Wayne, a 37-year-old auto mechanic from the Bronx, NY, claims to have fathered 20 children with 19 different women. Unlike this deadbeat with 30 kids or this one with 22 kids, however, Wayne says he provides for his children, the oldest of which is 10 years old. Wayne claimed two women in his own family asked him to be their baby's father. Say what now?
While the nation is having a transphobic discussion about which restroom our transgender brothers and sisters should (or shouldn't) use, a woman was escorted out of a Beyoncé concert at Citi Field in Queens, NYC by police officers Tuesday night because she used the men's restroom. According to the folks over at Gothamist, a woman named "Allison" says she and her girlfriend were attending the concert with some friends when nature called. Allison's girlfriend went to use the women's restroom, but the line was excruciatingly long. Instead of waiting, her girlfriend -- like many other women that night -- used the men's room (which had no wait). Allison says 30 minutes after Beyoncé began to slay the stage, she noticed some commotion between her girlfriend and stadium security personnel. She went to see what was going on. She says security was telling her girlfriend she had to leave because she used the men's room. When her girlfriend persisted, security threatened to call police. Allison says her girlfriend "to go ahead, as she didn't believe she was violating any policy." When NYPD officers arrived, Allison's girlfriend asked them why she was being asked leave. At that point, Allison says the officer handcuffed her girlfriend and escorted her to a holding area then to the gate and made to leave. (The woman was not arrested and, according to Gothamist, the NYPD had no record of the incident.) Allison is demanding a refund and plans to file complaints with Citi Field and the NYPD.
Gothamist has learned that Citi Field allows people to use the bathroom consistent with their gender identity, in accordance with the NYC's laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression, but the venue does not appear to have a written policy prohibiting someone from using the facility that corresponds with the opposite gender with which they identify. Citi Field declined to make a statement on the incident, or its policy (or lack thereof). The city's protections specifically aim to provide bathroom access to people consistent with their gender identity, but don't extend to cisgender women hoping to use the men's room, or vice versa. Bobby Hodgson, an attorney with the New York Civil Liberties Union, said that to his knowledge, there aren't any criminal penalties associated with accessing a space that does not conform to your gender identity, but private venues such as Citi Field are entitled to create separate spaces and enforce them.
For the first time in our nation's history, a woman has been nominated by a major political party for the office of president of the United States. That woman is Hillary Clinton. In a speech Tuesday night in Brooklyn, NY, Clinton thanked her supporters, praised Bernie Sanders and his supporters and pledged to build on the achievements of pioneers like the 19th-century leaders at Seneca Falls, NY, who began the fight for women’s rights in America. Tonight caps an amazing journey — a long, long journey,” she said. “We all owe so much to those who came before, and tonight belongs to all of you.” She then turned her attention to lambasting the prejudiced, sexist, misogynistic, racist Republican presumptive nominee, saying: "We believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division, empowerment is better than resentment and bridges are better than walls....Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president. And he’s not just trying to build a wall [with] Mexico, he’s trying to wall off Americans from each other." The general election campaign begins now.
Before her history speech, the next president of the United States released this impactful and powerful video:
Update, June 9: President Obama formally endorsed Hillary in this video.
After the endorsement, the Hillary Clinton campaign told the racist Republican presumptive nominee this:
Boxing great Muhammad Ali died Friday in Phoenix, Arizona, a family spokesman said. He was at a local hospital suffering from respiratory issues that have been complicated by the Parkinson's that he was diagnosed with in the 1980s. Doctors say the Parkinson's likely was caused by the thousands of punches Ali took during a career in which he traveled the world for big fights. He was 74. At the height of his career, Ali was known for his dancing feet and quick fists and his ability, as he put it, to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. He held the heavyweight title a record three times, and Sports Illustrated named him the top sportsman of the 20th century. Nicknamed "The Greatest," Ali retired from boxing in 1981 with a record of 56 wins, 37 by knockout, and five losses. Ali's diagnosis of Parkinson's came about three years after he left the ring. Ali, born in Louisville, Kentucky, as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, changed his name in 1964 after his conversion to Islam. Ali had a show-time personality that he melded with dazzling footwork and great hand speed. His bouts with such fighters as Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman made him an international celebrity like boxing had never seen. He became a symbol for black liberation during the 1960s as he stood up to the U.S. government by refusing to go into the Army for religious reasons. Ali made a surprise appearance at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, stilling the Parkinson's tremors in his hands enough to light the Olympic flame. He also took part in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012, looking frail in a wheelchair. He has been married four times and has nine children. Ali's daughter Laila, a former boxer, tweeted a photo of her father kissing her own daughter, Sydney. She thanked supporters for their wishes for Ali, saying, "I feel your love and appreciate it!"
From the limpness of the wrist to the sashaying of the hips, as soon as the doors to the studio flung open and Wendy laid eyes on TJ Williams (no relation), she knew she'd love him. The Princeton University student was in the studio to promote his book (5 Minutes and 42 Seconds), but he did little of that. These two were a ki. We don't recall Wendy ever taking a liking to a guest as she did with TJ. She had so much fun, she asked Charlemagne, who had just recently became her cohost, if could be more like TJ.
