The 50 weirdest and coolest facts from LGBTI history
Did you know churches blessed gay marriages in the 1st century? Discover and more
joem
www.gaystarnews.com/article/50-weirdest-and-coolest-facts-lgbti-history200215
Take A “Looking” Tour Of San Francisco With Seven Hotspots
Take A “Looking” Tour Of San Francisco With Seven Hotspots
Tired of straining to put a name on the familiar, iconic San Francisco places of HBO’s “Looking”?
To make your life even better, we’ve rounded up some of the hotspots for your enjoyment…
The San Francisco Staple
The looking cast certainly enjoyed its share of shots sitting atop the most arguably gay plot of earth in the world. Quintessentially San Francisco, Gay Beach at Dolores Park is a classic hotspot. With spectacular views (not just of the city), this is to where every gay – from hippies and hipsters to gym rats in speedos – flocks to ogle and flirt and get drunk. Grab your blanket, lotion, and friends for a day on the “beach.”
Titillating Treats
Patrick and Richie complain about the long lines at the Brad Pitt of San Francisco ice cream shops, Bi-Rite Creamery. Adjacent to Dolores Park, it’s worth the wait (the line is one long cruising opportunity anyway) to try flavors like creme freshe and maple bacon. If you want the real experience though, hit up nearby Hot Cookie in the Castro for erotically shaped treats and even pin your butt pic to the wall in the shop’s cute branded undies.
Flower Shop Realness
Much of the drama between Dom and Lynn goes down in a flower shop, Urban Flowers in Castro to be exact. Stop in for the flowers and not the drama at this unique shop.
That Restaurant
Its referenced as Dom’s dead-end service job, but we’ve only seen glimpses on the screen. Zuni Cafe may indeed not be the most lucrative place to work as a server or even manager, but it certainly has some of the city’s tastiest food, best locations and warmest ambiances. A wildly popular place to start the night, this iconic San Fran eatery is always hopping. (The roasted chicken is to die for.)
Sports Fans
Dom’s rugby scene is a highlight of the season. To find the sports field, and, ahem, the showers, head over to Golden Gate Park’s Kezar Stadium. You’ll find loads of sports leagues in San Francisco that practice and play around the city every week. Check out some of the upcoming beer busts at local bars and leagues for sports like Soccer and Flag Football.
Dance & Romance
Augustine may have gone balls-to-the-wall one too many times. He went on a GHB trip at the gay-friendly dance club Public Works, and was seen meeting friends at the dearly departed bar, Esta Noche. 18th street staples like Q Bar and The Cafe can been seen in the background as the cast strolls by. But let’s be real, none of us knows what those look like during the day. They’re all worth stopping in at night, for a meat market mix of locals and visitors.
Ride The Russian (River)
While the boys of “Looking” may spend most of their time bar hopping around San Francisco, they also visited a famed playground only 69 miles north of the city. Russian River is a weekend haven nestled amid pines and Redwoods.
The entire region is a bear haven. In fact, Guerneville hosts the famed Lazy Bear Weekend in mid-summer each year, drawing thousands of bears, otters and chasers from the city up to a massive outdoor playground.
mr_brennan
Stem Cell Breakthrough Opens Door To Gay Couples Having Their Own Babies
Stem Cell Breakthrough Opens Door To Gay Couples Having Their Own Babies
A stem cell research study at Cambridge University, England has potentially opened the door to same-sex couples having their own babies, reports CBS Atlanta.
The breakthrough achieved in the study shows that fully “manufactured” babies can be created from the skin cells of two adults of the same gender.
Reported in the journal Cell, researchers paired stem cell lines from embryos with the skin of five different adults. The experiment had been previously successful in creating live baby mice but this is the first study on humans in which engineered cells were compared to aborted fetuses to determine an identical match.
Azim Surani, Wellcome Trust project leader and professor of physiology and reproduction at Cambridge, said, “We have succeeded in the first and most important step of this process, which is to show we can make these very early human stem cells in a dish.”
Although concerns regarding ethical issues have been raised, Jacob Hanna, the specialist leading the project’s Israeli arm, said the study “has already caused interest from gay groups because of the possibility of making egg and sperm cells from parents of the same sex.”
Jim Redmond
www.towleroad.com/2015/02/cell-stem-breakthrough-opens-door-to-manufactured-two-dad-babies.html
LGBT Community It's time for gov't to recognize LGBT issues
LGBT Community It's time for gov't to recognize LGBT issues
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Let Me Answer Your Questions, Justice Roy Moore
Let Me Answer Your Questions, Justice Roy Moore
Alabama state Chief Justice Roy Moore is at it again. In an AP interview this week, he continued his stance against same-sex marriage. To explain his views, he added this: “You’re taking any definition of a family away. When two bisexuals or two transgendered marry, how large is that family? Can they marry two persons, one of the same sex and one of the opposite sex? Then, you’ve got a family of four or how many?”
Let me answer those questions for you, Mr. Moore:
When two bisexuals or two transgendered marry, how large is that family?
When two people marry, there are two of them. Two. One plus one equals two.
Can they marry two persons, one of the same sex and one of the opposite sex?
No, they cannot.
Then, you’ve got a family of four or how many?
No, you have got two. Two. Two people getting married equals two people. One person marrying another person creates a family of two people. Two.
Maybe this will help: do you remember Noah? And the Ark? [I am trying to speak your language now.] Remember how they all entered the ark two by two? It is like that. Two.
Still do not understand? You know the Ten Commandments? Of course, you do – you were removed from office once because you would not remove a monument of them from the Alabama Supreme Court building. So … take the Ten Commandments and divide by five. Got it? The answer is two.
How about this? You are familiar with the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept”? Count the words in that sentence. Jesus – one. Wept – two. Two.
