Sporadically talented Guy Ritchie apparently likes to refer to ex-wife Madonna as “it” and and Saturday in Manhattan “it” took Jesus, Lourdes, and David to Kabbalah.
Liza Minnelli talks to the recently fired Liz Smith (The New York Post will never be the same) and tells Smith she’ll never retire and never, not ever marry again, and honestly, after the whole David Geist sordidness, who can blame the legend?
Poor Tim Gunn: First, the sixth season of Project Runway is lost, perhaps forever, and now he is worried about losing his day job with Liz Claiborne, the clothier currently cutting back in the midst of the economic crisis.
Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black appeared on this past Friday’s Oprah, from his West Hollywood home, via Skype, and talked Harvey Milk, Oscars, and something Oprah told him at a party a few days before he won that shocked him into calmness.
Russell Tovey, he of the History Boys, who was rumored to be the new Doctor Who, but when that role went instead to Matt Smith, Tovey, who is silly sexy, signed to star in a new six part BBC drama entitled Being Human, playing a werewolf. In the debut episode Tovey apparently appeared frequently naked, all of which is more than fine, since, as you will see from this short interview, this gorgeous gay is all too good in more ways than one, especially the adorable accent.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Californians Against Hate Drop Garff Automotive Boycott, PTL Tapes For Sale, John Barrowman, Damm Yankees, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom and Gisele Video
The group Californians Against Hate said Friday it was ending a boycott against the Utah based Ken Garff Automotives, a car dealership with fifty-three locations in six states; a boycott that had been called for when it was revealed that Garff family matriarch Katherine had donated one-hundred thousand dollars to the Yes On 8 campaign.
Fred Karger, director of Californians Against Hate, along with former WordPerfect CEO Bruce Bastion, a Utah resident and gay rights activist, met with Garff company principle directors, John and Robert Garff, and according to Karger the situation has been resolved with “a happy ending” for all.
Bob Dyer, an Atlanta investment banker and head of Gospel Properties, plans to sell at auction in March fifteen-thousand hours of original broadcast videotape of the Jim and Tammy Baker led PTL evangelical television show.
Hall of Fame DILF John Barrowman will be appearing at the Friday Night Is Movie concert on July 10 in London, “singing songs from the silver screen.”
It was announced Friday that Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal have signed to star in a remake/update of Damm Yankees, based on the original Broadway musical directed by George Abbot, choreographed by Bob Fosse, with music and lyrics by Richard Alder and Jerry Ross. It was made in a movie in 1958 featuring Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter, and Ray Walston, directed by George Abbot and the great Stanley Donen. Given this remake is being led by the creative team behind Hairspray the Musical, hopes are high.
Jake Gyllenhaal, pretend heterosexual himself, was out and about in Los Angeles, solo, stopping at a Beverly Hills Starbucks.
More details on the Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen nuptials this past Thursday. It seems that the twosome invited guests to a supposed christening at the Saint Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California, only to stage the surprise wedding. So secretive were the details that Tommy wore one of his older suits – an off the rack Ermenegildo Zegna grey two button pure wool one to be precise – with Gisele donning anything and everything from Dolce and Gabbana. Crafty TMZ has a wobbly, barely discernibly video of what appears to be the now Mrs. Brady about to head to the alter.
Fred Karger, director of Californians Against Hate, along with former WordPerfect CEO Bruce Bastion, a Utah resident and gay rights activist, met with Garff company principle directors, John and Robert Garff, and according to Karger the situation has been resolved with “a happy ending” for all.
Bob Dyer, an Atlanta investment banker and head of Gospel Properties, plans to sell at auction in March fifteen-thousand hours of original broadcast videotape of the Jim and Tammy Baker led PTL evangelical television show.
Hall of Fame DILF John Barrowman will be appearing at the Friday Night Is Movie concert on July 10 in London, “singing songs from the silver screen.”
It was announced Friday that Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal have signed to star in a remake/update of Damm Yankees, based on the original Broadway musical directed by George Abbot, choreographed by Bob Fosse, with music and lyrics by Richard Alder and Jerry Ross. It was made in a movie in 1958 featuring Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter, and Ray Walston, directed by George Abbot and the great Stanley Donen. Given this remake is being led by the creative team behind Hairspray the Musical, hopes are high.
Jake Gyllenhaal, pretend heterosexual himself, was out and about in Los Angeles, solo, stopping at a Beverly Hills Starbucks.
More details on the Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen nuptials this past Thursday. It seems that the twosome invited guests to a supposed christening at the Saint Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California, only to stage the surprise wedding. So secretive were the details that Tommy wore one of his older suits – an off the rack Ermenegildo Zegna grey two button pure wool one to be precise – with Gisele donning anything and everything from Dolce and Gabbana. Crafty TMZ has a wobbly, barely discernibly video of what appears to be the now Mrs. Brady about to head to the alter.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Fred Dobson Begrudgingly Resigns As Head Of Focus On The Family, The Heroic Roger Carrier, Support In Maine For Gay Marriage, Sean Penn
Fred Dobson, founder and CEO of the militant hate group Focus on the Family, one of the main combatants in the phantom war against the purported gay agenda, announced Wednesday that he is resigning as Chairman, but that he will continue to play a prominent role in the company he founded in the late nineteen-seventies when the religious right movement was in its early stages. The timing of his departure, it should be noted, comes at a crucial turning point for the evangelical movement as a whole, many of whom are now eager to be seen a political moderates, moving away from social issues like abortion and gay rights that leave them looking extreme. Rumored to be the source of conflict within the organization, Dobson’s resignation may not entirely been of his own volition.
Roger Carrier wrote a letter to the editor of The Daily Utah Chronicle Wednesday proposing that a statue of Harvey Milk be built and placed on a small section of the Utah State Capital grounds, in order to both mark Milk’s contributions to the advancement of gay rights and, more importantly, attempt to salvage something of the state’s reputation in the wake of the hateful, homophobic remarks made Monday by Senator Chris Buttars.
Mr. Carrier, a life-long Utah resident and is straight, married for over forty years, wrote an articulate, thoughtful letter, that is as a lovely and sincere as could be, urging others to stand up and defend gay men and women, whom he refers to as “kind and honest” and who he reminds are “making wonderful contributions” to the state. If only there were more Mr. Carriers everywhere.
Members of Maine’s tourism industry assembled en masse Friday at the State Legislature to show their support for a bill that would legalize gay marriage, insisting that studies show gay marriage would boast the state’s sagging economy.
Academy Award winning actor Sean Penn, in France to promote the release of Milk, told reporters Friday, with typical eloquence, that he hopes soon to screen the film at the White House for President Obama, and spoke of the Dustin Lance Black authored movie as being a vital part of the conversation as the California Supreme Court begins hearing arguments next week from proponents and opponents of Proposition 8 – the voter measure that effectively eliminated the right of gay men and women in the state to marry.
Roger Carrier wrote a letter to the editor of The Daily Utah Chronicle Wednesday proposing that a statue of Harvey Milk be built and placed on a small section of the Utah State Capital grounds, in order to both mark Milk’s contributions to the advancement of gay rights and, more importantly, attempt to salvage something of the state’s reputation in the wake of the hateful, homophobic remarks made Monday by Senator Chris Buttars.
Mr. Carrier, a life-long Utah resident and is straight, married for over forty years, wrote an articulate, thoughtful letter, that is as a lovely and sincere as could be, urging others to stand up and defend gay men and women, whom he refers to as “kind and honest” and who he reminds are “making wonderful contributions” to the state. If only there were more Mr. Carriers everywhere.
Members of Maine’s tourism industry assembled en masse Friday at the State Legislature to show their support for a bill that would legalize gay marriage, insisting that studies show gay marriage would boast the state’s sagging economy.
Academy Award winning actor Sean Penn, in France to promote the release of Milk, told reporters Friday, with typical eloquence, that he hopes soon to screen the film at the White House for President Obama, and spoke of the Dustin Lance Black authored movie as being a vital part of the conversation as the California Supreme Court begins hearing arguments next week from proponents and opponents of Proposition 8 – the voter measure that effectively eliminated the right of gay men and women in the state to marry.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tom Brady And Gisele Bundchen Reportedly Marry In Los Angeles
According to this report, Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady married model/actress/activist Gisele Bundchen, in Los Angeles Thursday, in a Catholic ceremony just hours ago. As yet, the report is not confirmed by either a representative for Brady or Bundchen. If it is true, which, again, has yet to be established, I begrudgingly congratulate the happy couple.
Thunder Bay Gets Gay, Southern California High School Production Of Rent Will Go On, Jeremy Piven Testifies, More Cole Mohr, Lohan In London
A high school in Thunder Bay, Ontario was awash in pink Wednesday, with Hillcrest High’s Gay Straight Alliance members asking all students to don at least one item of pink clothing to show support for the LGBT community and to hopefully open up a dialogue among educators and students about diversity and tolerance. On Friday, another high school in the city, Sir Winston Churchill, will host a similar event. The pink day is modeled on one that took place in Nova Scotia after a male student was bullied for wearing a pink shirt.
A high school in Newport Beach, California, that had cancelled a production of the award winning musical Rent, because the principal at Corona del Mar High purported confronted the drama teacher about the “gay content” of the Jonathan Larson authored play announced Thursday that the show will now go on, sometime in late April, that will follow a slightly sanitized version of the script.
The incredibly inane and woefully untalented Jeremy Piven, giving testimony Thursday at a grienvance hearing in New York, invoking both the Revered Martin Luther King and President Barack Obama, managed to convince a panel organized by the Actor’s Equity Association and the Broadway League that his claims of mercury poisoning were true, and that he was not, consequently, in violation of any contractual obligations when he dropped out of the revival of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. The grievance hearing, however, has yet to issue a verdict.
Meet male model Cole Mohr.
Lovely lesbians Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson arrived in London from Los Angeles, travelled to a secret location, and then made with the shopping, lots and lots of shopping, all of it documented almost as though you and I were there, along for the ride.
A high school in Newport Beach, California, that had cancelled a production of the award winning musical Rent, because the principal at Corona del Mar High purported confronted the drama teacher about the “gay content” of the Jonathan Larson authored play announced Thursday that the show will now go on, sometime in late April, that will follow a slightly sanitized version of the script.
The incredibly inane and woefully untalented Jeremy Piven, giving testimony Thursday at a grienvance hearing in New York, invoking both the Revered Martin Luther King and President Barack Obama, managed to convince a panel organized by the Actor’s Equity Association and the Broadway League that his claims of mercury poisoning were true, and that he was not, consequently, in violation of any contractual obligations when he dropped out of the revival of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. The grievance hearing, however, has yet to issue a verdict.
Meet male model Cole Mohr.
Lovely lesbians Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson arrived in London from Los Angeles, travelled to a secret location, and then made with the shopping, lots and lots of shopping, all of it documented almost as though you and I were there, along for the ride.
Transsexual Sues Women Only Gym, Gay SF Club Targeted By State Agency, White Knot, Little Miss Perfects, Rhys Meyers In Rehab, Michael Phelps Dropped
The owner of a women’s only gym in St. Catherines, Ontario is being taken to the province’s Human Rights Commission after denying a pre-operative transsexual access to the facility, where Wednesday mediation between the two parties – owner John Fulton and the transsexual – ended in a standstill. Mr. Fulton, who regards himself to be “a very liberal, open-minded person”, is being sued by the woman, seeking an apology and damages, in addition to have taken Fulton before the Human Rights tribunal. Predictably, the story has been accompanied by cries of the continued cultivation of the gay agenda, political correctness gone awry, and social engineering.
Is a gay and lesbian nightclub in San Francisco being unfairly targeted by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control? The owners of the DNA lounge certainly think so.
