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Marissa Powell, Miss Utah, was asked about the income disparity between men and women at the Miss USA pageant last night and instead of answering the question properly she created a viral video the likes of which hasn't been seen since Miss Teen South Carolina Caitlin Upton in 2007. Congratulations. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... In related news, Miss Connecticut Erin Brady was crowned the winner.

Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is out this November and its first trailer features LEonardo DiCaprio indulging in the kind of excess that only a stock market bubble can bring. The film is based on a memoir by New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort and co-stars Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey. The film's raucous trailer is set to the overture of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead" from Yeezus. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

In her new documentary, The New Black, debuting later this month at AFI Docs Festival in Washington DC, Yoruba Richen explores the relationship between the gay civil rights movement and the African American community. Richen hopes to countermand the narrative that African Americans are more homophobic than other segments of society, a notion that took hold after the passage of Proposition 8. She tells Politico: "This [idea] was largely because of an incorrect exit poll that initially reported...

In a muscular promotional tie-in, The National Guard shows potential recruits how their workout regimen would be just like Henry Cavill's as he prepared for Man of Steel. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

(dimiter kenarov) The resistance against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government in Istanbul's Taksim Square has inspired some of the largest and most violent demonstrations there in years. The protests, revealing a simmering discontent with growing authoritarianism and fueled by the proposed demolition of the city's Gezi Park, have brought together many of Istanbul's minority groups, including LGBTs. Bulgarian journalist Dimiter Kenarov agreed to share some of his photos on ...

Nearly a month ago to the day, France legalized same-sex marriage, and in honor of the momentous occasion Google created an advertisement for its video-chatting system, Google Hangouts. The ad looks at several French gay couples who use the technology as a way to get around France's previous restriction on same-sex marriage, engaging in remote weddings with Belgian officiators. The organization "Together for equality," or "Tous Unis Pour L'Egalite" is the power behind the video weddings. It j...

Ricky Martin brings his new single "Come With Me" to Australia's The Voice, where he has been serving as a coach. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

President Obama salutes strong parents, families, and all kinds of fatherhood in his Father's Day message, saying, in part: I never really knew my own father. I was raised by a single mom and two wonderful grandparents who made incredible sacrifices for me. And there are single parents all across the country who do a heroic job raising terrific kids. But I still wish I had a dad who was not only around, but involved; another role model to teach me what my mom did her best to instill – values ...

Two Boy Scout leaders have been chastised by officials from the organization and told to sign an apology letter for marching with several uniformed Scouts in the Utah Pride Parade in Salt Lake City two weeks ago. The two leaders, Peter Brownstein and Neil Whitaker marched in the June 2 parade to celebrate the organization's historic vote last month to allow gay youths. Officials with the Boy Scouts of America's Great Salt Lake Council, however, say Brownstein and Whitaker violated the organiz...

BY OCCUPY THE DISCO / TADEU MAGALHÃES The OXD Mirror is a weekly music column brought to you by the boys of OCCUPY THE DISCO (OXD), a New York City based movement created by three music lovers, Ru Bhatt, Josh Appelbaum, and Tadeu Magalhães, who want to share their love for disco, house and dance music with the world. Todd Terje: 'Strandbar (Disko)' At this point, we've featured many tracks and re-works by disco-head Todd Terje here on The OXD Mirror, but in case you are not familiar with his ...

A new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi dystopian thriller from District 9's Neil Blomkamp. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Here's a fascinating new clip from the documentary Call Me Kuchu, opening today in New York. The film documents the story of slain Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato and others prominent in that country's struggle. If you missed the trailer, which is amazing, you should watch it HERE. You may remember that in October 2010 Uganda's Rolling Stone tabloid published the names and addresses of 100 "top homos" and called for them to be hanged. In the days that followed its publication at least four o...

THE AIRBUS A350: Takes its first flight. YOUR LIFE AS A DOG: Just in case you were wondering. COLIN AND JOE: A gay binational couple fights uncertainty brought on by DOMA. GOD IS GAY: Elliot Darrow, performing for University of North Carolina during finals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.

Gay artist/activist Leo Herrera shares with Towleroad his piece The Fortune Teller, which fuses words, sounds, and images from across five decades of gay culture. Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP... Writes Herrera, of his compelling collage: The story is told through the trance of The Fortune Teller (played by Stanley Frank) and created using archival and modern footage. The film is a documentary and time capsule, paying homage to psychedelic films of the 1960′s and the modern art of the YouTube ...

Cheyenne Jacksonfinds lessons on the street in his new video "Don't Look at Me". Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

One Direction has a new promo from the boy band's upcoming fragrance, and it features a smooch on the cheeck between Harry Styles and Zayn Malik. Check out the whole promo for "One Moment", AFTER THE JUMP...

