April, 2020 ‣ The Gayly Mirror

Sam Smith and Taylor Swift to join One World Together At Home Concert with Lady Gaga

16Apr

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Sam Smith and Taylor Swift to join One World Together At Home Concert with Lady Gaga

One World Together At Home is going to be the event of the decade and will be used to raise money to fight Covid-19. One World Concert will raise money for health care workers through corporate contributions only, but even before this big show Lady Gaga and Global Citizen have been able to raise 35$ million for the World Health Organisation: all money that will be used to buy needed protective equipment for all healthcare workers. Lady Gaga said: “We have raised the money ahead of time and we’re going to continue fundraising before the show. So when you guys introduce the whole special, you can tell everyone to put your wallets away, put your money away because we don’t need it — we raised the money already!” Announcing the COVID-19 concert last week, as we also reported here, Lady...

Porn is the “silent and increasing deadly disease” and not Coronavirus, Religious Hate and Homophobic groups said.

15Apr

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Porn is the “silent and increasing deadly disease” and not Coronavirus, Religious Hate and Homophobic groups said.

Seriously gurl? Many websites providing legal porn material have offered free premium accounts to all their users, as a help and incentive to #StayHome and have something funny to do whether you are facing this isolation alone or with your partner. The use of sex toys, porn material and sex-cams significantly increased since the beginning of this pandemic due to Covid-19, but of course there people around the world who really have too much time to think about silly things when they could easily use their time to take advantage of a premium account on PornHub (just to give an example). In fact, Terry Schilling, executive director of the religious, homophobic and transphobic organisation The American Principles Project, wrote for The Federalist: “During a worldwide pandemic that has a...

San Francisco had to cancel their Historic 50th Anniversary Pride because of Covid-19

15Apr

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San Francisco had to cancel their Historic 50th Anniversary Pride because of Covid-19

It was a hard but due decision. During this pandemic caused by Covid-19 virus, unfortunately California has reported 23,338 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 758 deaths so far, and on Tuesday California’s governor Gavin Newsom said said that until the moment a vaccine is ready and given to population, no gatherings of over 100 people will be permitted. As we have reported here, unfortunately more than 100 Pride events around the world have been either postponed or cancelled, and San Francisco Pride organisers said it will join a constellation of Prides worldwide in a “Virtual Global Pride” on 27th June. Carolyn Wysinger, president of the Pride Board of Directors, said organisers had to avoid the Pride to become a sort of “ground zero” for Covid-19 spreading throughout the LGBT+ co...

Netflix announces a new show based on Antoni Porowski’s sexually-fluid life.

15Apr

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Netflix announces a new show based on Antoni Porowski’s sexually-fluid life.

Antoni Porowski always spoke freely about dating men and women. We all remember Queer Eye and one of his most enigmatic characters, Antoni Porowski who always refused to identify him-self as purely gay. According to Hollywood Reporter, Porowski developed the story with Black-ish creative Kenya Barris, Andrew Rhymer and Jeff Chan. Antoni has always spoken candidly about the fact that since he started dating men too, he found himself comparing his body to those of the men he dated. He said he always found himself comparing his own body to the men he dates, from the size of their biceps to the length of their legs…and so on. To GQ magazine he told: “I feel like if I do refer to myself as gay, which would make it easier for people to understand sometimes, I feel like it dishonou...

Demi Lovato and Sam Smith: the Olympic LGBT+ duo

14Apr

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Demi Lovato and Sam Smith: the Olympic LGBT+ duo

Are Olympic Games postponed because of Covid-19 pandemic? No worries, Smith and Lovato duo will make us dream anyway. The cover of their new single - out this Friday 17th April 2020 - pictures the two artists as a sport team ready to represent the LGBT+ community at the next Olympic Games, and honestly, we can’t wait for this single to be released. 'I'm Ready' is the latest track to be released from Sam’s third album which originally had to be called “To Die For”. A choice that resulted not to be the best one given the actual situation of the number of deaths for Coronavirus. The artist decided to postpone the effective release fo the album to a new date (t.b.c) and find a better name for it. This Monday, on his social media channels, Sam Smith wrote: “Incredibly happy to re...

Turkmenistan: young gay man brutally beaten because he was gay and HIV positive.

