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  • Roger Stone Suspended From Twitter After Reporter Rants

    The Stone Zone has been taken off Twitter. Incendiary Republican adviser Roger Stone has been suspended from the social network — and might be gone for good — after unleashing foul-mouthed insults … (more…)

  • Larry Flynt: “Things are getting interesting” on the hunt for info that will impeach Trump

    Porn King, Larry Flynt has revealed that his search for information that could lead to the impeachment and removal of President Trump is getting “Interesting”.

    Larry Flynt has advertised that he will give away $10million in a public campaign to anyone who can offer up information that leads to the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump from office. The Hustler magazine founder called the 45th President “illegitimate”.

    Taking to his Twitter account, Flynt today wrote, “Things are getting interesting… Let me know if you got the goods! Hotline: 800-251-2714 or hustlertipline@lfp.com – LET’S DO THIS”

    Over the weekend Flynt launched a campaign to find information that can lead to the impeachment of a president he has called “illegitimate” before slamming the US’s electoral system as “antiquated”.

    The ad reads,

    Larry Flynt and the Hustler(R) Magazine announce a cash offer of up to $10 million for the information leading to the impeachment and removal from office of Donald J. Trump.

  • Trump Mocks Pence For Wanting to ‘Hang All Gay People’

    Trump Mocks Pence For Wanting to 'Hang All Gay People'

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    Donald Trump loves reminding his underlings who is in charge, and gets a kick out of joking about Mike Pence’s bigoted, anti- gay ideologies to his face. Those are just two examples from an inside look at the pair’s relationship, as well as the vice president’s rise to the White House, published in a bombshell New Yorker article Monday morning. (more…)

  • This porn baron just offered a cool $10m to anyone who can provide information to impeach Trump

    Hustler Magazine founder, Larry Flynt has offered $10M to anyone who can provide information that leads to the impeachment and removal from office of President Trump.

    Larry Flint has launched a campaign to find information that can lead to the impeachment of a president he has called “illegitimate” before slamming the US’s electoral system as “antiquated”.

    The ad says,

    Larry Flynt and the Hustler(R) Magazine announce a cash offer of up to $10 million for the information leading to the impeachment and removal from office of Donald J. Trump.

    Flynt tweeted the ad from his account, which has now been retweeted 76,000 times and liked over 150,000 times. The ad was also placed in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post saying that… “impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair, but the alternative — three more years of destabilizing dysfunction — is worse”.

    A freephone helpline has been set up to obtain information that could lead to the impeachment of Donald J Trump, the 45th President of the USA.

    TOLL FREE

    In the ad, Flynt writes that he’s seeking anyone who could provide a “smoking gun” and suggests that info could be buried away in Trump’s financial affairs. He also asks if Trump made “some financial quid pro quo with the Russians?”

    Anyone with information is invited to call a freephone number which would be hosted for two weeks.

    A PLAN THAT WORKS?

    This is not the first time that Flynt has pulled off a stunt like this. In 2007 he offered $1million for information on anyone who had a sexual affair with a member of Congress or government official and again in 1998 offered $1million for information – which eventually led to the resignation of Republican Congressman Bob Livingston, who was in line to be speaker of the House.

    In 2012 he offered $1million for then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns.

  • Trump fails to recognise National Coming Out Day

    Another day, another snub from America’s number 1.

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    President Donald Trump’s claim of being a better ally to the “gay community” is fast unravelling after failing to recognise yesterday’s National Coming Out Day. This is in stark contrast to the former President, Obama, who used social media to send a message of solidarity during his time in office.

    This is just one of his failures to support or recognise LGBT people since coming into office in January 2017.

    Trump didn’t mention the day at all – an echo of his failure to recognise LGBT+ Pride Month in June earlier this year, instead opted to make the month about: National Caribbean-American Heritage, African-American Music Appreciation, National Oceans, National Home Ownership, Father’s Day and National Flag week.

    June had been LGBT Pride month for the past 8 years.

    National Coming Out Day is an annual event, which takes place on the 11th October to celebrate and spread awareness of the process and experiences faced by LGBT+ people. The first one was celebrated in 1988.