Los Angeles native Frank Voci who initiated the White Knot ribbon campaign in the wake of the passing of Proposition 8 – the ribbon symbolizes marriage equality – was worn by several attendees of the 81st Academy Awards, including Josh Brolin, Richard Jenkins, and most notably, Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, and the high profile the pins attained Sunday night has resulted in a surge of support and demand for the ribbons from places big and small.
I wish that I could take credit for inventing Michael, host and beauty pageant coordinator extraordinaire, and yet, I did not and Mr. Michael is of his own proud doing. He hosts a show called Little Miss Perfect, on something called the WE network, and the program is something akin to, well, there are no words actually to describe any of it. Sufficed to say it involves little girls, their wayward guardians, and Michael, who likes to talk of life in terms of God’s gifts, ponchos, and wow wear. Consider yourself warned.
Tudors star and dubious heterosexual Jonathan Rhys Meyers, missing in action for the past while, has reportedly checked into a rehabilitation facility in England for treatment for alcohol abuse.
Olympic gold medal record holder and strip club aficionado Michael Phelps, in the wake of the brief affair he had with a bong, has been dropped from two scheduled appearances in Canada as a part of a day long series of lectures for the sinister sounding Power Within. Replacing Phelps in Calgary is Martin Sheen and in Vancouver Doctor Oz, and yes, I so did not make that up. By the way, tickets for both events, the former held on March 3rd and the latter on March 6th, are entirely not refundable.
Is a gay and lesbian nightclub in San Francisco being unfairly targeted by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control? The owners of the DNA lounge certainly think so.
Los Angeles native Frank Voci who initiated the White Knot ribbon campaign in the wake of the passing of Proposition 8 – the ribbon symbolizes marriage equality – was worn by several attendees of the 81st Academy Awards, including Josh Brolin, Richard Jenkins, and most notably, Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, and the high profile the pins attained Sunday night has resulted in a surge of support and demand for the ribbons from places big and small.
I wish that I could take credit for inventing Michael, host and beauty pageant coordinator extraordinaire, and yet, I did not and Mr. Michael is of his own proud doing. He hosts a show called Little Miss Perfect, on something called the WE network, and the program is something akin to, well, there are no words actually to describe any of it. Sufficed to say it involves little girls, their wayward guardians, and Michael, who likes to talk of life in terms of God’s gifts, ponchos, and wow wear. Consider yourself warned.
Tudors star and dubious heterosexual Jonathan Rhys Meyers, missing in action for the past while, has reportedly checked into a rehabilitation facility in England for treatment for alcohol abuse.
Olympic gold medal record holder and strip club aficionado Michael Phelps, in the wake of the brief affair he had with a bong, has been dropped from two scheduled appearances in Canada as a part of a day long series of lectures for the sinister sounding Power Within. Replacing Phelps in Calgary is Martin Sheen and in Vancouver Doctor Oz, and yes, I so did not make that up. By the way, tickets for both events, the former held on March 3rd and the latter on March 6th, are entirely not refundable.
Republican Senators David Schultheis And Gary Tapp Are Stars Of The New Republican Party Still Advocating Hatred, Intolerance, And Stupidity
Colorado Republican Senators continue to behave in ways less befitted elected officials, with Senator David Schultheis joining fellow Republican Senator Scott Renfroe, who Monday, during debate on a bill that would extend spousal benefits to same-sex couples who are employees of the state, equated homosexuality with murder, and deemed being gay an abomination. Wednesday, during a vote on a bill requiring pregnant women to be tested for HIV because he said it would unfairly protect women and their unborn children from the “negative consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavior, quite frankly,” effortlessly managing to equate HIV with promiscuity.
Senator’s Renfroe and Schultheis, to remind you, are a part of the new Republican Party, the one seeking a more moderate territory, where inclusion and tolerance is the norm.
Louisville, Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign organized a protest Wednesday, aimed at bring attention to a bill sponsored by that state’s Republican Senator Gary Tapp, who helped authored State Bill 68, which would effectively remove the rights of gay men and women in the state to adopt, with Tapp arguing that the bill is necessary since it “is a proven fact that children are better off raised in a loving, safe environment,” apparently implying that homosexuals are incapable of creating loving, safe relationships.
The bill – what a surprise – is co-sponsored The Family Foundation of Kentucky, a group that believes in “common sense” bigotry and who insist that opponents of the bill are “throwing children under the bus on the road to gay rights,” an odd, if not wholly inaccurate allegory.
Senator’s Renfroe and Schultheis, to remind you, are a part of the new Republican Party, the one seeking a more moderate territory, where inclusion and tolerance is the norm.
Louisville, Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign organized a protest Wednesday, aimed at bring attention to a bill sponsored by that state’s Republican Senator Gary Tapp, who helped authored State Bill 68, which would effectively remove the rights of gay men and women in the state to adopt, with Tapp arguing that the bill is necessary since it “is a proven fact that children are better off raised in a loving, safe environment,” apparently implying that homosexuals are incapable of creating loving, safe relationships.
The bill – what a surprise – is co-sponsored The Family Foundation of Kentucky, a group that believes in “common sense” bigotry and who insist that opponents of the bill are “throwing children under the bus on the road to gay rights,” an odd, if not wholly inaccurate allegory.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Hawaii’s Civil Union Bill, China Same-Sex Marriage Campaign, SF Chronicle, Different Light Closing LA Store, Top Chef, Gay Sherlock, Beatty’s Proposal
With a 3-3 vote Wednesday, a bill that would legalize civil unions in Hawaii needs now to be pulled from a Senate committee where it was being debating and sent to the Senate for a full vote. The bill, which was passed by the House earlier in February by a 33-17 vote, would extend the benefits, responsibility, and rights to homosexual couples as are granted to heterosexual couples in the state. The debate brought forth the usual inanities, including objections made by Honolulu City Councilman Gary Okino who insisted that the bill represented a real threat to the state and that there were medical dangers to the “homosexual lifestyle.” Okino also said that there were serious consequences to not adhering to the word of God, again, apparently unable to understand the meaning behind the phrase separation of Church and State.
There is a movement in China to legalize same-sex marriage, with a group of gay and lesbian activists staging mock marriages in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Valentine’s Day as a protest; that in a nation that until 2001 classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Late Tuesday, the Hearst Corporation announced it would implement a series of “significant cuts” to both union and non-union staff of the San Francisco Chronicle in a effort to reverse losses that totaled fifty-million dollars in 2008. Hearst warned that if the paper does not start saving costs immediately, it will be forced to either put the paper up for sale or if one cannot be found, be closed. Hearst purchased the newspaper in 2000, and the Chronicle has been in existence in some form since 1865.
The Los Angeles branch of A Different Light Bookstore, a victim of bad luck, chronic city construction and the economic crisis, is closing, though the precise date is yet to be announced. The store, in existence for almost thirty years, will continue to operate its San Francisco store, as well as its online site.
This season’s Top Chef is . . .
The new Sherlock Holmes film, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson, is apparently quite the gay affair, but since studio executives recently demanded reshoots, maybe not.
Warren Beatty has made either a decent or an indecent proposal to lovely lesbian Lindsay Lohan, offering her a role in new movie contingent on Miss. Lohan agreeing to live with Mr. Beatty for the duration of the shoot – and a story like that just has to be true.
There is a movement in China to legalize same-sex marriage, with a group of gay and lesbian activists staging mock marriages in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Valentine’s Day as a protest; that in a nation that until 2001 classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Late Tuesday, the Hearst Corporation announced it would implement a series of “significant cuts” to both union and non-union staff of the San Francisco Chronicle in a effort to reverse losses that totaled fifty-million dollars in 2008. Hearst warned that if the paper does not start saving costs immediately, it will be forced to either put the paper up for sale or if one cannot be found, be closed. Hearst purchased the newspaper in 2000, and the Chronicle has been in existence in some form since 1865.
The Los Angeles branch of A Different Light Bookstore, a victim of bad luck, chronic city construction and the economic crisis, is closing, though the precise date is yet to be announced. The store, in existence for almost thirty years, will continue to operate its San Francisco store, as well as its online site.
This season’s Top Chef is . . .
The new Sherlock Holmes film, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson, is apparently quite the gay affair, but since studio executives recently demanded reshoots, maybe not.
Warren Beatty has made either a decent or an indecent proposal to lovely lesbian Lindsay Lohan, offering her a role in new movie contingent on Miss. Lohan agreeing to live with Mr. Beatty for the duration of the shoot – and a story like that just has to be true.
Asian Network Sanitizes Academy Awards Acceptance Speeches, Catholic Bishop Opposes Diversity, Stupid Michael Steele, Rachel Maddow To The Rescue
A rebroadcast of the 81st Academy Awards ceremony in Asia that censored the acceptance speeches of Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn, removing the word gay and lesbian from each, has come under fire from gay men and women in the area, who regard the censorship as homophobic; ironic since both Black and Penn called for equal rights for homosexuals while the idea that gay and lesbian are somehow offending words delivers a message that there is still something shameful about being gay.
Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph F. Martino, whose diocese includes Scranton, Pennsylvania, is asking Misericordia University officials to eliminate the school’s Diversity Institute, after the program invited Keith Boykin, a well known author, gay activist, and founder of The National Black Justice Coalition, to speak as a part of Black History Month; an invitation that outraged the good Bishop, prompting his demand that the school disband the diversity program.
The Diversity Institute has operated with a mandate to work with the community to promote multicultural understanding and help eliminate all forms of discrimination. While Misericordia was founded in 1924 in Dallas, Texas, by the Religious Sisters of Mercy order, it receives independent funding, and is not operated by any Catholic diocese. Most students were ashamed and shocked by the Bishop’s comments, who seems to require a dictionary to formally learn the definition of both Christian and diverse.
Michael Steele, elected Chair of the Republican National Committee for reasons that are far too transparent and require no explanation, continues to contribute to the slow suicide of the Party, yesterday, reversing his previous policy that gay marriage should not be used a litmus test by the Republican’s and is in fact an issue that the Party can compromise on, when, in response to a question by radio host Michael Gallagher that asked whether Steele was in favor of civil unions, to which Steele replied, “No, no, no. What would we do that for? What, are you crazy?” He then continued, apparently without any irony whatsoever, to insist that the idea of marriage as one only existing between a man and a woman was a “core, founding value” and “foundational principle” of America, and that you do not simply, on a whim, eliminate said core, founding values, forgetting it seemed, for the moment, as black man, that in fact slavery was a “core, founding value” of America too.
Rachel Maddow, responding to the Republican Party’s response to President Obama’s Address to Congress, by one Governor Bobby Jindal, of Louisiana, which was bewilderingly funny and seemed to be more or less about shopping for canned goods with his Indian Father when Jindal was a boy, is, well, priceless. Maddow might be the only honest journalist on television today.
Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph F. Martino, whose diocese includes Scranton, Pennsylvania, is asking Misericordia University officials to eliminate the school’s Diversity Institute, after the program invited Keith Boykin, a well known author, gay activist, and founder of The National Black Justice Coalition, to speak as a part of Black History Month; an invitation that outraged the good Bishop, prompting his demand that the school disband the diversity program.
The Diversity Institute has operated with a mandate to work with the community to promote multicultural understanding and help eliminate all forms of discrimination. While Misericordia was founded in 1924 in Dallas, Texas, by the Religious Sisters of Mercy order, it receives independent funding, and is not operated by any Catholic diocese. Most students were ashamed and shocked by the Bishop’s comments, who seems to require a dictionary to formally learn the definition of both Christian and diverse.
