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New Documentary is Tyler Oakley’s Version of ‘Truth or Dare’ – WATCH
New Documentary is Tyler Oakley’s Version of ‘Truth or Dare’ – WATCH
Tyler Oakley, the 26-year-old out YouTube star with more than 7.7 million subscribers, is now the subject of a new documentary that follows him (Truth or Dare style) behind-the-scenes on his recent Slumber Party Tour (in which he takes the stage in various onesies) and looks at his family life and the work that goes on to create his YouTube channel, along with his LGBT advocacy.
Oakley’s mother and father weigh in on his sexual orientation and his fame as well.
Says his mom: “You get to be famous, and that’s good and that’s fun. It makes me happiest that you stand for good.”
The film, Snervous Tyler Oakley, was directed by Amy Rice (By the People: The Election of Barack Obama) and offers a more intimate look at Oakley than what you’ll find perusing his channel. It’s getting a limited theatrical release on December 11 and will also be available online.
Check out the trailer which came out yesterday:
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WATCH: Ted Cruz Dodges CNN's Question About Antigay Pastor
WATCH: Ted Cruz Dodges CNN's Question About Antigay Pastor
Despite whining by Republicans running for president about “gotcha” questions from reporters and debate moderators, some journalists are sticking to their guns.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper tried to pin down one candidate Thursday about his apparent double standard for intolerance: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Cruz is set to join two fellow Republican presidential candidates in Iowa this weekend— former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal — at a conference organized by antigay pastor and activist Kevin Swanson. The gathering is billed as focusing on “religious liberties.” Read more about the conference here.
As Right Wing Watch reported, three of the conference’s scheduled speakers, including Swanson, support the death penalty for gays. Swanson is the same zealot who dubbed Disney’s Frozen a “gay indoctrination film.”
Swanson’s antigay rhetoric was the subject of the last question Tapper asked Sen. Cruz at the end of his interview Thursday. Tapper cited Cruz’s complaints about “liberal intolerance” and asked him to explain how, by appearing with Swanson he was not endorsing “conservative intolerance.”
Cruz dodged the question by claiming ignorance of Swanson’s record and launched right into his standard stump speech about how Christians are being persecuted, running out the clock as the program ended.
Watch this portion of CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, below.
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Gay Couple Can't Get Married Because They're Legally Father And Son
Gay Couple Can't Get Married Because They're Legally Father And Son
Drew Bosee, 68, and Nino Esposito, 78, didn’t think they’d ever see same-sex marriage become legal. The two men have been together for 45 years, after first meeting on Easter Day in 1970. They now live in what they describe as “a pretty conservative Republican neighborhood” in a Pittsburgh suburb with their giant schnauzer, Yuri. And like so many other loving couples, they’d like to get married.
But for Bosee and Esposito, there’s a catch: Since 2013, Eposito has legally been Bosee’s father.
Before marriage equality, some gays and lesbians adopted their partner so they simply would have some legal rights that they wouldn’t have otherwise. It wasn’t ideal, but it was the only path offered under the law.
Bosee said they decided to look into adoption when they were rewriting their wills. The inheritance tax is significantly steeper when a person bequests to a non-family member, but that wasn’t the main reason they did it.
“The only option we had at the time was doing this, and this sort of was a legal completion to something that we had always felt. Not that we were father and son, but that we were like a family,” Bosee said.
“The adoption process was very simple,” he added.
Other couples in this situation have been able to annul their adoptions and get married. Bosee and Esposito even have friends in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who seamlessly went through this process. So they decided to go through with their own annulment in early 2015, after Pennsylvania had legalized same-sex marriage but before the U.S. Supreme Court would eventually do so.
In June, however, Allegheny County Judge Lawrence O’Toole denied their request. Although he has a reputation for being progressive and was “sensitive” to their situation, he argued that state adoption law simply didn’t allow him to move forward. O’Toole said courts have generally reversed adoptions in cases of fraud, and he requested direction from higher courts.
Aaron Tax, director of federal government relations at Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders, said many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults felt compelled to, like Bosee and Esposito, “resort to any means necessary to protect their rights in the face of our country’s discriminatory marriage laws.”
“We believe the justice system should do all it can to ensure that these individuals are able to access the rights and privileges of marriage they’ve only now been given access to after decades of facing unconstitutional discrimination,” he added.
Bosee and Esoposito’s story first went public when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a front-page, above-the-fold story about them in early October.
This week, they received another boost when Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, requesting that the Justice Department “consider issuing guidance for courts across the country so that gay couples who have previously entered into adoptions can annul them in order to receive marriage licenses.”
As Casey pointed out, in at least 25 states, including Pennsylvania, marriage between a parent and an adopted child is considered incest. Therefore, Bosee and Esposito need an annulment.
