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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Britney Spears, Michelle Visage, Hillary Clinton And More Went Purple For #SpiritDay

And the Keebler Elf!
From: NewNowNext
Thursday marked the seventh annual Spirit Day that was started by GLAAD back in 2010.

The day is celebrated by schools, celebrities, companies and media outlets by wearing purple to show that they support the LGBT community and are taking a stand against bullying.

See Michelle Visage, The White House, Tegan and Sara and more celebrate the day by going purple in the roundup below.


























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BREAKING: Aaron Schock Is Back On Instagram After 83 Weeks

From: Queerty
Breaking news, everyone! Former Republican state congressman from Illinois and Downton Abbeysuperfan Aaron Schock is back on Instagram after a year-and-a-half hiatus.

The 35-year-old, totally-not-gay-100-percent-heterosexual, watersports-loving ex-lawmaker has been laying low for over a year now after resigning from the US House of Representatives in March 2015 amid allegations of misusing campaign donations and taxpayer money to pay for things like lavish office renovations, luxury travel expenses, and tickets to Katy Perry concerts.

After relinquishing his seat, Schock’s once very active social media accounts went completely dark. He stopped posting daily updates about his life on Twitter or sharing half-naked pictures of himself on Instagram. He also stopped posing shirtless on Men’s magazine covers, making public appearances, or granting interviews to media outlets.

In fact, one of the only times Schock has been seen in recent months was back in April when he was spotted sipping a fruity cocktail by candlelight with an attractive male companion at a romantic D.C. waterfront restaurant. Other than that, he and his turquoise belt have been totally M.I.A.

Until now.

On Tuesday, Mr. Schock made his hotly anticipated return to Instagram after 83 long weeks away by posting this:


It’s a far cry from some of the stuff he used to post, which included things like this:
A photo posted by Aaron Schock (@aaronschock) on

And this:


And this:
A photo posted by Aaron Schock (@aaronschock) on

At the start of this year, we predicted Colton Haynes would come out of the closet (he did), Kim Davis would fall into obscurity (she has), Donald Trump would go down in flames (he currently is), and Hillary Clinton would be elected the next President of the United States (we remain cautiously optimistic). We also predicted that Aaron Schock would mount a comeback.

Could this be the start of a brand new Schock era? Only time will tell. And you know we’ll keep you posted.
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Trump Hotels Ditching Name For New Hotels

The new hotels will be called “Scion.”
From: Travel + Leisure 
Amidst reports that occupancy rates at Trump Hotels have slipped this election season, the company has announced that new brand hotels will no longer bear the Trump name.

The newest line of luxury hotels, geared towards millennials, will be called Scion, the company said.

“We wanted a name that would be a nod to the Trump family and to the tremendous success it has had with its businesses, including Trump Hotels, while allowing for a clear distinction between our luxury and lifestyle brands,” Trump Hotels CEO Eric Danziger said in a statement.

Although Trump Hotels has said the new name has nothing to do with the eponymous businessman’s presidential campaign, empty rooms at the hotels have caused officials “to reduce rates during the peak season," according to New York Magazine.

Nightly rates at the newly-opened Trump International Hotel in D.C. plummeted below $500 while practically every other five-star property was sold out for the International Monetary Fund conference two weeks ago. And after his remarks about Mexican immigrants, two celebrity chefs backed out of their contracts to open a restaurant in the hotel.

According to Hipmunk, bookings at Trump Hotels plummeted 59 percent during the first half of 2016 and data from Foursquare shows a 17 percent drop in foot traffic at Trump properties since June 2015, when the reality TV star announced his presidential bid.

Trump Hotels, however, refutes the analysis.

“Our business at Trump Hotels is stronger than ever and we are incredibly excited about the future of Scion, the newest brand in our hotel portfolio,” Ivanka Trump, who is the executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the brand, said in a statement.

“The data reported by both Hipmunk and Foursquare is manipulated to appear meaningful, when, in reality, the information is inconsequential and does not provide an accurate representation of our performance,” a Trump Hotels spokesperson told Travel + Leisure.

