Same-sex weddings to begin in Scotland this week

Marriage equality will finally come to the entirety of the isle of Great Britain when same-sex marriages begin in Scotland this coming Wednesday. The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act, which was overwhelmingly passed by the Scottish Parliament in February, came into effect earlier this month, reports Pink News. Scotland enforces a 15-day notice period…

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Author of ‘Brokeback Mountain’: ‘I wish I’d never written the story’

Annie Proulx, the author of the original Brokeback Mountain story has said that she wishes she had never written the story. Proulx, who wrote the 1997 short story, which was adapted in 2005 into the Oscar-winning film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal,  told interviewer Christopher Cox in the Paris Review that Jack and Ennis…

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Watch: ‘Holiday Chandelier’ parody set at Ikea (VIDEO)

Sia’s “Chandelier” which features the young dancer Maddie Ziegler of reality TV show Dance Moms, was stunning and quickly inspired countless remakes and  parodies by everyone from “Girls” star Lena Dunham to Jim Carrey and Kate Mckinnon, reports the Huffington Post. Now filmmaker Ryan James Yezak has decided to set his holiday take on “Chandelier”…

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Taco Bell on leaked gay commercial: ‘We didn’t create this ad’ (VIDEO)

Taco Bell has said they did not create a gay-themed commercial featuring two men cuddling and a same-sex wedding that leaked onto the Internet. In the well produced commercial, which can be seen above, two buddies stop at the fast food chain for a “breakfast pitstop” and then one of them ponders aloud, “I wonder…

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Anti same-sex marriage Florida Republican named ‘Loser of the Year’

Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has spent most of the year trying to stop the progress of marriage equality has been named ‘Loser of the Year’ by the Tampa Bay Times this week. Twice-divorced Bondi was re-elected in November 2014, previously claimed in a legal brief that “disrupting Florida’s existing marriage laws would impose…

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The death of the transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ myth?

For years, efforts to pass laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination in employment and public accommodations have been derailed by the right-wing myth that sexual predators will exploit those laws to sneak into women’s restrooms. In 2014, that myth finally began to lose steam, reports Media Matters For America in their latest post. Anti-LGBT activists…

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