14Apr

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Turkmenistan: young gay man brutally beaten because he was gay and HIV positive.

Turkmenistan is not a country for gay people, and we already knew it. Life in Turkmenistan is extremely hard and threatening for the LGBT+ community, as gay and bisexual men can face up to two years of prison and where society is still living with a strong anti-gay and anti-queer feeling. This, anyhow, does not justify the horrific experience lived by a 23-year-old gay man, beaten by police, simply because he was HIV positive. Maskat - this is the name of this young boy - spoke anonymously to RadioFreeEurope and told his story to all listeners on line in that moment. Last December, Maksat visited a local HIV centre trying to access antiretroviral therapy. Nurses at the centre asked him to take a blood test and to return two days later, but when he went back to the centre, he foun...

Learn how to make a mask out of one of your jockstraps in 3 simple steps

11Apr

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Learn how to make a mask out of one of your jockstraps in 3 simple steps

Do It Yourself I know the news might be a bit old, but hey, I could not resist this, I had to report it. Let’s be honest with ourselves: we all have one or two jockstraps in our underwear drawer and we do like them a lot. But did you know you could turn it into a safe mask to go out and protect yourself from Covid-19? Emerson Collins - an American TV personality and actor - posted a video on his TikTok channel teaching us hot to make a mask out of a jockstrap! As reported from NYPost: “Don’t sew? Don’t worry: That DIY coronavirus face mask might be in your gym bag.” In his video, Emerson said: “I made a Jockstrap Mask Tutorial because I’m ridiculous”. It is a 1 minute video and in 3 easy steps you can get a fashionable, reusable and echo-friendly mask against Coronavirus. ...

Jade Thirlwall and Little Mix to possibly release a song dedicated to the Trans Community

10Apr

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Jade Thirlwall and Little Mix to possibly release a song dedicated to the Trans Community

You need to practice what you preach. Little Mix just released “Break Up Song” as the lead single from their upcoming sixth studio album, and Jade together with longtime collaborator Camille Purcell wrote a song that they think it is perfect to represent Trans people around the world. Jade Thirlwall from Little Mix spoke to Glamour last week, and said it’s essential for people to be allies of the LGBT+ community, especially during this hard time we are all facing because of Covid-19. She also said: “We’re all in self isolation and some LGBT+ people might be in a home or a family environment where they’re not very supportive of being who they are. So, if you know anybody who is in that circumstance, reach out to them, message them, show them how much you support and love them – there...

A Filippino politician created very homophobic and shameful punishments for LGBT+ people not respecting isolation amid Covid-19 pandemic.

9Apr

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A Filippino politician created very homophobic and shameful punishments for LGBT+ people not respecting isolation amid Covid-19 pandemic.

Filippino’s craziness. A Filipino politician reportedly forced some LGBT+ people - which did not respect isolation during this Coronavirus pandemic - to kiss each other and perform “sexy dance” in front of minors and other people as a punishment. Christopher Bombing Punzalan - this is the name of this captain (elected chairman) of the Pandacaqui barangay (district) - he particularly targeted LGBT+ people (according to Rappler) and if he found them out of their houses “breaking the rules” of Covid-19 curfew, he started punishing them in very humiliating ways. He also posted a series of Facebook live videos of him confronting a group breaking the 8pm lockdown curfew, those videos have now been deleted. (Who know why?) He accused a group of gay people he found out in the streets to be o...

Halle Berry shutting down homophobic followers shaming her son walking on heels

9Apr

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Halle Berry shutting down homophobic followers shaming her son walking on heels

“Well it’s a he and he is having a ball.” Halle Berry recently posted a video of her son Maceo walking in their house wearing a pair of fantastic, fabulous, glamourous white high-heeled boots and the capture said: “Quarantine day 12” https://www.instagram.com/p/B-IG1bYDutd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The actress received loads of friendly, lovely and encouraging comments like the one below But idiocy is always around the corner and homophobic, hatred comments were posted too: “Stop acting like this is normal,” “Nothing fun about this,” “Please don’t let this kid think this is alright,” “My son never played in heels” “His mother is making him gay?” Gurlz, c’mon! Do you really think that people “become” gay? Still in 2020? We are born this way! Get ov...