Roy Moore is filled with questions. In a Good Morning America interview, he asked: “Do they stop with one man and one man or one woman and one woman? Or do they go to multiple marriages? Or do they go to marriages between men and their daughters or women and their sons?”
OK, let us try this again:
Do they stop with one man and one man or one woman and one woman?
Yes, they do.
Do they go to multiple marriages?
No, they do not.
Do they go to marriages between men and their daughters or women and their sons?
No. That is incest.
Maybe it is futile to try to explain this to Justice Moore. Would he ever be able to understand that someone who is bisexual is capable of monogamy? Or that gender identity is not linked to sexual orientation? Or that incest is not the same thing as homosexuality? Trying to explain these concepts to Roy Moore is like explaining string theory to a clam.
The group, Sanctity of Marriage – Alabama, led a rally recently where Republican state representative Will Ainsworth, furthered Moore’s slippery slope argument: “Allowing the whims of our pop culture to redefine marriage is a slippery slope that could lead to polygamy. Where does the definition stop? Think about that.”
I am thinking … and here is my answer: The definition stops at two people. One person marrying one other person. Not multiple people.
This slippery slope argument has been around for some time now in conservative circles. The Family Research Council, for instance, has a glossy pamphlet titled “The Slippery Slope of Same-Sex Marriage” which begins with a story of a man who wants to marry his horse, ultimately asking, “What is marriage–and where do we draw the limits on who can marry?”
Let us try one more time:
What is marriage?
It is a legally recognized union between two people. Two. People.
Where do we draw the limits on who can marry?
We draw the limits at two people. Two. Human beings. Not horses. Humans.
Any more questions?
Wanda Sykes: 'I never meant to come out during an anti-Prop 8 rally'
Wanda Sykes: 'I never meant to come out during an anti-Prop 8 rally'
Wanda Sykes has revealed that she never intended to come out during a Proposition 8 event.
In a speech at a rally against Proposition 8 in Las Vegas back in 2008, Sykes told the crowd: ‘Everybody who knows me personally, they know I’m gay… I’m proud to be a woman, I’m proud to be a black woman and I’m proud to be gay.’
joshh
www.gaystarnews.com/article/wanda-sykes-i-never-meant-come-out-during-anti-prop-8-rally240215
Ellen DeGeneres, Robbie Rogers and Lance Bass Among Celebrities Standing Up for Marriage Equality
Ellen DeGeneres, Robbie Rogers and Lance Bass Among Celebrities Standing Up for Marriage Equality
Already, thousands of Americans, including soccer star Robbie Rogers, Andy Cohen, Ellen Page, George Takei and Ellen DeGeneres, have stood in support of marriage equality for same-sex couples nationwide.
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“Whiplash,” “Fellini Satyricon,” “Young Bodies Heal Quickly,” & More!
“Whiplash,” “Fellini Satyricon,” “Young Bodies Heal Quickly,” & More!
If you haven’t yet seen the Oscar-winning Whiplash, then be sure to pick it up along with a couple of other home entertainment highlights this week — the restored and very queer classic Fellini Satyricon (above) and a new, off-kilter indie, Young Bodies Heal Quickly.
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($34.99 Blu-ray, $30.99 DVD; Sony)
Even if you hate jazz music, this Oscar-winning tale of a young drummer with perhaps a little too much self-entitlement (Miles Teller) and his sadistic teacher (Best Supporting Actor JK Simmons) is intense, thrilling stuff. Extras include the original short film the feature sprung from, a deleted scene, a commentary, a filmmaker conversation, and documentary about drummers and their teachers.
($39.99 Blu-ray, $29.99 DVD; Criterion)
Famously decadent, queer, and quintessentially Fellini — if you want to know where the term “Fellini-esque” came from, this will school you — the Italian director’s 1969 classic takes place in ancient Rome. Episodic in structure, one of its most famous storylines involves Encolpio (Martin Potter) and his love, Gitone (Max Born), an androgynous youth sold to and passed around by a variety of other older gents. The earthquake sequence, in a pre-CGI era, is pretty darned cool too. This beautiful 4k restored edition’s wealth of extras include a vintage 1970 61-minute documentary, clips from several Fellini interviews, a brand new 24-minute documentary, an interview with the film’s set photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and more.
(VOD; Fandor)
Executive produced by Still Alice‘s Christine Vachon and Killer Films, first time feature director Andrew T. Betzer’s debut is an utterly transfixing, at time bizarre tale of two rural brothers, known simply as “older” and “younger,” who hit the road after killing a girl. Shot on 16mm film stock, with a climactic Vietnam War re-enactment, this is on par with Harmony Korine’s Americana cult classic, Gummo.
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Michael Sam Perplexes TMZ Cameraman with 'Game of Thrones' Wedding News: VIDEO
Michael Sam Perplexes TMZ Cameraman with 'Game of Thrones' Wedding News: VIDEO
NFL free agent Michael Sam and his fiancé Vito Cammisano arrived at LAX and were immediately confronted by an aggressive TMZ cameraman who began questioning them about their engagement and wedding date.
Sam was prepared though, and began giving the cameraman all the information he wanted. Unfortunately for the photog, he doesn’t watch Game of Thrones.
Sam told the photog the couple was getting married in Westeros with Tyrion and Tywin Lannister, and is registered at King’s Landing. He also told the photog the wedding date is April 17 (the premiere date for the show).
Said Sam: “Hopefully it will not be at the red wedding though. I will be very upset to be at the red wedding.”
The photographer was mystified.
Replied Sam: “Maybe — gay people — you don’t know our terminology.”
Watch the genius exchange, AFTER THE JUMP…
Last night, TMZ reported that Sam had signed to compete on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars.
Andy Towle
