The AggreGAYtor: August 23

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

James Franco's Cruising: Steamy
James Franco's Cruising: Steamy (by out.com)

Kathy Griffin invents the remix, James Franco takes up Cruising, and Dan Savage breaks bread. Today’s AggreGAYtor is letting them eat cake.

• Tampa bathhouse is hoping to bring GOP delegates to the poles with free admission.

New York Magazine discovers existence of agender people.

• In one of the most confusing missives from the culture wars, UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children warns that gay marriage leads to abortions.

• New Nielson report reveals that a third of American TV watching is spent on LGBT inclusive shows. No word on whether Ryan Murphy’s checkbox tokenism counts as “inclusive.”

• NOM’s Brian Brown and Dan Savage debate gay marriage in the most awkward dinner party since The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. While I appreciate the sentiment, nothing quite makes me bristle like the suggestion that our lives are up for debate.

• The AggreGAYtor is still hoping that GOProud is staging an elaborate performance art piece in endorsing Tammy Baldwin’s anti-gay opponent.

Avril Lavigne has dated a seven layer dip of middling male recording artists and reality also-rans, but it took the love of Chad Kroeger to quell the lesbian rumors. Although the AggreGAYtor must remind some media outlets that sexuality is not binary, he would like to think that no LGBTQ person would associate themselves with Nickleback.

• Singapore’s high court considers constitutionality of gay sex laws.

• Ohio judge extends Title VII protections to sexual orientation.

• Transgender talk show set to debut in Korea. Let’s hope they do a better job than their American counterpoints.

• Scammers target Indian LGBTQ community through dating site.

• Cincinnati citizen becomes 9th reported gender-nonconforming murder victim this year.

• Atlanta Police settle HIV discrimination case.

• Mexico high court rules that same-sex marriages performed in Mexico City must be recognized nationwide.

• Oh Kathy Griffin. You don't have to work so hard for the LGBTQ community to like you.

• Here’s a new one: The Alliance for Freedom likens LGBTQ activism with racism.

• Moderate Democrat group Third Way offers primer for candidates on how to frame marriage equality positions. God forbid any politician saying that it is just the right thing to do.

• Zimbabwe LGBTQ activists are still being harassed after recent raid.

• Arizona congressional race heats up amid charges of homophobic campaigning.

• Omnipresent post-human James Franco graphically recreates the deleted scenes from Cruising in latest project .

Fox News coffee klatch says some seriously effed-up shit about asexuality.

• Appeals court upholds Texas' right to be a he-man woman hater.

• The AggreGAYtor wishes to express his admiration for everyone in this great state working for progressive causes. It takes a ton of perseverance to keep up the fight in a state that keeps electing officials like Judge Tom Head.

A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands.

Support the Chronicle  

READ MORE
More News
The AggreGAYtor: June 1
The AggreGAYtor
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

David Estlund, June 1, 2015

The AggreGAYtor: May 29
The AggreGAYtor
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

David Estlund, May 29, 2015

More by Brandon Watson
My Obsession: Therapy With Nineties Supermodels
My Obsession: Therapy With Nineties Supermodels
Escape via the long gay tradition of diva worship

Sept. 15, 2017

Review: Holy Roller
Review: Holy Roller
The personal is edible at Callie Speer’s new hot spot

Sept. 8, 2017

KEYWORDS FOR THIS POST

News, Kathy Griffin, James Franco, Dan Savage, New York Magazine, Nielson Ratings, Diversity, Ryan Murphy, Glee, Brian Brown, National Organization for Marriage, GOProud, Tammy Baldwin, 2012 Election, Avril Lavigne, Chad Kroeger, Transgender, Homophobia, HIV/AIDS, Alliance for Freedom

MORE IN THE ARCHIVES
One click gets you all the newsletters listed below

Breaking news, arts coverage, and daily events

Keep up with happenings around town

Kevin Curtin's bimonthly cannabis musings

Austin's queerest news and events

Eric Goodman's Austin FC column, other soccer news

Information is power. Support the free press, so we can support Austin.   Support the Chronicle