‘CBS Sunday Morning’ Profiles ‘Anything But Cookie Cutter’ News Anchor Rachel Maddow: WATCH

‘CBS Sunday Morning’ Profiles ‘Anything But Cookie Cutter’ News Anchor Rachel Maddow: WATCH

Rachel Maddow profile

CBS Sunday Morning did a great profile on MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, her hobbies, home life, and newscasting career, noting that “she’s anything but cookie-cutter.”

For instance, Maddow loves to go to the gun range and shoot a Colt .45 pistol and AR-15 rifle though she’s “a real liberal” on gun safety and gun control.

Rachel Maddow Bernie SandersHer news segments are not like anyone else’s either, as Towleroad readers know – often a labyrinthine narrative of segments woven together. “Storytelling is fun for me,” she explains.

Her news show dress is unconventional too. Since we only see one half of her, she’s usually got a t-shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes or boots on under her blazer: “It’s business upstairs, party downstairs.”

The segment also touches on her education, giving us a brief glimpse of when she was a long-haired blonde at Stanford:

Rachel Maddow

And her relationship with longtime partner Susan Mikula, but she won’t go too far into that:

“It’s private. There’s a lot about my relationship with Susan that we keep to ourselves. And so I have a strong feeling on equal rights. I’m an unabashed advocate that people in this country should have equal access to the rights and privileges of citizenship. But  in terms of what that means for my own relationship? Eh, that’s my own relationship.”

The segment does reveal that Maddow suffers from depression, and how Mikula helps her get through it.

“The time when it’s hardest is when I have forgotten that this happens to me, and so I don’t know what it is, and she will say, ‘you are depressed.’ And just being able to identify it and then knowing that it’s not going to be forever, and that it will pass, and that it will ease at some point, helps.”

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VIDEO: GLAAD prepares Ukrainian advocates to speak up and speak out

VIDEO: GLAAD prepares Ukrainian advocates to speak up and speak out

PC: Gay Alliance Ukraine

Ross Murray, GLAAD’s Director of Programs, Global and US South, recently conducted a two hour media training with over 20 regional LGBT advocates connected to the Gay Alliance Ukraine. The training was to help prepare the advocates to speak about upcoming Ukrainian Pride events in Odessa and Kyiv. Ross presented research based strategies for LGBT advocates to, most effectively and accessibly, use the media as a tool for advocating for the LGBT community. The main topics of the training included how to identify the primary audience, creating effective messages resonates with that audience, and practicing the techniques before facing the public. The training was held over Google Hangout.

 

Formed in 2009, the Gay Alliance Ukraine is the leader of the LGBT movement in Ukraine. It has already successfully implemented national wide projects such as counteracting homophobia through media campaigns, HIV/AIDS prevention programs, publishing their own newspaper and continuously organizing events to raise awareness towards LGBT issues. The training that GLAAD led was part of a longer conference to plan and prepare to speak about the LGBT community in Ukraine, as well as the pride event. At the same conference, advocates created a series of videos on the Gay Alliance Ukraine YouTube channel that promotes the upcoming pride events and urging the public to join their cause.

The fight for LGBT equality in Ukrainian is starting to gain national attention. GLAAD’S training followed after an LGBT festival in the Ukrainian city of Lviv was shut down by 200 members of a far right group in March of this year. According to a Pew Research poll conducted in 2013, it is found that only 28% of Ukrainians believe that gay men and lesbians should be free to live their own lives as they wish. GLAAD’s collaboration with Gay Alliance Ukrainian is a continued effort to accelerate acceptance across the world. Check out the series of video they released below.

Odessa Pride

 

Kyiv Pride

 

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia

 

16 days against gender violence

 

International Human Rights Day

 

Kyiv Pride

GLAAD extends its thanks to Google and The Louis L. Borick Foundation for generously underwriting the Global Voices initiative. 

May 16, 2016
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www.glaad.org/blog/video-glaad-prepares-ukrainian-advocates-speak-and-speak-out

The world's got #99problems. Xulhaz Mannan wasn't one of them (attacks on LGBTI activists are, though)

The world's got #99problems. Xulhaz Mannan wasn't one of them (attacks on LGBTI activists are, though)

UN Special Rapporteur on assembly & association posted a photo:

#99problems. Xulhaz Mannan wasn’t one of them (attacks on LGBTI activists are, though)”>The world's got <a href=#99problems. Xulhaz Mannan wasn’t one of them (attacks on LGBTI activists are, though)”>

#10 in our series of #99problems posters, to mark the 50th anniversary of the international rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. Ninety-nine reminders that human rights are not the problem.

The world's got #99problems. Xulhaz Mannan wasn't one of them (attacks on LGBTI activists are, though)

John Oliver Invites Trump’s Fake Publicist John Miller to His Show for an Interview: WATCH

John Oliver Invites Trump’s Fake Publicist John Miller to His Show for an Interview: WATCH

John Miller

John Oliver took horror and delight in the revelation that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump posed as his own publicist, John Miller, to brag about himself to reporters way back when.

Exclaimed Oliver on Last Week Tonight: That is so perfectly Donald Trump. Even his imaginary alter ego brags about himself!”

RELATED: Donald Trump Pretended to Be His Own Spokesperson to Brag About Himself – AUDIO, VIDEO

Oliver made not of the fact that Miller boasted about all of the women who were after Trump, particularly Madonna:

“Now much like his candidacy, that claim is sad but not implausible. Now remember, in the ’90s there were rumors that Madonna got together with Vanilla Ice, Jose Canseco, and Willem Dafoe. And what is Donald Trump if not a mixture of the authenticity of Vanilla Ice, the likability of Jose Canseco, and the terrifying facial expressions of Willem Dafoe?”

Still, Oliver is flabbergasted that Trump had the balls to deny Miller is him after copping to it several years ago.

“It’s clearly you!”

So Oliver has invited Miller to appear on the show. Don’t expect he’ll ever turn up.

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