Andy Cohen, Robbie Rogers And Barbra Streisand Star In Throwback Thursday Celebrity Edition

We regular folks aren’t the only ones digging through old boxes of snapshots or combing through old floppy discs to find photos to post online in celebration of Throwback Thursday, celebrities are doing it, too. Here are a few of our favorites today.

Andy Cohen

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Throw THIS back! Me and my girl Jeanne Messing rocking it out at a dance in 1983. Looks like I went with a maroon sweater….

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Mario Lopez  

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#TBT hangin out with Clooney back in ’96… Was super cool then & is still a nice, cool guy. View on Instagram 

Barbra Streisand

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  Barbra w/ John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Ringo Starr. John was a romantic. He said one of his and Yoko’s favorite movies was The Way We Were !! #tbt   View on Instagram

Divine (or whoever is running Divine’s official Instagram account)

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Divine dressed as Elizabeth Taylor for a school Halloween party with his date Diana Evans #divine #elizabethtaylor

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Robbie Rogers

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Lay off me I’m starving. View on Instagram

Elvira (with Lady Bunny and Lypsinka)

#TBT Having a gay ol’ time in 1991 with @imladybunny @Lypsinka and Dan Mathews #throwbackthursday pic.twitter.com/z56hDm5A6v

— Elvira (@TheRealElvira) October 9, 2014

Joe Jonas

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  #TBT I’m now a vintage wine.   View on Instagram

Tom Brady (in 1994)

Jeremy Kinser

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LGBT Wellness Roundup Oct 14 2014
Catch all the links to these stories and more on www.huffingtonpost.com/news/lgbt-wellness/. Brought to you be LGBT HealthLink, a project of lgbtcenters.org. Special thanks to our researcher…

Mark Gilbert Talks Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2014 (AUDIO)
This week I talked with Mark Gilbert, Interim Executive Director and Board Chair of the Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which takes place in association with the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and is one of the most highly regarded LGBT film festivals in the nation. The sixth annual Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival has expanded to seven days, taking place Friday, Oct. 10, through Sunday, Oct. 12, and Thursday, Oct. 16, through Sunday, Oct. 19. FLGLFF 2014 will be presenting 50 diverse, award-winning feature films and shorts, along with special events and parties throughout the city. Its mission is to enrich, entertain and educate the public through the presentation of international and culturally diverse films that offer meaningful perspectives on the historic and contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.

I talked with Gilbert about this year’s festival and his spin on LGBT issues. When asked what he would like to see happen for LGBT equality in the next few years, he stated:

I would like to see the movement continue at the pace that it is. I mean, my dream, my vision — I used to do editorials and talk about what I hope would be one day, and we’re already seeing it. I’m a grandfather of two, and my boys don’t know any different — and when I say that, of course I mean as a grandfather of two adorable, loving children — and they’ll never know the difference, that gay was ever anything to wonder about. They’ll only know that Papa’s gay and their grandfather and they love him. My dream is 50 years from today — and even to take that to the next level, where, when they hear talk about marriage, gay marriage, marriage equality, if you will, they’re only going to know that there’s my two mommies, my two daddies, or Joey has two mommies or two daddies or two grandmas. Whatever it is, they’re going to feel the same love for them. It’s not going to be something special or different. It will just be part of our everyday lives that everyone will accept everyone for who they are, and it will be a world of just equality.

LISTEN:

Presented by HBO, Merrill Lynch and the Greater Fort Lauderdale CVB/Broward Office of Film, Music & Entertainment, the sixth annual Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival promises to be a wealth of films ranging from hilarious takes on relationships to compelling dramas and documentaries touching upon some of the more compelling issues in the LGBT community. There are also fabulous parties and events presented by Florida’s LGBT nonprofits.

For more information, please visit flglff.com.

Listen to more interviews with LGBTQ leaders, allies, and celebrities at OUTTAKE VOICES™.

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Adult Films Stars Asked Regular People To Touch Them And This Happened

Imagine being in the same room as your favorite adult film stars and being invited to touch them. How would you respond? Would you be shy or bold enough to grope them? Maybe you’d kiss them on the lips or, ahem, lick their feet? In a promotional video/sociological experiment made to tout the Barcelona Erotic Show that took place last week, several folks took advantage of this unusual opportunity and all sorts of reactions took place.

