G9: The Rainbow Room

[KevanG]

I always feel odd at weddings but that's usually because I'm not invited and don't know anyone.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I always feel odd at weddings but that's usually because I'm not invited and don't know anyone.

And then there's the matter of your lack of pants.

 

[Silvermoth]

Weddings are super odd when you dont have a date. Im not sure how much you're reading into it or how litteral their reasons are.

Its not uncommon for singles to be seated together

Possibly. Honestly, I don't care that much. Unless someone tries to set me up with anyone

Anyway, doesn't matter really because I'm talking to a really nice guy at the moment and he seems really sweet. We're going to have our first date on the 30th. Wish us luck!

 

[Sawyer]

IT'S AARON TVEIT, YOU GAYS!!!

Sorry about that outburst, guys. The lack of Hunks thread does these things to me.

 

[Majik1387]

Yummmmmmm

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Anna Kendrick is my spirit animal...

Anna Kendrick ✔ @AnnaKendrick47
Finger crossed Danny's shorts get smaller with every cut away #GreaseLive

http://www.justjared.com/2016/02/01/anna-kendrick-live-tweeted-grease-live-read-every-tweet/

 

[Schlosser85]

Whether he's a '50s greaser or an 1800s French revolutionary, Aaron Tveit makes any wardrobe attractive.

 

[Silvermoth]

Oh my gosh I watched him last night. He's so dreamy. His hips are made of wow.

Hey I have my first official date this Saturday? What should I do when I meet him? Shake his hand or just wave hi? Or hug him?

Actually ginger spice said in the best movie ever some monkeys pee on each other to show attraction but I assume this would be an incorrect option to go with?

 

[Schlosser85]

Ya never know, some people are into that...

 

[Pink Ranger]

Oh my gosh I watched him last night. He's so dreamy. His hips are made of wow.

Hey I have my first official date this Saturday? What should I do when I meet him? Shake his hand or just wave hi? Or hug him?

Actually ginger spice said in the best movie ever some monkeys pee on each other to show attraction but I assume this would be an incorrect option to go with?

Not that I am in favour of emulating straight men all the time, but I love that "bro-hug" they do, where you grasp hands like you're arm wrestling and then pull each other in for a manly hug. That's awesome, I picture Achilles and Patroclus doing that right before they disembowel someone on the battlefield and make love afterward.

I completely missed Grease Live, but I have a good excuse: I was on train coming back from another country after attending a production of Pippin.

 

[Silvermoth]

Oh well that is a good excuse but make sure you try and track it down because it was wonderful. Vanessa Hudgens was a revelation.

Haha maybe I'll hold off from peeing and bro hugging right away until at least the second date. We're meeting in a public area so I better not flop it out for one. I guess I'll just wait to see what he does.

He really seems nice you guys, I really hope it all works out

 

[Silvermoth]

Btw this article about the religious right freaking out because captain America might not be straight is hilarious

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/02/0...rainbow-mafia-to-leave-captain-america-alone/

 

[Schlosser85]

What is he even talking about? Captain America has never even been implied to be anything other than straight outside of slash fanfiction.

That, and he sounds like a five year old screaming about how gays have cooties.

 

[KevanG]

I dunno about that.





I posted these before but they needed to be shown again.

 

[Silvermoth]

Haha I'm always hear for some cap shipping.

Yeah it's pretty funny though. It's very much one of those grown men crying because other children want to play with their toys and they haven't learned how to share yet. It's frankly hilarious

 

[Sawyer]

I think Steve Grand's instagram just made me implode.

 

[Silvermoth]

Oh wow that good? You should check out Pietro boselli's instagram. So hawt.

My date went really well last Saturday I really hope it all works out OK with us

 

[Pink Ranger]

Nice.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...56250e4b08ffac127b0eb?utm_hp_ref=queer-voices

I always get a good laugh out of the reactions from some people, when a large scale corporation reminds them that gay people exist.

 

[Silvermoth]

Ha! It's annoying that people still loose their nut over it.

