Proving that the LGBTQ community really does follow sports, gay social network Hornet surveyed its users to gather their thoughts and expectations for one of the biggest sporting events of the year, the Super Bowl. In addition to the typical questions, Hornet had a bit of fun with the survey by polling users with questions like which team has the sexiest quarterback (a position we can all get behind), all-time favorite half time performance (we’ll try and keep our Poker Face) and more.
Below are the highlights from the survey: • Nearly 40% of participants are rooting for the Eagles while only 20% prefer the Patriots • 45% of the surveyed users found Tom Brady to be the sexier quarterback than the 24% who preferred Nick Foles • The Philadelphia Eagles edged out the New England Patriots when it came to which uniforms users liked more – 37% for the Eagles vs. 34% for the Patriots • Lady Gaga was picked as the favorite halftime performance over the last five years. • 35% of participants would prefer Janet Jackson to perform alongside JT vs. Justin Timberlake’s solo act for this year’s Half Time Show.
This week, the U.S. Senate confirmed former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback -- a well-known anti-LGBTQ apologist -- as U.S. Ambassador At Large for International Religious Freedom. But Sam Brownback is hardly the only anti-LGBTQ nominee or appointment by the Trump Administration. In fact, an annual GLAAD report recently recorded its first-ever decrease in LGBTQ acceptance – and a likely contributing factor was the continued anti-LGBTQ rhetoric coming from this administration.
“Trump ran for president saying he would be a champion for the LGBTQ community, but time and time again he has attacked and demeaned our community and empowered others who do so. By appointing anti-LGBTQ officials to administration positions and lifetime appointments to our federal court system, Trump has set up an institutional shift that will continue to dehumanize LGBTQ Americans and roll back our rights for years to come,” said DNC LGBTQ Media Director Lucas Acosta.
Trump has appointed Cabinet and administration officials who believe being transgender is “a disease” and “don’t like gay people.”
Mark Green was nominated to serve as Secretary of the Army and replace Eric Fanning, the first LGBTQ person to hold the post:
· New York Times: Green told the Chattanooga Tea Party, “If you poll the psychiatrists, they’re going to tell you that transgender is a disease.”
· New York Times: “We are back to where the country was at its beginning, and it’s the armed citizen who will defend this nation,’ Mr. Green said then. “And there’s something else that we’ve got to protect ourselves from, and it is an overreaching federal government. The notion that Mr. Obama thinks that he can tell the state of Tennessee who can go into a men’s bathroom or a women’s bathroom is absurd.’”
Carl Higbie was nominated to serve as the Chief External Affairs Officer for the federal agency that oversees AmeriCorps after serving as a spokesperson for the Trump-aligned Great America PAC:
· CNN: On his radio show, Higbie said, “I mean, you are breaking the morals, the moral fiber of our country. You know, I don't like gay people. I just don't."
· CNN: “So go over there, be gay, don't march down in the middle of the street and your drag outfit being fairies and things like that. Don't throw it in my face. Don't make me like it because I don't -- do it on your own. Do it over there and let it be your thing."
Sam Clovis, was nominated to serve as the Chief Scientist for the Department of Agriculture after serving as the Chair of Trump’s 2016 campaign for president:
· CNN: At a campaign stop in Iowa during his failed run for Senate, Clovis said, “If we protect LGBT behavior, what other behaviors are we going to protect? Are we going to protect pedophilia?”
· CNN: “When a questioner said some might call what Clovis' words extreme -- comparing the approval of same-sex protections to allowing pedophilia. Clovis said it was ‘logical.’ ‘I don't think it's extreme,’ said Clovis.” · Clovis ultimately withdrew his nomination.
John Bush, Trump’s confirmed nominee to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit:
· Slate: “In 2005, he used the word ‘faggot’ in a speech to a private club, quoting Hunter S. Thompson.”
· Slate: “In a 2016 paper, Bush bemoaned the Kentucky Supreme Court’s protection of same-sex intimacy, criticizing a 1992 ruling which ‘immunized consensual sodomy from criminal prosecution under the state constitution.’”
