Fox News Misinforms on Planned Parenthood's Services to Trans People
And it quotes a hate-group leader in doing so.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/5/07/fox-news-misinforms-planned-parenthoods-services-trans-people
PHOTOS: Guys Honor World Naked Gardening Day In Varying Stages Of Undress
PHOTOS: Guys Honor World Naked Gardening Day In Varying Stages Of Undress
It’s World Naked Gardening Day. All across the globe, men are stripping down to their birthday suits and exercising their green thumbs.
Related: PHOTOS: Outdoorsmen Get Back To Nature In Celebration Of Earth Day
“Why garden naked?” the World Naked Gardening Day website reads. “First of all, it’s fun! Second only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude. Moreover, our culture needs to move toward a healthy sense of both body acceptance and our relation to the natural environment.”
Related: PHOTOS: See Cute Guys Wash Up As They Get Their April Showers On
We couldn’t agree more.
Scroll down to see pictures of men honoring today in varying stages of undress. Happy Gardening!
#missingthesummer#sixback#sexygardener#stredded#fitnessmodel
A photo posted by Oscar berry (@oscarcito_berry) on
Sexy gardener. ?????? #lovelyday #home #sunday #buenosaires #gardeninspiration #sexygardener
A photo posted by Maria Efe Zuleta (@mariaefezuleta) on
Happy 11th Annual World Naked Gardening Day! ? #orchids #miltonia #WNGD #nakedgardening #nakedgardeningday
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I ? a man with a green thumb? —— @frugivoremag
A photo posted by Chelsea, Ph.D.,E-RYT (@chelsealovesyoga) on
Mmm the new gardeners hot ?? #greenthumb #sexygardener #mowmylawns
A photo posted by Sarah Wellington (@sarahmwellington) on
Happy Monday. ?? Stay productive and make every hour count. Make moves. Make your life better than it was yesterday instead of staying still. No matter what it is. My yard is now clean and looking great. Can’t wait to throw summer kick backs again ???? #yardwork #gardner #summer #comigsoon #kickbacks #gym #happymonday #productive
A photo posted by Andres (@rex497) on
Househusbands of Rivervail #urbangarden #mwillywiththegreenthumb #sexygardener
A photo posted by Ashley Williams (@smashwilly) on
Just learned that next week is World #NakedGardeningDay (and simultaneously learned that naked gardening was even a thing) ? . . . . #nakedinnature #naked #nakedgardening @naked.in.nature #nakedadventures @nakedadventures #befree #costarica #cahuita #puravida #explore #worldnakedgardeningday #exploreeverything
A photo posted by Cameron Guthrie (@cameronjguthrie) on
Check out my sexy gardener @theellenshow I’m so lucky!!! ? #sexy #gardener #hot #husband #hubby #sexygardener
A photo posted by kidd madonny (@kiddmadonny) on
A Lil hard work never hurt anybody #landscapingdesign #grinding #yardwork wit my homie @trankalank
A photo posted by Nicholas Tolbert (@therealnicholastolbert) on
Happy “world naked gardening day” lol I had to! #nakedgardeningday
A photo posted by Jonathan Cole (@neverendingaerial) on
Last day of Summer, they tried to hold on. Late bloomers… Melons #UrbanFarming #Sustainable #HippieLife
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He practices posing no matter where he is lol… at the gym… in a field of weeds… Don’t matter. Such a Hottie!!! #allmine #lovehim #hotgardner #Jaktmuscle #teamjakt #jaktlife #jaktfamily #npc #npcco #instagood #instafit #fitfam #fitness #fitnessfreaks #fitnessmodel #contestprep #coaching #mensphysique #npcmensphysique #asresearch #bodybuilding
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Suspended, Faces Removal from Bench for Defying U.S. Marriage Laws
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Suspended, Faces Removal from Bench for Defying U.S. Marriage Laws
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who has been defying the federal government since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, has been suspended and charged with violating ethical rules for trying to stop probate judges from issuing marriage licenses in the state.
The charges could mean, among other things, that Moore will be removed from the bench.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports:
The Judicial Inquiry Commission accuses Moore of failing to act with impartiality and refusing to follow “clear law” in issuing his Jan. 6 order, which came six months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans on same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. Moore is also charged with acting while a lawsuit over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage was pending before the court.
The Court of the Judiciary removed Moore from office in 2003 after he refused to obey a federal court order requiring the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the Heflin-Tolbert Judicial Building, where the Alabama Supreme Court sits. Moore was re-elected in 2012.
At a press conference last week, Moore called the charges “politically motivated” by the Southern Poverty Law Center and “atheists, homosexuals and transgender individuals” who were out to get him:
Moore released a statement late Friday night:
The Judicial Inquiry Commission has no authority over the Administrative Orders of the Chief Justice of Alabama or the legal injunction of the Alabama Supreme Court prohibiting probate judges from issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The JIC has chosen to listen to people like Ambrosia Starling, a professed transvestite, and other gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals, as well as organizations which support their agenda.