The Leffew family (you may recall their son's powerful letter to Chief Justice John Roberts on marriage equality) throws a funeral for Proposition 8 in advance of the SCOTUS decision. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... Let's all hope it doesn't come back as a zombie.

An important and touching Father's Day message from Freedom to Marry and the Campaign for Southern Equality. Mark Maxwell and Tim Young of North Carolina are foster parents to four boys ranging in age from 12 to 23. They are unable to jointly adopt the boys because despite being married in Washington, DC this year, the state of North Carolina prohibits adoption by same-sex couples. Mark and Tim share their story of why marriage matters so much to their family. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Authors Christopher Bram, Dorothy Allison, Martin Duberman, Elana Dykewomon, Michael Nava, Joseph Caldwell, Ned Rorem, and Lisa Alther talk about being LGBT in a tribute to Pride Month from Open Road Media. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... I hope you've enjoyed the book reviews we've been posting recently. If you missed them, check out Garth Greenwell's reviews of Gerbrand Bakker's Ten White Geese, Jonathan Kemp's London Triptych, Benjamin Alire Saenz's Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club...

Arrests are being made at a GetEQUAL protest over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) at House Speaker John Boehner's office, according to Buzzfeed reporter Chris Geidner, who tweets these photos. Watch videos, AFTER THE JUMP... UPDATE: More from Geidner at Buzzfeed... After several of the GetEqual activists told their stories of discrimination — or, in one case, a mother’s story about discrimination faced by her daughter — they then demanded that Boehner commit to holding a vote on ...

Leaders of the fight for marriage equality in Minnesota appear in a new video for Twin Cities PRIDE as the state celebrates its first LGBT Pride since passage of the new law. Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP... In related news, MN United PAC, the political fund formed by gay marriage advocacy group Minnesotans United for All Families, announced its “Minnesota 15″ initiative to assist the pro-equality lawmakers running for reelection in the fall. The group named the first lawmakers to receive their su...

A group of Alaskan fishermen get the reminder that nature is much bigger than they are. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... Related...The Documentary Sea World Doesn't Want You to See [tlrd] Pod of Orcas Eyes a Small Fishing Boat Near Denmark: VIDEO [tlrd] Orcas Chasing a Speedboat [tlrd]

SHRED OF HOPE: A fundraiser for the Ali Forney Center. BRYAN FISCHER: The AFA was so confident that the Boy Scouts would uphold its anti-gay policy it didn't even prepare a press release. DADS: The Human Rights Campaign celebrates father's day by praising Magic Johnson, Artie Goldstein, Rob Portman, David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris, and Daniel Martinez-Leffew and Bryan Leffew. GET LUCKY: The evolution. For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.

Think Progress caught up with Senator Marco Rubio today in an elevator at the opening luncheon of the annual Faith and Freedom Forum and asked him about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Said Rubio: "I haven’t read the legislation. By and large I think all Americans should be protected but I’m not for any special protections based on orientation." Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... It was the second fail on LGBT civil rights for Rubio in 24 hours. Earlier, he said he's finished with the imm...

Posters for the gay French thriller L’Inconnu Du Lac (Stranger By The Lake), which screened at Cannes, are being pulled by French municipalities because of its depiction of gay love, Deadline reports: But on the eve of its release in France, where expressions of sexuality are de rigueur and where gay marriage was recently legalized, the film’s advertising (left) proved too much for some. In the Parisian suburbs of Versailles and Saint-Cloud, a series of promotional posters was pulled at the r...

Televangelist Pat Robertson weighed in on the Boy Scouts decision to allow gay scouts yesterday, lamenting that it "breaks your heart" to see the organization “torn up in order to accommodate a few kids who want to do sex with each other. It just boggles the mind.” Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs came out of the closet in a blog post today. Said Owen Youngs: I’m writing to tell you, among other things, that I am super gay. This may or may not come as a surprise to you. If it does: Surprise! If it does not: You were right all along! Either way: Hooray! I didn’t want to come out. I don’t want coming out to be a thing that anyone has to do. A short list of things I’d rather be doing than “thinking about being gay” includes (but is not limited to) writi...

Minneapolis news anchor Bill Lunn fumbled over his words, announcing "I pledge allegiance to the fag" as he segued into a story about Gay Pride. Oops. Tweeted Lunn: "4 years and they couldn't get me on the KSTP blooper reel. I guess they've got me now." Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... (via gawker)

1983. Wasn't so long ago, but looking at this footage it feels like an eternity. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... (via buzzfeed) From the top of the World Trade Center in 1986:

Jonny "Gay Pimp" McGovern hits peak gay with his new LGBT Pride anthem. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

A new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times reveals a massive shift in public attitudes toward same-sex marriage in California, the L.A. Times reports: The poll found that 58% of the state's registered voters believe same-sex marriage should be legal, compared with 36% against, a margin of 22 points. When the same pollsters asked that question three years ago, 52% favored gay marriage and 40% opposed it, a 12-point spread.Most national polls this year have found majority support, but only one of tho...

