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via Queerty by john russell on 3/18/13
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Last night, Beyoncé’s camp dropped us a little taste of what she’s been working lately. A little progress report on that new album, if you will. At this point we can’t really be sure if “Bow Down / I Been On” is meant to be a single—doesn’t seem likely to us—or even if it’s one song or a preview of two album tracks. And as the folks at Vulture point out, there’s a lot to unpack here. One thing’s for sure though, this is a harsh new sound for Bey. Throwin’ around the B-word and all, Mrs. Carter seems to have changed her tune: diva is a female version of a gangsta!


 

via Queerty by Dan Avery on 3/18/13

In a video released today by HRC, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained why she supports marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples. Most of us assumed Clinton had already spoken out on behalf of same-sex marriage—or at least that it was implicit in her famous “gay rights are human rights” speech from 2012.
Either way, it’s a nice speech. Only, why did she have to wait till she left office to make it?
Are you happy with Clinton’s statement, or should it have come sooner? Make your own statement in the comments section below!
 

via The Wall Street Journal's Facebook Wall by The Wall Street Journal on 3/18/13
"I'm for the kind of fatty food that leads to swooning sensual satiety." This author says latest research shows the benefits of healthy fats: http://on.wsj.com/YjTnZa


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Listening to the doctors on cable TV, you might think that it's better to cook up a batch of meth than to cook with butter, writes Ron Rosenbaum. But eating basic, earthy fatty foods isn't just a supreme experience of the senses—it can actually be good for you.

via Gay Puerto Rico's Facebook Wall by Gay Puerto Rico on 3/18/13
GOP roadmap calls for immigration reform - U.S. News & World Report

GOP roadmap calls for immigration reform
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee formally endorsed immigration reform on Monday and outlined …


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A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional color lines, testing civil rights …


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Republican Review of Election Loss Calls for Dozens of Changes - Businessweek

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GOP roadmap calls for immigration reform - Huffington Post

GOP roadmap calls for immigration reform
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via Big Gay Picture Show by Tim Isaac on 3/18/13
south-gay-drama-bfiYou wouldn’t have thought that British TV would be making gay-themed entertainment in 1959, but a recently uncovered drama found in the BFI vaults shows that they were. South, which screened over the weekend at the London Lesbian And Gay Film Festival, is being hailed as TV’s first gay drama.
According to The Guardian, ‘It involves a dashing Polish army lieutenant exiled in the US deep south as civil war approaches and the question of who he really loves: the plantation owner’s angry niece, Miss Regina, or the tall, blond, rugged officer who arrives suddenly – a handsome man called Eric MacClure.’
South, adapted by Gerald Savory from an original play by Julien Green, first screened on ITV on November 24th, 1959. It’s a surprise it was made, as while it was two years after the Wolfenden Report, gay acts weren’t decriminalised until 1967. It’s also two years before Victim, the first film to use the word homosexual and to take a somewhat sympathetic approach to gay people.
It’s amazing South survived, as at the time nearly all TV was performed live and shows weren’t routinely recorded (even the first episodes of Coronation Street were performed live and many have been lost forever). Even what’s held by the BFI isn’t always fully known, and it took a bit of detective work to rediscover South.
Archivists searching through old copies of the Radio Times noticed a reference to the lead character in south not being quite right. They also saw that the character was played by Peter Wyngarde, who they knew at the time was in a long-term relationship with Alan Bates (although this was a closely guarded secret from the public). As a result they looked South out and discovered it was implicitly about being gay.
BFI curator Simon McCallum says, “I think you have to give Wyngarde a massive pat on the back in terms of the bravery in taking this role. There were quite bad reactions from some of the press.”
This included reviews in the Daily Sketch, which read, “I do NOT see anything attractive in the agonies and ecstasies of a pervert, especially in close-up in my living room. This is not prudishness. There are some indecencies in life that are best left covered up.”
Following the LLGFF screenings, South will become available to watch at the BFI’s mediatheques in Glasgow, Newcastle, Wrexham, Cambridge, Derby and London.
BFI Screens ‘First’ UK Gay TV Drama, South, At The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival from Big Gay Picture Show

via Towleroad News #gay by Andy Towle on 3/18/13
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In a new video from HRC, Hillary Clinton finally says what everyone knew she believed.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
     

via Towleroad News #gay by Andy Towle on 3/18/13
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Yoko Ono created a typically Onoesque video for fashion label Opening Ceremony called "Make-up Tips for Men" in which she directs you to adopt a rainbow shine and a sparkling outlook.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
YOKO ONO "Make-Up Tips For Men" from Opening Ceremony on Vimeo.
     