Still, I'm so glad Nike has put into every contract a clause that says they won't loose their endorsement if someone comes out or transitions. Good for them!

 

[Teelie]

Administrators Told This Lesbian Student Her T-Shirt Was ‘Open Invitation To Sex.’ She Sued Them.

The irony here is if it said she was proud to be a Christian or straight they almost certainly would not have said a single thing about it. Instead they claimed she might be in a lesbian sex gang that wants to let everyone know they are out there, hunting for your daughters to do carnal things to them.

I remember in schools I went to where students wore stuff proudly promoting their own personal beliefs (almost always a Conservative Christian who wants to make it absolutely clear they are a Conservative Christian) and no school officials said a single thing about its inappropriateness. Of course none had anything about being gay or anything and that was a while ago before the internet exploded.

It is good to see that these kinds of things are getting called out now and being shot down instead of ignored and how quickly acceptance has been adopted by the students (the adults on the other hand aren't quite there yet in a lot of these situations).

Taylor Victor will now be allowed to wear a T-shirt that identifies her as a lesbian, after reaching a settlement with her school district that resulted in an update to the student dress code.

Last fall, Victor wore a shirt to her Northern California school that read, “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian.” She said she wore it ironically because she is open about her sexuality. The administration reprimanded her and gave a slew of defenses for that decision, saying the T-shirt was “disruptive” an “open invitation to sex,” could be “gang-related,” and that students couldn’t wear shirts that stated their “personal choices and beliefs.”

In response, Victor sued two administration officials with the representation of the ACLU. The Manteca Unified School District reached a settlement with the ACLU this week. Although the school district denied wrongdoing, it agreed to change its dress code to make it clear that students can wear clothes that support either their own identities on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, race, religion and other identities, or support their classmates identities, without retribution from the administration.

The acknowledgement of identities broader than sexual orientation makes sense given previous statements made by an administrator regarding other messages that wouldn’t be allowed on shirts. In a post for Medium, Victor said the assistant principal also told ACLU lawyers that T-shirts with messages such as “I support interracial marriage” and “I support evolution” could be considered against the dress code.

The school district also agreed to protect Victor from any harassment that may result of wearing the shirt, to train its administrators on student expression, and to pay over $60,000 in attorneys fees and costs for the ACLU of Northern California.

Settlements like these are important because they show administrators that attempts to restrict LGBT students’ pride in their identities, and allies’ support of their identities, are not legally feasible. Although administrators attempt to use the popular claim that LGBT-themed T-shirts are “disruptive,” since disruption to student learning has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines case as a legitimate reason for limiting student expression, it usually can’t be applied in this scenario. It could be seen as discriminating against a certain point of view if other messages are allowed on T-shirts, and it is becoming more difficult for administrators to argue a shirt supporting LGBT people is actually disruptive.

Lewdness, another standard for administration interference in student speech, is also a popular argument in these scenarios. One administrator claimed Victor’s T-shirt was an invitation to sex. But stating one’s sexuality and making a specific reference to sexual acts themselves are two different things, as Victor said she tried to explain to the administrator when the incident occurred.

Many other LGBT students are still encountering restrictions on their free speech, and these stories quickly gain national attention through news sites and social media. Just a month before Victor’s incident, it was reported that a lesbian student, Briana Popour, was suspended at Chesnee High School in South Carolina for wearing the exact same T-shirt as Victor.

The student’s mother told a local television station that an administrator said he does “not like people in his school wearing anything that says anything about lesbians, gays or bisexuals.” The school overturned the suspension, with the school district spokesperson Rhonda Henderson stating to U.S. News and World Report that the administration “realized that although the shirt was offensive and distracting to some adults in the building, the students were paying it little attention.”

Administrators also used the “disruption” defense in the case of Texas students wearing “Gay O.K.” T-shirts to discourage bullying of gay students. They claimed the T-shirts were disruptive to student learning, although legal experts say the disruption was probably perpetrated not by students, but administrators, since they chose to line students outside the cafeteria and asked them to turn the shirts inside out, drawing considerably more attention than the shirts would have on their own. A spokesperson eventually released a statement saying that the administrators should not have asked students to take off or change shirts.