Scion is expected to open as a four-star “lifestyle brand” in cities and resort towns. The press release announcing the brand repeatedly mentioned creating a sense of community and engaging visitors in a social club-like atmosphere, in the vein of Soho House.


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Another Day, Another D-List Male Reality Star With A Video Leak

From: Queerty and Cocktails and Cocktalk
 Lewis Bloor. Ever heard of him? Us neither. Until his girlfriend, Marnie Simpson, posted a video to Snapchat of him strutting around his apartment wearing nothing but a baseball hat and pair of white tennis shoes.


 Bloor is a 26-year-old reality star from the U.K. best known for his appearances on The Only Way is Essex and season 18 of Celebrity Big Brother. 24-year-old Simpson, who got her big break on the U.K.’s Jersey Shore spin off Geordie Shore, appeared alongside him on Celebrity Big Brother, which is how the couple met and fell in love.




The season wrapped back in August but it appears the young lovebirds are desperate to extend their 15 minutes of fame. Hence the naked Snapchat video. And it’s had its desired affect. The video has been viewed and shared tens of thousands of times since Wednesday.

It should be noted that Bloor has never been terribly modest when it comes to keeping his manhood covered. He flashed his junk plenty of times while appearing on Celebrity Big Brother, and a Google image search  for “Lewis Bloor naked” comes back with pages and pages of results.
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AL’s Antigay Governor Is One Dirty Talker, According To Leaked Phone Sex Tape

From: Queerty
Oh, god. We just threw up in our mouths a little.

Audio from Alabama’s antigay governor’s phone sex session with a much younger female staffer has leaked to the media, and it’s totally gross.

Gov. Robert Bentley is under fire over an alleged affair he had with one of his top advisers, Rebekah Caldwell Mason, back in 2014. Despite damning audio records, which appeared online, Bentley maintains that a “physical relationship” between the pair never happened.

The tape, however, suggests otherwise:

“You know what?” Bentley can be heard cooing in the recording. “When I stand behind you and I put my arms around you, and I put my hands on your breasts, and I put my hands on you (unintelligible) and pull you real close … Hey, I love that too, putting my hands under you.”

Barf!

“I love you,” he continues. “I love to talk to you. I do … But baby, lemme tell you what we’re gonna have to do tonight: Start locking the door. If we’re gonna do what we did the other day, we’re gonna have to start locking the door!”

Bentley, who is, er, was married to his wife, Dianne for half a century before she unexpectedly divorced him last year, has been a vocal opponent of marriage equality for years. He once called gay marriage a “social experiment,” claiming it “destroys the rights of children to be connected to their biological parents.”

At a press conference, the governor, who, BTW, is a a former Baptist deacon, admitted to having an “inappropriate”call with Mason, calling it “a mistake.”

He also insisted he won’t be stepping down from office.
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Bad Lip Reading Presents the First-Ever Presidential Poetry Slam Between Trump and Clinton

From: Towleroad
In the Bad Lip Reading universe, the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a presidential poetry slam in which the candidates tried to top each other with verse while fielding questions from the audience.

Watch Trump sniff his way through the literary gems “Bird’s Eye”, “Mike the Merry Cricket”, and “My Garden”, while Clinton lobs back the instant classics “Brown Bikini”, “Because Zombies”, and “Stealthily Bobby”.

Their literary brilliance flies in the face of everything we understood about these candidates.

Watch:

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Bad Hombre Cologne: For Those Times When Just Acting Like a Dick Isn’t Enough

From: Towleroad
Meme of the day:

Bad Hombre Eau de Toilette: For those times when just acting like a dick isn’t enough. Now, you can smell like one.
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Australia’s First Openly Gay Indigenous Man Elected To Parliament

"I am young, I am gay, I am black...I own it and wear it with pride."
From: NewNowNext
 Earlier this week, newly elected parliamentarian Chansey Paech delivered an impassioned speech at the opening of the 13th Parliament of the Northern Territory in Australia in which he celebrated his identity as a proud gay Indigenous man.