Michael Steele, elected Chair of the Republican National Committee for reasons that are far too transparent and require no explanation, continues to contribute to the slow suicide of the Party, yesterday, reversing his previous policy that gay marriage should not be used a litmus test by the Republican’s and is in fact an issue that the Party can compromise on, when, in response to a question by radio host Michael Gallagher that asked whether Steele was in favor of civil unions, to which Steele replied, “No, no, no. What would we do that for? What, are you crazy?” He then continued, apparently without any irony whatsoever, to insist that the idea of marriage as one only existing between a man and a woman was a “core, founding value” and “foundational principle” of America, and that you do not simply, on a whim, eliminate said core, founding values, forgetting it seemed, for the moment, as black man, that in fact slavery was a “core, founding value” of America too.
Rachel Maddow, responding to the Republican Party’s response to President Obama’s Address to Congress, by one Governor Bobby Jindal, of Louisiana, which was bewilderingly funny and seemed to be more or less about shopping for canned goods with his Indian Father when Jindal was a boy, is, well, priceless. Maddow might be the only honest journalist on television today.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Homophobia Contributed To Social Agency Failures, God Moves Closer To Stephen Harper, Obama Address, Jamie Barber Bare, Chace And Ed, Rosie Shares
After three years of testimony at the cost of over forty-million dollars, final submissions are being heard in Cornwall, Ontario, in the eastern part of the province, at inquiry meant to determine why a number of agencies, including Children Social Services, the Ontario Provincial Police and nearby Ottawa police failed so profoundly at handling an ongoing investigation into alleged sexual abuse among minors, and why that investigation was ultimately hijacked by a high-minded police officer who began a mission to purge an alleged pedophile ring in the area; a ring that was utter fantasy concocted largely in mind of former Cornwall police officer Perry Dunlap, but whose rumored origins has destroyed the lives and reputations of many.
Even though evidence continued to be presented that no ring existed, several citizens steadfastly refused to believe others, and began formulating that a conspiracy to cover up the “clandestine clan” of sexual predators existed; and that, the inquiry was told by the group Citizens for Community Renewal, could have only occurred because of a deep systemic climate of homophobia in the community, that equated gay men in the area to pedophiles.
Quite quietly, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, shuffling his cabinet late last week, installed the former head of the country’s Focus on the Family, Darrel Reid as his new deputy chief of staff, a move that places a on the record anti-gay evangelical near the top of the nation’s government.
Trying to sound hopeful, American President Barack Obama delivered a speech Tuesday night to a special joint session of Congress, announcing that the day of economic reckoning had arrived and that the need for reform was urgent as could be; reform Obama primarily called for in the areas of finance and health care.
PETA, with help from hunky Battlestar Galactica actor Jamie Barber, wants you and God to help save the Canadian black bear, who are apparently killed for their fur, which goes to make the Queen’s Guard ceremonial caps. Barber insists he is into bare skin, not bear skin, and strips bare to prove it.
Pretend heterosexuals and Gossip Girl boys Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick continue to confirm they are left of straight.
Apparently Madonna has come to the aid of Rosie O’Donnell, offering assistance to Rosie as she contends with menopause, just one of the revelations O’Donnell shares with Tyra Banks on a special two part show airing this Thursday and Friday. O’Donnell also shares that her thirteen-year old son Parker convinced her in December to quit drinking.
Even though evidence continued to be presented that no ring existed, several citizens steadfastly refused to believe others, and began formulating that a conspiracy to cover up the “clandestine clan” of sexual predators existed; and that, the inquiry was told by the group Citizens for Community Renewal, could have only occurred because of a deep systemic climate of homophobia in the community, that equated gay men in the area to pedophiles.
Quite quietly, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, shuffling his cabinet late last week, installed the former head of the country’s Focus on the Family, Darrel Reid as his new deputy chief of staff, a move that places a on the record anti-gay evangelical near the top of the nation’s government.
Trying to sound hopeful, American President Barack Obama delivered a speech Tuesday night to a special joint session of Congress, announcing that the day of economic reckoning had arrived and that the need for reform was urgent as could be; reform Obama primarily called for in the areas of finance and health care.
PETA, with help from hunky Battlestar Galactica actor Jamie Barber, wants you and God to help save the Canadian black bear, who are apparently killed for their fur, which goes to make the Queen’s Guard ceremonial caps. Barber insists he is into bare skin, not bear skin, and strips bare to prove it.
Pretend heterosexuals and Gossip Girl boys Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick continue to confirm they are left of straight.
Apparently Madonna has come to the aid of Rosie O’Donnell, offering assistance to Rosie as she contends with menopause, just one of the revelations O’Donnell shares with Tyra Banks on a special two part show airing this Thursday and Friday. O’Donnell also shares that her thirteen-year old son Parker convinced her in December to quit drinking.
Call For Justice In Michael Causer Case, Transsexual Sues Burlington Coat Factory, Chris Buttars Protest, Sam Sparro, Courtney Love, Bravo Baldness
The grotesque miscarriage of justice that is the acquittal of nineteen-year old Gavin Alker, in connection with brutal, hate-fuelled murder last July of eighteen-year Michael Causer is gaining political currency quite quickly. To regard a jury who took a mere thirteen hours to deliberate before pronouncing Alker not guilt on one charge of murder and one charge of manslaughter as a travesty is to traffic in understatements. The verdict itself is a criminal act and should serve as another reminder that the lives of gay men and women are too often thought of as cheap and disposable. Causer, eighteen, was killed while he slept – beaten, kicked, and punched repeatedly, while Alker repeated called him a “faggot” and a “ little queer” during the attack, and then Michael’s body was dumped in the street, where he was left to die.
A transsexual who worked for the Burlington Coat Factory filed suit in San Francisco Tuesday, suing the company for sexual harassment, which she says took place over seven years, including the period she was transitioning until she was terminated this past January. Burlington Coat Factory has yet to comment.
While the debate – which I hope is meant to be rhetorical – continues in Utah as to whether hate-mongering Senator Chris Buttars is an antiquated purveyor of anti-gay sentiment or merely a misunderstood guard of moral decency, a boycott has been called for this coming Saturday, deemed a “Buttars-Palooza by the organizers.
Sam Sparro says being gay is so mundane it is normal.
This Hedi Slimane diary includes beautiful black and white photographs of Gus Van Sant, Courtney Love, Bryan Ferry, and Jethro Cave.
Is there a bald conspiracy at work on Bravo’s Top Chef? As the season finale approaches Wednesday night, the evidence is presented.
A transsexual who worked for the Burlington Coat Factory filed suit in San Francisco Tuesday, suing the company for sexual harassment, which she says took place over seven years, including the period she was transitioning until she was terminated this past January. Burlington Coat Factory has yet to comment.
While the debate – which I hope is meant to be rhetorical – continues in Utah as to whether hate-mongering Senator Chris Buttars is an antiquated purveyor of anti-gay sentiment or merely a misunderstood guard of moral decency, a boycott has been called for this coming Saturday, deemed a “Buttars-Palooza by the organizers.
Sam Sparro says being gay is so mundane it is normal.
This Hedi Slimane diary includes beautiful black and white photographs of Gus Van Sant, Courtney Love, Bryan Ferry, and Jethro Cave.
Is there a bald conspiracy at work on Bravo’s Top Chef? As the season finale approaches Wednesday night, the evidence is presented.
Rupert Murdoch Apologizes, Kathy Griffin Book Deal, Yves Saint Laurent Art Auction, iPhone, Spiderman Broadway Musical Confirmed, Melrose Place, Shia
With the protest surrounding the publication last week of a racist, violent cartoon in The New York Post continuing to grow, the NCAAP offering its support Monday, surprisingly or perhaps not so much, Post owner and professional curmudgeon Rupert Murdoch apologized Tuesday morning, through a statement published in this morning's edition, admitting the paper "made a mistake" and apologizing to any reader who felt "offended" or "insulted." Murdoch promised that the paper will now work to be more "attuned to the sensitivities" of the community.
The funny and the profane Kathy Griffin has been shopping a memoir and it was bought at auction late last week by Ballantine – an imprint of Random House – for a little over two million dollars, but both the timing and the purchase price have been the source of public protests, given that the publishing industry continues to announce cutback and layoffs daily.
Despite the current economic climate or perhaps because of it, the first night of an art auction in Paris from the private collection of the late Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, set records, with a beautiful Matisse selling to an anonymous buyer for forty-million, nine-hundred thousand dollars, and the final amount for the one night totaling two-hundred and sixty-four million dollars. Pierre Berge, Mr. Laurent’s partner, intend to use the proceeds from the week long sale to contribute to a charity organization he founded with Yves before his death, among which is the founding of a new AIDS research center.
The iPhone gets gayer.
The new Broadway musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, to be directed by the Lion King’s Julie Taymor, featuring lyrics and music from Bono and The Edge, is now scheduled to open in the Hilton Theatre on January 16th, 2010. While official casting has yet to be revealed, Evan Rachel Wood has said she is set to star.
Sadly, the CW’s reworking of Melrose Place is official.
Guess which Hollywood hobo, recently removed of their driver’s license, behaved badly Monday night in Los Angeles, nearly causing another car accident all from the passengers seat?
The funny and the profane Kathy Griffin has been shopping a memoir and it was bought at auction late last week by Ballantine – an imprint of Random House – for a little over two million dollars, but both the timing and the purchase price have been the source of public protests, given that the publishing industry continues to announce cutback and layoffs daily.
Despite the current economic climate or perhaps because of it, the first night of an art auction in Paris from the private collection of the late Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, set records, with a beautiful Matisse selling to an anonymous buyer for forty-million, nine-hundred thousand dollars, and the final amount for the one night totaling two-hundred and sixty-four million dollars. Pierre Berge, Mr. Laurent’s partner, intend to use the proceeds from the week long sale to contribute to a charity organization he founded with Yves before his death, among which is the founding of a new AIDS research center.
The iPhone gets gayer.
The new Broadway musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, to be directed by the Lion King’s Julie Taymor, featuring lyrics and music from Bono and The Edge, is now scheduled to open in the Hilton Theatre on January 16th, 2010. While official casting has yet to be revealed, Evan Rachel Wood has said she is set to star.
Sadly, the CW’s reworking of Melrose Place is official.
Guess which Hollywood hobo, recently removed of their driver’s license, behaved badly Monday night in Los Angeles, nearly causing another car accident all from the passengers seat?
Cleve Jones On The Rachel Maddow Show
The great Cleve Jones appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Monday, and helped underline the need for gay men and women to realize the personal is the political, emphasized that the political rhetoric politicians and preachers like to bandy about carelessly contributes to the violence brought against homosexuals, and that the time has come to demand the American Federal government repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and extend full equal rights to gays in all fifty United States.
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Anti-Gay And Anti-Women Senator Scott Renfroe Commits Treason
Colorado Senate Bill 88 – a measure that would allow employees of the state who are gay or lesbian to share their health benefits with their partners - sponsored by Democratic Senator Jennifer Veiga of Denver, passed a vote Monday and will be voted on again in the Senate before heading to the House. It is of note that the bill – which is rather pedestrian in policy – somehow, in the puny minds of several Republican officials, was less about offering same-sex benefits and more about an attempt to redefine marriage within the state; a state, who as recently as 2006, had voters approve not a ballot measure that defined marriage in Colorado as that only existing between a man and a woman, but disapproved a measure that would have created domestic partnerships.
Among the worse example of a Republican legislator demonizing homosexuals with inflammatory speech during Monday’s debate was Senator Scott Renfroe, who managed, with great flare, to cheapen Christianity in a way heretofore never witness, with dazzling results, stating that homosexuality was an “abomination” and was “offensive” to God as God created man and woman to procreate. He also quoted from every extremist’s guidebook – the book of Genesis – and insisted that women were created by God to serve as “helpers” to men.
