YouTubers Auralnauts hilariously reimagine Darth Vader‘s scenes from the original Star Wars films using real Donald Trump soundbites. Watch below.

Depending on who you ask, Darth Trump is both a sendup and a tribute to the very real, very unhinged rhetoric that’s made Trump’s bid for the GOP nomination much less fantastical than one would have imagined. From the Auralnauts’ perspective, the public’s mixed reactions are just a reflection of how modern American politics work.

“Everyone is seeing what they want and using it as evidence for what they believe,” they said.

In their fantasy, a spectral Trump continues to poll well across the galaxy even after he’s presumably given up the Dark Side and rejoined Yoda and Obi-Wan. I asked the Auralnauts what Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader’s one-time mentor and co-conspirator would make of Trump’s bid for the White House. If given the choice between Darth Vader and Trump, who would Palpatine ultimately choose to back?

“We’re pretty positive Palpatine would stick with Vader,” they told me. “Given the GOP’s inability to reign Trump in, we believe Palpatine would find himself in a similar situation.”

“Vader, despite a last second change of heart, was a reliable patsy who never questioned Palpatine’s policies except when it came to family values,” they went on. “I guess that makes him sort of a Jeb Bush.”

(via Fusion)

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The tents are up! The red carpet is down! A half-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard has been closed to traffic for tonight’s world premiere of the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens – and to paraphrase future President Trump: It’s gonna be huuuuuuuuuuuuuge!

In an unprecedented show of camaraderie, the movie will premiere for VIP audiences in three separate theaters at the same time – the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre (which hosted the premiere of the original “Star Wars” in 1977), the nearby El Capitan Theatre, and the adjacent Dolby Theatre, home of the Oscars. If you know anything about Hollywood, you know that it’s CRAZY for three different Theater chains to be so accommodating to each other!

Look at the Instagram pics below!

Ja estou aqui em Los Angeles pra premiere bapho de #StarWars hoje! Eles fecharam toda Hollywood Boulevard pra pre-estreia! Vai ser demais! #starwarspremiere

A video posted by Hugo Gloss (@hugogloss) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:38pm PST

See this Luke. All this will be yours #maytheforcebewithyou #starwarspremiere #workperks A photo posted by Amanda Kay (@amanran) on Dec 14, 2015 at 2:08pm PST

A Little Behind the Scene!! #starwars #forceawakens #forceisstrong #crewguys #r2d2 #starwarspremiere #darkside #lightside #behindthescenes

A video posted by Tiensirin Tienngern (@2tienz) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:54pm PST

Hoje está acontecendo a premiere de @starwars em Los Angeles. Como eu gostaria de está lá ☹️ #starwarspremiere A photo posted by @babadissimos on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:53pm PST

#forceawakens #starwarspremiere

A photo posted by Beckie (@mrs_bonifassi) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:25pm PST

The premier for #starwars this week is bigger then Oscars… #hollywood #movies #starwarspremiere #losangeles A photo posted by Pro175 (@pro175) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:28pm PST

Came home to metal detectors outside my door! #thanks #starwars #starwarspremiere #ugh #lol #hollywood #hollywoodlife #hollywoodproblems

A photo posted by Koi Anunta (@cataclysmickoi) on Dec 14, 2015 at 12:53pm PST

#starwarspremiere #chinesetheatre #starwars A photo posted by Jennifer N. Martinez (@jen_jen1581) on Dec 14, 2015 at 10:40am PST

StarWars premiere entrance #starwarspremiere #starwars

A photo posted by @sabrisansoy on Dec 14, 2015 at 9:34am PST

Star Wars World Premiere day! FYI-if you do not have to go to Hollywood, stay away. I just went through 6 security gates just to go to Starbucks and walk around lol #starwars #starwarspremiere #starwarsprep #jjabrams #disney #insanity A photo posted by Tara A Dettman (@lenoreelux) on Dec 14, 2015 at 9:02am PST

