Another anti-gay story from deep in the heart of the Texas, this one about Virginia Miller, who owns a large billboard in Gatesville, Texas, and who allowed one Oen Dollins, of Gatesville, a former minister to pay three-hundred dollars for three days to have the sign read “Gay Rights Are Not Civil Rights” Miller, defended the decision and the message, said neither she nor Dollins meant to offend anyone, but that “he wanted to get the message to black people that it’s not fair that they’re the ones who suffered, they’re the ones who paid the price, and now everything they fought for is being hijacked.” Miller added that she has received death threats since news of the sign spread. It has since been removed.
While the fifties were fabulous and fun culturally, the political climate of repression, not so much, this is why one Wisconsin couple’s attempt to bring back book burning is nostalgia gone wrong. Meet Mr. and Mrs. Maziarka – Jim and Ginny, if you would rather; a couple from West Bend, Wisconsin who in February went on record as objecting to a number of titles in the local library’s young adult section as being too homosexual in nature, too “gay-affirming.” Ginny sought balance, books that affirmations of heterosexuality, written, say, by “ex-gays.” The library, being public, disagreed with Jim and Ginny and well, things went from bad to worse quite quickly, the Maziarka’s claiming other titles in the library contained passages of “explicit raunchy sex act” and a lawsuit was filed and calls for books to be burned, and well Jim and Ginny continue their battle to bring censorship and “common sense” back as community values, where they belong.
T.R. Knight graces the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly, inside telling why he left Grey’s Anatomy, explaining that his character – George – was slowly, but surely disappearing, and that, big surprise, ABC and the show’s producer’s advised him not to come out so close to the Isaiah Washington incident.
Gaiety galore, at last, on the British version of Big Brother, as former Mr. Gay U.K. contestant Charles Drummond and Rodrigo Lopez coupled up, sharing a bath and kisses, and generally relieving the boredom that is reality television.
More news on the Madonna greatest hits hullaballoo titled Celebration, scheduled for released September 29th, including details on two new songs that will appear on the CD, and the cover art created by one "Mr. Brainwash", the result an obvious homage to Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe silkscreen series.
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