Then the coup de grace:
“I’m not saying this (homosexuality) is the only sin out there. We have murder. We have all sorts of sin. We have adultery. And we don’t make laws making those things legal, and we would never think to make murder legal.”
Sort of takes your breath away, the sweeping display of muscled intelligence and political profundity, all from the mind and mouth of someone who by all rights is extinct, and for who the conceit that is the separation of church and state is apparently without merit.
The inherent danger lurking behind the full-fledged idiocy that is the Senator from Greeley, Colorado, is that it implies gays are analogous to murderers, criminals, and therefore treating gay men and women like criminals is not only state sanctioned, but somehow a religious duty, all of which at some point signals to the small minded that it is okay to discriminate against homosexuals, to attack them, to kill them. He has disgraced the office he holds, the electorate he represents, the state of Colorado, and the very principles of Christianity – and is guilty of moral and political treason.
Among the worse example of a Republican legislator demonizing homosexuals with inflammatory speech during Monday’s debate was Senator Scott Renfroe, who managed, with great flare, to cheapen Christianity in a way heretofore never witness, with dazzling results, stating that homosexuality was an “abomination” and was “offensive” to God as God created man and woman to procreate. He also quoted from every extremist’s guidebook – the book of Genesis – and insisted that women were created by God to serve as “helpers” to men.
Then the coup de grace:
“I’m not saying this (homosexuality) is the only sin out there. We have murder. We have all sorts of sin. We have adultery. And we don’t make laws making those things legal, and we would never think to make murder legal.”
Sort of takes your breath away, the sweeping display of muscled intelligence and political profundity, all from the mind and mouth of someone who by all rights is extinct, and for who the conceit that is the separation of church and state is apparently without merit.
The inherent danger lurking behind the full-fledged idiocy that is the Senator from Greeley, Colorado, is that it implies gays are analogous to murderers, criminals, and therefore treating gay men and women like criminals is not only state sanctioned, but somehow a religious duty, all of which at some point signals to the small minded that it is okay to discriminate against homosexuals, to attack them, to kill them. He has disgraced the office he holds, the electorate he represents, the state of Colorado, and the very principles of Christianity – and is guilty of moral and political treason.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Continual Calls For Gays To Compromise On Marriage, Lindsay Lohan In Black And White, Vanity Fair Party, Kevin Jonas Does Not Play Ball, Gisele In Rio
This opinions piece from Saturday's New York Times, written by the academic fraud and intellectually puny David Blankenhorn, the president of the ominous sounding Institute for American Values, who fobbed off a similar bit of triviality in the Los Angeles Times post-Proposition 8 passing and Jonathan Rauch, an eager, if somewhat shy gay activist whose contention that gay marriage befits everyone – economically, politically, and socially – puts forth a modest proposal for a series of compromises that will allow gays to marry in the United States, sort of, but not really. It is a shame from the capital I to the final period.
Reading it only reinforces for me – a Canadian – how ludicrous it is for gay men and women in America to tolerate the pandering of state by state politics that offer a come hither suggestion that equal rights are available only to be denied those fundamental rights by a handful of wealthy religious zealots, rather than demanding the Defense of Marriage Act be repealed and full federal rights for all the entire LGBT community legislated.
Famed fashion photographer Hedi Slimane, whose Jethro Cave portfolio I posted a few weeks ago, has turned her trained eye toward that which is lovely lesbian Lindsay Lohan, creating a series of black and white pictures that are as beautiful as they are haunting.
Lohan last night attended numerous Academy Award after parties, accompanied by girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
The 15th annual Vanity Fair Oscar party attracted the usual suspects, including the scowling sexy Ryan Phillippe, his ex, Reese Witherspoon accompanied by pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal, Madonna minus Jesus, and many, many more.
The Brothers Jonas played softball Saturday in Los Angeles, all of which would not normally merit a post, save for the picture of oldest Jonas Kevin and his dog Elvis on the sidelines, since, seriously, if he is not a member of my team I would be stunned.
If Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady is in New England, why is girlfriend Gisele Bundchen partying in Rio, making with the Carnival?
Reading it only reinforces for me – a Canadian – how ludicrous it is for gay men and women in America to tolerate the pandering of state by state politics that offer a come hither suggestion that equal rights are available only to be denied those fundamental rights by a handful of wealthy religious zealots, rather than demanding the Defense of Marriage Act be repealed and full federal rights for all the entire LGBT community legislated.
Famed fashion photographer Hedi Slimane, whose Jethro Cave portfolio I posted a few weeks ago, has turned her trained eye toward that which is lovely lesbian Lindsay Lohan, creating a series of black and white pictures that are as beautiful as they are haunting.
Lohan last night attended numerous Academy Award after parties, accompanied by girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
The 15th annual Vanity Fair Oscar party attracted the usual suspects, including the scowling sexy Ryan Phillippe, his ex, Reese Witherspoon accompanied by pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal, Madonna minus Jesus, and many, many more.
The Brothers Jonas played softball Saturday in Los Angeles, all of which would not normally merit a post, save for the picture of oldest Jonas Kevin and his dog Elvis on the sidelines, since, seriously, if he is not a member of my team I would be stunned.
If Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady is in New England, why is girlfriend Gisele Bundchen partying in Rio, making with the Carnival?
Chris Buttars Back To Remind Us He Is Not Resigning
While Utah Senate Republicans circled the wagons, attempting, behind closed doors to estimate the best way to control the damage left in the wake of Senator Chris Buttars comments, chiefly among them that homosexuals and our agenda represent the “greatest threat” to America, Buttars took to the Utah GOP website to post an entry expressing, for the record, his intent to keep fighting to defend marriage against the “increasingly vocal and radical segment of the homosexual community.”
Buttars, who is apparently well past his best before date, also, not surprisingly, took the blame the left leaning media route, accusing the Utah media guilty of behavior best suited to a bully as well as attempting to stifle free speech, apparently having missed the series of meeting where the difference between speech that is free and speech that is hate was explained.
Poor Buttars; he seems ignorant of so much, mostly that the popular public perception in his home state of Utah regarding homosexuals is changing, and that no longer will anyone sanctioning the demonology of gays who only want equal, not separate rights, br tolerated.
I think, along with others, that Utah has become, perhaps unwittingly, ground zero for a number of social justice causes, including the passing of fundamental human rights for the LGBT community, as well as crucial environmental issues, and so far, Utah and its citizens have responded rightly, reducing Buttars and his like to relics of a time long past and not likely to ever return.
Buttars, who is apparently well past his best before date, also, not surprisingly, took the blame the left leaning media route, accusing the Utah media guilty of behavior best suited to a bully as well as attempting to stifle free speech, apparently having missed the series of meeting where the difference between speech that is free and speech that is hate was explained.
Poor Buttars; he seems ignorant of so much, mostly that the popular public perception in his home state of Utah regarding homosexuals is changing, and that no longer will anyone sanctioning the demonology of gays who only want equal, not separate rights, br tolerated.
I think, along with others, that Utah has become, perhaps unwittingly, ground zero for a number of social justice causes, including the passing of fundamental human rights for the LGBT community, as well as crucial environmental issues, and so far, Utah and its citizens have responded rightly, reducing Buttars and his like to relics of a time long past and not likely to ever return.
Demonstrators Protest Not Guilty Verdict In Michael Causer Murder, Straight Hate Appeal Denied, Margaret Atwood Confused, Idaho Kills Gay Bill
Protesters peacefully demonstrated in Liverpool, England, organized by the city’s LGBT community, rightfully angry at the abhorrent miscarriage of justice that was the acquittal Friday on two charges of Gavin Alker in the horrific, hate motivated murder of eighteen-year old Michael Causer, with the jury deliberating for a mere thirteen hours before returning with its inexplicable verdict. Among the demonstrators who gathered in front of the Liverpool Crown Court was Michael’s Mother, Marie Causer, who said she “felt completely betrayed by the justice system” and that she intends to privately prosecute Alker.
Thankfully, the United States Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal brought by one Timothy Morrison, the Boyd County, Kentucky former high school student, who, aided by the anti-gay group, Arizona based Alliance Defense Fund, sued his school, claiming that the inception of a Gay-Straight Alliance violated his freedom of expression since, as a loving Christian, he hated homosexuals. Surprising, when reached for comment, Mr. Morrison said he knew nothing of the high court’s decision and referred all questions to his mother, who referred them to the Alliance Defense Fund. Well played Christians! Well played!
Canadian author Margaret Atwood says she feels duped, claiming that she mistakenly charged the Dubai Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature literary as censoring the new novel The Gulf Between Us, by British based novelist Geraldine Bedell, who claimed her work had been rejected by Festival organizers because of the inclusion of a secondary character who is gay. Atwood, whom I loathe and find woefully arcane and generally grumpy (she and her partner, the equally bad writer Graeme Gibson were neighbors in Toronto, and their self-aggrandizing and self-important antics did not play well, shuffling through the Annex with hand loomed sweaters and numerous burlap bags), took to the British newspaper The Guardian, where she offer a stunningly stupid, wordy, allegorically confusing apology; so confusing in fact, that it is now impossible to remember what any of this was ever about.
Idaho – home state of former George W. Bush secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, who in his last days of office spent two-hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars renovating a washroom, including installing a fridge – has killed a proposal that would have ended discrimination for gays and lesbians in education, employment, and housing, with Senate lawmakers Friday voting not to approve the bill. And yes, you read it right – a fridge in a bathroom.
Thankfully, the United States Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal brought by one Timothy Morrison, the Boyd County, Kentucky former high school student, who, aided by the anti-gay group, Arizona based Alliance Defense Fund, sued his school, claiming that the inception of a Gay-Straight Alliance violated his freedom of expression since, as a loving Christian, he hated homosexuals. Surprising, when reached for comment, Mr. Morrison said he knew nothing of the high court’s decision and referred all questions to his mother, who referred them to the Alliance Defense Fund. Well played Christians! Well played!
Canadian author Margaret Atwood says she feels duped, claiming that she mistakenly charged the Dubai Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature literary as censoring the new novel The Gulf Between Us, by British based novelist Geraldine Bedell, who claimed her work had been rejected by Festival organizers because of the inclusion of a secondary character who is gay. Atwood, whom I loathe and find woefully arcane and generally grumpy (she and her partner, the equally bad writer Graeme Gibson were neighbors in Toronto, and their self-aggrandizing and self-important antics did not play well, shuffling through the Annex with hand loomed sweaters and numerous burlap bags), took to the British newspaper The Guardian, where she offer a stunningly stupid, wordy, allegorically confusing apology; so confusing in fact, that it is now impossible to remember what any of this was ever about.
Idaho – home state of former George W. Bush secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, who in his last days of office spent two-hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars renovating a washroom, including installing a fridge – has killed a proposal that would have ended discrimination for gays and lesbians in education, employment, and housing, with Senate lawmakers Friday voting not to approve the bill. And yes, you read it right – a fridge in a bathroom.
The 81st Academy Awards: The Good, The Bad, The Unexplainable, Celebrating In The Castro, Nate Silver Posits Post-Oscar Pool
Save for the three articulate, elegant, and poignant acceptance speeches by the beautiful Penelope Cruz, winner of best supporting actress, Dustin Lance Black, winner of best original screenplay, and Sean Penn, winner of best actor, Sunday night’s Academy Awards were awfully mediocre at best. It did not help matters much that Slumdog Millionaire swept most of the awards – a film fast becoming the novel everyone pretends to have read, but has not – since most of the movie’s winner’s speeches fell flat for a variety of reasons, nor did the awkward, overstated introductions that punctuated each acting award: it seemed to take as long as ten minutes to introduce the first award of the night, best supporting actress, and by the time Cruz was announced, I had literally forgotten what the category was.
