The Sad Truth Behind Those 'Perfect' Facebook & Instagram Photos Summed Up In One Comic
The Sad Truth Behind Those 'Perfect' Facebook & Instagram Photos Summed Up In One Comic
WE KNEW IT!
Sometimes those Facebook and Instagram photos seem just a little too polished and planned. Comic strip artist Andy Herd of the comic site Pandyland shows us that if your friends’ Facebook and Instagram photos look too good to be true, then they probably are. And their poor cats are being caught in the crossfire.
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Taco Bell Denies Involvement In Gay Viral Commercial, Is “Impressed” Nonetheless
Taco Bell Denies Involvement In Gay Viral Commercial, Is “Impressed” Nonetheless
Last week we caught wind of an alarmingly gay Taco Bell commercial, and while it did nothing to make us want a steak and egg A.M. “crunch wrap” any more than we already do (which is not at all), it did make us reevaluate all the way we groan when driving past the pseudo-Mexican laxative specialty store on our way to Whole Foods.
Here’s the commercial if you missed it, wherein two bros totally gay bro out with each other all day instead of going to work:
Well it looks like the whole thing was fan fiction. You know, when unpaid Taco Bell enthusiasts take it upon themselves to do some pro bono marketing work for a multi-national corporation. The holidays are for giving, after all.
A Taco Bell spokesperson had this to say:
We didn’t create this ad, but we can see the people who did share the same Live Mas passion for our brand—and our breakfast—as we do. Although we cannot condone unauthorized use of our intellectual property, we are impressed with their work and would be open to meeting with them.
Way to work in the phrase “Live Mas passion,” guys.
For now we’ll have to stick with Adore Delano and Bianca Del Rio pushing Starbucks.
Dan Tracer
Canadian Idol Finalist Marshall Williams to Play Gay 'Football Stud' in Upcoming Final Season of 'Glee'
Canadian Idol Finalist Marshall Williams to Play Gay 'Football Stud' in Upcoming Final Season of 'Glee'
Marshall Williams, an actor and model best known for being a contestant on Canadian Idol, is set to join the cast of Glee for the show’s upcoming sixth and final season.
TV Line reports that Williams will be playing Spencer, the “new resident ‘football stud’ who just so happens to possess an incredible voice. He’s also gay. But, per the role’s casting notice, “he’s post-Glee gay — no one messes with him about his sexuality because he will kick their asses if they do.”
Other new cast members include Laura Dreyfuss, Noah Guthrie, Samantha Ware, and Billy Lewis Jr. (pictured right), who will be playing a “super-positive” cheerleader that gives off a gay vibe (but isn’t).
Head over to TV Line here for the full breakdown of the new castmembers.
Glee‘s sixth season premieres Friday, January 9 on Fox.
Kyler Geoffroy
Gay Nigerian Actor Puts His Sexuality In The Spotlight
Gay Nigerian Actor Puts His Sexuality In The Spotlight
Adebisi Alimi is the first person ever to come out as gay on Nigerian television. But that wasn’t what the 29-year-old wanted to be known for back in 2004.
Alimi’s acting career was just starting to take off when his sexuality stole the spotlight. The student newspaper at University of Lagos, where he was studying theater, threatened to publish a photo of him with his then-boyfriend. So Alimi beat them to the punch. He went on “New Dawn with Funmi,” one of the most popular talk shows in Nigeria, and challenged a long-held belief that homosexuality was brought to Africa by white colonizers. That was also the year Alimi was diagnosed with HIV.
Florida Is Still Trying To Prevent Start Of Marriage Next Week
Florida Is Still Trying To Prevent Start Of Marriage Next Week
The only thing that anyone can agree on about marriage in Florida is that they all disagree with each other.
For now, it’s impossible to predict exactly what’s going to happen on January 6th, when a federal ruling that the state’s marriage ban is unconstitutional finally goes into effect. Marriage might become legal across the state, or it might become legal in just one or two counties, or it might flicker in and out of legality like a confused lightning bug.