 “Madam Speaker, I am young, I am gay, I am black, a true blue Territorian,” began the 28-year-old Labor MLA.

“I am a Centralian man,” he continued. “I am the nation’s first openly gay Indigenous parliamentarian. I am eternally proud of who I am and where I come from. I own it and wear it with pride.”

Paech went on to use his new position to advocate for marriage equality, an initiative Australian parliament continues to block.

“I look forward to the day when this country will recognize my rights as equal rights, when I too can marry in my country, on my country, as a recognized first Australian,” he concluded.


 In the recent Northern Territory election, Paech received nearly 60 percent of the vote in his electorate, the third largest in the NT.

During the election season, Paech was the victim of a vicious smear campaign that sought to use his sexuality against him. Supporters of Paech’s opposition believed that voters in the electorate’s remote Aboriginal communities would be less likely to vote for the candidate if they knew he was gay.

“That kind of language the electorate didn’t respond well to,’” Paech told BuzzFeed after winning his seat.

“The most beautiful thing was when I was at a remote community [campaigning] and people said to me, ‘They said you were a gay and we said we didn’t care, we just want houses.’”


Paech was one of six Indigenous politicians elected to the NT parliament and plans to fight for the rights of all disenfranchised Australians.

“I will stand proud with my Labor colleagues across our vast lands to ensure that all Territorians have equality and that we reach a time when our first Australians are constitutionally recognized,” he remarked.
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'Wall' of Taco Trucks Line Up at Trump's Las Vegas Hotel in Protest

From: NBC News
Photo of taco trucks parked in Las Vegas,
drawing in potential eligible voters to register people to vote. 
 The threat of taco Trucks taking on every corner is came close to being true in Las Vegas before the third presidential debate — where opponents of GOP nominee Donald Trump planned to create a "wall" of them in front of the Trump International Las Vegas hotel Wednesday.

"We did not come up with the idea for the wall, Donald Trump came up with building the wall," said Yvanna Cancela, the political director of the Culinary Workers Union 226 in Las Vegas. "We want to show him that walls don't divide us, and rather what he has done is uniting us. And when I say 'us,' I mean it as in every group that Trump has vilified: Muslims, women, immigrants and workers. We are all coming together to make sure that Donald Trump never becomes president."

Trump has pledged to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and to force Mexico to pay for it if elected president, one of his proposals that has riled many Latino Americans.

Taco trucks became part of the 2016 election after a Trump supporter warned in an interview with MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid that the expansion of the Latino culture in the U.S. would lead to "taco trucks on every corner." The comment drew backlash but also was mocked by Trump opponents and taco lovers who said they'd welcome taco trucks on every corner.

Nevada's influential Culinary Workers Union, which has worked throughout the election cycle to register voters, partnered with a coalition of local, state-level and national organizations to coordinate voter registration efforts throughout Las Vegas Tuesday — the state's voter registration deadline.

Volunteers and patrons lining up for the taco truck voter registration drive in Nevada
Over 50 volunteers and 35 taco trucks were parked throughout Las Vegas drawing in potential eligible voters, according to Kevin McAlister, spokesperson for American Bridge. The bilingual effort aims to register as many Latino voters in the state before the deadline passes.

The union also was staging the line of taco trucks to draw attention to labor disputes it has with Trump.

"While we will have taco trucks, the reason we are out there is for the last year now Trump has illegally refused to bargain with workers who won a union election at his hotel," Cancela said. "The biggest message we have sent to him is he needs to come to the negotiation table."

Pili Tobar, the communications director of Latino Victory Project, said volunteers and patrons of the taco trucks are energized for the election.

"Having these taco trucks around, having music playing and at the same time registering people to vote — and obviously people here want to vote against Donald Trump — there is a celebration of culture happening," Tobar said. "It is a really interesting mix of emotions, and people are excited and having fun with it."

"Latino Victory works with partners throughout the country to empower the Latino community, and Nevada is one of our top targets," Tobar continued.

