Towleroad Guide to the Tube #1697
PEOPLE’S BRIEF: Edie Windsor & Roberta Kaplan on how you can be a part of history.
ELLEN PAGE: Talks Carnival, coming out, and whether or not she’s single.
NICK THE GARDENER: Could be coming to a city near you!
SNOW: It’s no match for a hungry cat.
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Kyler Geoffroy
www.towleroad.com/2015/02/towleroad-guide-to-the-tube-1697.html
WATCH: Here's Why That Michigan Doctor Is Allowed to Turn Away Lesbian Moms
A midwest doctor has refused to see the newborn child of two lesbian moms seeking pediatric care — and it’s all perfectly legal.
Matt Baume
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/02/19/watch-heres-why-michigan-doctor-allowed-turn-away-lesbian-moms
Pat Robertson Suggests Companies Will Be Forced To Cater To Man-Dog Weddings
Conservative televangelist Pat Robertson slammed a Washington state judge’s ruling that a florist’s refusal to provide flowers for a gay couple’s wedding had violated local anti-discrimination laws.
Robertson, who has made no secret of his opposition to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the past, condemned the decision as “just outrageous” and “crazy” in an installment of “The 700 Club” this week, according to Right Wing Watch.
He asked, “To tell a florist that she’s got to provide flowers for a particular kind of wedding? What if somebody wanted to marry his dog? She’s got to have flowers for that?”
Robertson then went on to note, “What if there’s a polygamous situation where a guy has five wives and he wants to have five ceremonies and she’s going to be forced by the law to provide them flowers?”
Bakeries, florist shops and other wedding-related venues have become an unlikely battleground for marriage equality and other LGBT-related issues in recent years.
On Feb. 2, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries ruled that Sweet Cakes by Melissa owners Aaron and Melissa Klein had similarly violated their state’s anti-discrimination laws when they turned away a lesbian couple who had sought a cake for their wedding in 2013.
On the flip side, Marjorie Silva, who owns Denver’s Azucar Bakery, is now reportedly facing a religious discrimination complaint after she refused to bake a cake decorated with phrases like “God hates gays” written in icing.
Gay man's new billboard corrects the record
Model Kyle Roux had been featured – as an identical twin – in ‘Nobody is Born Gay’ billboard without his knowledge
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Two Nice Jewish Boys Post Pic Of Their Unicorn Wedding Entrance, Internet Goes Wild
As far as wedding themes go, unicorns have to rank somewhere at the top of the list after drag and before Sir Ian McKellen officiating.
For one gay Jewish couple, the choice was obvious — ride in on a unicorn, blow everyone’s minds. So that’s what they did (which might be a Modern Family reference), and this photo surfaced shortly thereafter:
Just look at that woman’s face on the right. Pure joy. Like all her girlhood dreams all just came true.
But as is almost always the case, the internet took the photo and ran (galloped?), and we’d be remiss if we didn’t give some top-notch captions a proper shoutout.
Here are our favorites:
- Looks like they have a… stable relationship.
- In the least derogatory way possible, that is as gay as it gets.
- Now I want to see a gay Hindu wedding where they ride in on an elephant dressed like a wooly mammoth.
- “Tonight, we ride.”
- Did no one else get the Friends reference here? The old lady’s gone! She’s no longer haunting Phobe! She’s seen it all!
- … so unicorn is kosher?
- Jewnicorn… anyone? Ok I’ll go…
- Those are some good looking Jews.
- Hmm. Kinda thought they would ride bareback….
- How brokeback mountain should of ended.
- 50 shades of neigh
- FAKE! Everyone knows unicorns aren’t Jewish!
- Is that unicorn horn circumcised?
You can find all the comments on Imgur.
Dan Tracer
News: Colombia, Tomato Robot, Alien, Beyonce, Wal-Mart, Dr. Seuss
Colombia’s constitutional court has ruled that same-sex couples can adopt but only if the child is the offspring of one of the parents.
Ellen Page has joined Instagram just in time to post photos for Rio’s Carnival.
Girls star Allison Williams defends her dad, ex NBC News anchor Brian Williams, calling him “an honest man, a truthful man” and saying “I know you can trust him.”
Conway, Arkansas mayor Tab Townsell is speaking out about the state’s plans to prohibit cities from enacting any non-discrimination ordinances that protect LGBT people, telling state lawmakers to “leave local control in local hands.”
An Illinois woman who posed as a judge has been sentenced for her “catfish” extortion plot against a gay illegal immigrant.
Towleroad #ThrowbackThursday 2007 edition: Pioneering gay activist Barbara Gittings dies; Connecticut State Rep. Jason Bartlett becomes the nation’s first openly gay African American state legislator; New Jersey becomes the third state to offer civil unions to same-sex couples; Ted Haggard’s New Life Church holds a “Day of Hope” for their gay sex loving, crystal meth smoking pastor; Andy reached his 5,000th post on the site.
Rep. Mike Honda is a “proud grampa” to his transgender granddaughter.
Japanese juice maker Kagome has unveiled the “Tomatan,” a hands-free tomato machine backpack that fuels marathon runners with delicious mid-sized tomatoes while on the go.
District 9, Elysium, and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp will direct the next Alien movie.
Britney Spears and former bff Melissa Joan Hart reunited backstage at Britney’s Piece of Me show in Las Vegas last night.
Rapper Vanilla Ice was arrested yesterday on charges of burglary and grand theft in Florida after police determined he was involved in an illegal home renovation project.
Dr. Seuss is returning to bookshelves with the newly discovered What Pet Should I Get?
How much do LGBT organization leaders make?
Beyonce’s less-than-flawless unretouched L’Oreal photos leak online.
The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus shows off his zombie-killer six-pack for Flaunt magazine.
LAPD has yet to determine who is at fault in the fatal Malibu car crash that Bruce Jenner was involved in earlier this month.
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani tells conservative crowd that Obama doesn’t “love America.”
Wal-Mart has announced it will give pay raises to almost 40% of its employees this year.
Via CNET: “The nearest star beyond our own sun is 4 light-years away, but not long ago (in terms of cosmic time) a small binary star system buzzed the edge of our solar system, coming five times closer to Earth.”
Kyler Geoffroy
6 Ways You Can Get HIV
If you think that HIV happens to other people, you may want to think again.
Tyler Curry
www.advocate.com/health/hiv-aids/2015/02/19/6-ways-you-can-get-hiv
For Serodiscordant Transgender Couple Octavia Lewis And Shawn Lopez, Love Truly Conquers All
In many aspects, Octavia Lewis and Shawn Lopez are like most couples forging a life together. Introduced about four years ago by friends, the pair recently moved into a two-bedroom apartment in the Bronx, New York, where they’ve already started a family. Marriage is on the horizon.
In many other aspects, Octavia and Shawn are unique. They are helping raise two very young boys, Ethan and Messiah, who arrived from Children’s Village, which places vulnerable children in homes. What’s more, Octavia and Shawn are a serodiscordant couple—Octavia contracted HIV in 2006 from an unfaithful partner, and Shawn is HIV negative. They’re also transgender.
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