via Queerty by Dan Avery on 3/18/13
 Michelle Shocked, an alt-folk singer who had success in the 1980s and ’90s, shocked audience members at Yoshi’s in San Francisco Sunday night with a homophobic rant that wound up clearing out the club.
The crowd had come, presumably, to hear songs like “Come a Long Way” and “On the Greener Side,” which got airplay on MTV back in the day. (“Greener Side” was even up for a VMA against Madonna’s “Vogue.”)
Instead they were treated to a tirade that allegedly included Shocked announcing “God hates fags.”
Matt Penfield, who was live-tweeting the show from onstage called her rant, delivered during her second set, “totally sincere [and] super anti-gay and hateful.”
We’re still trying to get the full text of her speech, but apparently she told fans “you can go on twitter and say Michelle Shocked said ‘God hates fags.’”
Another Twitter user posted that Shocked “said she lives in fear that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry.”
The singer has been open about being a born-again Christian, but was still active in progressive politics. (She was arrested at an Occupy L.A. event in 2011).
Screen Shot 2013-03-18 at 9.55.45 AMRaised Mormon, Shocked joined the West Angeles Church of God in the 1990s and has been cagey about LGBT issues in recent years, even though she had been frequently identified as a lesbian in the press. (A misidentification, Shocked claims.)
“I am a believer. I am a devout practicing Christian,” she told Edge on the Net in 2008. “I don’t like the ring of that because I know so many people who profess the faith, and I look at their social conscious, and I can’t see how they reconcile their faith with their politics.”
In that same 2008 interview she confessed to some “inconvenient truths,” like how the Bible teaches homosexuality is immoral. “But homosexuality is no more less a sin than fornication,” she said. “And I’m a fornicator with a capital F.”
That’s not the F-word we’re concerned with, Michelle.
h/t: MEOWOnline
 

via The New York Times's Facebook Wall by The New York Times on 3/18/13
Ten years ago this week, on March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. The war officially ended on Dec. 15, 2011 — eight years, eight months, three weeks and four days later — when the last American forces withdrew. In the days between, hundreds of thousands of lives were altered irrevocably. The Opinion Pages asked 16 veterans who served in Iraq to reflect on how their lives changed on the two dates bracketing the war. Their accounts will be published in Home Fires on consecutive days this week.

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Ten years after “shock and awe,” Iraq War veterans reflect on the first and last days of the war and what it meant to them.

The National Review, the venerable journal founded by William F. Buckley, has been moving closer & closer to accepting marriage equality as a reality.

Gay Seattle man Ronald Bentley Main died last week after a Feb. 24 attack inside his Chapala, Mexico home. Friends remember the real-estate agent and former president of the LGBT chamber of commerce as a kind and gregarious man.

via The Guardian's Facebook Wall by The Guardian on 3/18/13
David Hasselhoff, who sung his song Looking for Freedom atop the Berlin Wall in 1989, joins thousands of protesters to save one of the last remaining sections of the Wall. Singing to crowds from a bright yellow van, the former Baywatch star appeals to save the wall from developers who want to remove a section of it to allow access to luxury flats

Read the full story: http://gu.com/p/3eg24?CMP=SOCNETTXT6966

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via On Top Magazine Headlines on 3/18/13
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Sunday admitted that for young Republicans gay marriage is no longer an issue
     


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via Big Gay Picture Show by Tim Isaac on 3/8/13
Andrea-RiseboroughWith shooting due to begin on Birdman in just a few weeks, director Alejandro González Iñárritu is having to put his cast together fast. At the beginning of the week it was revealed that Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis had signed up, yesterday Edward Norton was added, and now Deadline reports that British actress Andrea Riseborough has joined the cast.
The movie is about an actor (Michael Keaton) who years ago became very famous playing an iconic superhero, but who’s career is on the skids. In the hope of making a comback, he attempts to pull off a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver story. However it proves incredibly difficult, thanks to his egotistical lead actor (Edward Norton). Andrea Riseborough is playing Jane, although no other info has been released about the character.
Alejandro González Iñárritu is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Alexander Dinelaris. It’s going to be a big year for Riseborough, who’s got Welcome to the Punch, Disconnect, and Oblivion coming out in the next few months.
Oblivion Actress Andrea Riseborough Joins Birdman from Big Gay Picture Show