We intend to fight this agenda vigorously and expect to prevail.
In January, Moore issued an order prohibiting probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples telling them they had a “ministerial duty” to do so.
In his order, Moore actually cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling. Moore claimed that the high court’s ruling only applied to Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, the states directly involved in Obergefell.
In March, the Alabama Supreme Court dismissed a series of petitions asking it to declare that the state’s ban on gay marriage is still in effect.
That decision meant anti-gay foes like the Alabama Policy Institute were out of legal options to try and fight the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage in Obergefell. However, that fact didn’t stop Chief Justice Roy Moore from writing a scathing rebuke of Obergefell and insisting that the state’s ban on gay marriage was still in effect.
Shortly after the Obergefell ruling, Moore predicted all-out war over it.
Moore said that same-sex marriage would lead to the “persecution” of Christians who would be forced to “accept evil” and “condone sodomy.” He also said it would lead to a massive and possibly violent backlash and claimed that the founding fathers would be “incensed” at the SCOTUS decision, calling the Court a tyrannical force trampling on freedom.
Moore said he saw his battle as a holy one:
“God gives rights and the government’s role is to secure those rights. When governments [sic] dismisses god out of the equation and pretends to get rights, we suffer accordingly.
“I think that’s where we were in 1776 and if government is not securing the rights god gave us….[same-sex marriage] is not really securing it, is it?”
Southern Poverty Law Center president Richard Cohen released a statement last night responding to the charges against Moore.
Said Cohen: “Chief Justice Roy Moore has disgraced his office for far too long. He’s such a religious zealot, such an egomaniac that he thinks he doesn’t have to follow federal court rulings he disagrees with. For the good of the state, he should be kicked out of office.”
Cohen added:
In 2003, Moore was removed from office for violating a federal court order. What he’s done this time—tell the state’s 68 probate judges to violate a federal court order—is far worse. As our ethics complaints lay out clearly, Moore has violated his oath of office and the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics multiple times.
He has urged state and local officials to violate a binding court order. He has repeatedly commented on pending cases. He has undermined the public’s confidence in the judiciary by denigrating the federal courts and complaining about what he has called “tyranny.”
And, he has improperly lent the prestige of his office to a group called the Foundation for Moral Law, an organization that he founded and that his wife now operates. Moore swore to uphold the United States Constitution. But he has demonstrated in the past, and now once again, that he is willing to put aside the law when it conflicts with his personal religious beliefs. He cannot be trusted to be an impartial arbiter of the law.
We look forward to his trial in the Court of the Judiciary and his eventual removal from office once again.
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Artist Spotlight: Paul Sixta
Artist Spotlight: Paul Sixta
www.advocate.com/artist-spotlight/2016/5/07/artist-spotlight-paul-sixta
Antigay Alabama Justice Roy Moore Charged With Ethics Violations
Antigay Alabama Justice Roy Moore Charged With Ethics Violations
Moore could lose his job over his efforts to block marriage equality in the state.
www.advocate.com/politics/2016/5/06/antigay-alabama-justice-roy-moore-charged-ethics-violations
Illinois Families Sue Obama Administration Over Trans-Inclusive Policies
Illinois Families Sue Obama Administration Over Trans-Inclusive Policies
The families, represented by right-wing attorneys, claim the federal government’s policies on trans students amount to “discrimination” against cisgender students.
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Jared Leto Will Be Perfect As The Vampire Lestat; Adele Sanctioned A Gay Couple’s On-Stage Proposal
Jared Leto Will Be Perfect As The Vampire Lestat; Adele Sanctioned A Gay Couple’s On-Stage Proposal
If you were like us or just about everyone on the planet and found the 1994 film of Anne Rice‘s homoerotic classic Interview With the Vampire to be a bit de-fanged thanks to the controversial casting of Tom Cruise as flamboyant bloodsucker Lestat, how do you feel about Jared Leto in the role? Writer-director Josh Boone, who’s been entrusted with the reboot, thinks he’ll be perfect.
Lestat – there can be only one. #JaredLeto pic.twitter.com/CsFqtYw9Na
— Josh Boone (@JoshBooneMovies) May 4, 2016
Heads up Wicked fans! Elphaba and Glinda reunited when Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel took the stage for a new duet of “For Good.”
Usually when you think about Patsy and Eddie and AbFab, you’ll be popping corks on Bolly, but Diet Coke will release a limited edition bottling of the soft drink bearing the cartoon likeness of the comic duo timed to the release of the feature film adaptation in July.
