Yale Accused Of Stifling Free Speech While Censoring The Word Sissies, Eminem Agrees To Drop Anti-Gay Lyrics, Valentine’s Day Trailer Same Sex Free, Chris Pine Treasure Trail, Getting Levi’s Johnson Leaked Photographs

Is the word “sissy” offensive? In November the Yale University Freshman Class Council announced that the tee shirt commemorating the annual Yale versus Harvard football game would bear a quotation from F. Scott Fitzgerald – “I think of all Harvard men as sissies” – emblazoned across the front in large white letters. The Yale LGBT Cooperative and a number of other students raised concerns, including Julio Perez-Torres, a member of the LGBT Co-op, who said that the term was offensive and demeaning, as well as a “thinly veiled gay slur.” The shirt’s design was subsequently changed, with involvement from the Yale administration, but now, nearly a month later, the Yale Daily News reports that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an advocacy group centered on civil liberties in American colleges and universities, has asked the Yale administration to reconsider the decision to “censor” the tee shirt, Adam Kassel, the director of FIRE, said “In matters large and small, Yale has taken steps that erode the freedom it once championed, teaching its students that the authorities ultimately decide which expressions are acceptable or unacceptable. This seems the very opposite of a liberal education in a free society.”

Eminem, for the first time in five years, will play a concert in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail reporting that organizers of the Wireless Festival, to take place July 2-4 in Hyde Park, in London, “have persuaded the rapper to drop his gratuitously anti-gay songs to avoid any demonstrations.” The last time he toured the country, the gay rights advocacy organization OutRage! protested, contended that outside the boundaries of free speech, Eminem’s lyrics encouraged and incited hate and violence towards gays.

Valentine’s Day, a new film from director Gary Marshall that triumphs the reunion of his Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts, contains a rather interesting plot line that follows Roberts’ best friend, played by Bradley Cooper, who is in a relationship with a closeted football star played by Eric Dane. I think. In pre-production the movie made much of the same sex romantic plot, but in the recently released trailer the gayness of Valentine’s Day is all but erased, a reminder, perhaps, that marketers still believe gay will not sell.

I previously posted a photograph of Chris Pine purchasing a pair of Ralph Lauren RLL jeans late Christmas Eve day, and now there are more, perhaps most importantly these pictures capturing Chris’ treasure trail and a glimpse of underwear, Pine remaining so fine.

I previously posted on the predictable porn incarnation – Getting Levi’s Johnson – of the Levi Johnston saga, starring the very cute Casey Monroe as Levi, the first leaked production pictures here, and obviously they are seriously NSFW.