Mirror Monday *26
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Danica Roem’s Historic Victory
Diana Tourjée spent election day with Danica Roem, the first-time politician who unseated one of the most notoriously transphobic politicians in the US state of Virginia. Watch her uplifting report.
Danica Roem made history on November 7, becoming the first transgender person to be elected and seated to a state legislature. The 33-year-old stepmom now represents District 13 in northern Virginia, an area that was controlled for more than two decades by Republican Bob Marshall, one of the state’s most virulently anti-LGBT lawmakers.
Roem’s success in local politics has made a national impact, setting the stage for other first-time candidates and transgender people to run for—and win—elections across the country.
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Tutu Tuesday *12
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Young, Dumb & Broke
Cover by Andrew Foy, found by Corkas
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Wonderwear Wednesday *35
Photo by Andrew
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Star Trek’s first Gay Kiss
Star Trek: Discovery is boldly going where no other Star Trek series has gone before. Last month the space drama introduced Anthony Rapp’s character, Lt. Stamets, as the first openly gay character in the television history of the franchise. But the show took things a step further this week by featuring a same-sex kiss between Stamets and his partner, Dr Hugh Culber, played by fellow out actor Wilson Cruz.
This was the cutest thing! And the first gay kiss in @startrekcbs am I right? @wcruz73 @albinokid
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— Lewis Peters (@lew_and_i) November 14, 2017
The franchise has been known for pushing boundaries since it first aired in 1966, and came under fire in the late ’60s for featuring an interracial kiss between the characters Kirk and Uhura.
Despite being known as groundbreaking, the episode still faced homophobic criticism from fans who don’t like seeing a happy gay couple on their TVs. But Cruz had a response for anyone who had a problem with Discovery’s queer representation.
“I’m not here for your comfort,” he wrote in a poignant Facebook post. “That’s not why we are here. We’re here to grow.”
Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu was portrayed as a married gay man by actor John Cho in the film Star Trek: Beyond, but a scene rumored to show a kiss between Sulu and his husband was ultimately cut from the film.
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Tender Thursday *30
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Periodical Political Post *51
Queer News
- Australia says yes to same-sex marriage in postal survey
- Third of Americans think society too accepting of trans people
- California becomes first US state to teach kids queer history
- Six injured after man throws acid at queer activists in Moscow
- Someone shot up an LGBT advocacy group in Oklahoma
- Paraguay bans education on women’s rights, LGBTQ issues
- Pride march a success in India, where gay sex is still illegal
Other News
- FBI: Hate crimes rose for second year in a row in the US
- Study links Tory austerity in the UK to 120,000 deaths
- 5 killed as Gunman goes on rampage in Californian school
- US Republicans accused of obstructing climate change research
- Closing ‘Boyfriend Loophole’ in gun laws could save lives
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Fap Friday *9
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Did you hear about our John?
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Surfing Saturday *9
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8% of Football Fans are Morons
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Sporty Sunday *29
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Being Trans can be awkward
In a TED Talk speech filmed earlier this year, speaker Jackson Bird opened up about why it can be so “awkward” to be transgender — namely because of how other people in your life act around you.
“Being trans is awkward,” he says. “And not just because the gender I was assigned at birth mismatches the one I really am. Being trans is awkward because everyone else gets awkward when they’re around me.”
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Model Monday *23
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Water | Vattnet
James leads a lonely life in a luxurious castle in which his parents run a hotel. He never goes out with friends, spends his spare time in his room and peeks at the hotel’s guests out of boredom. Generally hides in his room, to stay away from his wannabe-controlling mother, who has no insight in the life of her son, James is forced outside when a group of handsome Swedish soccer players staying at the hotel capture his interest.
When he finds one of the boys injured at the hotel’s swimming pool, James offers his help and smuggles the boy into his room and locks the door. Locked up with a strange boy in his own room, James experiences the complexity of his own sexual feelings and insecurities for the first time.
WATER | VATTNET is a short coming-of-age film about family, loneliness and sexual identity. It examines the confusing period of adolescence and the first homosexual feelings of a young boy
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Tummy Tuesday *25
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Periodical Political Post *52
Queer News
- Turkey bans all future queer events & protests in its capital
- Yet another study finds kids with same-sex parents are fine
- Anti-gay US politician resigns after being caught having gay sex
- The US need to do more to protect queer asylum seekers
- 14-year-old boy shot and killed by his father for being gay
Other News
- Google tracks and collects Android users’ location data
- Man who tripled price of insulin to regulate US drug companies
- US are slammed for their coal pitch at the Bonn climate talks
- Even the pope tells climate change deniers to accept the science
- Victims ‘told not to report’ Jehovah’s Witness child abuse in the UK
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Wet Wednesday *39
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Thursday Poll *4
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