Over a dozen groups coordinated efforts Tuesday and Wednesday to register voters and build the wall: American Bridge, America's Voice, Battle Born Progress, Center for Community Change Action, Forward, For Our Future, iAmerica Action, Latino Victory Project, Next Gen Climate Nevada, the Nevada State AFL-CIO, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action Fund, Planned Parenthood Votes, Mi Familia Vota, Move On, and She Wins We Win.

Separately, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has been urging taco truck vendors to register Latinos to vote and coordinating media coverage when they do so.
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Major League Baseball: On the Verge of the World Series

From: Speed o Rex
 The Indians finished off the Blue Jays in the American League Championship Series this week, four games to one, and punched their ticket to the World Series.   


 Over in the National League, however, the Dodgers and the Cubs are still at it.  Don't miss tonight's big Game 6 showdown in that series!





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2016 Major League Baseball Post-Season
National League Championship Series
(Eastern Time)
Saturday, October 22 - Game 6
8:00 PM: Los Angeles Dodgers (2-3) @ Chicago Cubs (3-2), Fox Sports 1
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 With the Dodgers down for the count, they'll be putting their top ace pitcher, #22 Clayton Kershaw, into the mix.  Watch for this superstar tonight.


Name
Clayton Kershaw

Date of Birth
March 19, 1988 (Pisces)

Hometown
Dallas, Texas, USA

Height/Weight
6'3"/225 lbs

Team
Los Angeles Dodgers

Position
Starting Pitcher

MLB Debut
May 25, 2008
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The Men of "King Cobra"


Sean Paul Lockhart/Brent Corrigan

Garrett Clayton as Sean Paul Lockhart/Brent Corrigan

Bryan Kocis


Christian Slater as Stephen aka Bryan Kocis

Joseph Kerekes

James Franco as Joseph Kerekes


Harlow Cuadra

Keegan Allen as Harlow Cuadra

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A.D. by Dave Milstead






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Artists Called To Design LGBT Memorial In New York’s West Village

The competition deadline is November 21.
From: NewNowNext
 New York is asking artists from around the country to submit designs for a memorial dedicated to LGBT victims of intolerance and violence.

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans for the memorial following the June 12 mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. The governor has set aside $800,000 for the project, which will also honor New Yorkers who have fought for LGBT equality.


“New York has a storied history of being at the forefront of the fight for equal rights and it is essential that we always honor the people who sought to achieve fairness for the LGBT community,” Cuomo said in a statement.

On Thursday, Gov. Cuomo sent out the call to “all experienced New York artists from Buffalo to Montauk to submit their vision and help us create a monument that will serve as an enduring symbol of the sacrifice New Yorkers have played in building a fairer, more just world.”

A spokesperson from the governor’s office later clarified that the state would accept applications from all artists, not just those based in New York.

Current plans will see the memorial built in Hudson River Park between Bethune Street and West 12th Street in the West Village.

The competition timeline is posted online and shows that artists have until November 21 to submit their designs. The state will review the designs with the LGBT Memorial Commission and publicly announce the winner sometime in December.

The commission, which the Gov. Cuomo assembled, is composed of New York-based artists and activists, including transgender campaigner Melissa Sklarz and former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, as well as leaders from groups such as the LGBT Center and the Stonewall Democrats.
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13 Horror Movie Himbos For All Hallows’ Eve

From: NewNowNext
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Dylan Fergus 
Hellbent
2004’s Hellbent was billed as the “first gay horror film,” but obviously they forgot about Can’t Stop The Music.

Anyway, Dylan Fergus stars as police technician Eddie, who notices that his friends are showing up around West Hollywood without their heads, and suspects something might be wrong. Will he be the next victim of the demented (but hot) devil-clad serial killer?
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Are Gay Rights No Longer A Wedge Issue?

From: Queerty
This week had the third and final presidential debate. All eyes were on Donald Trump, yet again, to see if he has any impulse control left. We’re so inured to Trump’s outrageousness that if he is even marginally lucid, he’s likely to come across far better than he should.

