The Heat is on in the Granite State
HRC members and staff are engaged in election work across the Granite State.
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The Heat is on in the Granite State
HRC members and staff are engaged in election work across the Granite State.
HRC.org
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/the-heat-is-on-in-the-granite-state?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
British Home Office Talks Dirty to Gay Asylum Seekers
Welcome to England, international visitors! The British Home Office hopes that you enjoy your stay, and is happy to extend asylum to those of you who face violence and persecution in your homeland. But first, Her Majesty just needs a few details about your penis.
An internal investigation has revealed that gay and lesbian asylum seekers are subjected to very insane, very sexy questions that of course are never put to heterosexual individuals. Among them:
And a leaked internal memo reveals even more insulting questioning. These are all direct quotes:
It would be kind of hot if this interrogation was happening in a porn, with glistening sweat dripping off the interviewee’s face as the mean investigator barks questions at him and eventually demands that he prove just how gay he can be. But it’s not OK for this to be happening in reality, where real actual peoples’ lives are at stake.
Between 10 and 12 percent of interviews contain inappropriate questions, according to the investigation.
To their credit, officials have pledged to crack down on inappropriate questions, to respond quickly to complaints, and to improve training.
But we don’t think that goes far enough: British officials should be required to themselves answer any questions that asylum interviewees face. So how about it, Prime Minister David Cameron: what is it about men’s backsides that attracts you?
matt baume
Elders React to Nicki Minaj's Anaconda: VIDEO
The music video is apparently a little too bootylicious for a few of these old-timers.
“Now you wonder why kids are so screwed up nowadays, cause of this kind of sh*t”‘
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Kyler Geoffroy
www.towleroad.com/2014/10/elders-react-to-nicki-minajs-anaconda-video.html
LGBT Health & Wellness Roundup Oct 24 2014
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What's the Probability That Michael Sam Was Cut Because He's Gay, Really?
I’ve seen a little too much insistence this week, online and on social media, that Michael Sam’s being cut from the Dallas Cowboys’ practice squad had nothing to do with his being gay. It’s a bit overwrought and defensive. A lot of fans seem to want to believe the NFL is not a homophobic institution, and that the Sam story somehow proved it: The NFL gave a shot to the first openly gay player ever drafted and treated him well, and his fate was based on his performance, and that’s that.
But Michael Sam’s being gay has been so much a part of this story from the moment he came out, with anonymous NFL executives saying he wouldn’t be accepted, and some commentators and even some players making anti-gay remarks, right up through his late-round drafting and beyond. Can anyone really say for sure whether or not his being gay had anything to do with his being cut?
As both Outsports’ Jim Buzinski and WCBS sports radio host Jared Max point out, there are no other openly gay players in the NFL right now, and if the NBA’s Jason Collins indeed retires soon, as many commentators are predicting, there will be no openly gay player in any of the four major sports leagues. That’s not exactly a sign of acceptance. Add to this the fact that the NFL has given minor or no penalties to players like the San Francisco 49ers’ Chris Culliver after homophobic incidents. It also stood by the hiring of anti-gay former New York Giant David Tyree — who worked to stop marriage equality, adheres to an extremist anti-gay ideology and has expressed the belief that gays can be made straight — as the New York Giants’ director of player development.
So it can’t be ruled out that Michael Sam was cut because he’s gay, not with the NFL’s record. People can point to Sam’s performance at this or that juncture, but that’s been countered by pointing to other players who’ve performed similarly and have done just fine. Buzinski notes, looking at the chronology of events, that it was all quite suspicious:
Sam was the SEC co-defensive player of the year in 2013. Yet he was drafted in the seventh round, 249 out of 256 players selected. That’s three rounds and 124 players later than what bookies set his draft order at. It’s also by far the lowest any SEC defensive player of the year had been drafted in at least a decade. …
With the draft winding down, I have always suspected that the league made calls to St. Louis to encourage/cajole/plead with the Rams to take Sam. … Sam not being drafted would have been a huge embarrassment to the league and set back its efforts to appear more inclusive of gays.
After former voach Tony Dungy called Sam a “distraction” and said he’d have stayed away from picking him, Sam seemed to become even more of a hot potato. The Rams chose not to keep him, which seemed like a football decision, since he wasn’t what they needed. But the fact that he wasn’t immediately chosen by another team was “unprecedented,” according to Michael Freeman of the Bleacher Report:
It can’t be stressed enough how Sam not being signed despite a productive preseason is almost unprecedented. In my two decades of covering the NFL, it isn’t just rare; it’s basically unheard of for a player to not make the league after playing well in the preseason.
And Adam Schefter of ESPN tweeted:
12 players had 2.5 or more sacks this preseason. 10 are on 53-man rosters. One on practice squad. And last, Michael Sam, hasn’t found work.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 1, 2014
NFL insider Peter King, of MMQB.com and NBC, reported that the Cowboys finally took Sam for the practice squad after “a league official contacted multiple teams asking if they’d evaluated Sam,” and that the NFL “avoided a nightmare situation” when the Cowboys signed him. (The NFL denied King’s claim.) Then, a month and a half later, he was cut, almost unnoticed, while the country was focused on Ebola, the attack on the Canadian Parliament and other pressing concerns.
Again, any of the individual actions can be explained away as a football decision. But when you add it all up and throw in the NFL’s past and current disregard for homophobia (in incidents and hiring), it’s impossible to escape the very real probability that Sam’s being gay was a factor that determined his fate. And Jim Buzinski is right when he says it will give any other player pause about coming out, which may be exactly what the NFL wanted.
Nick Jonas Identifies Male Bulges, Discusses Sticky Thing On His Crotch When Filming Sex Scenes
Everyone loves a challenging game of Guess That Celebrity Bulge. We certainly do. (If you doubt us go here and here.) Nick Jonas, being a good sport and continuing his seemingly endless tour to become the most gay-friendly straight male entertainer in history, agreed to play a slightly awkward round of distinguishing photos of his own bulge from crotches belonging to Justin Bieber, Zac Efron, Liam Payne and Harry Styles.
Jonas, currently starring as a possibly gay man in the DirecTV series The Kingdom, also offered a quick tutorial on filming sex scenes. Fun was had by all.
Watch the guessing below.
H/t HuffPo
Jeremy Kinser
'Applications', The Tale of a Guy, a Phone, and a Dating App: Part 3
Here’s Part 3 of our weekly comic Applications, by Josh Trujillo and Dave Valeza.
Click panes to enlarge. To start from the beginning, click HERE.
CONTINUED, AFTER THE JUMP…
Tune in next Friday for Part 4…
Josh Trujillo
Armistead Maupin LGBT History Month October 24, 2014
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