Nobody should be allowed to treat anyone this way, ever. And if they do, they should receive the public shaming that only someone dumb enough to record themselves behaving this way will allow. Watch a Dunkin' Donuts customer melt down over a strawberry Coolata (warning: work-unfriendly language), AFTER THE JUMP... (via consumerist)

Like many Lynchian things, the ride is magical and the destination has a certain dubiousness. From the forthcoming album The Big Dream. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Gay activists were arrested and attacked in Moscow on Tuesday outside the Russian State Duma as it prepared to take a final vote on a federal bill banning "gay propaganda", the AP reports: Police moved in after supporters of the bill started showering the protesters with eggs and water. Some of the protesters who were not detained were viciously attacked by masked men on a central street a mile away. RIA Novosti adds: When some of the gay couples protesting against the bill to restrict “the p...

This week, Ellen surprised an adorable gay military couple who had been saving up for a dream wedding. Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP...

BY BOBBY HANKINSON It’s no secret that HBO’s True Blood has built a solid gay fan base. Yes, there are parallels between the vampires' quest for civil rights and the current climate for LGBT Americans. But, beyond that, the over-the-top series serves up plenty of action with an abundance of beefcake. Don’t let the vampires, werewolves and witches fool you; this series is not for kids. In honor of the sixth season premiere Sunday on HBO, we’ve rounded up six of our favorite gay moments from th...

The New York Anti-Violence Project (AVP) is reporting on what they're calling a bias-motivated assault of three gay men by NYPD officers in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn on June 3. Writes the AVP: Three openly gay men, Josh Williams (pictured, below), Ben Collins, and Antonio Maenza, reported that they were walking past the 79th Precinct when an NYPD officer accused one of the men of public urination and attacked him, throwing him against a police car. The officer was joined by other officers who also at...

Jimmy Kimmel fashions his "mean celebrity tweets" segment to the NBA. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

On Thursday, June 27, HBO is premiering The OUT List, a film of intimate docu-portraits from photographer and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders that follows in the vein of his well known projects About Face: Supermodels Then and Now, The Latino List and The Black List. The film is a storytelling project in which Greenfield-Sanders's subjects, a diverse swath of well-known and lesser-known figures in the LGBT community, speak directly into the camera and divulge intimate tales of their caree...

How will crowds at a dress shop react when an intolerant dad begins publicly confronting his transgender teen daughter as she shops for a prom dress? That's the premise of the most recent ABC News hidden camera program What Would You Do? See how fellow shoppers react, AFTER THE JUMP... (via think progress)

MARRIAGE NEWS WATCH: Prop. 8 ruling just days away, and Ohio's ballot initiative. THE NEWSROOM: The full Season 2 trailer. ILOVE MARRIAGE: In Illinois. TOUGH MUDDER: From a first-person GoPro perspective. For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.

Apple's faithful offered Jony Ive, the design genius responsible for Apple's hardware, a standing ovation for his redesign of iOS7 at today's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC). Ive has tossed out the skeumorphic elements such as wood grain and green felt in favor of a clean, minimalist approach in his first attempt to design the iPhone's software. Are you impressed? Video, AFTER THE JUMP...

Openly gay soldier Lance Corporal James Wharton developed a strong friendship with Prince Harry during their time in the military. In an upcoming memoir, Wharton recounts a frightening anti-gay episode in 2008 in which the ginger-haired prince boldly came to his rescue after he was threatened by a group of fellow soldiers. Wharton writes: Standing in front of me were six extremely angry infantry sergeants. ‘Have you been spreading rumours about our Martin?’ I was asked. I didn’t even know his...

Jason Collins took to the streets of Boston yesterday, during that city's pride parade. He marched for three miles alongside his good friend and one-time Stanford University roommate, Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy. In his Sports Illustrated coming out essay in April, the former Boston Celtic confessed that he was envious Kennedy had marched in last year's pride parade and vowed to do so himself this year. The Boston Globe reports on the support he received from parade attendees: Colli...

Newark mayor Cory Booker had been expected to run for U.S. Senate in 2014 but his plans suddenly changed after Senator Frank R. Lautenberg's death last week. With a special election to fill that now vacant seat set to take place in October, Booker formally threw his hat into the race yesterday. The New York Times reports on Booker's speech during his announcement: “We have changed a city, despite the cynicism of so many who believed that real change here in Newark was impossible,” Mr. Booker ...

The judge was pelted with eggs by a woman who suddenly appeared on stage during a performance of "The Impossible Dream" by contestants Richard and Adam Johnson. Violinist Natalie Holt told The Telegraph why she did it: “I basically took a stand against people miming on television and against Simon and his dreadful influence on the music industry." Watch a video of the egging and another of Cowell's reaction to the surprise attack, AFTER THE JUMP. Holt rushes the stage at the 1:49 mark of the ...