the first video teaser from their episode of Discovery’s nude survivalist series Naked & Afraid. When the actors learn they’re teamed with each other, they express some initial surprise. Rogen notes that he’d hoped for a female partner, but since Franco has shaved his body he’s the next best thing. There’d been a lot of speculation last month that when Franco posted a few photos from the trip that he’d accidentally included one that showed his penis. Close inspection of the video footage indicates both men are wearing flesh-colored undies behind their pixillated midsections. Not that we’re complaining.

The episode will air December 7. Watch the mostly safe for work teaser below.

Jeremy Kinser

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News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Lightning, One Direction, Madonna

News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Lightning, One Direction, Madonna

Road Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been selected by Harry Reid as the “Strategic Policy Adviser to the DPCC.” In this new role, Warren will serve as a liaison to liberal groups and help shore up progressive support for the Democratic Party.

PicRoad Global warming could increase U.S. lighting strikes by 50 percent, according to a study out in the journal Science

Road The world’s smallest man meets the world’s tallest man.

Road Fabulous fitness guru Richard Simmons is reportedly battling depression and hasn’t been photographed in public since January. 

Road The New York Times looks at How to Get Away With Murder’s devoted gay following

Road Michelangelo Signorile on the Bizarro Election 2014 – when homophobes such as NOM president Brian Brown backed gay-equality supporters while gay right supporters like hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer helped elected anti-LGBT Republicans. 

Road Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer pushes for nationwide marijuana legalization by revealing how many people died of marijuana overdoses last year: “Spoiler alert — it’s zero!”

Road A judge in Shawnee County, Kansas has canceled a Friday hearing on a challenge to the state’s gay marriage ban following yesterday’s SCOTUS order allowing gay marriage to begin in the state. 

TypefaceRoad Dutch designer Christian Boer has created a typeface specifically for dyslexic people – featuring letters designed with heavier bottom portions and a slight italicised look to help minimize confusion and mix-ups. 

Road Matt Damon talks about crossing swords with Ben Affleck in the bathroom. 

Road 19 Kids and Counting stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar issue Facebook kissing challenge and proceed to delete pictures of gay couples

Road Chace Crawford spotted in LA sporting his usual level of hotness after a crazy week of partying in London. 

MadonnaRoad Happy Birthday! Madonna’s iconic album Like a Virgin turns 30.

Road Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber is making headlines this week for newly uncovered comments suggesting the health care bill passed in 2010 because of “the stupidity of the American voter.”

Road One Direction is set to star in a television special December 23 on NBC. 

Road LGBT activists in Utah are vowing to fight misdemeanor charges for disturbing a legislative meeting back in February by rallying in support of an anti-discrimination bill. 

Road Orlando Bloom grabs hold of his elvish, baby-making sword for a bonus feature from The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug DVD. 


Kyler Geoffroy

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Louis Tomlinson’s Twitter Feud With Journalist Escalates Following “Gay Apple Shirt” Incident

Louis Tomlinson’s Twitter Feud With Journalist Escalates Following “Gay Apple Shirt” Incident

B2EPqFECYAAY6yiDon’t try and put One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson in a box. Following his bandmate Harry’s almost-sort-of revelation that gender isn’t an important factor when evaluating a partner, the U.K. newspaper The Independent published an article about Tomlinson and his perceived support for Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Because, you know, he was wearing a shirt with the apple logo on it. The author, Jen Selby, called it a “statement.”

But Louis saw it differently, and wasn’t too pleased with the article. He took it as being called gay by The Independent, though the article never speculates his sexuality, only his support for Tim Cook.

And it prompted the following Tweets from camp Tomlinson:

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Which of course prompted the following response from camp Selby:

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Dan Tracer

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New South Wales Gay Couples' Marriages Performed Abroad Now Recognized

New South Wales Gay Couples' Marriages Performed Abroad Now Recognized

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Same-sex couples in New South Wales, Australia have a new option when it comes to marriage; they are now allowed to marry in other countries and have their marital status recognized by Australian state’s government (The New South Wales Registry of Births, Death and Marriages).

GreenwichNew South Wales Legislative Assembly member and marriage equality advocate Alex Greenwich (pictured) was instrumental in pushing this change through by introducing the Relationships Register Amendment, and rallying government support for it. Said Greenwich:

This change acknowledges that a growing number of NSW citizens must travel overseas to marry the person they love, while waiting for the Federal Government to legislate for marriage equality…The NSW Relationship Register will now ensure same-sex marriages conducted overseas will receive a level of protection and recognition in NSW, and I thank the Attorney-General for working with me towards this outcome.

Greenwich points to the Australian national government as the reason this legislation had to go through the New South Wales state government: “The inaction of federal governments, past and present, on marriage equality remains an embarrassing blight on our nation’s reputation for fairness, freedom and equality.”


