Tuesday, April 18, 2017

A Scholarship Named After Edie Windsor Is Helping Queer People Learn To Be Coders

"We literally have the power to change the face of tech."

As the lead plaintiff in United States v. Windsor, Edie Windsor helped dismantle DOMA and usher marriage equality across America.

Now her name is helping the community again, this time in the lucrative field of coding: Lesbians Who Tech is sponsoring the Edie Windsor Scholarship, which cover half of the tuition costs for LGBT people looking to learn how to code.

Aside from being an LGBT rights trailblazer, Windsor is also a former mathematician and computer scientist who broke barriers for women in the industry’s early days. She started working at IBM in 1958 and was eventually promoted to Senior Systems Programmer, the corporation’s highest technical post. (She was also the recipient of the first IBM PC delivered in New York City.)

Last year, 40 people were awarded Edie Windsor scholarships, which was backed in part by a Kickstarter campaign.

“Imagine what apps and software would look like if they were made by women, queer women, women of color,” Lesbians Who Tech’s Vanessa Newman told the Huffington Post last year. “We literally have the power to change the face of tech, if we can lift each other up, over the privileges and barriers to entry that come with learning the essential skills.”

Applications are open to anyone who identifies as queer and is looking to enroll in a coding program that starts between June and December 2017.

The last day to apply is April 30, 2017.

A Bevy Of Bonnets On Display At The New York Easter Parade

The bigger the hats, the closer to God
From: NewNowNext

New York’s Fifth Avenue was alive with color and pizzazz Sunday morning as revelers celebrated Easter with outlandish costumes and bonnets.

The crowd gathered for the city’s annual Easter Parade, a tradition that began in the 1800s as a way for New York’s elite to show off their Sunday best, but has since evolved into a free-for-all of elaborate outfits and decorations.

pleasantlivinghome

The beauty of New York's Easter Parade

#ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade #fifthavenue #stparrickscathedral

#hats #vintage #womenstyle #easterbonnets

#newyorkcity #pleasantlivinghome #shavermelahn

Some kept it classic with trim chapeaus featuring bright colors and flowers.

dianagabrielnyc

At the Parade

with @carolmarkel and @vintageteresa in their elegent Easter finery!

Photo by @dentontaylor #hatattack #chapeau #ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade

sharondlu

#easterparade5thavenue #ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade #easterparadenyc

#ontheavenue #5thavenue #easterparade2017

marinamarimeri

Easter Parade

#ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀᴇɢɢs #ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade #fifthwave #newyork

#instagram #instalike #instagood #hat #

While others went in for bolder designs.

inlayterms

We celebrate the resurrection of Christ with floral hats.

#ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade #Easter

weissfotoinsta

Bill C was there today guiding our cameras.

When you asked him about his corner,

57th and Fifth, next to Tiffany's, filled with concrete security blocks.

His expression would instantly change and he would say I'll make the best of it.

Thanks for being our inspiration, Bill.

It's bad but we will adapt, like you always did.

#style #fashion #parisfashion #billcunningham

#easterbonnets #photogravures #springfling2017

#springisintheair #ritesofspring #streetfashion #streetphotography #ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade

jolainmullernyc

Annual Easter parade on 5th Avenue.

Many a protest bonnet.

#ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀ2017 #5th Ave #ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade #newyorkcity #jolainmullernyc

A few got political.

sara_t_nencioni

#ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade #nyc #trumputin

edurnebarcenilla

Happy Easter from NYC.

#thisisNY #ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade #comomelohepasado.

avalladares

Desfile de sombreros #ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade

And some poured their efforts into outfitting their furry mates.

franklintello

Hundreds of people showing off their bonnets

at the Easter Parade right across from St. Patrick's Cathedral

in New York City!

Happy Easter everyone!

#ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀparade

Regardless of how attendees chose to celebrate, all their costumes embodied absolute joy!

Sucking Off Chase

Chase is a lifeguard, and boy does he save lives!
From: Rough Straight Men

Tom Faulk Has Been Stabbed On The Set Of That NakedSword Movie About Dirt

From: Str8Up Gay Porn

NakedSword and Tom Faulk’s movie about dirt currently being shot in Texas has taken a bloody turn, as Tom Faulk tweeted that a “close friend” assaulted and stabbed him on the set. Some friend! The dirt movie has been buried in drama for weeks, after Faulk launched—and then abruptly pulled down—a highly questionable GoFundMe to finance the production for Falcon/NakedSword.

Tom Faulk tonight, who appears to be stable after being stitched up (hopefully by a professional in an emergency room or medical clinic):

I’m assuming that’s a typo that’s supposed to read “beer bottle,” (not “beet”), and I’m also assuming it was indeed a personal, non-porn star friend of his who carried out the assault. If it had been one of Tom Faulk’s co-stars on set (which include Ryan Rose and Brent Corrigan) who did the stabbing, that person would’ve undoubtedly been named.

Best wishes to Tom—who was just nominated for a Str8UpGayPorn Award this week—on a speedy and full recovery.

Update:

From the next morning, as expected:

Update 2:

To show how he’s healing after two days,

Tom Faulk has posted an image of the stitched up stab wound: