California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill Wednesday that grants Shirley Tan a stay on an impending deportation order until at least next year and that if passed, will allow the Philippine native and mother of two twin’s permanent residency. Tan was scheduled to face a deportation hearing May 10th, but her case caught the attention of many, including the Democratic Senator. Tan, who along with her partner Jay Mercado, an American citizen, are raising the twin boys, are a homosexual couple and as such do not qualify for legal permanent residency in the same manner afforded heterosexual couples.
Glee, the new Fox series from Ryan Murphy, premiering May 19th after the season finale of this season’s American Idol (how gay a night of programming will that be?) looks stunning – clever, hilarious, insightful, and daringly original, and therein lays the show’s problem: can something that daring and inventive find an audience?
The unsinkable Michael Urie stars along side Thomas Jay Ryan in a limited run of The Temperamentals with previews beginning April 30th, temperamental being a code word for gay men in the nineteen fifties.
Quite quietly, the Oakland Athletics signed the first openly gay MLB player, Tyler Patton, a star pitcher in the Homo League with the Kansas City Gay Royals.
The Boston Red Sox this Saturday will have on hand a special bat boy – Arthur Giddon who will be celebrating his one-hundredth birthday.
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