Nobena skrivnost ni, da bo ta teden v znamenju Vojne zvezd! Svetovna premiera bo danes (no pri nas ponoči) v Los Angelesu, kjer feni že taborijo, ceste so zaprte, kulisa se pripravlja… Spremljajte nas še naprej za nove ekskluzivne slike! #starwarstheforceawakens #starwars #losangeles #starwarspremiere

A photo posted by CineplexxSi (@cineplexxsi) on Dec 14, 2015 at 2:03am PST

Can’t wait to watch the marathon from 3am and the new movie. #starwarspremiere #Iamready #nyc #starwars #yolo

A photo posted by ^kinata09^ (@kinata09) on Dec 13, 2015 at 9:27am PST

Hollywood Boulevard gets ready for Rey. #starwarspremiere #theforceawakens A photo posted by Lizo (@lizo_mzimba) on Dec 12, 2015 at 5:53pm PST

TMZ is reporting that security around Hollywood and Highland is tighter than its ever been:

Disney and LAPD are taking no chances for Monday night’s massive ‘Star Wars’ premiere — locking down a chunk of Hollywood with metal detectors and random searches.
LAPD and private security officers are already blanketing several square blocks around the famed Chinese Theatre, where ‘The Force Awakens’ event is going down. We’ve learned anyone strolling through the area could be searched, frisked, and even wanded with metal detectors.

Law enforcement sources tell us there’s no specific threat, but they’re using an “abundance of caution” with such a high profile event. While no one used the word “terrorism” … it’s clearly a concern.

We’re told Disney is kicking in about $20,000 to hire extra LAPD officers … plain clothed and uniformed. As one source puts it, with all the fans showing up, the ‘Star Wars’ premiere is going to be like a “mini Oscars” … so better safe than sorry.

 

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Oh yes honey! Bravo PR has reported the fabulous news that last week’s season finale of Bravo‘s Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles delivered the highest-rated episode of the entire season with 1.7 million viewers!

Sold! Last weds @bravotv’s #mdlla season finale delivered highest-rated ep of season w/ 1.7M ttl viewers @dparnes @JamesBondSt

— Bravo PR (@BravoPR) December 14, 2015

Last weds @bravotv’s #mdlla season finale earned season highs w/ 1.7M ttl viewers, 963K P25-54 & 833K P18-49 @thejoshaltman @JoshFlagg1

— Bravo PR (@BravoPR) December 14, 2015

Check out some show highlights in case you missed the finale!

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“All the ships may be at sea,” but there’s one lighthouse that kept me on the edge of my boat in tonight’s nail-biting epic series finale of FX’s ensemble-stuffed “Fargo” season 2. And that eternal sunshine I’m talking about is Kirsten Dunst, as the ditz-turned-badass Peggy Blumquist.

BUH-BYE:
All of Kiki’s (impressive) fellow Golden Globe nominees can wave their chances at taking the trophy home goodbye because Dunst just nailed the coffin on the competition.

I’ve written a lot about Dunst’s surprise turn to primetime after a seasoned pro of a resume in the film world. You can read those here, here, here, here, and oh yeah, here.

But I can honestly say as a “fully actualized” fan that after last night’s episode, this is Dunst’s best work to date. She’s funny, she’s crazy, and she’s terrifyingly good.

*DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE A SPOILED EGG*

The theme of this episode (and the series as a whole, really) was protecting your kin: no matter what cost or stakes may present. After an entire season arch of Ed taking care of Peggy (and her growing mental illness), the tables turn when they are in the meat locker and Ed questions everything. Hanzee wants blood on the butcher and the beautician and you can feel the building anxiety between the couple as they hideout in the supermarket.

You really feel for Ed because he doesn’t want to be with someone who always wants to fix things “when they don’t need fix in’,” but you also feel for Peggy because she’s been fighting to keep their big secret under control – and later in the officer’s car – that she’s been fighting her whole life to “have it all.”

