What To Watch This Week on TV: 'Mindy' Returns, Beyoncé 'On the Run' – VIDEO

Bobby Hankinson

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/what-to-watch-this-week-on-tv-mindy-returns-beyonc%C3%A9-on-the-run-video.html

Inauguração do Centro LGBT da Bahia

WATCH: Gay Vlogger Tyler Oakley Talks Education With Michelle Obama

The two reveal some things about their college experiences while encouraging young people to seek higher education.

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Trudy Ring

www.advocate.com/politics/media/2014/09/15/watch-gay-vlogger-tyler-oakley-talks-education-michelle-obama

Why Zachary Quinto Doesn't Mind James Franco's Interest In Gay Issues
Zachary Quinto plays James Franco’s lover in the forthcoming film “Michael,” which depicts the life of “ex-gay” activist Michael Glatze.

Franco, of course, has made headlines for exploring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) themes both in front of the camera and behind it in films like “Milk,” “Howl” and “Interior. Leather Bar,” which he co-directed. But one person who doesn’t mind his co-star’s perceived fascination with those themes is Quinto, who is openly gay.

“My feeling about James, in particular, is that he’s someone who is really interested in generating a dialogue,” Quinto, who also stars in the new Starz series “The Chair,” told HuffPost Live’s Ricky Camilleri.

Calling Franco “a provocateur,” Quinto said more Hollywood types should follow his co-star’s lead when it comes to other political and social issues.

“So I feel like putting it out there, and putting it out there in different ways, is something that’s interesting and something that I don’t think people should shy away from,” he said.

Meanwhile, Franco has been teasing his queer fans by posting photos of himself with Quinto on Instagram. One caption read: “I LOVE working with ZACK Quinto!!!! My BABY!”

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/zachary-quinto-james-franco_n_5825358.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

Ellen DeGeneres teams up with Kristen Wiig for terrible rendition of Let it Go from the film Frozen

Neither funny lady knows the words to the tune but both go all out anyway

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gregh

www.gaystarnews.com/article/ellen-degeneres-teams-kristen-wiig-terrible-rendition-let-it-go-film-frozen150914

BREAKING: Facebook Agrees To Meet With Drag Queens And Others To Address “Legal Name” Debacle

Last week amidst a sea of disappointing Buzzfeed videos, baby photos and unsolicited opinions that have come to define the Facebook experience, a quiet storm was brewing. A Sister of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francisco, Sister Roma, shared her experience of being forced to change her name to the subjectively more “accurate” one of Michael Williams.

Drag queens, performers and others who choose to identify with a name that isn’t found on any birth certificate quickly jumped on board with Roma’s complaints, sharing similar experiences. Queerty was first to report on the backlash, and the story blew up over night.

Facebook broke a cardinal rule: Don’t mess with drag queens. They will fight back relentlessly and will look fantastic doing so.

As momentum grew, Sister Roma planned a protest at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, CA. The event description (on Facebook, naturally), reads in part:

This issue affects a lot of marginalized, creative, and professional communities, including transgender people, bullied youth, activists, LGBTQ people who aren’t out everywhere, survivors of domestic violence and stalking, migrants, sex workers, artists who work under pseudonyms, and various professionals who work in sensitive professions (eg. mental health, criminal justice, etc.) who may want to interact with friends without being found by clients. Facebook claims that its “real name” policy helps protect people from bullying, but this is a form of targeting our communities that can actually make us much less safe. Facebook is today’s public forum and they can’t exclude us — who are they to say we or anyone else isn’t “real”?!

Well wouldn’t you know it, the last thing Facebook wants are viral videos of drag queens with protest signs outside their headquarters hitting social media and the national news.

Here is the promising update from Williams Roma:

We’ll keep you updated as the story develops.

Dan Tracer

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #1619

Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/towleroad-guide-to-the-tube-1.html

Doctor Who LGBT Rights!
Three of the LGBT moments in Doctor Who. ALL RIGHTS FOR FOOTAGE TO BBC AND DOCTOR WHO!

Gay Photographer Blinded with Gasoline in U.K. Hate Crime

Homophobia is alive and well even in relatively liberal countries, as a young gay man discovered last week in Wales when an attacker threw an antigay slur and gasoline at the man, blinding him in one eye.

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Thom Senzee

www.advocate.com/world/2014/09/15/gay-photographer-blinded-gasoline-uk-hate-crime