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WASHINGTON — Phil Berg was nervous as he prepared to tell Neil Gorsuch he was gay. AIDS was still in the headlines at the time, the early 1990s, and same-sex marriage was a far-fetched notion. Some of Mr. Berg’s other friends had not reacted well to his news. So he moved with caution, slipping the word “boyfriend”…
With the release of Overwatch’s holiday comic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of us here at Kotaku, an Overwatch fansite, took time to sit down and reflect on how Blizzard has treated the topic of diversity in our favorite team based shooter. Update—5:40 p.m.: Shortly after publication, Blizzard sent Kotaku…
Yesterday, Blizzard released an Overwatch comic for the winter holidays that revealed something important about the character Tracer: she doesn’t need to wear her chronal accelerator at all times! Oh, also she has a girlfriend. If you haven’t read the comic, here’s a brief recap: If you’re still not getting it, Tumblr user greatlordfluffernutter has…
Athletes (not featured in the Daily Beast article) at the Olympics.Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians through hookup apps for no particular purpose. The entire piece is an astoundingly creepy exercise in Grindr-baiting,…
Ahem. Let’s look at the Washington Post, so we can learn a really great #SlatePitch from a writer called Jeff Guo, about how Donald Trump doesn’t hate gays, but is rather doing the yeoman’s work of teaching the GOP how to love them in their own way: … Trump has refrained from launching barbs at one particular…
The acronym “RNC” technically refers to the Republican National Convention taking place in Cleveland, Ohio this week. But if the city’s current influx of RNC-themed “casual encounters” Craigslist advertisements is any indication, it could just as well stand for, like, Raunchy Nut Cock (or something). The Daily Dot reports that the classifieds site has become…
Since the shooting at an Orlando nightclub last week that left 49 people dead, reports have emerged that gunman Omar Mateen frequented the gay club, used gay dating apps and had gay lovers. But the FBI has found no evidence so far to support claims by those who say Mateen had gay lovers or communicated…
On Monday evening, charged crowds of New Yorkers made their way to Sheridan Square in the West Village to mourn the victims of the terrorist attack at the Orlando nightclub Pulse. Before celebrities and politicians got up to the mic, and smartphones were held high to create constellations of light behind the podium, the crowd…
For weeks, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been touting his “youge!” fanbase with Mexicans, women, a slew of other minorities — often times alienating them with the same breath. On Wednesday, he added “the gays” to his list. On a campaign stop in Atlanta, Trump attempted to frame this past weekend’s horrific shooting in…
Start Article Post Content Hollywood is no stranger to stereotype casting. “Scandal’s” Kerry Washington and “Master of None” star and executive producer Aziz Ansari have come face to face with this reality on multiple occasions throughout their careers. The actors swapped nightmare stories during a sit-down for Variety‘s fourth season of “Actors on Actors.” “Before ‘Scandal,’ I was actually…