As Hanzee follows Ed’s trail of blood, you start to root for them. Yes, they did a bad thing, but in the final episode you see Dunst less as a cartoon, and more as a desperate woman in a desperate situation trying to handle her shit (and get out alive.) Dunst and Plemmons are brilliant in the climax leading up to Hanzee and Peggy’s face-off.

As Ed is dying (sorry, SPOILER ALERT), Peggy has a hallucination that she is being “gassed out” like the movie she was watching about the Holocaust. Rather than being fearful in her vain turmoil, she spins it as if she’s an actress in her real-life distress. When she fearlessly (and freakishly) kicks the door open to stab Hanzee (it’s the two officers instead), and has a self-actualized realization that he was never there we witness her full-on meltdown. And it’s pretty heartbreaking to watch. Up until this moment, we kind of wonder where Peggy’s hysteria comes from but when you realize she’s doing it to protect Ed and her, you can’t help but wish she made it out on the other side to California.

Later in the sheriff’s car, she explains how she “didn’t mean for any of it to happen.” And that it’s all a lie: being a housewife and a career woman. Real themes that women faced during the seventies. (Of course, she’s totally disregarded that her husband died, not to mention A LOT of people died during her battle to “be her best me.”)

I’m sad to see Fargo end – mainly because I want Peggy to get a spin-off show:


But also because I don’t think there’s anything as original (in terms of storytelling) on television right now. Luckily for us, Fargo’s already been renewed for a third season and hopefully my #KirstenKampaign continues to whisper to the Golden Globes and Emmy’s gods.

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Last night, Andy Cohen sat down with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show to discuss our new Bravo miniseries Then And Now With Andy Cohen! He spills the tea about the premise of the show, which focuses on discussing iconic pop culture moments of the past: 

“We talked to people who were there first hand and we relate each story to what’s going on today…How what happened then affects things now.” 

Andy also has some things to say about the success of “The Real Housewives” franchise and gets put on the spot when Trevor asks if he can explain the reasons behind the success of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign!

Watch Andy’s appearance below!

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In a bid to stave off Post-partum depression after the birth of Saint West, Kim K has decided to eat her placenta. The 35-year-old reality star and mother-of-two opened up on her app about the process and why she decided to do it. Kim wrote in her post titled Eating My Placenta.

“So, I’m really not this holistic person or someone who would have ever considered eating my placenta. And when I say ‘eat my placenta.’ I mean that I’m having it freeze-dried and made into a pill form—not actually fry it like a steak and eat it (which some people do, BTW).

I heard so many stories when I was pregnant with North of moms who never ate their placenta with their first baby and then had postpartum depression, but then when they took the pills with their second baby, they did not suffer from depression! So I thought, why not try it? What do I have to lose?”

She says she is consuming her placenta in the form of dark purple pills.

“I really didn’t want the baby blues and thought I can’t go wrong with taking a pill made of my own hormones—made by me, for me.”

According to The Independent: Placentophagy, or eating placenta, is becoming something of a growing trend with Kourtney Kardashian and the actress January Jones both praising its reported effects. Those who eat placenta claim it contains nutrients usually passed between mother and foetus during pregnancy and can also aid milk production.

Women (and some men) consume the placenta in a number of ways: by making a smoothie within hours after giving birth, by placing a piece of it in their gums, or by having it dried and made into pills to be taken each day.

I think the pills are probably the best way to go.

(Photo: Pacific Coat News)

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Put your wands (and your nicoise salads) down because Warner Brothers JUST released the trailer for the new Harry Potter anthology movie: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

And it’s as FANTASTIC as it looks.

Initial Reaction:

Here’s what we know so far:

1) Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander.

Scamander is a “magizoologist” who collects magical creatures and keeps them in his growling leather satchel. Come through Mary Poppins Realness!

