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Up & Coming: Conner Mertens
Favorite Follow: Max Emerson
Style Trendsetter: Jaden Smith
Musician: Troye Sivan
Sketchy Comedian: Randy Rainbow
Rising Diva: Trixie Mattel
TV Series: RuPaul’s Drag Race
Winter Olympian: Adam Rippon
2nd Worst Person: Tomi Lahren
Closet Door Bustdown: Brandon Flynn
Indie Movie: Call Me By Your Name
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Rebel With A Cause: Janet Mock
Funny Person: Bianca Del Rio
Media Mogul: Ellen DeGeneres
Documentary: The Death and Life of Martha P. Johnson
Blockbuster: Get Out
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DMscrub32
Slight correction on 2nd Worst Person in the World winner Tomi Lahren, she got fired from The Blaze for coming out as Pro Choice on The View.
Tobi
I cannot believe you even nominated Jaden Smith, let alone let him win. He’s a sodding $cientologist, who believe that being gay is deviant, it can be ‘audited’ out, ie conversion therapy.
“Leah Remini said the church has ‘a chart of human evaluation’ from Hubbard that helps Scientologists discern who they should have in their life. A 1.1 is the lowest on the scale and includes people who need a lot of help but aren’t worth helping, Remini said. That rank includes gay people.”
“Internally and for Scientologists, the position is there is something very wrong with a deviant behavior that needs to be dealt with with Scientology,” Rinder said of the church’s internal stance on homosexuality. Meaning as a person gets to the upper levels of Scientology, the ‘gayness’ will be audited out,”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_sexual_orientation
StupidBoy
Scientology may not be permissive of sexual orientation, but Jaden is definitely questioning his. He has appeared in dresses in fashion magazines and played a gay character in “The Get Down” (sadly canceled on Netflix).
Although I’m much too old to say this, the boy is beautiful and hot as hell. I’m sure he has a ton of followers on social media who wait to see what he does next with his clothing or music or acting.
I know he is a privileged kid of a multi-millionaire with avenues available to him that none of us will ever experience, but he seems to be making a name for himself.
I’m sure he will come out as gay or bisexual in the next few years.
StupidBoy
And, I want to reiterate that Ellen is a fat-shamer and should be called out for it. I posted a longer message in the Oscars thread. I know she is a trailblazer, but I can’t get over her raccoon eye makeup and fat-shaming of women who travel to see her show.