Andrew Gross, one of the couple’s attorneys, said he is not aware of any other couple in their situation. Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson said they are reviewing the letter.
Since Casey’s letter, Bosee and Esposito have received a flood of national media attention, which they admitted has required a bit of an adjustment. They grew up in a time when being gay was not as widely accepted as it is now, and they’re not used to talking about their relationship. They never even openly discussed it with their parents, who have all passed away.
“Generally speaking, as far as our behavior, we’ve always been very below the radar — closed about all of this. We never can say we officially ‘came out,’ so all this publicity now within a few days or a couple weeks has been a little bit overwhelming. It’s sort of like coming out by cannon fire,” Bosee said.
Bosee and Esposito said they’ve been very encouraged by the support they’ve received from people who have seen the news stories, even in their conservative neighborhood.
“They always used to say there’s a difference between knowing and knowing,” Bosee added, “and a lot of people would rather have it be the former and somehow once you make it official — not so much maybe today, but even as recently as 10 years or more, it could be sort of uncomfortable for them or us or anybody if they officially knew the situation.”
The couple and their attorneys expect to receive a ruling from the Superior Court early next year. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has filed an amicus brief in support of the couple as well.
In the meantime, Bosee and Esposito wait — and continue to answer questions about their situation from people who are unfamiliar with what gay couples have had to go through to obtain some sort of basic legal protections. And one question they keep having to answer is: Why did they decide to go through all this, other than for financial reasons?
“And I always say, does anybody ask a heterosexual couple why they’re getting married? … It’s ridiculous. It’s unheard of,” Bosee said. “Yet when a same-sex couple is getting married, especially going from what we want to be doing — going from an adoption to a marriage — that’s the first thing they want to ask. I think it’s really crazy, if you stand back and look at it.”
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Who Is The Biggest Douche Of The Year? You Decide!
Who Is The Biggest Douche Of The Year? You Decide!
To mark the 2015 Queerties Awards, we’ve compiled lists of outstanding LGBTQ folks and our allies (and yes, some of our foes) in a variety of categories. At the end of each list, we ask you, the reader, to cast your vote for who should come out on top.
It was a banner year for antigay douche baggery, in large part because the Supreme Court’s ruling on nationwide marriage equality drew them out of dumpsters. The ruling, by a conservative majority court, set the wing nuts into high dudgeon. Religious rightists across the country came out of the woodwork to respond in all sorts of outrageous, and sometimes even unintentionally fascinating, ways. The law may now be settled, but they are definitely still unsettled by it.
Of course, there were plenty of other folks who acted like complete a-holes in entirely different capacities. We’ve included a few of these types, as well.
Scroll down for the biggest d-bags of 2015, in no particular order (hahaha)…
The thrice-divorced, Born Again county clerk from Kentucky made national headlines when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite multiple court orders demanding she do so. She got paid to go to jail, rubbed elbows with 2016 presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz on television, hit the media circuit, got a private armed security detail, and finagled a meeting with the pope, all the while continuing to collect her $80,000 taxpayer-funded salary and proclaiming she’s not a homophobe because she has gay friends.
The owners of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, IN (pop. 2,248) became overnight celebs after going on their local news channel and proclaiming that if they were ever asked to cater a gay wedding they would have to politely decline the offer.”We are a Christian establishment,” Crystal told the reporter. Right. And excluding people is so Christian. A shit storm ensued and the O’Connors quickly launched a GoFundMe campign, raising nearly $850,000 from roughly 30,000 donors. Afterward, Kevin told the media, “I’d do the same thing again,” adding that he doesn’t “hold an grudges” against gay people. Of course not!
This year alone the crazed pastor of the Atlah World Missionary Church in Harlem accused Starbucks of making lattes out of semen to attract gay (and straight female?) customers, alleged Justin Bieber “cut off her breasts” and is secretly a trans man, said gay people are turning into zombies and will soon begin foraging through hospital dumpsters looking for human waste to feast upon, threatened to boycott every “sodomite-friendly” business in America, claimed a “sicko group” sent him a plastic bucket of poop, and implied Anthony Kennedy had a secret male lover who blackmailed the justice into voting for marriage equality, among other loony tunes. We can hardly wait to see what next year has in store.
The Sean Cody stud was accused of extorting closeted Republican businessman Donald Burns. According to court documents, Burns paid Wentworth for sex “at least four times” and gave him cash for introducing him to other guys. The arrangement was working out fine, at least for Wentworth, until the 25-year-old model got greedy and threatened to expose Burns if he didn’t fork over $500,000, give him a $180,000 sports car, and buy him a $1 million luxury condo. That’s, like, 500K per sex act, which seems rather expensive, if you ask us. Luckily, this blackmailing douche was found guilty and was sentenced to 70 months behind bars plus ordered to pay nearly $500,000 in fines.
Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia
They douched the opportunity to vote in favor of a completely obvious and monumental breakthrough for all Americans: Marriage Freedom. ‘Nuff said.
If admitting to molesting two of his sisters (plus three other underage girls) in their sleep wasn’t awful enough, antigay reality TV personality and former executive director of the FRC Josh Duggar was outed for having not one but two Ashely Madison accounts. After confessing to cheating on his wife while she was pregnant with his children, Josh said he was going to sex rehab to learn how to control his urges. But when the time came to actually check in, he bailed. That was in September and he hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Queerty was the first to report on the Christian extremist from Indiana who uploaded a video of herself to Facebook going off on an unintentionally hilarious antigay, anti-Islam, anti-Obama, anti-abortion, anti-everything-not-Evangelical-Christian rant in response to the Supreme Court equality ruling. “God says that marriage is between a man and a woman!” Rommel sobbed. “I don’t care what you think! I don’t care what you think about my opinion because, you know what? I could really care less!” The video was picked up by media outlets across the world and has since garnered over 1.2 million views and inspired several parodies. Honestly, we’re not sure whether to love or hate this particular douche.
The 32-year-old ex-hedge-funder-turned-pharmeseutical-CEO became the “most hated man in America” after he raised the price of Daraprim, a medicine used by people with AIDS and other maladies, from $13.50 to $750 per tablet overnight. A backlash quickly followed, which Shkreli (A.K.A. “Pharma Bro”) responded to by defending his actions in a string of snarky, childish tweets. A few days later, he told NBC News he would be lowering the price of the drug, though as of this writing he has yet to actually do so. This douche got his comeuppance when a competitor introduced a $1 version of the drug in October.
The Entire 2016 GOP Presidential Field
Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
Who Is The Biggest Douche Of The Year?
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6 must-see spots in Jackson Heights
6 must-see spots in Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights is hitting new heights. In addition to being one of the hotter up-and-coming areas in the city, the nabe has gotten its own documentary. “In Jackson Heights” is at the Film Forum through Nov. 17. Frederick Wiseman, who’s made more than 40 documentaries since 1967, says he was drawn to Jackson Heights because…
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Will Pro-Gay Money Make Marco Rubio Less Homophobic?
Will Pro-Gay Money Make Marco Rubio Less Homophobic?
Paul Singer is one of the Republican party’s big donors, so his decision to desert Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign and throw his support to Marco Rubio is a big deal for two reasons. One, it’s yet another nail in the coffin of Bush’s moribund campaign. Two, it’s a big boost to Rubio and a sign that the Republican establishment views him as the legitimate candidate in a field of nutburgers.
What Singer’s decision doesn’t do is push the GOP to be more gay friendly. And that’s one of Singer’s main goals. As the father of a gay son, Singer is the force behind the American Unity Fund, a group of fat cats that want Republicans to enter the 21st century on the side of freedom and equality.
Which raises the question: How does Marco Rubio fit into that picture? Based on his history, not at all.
Rubio has a solid antigay record. As a Florida state representative, he opposed letting gay couples take in foster kids, because kids “shouldn’t be forced to be part of a social experiment.” He provided robocalls to the National Organization for Marriage condemning marriage equality.
Rubio has been aggressively courting religious right figures and happily rubbing elbows with the likes of Kim Davis’s attorney, Mathew Staver. At the same time, Rubio has tried half-heartedly to stake out a “moderate” position on LGBTQ. He’s done so largely by acknowledging that we’re human but not quite as human as Christians.
Rubio has shown some, shall we say, ideological flexibility in the past. He was famously for immigration reform before turning against it. Perhaps Singer’s green will make Rubio more lavender.
Or perhaps Singer has such low expectations of the GOP that he’s smitten by Rubio’s rhetoric, even if the senator’s record flies in the face of his language.
Or maybe in the end, as important as gay issues are, financial issues are what matter most to Singer. As a hedge fund manager, Singer may be throwing his support behind the Republican candidate who is a) most likely to win and b) most likely to give hedge fund managers a bunch of tax breaks–or at least maintain the ones they already enjoy. While the jury is out on option A, Rubio’s economic plan fits snugly into option B.
Whatever the reason, Rubio is not the change agent that Singer purports to seek. He’s a younger version of the same old homophobia that has made Republicans a punch line for under-30 voters. Singer’s money will come in handy, of course. But already, Rubio is being labeled a sell-out by hardcore conservatives who hate Singer. Chief among them is NOM’s Brian Brown, for whom Rubio once taped those robocalls. Now Brown is threatening to run ads trashing Rubio as a traitor to the cause.
Rubio already has a problem with the base, who view him as untrustworthy because of his now-abandoned immigration stand. He could end up reviving that problem because of his association with Singer. All of which will make the primary season all that much more fun to watch.
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