I held such great expectations out for Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman as host – he is so charming, so cute, and courageous, being game for almost anything – but he too was sabotaged by terrible ideas that were executed poorly, and worse, inexplicably bad and embarrassing lyrics – the phrases “human excrement” and “pubic hair” have no real place in an Oscar ceremony ever!
I did enjoy the abbreviated number of presenters and the clever conceit of staging the awards as though they were building a film, Daniel Craig and Sarah Jessica Parker being particularly impressive as presenters as were Tina Fey and Steve Martin. Ben Stiller and Seth Rogan were an entirely different matter: the former embarrassing not only poor Natalie Portman, but what is already a sad, stunted career and the later confirming that he being gainfully employed somehow defies the laws of nature. A complete list of the winners from Sunday night is here.
Can anyone help explain the presence of protestors outside the Kodak Theater, holding high signs exclaiming “God Hate Fags” and “Heath In Hell”? I don’t like impugning all illiterate, evangelical extremist, right-wing hate mongers masquerading as Christians, based on the actions of a few, and yet. Thankfully, Sean Penn did his best to explain it all, while offering a smart rebuke.
The much deserved win by both Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn were celebrated with much joy and great pride at the sort of ground zero for all things Harvey Milk, the Castro, in San Francisco, where hundreds watched the Oscar telecast inside the famed Castro theatre.
Nate Silver, who famously employed his model of calculations based on percentages and statistics in New York Magazine last week, offers an Oscar pool post-mortem, explaining what went wrong and why he chose Mickey Rourke over Sean Penn and Taraji P. Henson over Penelope Cruz. He is so geek sexy and loves baseball though, so he need not apologize.
I held such great expectations out for Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman as host – he is so charming, so cute, and courageous, being game for almost anything – but he too was sabotaged by terrible ideas that were executed poorly, and worse, inexplicably bad and embarrassing lyrics – the phrases “human excrement” and “pubic hair” have no real place in an Oscar ceremony ever!
I did enjoy the abbreviated number of presenters and the clever conceit of staging the awards as though they were building a film, Daniel Craig and Sarah Jessica Parker being particularly impressive as presenters as were Tina Fey and Steve Martin. Ben Stiller and Seth Rogan were an entirely different matter: the former embarrassing not only poor Natalie Portman, but what is already a sad, stunted career and the later confirming that he being gainfully employed somehow defies the laws of nature. A complete list of the winners from Sunday night is here.
Can anyone help explain the presence of protestors outside the Kodak Theater, holding high signs exclaiming “God Hate Fags” and “Heath In Hell”? I don’t like impugning all illiterate, evangelical extremist, right-wing hate mongers masquerading as Christians, based on the actions of a few, and yet. Thankfully, Sean Penn did his best to explain it all, while offering a smart rebuke.
The much deserved win by both Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn were celebrated with much joy and great pride at the sort of ground zero for all things Harvey Milk, the Castro, in San Francisco, where hundreds watched the Oscar telecast inside the famed Castro theatre.
Nate Silver, who famously employed his model of calculations based on percentages and statistics in New York Magazine last week, offers an Oscar pool post-mortem, explaining what went wrong and why he chose Mickey Rourke over Sean Penn and Taraji P. Henson over Penelope Cruz. He is so geek sexy and loves baseball though, so he need not apologize.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Dustin Lance Black
I might be a tad bias (being gay and being that he is a friend), but I think Dustin Lance Black’s acceptance speech at the Academy Awards Sunday night for best original screenplay for Milk, was the most moving moment of the night, and maybe one of the most ever. Like Lance, it was articulate, determined, and gracious, humble, and pointed, and effortlessly represented gays in a way that bestowed us all with honor and filled me with pride. As well, like the surprising, but so deserved win for Sean Penn who inhabited the ghost of Harvey Milk in a brilliant, subtle performance, Black holds out hope for every gay man or woman, boy or girl, who has ever been subjected to hatred, prejudice, and ridicule. I am ridiculously beyond proud.
Clay Aiken RCA Rift Rooted In Homophobia, ND Moves To Extend Gay Rights, Lutheran Church Too, Who Doesn’t Like Zac Efron, Robert Pattison
Clay Aiken, now reported to have left RCA on his own at least two months ago, maybe the victim of homophobia, with rumors rampant that the label’s management and promotions team deliberately and suspiciously sabotaged the marketing of Aiken’s most recent release On My Way Here, which sold only one-hundred and fifty-nine thousand copies in the United States, and came mere months after Aiken outed himself on the cover of People magazine.
North Dakota on Thursday took another step towards extending equal rights to gays, lesbians, and transgendered, with the state Senate voting 27-19 to approve a bill – House Bill 2278 – that bars discrimination against gays in credit, employment, insurance, health, and housing. The bill, which passed without debate and contains an addendum of sorts that “does restrict religious freedoms,” now moves to the state House.
Also on Thursday, a panel of prominent Evangelical Lutheran members recommended to Church leaders that the American branch of Lutherans formally recognizes same-sex unions and allow same-sex couples in committed relationships to serve as clergy. The measure, which will go to a Church-wide vote in August, would change policy, which now allows gays to be ordained, but demands they remain celibate. Similar to the North Dakota measure, the recommendation was made with a confusing footnote that requests church members respect congregations that disagree with the policy, since that would be seen as violating Scripture.
The effortlessly cute Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Milk Dustin Lance Black is crushing on pretend heterosexual and Academy Award presenter Zac Efron, and has high hopes that Efron is presenting the best original screenplay award and that Black wins if only to have an excuse to hug him.
Speaking of pretend heterosexual Mr. Efron, here he is Friday night at said pre-Oscar party, and here he is in rehearsals with “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens for tonight’s Baz Luhrmann directed outrageous Oscar opening number, looking all top hated and Fosse-like.
Finally, fellow Oscar presenter and dubious heterosexual in his own right Mr. Robert Pattison left a gym late Friday, in preparation for the Academy Awards, wearing his sunglasses at night.
North Dakota on Thursday took another step towards extending equal rights to gays, lesbians, and transgendered, with the state Senate voting 27-19 to approve a bill – House Bill 2278 – that bars discrimination against gays in credit, employment, insurance, health, and housing. The bill, which passed without debate and contains an addendum of sorts that “does restrict religious freedoms,” now moves to the state House.
Also on Thursday, a panel of prominent Evangelical Lutheran members recommended to Church leaders that the American branch of Lutherans formally recognizes same-sex unions and allow same-sex couples in committed relationships to serve as clergy. The measure, which will go to a Church-wide vote in August, would change policy, which now allows gays to be ordained, but demands they remain celibate. Similar to the North Dakota measure, the recommendation was made with a confusing footnote that requests church members respect congregations that disagree with the policy, since that would be seen as violating Scripture.
The effortlessly cute Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Milk Dustin Lance Black is crushing on pretend heterosexual and Academy Award presenter Zac Efron, and has high hopes that Efron is presenting the best original screenplay award and that Black wins if only to have an excuse to hug him.
Speaking of pretend heterosexual Mr. Efron, here he is Friday night at said pre-Oscar party, and here he is in rehearsals with “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens for tonight’s Baz Luhrmann directed outrageous Oscar opening number, looking all top hated and Fosse-like.
Finally, fellow Oscar presenter and dubious heterosexual in his own right Mr. Robert Pattison left a gym late Friday, in preparation for the Academy Awards, wearing his sunglasses at night.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Teen Charged With Murder Of Michael Causer Freed, Ambassador Matthew Mitcham, Lady GaGa, Amy Winehouse Lesbian Love, Prince Harry, Spirit Awards
Nineteen-year old Gavin Alker, on trial in Liverpool, England, for murder and manslaughter in the brutal killing of openly gay eighteen-year old Michael Causer, was found not guilty on both charges by a jury that took less than thirteen hours to deliberate. Another teenager, nineteen-year old James O’Connor has been found guilty of murder, along with Michael Binsteed, who is eighteen, and who has been found guilty of perverting justice, both of whom are awaiting sentencing.
Olympic gold medal winning diver Matthew Mitcham has been named by his native Australian government to be one of three new Men’s Health Ambassadors, joining a initiative started in November, 2008, that recently removed one of the first ambassadors selected – Father Foundation president Warwick Marsh who, mere days after his appointment made “extremely offensive comments” about gays, and whose organization published material that deemed homosexuality a “gender disorientation disorder” the result of sexual abuse and a personality disorder.
Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon said Matthew, whom she described as “courageous,” was selected in part because he had overcome anxiety and depression that had forced his leave of absence from diving in his early teens and that through a combination of talk therapy and medication returned to the sport to earn, through a series of brilliantly executed dives, a gold medal at the Beijing Games.
Lady GaGa talks and talks and talks and talks.
Amy Winehouse, according to this report, is responsible for breaking up a lesbian couple, while “continuing to cause havoc on her Caribbean” holiday, the details, such as there are, laughable and lurid.
Prince Harry seems smitten with singer Natalie Imbruglia, last seen showing her lady bits, with the twenty-four year old royal red head acting as the guest of honor at Miss. Imbruglia’s thirty-fourth birthday party two weeks ago – a costume party where the Prince, whom she describes as “sexy and very charming,” dressed as a surgeon.
The Independent Spirit Awards were held tonight, in Santa Monica, and in something of a surprise The Wrestler took three top honors – best picture, best actor for Mickey Rourke, and best cinematography for Maryse Alberti. Vicky Christina Barcelona won best screenplay for Woody Allen and best supporting actress for Penelope Cruz. The Visitor’s Tom McCarthy won best director. Melissa Leo won best actress for her work in Frozen River. Milk took two awards, with Dustin Lance Black receiving best first screenplay and James Franco receiving best supporting actor. The Class won best foreign film and Man on a Wire won best documentary. Best first feature film went to Charles Kauffman’s Synecdoche, New York.
Olympic gold medal winning diver Matthew Mitcham has been named by his native Australian government to be one of three new Men’s Health Ambassadors, joining a initiative started in November, 2008, that recently removed one of the first ambassadors selected – Father Foundation president Warwick Marsh who, mere days after his appointment made “extremely offensive comments” about gays, and whose organization published material that deemed homosexuality a “gender disorientation disorder” the result of sexual abuse and a personality disorder.
Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon said Matthew, whom she described as “courageous,” was selected in part because he had overcome anxiety and depression that had forced his leave of absence from diving in his early teens and that through a combination of talk therapy and medication returned to the sport to earn, through a series of brilliantly executed dives, a gold medal at the Beijing Games.
Lady GaGa talks and talks and talks and talks.
Amy Winehouse, according to this report, is responsible for breaking up a lesbian couple, while “continuing to cause havoc on her Caribbean” holiday, the details, such as there are, laughable and lurid.
Prince Harry seems smitten with singer Natalie Imbruglia, last seen showing her lady bits, with the twenty-four year old royal red head acting as the guest of honor at Miss. Imbruglia’s thirty-fourth birthday party two weeks ago – a costume party where the Prince, whom she describes as “sexy and very charming,” dressed as a surgeon.
