Showing posts with label sexuality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexuality. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Some really nice John Cena clips





Just to confirm he seems like a good guy too and not just a coffee knower www.out.com/celebs/john-...

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— Emily ✨ (@emilyoram.bsky.social) August 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM



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Saturday, July 1, 2023

An interview with AEW's openly gay, Black wrestler, and the warm reception he's getting from the audience


Andscape:
What was your understanding of how queer wrestlers, or people who played queer characters on TV, were portrayed coming up?

I really started to pay attention to all that once [former WWE wrestler] Darren Young came out in 2013, because around that time was when I really started to think about becoming a professional wrestler. That’s when I started to pay attention to how the representation was. And it didn’t look too good for me back then, which is why I stayed in the closet. 
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You originally came out via a YouTube video where it’s said in passing. How did you decide this would be the moment that you come out publicly.

I met my boyfriend in May of 2016, and we dated secretly for six months or so. One of his dreams was to have a YouTube channel and make a video with me once we got together. And I was like, “I’m not entirely sure. I’m not out yet. I promise I’ll be out one day. I need to be ready for it.” He understood, but he was slightly hurt that he had to continue to be this secret. And then I was like, “You know what? You don’t really have that many subscribers, so I don’t think anybody’s going to see this. Let’s make this video.”

We made the video and a few months later, one of my buddies who’s a wrestler messaged me. He is like, “Hey, we saw the video. I wish you would have told us. Everybody saw it really. They love you. They respect you.” And once I saw that, I just knew that I had this opportunity to help other people who were in my shoes because I had the support of my best friends. I had the support of my family. Now I had the support of people in wrestling, which meant a lot to me. So I ended up coming out in January of 2017, and when that video took off, and it’s been a whirlwind ever since in a very, very positive way.
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Friday, May 5, 2023

Pop star describes bringing drag queens on stage in Nashville in defiance of local authorities

CBS says, "a Nashville police spokesperson disputed Kiyoko's account."

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Remarkable moment when Robin Williams protected Nathan Lane from being outed during an Oprah interview

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

"People who identify as gay in Uganda risk life in prison after parliament passed a new bill"

BBC:
"There is a lot of blackmail...In some areas even law enforcers are using the current environment to extort money from people who they accuse of being gay"

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The bill's backers say they are trying to protect children
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Sunday, November 20, 2022

Manhattan gay bar owner says NYPD's "nonchalant response to vandalism attacks" has "emboldened" him and reminded him "we have to protect ourselves”

Gothamist:

an unknown individual has thrown a brick at the windows of his establishment three times in the last week. In the most recent incident, just before 10 p.m. on Saturday night, surveillance footage showed a man approaching the store and heaving a heavy object at the window.

[The bar owner] said he had gone to the NYPD each time. But detectives were “dismissive” of his suggestion that the attack could be bias related, going so far as discouraging him from reporting it to the Hate Crimes Task Force

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Friday, November 11, 2022

Some moving Kevin Conroy highlights





(The comic is powerful)
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Saturday, October 1, 2022

A Utah county that allows international couples to register their marriages online is popular with LGBTQ couples in China

Rest of the World:

The state of Utah in the United States has no citizenship requirements for marriage licenses, and Utah County is the only place there that allows international couples to register their marriages online. Since the county rolled out virtual weddings during the Covid-19 pandemic, it became a wedding haven for same-sex couples who are not able to officially marry in their own countries.

As sexual minorities in China face suppression at home, Utah County is allowing them to officially marry and celebrate their love — all for around $100. Although the marriages aren’t recognized in China, some 200 same-sex couples from mainland China and Hong Kong have gotten married via the county’s digital marriage license system since 2021

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“I’m just happy that I can help them satisfy what their hearts are telling them, because a lot of the couples really, really, really do love each other”

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Amazing how well this 80's X-Men advertisement applies today


A few headlines:
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Thursday, August 11, 2022

From 1979, Bill Russell discusses homosexuality

(The NBA is going to retire his number across the league)
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Meaningful candy spills; Cosmic dung beetle; Lego dragon


(Also, his "placebo."











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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Ten funny tweets
















































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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

"Miss Staten Island comes out as bisexual, is banned from St. Patrick's Day parade"

"after Madison L'Insalata came out publicly as bisexual, she said, organizers banned her from taking part."

NY Post:
For the last three years, the Staten Island Pride Center has been barred from attending the tax-funded event — the only St. Patrick’s march in the five boroughs that has banned gay groups.

The organizing committee, which operates under the local Ancient Order of the Hibernians chapter, has come under increased scrutiny this year for banning a local beauty queen who came out as bisexual to The Post over the weekend.
The prime minister of Ireland is gay, and Ireland was the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote
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Saturday, November 16, 2019

"A 2004 Christmas Movie With Two Versions — One With Two Dads And Another With Straight Parents — Has Gone Viral"

Noticed by someone on Twitter, and further investigated by Buzzfeed:
The director said in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he worked closely with Here TV, an American television network for LGBTQ audiences, on original content and projects. According to Irvin, Here TV didn’t have the funding to finance an entire TV movie in the same way a channel like Lifetime could because their “subscriber base was still in its infancy.” So they created two versions of the movie to help make the project financially feasible.

“The executives at these companies decided, if we could have some gay content in a movie that could run on Here TV that would satisfy our subscribers that are expecting gay content, but we could also repurpose it and do a quote-unquote straight version and try to sell that to Lifetime or those types of networks, that would be beneficial,” he said.