Watch the touching video below.

Jeremy Kinser

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Wingnut Mat Staver Says A Third Political Party Is Needed to Stop Gay Marriage, Like With Slavery: AUDIO

Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2014/10/staver.html

New LGBT Minor at LSU
Louisiana State University introduced a new LGBT minor under the School of Social Work this semester. So far, students are enjoying the unique courses.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hRQ69x6Ls4&feature=youtube_gdata

Indiana's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Officially Lifted

After an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, most county clerks have begun issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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Daniel Reynolds

www.advocate.com/politics/2014/10/09/indianas-same-sex-marriage-ban-officially-lifted

Christopher Isherwood Returns to Berlin
This adventure began over dinner.

Don Bachardy, the artist and partner of the late Christopher Isherwood, was in Sacramento, California for a screening at the Crocker Art Museum of Chris and Don: A Love Story — the documentary by Tina Mascara and Guido Santi about Don’s 33-year relationship with the Anglo-American writer.

In a restaurant after the film, I turned to Don and asked, “Have you ever been to Berlin?”

His answer took me by surprise.

We know what Berlin was like in the early 1930s, when the German capital was the center of personal and artistic freedom for all of Europe, largely because of the keen observations and brilliant writing of one man: Christopher Isherwood. Yet Chris and Don had never visited Berlin together, and Don had never been to the city which launched his partner’s career as a giant in 20th century literature.

When I described the vibrant contemporary arts and cultural scene of Berlin, Don smiled and said, “It sounds like fun!”

I called Don a few weeks later at his home in Santa Monica and asked him if he had an interest in traveling, on his and Isherwood’s behalf, to the city of Sally Bowles, Christopher Bradshaw, Mr. Norris and the other characters of the musical Cabaret. It took him a few days to decide, and then Isherwood’s editor and biographer Katherine Bucknell called me with the news: Let’s go.

Next week, Don Bachardy arrives in Berlin.

His visit coincides with the 75th anniversary of the publication of Goodbye to Berlin, Isherwood’s novel about Berlin 1930-1933 as Hitler was rising to power, and the 50th anniversary of the publication of A Single Man, his novel about a middle-aged gay literature professor in 1960s California. Goodbye to Berlin provided the material for Cabaret, and A Single Man was made into a 2008 film directed by Tom Ford. German translations of both books are being published by Hoffman and Campe during the visit.

Contemporary Berlin is a vibrant, international city filled with artists, playwrights, dancers, musicians, authors and, increasingly, hundreds of technology entrepreneurs. The unofficial city motto is “Arm Aber Sexy” — Poor, But Sexy.

“Don is closing a circle with this visit,” says Katherine Bucknell. “Isherwood visited Berlin for the last time in 1952, the year before he met Don. Berlin today is much like the city that first drew him away from London, looking for sexual freedom and his ideal partner.”

Three communities in Berlin will welcome Don Bachardy and, through him, Christopher Isherwood.

The American ambassador to Berlin, John Emerson, and his wife Kimberly (both from Los Angeles, a sister city to Berlin), are convening the city’s political and cultural innovators to meet Don and commemorate Isherwood’s legacy.

The City of Berlin is hosting an evening of readings from Goodbye to Berlin and A Single Man and a conversation with Don. Among the talent on stage will be British actor Simon Callow, an old friend of Isherwood and Bachardy.

And the Schwules (Gay) Museum is hosting a reception to introduce Don to Berlin’s gay and lesbian community.

“It is exciting that Don is able to return to Berlin in person and celebrate today’s open culture on Isherwood’s behalf,” says Bucknell.

A year ago, it struck me that Berlin should embrace Isherwood and Bachardy. Somehow, Isherwood’s achievement — his writing, the life he shared with Bachardy, Bachardy’s own work — all needed to be reintroduced in a new and personal way to the people of Berlin.

And next week, Berliners are reaching out to Don Bachardy and extending an enthusiastic and genuine “Willkommen.”

www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-rodota/christopher-isherwood-ret_b_5960536.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

HRC Continues the Call for Protection of Transgender Women

In response to the brutal murder of a transgender woman in East Hollywood last week, HRC has called for increased action to protect transgender people, particularly transgender women of color.
HRC.org

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