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oz-great-powerful-poster3Disney must have a fair amount of confidence in Oz The Great And Powerful, as the studio already has a sequel in the works. Variety reports that Mitchell Kapner, who co-wrote the first screenplay with David Lindsay-Abaire, has been hired to pen the follow-up.
It’s early days and nothing has been released about the story, although it will presumably follow Oscar Digg’s further adventures in Oz, between the first movie and the arrival of Dorothy. There are still a few legal issues they’ll have to get around through, as while L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is in the public domain, anything specifically added by MGM for the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is out of bounds (as it’s owned by them), such as Dorothy’s ruby slippers.
Mitchell Kapner was hired to work on the sequel script months ago, although Disney hasn’t commented on the sequel plans at this time.
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via Gay Voices by Religion News Service on 3/7/13
(RNS) Five key Catholic bishops are opposing the newly authorized Violence Against Women Act for fear it will subvert traditional views of marriage and gender, and compromise the religious freedom of groups that aid victims of human trafficking.
The act, to be signed into law by President Obama on Thursday (March 7), is intended to protect women from domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking, and allows the federal government to spend money to treat victims and prosecute offenders.
But for the first time since the original act became law in 1994, it spells out that no person may be excluded from the law's protections because of "sexual orientation" or "gender identity" -- specifically covering lesbian, transgender and bisexual women.
That language disturbs several bishops who head key committees within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that deal with, among other issues, marriage, the laity, youth and religious liberty.
"These two classifications are unnecessary to establish the just protections due to all persons. They undermine the meaning and importance of sexual difference," the bishops said in a statement released by the USCCB on Wednesday.
"They are unjustly exploited for purposes of marriage redefinition, and marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman with each other and with any children born from their union," the statement continued.
The bishops also take issue with the lack of "conscience protection" for faith-based groups that help victims of human trafficking, an addition they sought after the Obama administration decided in 2011 to discontinue funding for a Catholic group that works with trafficking victims, many of whom were forced to work as prostitutes.
The administration instead funded other groups that, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, could provide a full range of women's health services, including referrals for contraception or abortion, both of which the Catholic Church opposes.
"Conscience protections are needed in this legislation to ensure that these service providers are not required to violate their bona fide religious beliefs as a condition for serving the needy," reads the statement of the bishops, who have supported previous versions of the act.
The statement was signed by:
-- Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development
-- Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage
-- Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth
-- Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty
-- Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, chairman of the Committee on Migration
The bill passed the Senate 78 to 22 on Feb. 12, and the House passed it on Feb. 28 on a vote of 286 to 138, with no Democrats in opposition. Some Republicans objected to the bill for reasons similar to the bishops'.

via Gay Voices by AP on 3/7/13
OBERLIN, Ohio -- Oberlin College says the FBI has agreed to investigate possible bias incidents at the historically liberal college.
Spokesman Scott Wargo says the college approached the FBI with "significant concerns" about the incidents, which began the first week of February. He says the FBI notified Oberlin on Thursday that it would begin investigating.
Classes were canceled Monday after a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan-type hooded robe on campus.
A police report has also detailed the defacement of Black History Month posters with the N-word, a "whites only" sign written above a water fountain, a swastika drawn on a science center window and a student knocked to the ground by a person making a derogatory comment about ethnicity. Two students are being investigated for possible involvement in the graffiti.

via Gay Voices by AP on 3/7/13
WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton is calling on the Supreme Court to overturn a law he signed that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Clinton says the Defense of Marriage Act is incompatible with the Constitution. He says he signed the law in 1996 to avoid legislation that would have been even worse for gays.
Clinton writes in a Washington Post op-ed that American society has changed. He says he now realizes the law discriminates against gays and provides an excuse for others to discriminate, too.
The Obama administration has stopped defending the law in court, and the Supreme Court is expected to take up a challenge to it later this month.
Separately, the high court is also considering whether California's gay marriage ban should stand.

via Gay Voices by Robin Wilkey on 3/7/13
Just when you thought apps couldn't get any better/worse, in comes one to (ahem) blow the rest out of the water.
Since it's now possible to prevent drunk-dials, track your ovulation and determine which of your friends would sleep with you all with the swipe of an iPhone, you may as well get your potential STDs checked out that way too. And with STD Triage, you can do just that.
Launched earlier this week in San Francisco, STD Triage allows users to snap a photo of any below-the-belt worries and submit it anonymously to a team of licensed dermatologists. Within 24 hours, a user will receive an email back with an educated guess of what the problem might be, and a suggestion of whether or not a user should book a doctor's appointment.
"We're basically a step between a Google search and a trip to the doctor," explained Alexander Börve, who created the app at UC Berkeley. But while all STD Triage doctors are licensed dermatologists, Börve is quick to note that the app is in no way a diagnosis service or a substitute for a doctor's visit.
"A patient-doctor relationship is essential for diagnosis," he told The Huffington Post. "But we can at least point someone in the right direction."
The anonymous app is free to download and free to submit a photo, but users pay $9.99 to read the results--a sum that, should that burning sensation continue, we have a feeling you'll be willing to turn your head and cough up.
No iPhone? No problem! STD Traige has an anonymous website, too.
Börve, an orthopedic surgeon, is also the founder of Swedish app iDoc24 (a similar service that addresses dermatological issues) and is working toward a thesis in digital health at Berkeley.
According to Borve, about 70 percent of the cases submitted to iDoc24 result in a recommendation for an over-the-counter treatment.
"But we're really concerned with making sure that 30 percent takes steps to get to a doctor right away," he told HuffPost.

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