Need a refresher on all the informative, uplifting, sexy, and entertaining LGBT videos from this past week?
Look no further as we look back on the best of the best below:
10. Dan Savage Gives His Take on the Ashley Madison Hack and Anti-gay Hypocrite Josh Duggar
Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes this week in a segment on the Ashley Madison hack, sex advice columnist Dan Savage shared why he has sympathy for the victims of the privacy breach but not career homophobe Josh Duggar.
Explained Savage:
“Josh Duggar is not a private citizen. He is a public figure who has benefited politically and financially from attacking other people for their marriages, for their sex lives, for how they conduct themselves, for their alleged in his opinion “immorality.” And so his morality is germane and his hypocrisy makes him in this instance a legitimate target of an outing of this sort.”
9. Ellen’s Teen Choice Awards Acceptance Speech Was Just What LGBT Kids Need to Hear
Ellen DeGeneres had an inspiring message for her Choice Comedian acceptance speech at the Teen Choice Awards, telling the young crowd “You should be proud of being different. You should be proud of who you are.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNeggYRqLng
8. Bryan Fischer on Being an Anti-gay Bigot: ‘I Was Born this Way’
Just when you thought the former American Family Association spokeshater was running out of crazy things to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvlJMD5J4Lc
7. The Nightly Show Pokes Fun at Mississippi’s ‘Pro-Yesterday’ Ban on Gay Adoption
In a segment called “So This Is the Hill You Want to Die On?” Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore asked Mississippi State Legal Council Beechum Grady why the state doesn’t want gay couples to adopt.
Grady explained that Mississippi isn’t ‘anti-gay,’ it’s simply ‘pro-yesterday” and “pre-gay.”
6. Tom Goss Proves Love is Love in New Music Video ‘Breath and Sound’
Gay singer-songwriter Tom Goss has debuted a new music video that uses to dance to prove that love is love.
5. Gay Rugby Star Keegan Hirst Talks ‘Overwhelming’ Support He’s Received Since Coming Out
Keegan Hirst, the Batley Bulldogs captain who last weekend became the first openly gay professional rugby league player, spoke to BBC 2 about the positive reactions he’s received from teammates and those on social media since coming out.
4. RuPaul Runner Up Courtney Act Wants Your ‘Body Parts’ in Sexy New Music Video
RuPaul’s Drag Race season six runner up Courtney Act has a sinfully delicious new single out that sounds like the love child of Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical” and Kylie Minogue’s “Sexercise.”
3. Gay Teen Love the Focus of New Coca-Cola Short by Dustin Lance Black
A new short film and advertisement called “The Text”, written and directed by Dustin Lance Black for Coca-Cola, centers on bullying and two gay teens in love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTm1Qas2ti0
2. Actress Ellen Page and Ted Cruz Face Off on LGBT Rights at Iowa State Fair
At the Iowa State Fair on Friday, 2016 GOP candidate and professional hatemonger Ted Cruz was confronted by none other than actress Ellen Page over his anti-LGBT record.
The video of the face-off is pretty much required viewing.
1. Straight Christian Man Gives Moving TED Talk About the Year He Spent Pretending to Be Gay
Back in 2012, we told you about Timothy Kurek, the straight Christian man from the Bible Belt who pretended to be gay for a year in order to examine his own views on homosexuality.
Kurek is back with a TEDx Talk posted earlier this month in which he opens up about his childhood, homosexuality and his year of living as a gay man.
