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The $5 Million Fondle: Hospital Sued After Nurse Molests Male Patient On Video
The $5 Million Fondle: Hospital Sued After Nurse Molests Male Patient On Video
Photo credit: Local 10
A patient who claims an ER technician fondled him while he was sedated at a Florida hospital is suing for $5 million, Local 10 in Miami reports.
“He put his hand on my boxers,” the victim, whose name has not been released, said. “He grabbed my private part, and he started playing with it and squeezing it.”
The man was under sedation and being treated for leg and back pain when police say ER technician Rene Martinez grabbed him by the crotch.
“I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ and he was like, ‘I was just checking to make sure you’re OK.’ That’s when I say, ‘OK this guy is up to something,’” the victim said.
Martinez then left the room. He returned a few minutes later to grab the man’s crotch again. Unbeknownst to him, however, the victim had switched on his cellphone camera and was filming the entire thing.
“He was saying I could make money from one of his friends by showing my private parts,” the victim alleged.
Afterwards, he complained to the hospital. Two weeks later, he handed over the video to police. Martinez was arrested and charged with two counts of simple battery and two counts of an unnatural and lascivious act.
Despite the rather damning video evidence, Martinez insists he’s innocent.
“We are going to fight this,” his attorney, Sabino Jauregui, said. “The video doesn’t tell the whole story… We believe the action might have been consensual.”
The victim is now suing the hospital for $5 million for not protecting him from the sexual assault. He also claims his life has been ruined and that the incident stirred painful, long-buried memories of the time he was molested as a child.
So far the hospital is not commenting on the incident.
See the NSFW video, obtained by Local 10, below. What do you think? Does it look consensual to you?
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SCOTUS Gives Same-Sex Marriage the Go-Ahead In Kansas
SCOTUS Gives Same-Sex Marriage the Go-Ahead In Kansas
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Kansas’ request for a stay of a lower court’s decision striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, effectively allowing same-sex couples to say “I do” in the Sunflower State. Justice Sonia Sotomayor had granted a temporary stay of the lower court’s ruling until the entire Supreme Court could review the matter. Buzz Feed reports:
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas would have granted the stay, according to the brief order issued by the court’s Public Information Office a little past 5 p.m. ET Wednesday.
On Nov, 4, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree struck down Kansas’ ban as unconstitutional, putting the ruling on hold until 5 p.m. CT Nov. 11.
In the meantime, the state sought a stay pending its appeal from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied the request on Nov. 7. On Monday, state officials sought a stay from Sotomayor, who oversees such requests out of the 10th Circuit. Sotomayor issued a stay, pending further order by her or the court.
After the same-sex couple plaintiffs filed a response with the court opposing the stay on Tuesday, the court was silent. Crabtree’s temporary stay expired, and all that remained was word from the justices.
On Wednesday, the court answered, with the justices denying the stay request and vacating, or ending, Sotomayor’s stay.
With the order issued before 5 p.m. CT, Kansan same-sex couples could yet marry on Wednesday.
Developing…
Sean Mandell
www.towleroad.com/2014/11/scotus-gives-same-sex-marriage-the-go-ahead-in-kansas.html
WATCH: Irish Ad Looks to Inspire Youth to Say 'Yes' to Marriage Equality
WATCH: Irish Ad Looks to Inspire Youth to Say 'Yes' to Marriage Equality
Ahead of an anticipated referendum on marriage equality next May, LGBT advocates in Ireland are asking youth to register to vote by November 25, and say ‘Yes Equality’ next year.
Thom Senzee
www.advocate.com/world/2014/11/12/watch-irish-ad-looks-inspire-youth-say-yes-marriage-equality
Wikipedia's SeedFeeder Is The Weirdest Sex Illustrator You've Never Heard Of (NSFW)
Wikipedia's SeedFeeder Is The Weirdest Sex Illustrator You've Never Heard Of (NSFW)
Sure, we read Wikipedia for the articles. But the work of one anonymous artist with his eye on the erogenous is probably worthy of its own entry.
