Last Chance: Get Your Chefs for Equality Tickets Today
Today is your last chance to purchase tickets for HRC’s fourth annual Chefs for Equality.
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Man Charged With Drugging And Murdering Four Guys He Met On Dating Apps
Man Charged With Drugging And Murdering Four Guys He Met On Dating Apps
40-year-old Stephen Port of London (pictured) has been accused of killing four men he allegedly met on various gay dating apps over a period of 15 months.
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According to prosecutors, Port’s victims included 23-year-old Anthony Patrick Walgate, whose body was found in June 2014; 22-year-old Gabriel Kovari, whose body was dumped near a cemetery in August 2014; 21-year-old Daniel Whitworth, whose body was discovered near the same cemetery as Kovari’s a month later; and 25-year-old Jack Taylor who was found murdered in September 2015.
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Prosecutors claim Port met all four men online. After getting together, he offered them large amounts of GHB. GHB, which is sometimes referred to as liquid ecstasy, lollipops, or liquid E, is a narcotic sedative that often results in loss of consciousness. In addition to murder, police are also charging Port with four counts of “administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm.”
Port is currently in custody waiting to appear before a judge on Wednesday.
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h/t: BBC
Graham Gremore
Disney Star to Play Brent Corrigan in James Franco Movie About Murder of Gay Adult Film Producer
Disney Star to Play Brent Corrigan in James Franco Movie About Murder of Gay Adult Film Producer
Disney actor Garrett Clayton is set to play gay adult film star Brent Corrigan in an upcoming film King Cobra produced by James Franco and based on the real life murder of gay adult film producer Bryan Kocis.
Clayton previously starred in Teen Beach, Teen Beach 2, and appeared on ABC Family’s The Fosters. He also recently made a cameo in Todrick Hall’s Hocus Pocus parody.
Compare Clayton (left) to Corrigan (right) below:
The crime at the heart of King Cobra dates back to 2007 when Harlow Raymond Cuadra, 25 (below left), and Joseph Manuel Kerekes, 33 (below right), killed Kocis, owner of Cobra Video, in what police called a “misguided attempt to make it big” and lure Kocis’ big star (a then underage Brent Corrigan, née Sean Lockhart) away from Kocis.
Christian Slater is set to play Kocis. And to make 80s fanatics even more apoplectic, Molly Ringwald will also appear in the film.
New movie brother! @ChristianSlater @JamesFrancoTV #kingcobra pic.twitter.com/yr95Ziu6C3
— Molly Ringwald (@MollyRingwald) October 13, 2015
Check out a few more snaps of Clayton below:
[h/t NNN]
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Sean Mandell
Disney Star to Play Brent Corrigan in James Franco Movie About Murder of Gay Adult Film Producer
Annette, Leah and myself
Was the Vote Rigged for A Trans High School Homecoming Queen in New Jersey?
Was the Vote Rigged for A Trans High School Homecoming Queen in New Jersey?
A transgender teen was crowned homecoming queen at New Jersey’s Trenton Central High School this weekend, but outraged students and parents are claiming the vote was rigged in her favor. The elected homecoming king refused to “walk with another male” to accept his crown.
According to the Trentonian, a faculty member allowed students to stuff the ballot box because she wanted to “make history.” The unnamed staffer allegedly changed the voting location and left the ballot box unattended.
Parents and staff spoke to the newspaper to express their concerns, but most of the comments were transphobic and cast the teen as either a naive victim or ineligible to be elected because she is transgender. Some alleged fraud and others claimed the finaly tally was the result of a practical joke. Several parents questioned the teen’s gender, saying she should not have been allowed to run because it is “unfair to young females.”
One parent, Murf Antionette, told the Trentonian:
“We are not bashing the [transgender teen]; how [she] chooses to live [her] life is not our issue. But the teen is registered at the school as a male. So why was the teacher allowed to let this person compete with other females? No one at the school dislikes the [transgender teen], but this teacher had an ulterior motive. Students who were actually involved in the homecoming process claimed the teacher said she didn’t care if she lost her job, and that she wanted to make history. The teacher did not get permission from any administrator to do this.”
Ruffled parents claimed that the election would somehow send a message to other girls that “they’re not good enough” and that a separate category should have been created for LGBT teens. Only one person quoted in the story worried how the controversy could affect the teenage queen’s self-esteem.
School administrators were unavailable for comment, according to the Trentonian, which also attempted to reach the trans teen and her parents.
Bil Browning
Vote for Sharon Valentine-Thomas and She Will Not Perform Her Duties
Vote for Sharon Valentine-Thomas and She Will Not Perform Her Duties
Sharon Valentine-Thomas, the Republican candidate for register of wills in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County, wants to be the new Kim Davis. “I am opposed to gay marriages on religious grounds, and my conscience will not allow me to sign off on marriage certificates for gay couples,” Ms. Valentine Thomas stated recently. “People should not have to violate their conscience to run or to serve,” she believes. Although she plans to discriminate if elected, she is forging ahead with her campaign.
