Transgender Military Service Members At MTV Video Music Awards

MTV invited six transgender military service members to walk the red carpet at the MTV VMAs last night  in response to Donald Trump's newly-issued guidelines banning trans soldiers from the U.S. military.

Walking the red carpet with GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis were service members Sterling James Crutcher, Air Force Airman First Class; Logan B. Ireland, Air Force Staff Sergeant; Akira Wyatt, Navy Corpsman Petty Officer 3rd Class; Brynn Tannehill, Former Navy Lt. Commander; Laila Ireland, Retired Army veteran; and Jennifer Peace, U.S. Army Captain.

Peace said she and her fellow trans service members attended to “tell our stories and help people to realize that trans people are serving in the military just like everyone else.”

"The only thing we're asking for is to be treated just like everyone else in the military and be discriminated against only based on our performance,” Peace added.

PROUDLY welcoming our troops to the #VMAS red carpet 💪🏽🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/u02yIA3iBA

— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 27, 2017

My Girl Pink At The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards

This.

This.

This.

"We take the gravel and the shell, and we make the pearl."

Just - watch.

Heartwarming, powerful speech by Pink to her daughter at the VMAs. Worth a watch. (via MTV) pic.twitter.com/Jbsc01A3Ck

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 28, 2017

Video: Beyonce stops the VMAs with super-medley before accepting Video Vanguard Award

Mega-props to the choreographers (assuming Svetlana Kostantinova, Philippe Decouflé, Danielle Polanco and Frank Gatson?) who staged Beyonce's show-stopping medley before accepting the 2014 Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at MTV's VMAs last night.  The staging was outstanding in it's creativity and execution.

From Rolling Stone:

The performance was flawless, seamlessly segueing between the slow ballads and upbeat tracks as each song was accompanied by perfectly executed choreography. This was Beyoncé at her best. There were no costume changes — she wore the same mosaic leotard the whole time — but the entire essence of her On the Run performances, right down to the backdrop videos, was brilliantly translated onto the VMA stage.

Beyoncé joins Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Beastie Boys, Britney Spears, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., Michael Jackson and other MTV icons as recipients of the Video Vanguard award.

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Original Star Trek watches Miley Cyrus' 2013 VMA performance

Ok, this one is pretty well done.

Happy Labor Day!

Macklemore: "Gay rights are human rights. There is no separation"

(via GLAAD)

2013 VMAs: 'NSYNC reunites for one night

One day after the boy band sent out a tweet hinting at a reunion at Sunday's awards show, Timberlake, J.C. Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick took the stage together.

As if no time had passed, the guys -- J.C. Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Timberlake -- performed their iconic "Bye Bye Bye" choreography. The performance lived up to expectations although most fans would admit they'd have liked more than a few minutes of this reunion 10 years in the making.

(via Hollywood Reporter)

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Miley Cyrus & Robin Thicke perform LIVE at 2013 VMAs

So, on the day after, this is the performance everyone is talking about. And not in a good way.

Bless Robin Thicke for his courage to take part in this. He does look pretty studly in his suit and sunglasses.

But Miley, Miley, Miley - this is the kind of thing when you go for "edgy" but fall off the cliff. From The Hollywood Reporter:

Miley Cyrus climbed out of a giant teddy bear, sticking her tongue out of the side of her mouth.

She then strutted around the stage, accompanied by dancers wearing giant teddy bears, performing her controversial single "We Can't Stop."

Sporting a furry bustier designed to look like a mouse, the 20-year-old singer at one point grabbed the rear end of one of her dancers before bending over to shake her own behind at the audience.

MTV also bleeped the word "molly" in her song, which is believed to be a reference to Ecstasy.

Cyrus then stripped down to a flesh-colored two-piece to join Robin Thicke for the beginning of his performance of "Blurred Lines," alternating lines with the R&B crooner.

She also danced around him suggestively, touching him and herself with a foam finger, and bending over in front of him and shaking her rear end.

Thicke wore a Beetlejuice-esque black-and-white vertical striped suit during his performance while his dancers held up posters of champagne and a fancy watch.

After "Blurred Lines," Thicke then segued into his new single "Give It 2 U" while Cyrus remained on stage dancing suggestively with her foam finger.

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2013 VMAs: Lady Gaga "Applause"

The superstar kickstarted the Sunday night awards show with a dramatic world premiere performance of her latest single.

2013 VMAs: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform "Same Love"

With an assist from Mary Lambert and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson.

The rap duo went on to win Best Video With A Social Message later in the evening.

I love that the song has become an anthem for marriage equality. Great writing. When you listen to the words, you get a whole lot of truth.

Forward.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis chat on performing "Same Love" at VMAs tonight

Openly gay NBA player Jason Collins will be introducing Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at tonight's MTV VMAs. The duo is set to perform their marriage equality anthem "Same Love".

Macklemore told MTV News why they chose to perform "Same Love" over their other massive hits "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us":

"'Same Love' has turned into a song that has been embraced by the mainstream and that was played by the radio," Macklemore told MTV News on Saturday (August 24) after the duo's rehearsal for the big show. "There is a lot more people that are familiar with it now than six months ago and the timing is perfect. It's a powerful record and it needs to be heard in America right now. And equality is at the forefront of what's going on in politics right now."

Macklemore adds that "It's a song that I wanted to write because I felt like it wasn't being addressed within hip-hop music...And I think that the homophobia was still very rampant within hip-hop culture."

He also said that the line "when I was in the third grade, I thought that I was gay" is the most vulnerable lyric he has ever written.

(source)

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