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10 Greatest Quotes By Heath Ledger's Joker | It’s been 11 years since Christopher Nolan’s masterfully crafted comic book blockbuster The Dark Knight hit theaters and wowed audiences across the world; and the superhero movie genre still has yet to produce a villain that’s as memorable as Heath Ledger’s Joker.
Ledger drew inspiration from Malcolm McDowell’s haunting portrayal of Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange in constructing a Joker that escaped the confines of a comic book movie and become a truly chilling onscreen presence. His performance was so incredible that it was reported that even his co-stars were scared in scenes with him. Here are the 10 Greatest Quotes By Heath Ledger’s Joker.
10 Greatest Quotes By Heath Ledger's Joker |
The Gay Storyline in Downton Abbey | Michael Engler, the director of the newly released Downton Abbey film, weighed in on the importance project’s touching gay storyline. Of course, there will be major spoilers from this point on, so if you haven’t seen the film yet, you may want to steer clear.
If you recall, at the end of the six season run of the original Downton Abbey series, most characters were blessed enough to get a satisfactory ending. However, fans have always felt for Thomas Barrow, the closeted butler played by Rob James-Collier. Thomas had fleeting, clandestine affairs with other men, and at one point in the series attempted to change his sexual inclinations by undergoing gay conversion therapy. But, with fans being allowed to enter this early 20th century British world once more, Thomas finally gets a romantic happy ending like everyone else.
It’s easy for some to romanticize the past as an easier, simpler way of life, and Thomas’ love story was one of the ways in which Engler said the movie contended with that sort of assumption. “Just that kind of reminder, in a few places here and there, that it's not so kind of rosy and easy for everybody,” Engler told BuzzFeed News. “You know? That there are people who are not included, and that there are parts of that world...that are pretty rough and unforgiving and ungenerous.”
The Gay Storyline in Downton Abbey |
Voices From China's Lesbian Community | When it comes to gay rights, China has come a long way in the past two decades, but it has a long way to go. As recently as 2013, according to a public opinion poll, 57 percent of surveyed Chinese citizens said society should not accept homosexuality. If you identify as a Chinese lesbian and reside in the People’s Republic of China, it is forbidden to do the following: marry another woman, adopt a child with another woman, join the military, donate blood. There are also no protections against employment discrimination.
LGBTI is an abbreviation for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex” individuals. But this story will focus on Chinese lesbians — because during my research, many articles I came across were on gay men, and the majority of people willing to speak to me openly about homosexuality in China were men.
Clearly, the girls need a louder voice — and it is this voice that deserves to be listened to, understood, and empowered. Given the tremendous outpour of female voices who have declared Lean In, #MeToo, and Time’s Up — to name a few — and considering that no one ever stops running at the start of a marathon, I’ll be focusing on the Ls of LGBTIs. Voices From China's Lesbian Community |
The Bisexuality Dating Dilemma | Bisexual Visibility Day has been celebrated on 23 September for the last 20 years. However, at a time of seemingly wider LGBT acceptance, is society actually accepting of the "B"? Some people who identify as bisexual have told the BBC of issues they regularly come across when trying to live openly as bisexual individuals. They have experienced abusive relationships, disrespect in the workplace, and discrimination on dating apps just because of their sexuality. The Trades Union Congress has released a report highlighting that about one in five bisexual people (21%) reported they had been sexually assaulted at work.
Matt is a graduate trainee living in Cambridge. He has struggled to maintain relationships with both men and women, and says he now has to lie about his sexuality in order to date people. "It scares me how people will react," he says. "It feels like I have a dark secret that I haven't aired fully. One girl I was dating suddenly said that the thought of me being with a man made her physically sick. Then she blocked me on everything."
"When I date people, and mention I'm bisexual, the relationship ends. When I lie to people, and hide my sexuality, it lasts. I still don't know whether I should reveal it from the start, or wait, because the longer I wait the more anxious I get, but I don't want any relationship to end. I feel like if I end up in a straight relationship, I'll look like I was just experimenting all these years, but if I end up in a gay relationship people will say I was never actually bisexual. Then if I don't have a monogamous relationship people will say I'm just greedy."
The Bisexuality Dating Dilemma |
Ben Carson Defends Transgender Remarks | Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson defended his comments about transgender people this week in an agency-wide email late Friday afternoon, calling press reports of the remarks “blatant mischaracterizations.” The Washington Post reported Thursday that Carson had expressed concern in a meeting in California about “big, hairy men” trying to use women’s bathrooms, citing “three people present who interpreted the remarks as an attack on transgender women.” A leading LGBTQ advocacy group denounced Carson for the comments.
Carson conceded that he had said those words but disputed the context in the note to staff, according to a copy of the email obtained by POLITICO.
“During a recent meeting with local staff in San Francisco, I made reference to the fact that I had heard from many women’s groups about the difficulty they were having with women’s shelters because sometimes men would claim to be women,” Carson wrote. “This made many of the women feel unsafe, and one of the groups described a situation to me in which ‘big hairy men’ would come in and have to be accepted into the women’s shelter even though it made the women in the facility very uncomfortable,” he added.
Ben Carson Defends Transgender Remarks |
Asexuality: A Closer Look | Asexuals are largely ignored by society and rarely represented in media. Many people in the United States have never heard of asexuality. The Asexual Visibility and Education Network defines asexuality as, “An asexual person does not experience sexual attraction – they are not drawn to people sexually and do not desire to act upon attraction to others in a sexual way. Unlike celibacy, which is a choice to abstain from sexual activity, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are, just like other sexual orientations.”
Asexuals are not as unusual as some people might believe. According to a study done by psychologist and human sexuality expert Anthony Bogaert, one in a 100 adults are asexual. “People don’t think it’s an actual thing,” said Cheyenne Vanlandingham, a junior that identifies as heteroromantic asexual. “They just think you’re going through a phase.” Noeline Boardman, a junior who identifies as asexual, has had similar experiences. In high school she had a student come to her and say that her sexuality wasn’t a real thing.
Boardman discovered that she was asexual around sophomore and junior year of high school. “I joined Tumblr and I was just searching around and then I found an asexual blog,” said Boardman. “I didn’t even know it was a thing and then I kept reading and researching. I realized that I wasn’t straight.”
Asexuality: A Closer Look |
LGBT Ally Eric Samuelsen Dies | Playwright Eric Samuelsen, who ran Brigham Young University’s playwriting program for a dozen years, died Friday at age 63. A noted playwright and three-time winner of the Association for Mormon Letters drama award, he saw more than two dozen of his plays produced across the United States.
Samuelsen, who graduated from BYU in 1983, returned as a member of the faculty in 1992. From 1999 to 2011, he headed up the university’s playwriting program. Diagnosed with polymyositis — a rare disease that causes muscles to become irritated and inflamed — he retired from BYU in 2012.
On Thursday, he posted on Facebook: “It’s been wonderful to see so many friends and family. I’m aware that I’m dying, but I don’t feel like I’m dying. I asked the doctor about it and he said you may not. You may just feel slower and more tired and weaker. Thank you so much for the tributes. Love to my friends.”
Despite his health issues, Samuelsen continued crafting plays. In 2003, he began working with Plan-B Theatre Company in Salt Lake City and became the playwright in residence there in 2012. In 2013-14, the theater presented four of his works in “A Season of Eric.”
LGBT Ally Eric Samuelsen Dies |
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