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Fox Celebrates Transgenders, Transvestites, and Transsexuals on TV
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What was Fox thinking airing The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, a remake of the 1975 musical/comedy/horror cult classic, at 8pm eastern?
Underage Boy Uses Dating App to Pick Up Gay Men on 'Real O'Neals'
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To Kenny O’Neal, the obnoxious teenaged gay stereotype on ABC's The Real O’Neals, a single gay man is not a gay man at all. To that end, the episode “The Real Dates” focuses on Kenny using a gay dating app. I suppose it’s preferable to him watching gay porn or going to a gay coffee bar, but with the way the show portrays it, the app’s not much better.
How to Get Away with a Gay Threesome on ABC
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Remember when How to Get Away with Murder's creator, Peter Nowalk, promised to use gay sex "to right the wrong of all of the straight sex that you see on TV?" On Thursday’s show, he uses a gay threesome as the tonic for Connor's (Jack Falahee) broken heart.
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ABC’s ‘Real O’Neals’ Stereotypes Gays for National Coming Out Day
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ABC renewed The Real O’Neals for another season. For the season premier, titled ‘The Real Thang,’ main character and gay teenager Kenny O’Neal (Noah Galvin) decides to start an LGBT group at his school in honor of National Coming Out Day.
Esquire Pundit: Pence, Trump Cut From Same Cloth of Crazy
Commentators on the right gave Mike Pence high marks for his showing in the vice-presidential debate, largely because he, unlike Donald Trump, articulates straight-no-chaser conservatism. To Pierce, however, the ideological divide between Pence and Trump is about as wide as a crack in the sidewalk. In a Wednesday post, Pierce predicted that even though Trump represents the “obvious culmination”…
NPR Boosts Pro-Abortion Group's Blitz For Hillary Clinton
NPR's Morning Edition on Thursday donated four minutes of air time to pro-abortion group EMILY's List, and helped it promote its ad blitz to elect Hillary Clinton and other left-wing Democrats. Renee Montagne played a clip from one of the organization's ads, and gave its president, Stephanie Schriock, a platform to hype Mrs. Clinton as a "a champion for women and families."
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Transgender Character Calls Penis 'Useless Evolutionary Artifact'
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NBC’s Code Black joined the latest Hollywood social justice craze of inserting random transgender characters into storylines to promote acceptance from its viewers. The same pop culture activism that helped normalize gay marriage has now taken up the transgender cause big time.
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Cuomo Repeatedly Frets Pence Was Not Pressed from Left on Gay Rights
If you watched most of Wednesday's New Day show on CNN, one thing that was clear is that co-host Chris Cuomo is just itching to see GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence challenged from the left on gay rights as he repeatedly brought up the issue -- mostly in the first couple of hours of the special four-hour edition of the show -- commenting on the topic six times in all. Perceiving Governor…
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‘Late Show’ Denigrates Bible, Jokes Pence Is Gay Giving Putin Blowjobs
As it did for the first presidential debate, CBS’s Late Show was live again on Tuesday night to comment on the vice presidential debate as host Stephen Colbert denigrated the Bible with a fake verse about Indiana pizza parlors and crudely joking that Republican nominee Mike Pence is gay giving blowjobs to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Maddow Producer: If Pence Is a ‘Normal’ GOPer, the Party’s ‘Unhealthy’
In a post headlined “To See Mike Pence as ‘Normal’ Is to Grade on a Generous Curve,” Steve Benen, who's also the primary blogger for the TRMS website, sought to demolish the idea that Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate will feature what Politico called “two conventional pols.” “As a matter of tone and temperament, Mike Pence is hardly scary: the governor is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken…
No Joke: Wonder Woman 'Obviously' 'Queer'
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“Is Wonder Woman queer?” asked Entertainment Weekly. Wonder Woman comic book writer Greg Rucka responded, “… yes, because otherwise it takes away from [her] heroism.” In an interview with Comicosity published on September 28, Rucka “confirmed that the character was queer” and said according to him and co-writer Nicola Scott, “[She] has been in love and had relationships with other women …”
‘Teen Vogue’ Celebrates Gender-Neutral Homecoming Court
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A Maryland high school student government association has abandoned the traditional monarchy without the consent of the governed. On September 23, the SGA officers of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School voted on a proposition to make its homecoming court policy more … “inclusive.” The SGA felt that having a “king” and a “queen” was too restrictive and gender-normative; thus, the group voted 4 to 1…
Transgenderism Can Be Helpful
North Carolina's legislative body passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which mandates a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of their sex. That means people must use bathrooms and other public facilities where occupants can be in various stages of undress according to whether…
Will Media Cover Gay ‘Micro-Aggressions’ Against Bisexuals?
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The LGBTQ movement strategically promotes an image of tolerance and acceptance – it’s good for their brand. Yet, after a closer look inside the ranks, it’s clear that division and prejudice exist between the community’s very members.