He goes by SeedFeeder, and almost all of his drawings are sexually explicit. But he’s no pornographer.
As Gawker’s Andy Cush gleefully outlines in his must-read exposition of the illustrator, from 2008 to 2012, SeedFeeder populated a multitude of Wikipedia articles on sexuality with about 48 frank, graphic drawings.
The acts SeedFeeder depicts aren’t weird, but the plastic, detached style in which they’re rendered is bizarrely matter-of-fact, like the airline safety pamphlets that the illustrator says inspired them.
Read Gawker’s deep-dive on SeedFeeder here.
As demanded by their subject matter, the drawings are anything but shy. They boldly run the gamut of sexuality, from deep-throating to tribadism, pegging to the ol’ Viennese Oyster (much more vanilla than it sounds).
Some wouldn’t consider it art, but it’s not porn, either. The drawings are educational, but they serve a purpose beyond illustration. By rendering intense acts of coupling in a sterile, almost instructional manner, Seedfeeder’s drawings have a normalizing effect on bedroom play that some might consider taboo.
Click To Reveal Sex Illustration Gallery (NSFW)
Although he isn’t solely responsible for all the depictions of sex acts on Wikipedia, SeedFeeder’s work has been a magnet for both ridicule and controversy. As Gawker notes, some Wikipedia users saw racist or sexist undertones in his work, which ultimately led some of the images to be removed from English-language versions of the site.
The artist has dismissed such criticism as “the prejudices and concerns of the small-minded.” On his user page, SeedFeeder has choice words for users who suggest that a description of the acts he depicts would suffice:
I come from a philosophical viewpoint that every Wikipedia article should have all forms of media available associated with it. Images, audio, and video. All articles, without exception. So any argument predicated on “an image isn’t necessary” is one that carries absolutely zero weight. None.
He’s been similarly blunt towards those concerned that kids might find his work, writing that “if your children are actively searching for these kind of topics… it’s because they already have a slight idea of them… and they feel ready to know more.”
Despite those strong words, it seems SeedFeeder has given up illustrating sex acts. He retired from Wikipedia in June 2012.
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Anderson Cooper gets the giggles after staff ridicules him for smelly candle in his office
Anderson Cooper gets the giggles after staff ridicules him for smelly candle in his office
They liken basil-scented candle to things like ‘a brothel in Tuscany’ and ‘dumpster ravioli’
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HRC Condemns Non-Discrimination Amendment In Michigan Excluding Gender Identity
HRC Condemns Non-Discrimination Amendment In Michigan Excluding Gender Identity
Today, HRC strongly condemned an amendment to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives by State Representative Frank Foster because of its exclusion of gender identity.
HRC.org
This Gay Couple Is About To Have Three Babies With Three Different Surrogates
This Gay Couple Is About To Have Three Babies With Three Different Surrogates
Luke and Daryl pose with their three surrogates.
Life is about to get three times more hectic for Luke Harris and Daryl Lee.
The gay couple from the U.K. is about to have not one, not two, but three kids. Simultaneously. With three different surrogates.
The couple first met in 1999. Both men had babies on their mind.
“We’re both from very close-knit families and I always thought I’d love to have children but it never even crossed my mind that it would be possible,” Luke told New York Daily News. “We thought we are gay, we are going to miss out on that chance in life.”
“We started to look into adoption,” he continued. “But then Elton John announced he had become a father in 2010 and I realized a gay person could have a baby, too. At first I thought he’s got mega bucks. It’s alright for him, but it’s not possible for us.”
Last year, they began looking into it. They learned that under U.K. law, surrogate mothers cannot be paid, though they are entitled to expenses of up to about $24,000. After realizing it wouldn’t be as expensive as they initially thought, the men began looking for potential mothers through various online surrogacy forums.
The first woman they met was Becky Harris, a three-time surrogate. At the time, she was three months pregnant with another couple’s child, so she referred them to her former sister-in-law, Bex Harris.