The Independent Spirit Awards were held tonight, in Santa Monica, and in something of a surprise The Wrestler took three top honors – best picture, best actor for Mickey Rourke, and best cinematography for Maryse Alberti. Vicky Christina Barcelona won best screenplay for Woody Allen and best supporting actress for Penelope Cruz. The Visitor’s Tom McCarthy won best director. Melissa Leo won best actress for her work in Frozen River. Milk took two awards, with Dustin Lance Black receiving best first screenplay and James Franco receiving best supporting actor. The Class won best foreign film and Man on a Wire won best documentary. Best first feature film went to Charles Kauffman’s Synecdoche, New York.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Clay Aiken Confirms He Has Left Record Label, Jay McCarroll, Falling Models, Justin Gaston, Lady GaGa Manifesto
Clay Aiken, through his representatives, has confirmed a story I posted yesterday: he and his music label RCA have parted ways, which is, according to a number of reports, possibly the best thing to happen to his music career since RCA frequently failed to promote Aiken. Aiken said he welcomes the hiatus, and intends to spend some time with his oh so cute son Parker.
Jay McCarroll, Project Runway season one winner and poster boy for ambitious bears everywhere, has a new documentary, about which I previously posted, titled Eleven Minutes, which will be released in selected cities Friday, February 20, 2009, and in anticipation and to promote said film, Mr. McCarroll talks fashion, nudity, and reminisces about a bygone era when he worked as a manager of a live internet sex site, where he would instruct the girls on the correct technique to masturbate. And, again, I so did not make that up.
If a model falls on a runway, does anyone hear … or offer help?
More pictures, including a number from the upcoming VMAN magazine portfolio, of the cultural curiosity that is former underwear model and failed Nashville Star contestant Justin Gaston. And to answer the question as to why Mr. Gaston is dating public nuisance Miley Cyrus, he just might be a pretend heterosexual. Just a hunch, I know, but there you are.
Utter publically just once that all you really want to do is “make music and fuck random people” and it gets taken so far out of context.
Jay McCarroll, Project Runway season one winner and poster boy for ambitious bears everywhere, has a new documentary, about which I previously posted, titled Eleven Minutes, which will be released in selected cities Friday, February 20, 2009, and in anticipation and to promote said film, Mr. McCarroll talks fashion, nudity, and reminisces about a bygone era when he worked as a manager of a live internet sex site, where he would instruct the girls on the correct technique to masturbate. And, again, I so did not make that up.
If a model falls on a runway, does anyone hear … or offer help?
More pictures, including a number from the upcoming VMAN magazine portfolio, of the cultural curiosity that is former underwear model and failed Nashville Star contestant Justin Gaston. And to answer the question as to why Mr. Gaston is dating public nuisance Miley Cyrus, he just might be a pretend heterosexual. Just a hunch, I know, but there you are.
Utter publically just once that all you really want to do is “make music and fuck random people” and it gets taken so far out of context.
Guide For Straight On Caring For The Gays, Project Runway Pretends, NYU Student Protest, Ryan Allen Elected GMU Homecoming Queen, Joaquin Phoenix
One of the most annoying add on features to coming out is the incessant desire by certain members of the heterosexual population to treat gay men like an articulate, purveyor of pop culture, well educated, well groomed, and witty pet. A handy, hilarious primer, therefore, for straights, on the care and feeding of their homosexuals, with tips that range from the acceptable terms versus the unacceptable and a guide for the heterosexual male who assumes that simply because a gay men befriends them, it instantly means they’re being hit on. Priceless.
Poor Heidi, poor Tim, poor me and you, with the threat of non-existing season six of Project Runway looming larger and larger everyday, doomed to be lost forever, as the insipid legal battle between NBC/Universal and The Weinstein Company stalls, the game fashionista that is Miss Klum and Mr. Gunn bravely staged what would have been the season finale Thursday, as befits tradition with a collection of the three remaining finalists shown as a part of New York Fashion Week. Since there technically was no aired season, no one knew the final three and things went from awkward to awful quite quickly, although you are welcome to judge for yourself.
College protests are all fun and games until someone takes their top off. Then, it is all fun and games for dubious media outlets to come cover said protest and try to excavate meaning. Then, there is neither fun nor games.
George Mason University senior Ryan Allen was elected the school’s homecoming queen, though the selection was seen by many, including Allen, who is gay and often works as a drag queen in and around the Washington, D.C. area, as an affirmation and celebration of the University’s diversity, there are those who view it as something of embarrassment to a post-secondary institution desperate to revamp its image as that of a serious scholarly school.
Guess which Academy Award nominated Hollywood hobo, clearly unhinged and unwashed, ambled aimlessly along the streets of Los Angeles Thursday, deeply in danger of lighting themselves on fire?
Poor Heidi, poor Tim, poor me and you, with the threat of non-existing season six of Project Runway looming larger and larger everyday, doomed to be lost forever, as the insipid legal battle between NBC/Universal and The Weinstein Company stalls, the game fashionista that is Miss Klum and Mr. Gunn bravely staged what would have been the season finale Thursday, as befits tradition with a collection of the three remaining finalists shown as a part of New York Fashion Week. Since there technically was no aired season, no one knew the final three and things went from awkward to awful quite quickly, although you are welcome to judge for yourself.
College protests are all fun and games until someone takes their top off. Then, it is all fun and games for dubious media outlets to come cover said protest and try to excavate meaning. Then, there is neither fun nor games.
George Mason University senior Ryan Allen was elected the school’s homecoming queen, though the selection was seen by many, including Allen, who is gay and often works as a drag queen in and around the Washington, D.C. area, as an affirmation and celebration of the University’s diversity, there are those who view it as something of embarrassment to a post-secondary institution desperate to revamp its image as that of a serious scholarly school.
Guess which Academy Award nominated Hollywood hobo, clearly unhinged and unwashed, ambled aimlessly along the streets of Los Angeles Thursday, deeply in danger of lighting themselves on fire?
Buttars Bounced From Two Utah Committees For Refusing To Apologize For Anti-Gay Comments
Breaking news: Utah Republican Senator Chris Buttars, systematic bigot and political purveyor of anti-gay hated, has been removed from two separate state panels after he refused to apologize for the inflammatory homophobic statements he made when he called gays “the greatest threat to America” and inexplicably linked gay activists to Muslim extremists. Buttars will no longer sit on either the Senate Judicial Committee, a panel that frequently reviews bills meant to protect lesbians, gays, and transgendered, or the Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee.
Rent The High School Musical Proves Too Provocative, Luca Was Gay But It Went Away, New York Post Is Sorry, Brothers Beckham, Green Gyllenhaal
A severely sanitized version of the award winning Broadway musical Rent, entitled, without any attempt at either imagination or irony – Rent: School Edition – is still considered by educators, parents, and yes, politicians too provocative, which, as we all know by now, is code for too gay. Three planned productions of the show, in high schools in California, Texas, and West Virginia, have been cancelled because there were objections to the Jonathan Larson authored play’s portrayal of homosexuality, as well as the honest discussion within the play of H.I.V. and of drug use. Rent now takes its proud place next to Grease, which was thought too controversial for its portrayal of drinking, kissing, smoking, and electrifying.
Okay, I made the last one up, but all the rest, sadly, so true.
Who doesn’t love an overwrought, folk song about an ex-gay? Italian singer Povia, whose connection to the international entertainment corporation The Vatican is well known, is appearing at the annual San Remo music festival, on now to February 22nd, and there he will perform, despite protests, a song titled Luca Was Gay. Povia, who has stated he had “a gay phase” that lasted roughly seven months, claimed in December, 2008, that he had converted two friends to heterosexuality, all of which sounds salacious and rather unhygienic.
The new New York Post – new, mostly because owner and professional caricature of a curmudgeon Rupert Murdoch’s second wife is left leaning and has had almost imperceptible influence on the Murdoch media empire – stunningly, late Thursday, issued an apology, of sorts, for running the seriously not funny, severely inane cartoon most everyone agreed perpetuated gross racial stereotypes and seemed to call for political violence. The terse note meant to say sorry, is a bewildering sort of apology/non-apology, and yet, it is the Post, so I suppose it is better to be thankful for small mercies.
Could the Beckham brothers be any cuter? It is doubtful, but they are Beckham’s after all, Romeo and Cruz making like Dad David Thursday in Los Angeles, with, as always, Cruz the constant charmer.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal was in Los Angeles Thursday, helping Global Green USA launch its build green high school initiative, along with the very geek sexy president of Global Green USA Matt Petersen, Jake being all green, digging in the dirt, planting the plants, all while being scarf-tastic.
Okay, I made the last one up, but all the rest, sadly, so true.
Who doesn’t love an overwrought, folk song about an ex-gay? Italian singer Povia, whose connection to the international entertainment corporation The Vatican is well known, is appearing at the annual San Remo music festival, on now to February 22nd, and there he will perform, despite protests, a song titled Luca Was Gay. Povia, who has stated he had “a gay phase” that lasted roughly seven months, claimed in December, 2008, that he had converted two friends to heterosexuality, all of which sounds salacious and rather unhygienic.
The new New York Post – new, mostly because owner and professional caricature of a curmudgeon Rupert Murdoch’s second wife is left leaning and has had almost imperceptible influence on the Murdoch media empire – stunningly, late Thursday, issued an apology, of sorts, for running the seriously not funny, severely inane cartoon most everyone agreed perpetuated gross racial stereotypes and seemed to call for political violence. The terse note meant to say sorry, is a bewildering sort of apology/non-apology, and yet, it is the Post, so I suppose it is better to be thankful for small mercies.
Could the Beckham brothers be any cuter? It is doubtful, but they are Beckham’s after all, Romeo and Cruz making like Dad David Thursday in Los Angeles, with, as always, Cruz the constant charmer.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal was in Los Angeles Thursday, helping Global Green USA launch its build green high school initiative, along with the very geek sexy president of Global Green USA Matt Petersen, Jake being all green, digging in the dirt, planting the plants, all while being scarf-tastic.
TMZ Posts Purported Rihanna Picture And The LAPD Launch Internal Investigation And Seek Injunction
The Los Angeles Police Department, which at times is a leaky as a sieve, has initiated an internal investigation late Thursday into whether an alleged photograph of a badly beaten Rihanna that was posted on TMZ.com was in fact evidence as a part of the ongoing police case against Chris Brown.
The Department issued a statement that said:
“The Los Angeles Police Department takes seriously its duty to maintain the confidentiality of the victims of domestic violence. The Department launched an immediate internal investigation and subsequently filed a personnel complaint. A violation of this type is considered serious misconduct, with penalties up to and including termination.”
The picture was widely available last night and I thought to post it, but didn’t mostly because TMZ is often as reliable as the LAPD. That, and with the advent of photoshopping, what is real and what is not is sometimes difficult to discern. Mostly, I debated whether the right to privacy of victims of violence outweighs a need to document criminal brutality – to underline the deplorable. In the end, I couldn’t decide, and the picture, for the time being, since the LAPD applied Friday for a court injunction, asking that the picture, if it is in fact stolen evidence in an ongoing investigation, be removed, is here.
The Department issued a statement that said:
“The Los Angeles Police Department takes seriously its duty to maintain the confidentiality of the victims of domestic violence. The Department launched an immediate internal investigation and subsequently filed a personnel complaint. A violation of this type is considered serious misconduct, with penalties up to and including termination.”
The picture was widely available last night and I thought to post it, but didn’t mostly because TMZ is often as reliable as the LAPD. That, and with the advent of photoshopping, what is real and what is not is sometimes difficult to discern. Mostly, I debated whether the right to privacy of victims of violence outweighs a need to document criminal brutality – to underline the deplorable. In the end, I couldn’t decide, and the picture, for the time being, since the LAPD applied Friday for a court injunction, asking that the picture, if it is in fact stolen evidence in an ongoing investigation, be removed, is here.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Matthew Mitcham’s Management Rejected Endorsement, Ryan Lochte Loves Hilfiger, Michael Urie, Hugh Jackman In Vogue, Oscar Update, Leonardo DiCaprio
According to an article appearing on samesame, though the link is now mysteriously missing, Olympic gold medal winning diver Matthew Mitcham was in fact offered a six-figure endorsement with Australian based undergarment corporation AussieBum, quite quickly after the Beijing Games, but his management, for reasons still unexplained, turned down the deal.