As for Hillary Clinton–really, does she even have to show up, other than to bait Trump?

As a reminder, sometimes debates actually touch on (gasp!) policy. And what has been particularly noticeable in this election cycle is how little reference there has been to anything LGBT. Other than a brief reference from Clinton in support of marriage equality during the second debate, the candidates have been largely silent about us.

Which raises the question: are we no longer a political issue? With marriage equality settled in law and public opinion solidly in our favor, the candidates seem to be betting that nothing else rises to the level worth calling out in a debate.

That probably drives core Republicans, including Trump’s running mate Mike Pence, crazy. Much as the GOP leadership promises to repeal Obamacare, the hardliners would love nothing more than to claw back some lost ground through religious liberty laws.

The problem is that Trump couldn’t care less. In general, he doesn’t dwell on policy in any case because he doesn’t understand it. But Trump also doesn’t seem to bear us the animosity that he does immigrants, women or–well, it’s a long list. If anything, he’s broken from the Republican line just by promising to protect the LGBTQ community (in his own weird phrasing). What he doesn’t realize is that we are also a strong part of immigrant groups, women, Muslims, and African-Americans. So when he attacks these groups, he is also attacking all of us–with the possible exception of white gay men.

Without one candidate attacking us and one defending us, there’s not a lot of reason to expect the media to focus on us at all. We’ll see if that changes. But it could be that we’ve moved from being a political issue to just another voting bloc.
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Apparently Alabama Hasn’t Gotten The Memo That Gay Marriage Is Legal In The United States

From: Queerty
Alabama. The Heart of Dixie. Epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement. Breeding ground of the KKK. Home of the Crimson Tide and antigay Governor Robert Bentley, who, as you may recall, had his adulterous phone sex recording leak earlier this year.

Historically, the state has never been particularly good at advancing with the times. And it doesn’t appear to be getting any better because it appears over a dozen probate judges in at least eight different counties have not yet received the Supreme Court’s memo from 18 months ago that declared marriage a fundamental right for all people living in America.

Since the historic ruling in June 2015, many probate judges have denied marriage licenses to any couple living in Alabama, gay or straight.

“We do not issue marriage licenses because our judge chose not to,” Debbie Owens, chief clerk of Washington County, which is overseen by Judge Nick Williams, tells AL.com. “It’s our judge’s choice.”

“Alabama law says probate judges may issue marriage licenses, but doesn’t require them to,” Angi Stalnaker, spokeswoman for Pike County Probate Judge Wes Allen, adds. “The Supreme Court said you can’t discriminate against individuals. He’s not discriminating because he’s not issuing licenses to anybody in Pike County.”

But not everyone–or anyone, frankly–buys the excuse.

“There is no doubt that the counties that are not issuing licenses to anybody have taken that approach because of the same sex-marriage decision,” Randall C. Marshall, legal director of the ACLU of Alabama, says. “The U.S. Supreme Court talked about marriage as a fundamental right, [so] individuals who live in those counties and are burdened by the refusal of the probate judge to issue marriage licenses may, in fact, have a constitutional claim.”

“We thought this was over but, sure enough, Alabama will be the last state in the nation to get through this,” Gary Wright II, one of the plaintiff’s in the state’s original gay marriage case Strawser v. Strange adds. “Everyone thinks, especially after the Supreme Court win, that this was settled … but the judges who didn’t want to go along with [gay marriage] just said, ‘we won’t issue licenses to any couple.'”

When pressed on this, Stalnaker exercised her teenage logic by saying that Alabama law “says that they ‘may’ issue marriage licenses, not that they ‘shall’ issue them.”
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Another Donald Trump Sexual Assault Accuser Comes Forward

From: Just Jared
Karena Virginia, a yoga instructor and life coach, gave a public press conference on Thursday (October 20) with attorney Gloria Allred to reveal that Donald Trump allegedly sexually assaulted her in 1998 at the US Open.

