PHOTOS: Sudden and Urgent Travel Needs
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/5/11/photos-sudden-and-urgent-travel-needs
How to Handle Mortality, From a Gay Senior Staring It Down
How to Handle Mortality, From a Gay Senior Staring It Down
What’s the afterlife like? Writer Kurt Niece imagines a trendy waiting room with champagne and crab legs.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/5/11/how-handle-mortality-gay-senior-staring-it-down
Spain’s First Openly Gay Football Referee Quits Over Homophobic Abuse
Spain’s First Openly Gay Football Referee Quits Over Homophobic Abuse
Jesus Tomillero, the first openly gay football referee in Spain, has quit a little more than a year after coming out because of ongoing anti-gay abuse from fans, The Guardian reports:
Tomillero came out publicly last March as he presented a formal complaint against a kit man from Peña Madridista Linense in the under-19 league in Andalucía, which resulted in a nine-game ban and a €30 fine. He told the newspaper El Español he has been subjected to abuse since and that last weekend he reached breaking point.
Soon after Tomillero gave a penalty, he says someone from among the visiting supporters shouted: “That’s that poof who was on the telly,” adding, “you can stick the goal up your arse, you fucking poof”. The referee said the worst thing was that “everyone in the crowd laughed”. He communicated his decision to quit football to the Andalucían football federation soon after.
Tomillero says he has presented another formal complaint to the football federation, but does not expect much action as they ignored him following his decision to come out in 2015.
Se vuelven a repetir los insulto por ser homosexual en un partido de 2 andaluza Juvenil !! Menores de dad pic.twitter.com/sMz3oahwpQ
— Jesús Tomillero B. (@Jesustomille) May 7, 2016
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When ‘Donald Trump’ and ‘Don Lemon’ Visited an Ice Cream Shop: WATCH
When ‘Donald Trump’ and ‘Don Lemon’ Visited an Ice Cream Shop: WATCH
Tonight, Fusion is airing Trump vs. Bernie: Shout the Vote, the second part in a two-part comedy series, and they offer up a preview in the form of this sketch featuring Troy Walker as Don Lemon and Anthony Atamanuik as Donald Trump.
Trump is upset that Bernie Sanders has his own ice cream flavor, and a bewildered ice cream worker is forced to field Trump’s racist and xenophobic requests. Find out what Fusion’s Trump has to say about neapolitan ice cream and jimmies and the name Melania gives his junk.
Watch:
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Trevor Noah on North Carolina: ‘I Would Be Your Bathroom for 2 Billion Dollars’ – WATCH
Trevor Noah on North Carolina: ‘I Would Be Your Bathroom for 2 Billion Dollars’ – WATCH
Trevor Noah and The Daily Show took on the week’s biggest story – the flying lawsuits over North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’ HB 2.
After explaining what the fighting is all about, Noah expressed shock at the amount of money the state is willing to forgo over their anti-trans hate:
“You’re willing to give up 2 billion dollars over bathrooms? There is no one I would not let use a bathroom for 2 billion dollars. In fact, I would be your bathroom for 2 billion dollars. I would literally let you s–t on me for 2 billion dollars.”
Adds Noah:
“If you can ID anyone who was in the bathroom with you, you are paying too much attention.”
Then Noah offers praise to Loretta Lynch for her knockout statement and proceeds to utterly destroy Governor Pat McCrory’s championing of North Carolina as the “Ninth Largest State”.
“When Governor McCrory says ‘Ninth Largest State,’ he makes it seem like it’s his catchphrase – which apparently it is….Somewhere, the governor of the 10th largest state is there like ‘damn you McCrory, quit rubbing it in we’re doing our best.’ And then he’s taking a golden number 9 out of his cabinets and [he rubs it, saying] ‘someday, someday.’
Watch:
Senior Legal Affairs correspondent Adam Lowitt breaks down what the state can do to win
“Carolina’s scared of transgender pee pee and poo poo.”
Lowitt suggests skillful negotiation can help them win.
“Now North Carolina it seems like you’re losing this one but what the feds don’t know is that you’re already ranked 47th in the nation when it comes to teacher pay, so you could give a f–k about education. When North Carolina students bring their teachers an apple, that’s their dinner. So let them cut the money, then you drop down to 50th and next season you get a first round draft pick.”
He also cites North Carolina’s God-given right to go on tv and freak people out, and tells them to prepare for the worst.
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Thanks to Loretta Lynch, We're About to Be Normal
Thanks to Loretta Lynch, We're About to Be Normal
History was made this week, and LGBT rights turned a major corner.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/5/11/thanks-loretta-lynch-were-about-be-normal
These Apps Offer Peace of Mind on HIV
These Apps Offer Peace of Mind on HIV
How mobile apps can offer some piece of mind when it comes to HIV and hooking up.
www.advocate.com/current-issue/2016/5/11/these-apps-offer-peace-mind-hiv
PHOTOS: Convening the Unconventional at DragCon
PHOTOS: Convening the Unconventional at DragCon
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/5/11/photos-convening-unconventional-dragcon
Phil Robertson of 'Duck Dynasty' Explained in Fewer than 90 Seconds (Video)
Phil Robertson of 'Duck Dynasty' Explained in Fewer than 90 Seconds (Video)
Here’s everything you need to know about the dude who is as famous for his antigay (and now anti-transgender) rhetoric, as he is for those duck sounds he makes on TV.
www.advocate.com/media/2016/5/10/phil-robertson-duck-dynasty-explained-fewer-90-seconds-video
Another Primary Win for Bernie Sanders (Video)
Another Primary Win for Bernie Sanders (Video)
www.advocate.com/election/2016/5/10/another-primary-win-bernie-sanders-video