Bex agreed to carry the men’s child. Then she mentioned her friend, Viktoria Ellis, was also interested in becoming a surrogate mother.
Luke and Daryl figured “What the hell?” and reached out to Viktoria, who also agreed to carry a child for them.
Months passed. Then Becky called the guys back to say she’d given birth to the child she was carrying and was ready to help them out now.
“When we told our families we are having our first surrogate baby, they were so excited for us, as they know for the past 15 years we’ve dreamed of having a family of our own,” Luke told The Sun. “When we told them we were having a second baby they were amazed. And then, when we announced we’re actually having three babies of our own they were stunned but overjoyed.”
Two of the babies were conceived with Daryl’s sperm and one with Luke’s. All three babes are due within seven months of each other, between January and July of next year.
“We never imagined in our wildest dreams we would have three all at once,” Luke said.
“I’ve been blessed with two children of my own,” Victoria said. “It’s about wanting to help someone have a family of our own.”
“And none of us can think of two people more deserving of the joy of fatherhood,” Becky added.
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North Carolina Gay Man In Critical Condition After Being Beaten, Robbed, Set On Fire By Man He Met At Bar
North Carolina Gay Man In Critical Condition After Being Beaten, Robbed, Set On Fire By Man He Met At Bar
When Stephen Patrick White and Garry Joseph Gupton left a gay bar together in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, early Sunday, “everything seemed normal,” according to qnotes.
White, 46, and Gupton, 26, hailed a cab outside the Chemistry Nightclub and traveled to the Battleground Inn, a hotel about 4 miles away. At about 4:30 a.m., an employee at the Battleground Inn called 911 after he heard screaming and a fire alarm was activated.
White is now in critical condition at a hospital in nearby Winston-Salem with life-threatening injuries, including burns over 52 percent of his body, qnotes reports. Gupton was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after allegedly setting White on fire in what authorities say was an attempt to kill him.
Gupton is being held on $150,000 bond. White was found naked, robbed and beaten inside the hotel room.
Jen Caltrider told Towleroad that White was her best friend in college and was injured in the Iraq war.
“He suffered severe injuries in an explosion in Iraq nearly 10 years ago while protecting a US base as a private contractor,” Caltrider said. “He’s served on both the Border Patrol and the Air Marshals. He is a good man who deserves all of our love and support right now.”
Chemistry Nightclub, as well as another local gay bar, have organized benefits this weekend to help defray White’s medical costs. An online fundraising campaign had raised $520 by Wednesday afternoon.
Drew Wofford, owner of Chemistry Nightclub, posted the following on the bar’s Facebook page:
To All Greensboro: with great sadness and a heavy heart I write this post. Sunday morning our friend and regular customer Steven left Chemistry by cab to a local hotel with Garry Gupton whom he met earlier that evening. A few hours later, Steven was viciously assaulted, robbed and set on fire in the hotel; over 52% of his body is severely burned. This brutal attack has left Steven hospitalized and fighting for his life. Now it’s our turn to help. This weekend, on Saturday November 15 the Q will be holding a silent auction from 2 – 6pm to raise money. That night, all of us at Chemistry will be doing our part. First let me say how proud I am of my staff and entertainers for their willingness to help. They have all agreed to donate their pay and tips; Chemistry will be donating the entire door cover, and all Jello Shot sales. Steven has a long road ahead of him but he is a fighter and he is definitely not alone. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we are all fighting for him. Also I remind you to please use caution when leaving our bar or any bar with someone you don’t know. I never would have dreamed something like this would happen here in Greensboro … but let’s make sure it never happens again.
John Wright
New York Life Partner Shares Life Insurance Tips for the LGBT Community
New York Life Partner Shares Life Insurance Tips for the LGBT Community
A partner at New York Life shares his experiences working for the Fortune 500 company as well as advice for LGBT households seeking life insurance.
Advocate.com Editors
www.advocate.com/health/2014/11/12/new-york-life-partner-shares-life-insurance-tips-lgbt-community
