OK church members beat gay couple

I've really come to expect this of the church, but it sickens me that this guy's family lured him there. He was trying to make them happy and they do this shit. Sickening!

Sean Cormie, a newly out gay man, and his boyfriend, Gary Gardner, were attacked at First Assembly of God in Blackwell, Oklahoma after being lured there by Cormie's family.

Cormie says that he is traumatized by what happened.

"I wanted to go to church to make my mom proud and make her happy."

What started off as a normal service soon turned ugly when the pastor began preaching directly at Cormie and Gardner that homosexuality was "an abomination."

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LGBTQ people still struggle in Hollywood

I think Rupert Everett hit the nail square on the head. Hollywood is an ultra-conservative trying to pretend to be ultra-liberal. Personally, I don't care if the character is heterosexual, homosexual, transgendered, or a fuckin' ALIEN as long as their presence is part of the story. Their presence should enhance the story and move the plot along. I have no time for gratuitous sex, violence, or your little token lgbt character. I've never really liked Kristen Stewart because I feel she has the personality of a wet noodle.

In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, actor Kristen Stewart, who has been romantically linked to model Stella Maxwell since 2017, said, “I have fully been told, ‘If you just like do yourself a favor, and don’t go out holding your girlfriend’s hand in public, you might get a Marvel movie.’ I don’t want to work with people like that.”

Stewart has said publicly she does not identify as bisexual or lesbian, and doesn’t want to choose a label for her sexuality. In the same interview she added, “I was informed by an old school mentality, which is — you want to preserve your career and your success and your productivity, and there are people in the world who don’t like you, and they don’t like that you date girls, and they don’t like that you don’t identify as a quote unquote ‘lesbian’, but you also don’t identify as a quote unquote ‘heterosexual’. And people like to know stuff, so what the fuck are you?’”

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HRC to Host a 2020 LGBTQ Town Hall

I know other "special interest groups" want debates on their topic, but none of them are willing to host anything themselves, like Human Rights Campaign.

A prominent LGBTQ rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced Thursday that it will host a presidential town hall on LGBTQ issues next month. The event will air on CNN.

LGBTQ advocacy groups told ThinkProgress that they know exactly what ideas they want to hear discussed at the town hall set for Oct. 10, which is National Coming Out Day. Many said that first and foremost, they want candidates to acknowledge the struggles of the most marginalized in the community, including LGBTQ people of color, and put forward policies to respond to anti-LGBTQ bias in the criminal justice system.

“LGBTQ people are more likely to come into contact with the police due to discriminatory policing, be incarcerated, and experience violence while locked up than non-LGBTQ people. Black and Latinx LGBTQ people are most impacted,” Tyrone Hanley, senior policy counsel for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, told ThinkProgress.

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