Monday, August 15, 2016
Saturday, August 6, 2016
G4P Porn Actor Arrested For Raping Five Year Old Daughter
He stands accused on five charges: sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age, lewd or lascivious molestation of a person less than 12 years of age, unlawful transmission of an STD via sexual intercourse, incest and aggravated child abuse.
The charges came after the adult performer was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill a Florida detective, who was reportedly investigating the allegations of incest.
Young has previously been arrested for assaulting his wife, and on drug, DUI, burglary, traffic and battery charges. He spent nearly two years in prison for an assault of an elderly person over 65.
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Governor Pat McCrory Drains Disaster Relief Funds To Defend Bigotry In North Carolina
The state lost a string of big investment ventures over Governor Pat McCrory’s decision to sign the contentious HB 2 – which voided all local ordinances protecting LGBT rights, banned transgender people from using their preferred bathroom, and permits businesses to discriminate against LGBT people on the grounds of religious belief.
McCrory continues to insist the anti-trans rules are “common sense”, but the state has faced a string of lawsuits, as LGBT groups believe HB 2 to be a clear violation of the US Constitution.
The state’s Republican leadership have shamefully drained money from other areas to put towards defending HB 2, with lawmakers previously approving a plan to drain $500,00 from a disaster relief fund and channel it directly into the Governor’s office to cover the costs of defending the law in court.
Though decried by Democrats, anti-LGBT Republicans had a large enough majority across the state legislature to pass the controversial measure along party lines.
The measure was enacted this week, when Governor McCrory passively allowed it to become law – without signing it himself.
Opponents say the irresponsible move leaves the state at risk, with a $500,000 hole in the Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund.
But McCrory blamed the state’s Democratic Attorney General for refusing to defend the law himself, forcing the Governor’s office to take control.
Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin previously attacked the measure.
He said: “There is only one fix for HB 2, and it’s full and total repeal.
“If they choose not to and Gov McCrory and his political cronies run out the clock on this short session, they won’t be able to outrun the voters of this state in November.”
Monday, August 1, 2016
Sunday, July 31, 2016
My Guilty Pleasure
A few months back, I was lamenting with some friends about the lack of long term gay story lines on TV when a Brit friend suggested I watch a UK soap opera called Emmerdale.
He advised me to start with episodes dating back to 2010, in which a young character was just coming to grips with his homosexuality.
Somewhere along the way, I became completely addicted to this show, not just for the gay characters, but just about everyone in this little village.
As of this weekend, I'm officially caught up and now I HATE this Brit friend, because now I'm like some junky jonzing for his next fix.
Friday, July 29, 2016
George Takei On The "The Very Real And Terrible Consequences" Of A Trump Presidency
George Takei is using his family’s personal story and his fluency in Spanish to warn Hispanic voters about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his views on immigration.
The Star Trek icon shared his concerns in a Facebook video that is closing in on 12 million views as of Thursday (28 July).
Takei says he made the video to give some personal and historical perspective on how Trump’s words and plans ‘can have very real and terrible consequences.’
Takei reminds people that in 1942, anti-Japanese hysteria led to the forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese-Americans from the West Coast including his family.
‘When I was a little boy, politicians used fear and racism against people of Japanese descent in this country,’ Takei says.
‘We were targets simply because we happened to look like the people who happened to bomb Pearl Harbor. They said we were all spies and saboteurs, that none of use could be trusted.
‘When Trump today says Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, it is his way of similarly dehumanizing whole groups, so that he can set his plans in motion.
‘I still remember the day armed guards marched up our driveway with bayonets ordering us out of our home. I remember my mother’s tears as we took with us only what we could carry. And we lost all that we had worked so hard for.’
For the next four years, Takei’s family was kept in a camp behind barbed wire fences with armed guards – held prisoner in their own country.
Takei says Trump wants to ‘forcibly round up 100 times the number interned in 1942.’
He points out that Trump hasn’t yet explained “who can stay and who must go ‘ and that ‘back then, they simply said, “A Jap is a Jap.”‘
Takei says today Trump tells his supporters that a ‘Mexican is a Mexican.'”
He points to as proof Trump’s accusing the judge in the ongoing Trump University trial of being biased against him simply because the judge is of Hispanic descent even though the judge was born in Indiana.
‘He is playing on the same fears and ignorance that once led this country to intern my family.’
The Star Trek icon shared his concerns in a Facebook video that is closing in on 12 million views as of Thursday (28 July).
Takei says he made the video to give some personal and historical perspective on how Trump’s words and plans ‘can have very real and terrible consequences.’
Takei reminds people that in 1942, anti-Japanese hysteria led to the forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese-Americans from the West Coast including his family.
‘When I was a little boy, politicians used fear and racism against people of Japanese descent in this country,’ Takei says.
‘We were targets simply because we happened to look like the people who happened to bomb Pearl Harbor. They said we were all spies and saboteurs, that none of use could be trusted.
‘When Trump today says Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, it is his way of similarly dehumanizing whole groups, so that he can set his plans in motion.
‘I still remember the day armed guards marched up our driveway with bayonets ordering us out of our home. I remember my mother’s tears as we took with us only what we could carry. And we lost all that we had worked so hard for.’
For the next four years, Takei’s family was kept in a camp behind barbed wire fences with armed guards – held prisoner in their own country.
Takei says Trump wants to ‘forcibly round up 100 times the number interned in 1942.’
He points out that Trump hasn’t yet explained “who can stay and who must go ‘ and that ‘back then, they simply said, “A Jap is a Jap.”‘
Takei says today Trump tells his supporters that a ‘Mexican is a Mexican.'”
He points to as proof Trump’s accusing the judge in the ongoing Trump University trial of being biased against him simply because the judge is of Hispanic descent even though the judge was born in Indiana.
‘He is playing on the same fears and ignorance that once led this country to intern my family.’
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