That’s because everyone seems to have a different interpretation about what exactly is unconstitutional, and what the state is supposed to do about it. According to the federal judge (who really should be the final authority on the matter), the marriage ban is unconstitutional, period, end of story. But according to the clerks, that doesn’t matter — the law is still on the books, even if it’s unconstitutional, so they have to follow it.
Yes, that is a crazy claim, and we are in disbelief that they’re even proposing it. Where else but Florida?
So for now, the overwhelming majority of Florida clerks are planning to refuse to issue licenses on the 6th. But if they really make good on that threat, they may be setting themselves up for trouble: groups like the ACLU and NCLR say that to refuse to issue the licenses constitutes contempt of court, and the clerks could get in even bigger trouble if they turn couples away.
What a freaking mess.
And this is exhibit one for why the Supreme Court needs to get involved here and issue a nationwide ruling that marriage bans are unconstitutional. Until that happens, every little government official from one end of the country to the other is going to have their own opinion about who can get married. Fortunately, it looks like the Supreme Court has realized just how ridiculous things are getting: they’ve announced that they’re going to meet next week to decide whether to take a marriage case. It’ll be months — at the earliest — before they can rule, but hopefully they’ll end all this confusion before summer.
Now, if only all of Florida’s problems could be solved so easily.
matt baume
Connor Maguire, Damien Crosse and the Men of Men.com Read Mean Tweets About Themselves: VIDEO
Connor Maguire, Damien Crosse and the Men of Men.com Read Mean Tweets About Themselves: VIDEO
Back in August gay adult entertainment site Men.com took a cue from Jimmy Kimmel and shared a video of Colby Keller, Jimmy Fanz, Paddy O’Brien and more of their actors reading mean tweets about themselves.
This week the studio dropped a holiday edition featuring Connor Maguire, Mike de Marko, Damien Crosse, Johnny Rapid, Colby Jansen, Jessy Ares, Paul Walker, and Jarec Wentworth.
See what they had to share from the trolls who came for their packages, AFTER THE JUMP…
(warning:work-unfriendly language)
Andy Towle
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Best of 2014: Cities and States Stand Up to LGBT Discrimination
Best of 2014: Cities and States Stand Up to LGBT Discrimination
This year, we saw local cities and states across America stand up against LGBT discrimination.
HRC.org
Nigerian Expatriate Turned LGBT Activist Sees Anti-Homosexuality Laws As An Opportunity for Change
Nigerian Expatriate Turned LGBT Activist Sees Anti-Homosexuality Laws As An Opportunity for Change
In 2004 in an appearance on “New Dawn with Funmi,” a morning talk show program on Nigeria’s largest television network, Adebisi Alimi announced to the world that he was gay. The 29 year-old was an aspiring stage performer studying acting at the University of Lagos and, facing blackmail, he made the decision to come out.
The fallout following his announcement nearly ruined his life. Shunned by friends and family, Alimi was repeatedly harassed by law enforcement and left the country after an attempt on his life. In spite of the hardship that he’s faced, however, he sees his time in Nigeria as having been invaluable.
“My story is not a story of a victim,” he told the BBC in 2007. “It’s a human story.”
Since then Alimi’s become a vocal LGBT-rights activist and HIV educator based out of the United Kingdom. In an interview with NPR’s Goats & Soda Alimi explained his complex relationship to his home country particularly in light of a version of the draconian anti-homosexuality bill currently working its way through many African countries’ legislative systems. In Alimi’s opinion Nigeria’s anti-homosexuality bill will be, in the long term, a boom to the fight for LGBT equality.
“I see the law as a catalyst for change for good in Nigeria,” he explained. “You don’t understand what it is like to fight a beast that you cannot see.”
“Before the signing of that law, between 95 and 98 percent of Nigerians were in support of it. The latest poll says 88 percent of Nigerians now support the law.
That’s a 10 percent drop. Some people who are not LGBT are now saying, ‘Did we just support a law that criminalizes people … for falling in love?. [When] you see that your uncle or cousin is gay, it kind of changes the conversation.”
Check out the fulll interview here.
And watch Adebisi Alimi’s TEDxBerlin talk about the next steps in fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa AFTER THE JUMP…
Charles Pulliam-Moore