Don Willett, Trump’s confirmed nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
· Huffington Post: “Willett told the Senate Judiciary Committee he wasn’t mocking same-sex marriage when he tweeted in April 2015 that he ‘could support recognizing a constitutional right to marry bacon’ ― a day after the Supreme Court heard arguments in the landmark marriage equality case.”
· Willett’s reaction to a transgender high school student being permitted to play on her school’s girls’ softball team: “Go away, A-Rod.”
Joan Larsen, Trump’s confirmed nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit:
· Vice: “In 2016, when she held a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court, she, too, expressed hostility toward LGBT people when she refused to hear a case on same-sex parental rights, and suggested gay families were ‘lesser’ than heterosexual ones.”
Matthew Kacsmaryk, Trump’s nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas:
· Jezebel: “Matthew Kacsmaryk believes that LGBT identity and abortion rights are a ‘lie’ produced by ‘the erotic desires of liberated adults.’
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For me, this time of year happens twice a year. About two weeks before the next semester of school. I log into my school's bookstore website and see what books I need. Then I go to Amazon and see what I can buy cheaper online. 99.9% of the time, I get lazy, forget to order through Amazon and still end up at the University bookstore to buy my used/abused copies of needed books.
This Spring, I am taking Early Modern Europe History, and Modern Philosophy. The books for the history class are Fractured Europe, Luis XIV, The Thirty Years War, and ironically a book called Enlightenment. All of these are "required reading." I totally dig early European history, so I am super excited; because, that is the kind of nerd I am. The Modern Philosophy class has no books listed yet. Other than the famous The Tao of Pooh which I read cover-to-cover at least twenty times in my 20s. Until I left it on the seat of my best-friend's Fiero when it was repossessed. (The car-- not the book). So..... Literally I am going to re-read Winnie the Pooh in University. I wonder if I should ask Burt to replace my copy of Pooh that was lost in his Pontiac Fiero?
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Just days after federal lawmakers reopened the government, hundreds of LGBTQ advocates will take over Capitol Hill to bring Queer Voices on the Hill on Thursday, January 25, 1:00 – 5:00 PM. Over 500 LGBTQ advocates from every walk of life and representing almost 50 states will meet with Congressional leaders during the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Queer Voices on the Hill: Creating Change Advocacy Day.
“The compromise that ended the shutdown is a major disappointment - one that jeopardizes the safety and wellbeing of DREAMers -- and those who are LGBTQ are particularly vulnerable. We are taking Queer Voices to the Hill to fight for them,” says Rea Carey, Executive Director of the Task Force Action Fund. The Task Force, along with partners such as United We Dream, the Center for American Progress, and the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance will be on Capitol Hill Thursday pressuring lawmakers to act swiftly on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) by passing the DREAM Act.
“The Trump/Pence administration took office a year ago this week, and the attacks on women’s rights, immigrants’ rights, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals have been incessant. Part of our work as advocates is to pressure our elected officials to act on our behalf and hold them accountable when they don’t,” says Stacey Long Simmons, Director of Advocacy and Action at the National LGBTQ Task Force. “The Task Force is convening one of the largest LGBTQ advocacy days in recent history to say: enough is enough. In law and in practice, LGBTQ people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. We plan to tell our lawmakers exactly how to do so.”
LGBTQ advocates and allies will share personal stories, educate lawmakers, thank LGBTQ champions in Congress and hold Congressional members accountable for achieving LGBTQ equality, equity, and justice. This year, the Creating Change Conference celebrates its 30th anniversary with the theme: Learn. Connect. Resist. The conference is in Washington, DC to spotlight one year of resistance to the most anti-LGBTQ administration in recent memory.