Let’s not forget Grandma Aggie’s swag bag:

And of course the OG of magic – Merlin:

2) The beasts are on the loose!

Like the text book at Hogwarts, the “fantastic beasts” are on the loose. The premise of the film relies around some of the beasts that Scamander has collected have escaped.

Fingers crossed there’s some Jumanji meets Jurassic Park epic-like proportions.

3) Instead of the beloved Hogwarts Castle, the setting for this Potterverse is New York in 1926.

And rather than “muggles,” the word back-in-the-day is “No Majs” (for ‘No Magics.’)

What’s so exciting is that it’s the first time since 2011 when the Deathly Hallows Part Two released in theaters to millions of (ugly crying) adoring fans globally.

It’s giving the eleven year old inside all of us that chance to get back into our hearts in hopes that our letter from Dumbledore will arrive by owl post.

Catch it in theaters in November 2016.

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Russian makeup artist Elya Bulochka is serving fish in her latest marine-themed photo shoots – but its not the kind you THINK! Elya recently Instagrammed a photo of herself holding a baggie of newly purchased fish from the pet store with the caption: “Guess what I’m going to be wearing today?” Later she posted pics post of models in mermaid makeup with dead angelfish, neon tetra and other small fish glued to their faces. When her followers asked if the fish were real and she confirmed they were “already dead. Same as in your dining plates.”

That didn’t sit well with her followers: “Why kill the fish?” wailed one former fan. And: “Animals are not things, why is this so difficult to understand.”

“Today one dead fish,” still another wrote. “tomorrow someone’s finger. Disgusted that all this is referred to as the art of makeup.”

But Elya stood her ground. “Before writing the comments, remember when you ate your last meat,” she wrote. “Only your meat has nerve endings and feels pain. Fish do not feel.”

She later took down the pics, only to put up another one a couple of days later – an image of a model’s face covered in canned sardines. “Now I want to play you in a game of “double standards,” she wrote. “Spot 10 differences.”

What do you think? How far is too far when it comes to ART? And is it hypocritical to eat fish but not wear them? (via Oddity Central and Daily Mail)

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The RuPaul’s Drag Race legend Detox Icunt recently released a she-larious music video for her track “This Is How We Jew It” from the album Christmas Queens! It’s basically the story of how she discovered Hanukkah through dating a nice Jewish boy but ended up throwing a sickening party—and I must say, as a Jew myself, I feel rather excited that a member of Drag Race royalty paid such a tribute to the winter holiday of my people!

The video also features cameos from Nadya Ginsburg, Misty Violet, Mariah Balenciaga, Mayhem Miller, Morgan McMichaels, and Sissy Spastik!

Check it out:

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In case you don’t use hook-up apps, you should know that Grindr has the potential for some golden comedy moments these days. Check out 15 Tumblr posts about Grindr encounters that highlight just how hilarious (and real) it can get.

Like, this guy who keeps it classy.

This happens far too much.

This guy who misses his therapist.

This medical expert.

This guy who let out a perfect Freudian slip.

This expert of physiology.

This guy who is the opposite of #MasculineAndChill.

This white guy.

This guy who isn’t about to let a devastating storm get in the way.

This guy who also misses his therapist.

This guy who will do whatever it takes.

These two who should probably just get married already.

Me AF:

This generous guy.

This post is spilling nothing but the truth.

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What is Queer Photography? Help us tell our story. Have your work exhibited as part of “Round Hole Square Peg 2” at Photo LA 2016.

Round Hole, Square Peg is an open-call, juried photography show, conceived with the intent to question and acquire a new LGBTQ visual aesthetic for the 21st century. The exhibition will open at Photo LA, January 21, 2016, headlining the Artist’s Corner Gallery booth at the fair. After Photo LA, the show will move to the Artist’s Corner Gallery in Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Boulevard Arts District. The gallery will be making an exhibition catalog which will contain a full bleed image and contact information of those artists selected to show at Photo LA for sale at the fair.