The so sexy Olympic gold medal winner Ryan Lochte, seen here backstage Thursday at the Tommy Hilfiger show during New York’s Fashion Week, tells US magazine that while he believe teammate Michael Phelps “messed up” Ryan intends, like the gentlemen he so obviously is, to stand behind Mr. Phelps.
The ever enthusiastic Michael Urie talks to POPWRAP about Ugly Betty Mode After Hours webisodes, the Oscars, performing at this Monday’s Defying Inequality Broadway benefit, and gay rights, though he still has not really inched out, but he is so cute and so unsinkable, he is forgiven. For now.
Speaking of the Oscars, this year’s host Hall of Fame DILF and sexiest man alive Hugh Jackman is all gentlemen model in the February issue of L’Uomo Vogue, striking pose after pose of pure sexiness.
Reportedly joining Jackman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Amanda Seyfried, and Dominic Cooper in a Baz Luhrmann extravaganza will be Best Actress nominee Anne Hathaway.
Oscar attendee and pretend heterosexual Leonardo DiCaprio arrived at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday morning, apparently attempting to remain incognito, accompanied by “girlfriend” and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl Bar Refaeli.
The so sexy Olympic gold medal winner Ryan Lochte, seen here backstage Thursday at the Tommy Hilfiger show during New York’s Fashion Week, tells US magazine that while he believe teammate Michael Phelps “messed up” Ryan intends, like the gentlemen he so obviously is, to stand behind Mr. Phelps.
The ever enthusiastic Michael Urie talks to POPWRAP about Ugly Betty Mode After Hours webisodes, the Oscars, performing at this Monday’s Defying Inequality Broadway benefit, and gay rights, though he still has not really inched out, but he is so cute and so unsinkable, he is forgiven. For now.
Speaking of the Oscars, this year’s host Hall of Fame DILF and sexiest man alive Hugh Jackman is all gentlemen model in the February issue of L’Uomo Vogue, striking pose after pose of pure sexiness.
Reportedly joining Jackman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Amanda Seyfried, and Dominic Cooper in a Baz Luhrmann extravaganza will be Best Actress nominee Anne Hathaway.
Oscar attendee and pretend heterosexual Leonardo DiCaprio arrived at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday morning, apparently attempting to remain incognito, accompanied by “girlfriend” and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl Bar Refaeli.
Clay Aiken To Be Dropped By Label, Alan Cumming Is Your Gay Grand Marshall, Tom Brady Is Coy And Cute, Rafael Nadal, Depression Era Botox
Breaking news – apparently Clay Aiken is about to be dropped from the RCA roster, which, according to a number of reports, would be the best thing for Clay’s recording career as the label and president Clive Davis, did little to nothing to promote Mr. Aiken.
Alan Cumming has been named the Grand Marshall of the Tartan Day Parade to take place on April 4th, in New York City, bagpipes, kilts, scotch, and like moving up Sixth Avenue in a vaguely orderly procession.
Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady can be quite coy. Yesterday, as he announced the donation of one-thousand laptop computers as a part of his One Laptop Per Child program, Mr. Brady, when queried by reporters on the nature of his relationship with Gisele Bundchen and whether the twosome planned to marry, responded with “I say “may.” Maybe, maybe not.” He is just so adorable. He also talked of his son, John, or Jack as he is commonly called, who is just as adorable as his Father.
The effortlessly sexy and sweaty Rafael Nadal, back home in Spain, filmed a commercial. Unfortunately, nudity - partial or otherwise - was not involved.
Reports are flourishing that the American economic crisis Рdepression, recession, etc, - is somehow forcing men, depressed and stressed, to turn to botox to achieve a kind of blas̩, unworried look, oh so critical as you face personal bankruptcy.
Alan Cumming has been named the Grand Marshall of the Tartan Day Parade to take place on April 4th, in New York City, bagpipes, kilts, scotch, and like moving up Sixth Avenue in a vaguely orderly procession.
Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady can be quite coy. Yesterday, as he announced the donation of one-thousand laptop computers as a part of his One Laptop Per Child program, Mr. Brady, when queried by reporters on the nature of his relationship with Gisele Bundchen and whether the twosome planned to marry, responded with “I say “may.” Maybe, maybe not.” He is just so adorable. He also talked of his son, John, or Jack as he is commonly called, who is just as adorable as his Father.
The effortlessly sexy and sweaty Rafael Nadal, back home in Spain, filmed a commercial. Unfortunately, nudity - partial or otherwise - was not involved.
Reports are flourishing that the American economic crisis Рdepression, recession, etc, - is somehow forcing men, depressed and stressed, to turn to botox to achieve a kind of blas̩, unworried look, oh so critical as you face personal bankruptcy.
Antony and the Johnsons On The Late Show
Let me be honest: if you don’t know of Antony and the Johnsons, don’t own or have never listened to either I Am A Bird Now or the incredible new The Crying Light, a work so great I find it hard to find words adequate enough to describe, you need to change, right now. Last night Antony and the Johnsons were guests on The Late Show with David Letterman, performing Aeon. It – and David concurs – is a stunning performance.
Fred And Shirley Phelps Banned From Britain, Armistead Maupin, Octuplet Mother’s Home In Foreclosure, Obama In Canada
Not that it would have mattered much, since I doubt the feeble fools commonly known as Fred Phelps and his dangerous daughter Shirley would have rallied to make the effort, yet since they and the hate mongering Westboro Baptist Church threatened to earlier this week to stage a protest outside a college in Basingstoke, Hampshire as that school mounted a production of The Laramie Project, prompting the British Home Security has effectively barred the terrible twosome from ever entering the country.
A spokesperson for the United Kingdom Border Agency said that it was evident the WBC in general and the Phelps specifically had “engaged in unacceptable behavior by inciting hatred against a number of communities.”
According to the WBC website, under the picket schedule menu, the group is now headed to Lutz, Florida Friday determined to protest outside the funeral of Marvin Renslow, the pilot of the ill-fated Continental Airlines commuter flight that crashed last Thursday in Buffalo, so if you live in or around Lutz, please make sure to offer the warmest of welcomes to the delegates from the Westboro Baptist Church. They will be ones with picket signs and poor choices in fashion.
Armistead Maupin, whose Tales of City series captured a particular moment in time at a particular place, is at work on the eighth novel and he talks about the return of wit in the White House, the hugely exciting Tales of the City musical, with involvement from the Scissor Sisters and actors from Avenue Q, and his love of Lost.
Sometimes I think that heterosexuals have little common sense, and behave in ways that defy logic and is often cause for them to surrender some or all of their basic rights: witness Nadya Suleman, the single, unemployed mother of fourteen, who’s six-hundred thousand dollar Southern California home, bought in March of 2006 with a four-hundred thousand dollar bank loan, is now in pre-foreclosure, with a sale set for June 9th, 2009.
Barack Obama is in Canada, marking his first trip both to the county and abroad as President, and while only here for the day, his meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to mostly be a preemptive one, setting up future, more substantive discussions over Obama’s intent to revisit the North American Free Trade Agreement and update the provisions, the war in Afghanistan, and the environment, with particular attention paid to the northern Alberta oil sands.
A spokesperson for the United Kingdom Border Agency said that it was evident the WBC in general and the Phelps specifically had “engaged in unacceptable behavior by inciting hatred against a number of communities.”
According to the WBC website, under the picket schedule menu, the group is now headed to Lutz, Florida Friday determined to protest outside the funeral of Marvin Renslow, the pilot of the ill-fated Continental Airlines commuter flight that crashed last Thursday in Buffalo, so if you live in or around Lutz, please make sure to offer the warmest of welcomes to the delegates from the Westboro Baptist Church. They will be ones with picket signs and poor choices in fashion.
Armistead Maupin, whose Tales of City series captured a particular moment in time at a particular place, is at work on the eighth novel and he talks about the return of wit in the White House, the hugely exciting Tales of the City musical, with involvement from the Scissor Sisters and actors from Avenue Q, and his love of Lost.
Sometimes I think that heterosexuals have little common sense, and behave in ways that defy logic and is often cause for them to surrender some or all of their basic rights: witness Nadya Suleman, the single, unemployed mother of fourteen, who’s six-hundred thousand dollar Southern California home, bought in March of 2006 with a four-hundred thousand dollar bank loan, is now in pre-foreclosure, with a sale set for June 9th, 2009.
Barack Obama is in Canada, marking his first trip both to the county and abroad as President, and while only here for the day, his meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to mostly be a preemptive one, setting up future, more substantive discussions over Obama’s intent to revisit the North American Free Trade Agreement and update the provisions, the war in Afghanistan, and the environment, with particular attention paid to the northern Alberta oil sands.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Stipe And Thomas Dozol, Margaret Cho On Wanda Sykes, Peaches, Justin Gaston, Peter Facinelli, Oscars, Brits, Tyra
The sexy sweet Neil Patrick Harris is rumored to be in consideration for the lead in the new film version of The Flash, although the source report, full of hate, grossly misidentifies NPH as “openly flamboyant.”
Michael Stipe – who has yet to formally come out – invites you and me to view the furiously fabulous apartment he shares with his boyfriend, Thomas Dozol.
Who loves Wanda Sykes? Who doesn’t love Wanda Sykes?
Toronto born, Berlin based one woman festival of fun and fur Peaches has a new album out in May, titled I Feel Cream, all the details here.
Former underwear model, failed Nashville Star contestant, and lover of the public nuisance that is Miley Cyrus, Justin Gaston appears in the spring issue of VMAN magazine, rocking a red retro track suit, touching himself.
Speaking of underwear, Hall of Fame DILF Peter Facinelli donned his, while presenting an award at the 2009 Annual Costume Designer gala, all of which is fine by me.
Speaking of awards, the Academy Awards this Sunday are rumored to feature an opening song and dance extravaganza featuring Oscar host and Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman, seen rehearsing here, pretend heterosexual Zac Efron and his “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens, Big Love’s Amanda Seyfried and her Mamma Mia co-star and real life boyfriend Dominic Cooper, all directed by Baz Luhrmann, which means this year’s celebration could out gay the Tony Awards with ease!
And continuing with award themed postings, the Brits were held Wednesday evening in London, and the big winners were Duffy, who won three, and Kings of Leon, who won two. A complete list of the winners is here. The Pet Shop Boys, who were awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Music, closed the ceremonies, with a melody of hits, joined by Lady GaGa and self-professed PSB fanatic, Killers lead Brandon Flowers.
And finally, Tyra, who is exceedingly heterosexual, continues to work hard and illuminate what it means to be gay better than I could ever hope to, today offering an episode entitled I Hate Being Gay, an excerpt below. And again, I so did not just make that up.
Michael Stipe – who has yet to formally come out – invites you and me to view the furiously fabulous apartment he shares with his boyfriend, Thomas Dozol.
Who loves Wanda Sykes? Who doesn’t love Wanda Sykes?
Toronto born, Berlin based one woman festival of fun and fur Peaches has a new album out in May, titled I Feel Cream, all the details here.
Former underwear model, failed Nashville Star contestant, and lover of the public nuisance that is Miley Cyrus, Justin Gaston appears in the spring issue of VMAN magazine, rocking a red retro track suit, touching himself.
Speaking of underwear, Hall of Fame DILF Peter Facinelli donned his, while presenting an award at the 2009 Annual Costume Designer gala, all of which is fine by me.