The focus for Queer Voices on the Hill: Creating Change Advocacy Day is on: Nondiscrimination: Pass explicit federal protections to counter LGBTQ discrimination in housing, employment, public accommodations, jury service, public funding, credit and education. Faith and Nondiscrimination: Oppose harmful religious exemptions that allow individuals or entities to discriminate under the guise of religious freedom. Reproductive Justice and Poverty: Pass legislation that ensures abortion care is included in public health insurance programs; ensure employers or health plan sponsors include coverage for abortion care; and ensure health service providers make abortion available to individuals who are eligible to receive services. Racial Justice and Criminal Justice: Pass legislation to prohibit racial and religious profiling within federal law enforcement and develop programs for law enforcement training, data collection, and dealing with complaints. Disability and Bodily Autonomy: Pass legislation to mandate protections for people with disabilities in group homes, nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals. Support Immigrant Communities: Advocate for protecting Dreamers and enacting immigration policies that respect people coming to this country.
Celebrity make-up artist, Jonathan Fernandez, the newest star of Season 8 of Love & Hip-Hop New York, recently opened up on the show about the traumatic Gay Conversion Therapy he was subjected to at the age of 10 years old. Having grown up in New York City in a religious Dominican family, Fernandez’s mother sent him to the Dominican Republic in 1995 to undergo the controversial, yet legal, conversion therapy for six months. Bullied all throughout his childhood for not fitting into the “normal” gender stereotypes, his mother believed the treatment would help him address his feminine qualities, and ultimately keep him safe from his abusers.
“I went through a series of psychotherapy and hormone therapy to address my more feminine behaviour,” says Fernandez about his treatment. “Part of the treatment consisted of electronic stimulation that was hooked up to my body through pads with wires connected to a machine. The therapist would then give me light shocks if I answered questions incorrectly, or in a way that they disapproved of. I have had physical and emotional scars that I live with to this day.”
Commonly believed to be a pseudoscientific practice of aiming to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, Conversion Therapy has surprisingly been around since the 1920s, including experiments dating back to Sigmund Freud. According to the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest LGBTQ civil rights advocacy groups in the US, conversion therapy can lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness and suicide. THE HRC also states that such practices have been rejected by mainstream medical and mental health organizations, however, due to the continued discrimination against LGBTQ people, some practitioners continue to conduct conversion therapy throughout the globe. Despite his traumatic past, Fernandez is determined to shed light on the reality of Conversion Therapy and the risks to its participants.
In addition to sharing his story on this season of LHHNY, Jonathan Fernandez has also appeared on the first three seasons of the hit television series K.Michelle: My Life, which had an average viewership of 1.8M viewers. A self-taught make-up artist, beginning at the age of 15, Fernandez has worked with such artists as Kanye West, Cindi Lauper, Missy Elliott, Martha Stewart, Da Brat, Roberta Flack, Angie Martinez, K. Michelle and more. He has also done make-up work for NY Fashion Week including shows for Oscar de la Renta, Dolce & Gabbana, Carolina Herrera, The Blonds, and Heatherette. Fernandez is set to launch his own make-up line called ByJonathan in March, and will see the premiere of his full line on this season of Love & Hip-Hop.
Explore WinterParty25 with DJ GRIND, who will be spinning at the signature Winter Party event, the Beach Party. Dance with thousands of your closest LGBTQ friends on the sands of South Beach as part of the annual Winter Party Festival, February 28 - March 6, 2018.
Fischerspooner share their new single “TopBrazil” off their upcoming album, Sir, out February 16 via Ultra Records. The stunning companion video was directed by Tom C J Brown and features frontman Casey Spooner interwoven into a collage of male bodies becoming one, all the while blurring the lines of masculinity and femininity paired with overt sexuality.
Spooner explains, "The video celebrates a pop aesthetic typically reserved for the female archetype and liberates the male form to be sexual, expressive and fearless."
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities will host a performance of the multimedia musical experience The Legacy Show on Saturday, February 24, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Stage Theatre. The Legacy Show is an exploration of African-American musical history and culture through time and is presented during Black History Month; a national acknowledgment that honors and celebrates the achievements of black men and women throughout history.
Reserved tickets are $25 and can be purchased by calling the Arvada Center Box Office at 720-898-7200, or online at http://arvadacenter.org/the-legacy-show. Student tickets are $15 with valid ID and can be purchased by calling the Box Office or in person at the Arvada Center.