Think Progress

 

[Silvermoth]

I just thank beyonce every day people who are like that are dying out every day.

Btw is anyone else crushed that the midnighter series was cancelled recently? I'm so sad. I'm thinking of buying myself a midnighter tshirt to console myself

 

[Silvermoth]

Our prime minister announced a review into lgbtiq services that help kids with their sexuality and tell other kids not to bully them today. He and his kind were afraid it was secretly a "gay manual" that was there to indoctrinate kids. (This is seriously what Australian leaders still think in 2016)

Our religious programmes that actually are there to indoctrinate kids haven't been touched of course. This is so awful. Australia just seems to get worse and worse while it seems every western nation is actually trying to improve

 

[Teelie]

South Dakota governor considers transgender restroom bill

Much like Washington state, they fear those transgender people are really just pervs looking to see other people's junk.

The article itself is too long to repost but the whole thing can be read at the link here.

Just like any other high school senior, 18-year-old Thomas Lewis is looking forward to life after graduation.

He's considering attending the University of Minnesota in the fall and studying linguistics, something his mother thinks might be his true calling due to his love of languages.

However, while other teens at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, might be thinking right now about prom and graduation day, Lewis has been taking time off from school to appeal to the state legislature and Gov. Dennis Daugaard -- speaking out against a bill that could affect him and other transgender students.

Lewis was born a girl, but says he began to identify more as a boy when he was about 4 years old. He now lives openly as a boy, with the support of his family and friends.

He's hoping to persuade Daugaard to reject a proposed measure that would restrict the use of school restrooms and locker rooms to students of the same biological sex, meaning transgender students would have to use the restroom of the sex they were born with, not the one with which they identify now.

The legislation -- which passed the South Dakota Senate last week by a 20-15 vote -- says that students who don't identify as their biological gender may not use facilities designated for students of the opposite sex when those students might be present. Transgender students will instead be provided with a "reasonable accommodation" -- defined in the proposal as the use of "a single-occupancy restroom, a unisex restroom, or the controlled use of a restroom, locker room, or shower room that is designated for use by faculty."

It also orders that no "undue hardship" be placed on a school district -- possibly referring to the construction of separate restrooms -- and explains that private schools are exempt from the "reasonable accommodation" clause.

The governor told reporters Thursday that he's still going through testimony and documents, as well as considering what he's heard from the bill's proponents and those opposing it. Daugaard said he will continue deliberating through this weekend, even as hometown friends come in for a long-ago planned visit.

He must sign it into law or veto it by March 1 -- but if he does nothing, the measure will become law without his signature, making South Dakota the first state in the country to restrict bathroom and locker room use by transgender people.

"I have until Tuesday," Daugaard said of his decision. "... I want to do it well. I certainly want to do it as quickly as possible, but it's most important to do it well."

'I'm being that voice for them'

It's not clear how many transgender students there are in South Dakota. Many are afraid to go public with their gender identity for fear of reprisals and worries about alienating friends and family members.

Lewis recently appeared before a state committee to tell legislators why he thinks the proposed law would be harmful. He said he's speaking out for other transgender students at his school who are not "completely out like me."

"I'm being that voice for them," he said.

The bill makes him feel that he's "not human enough to use the bathroom with everyone else," Lewis told CNN this week while sitting at home after school, playing with his four cats. "I mean, you can make a third bathroom by isolating me with other transgender students in a place where it's easier to get picked on. It's like having to go off into the problem box."

Lewis' mom, Rachiel Reurink, said she's so proud of him.

"My son is awesome. I mean, it is so fortunate that he sees that he has support and can say 'I am in a safe place, I am going to fight for people who aren't in that place,'" she said. Her husband, Lewis' stepfather, died just two months ago, leaving her to raise Thomas and his teenage brother alone.

CNN

 

[KevanG]

I think all bills like this should include gender checking women with any amount facial hair or men who look too androgynous.

That'll fix the moral decay of America.