Despite reports Sunday afternoon that the special session of the New York State Senate Governor David A. Paterson called for this Tuesday would include legislation that was “time sensitive” and not, therefore, a gay marriage bill that seems to have languished in Albany since being introduced, late Sunday evening the Governor, in a phone interview with the New York Times, contradicted himself or that earlier report or both, and stressed that he would insist state lawmakers address the same-sex bill before the Senate breaks for summer.
New York Magazine seems to have declared the summer of 09 the summer of the gay, its’ annual salute to the season issue including an interesting assessment of the gay generation gap, because if there is one more divisive issue us gays need, it is an underlining of the disparity between those for whom advocacy and political engagement is a birthright and those who ruefully ignore the political as something standing in the way of looking fierce. Nonetheless, the article is an informed beginning to a conversation about acceptance, anger, and ignorance, and about a need to be connected to the past, to be at least aware of the history of the still rather young movement.
The magazine also examines, rather timely, the New York State gay marriage “follies,” offering a handy historical overlay.
This is, of course, the anniversary week of Stonewall, the fortieth anniversary and this coming weekend is Pride weekend in New York City. In addition to be the Grand Marshall of this year’s parade, Dustin Lance Black, along with CNN, will be honored on June 29th by the ninth annual Trevor Project New York Summer Gala. Caroline Rhea hosts, and there will be performances by Jewel and Gavin Creel, currently starring in the revival of Hair. Other guest will include Lance Bass, Carson Kressley, and Sarah Paulson. Black will be honored for his tireless work with LGBTQ youth and CNN for their commitment to the cause and to demonstrating a corporate acceptance of “individuals regardless of sexual orientation.”
The nineteenth annual Broadway Bares was held Sunday night, a benefit performance for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, with guests the aforementioned Creel, the irrepressible Michael Urie, and Allison Janney. The site is here, but you must be eighteen to enter and it is sort of NSFW.
Suggesting that the Much Music Video Music Awards are lame is to be more than kind. The station, birthed by the blight on society that is Moses Znamier, is, along with its seedy siblings, the Canadian versions of both MTV and E!, seriously needs to be shuttered and soon, such an embarrassment in excessive vapidity and repressed homosexuals it is. That Perez Hilton would find his way to the 2009 incarnation and highjack the night with accusations that Will.I.Am attacked and assaulted him via Hilton’s Twitter, well, it seems just so right, adding, if you will, to the lameness.
Hilton, physically and intellectually flabby, insisted he was being beaten by the Black Eye Peas front man and asked his Twitter followers to call the police and send them to the hotel he was staying at and well it all gets surprisingly worse from there. As an aside – you have a phone, but you tweet a request for followers to call the authorities. Yes, now claims that Twitter is less a inane social networking tool and more an vehicle of political and social liberation ring so true.
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