Visit: Artist Corner for entry and submission guidelines.

Apply here

Check out some of the AMAZING entries so far!

Leigh Bowery

Image Made By Kyle Jackson

 James St James, Photo by Josef Jasso for l.a. Eyeworks

5. Amanda Lepore, Red Mirror, Photo by Josef Jasso
6. Amanda Lepore, Darling Don’t Touch Me. Getting out of David La Chaplle’s Limo
Photo by Josed Jasso
7. Is There Sex After Death, Photo by Phil Tarley
8. Marc Almond, Penis In Fur, Photo By Brad Branson, UK
9. Leigh Bowery, Photo By Brad Branson, UK
11. Bath, Photo by Joe Schmelzer
12. Untitled, Photo by Joe Schmelzer
13. Untitled, Photo by Joe Schmelzer
14. Photo by Paul Buijs, Holland
15. Drag Queen Remodeled, Photo by Kyle Jackson
16. Future Imperfect 1, Photo by David Ellingsen, Canada
17. Future Imperfect 2, Photo by David Ellingsen, Canada
18. Ms. Lady Mocha and Wyatt Gray, Photo by Leon Mostovoy
19. Trans America, Photo by Leon Mostovoy
20. Collective Dream Crucified Waters, Photo By Alexandra Gibson
21. Him, Photo by Alexandra Gibson
22. Unreal Portrait Photo by Diana Martin, Italy
23. Liberated, photo by Martin Billings , UK
25. Secret, Photo by Mei Xian Qiu
26. MARI, Photo by Diana Martin, Italy
27. TAXIDERY, Sharon Needles, Photo by Franz Szony
28. FAMILIARS, Photo By Franz Szony**** AMAZING

Phil Tarley produced the first Round Hole Square Peg exhibition at Photo LA 2014. He is a Fellow of The American Film Institute, and an artist member of The Los Angeles Art Association and The California LGBT Arts Alliance. As an art and pop culture critic, Tarley writes about contemporary art and photography for Fabrik Magazine and Art Week LA. He has curated contemporary photography exhibitions at the Artists Corner Gallery since 2010. His series of political and ethnographic LGBTQ videos is housed in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library and has screened in film festivals and museums like the American Film Institute and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 2009, under his nom de porn, Phil St. John, he was inducted into the Gay Porn Hall of Fame, for his twenty-year producing and directing career. Tarley’s writing and photography have also appeared in the LA Times, the LA Weekly, the Advocate, Frontiers, Adult Video News, Genre, and Instinct Magazine.

Writes Phil:

Queer identity is not simply a sexual one. Queer artists have a perspective and an experience to contribute to society that is wholly their own and it’s a rich and worldly one. Having been marginalized and alienated for so long has developed a unique view of self worth, self image, spirituality and companionship. Perhaps because we have a different point of view, gay artists can look at the world and mirror it back to the human condition with insight, style, glamor and fun. From Kenneth Anger to James Bidgood, to Arthur Tress, Herb Ritts, Mapplethorpe, Pierre et Gilles, Zackary Drucker, David La Chapelle, Katherine Opie, Brooke Mason and Austin Young, queer photographers have branded their work with queer celebrations of sensuality. An out-rage-ous color palette and an offbeat way of expressing sexuality often becomes markers of queer photography; a genre of work defined by a certain look, style and by thematic conversations that are filled with same-sex, bi sex, or trans-sex style and sensuality.

The process of coming out – long ago, to be out, was to be an out-law- for those who have passed as straight in a homophobic world, can help explain why many in the LGBT community have embraced the word queer to self identify. The world is changing for us and becoming a joyous place. Can heterosexual people can also be queer? For Round Hole Square Peg, we define queer as the free expression of the creativity unfettered by any sexual norms. If you embrace the little boy/girl that lurks inside in each of us, even though the sexes or genders might be interchangeable or transformational – than that divine, delightful expression can be queer. So heterosexual artists who want to identify as queer are encouraged to enter the competition.
– Phil Tarley, West Hollywood, California

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The WOWies are coming! The WOWies are coming! There’s only ONE MORE DAY to vote, so you need to GET THE LEAD OUT! HURRY! HURRY! HURRY!