Justin Timberlake‘s new single “Can’t Stop The Feeling” from the film Trolls features a bunch of people who are anything but.
Hello! Anything can happen at an Adele concert, including an on-stage marriage proposal involving a gay couple.
?? Made me tear up!! ??One of the most beautiful moments in my life! ?? #proposal #adele #goforgaymarriage #lotsoflove
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Jennifer Lopez may sing that she “Ain’t Your Mama” but in her new video she is your Howard Beale from Network and Tess McGill from Working Girl.
Antarctica, Harry Styles’ Hair, DC Shootings, Prince Harry, Kristen Bell: NEWS
Antarctica, Harry Styles’ Hair, DC Shootings, Prince Harry, Kristen Bell: NEWS
NATURE. Scientists have discovered huge cache of animal fossils in Antarctica believed to be 70 million years old.
FBF. Celebrate your favorite TV moms of the 90s.
WATCH. President Obama on the 2016 election: “And I speak to all of you in this room, as reporters, as well as the American public: I just want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times and this is a really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the United States.”
GUN VIOLENCE. Three people shot and killed in Metro DC area: “Police have just arrested a federal Department of Protective Services officer they believe may be responsible for the shooting deaths of three people in the Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland area. The officer, Eulalio Tordil, ‘shot and killed his wife, a chemistry teacher, outside their children’s school in Beltsville Thursday. Tordil was wanted on a first-degree murder charge in that case.’”
BOY BANDS. Harry Styles cuts off his his hair (to donate to charity); internet has a melt down.
NEVER TRUMP? For those keeping track Dick Cheney says he will vote for Donald Trump. Jeb Bush says he will not vote for Trump or Hillary Clinton (see below). Meanwhile, Erick Erickson says Republicans owe an apology to Bill Clinton because they have now endorsed a “pathological liar and womanizer.”
DUDE. SWEET. Ellen and Kristen Bell grill Mila Kunis about what Ashton Kutcher is like in bed. Kristen Bell says she bets Ashton is a “generous” lover.
CUBA. “What it’s like to be young and gay in Havana’s Malecón.”
THE WINDSORS. Prince Harry reflects on his mother’s legacy: “All I want to do is make my mother proud.”
RIGHT WING NUTS. Michelangelo Signorile on how Trump is already surrounding himself with homophobes: “Also reported to be on the [VP] shortlist is another enemy of LGBT equality, who’s been advising Trump as part of his inner circle for months now and who endorsed Trump early: Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. The GOP senator is among the most anti-LGBT senators in history, scoring a zero continually from the Human Rights Campaign, voting for everything anti-gay that ever came before the Senate, like a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and against everything remotely pro-gay, from a hate crimes bill to protect gays to the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
INSTASTUD. Meet Diogo de Castro Gomes.
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HRC Sounds the Alarm about The Gambia’s Human Rights Violations
HRC Sounds the Alarm about The Gambia’s Human Rights Violations
HRC and 15 human rights organizations joined forces to once again raise concerns with the U.S. government about a recent spike in human rights violations in the West African nation of The Gambia.
“Recent reports from The Gambia about arbitrary arrests, police brutality and possible torture once again raise concerns about the safety and security of the Gambian LGBT community, who have been the frequent targets of state repression,” said Ty Cobb, Director of HRC Global. “It is time for the U.S. to act.”
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh, who has held power for more than 20 years, has verbally attacked the LGBT community numerous times, most recently telling parliament in March that homosexuality is “ungodly” and that “I will never tolerate it here in The Gambia. Those who will be caught practicing it will face the full force of the law.”
Last year, he threatened to “slit the throats” of any gay men in his country. These threats followed the 2014 passage of a law that created a charge of “aggravated homosexuality,” carrying a life sentence. LGBT Gambians have been arrested, detained without trial and subject to ill treatment by state security forces, including reports of torture.
In recent weeks, Jammeh’s crackdown on human rights defenders has intensified, particularly in light of national elections scheduled for December. In mid-April, Gambian security forces broke up demonstrations in Banjul calling for justice and electoral reforms and arrested a number of people, including prominent members of the Gambian opposition party (UDP). There are reports that at least one opposition member died under suspicious circumstances while in custody, possibly as a result of torture. Dozens are still being held. A wide range of bodies, including the United Nations Secretary-General, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the ECOWAS Commission and the U.S. State Department, have criticized these arrests.
HRC and other human rights organizations have urged the U.S. government to announce sanctions against Gambian officials in order to send a clear message that continued human rights violations will place a severe strain on U.S.-Gambian relations. These could include travel bans or sanctions available in International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which the U.S. government has used before in response to human rights abuses in Belarus, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and others.
HRC has partnered with many of these organizations on several occasions in the past to push for sanctions on The Gambia and will continue raising the issue for as long as the violations continue.