“As I was waiting, Donald Trump approached me. I knew who he was, but I had never met him,” Karena said. “He was with a few other men. I was quite surprised when I overheard him talking to the other men about me. He said, ‘Hey, look at this one. We haven’t seen her before.’”

‘”Look at those legs,’ as though I was an object, rather than a person,” Karena added. “He then walked up to me and reached [with] his right arm and grabbed my right arm. Then his hand touched the right inside of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched.”

“Don’t you know who I am?,” Karena said Donald responded.

“I had come to the realization that I was the victim,” she said. She added she later came to the realization that Trump “had violated me when he groped me years earlier,”

“Mr Trump, perhaps you do not remember me or what you did to me so many years ago. But I can assure you that I remember you and what you did to me as if it were yesterday,” she concluded. Karena reportedly doesn’t have plans to sue or press charges, she just wanted to add her voice to the other reported victims.

The republican nominee for president now has multiple sexual assault accusers who have come forward this month.
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An Attorney and a DA Are Seeking Justice for Tennesseans Convicted of “Homosexual Acts”

From: SLATE
Nashville attorney Daniel Horwitz was helping a man expunge his criminal record when he discovered something unexpected: a conviction for violating Tennessee’s Homosexual Practices Act—from 1995.

 “Subject was engaged in sexual intercourse with another male subject,” the misdemeanor citation reads. The charge could have landed the defendant—whom I’ll call John Doe—in jail. Instead, Doe took a plea deal and avoided jail time by admitting that he had, indeed, had sex with a man, a practice forbidden by the law. Horwitz told me he was “aghast” to see the charge.

“I had no idea that Nashville was still prosecuting sex between consenting same-sex adults as a criminal offense well into the mid-’90s,” Horwitz said. He immediately began working to expunge Doe’s record—which should have been an easy task, because today, the conviction itself is illegal. In 1996, the Tennessee Court of Appeals invalidated the Homosexual Practices Act as a violation of the state constitution. Seven years later, the U.S. Supreme Court held that laws punishing same-sex intimacy also violate the federal constitution.

But stripping the unconstitutional conviction from Doe’s record proved surprisingly difficult. Various procedural barriers prevented Horwitz from challenging or expunging the conviction using traditional remedies. Doe was boxed in by legal roadblocks and restrictive state laws designed to limit post-conviction appeals. So Horwitz chose a rather unconventional tactic: He pursued the common law writ of audita querela to vacate Doe’s conviction. The writ is extraordinarily rare; to Horwitz’s knowledge, no Tennessee court has issued one in the last century. But in Doe’s case, it was necessary: Courts may issue the writ of audita querela when a conviction that was originally valid has become legally void and a defendant has no other means of expunging his record. That neatly fit Doe’s dilemma.

After Horwitz filed what he called “a crazy petition for an ancient common law writ,” he received an unexpected call from the office of Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk. The DA had decided not to oppose Horwitz’s petition but instead to work with him to clear his client’s conviction. Shortly thereafter, County Judge Melissa Blackburn granted Doe the writ and vacated his conviction under the Homosexual Practices Act, writing that the relief was “essential to effect the ends of justice.”

Horwitz was thrilled—but he wasn’t finished. During his research, he had discovered 41 other people who had been convicted under the law. Distressed by their unconstitutional convictions, Horwitz brought the issue to Funk’s attention. The DA promptly agreed to expunge criminal records “in any case where the only violation was conduct proscribed by the Homosexual Practices Act.” His office told me that it won’t unilaterally expunge records, but it’s “willing to sign an order if contacted by a defendant or their counsel.”

I asked Funk why he was eager to secure justice for these wronged individuals.

“I am committed to making sure that all citizens are treated equally under the law,” he told me, “regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Equal means equal, and individuals prosecuted under the Tennessee Homosexuals Practices Act were not treated that way.”

Horwitz agreed, noting that for him, laboring to expunge these illegal convictions was an easy call.

