Op-ed: How Bea Arthur and 'Maude' Changed My Life

Now that Maude is available to all, a gay filmmaker explains why this feminist sitcom is a must-see.

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David DeCoteau

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Steve Grand’s Album Is Here For Your Listening Pleasure

Steve Grand’s debut album All-American Boy has been decades in the making (OK, it was only about a year and a half, but even he feels like we’ve been talking about it forever), but will finally be released March 27. The highly-touted first country singer to come out at the launch of his career initially made headlines, as well as scores of fans during the summer of 2013 with the release of the video for his song “All-American Boy.” Since then he’s stayed in the public eye chatting about everything from his relationship with the church to skinny-dipping to raise money for charity. The 24-year-old raised most of the money to record his album thanks to a hugely-successful kickstarter campaign and donations from his admiring fans so without further ado here it is…

Listen to five tracks below and you can stream the rest of the album here.

Jeremy Kinser

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In the Galleries: Dylan Scholinski

Transgender artist and activist Dylan Scholinksi proves that art can save your life in an exhibit at Monmouth University.

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Christopher Harrity

www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/art/2015/03/20/galleries-dylan-scholinski

Satan Demanded Equal Rights, Says Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle's Controversial Sign
A Tennessee church posted a controversial message on its billboard over the weekend that said, “Remember Satan was the first to demand equal rights.”

The Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle removed the sign — and denied it was targeting any single group — but many who saw it were bothered by the implications.

“It’s clearly a sign that was meant to offend a particular community — the LGBT community,” Andy Henry told WBIR. “Because of (the church’s) lack of foresight, they ended up offending everybody who had ever fought for equality or civil rights in general.”

Many also railed against the sign on social media.

“As a Christian, I find this highly offensive, these kinds of signs and messages are exactly the reason why people are turned off by Christianity,” Stephanie Settlemyre wrote on the Facebook page of local news station WATE.

“I am still trying to figure out what the message on the sign has to do with unity,” posted David Rambo. “Can someone enlighten me? And we must remember too that the Bible tells us to let our words be seasoned with salt. It doesn’t say let your words be seasoned with shock value.”

But Pastor Tony Greene told the station he wasn’t trying to offend with the sign.

“Our sign referencing Satan demanding his equal rights to ascend into the heavens and be God was simply ‘I’ and all about that individual,” Greene said. “It was not a statement against any one group in particular, you know what about the rights of the unborn babies, the rights of children, the rights of everyone?”

After the outcry, the sign was changed to say: “Glad you reading, did not intend to offend, we all need Christ.”

(h/t Raw Story)

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/satan-equal-rights_n_6907496.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

Channing Tatum And Nick Zano Have A “Cock-Talk,” Discuss Trading In Their Penises

In Nick Zano’s new sitcom One Big Happy, he plays heterosexual Luke who decides to make a baby with his lesbian friend Lizzy, played by Elisha Cuthbert. It’s produced by Ellen Degeneres, and you can watch the pilot episode, which aired March 17th, here.

Zano recently sat down with his good friend Channing Tatum to interview one another for Interview Magazine, and the conversation was, well, interesting.

They talked about trading their penises in for vaginas:

TATUM: If you could, today, grow a vagina, would you do it? Even if it’s just for a limited amount of time to know what it’s like to have one? You can give it back and have your own penis—not a reattached penis.

ZANO: So everything comes back?

TATUM: Yeah, everything’s back to that same old Nicky from the beginning. Would you do it?

ZANO: Sure. How do you not? Let’s do it at the same time.

TATUM: I would totally do that with you. I’d have matching vajays.

ZANO: [laughs] All I’ve got is this visual of you and I standing next to each other, looking down.

TATUM: And comparing. “Wow, yours is bigger than mine!”

ZANO: [laughs] That’s the worst thing you want to hear!

TATUM: [laughs] I think we should take that to [One Big Happy producer] Ellen [DeGeneres] as a weird reccurring dream sequence—just me and you comparing vaginas.

Engaged in some friendly bromantic “cock-talk”:

TATUM: Let’s just imagine that the rest of this interview is done behind two actual real pilots flying over Afghanistan.

ZANO: So we’re going to have a cock-talk?

TATUM: We’re going to have a little cock-talk. That’s exactly where I was going with that, glad you picked that up. So, cock-talk with Nick Zano. We’re going to do a rapid fire round, since we’re on an airplane. These are one-word answers. I’ll let you know on which other questions you’re allowed to use multiple words to answer. Quickly, where are you from?

And Tatum alerted Zano to the grossness of Abercrombie cologne:

TATUM: Abercrombie cologne or Curve?

ZANO: Abercrombie?

TATUM: Really? Wow. I’m disappointed.

ZANO: I don’t know Curve, that’s the only reason.

TATUM: Oh man, you don’t know Curve? Alright, Drakkar.

ZANO: Oh, Drakkar!

And so much more. Head here for the full interview.

Dan Tracer

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