Each year we reward the best of the best of social media (Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Tumblr, and Blogs) with a coveted Golden Soup Can. It’s up to YOU, the reader, to decide who is worthy of the honor. Check out the nominees below – follow the links – think long and hard – and tell us who YOU think deserves to win. Voting ends Thursday, December 17th at 6PM! Winners will be announced the next day! VOTE, BABY, VOTE!

Last year’s winners:

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We recently discussed MTV‘s fascinating True Life episode featuring Vadim Black and Ben (of Sean Cody), which followed the lives of the two guys who are both straight but perform in gay porn videos. MTV recently had an opportunity to check in with Luke and Ben to see how their lives have changed since filming wrapped, including hearing about how both of their girlfriends feel about their work.

How did Katelin find out about your gay porn career?
Katelin found out about me doing porn through a friend of hers. They somehow found my porn Twitter and sent it to Katelin, which I wasn’t expecting to happen.

What was Katelin’s reaction after finding out about your secret job?
She cried a lot and was really upset with the fact that I lied to her about it. However, we talked for a long time, and she came to understand why I do it. There was never any talk of breaking up, and we still want to be together.

In the show, you expressed uneasiness about telling Katelin. Do you feel better now that it’s out in the open?
I feel so much better. All of the stress I had before is gone now that she knows. I don’t have to hide anything anymore, and it feels great.

Did revealing your work to Katelin help bring you closer together?
Absolutely. In fact, Katelin just came out with me to Ohio for Thanksgiving to meet my family for the first time. It went really well, and they all love her.

Yay! Happe endings! Get the rest of the T at MTV.

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A fisherman in the Chongqing province of China was fishing in a cave, when he stepped on something “soft and slimy” – and accidentally discovered a 200-year old wild giant salamander, measuring 4.6 feet and weighing 115 pounds. And, surprise, it may be the oldest living animal in the world! Usually, giant salamanders have an average lifespan of 80 years in the wild and up to 52 years in captivity, but if verified this guy breaks all records. Think about it: He was alive when Napoleon was emperor! When Lord Byron was writing poetry! When Andrew Jackson was fighting the Battle of New Orleans! When the first cheese factory was founded in Switzerland! That’s just CRAZY, CRAZY, CRAZY. .

Unfortunately, he’s in poor health and is currently residing at a local nature preserve where constant care is being provided. Get well, gramps!

Critically endangered due to habitat loss and overhunting, it’s estimated that there are fewer than 50,000 Chinese giant salamanders left in the wild. (via The Laughing Squid)

Other ancient animals include cutie-patootie Jonathan the tortoise and these bowhead whales living off the coast of Alaska.

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Check out the latest videos from our WOWPresents Network! Lacey Noel, Mike Diamond, Tammie Brown, T. Kyle, Novympia and SO MANY MORE all have new videos from the WOWPresents Network!!! Watch all these and more right now on the WOW Report!

Here are the latest videos from our fabulous partners! Make sure you subscribe to their channels for new videos!

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Have a little extra money this holiday season and want to give back? Looking for a charity that needs your help? Might we suggest GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network)? GLSEN is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. It’s a fact: 8 out of 10 LGBT students are still harassed at school each year because of who they are. GLSEN is working to change that.

Every day GLSEN works to ensure that LGBT students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment.

Their mission statement:

At GLSEN, we want every student, in every school, to be valued and treated with respect, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We believe that all students deserve a safe and affirming school environment where they can learn and grow.

We accomplish our goals by working in hallways across the country — from Congress and the Department of Education to schools and district offices in your community — to improve school climate and champion LGBT issues in K-12 education.