    So instead of reminding his 40 million followers on Twitter about the day, his took the opportunity to call out NBC for “fake news” and seemingly challenged their right to a broadcasting license. He also slammed NFL players who chose not to stand during the American National Anthem – a protest undertaken by many players to protest police brutality towards BAMEs.

    The #NationalComingOutDay trended on Twitter all day and had over 500,000 tweets using the hashtag.

  • President Trump Ignores National Coming Out Day

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    President Donald Trump has once again failed to acknowledge a day relevant to the LGBTQ community, as he mentioned nothing about National Coming Out Day. Unlike Trump, President Barack Obama shared messages of support to the LGBTQ community during his tenure. He encouraged Americans to celebrate Pride Month and posting Twitter messages on National Coming Out… (more…)

  • Trump Administration Argues Against LGBTQ Protections

    Why does President Donald Trump care about what gay people do in the bedroom?

    The question came up this week, when a lawyer for Trump’s Department of Justice argued that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect LGBT+ Americans from being fired because of their sexual orientation…

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  • President Trump: I’ve got respect for the Trans community

    President Trump has responded to criticism over banning transgender people from working in the military by suggesting that he got a “lot of votes” from LGBT people.

    Trump has responded to criticism levelled at him after he vowed that transgender personnel would be forbidden from working in the US military last month.

    Taking to Twitter the President said,

    “I have great respect for the community… I think I’ve had great support, or I’ve had great support from that community. I got a lot of votes.

    “But the transgender, the military’s working on it now… It’s been a very difficult situation and I think I’m doing a lot of people a favour by coming out and just saying it.”

    He added,

    “As you know, it’s been a very complicated issue for the military, and I think I’m doing the military a great favour.”

    Last month, after consulting with his generals and “military experts”, Trump announced that transgender people will be banned from service. This is in stark contrast to the Obama administration which allowed transgender people to serve their country openly last year.

    The announcement was also in contrast to Trump’s pledge to protect LGBT people during his election campaign. Taking to Twitter in June 2016 he said that he would “fight” for the community.

    The cost of transgender staff?

    Initially, the cost of looking after trans personnel was cited as a reason for the decision. In his original statement, he said,

    In a series of tweets, Mr Trump wrote,

    “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.

    “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”

    However further analysis by our political editor, Skylar Baker-Jordan shows,

    Thousands of trans people are already serving – many of them openly – in the US armed forces and the Department of Defense has found no evidence that they undermine unit cohesion. Additionally, a 2016 study commissioned by the Department of Defense to study this very issue found that an “exceedingly small portion of active-component health care expenditures” was spent on trans people, with trans healthcare representing only a .0005 to .017 per cent total increase on defence spending.

  • Gay marriage “fine” by Donald Trump

    Gay marriage “fine” by Donald Trump

    Donald Trump has said that the gay marriage laws in the US are “fine” and “done”.

    CREDIT: By Michael Vadon [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsFollowing last week’s shock US Presidental election result in which Donald Trump was made President-elect, many gay rights activists have raised concerned that the same-sex marriage law, which was enacted in 2015 would be repeal.

    Concern was sparked when Trump said that he would “consider” the repeal of the legislation during an interview with Fox News during his presidential campaign.

    However, seeming to calm some concerns, the President-elect said during his CBS 60 Minutes interview, that gay marriage was “fine” with him and the courts had decided to rule in favour of same-sex marriage and it was “done”.

    He said,

    “it’s done,” adding “these cases have gone to the Supreme Court, they’ve been decided. And I’m fine with that,” adding that his views on the subject are “irrelevant.”

    Trump has in the past said that he does not believe that gay people should be discriminated against, but that he was against gay marriage.

     

     

  • Six quotes that made Harvey Milk Great

    Six quotes that made Harvey Milk Great

    Harvey Milk would have been 83 years old if Dan White hadn’t killed him in 1978. Today Harvey Milk Day is celebrated to remind us all how incredible his achievements were and to give all LGBT people around the world Hope.

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    “It takes no compromise to give people their rights…it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.” – Harvey Milk

    “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.” – Harvey Milk

    From a tape recording he made when he predicted his assassination:

    “All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.” – Harvey Milk

    On the rights of the young:

    “Hope will never be silent.” – Harvey Milk

    “The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us’es, the us’es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.” – Harvey Milk

    Tape recorded, said in the last year of his life.

    “All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.” – Harvey Milk