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“We would shoot a scene with the mom and the dad, and when we’d get a good take I would say, ‘Okay, let's have the mom set aside and bring in the alternate dad’ and we’d shoot another take,” Irvin said.
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Thursday, November 29, 2018

"The Oral History of 'San Junipero'"

Vulture:
Charlie Brooker: I thought people would find it more shocking or surprising, that old people had been talking to each other about fucking, but no one ever comments on it.

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Laurie Borg (producer): Our biggest challenge was creating period America on a tight budget, so the key decision I made was to film most of the interiors in London and most of the exteriors in Cape Town. I knew we could not afford to film in the U.S., but also knew South Africa could deliver “period” Americana streets and coastlines.

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Mackenzie Davis: I loved the very first Yorkie outfit: the pleated khaki shorts and aqua sweater over a pink polo. It still makes me laugh that she could have put together anything for this new self and she chose something that looks like her mom laid it out on her bed the night before a charity golf tournament! But it was authentically her, and there’s something so beautiful about this woman choosing to be authentically herself in this moment of unlimited possibility. The thrill of her identity and her queerness is the event, the reason for all of this, not the opportunity to reinvent her exterior self and sell a coolness that would appeal to anyone else.

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Charlie Brooker: I thought we gave some huge clues, but people generally didn’t pick up on them! There’s a moment in Tucker’s when the guy shows Yorkie this arcade driving game, and a car crashes on the screen. She has this horrible visceral reaction because it reminds her of the car crash that paralyzed her. Once you know what’s going on, it makes perfect sense. We even put the noise of a car crash on the soundtrack, so I thought people would immediately go, “Oh, she’s been in a car crash in real life.” But no one ever picks up on it, until maybe a third viewing.

The other big clue was playing the Smiths’ “Girlfriend in a Coma” over a shot of Yorkie. You see, I seem to think that viewers are writing all these small details down! But they’re not. People only notice when a plot doesn’t make sense. It’s good to give the audience a chance to get it, though, because otherwise it might feel like a complete cheat.

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Charlie Brooker: People were worried for Kelly and Yorkie because they’d seen us destroy people in “Playtest” and “Shut Up and Dance.” There’s an extra tension in a totally merciless show like this. That’s why “San Junipero” worked.
Related: "Is She a Lesbian or Just From the Midwest?"
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

"Brazilian judge approves 'gay conversion therapy', sparking national outrage"

TG:
Waldemar de Carvalho, a federal judge in the capital of Brasília, overruled a 1999 decision by the Federal Council of Psychology that forbade psychologists from offering widely discredited treatments which claims to “cure” gay people.

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Brazil has a growing population of evangelical Christians who have protested vociferously
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Friday, November 18, 2016

Marvel writer recounts her time as an internet troll

R29:
GR: "Am I worried about the trolls? No. I’m worried about not telling the story. I’m worried about little kids out there who wouldn’t get the story because we would be afraid of trolls. That’s ridiculous. And hey, honestly, I was an internet troll when I was 15 and I was scared of coming out. I behaved badly online when I was a teenager for like six months because of the pain of being closeted. So whenever I see internet trolls there is a part of me that’s like damn what are you hurting from? What hurt you? What do you need? Can we talk to you? Where is this pain? So, that’s kind of how I view it."

Who did you troll?
GR: "Lesbians.

On Twitter?
GR: "Oh my god, thank you. [I’m 34] I’m talking, like, AOL chatrooms. I was so scared of who I was that I would go into lesbian AOL chat rooms and be like, ‘The lord hates you.’ And then this one Lesbian from a chat room wrote me back and was like, ‘Let’s talk; are you okay? What do you need? I want to understand you.' And that was the first person that made that connection with me. And it changed my whole life. And it put me on the path to find out who I am and why I was channeling my frustrations that way."
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Friday, November 4, 2016

"Many players of Dwarf Fortress have stories of dwarf colonists that have gone mad"

PG:
Some even start murderous rampages, completely emptying out a fortress that took weeks or months to build up. Sometimes, the only solution for dealing with a mad dwarf is to wall them in and hope they don’t find a way out of their cell. There’s even a very popular mod, called Dwarf Therapist that, at least the last time I got deep into the game, was considered an essential add-on.

There have been similar issues reported by the community of players that enjoy RimWorld.

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What makes the conversation among players so disturbing is that instead of imprisoning a mad, homicidal dwarf, RimWorld’s players are openly discussing executing homosexuals.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Link roundup

1. "Masked Men Armed With Assault Rifles Rob Rolex Store in Century City, Get Away"

2. CA:
During the panel Walker, a black man, mentioned something about the character that I had never considered; [DC Comics hero] Cyborg is an emasculated black man. In his New 52 origin story, he lost the entire bottom half of his body, which means that before becoming Cyborg, he was castrated.
3. TA on Uber slowly replacing mass transit:
For instance, in the case of Obamacare, the interests of the poor, who need universal healthcare, have become aligned with the rich, whose companies have, in recent years, increasingly relied on independent contractors or part-time labor rather than full-time employees to reduce costs and increase profits; Obamacare has effectively accelerated the erosion of the concept of full-time employment in its fulfillment of one of the the former social obligations of employers. Put another way, why hire an employee and pay for their healthcare and social security when you can hire an independent contractor and let the worker and the government split the cost?
4. "'Aloha': Reliving This Decade’s Worst Movie Catastrophe"
It is not socially acceptable for a grown man to watch a twelve-year-old girl in her dance class for an extended period of time, through glass, from the street.
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