We conduct extensive and original research to inform our evidence-based solutions for K-12 education.
We author developmentally appropriate resources for educators to use throughout their school community.
We partner with decision makers to ensure that comprehensive and inclusive safe schools policies are considered, passed and implemented.
We partner with dozens of national education organizations to leverage our shared expertise into creating great schools and better opportunities for every student.
We empower students to affect change by supporting student-led efforts to positively impact their own schools and local communities.

Watch the video below.

GIVING:

Everyday GLSEN, its programs, its chapters and its people touch the lives of a student someplace in this country.

The teenager in the cafeteria having the courage to walk past an army of tormentors. The transgender student agonizing about using the restroom. The ally that stands up and says enough. They all rely on GLSEN to provide the support, knowledge or resource to get through the day. They look for the Safe Space sticker and know there is an adult they can count on. Without GLSEN their lives would be very different.

In reality, each of these students count on you.

GLSEN relies on your support to provide a lifeline to every student whose sexual orientation or gender identity is used as a basis of harassment and violence. It is the thousands of individuals that give every year that have helped create GLSEN.

Give today and join the grassroots movement to ensure every student, no matter who they are, have the right to a safe and equal education.

Make a monthly donation and be a member of the Dean’s List

Interested in joining the Honor Society? Click Here!

Interested in planned giving? Check out the Weiland Society

Would you like to make a gift of Stock? Click here for more information

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Drake has had a big year—from his career-defining success of “Hotline Bling” (and, of course, its accompanying and now iconic music video) to the releases of the two hugely influential mixtapes If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and What A Time To Be Alive to the slew of thirst-trapping shirtless selfies. He now has another accomplishment to add to his running list of achievements, though: the Drake-inspired lipstick by Tom Ford sold out completely in just minutes after hitting Net A Porter, as reported by the Toronto Sun.

Drizzy his theory about the sales on Instagram: “My mom bought all of them. Hey Ma.”

My mom bought all of them. Hey Ma.

A photo posted by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Dec 15, 2015 at 12:51pm PST

Sales of the lipstick have left many US Drake fans in despair, but there is still lipstick available on the UK version of the website.

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Y’all need to go ahead and add this one to your YouTube holiday playlist! Jiggly Caliente from RuPaul’s Drag Race season 4 recently released a video for her song “Ratchet Christmas” from Christmas Queens, and it is RATCHET in the BEST way! I LIVE for Phi Phi O’Hara and Jiggly in Nisi & Mickey from B*A*P*S drag!

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A scraggly-but-still-eminently-doable Macaulay Culkin appears in the premiere episode of the new web series :DRYVRS – created by and starring Jack Dishel of Only Son/The Moldy Peaches  – which chronicles one man’s strange encounters with ride-share drivers. On his first journey, he’s picked up by a grown-up Kevin McCallister from the Home Alone series. And these days he is one mighty fucked-up dude. WOW. See, after being left alone AT AGE EIGHT by a heartless mother (TWICE!), he’s got some, um, lingering psychological issues.

“It’s fucking Christmas time, and your whole family goes on vacation, right?” he says. “And they forget their 8-year-old fucking son… all by yourself, in the house, for a week. I had to fend off my house from two psychopath home invaders. I mean, I still have nightmares about this bald, weirdo dude chasing me around, talking like Yosemite Sam. ‘I’m gonna pull your fingernails out! I’m gonna get you, you little scamp!’” Even more unnerving, the thieves didn’t even curse, instead just calling him “‘louse’ and shit like that.” I mean, how could my parents have forgotten the cutest fucking 8-year-old in the universe, by far.”

Then things get reeeeeeeeally dark when a carjacker tries to steal the car at gunpoint. “You picked the wrong car, my friend,” Kevin says.

Watch Macaulay destroy your childhood below.

Did you catch the My Girl reference? His coked-up wife/former childhood sweetheart, Anna? As in Anna Chlumsky?

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