“I took [Doe’s case] on pro bono,” he said, “so there was never any question about going the extra mile.” But there’s more to it than that. The issue of LGBTQ equality, Horwitz explained, “means so much to me. It is nothing short of outrageous that people were prosecuted in this country for the crime of being born gay. Being able to play even a small role in undoing the damage and pain caused by such bigotry is an honor and a privilege for me. I believe with all my heart that gay rights are human rights and that equality is a core American value.”

That’s an important point. For many gay people, the pain inflicted by sodomy laws like Tennessee’s went far beyond symbolic humiliation. The mere existence of these laws burdened sexual minorities in myriad ways—allowing courts to deny them custody of their children on the grounds that their behavior was illegal, for instance, or permitting them to be lawfully fired due to their orientation. Individuals arrested and convicted under these laws faced even harsher penalties: They could be denied housing and employment for their criminal record, which labelled them immoral deviants. Laws like Tennessee’s weren’t just unconstitutional; they were also brutally cruel. Given how far we’ve come since then, it’s easy to forget the harm these statutes inflicted while they were still enforceable. Horwitz’s deeply admirable quest provides a necessary reminder that there are still people today whose lives were marred by bigotry during this dark chapter of American history.
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Shocker: 5 Antigay Right Wingers Who Actually Dumped Trump

From: Queerty
 Many Republicans continue to stand by Donald Trump (largely with gritted teeth), and religious right leaders in particular are full-throated in their support of his election. But not everyone is lining up like a good soldier. From a few surprising quarters, you can hear the dissent.

And, boy, it’s pretty pointed.

The dissenters aren’t just complaining about Trump and his pervy behavior. They are pointedly taking on his supporters, and in particular the family values Christians who are willing to overlook Trump’s behavior as long as he appoints another Scalia to the Supreme Court. With the exception of Steve Schmidt, who has been supportive of gay causes, none of the dissenters are remotely allies. But they are people of principle.

Here are five examples of unexpected opponents who are willing to call out Trump’s Christian supporters for the bald-faced hypocrites they are.


 Steve Schmidt
Campaign Manager 
John McCain’s 2008 Presidential Bid

“It exposes at such a massive scale and at such magnitude the hypocrisy of the Tony Perkinses and the Jerry Falwell Jrs. and the Pat Robertsons. These people are literally the modern-day Pharisees, they are the money changers in the temple, and they will forever be destroyed from a credibility perspective. There are millions of decent, faithful, committed evangelicals in this country who have every right to participate in the political process. But this country doesn’t ever need to hear a lecture from any one of these people [Perkins, Falwell, etc.] again on a values issue, or their denigration of good and decent gay people in this country.”


 Russell Moore
President 
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission at the Southern Baptist Convention

“These evangelical leaders have said that, for the sake of the ‘lesser of two evils,’ one should stand with someone who not only characterizes sexual decadence and misogyny, brokers in cruelty and nativism, and displays a crazed public and private temperament — but who glories in these things. Some of the very people who warned us about moral relativism and situational ethics now ask us to become moral relativists for the sake of an election.”


 Beth Moore
Founder
Living Proof Ministries

“I’m one among many women sexually abused, misused, stared down, heckled, talked naughty to. Like we liked it. We didn’t. We’re tired of it. Try to absorb how acceptable the disesteem and objectifying of women has been when some Christian leaders don’t think it’s that big a deal.”
 Julie Roys
 Radio Talk Show Host

“I never thought I’d see the day when leading evangelicals would publicly espouse that character doesn’t matter — and that promoting sexual assault is simply ‘bad boy talk.’…I honestly don’t know what makes me more sick. Listening to Trump brag about groping women or listening to my fellow evangelicals defend him.”


Andy Crouch
Executive Editor
Christianity Today

“Enthusiasm for a candidate like Trump gives our neighbors ample reason to doubt that we believe Jesus is Lord. They see that some of us are so self-interested, and so self-protective, that we will ally ourselves with someone who violates all that is sacred to us—in hope, almost certainly a vain hope given his mendacity and record of betrayal, that his rule will save us.”
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