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LGBT North Carolina Governor Attacks NBA For Pulling 2017 All-Star Game by Zack Ford Jul 22, 2016 2:12 pm CREDIT: AP Photo/Chuck Burton The NBA announced Thursday that it will no longer hold its All-Star Game in Charlotte next year because North Carolina state lawmakers refused to backtrack on HB2, the anti-transgender law passed…
The posture of the filmmakers was that this was normalized in the future and it was nothing, really. It was a big revelation yet handled in a way that communicated it wasn’t anything the crew didn’t already know about him. You mentioned that Mr. Takei was one of few Asian actors you saw growing up….
Mike Pence, he’s this dick. He may or may not end up being Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, once Trump The Showman has done a few more misdirec … LOOK OVER THERE! But at much of a doucher as Mike Pence is, we weren’t mad until we read this, from Buzzfeed, about his 2000…
GIF The moving company Tituss Burgess complained about—yelped about!—on Yelp has responded to the 2015 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. http://jezebel.com/tituss-burgess… Burgess wrote a negative Yelp review of Franks Express in which the actor, best known for his Emmy-nominated role in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, called the movers out for being…
Simon Pegg, who has co-written the latest Star Trek movie, as well as starring as Scotty, has responded to criticism by the actor George Takei at the film-makers’ decision to make the character he used to play openly gay. Takei was Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, in the original TV series as well…
While the creative team—and the man currently playing Hikaru Sulu, John Cho—of Star Trek Beyond may have decided that including a scene of Sulu with his same sex partner wasn’t a big deal, George Takei had a different response. The actor who originated the role told the Hollywood Reporter, “I’m delighted that there’s a gay…
How ironic. The architect of North Carolina’s anti-transgender “bathroom bill,” which took away the right of transgender people to use the restroom that matches their gender identity, compared LGBT rights activists with the Taliban. Just last week, the killer in the latest major attack on the LGBT community, which left 49 people dead in Orlando, Florida,…
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…
Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Florida Democrat running for Senate in the Sunshine State, is calling out Republican Sen. Marco RubioMarco RubioGrayson not scared of ‘attack puppy’ Rubio Florida Dem: Rubio ‘most homophobic senator’ in country Crist seeks donations after Jolly re-enters House race MORE for using the mass shooting in Orlando to reconsider his political…
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…