I am a resident, a gay resident, of Montgomery County. Ms. Valentine-Thomas will not get my vote despite her claims of not being an “obstructionist.” If elected, she will seek a court-ordered accommodation to allow her subordinates to do the dirty work of issuing marriage licenses to us gay folks.
If she proposes to pawn off her work, why should I vote for her? If she judges my marriage to be unacceptable, why would I want her to serve me in our local government?
Montgomery County was the first Pennsylvania county to issue licenses to same-sex couples. D. Bruce Hanes, the current register or wills (who is running for a third term against Ms. Valentine-Thomas) defied the discriminatory Pennsylvania law in 2013 and expanded the issuance of licenses to gay couples. My now-husband and I were the 25th pair to get one of these licenses in Pennsylvania.
If Ms. Valentine-Thomas were to be elected, would she refuse other services to us? The office handles petitions for adoptions and probates wills. If we wanted to bring a child into our home, would her religious beliefs bar her from granting adoption? If my husband passed away (heaven forbid), would it be against her conscience to deal with his estate? In a moment of intense personal grief, will I discover that the person elected to probate my husband’s will finds our marriage objectionable and his will invalid?
When I place a vote, I expect my chosen candidate to do the work for all of the people in the county, not just those she finds personally acceptable. Ms. Valentine-Thomas wants “to serve with the same landmark accommodations afforded to Kim Davis in Kentucky,” she states. But the circumstances are different here. First, the expansion of the law to allow same-sex marriages occurred while Kim Davis was in office. Ms. Valentine-Thomas has not been elected yet. Why is she seeking a job that violates her personal beliefs? Kim Davis’ “accommodation” to authorize her deputies to issue licenses was granted after much legal wrangling and jail time. It is questionable whether the licenses issued from her office are valid. This is not a model we should emulate in Montgomery County.
Some may say that I am hypocritical to support Mr. Hanes for defying the law while decrying Ms. Valentine-Thomas for refusing to follow the law. However, there is a significant difference in the actions of the two. Mr. Hanes wanted to do more for the citizens of the county, to open up the services of his office to everyone in the county equally. Ms. Valentine-Thomas seeks to limit the services she will provide, to restrict her work to serve those in the county that follow her personal belief system. Mr. Hanes is inclusive; Ms. Valentine-Thomas is not.
It is disappointing that Ms. Valentine-Thomas would approach a campaign for election with a statement of discrimination. Does she believe this will get her votes? Are the people in our county so prejudiced that they will elect a woman who plans to serve only part of the county’s constituency? To whom is she appealing? What kind of campaign is she launching here?
- “I Don’t Like You / Vote for Me!”
- “You Are an Abomination, Let Me Work for You!”
- “Give Me the Job and I Will Get Someone Else To Do It!”
- “Let’s Make America Discriminatory Again!”
Ms. Valentine-Thomas should not run for a job for which she is not fully prepared to commit. I cannot pick and choose whom I will serve in my job. I am a college professor. At the start of a semester, I do not read my class lists and decide which students I will teach and which I will refuse to teach. I am not permitted to point at two students and say, “I object to you on moral grounds” and ask them to leave. Even if I made accommodations for them to be tutored and to get the homework and notes from other students, I would not be doing my job.
Just as I must accept each student that qualifies to be in my classes, Ms. Valentine-Thomas must accept each citizen that lives in Montgomery County who wants to get a marriage license, or adoption approval, etc.
My vote goes to D. Bruce Hanes. He is the candidate who fought for my rights two years ago. He will do his job fully if re-elected.
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Open Question: LGBT is anal sex damaging?
Open Question: LGBT is anal sex damaging?
My anus is leaking
#AM_Equality Tip Sheet: October 19, 2015
#AM_Equality Tip Sheet: October 19, 2015
Start the week off right with today’s top headlines.
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Hillary Clinton Posts Amazing Letter She Received From Budding Feminist Child With Two Dads
Hillary Clinton Posts Amazing Letter She Received From Budding Feminist Child With Two Dads
Hillary Clinton has posted a remarkable letter that she recently received from Olivia, a young girl with two dads who wants to grow up in a world where all women receive equal rights:
Clinton’s response to the letter:
Thank you for writing to me; it put a smile on my face. … Please know that I join your dads in cheering you on for great success. Keep up the great work, always care deeply about what you believe in, and never stop reaching for the stars!
H/t: LGBTQ Nation
Jeremy Kinser
Broadway Dreamboat Aaron Tveit Will Make You Feel Wicked with Cover of ‘Defying Gravity’ – WATCH
Broadway Dreamboat Aaron Tveit Will Make You Feel Wicked with Cover of ‘Defying Gravity’ – WATCH
Actor Aaron Tveit may be known to you for his roles in Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables, teen soap opera Gossip Girl, or contemporary Broadway classic Wicked (as Fiyero from 2008-9). Now, the crooning dreamboat has covered one of that show’s most iconic hits, originally sung by Idina Menzel (aka Adele Dazeem), “Defying Gravity.”
Watch as Tveit soars in the western sky, below:
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Sean Mandell
Broadway Dreamboat Aaron Tveit Will Make You Feel Wicked with Cover of ‘Defying Gravity’ – WATCH
