WATCH: John Oliver Pelts Celebrities in the Face with Salmon
John Oliver decided to test out a salmon cannon on his favorite celebrities including Anderson Cooper, Wanda Sykes, and the cast of Modern Family.
Jami Smith
www.advocate.com/comedy/2014/11/10/watch-john-oliver-pelts-celebrities-face-salmon
South Carolina Seeks Dismissal Of Gay Marriage Challenge
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s attorney general is asking a federal judge to toss out a challenge to the state’s gay marriage ban.
Attorney General Alan Wilson argues in court documents filed Monday that a federal case brought by a same-sex couple in Charleston should be dismissed. He cites last week’s federal appeals court decision upholding such bans in other states. Wilson said the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that states have the right to set rules for marriage supports South Carolina’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Wilson noted the decision came in a case in which a court found no fundamental right to same-sex marriage.
The Charleston couple has asked a federal judge to rule in their favor without a trial.
Elton John blasts Russian officials for taking down statue of Apple founder Steve Jobs
Statue was labled ‘homosexual propaganda’ after Jobs’ successor, Tim Cook, came out publicly as gay
gregh
Watch Video: HRC Launches All God’s Children
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/watch-video-hrc-launches-all-gods-children?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
10 Hours Of Walking The Streets Of Hollywood In Bad Drag
Being a drag queen is much more than the clothes, so we’re afraid this video is a bit misleading. Instead of 10 Hours of Walking In LA as a Drag Queen, it should really be called Guy Puts On Heels For the First Time and Walks Around Like a Bro In A Dress.
Big difference. In this parody of the New York catcall video, this guy’s strut serves major uncomfortable fraternity prank when any drag queen worth her weight in eye shadow knows it’s all about confidence.
Still, it’s nice to see that he gets (mostly) positive reactions while attempting to work the streets of Hollywood. Though in a neighborhood that’s all about spectacle, he almost just blends right in.
Watch here:
Dan Tracer
'Queer As Folk' Alum Charlie Hunnam Channels His Inner Shirtless Cowboy – VIDEO
Charlie Hunnam, star of the original English version of Queer As Folk, strips down for the December issue of Men’s Health.
For the photoshoot and his many shirtless fight scenes on Sons of Anarchy, Hunnam tells ET Online that ge channeled his inner cowboy and used “old school” workouts.
The season finale of Sons of Anarchy airs on December 9th. Hunnam is booked for a major campaign with Calvin Klein, has signed on to play King Arthur in a Guy Ritchie-helmed franchise that could span six movies and is working on some independent films.
Watch Charlie at work, AFTER THE JUMP…(autoplay)
Jim Redmond
www.towleroad.com/2014/11/queer-as-folks-charlie-hunnam-strips-down-for-mens-health-video.html
'Looking' Season Two Trailer Released
The “Queer As Folk” of our time is coming back — and we couldn’t be more excited. Many felt that “Looking” was boring in the beginning of its first season but the pace quickly picked up and had us hooked. We can’t wait for what these boys are going to bring us in the second season. And now you can get your first look in the clip above.
“Looking” premieres on Sunday, January 11 at 10 pm ET.
(h/t Towleroad)
Dutch human rights ambassador appeals to firms: Let's unite for global LGBTI rights
Kees van Baar, human rights ambassador for the Netherlands, wants to work with corporates to improve life for LGBTIs around world
trisrs
HRC Commemorates Native American Heritage Month
This year, as the Human Rights Campaign observes Native American Heritage Month, we are reminded of the profound and radical inclusiveness of gender diversity documented in over 155 tribes in Native North America.
HRC.org
Federal Judges Are Now Openly Quibbling With Each Other About Marriage
While you weren’t looking, a couple of federal judges have gotten into a little marriage kerfuffle with each other that looks kind of like the judicial version of a lover’s quarrel. Judges in one circuit said marriage is none of their business; a judge in another circuit followed up a day later with a decision that says, more or less, “yes it is,” and now the Supreme Court will probably have to straighten everything out. (Or maybe they won’t.)
The dispute really got going last Wednesday, when Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton issued a ruling in marriage cases from four states: Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Sutton’s attitude was basically that judges shouldn’t get involved in the debate around marriage, since it should be up to voters and politicians.
Sutton is super-conservative originalist when it comes to constitutional matters, and has always been good at stirring up controversy. In his ruling, he says that constitutional amendments should be interpreted in light of what their authors meant — in other words, since the 14th Amendment couldn’t possibly have anticipated gay marriage, it doesn’t apply here.
Judge Martha Daughtrey, who wrote the dissent in the case, was having none of it. She dismissed Sutton’s ruling as “an engrossing TED talk” and “irrelevant.” But that doesn’t help us much, since she was in the minority amongst the conservative Sixth Circuit judges. Oh well. Thanks for trying, Judge Daughtrey. You did your best. Let us buy you a drink and get smashed while complaining about that jerk Sutton.
But the next day things got a little spicier. Judge Robert Chambers issued a ruling in Missouri that was clearly intended as a rebuke of Sutton’s lame Sixth Circuit decision. Chambers said that Sutton’s “wait and see” attitude “fails to recognize the role of courts in the democratic process.” He accused Sutton of shirking his duty simply because it was “contentious,” and added, “Judges may not simultaneously find a right violated yet defer to an uncertain future remedy voluntarily undertaken by the violators.”
Bam! That’s a slapdown, judicially-speaking.
Of course, the Chambers decision doesn’t really impact anything in the Sixth Circuit … yet. Now everything gets bundled up with more briefs and sent to the Supreme Court for them to decide. Or, if they really don’t want to get their hands dirty with this marriage stuff, to decide not to decide. If that happened, it would be up to voters and politicians in each individual state to win the freedom to marry. Good luck waiting for that to happen this decade in Tennessee, where a 2013 survey showed just 28 percent of respondents supporting marriage equality. Ugh.
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