Jake Folsom

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Bizarro Election 2014: When Homophobes Backed Gay-Equality Supporters and Vice Versa

Bizarro Election 2014: When Homophobes Backed Gay-Equality Supporters and Vice Versa
In 2014 hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer backed some of the most anti-gay politicians — and defeated others committed to full LGBT equality — by pouring millions into super PACS and the Republican Governor’s Association.

He helped anti-gay, personhood-amendment-backing Joni Ernst win a U.S. Senate seat in Iowa. He aided the kooky anti-gay extremist Paul LePage (who’s obsessed with sodomy and Vaseline and once said President Obama “hates white people”) in winning reelection as governor of Maine, sinking the near win of U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine), who would have become the first openly gay man elected as a governor in the United States. Singer helped defeat Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who signed a gay-marriage bill into law. And he backed Shelley Moore Capito in West Virginia, Cory Gardner in Colorado and other anti-gay right-wingers who helped the GOP take the Senate. They will no doubt join Ted Cruz as he further stokes anti-gay sentiments (he’s pushing another marriage amendment) and rails about how “religious liberties” are under assault by gays while he seeks a possible presidential run.

But Paul Singer considers himself pro-gay. He’s characterized as such in puffy media stories (which mention none of his support of anti-gay candidates) that conveniently dovetailed with the GOP leadership’s desire to make the party seem more inclusive. “GOP super PAC plans gay-rights push this fall,” ran the headline in USA Today. The Washington Post headline read, “Meet the billionaire hedge fund manager quietly shaping the GOP gay marriage debate.” In these stories Singer is portrayed as elusive (only answering questions by email for the Washington Post), but the reporters get the scoop to tell us how he created a PAC that would be backing the very few GOP candidates who already support gay marriage. Singer’s PAC got behind Carl DeMaio, the openly gay GOP congressional candidate now infamous for allegedly masturbating in front of more than one staffer (and was reviled in the gay community in San Diego, having not spoken out against Prop 8 in years past), and openly gay GOPer Richard Tisei in Massachusetts.

Both were of course running in districts in very blue states where Democrats held the seat, and these gay candidates would both help expand the GOP majority and put some gay face on a not-so-gay-friendly Republican Party. Their first vote would be for the majority leader John Boehner, who won’t let a vote happen on any legislation to protect LGBT people. Both of them thankfully lost.

But in the bizarro election of 2014, the viciously anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) actually supported DeMaio’s and Tisei’s progressive, gay-friendly Democratic opponents. The group even took credit on its website for helping defeat the two gay GOPers. In the Massachusetts race, NOM endorsed Seth Moulton, a progressive Democrat and former Marine who was mentored by the late, openly gay Harvard chaplain Peter Gomes and was a candidate who proudly stated that his brother is gay and deserves full equality. (Moulton had beaten long-time Democratic incumbent John Tierney in the Democratic primary; for the record, he vehemently rejected NOM’s endorsement, as he should have.) And NOM’s Brian Brown robocalled voters in San Diego urging them to vote for pro-gay U.S. Rep. Scott Peters (D-California) over DeMaio.

This seemed bonkers (and was pretty desperate), but NOM and other radical-right groups like the Family Research Council (FRC) have their priorities. They want to show the GOP that they will help defeat any Republican candidate who veers from the evangelical right’s agenda on gay marriage, abortion and a number of other issues. Conversely, NOM and FRC heralded the election of Ernst and Gardner, and, according to exit polling, despite the fact that the GOP concealed the extremism of these two and others for the general election, religious conservatives did turn out to vote for them, secure in the understanding that they will deliver for them.

Paul Singer is showing where his priorities lie too. In Mark Solomon’s fast-paced and informative new history of the marriage-equality movement, Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits — and Won, Singer is described as being moved by looking through his gay son’s wedding album, and in 2011 he put his heart into helping pass marriage equality in New York, where his influence and money helped convince four Republicans in the New York State Senate to join all but one of the Democrats in passing the bill that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed. Singer has given millions to groups like the Human Rights Campaign and Freedom to Marry, the group for which Solomon is National Campaign Director.

But here he is helping the corporate-friendly GOP take control of the U.S. Senate even if that means electing social conservatives who will try to halt further rights for LGBT people and attempt to strip those gained. In this wave election, more Republicans were elected to state legislatures than at any time since the 1920s, something that will have a dramatic effect on state legislation and on congressional redistricting for a long time to come.

Already we’re seeing bills like the proposed constitutional amendment introduced in Texas that would allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT people based on their owners’ religious beliefs. Again, don’t think Ted Cruz, joined by Ernst, Gardner and others, won’t push such bills at the federal level, while we can forget about any pro-gay legislation getting a vote. In the bizarro election of 2014, where anti-gay NOM backed pro-gay candidates, pro-gay Paul Singer helped create this new reality.

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