Speaking of awards, the Academy Awards this Sunday are rumored to feature an opening song and dance extravaganza featuring Oscar host and Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman, seen rehearsing here, pretend heterosexual Zac Efron and his “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens, Big Love’s Amanda Seyfried and her Mamma Mia co-star and real life boyfriend Dominic Cooper, all directed by Baz Luhrmann, which means this year’s celebration could out gay the Tony Awards with ease!
And continuing with award themed postings, the Brits were held Wednesday evening in London, and the big winners were Duffy, who won three, and Kings of Leon, who won two. A complete list of the winners is here. The Pet Shop Boys, who were awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Music, closed the ceremonies, with a melody of hits, joined by Lady GaGa and self-professed PSB fanatic, Killers lead Brandon Flowers.
And finally, Tyra, who is exceedingly heterosexual, continues to work hard and illuminate what it means to be gay better than I could ever hope to, today offering an episode entitled I Hate Being Gay, an excerpt below. And again, I so did not just make that up.
Chris Buttars Is Dangerously Deranged, Utah Rejects Gay Rights Bill, Sean Delonas Remains Unfunny, Obama And Oil Sands, Pope And Pelosi
Utah Republican Senator Chris Buttars, whose grand design in life appears to be about creating as much bigotry and ignorance as possible, has made inflammatory statements about the LGBT community, saying that the gay rights movement is “the greatest threat to America” and compared, inexplicably, homosexuals activist to Muslim terrorists, telling a documentary filmmaker that gays do not seek “equality, they want superiority.”
Buttars’ comments come as the Utah legislature voted down House Bill 160 – the Common Ground Initiative, a measure meant to both broaden and strengthen the protections and rights of lesbians, gays, and the transgender in the state – by a margin of 9-4, although activists insist that the fight to pass legislation in Utah will return next year, when they push a revised version of the bill.
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas manages to marry racism and a call to political violence in the most inane manner.
Canadian protestors, including participants from Greenpeace International, today called on President Barack Obama to toughen his policy on the environmental catastrophe that is the Alberta oil sands, urging him to do so in anticipation of his first visit as President to Canada on Thursday.
The celebrity known as The Pope, had an audience with American speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, and promptly informed her that “life must protected at all stages of its development; a curious comment since Pelosi is one of the foremost advocates of abortion rights.
Buttars’ comments come as the Utah legislature voted down House Bill 160 – the Common Ground Initiative, a measure meant to both broaden and strengthen the protections and rights of lesbians, gays, and the transgender in the state – by a margin of 9-4, although activists insist that the fight to pass legislation in Utah will return next year, when they push a revised version of the bill.
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas manages to marry racism and a call to political violence in the most inane manner.
Canadian protestors, including participants from Greenpeace International, today called on President Barack Obama to toughen his policy on the environmental catastrophe that is the Alberta oil sands, urging him to do so in anticipation of his first visit as President to Canada on Thursday.
The celebrity known as The Pope, had an audience with American speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, and promptly informed her that “life must protected at all stages of its development; a curious comment since Pelosi is one of the foremost advocates of abortion rights.
Tom Brady Talks, Gisele Bundchen, Michael Phelps Takes To Strip Clubs, Gay Men Galore At Armani Opening, Rabbits Too, Andy Samberg Loves Men
Hall of Fame DILF, New England Patriot quarterback, and if Ryan Phillippe keeps rejecting my request and Gisele Bundchen steps back, my future husband, Tom Brady just finished an appearance at the Allston, Massachusetts Boy and Girls Club, where he announced the donation of one-thousand laptops Mr. Brady purchased, all of which will be given to children in the area and around the world as a part of the One Laptop Per Child charitable program. Gentleman Tom took the time to speak candidly as he could about the fall surgery he underwent, the rehabilitation process, his expectations to be in training camp come the summer, and, most importantly, that he and Gisele are still not formally engaged.
Gisele Bundchen, meanwhile, was in New York City – it is Fashion Week after all, lest that obvious fact has escaped you – where she stepped out Tuesday night, enjoying all that the city that never sleeps has to offer.
Michael Phelps, Olympic gold medal record holder and strip club aficionado, taking to hiding in strip clubs to avoid the prying paparazzi – it simply cannot be true!
The opening of Giorgio Armani’s flagship fifth avenue New York City store Tuesday night brought out a number of glamorous gay men, including Victoria Beckham, Chace Crawford, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Hall of Fame DILF and proud single dad Ricky Martin. Oh, and Armani himself, whom despite numerous gay affairs, and a penchant for Speedos and tanning, refuses to come out. The seriously homosexual evening also attracted rabbits – well, PETA protestors dressed in bunny costumes demonstrating against Armani’s alleged continued use of fur in his collections – but rabbits nonetheless.
Andy Samberg – wow, are those digital SNL shorts woefully unfunny – has a new movie titled I Love You, Man, co-starring sexy Paul Rudd, where Samberg plays Rudd’s younger, sort of gayer brother, and in anticipation of the film’s release Andy talks of all things, well, gay.
Gisele Bundchen, meanwhile, was in New York City – it is Fashion Week after all, lest that obvious fact has escaped you – where she stepped out Tuesday night, enjoying all that the city that never sleeps has to offer.
Michael Phelps, Olympic gold medal record holder and strip club aficionado, taking to hiding in strip clubs to avoid the prying paparazzi – it simply cannot be true!
The opening of Giorgio Armani’s flagship fifth avenue New York City store Tuesday night brought out a number of glamorous gay men, including Victoria Beckham, Chace Crawford, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Hall of Fame DILF and proud single dad Ricky Martin. Oh, and Armani himself, whom despite numerous gay affairs, and a penchant for Speedos and tanning, refuses to come out. The seriously homosexual evening also attracted rabbits – well, PETA protestors dressed in bunny costumes demonstrating against Armani’s alleged continued use of fur in his collections – but rabbits nonetheless.
Andy Samberg – wow, are those digital SNL shorts woefully unfunny – has a new movie titled I Love You, Man, co-starring sexy Paul Rudd, where Samberg plays Rudd’s younger, sort of gayer brother, and in anticipation of the film’s release Andy talks of all things, well, gay.
Facebook Relents On Terms Of Service Revision, San Diego Firefighters Win Sexual Harassment Suit, Margaret Atwood, GLAAD Fights America Forever Fringe
After days of protests, including a number of members threatening to remove their accounts, Facebook, in a note I received on my home page, relented with plans to change the site’s terms of service agreement that would have called into question who owned content posted to the networking site. President Mark Zuckerberg stated that given the response, Facebook would return to its original terms and that a revision would completed within the next few weeks that would “reflect the principles and values of the people using the service.”
Four San Diego firefighters who claimed they were sexually harassed by some participants and some spectators when the city forced them to ride in that city’s 2007 Pride Parade, won their case yesterday, awarded thirty-four thousand, three-hundred dollars in damages by a jury who took almost three days to deliberate. This is the second time the case has gone to trial. A jury was deadlocked in October, 2008, when the four firefighters had sought one-million dollars each in damages. The city plans to appeal, demonstrating that under the parameters that define sexual harassment, there is no validity to the men’s allegations, and that in fact it is a simple case of homophobia.
Canadian author and vice-president of PEN Margaret Atwood has chosen to cancel an appearance at a book festival scheduled for Dubai, United Arab Emirates in protest over a decision by festival organizers to refuse to let British author Geraldine Bedell launch her new book, The Gulf Between Us. That novel contains a secondary character, a gay sheik, whom has an English boyfriend and uses as its backdrop the Iraq war, which organizers thought too controversial. The festival is meant to celebrate the world of literature in all its diversity.
GLAAD is asking for help in responding to a series of incredibly hateful anti-gay assertions made in an advertisement for a group called America Forever, which ran in two Utah papers this past Sunday. The ad was titled Stand Up and Stop the Homosexual Movement, and features grotesque characterizations of gay men and women as being analogous to drug addicts and prostitutes and deteriorates from there. The ad-hoc group seems to be responding to the courageous step taken last week by Utah Governor Huntsman, who stated his support for civil unions in the state. Information on how to help GLAAD is available here.
Four San Diego firefighters who claimed they were sexually harassed by some participants and some spectators when the city forced them to ride in that city’s 2007 Pride Parade, won their case yesterday, awarded thirty-four thousand, three-hundred dollars in damages by a jury who took almost three days to deliberate. This is the second time the case has gone to trial. A jury was deadlocked in October, 2008, when the four firefighters had sought one-million dollars each in damages. The city plans to appeal, demonstrating that under the parameters that define sexual harassment, there is no validity to the men’s allegations, and that in fact it is a simple case of homophobia.
Canadian author and vice-president of PEN Margaret Atwood has chosen to cancel an appearance at a book festival scheduled for Dubai, United Arab Emirates in protest over a decision by festival organizers to refuse to let British author Geraldine Bedell launch her new book, The Gulf Between Us. That novel contains a secondary character, a gay sheik, whom has an English boyfriend and uses as its backdrop the Iraq war, which organizers thought too controversial. The festival is meant to celebrate the world of literature in all its diversity.
GLAAD is asking for help in responding to a series of incredibly hateful anti-gay assertions made in an advertisement for a group called America Forever, which ran in two Utah papers this past Sunday. The ad was titled Stand Up and Stop the Homosexual Movement, and features grotesque characterizations of gay men and women as being analogous to drug addicts and prostitutes and deteriorates from there. The ad-hoc group seems to be responding to the courageous step taken last week by Utah Governor Huntsman, who stated his support for civil unions in the state. Information on how to help GLAAD is available here.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
CA Legislature Opposes Prop 8, CO Same-Sex Couple’s Bill, Another Move To Recall Sam Adams, Beau Breedlove To Pose Nude, Lance Bass, Marc Jacobs
A California legislative committee voted 7-3 Tuesday to put the legislature on record as opposing Proposition 8.
Colorado state legislators Tuesday are considering a measure that is designed to grant same-sex couples the right to be the other’s designated benefactors, with House Bill 1260 giving same-sex unmarried couples hospital visitation rights, as well as the right to inherit property.
Reported to have over three-hundred volunteers on record, a website that claims Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams “has many great ideas” for the city, but “lacks the public’s trust and political capital to get them implanted,” intends to begin a recall process beginning in July, 2009.
The subject of the sex scandal that nearly cost Adams’ his office in January, former intern Beau Breedlove, is going to appear nude in Unzipped magazine’s May issue, apparently trying to enjoy the entire
fifteen minutes.
Career homosexual Lance Bass braved the stormy skies of Los Angeles Monday, visiting a local Ralphs with a best girlfriend, buying bunches of flowers.
Marc Jacobs, who showed his Fall 2009 line Monday at New York’s Fashion Week – which, inexplicably, highlighted ponchos and shoulder pads – took lunch with his very boyfriend Lorenzo Martone, with Jacobs still rocking a skirt.
Colorado state legislators Tuesday are considering a measure that is designed to grant same-sex couples the right to be the other’s designated benefactors, with House Bill 1260 giving same-sex unmarried couples hospital visitation rights, as well as the right to inherit property.
Reported to have over three-hundred volunteers on record, a website that claims Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams “has many great ideas” for the city, but “lacks the public’s trust and political capital to get them implanted,” intends to begin a recall process beginning in July, 2009.
The subject of the sex scandal that nearly cost Adams’ his office in January, former intern Beau Breedlove, is going to appear nude in Unzipped magazine’s May issue, apparently trying to enjoy the entire
fifteen minutes.
Career homosexual Lance Bass braved the stormy skies of Los Angeles Monday, visiting a local Ralphs with a best girlfriend, buying bunches of flowers.
Marc Jacobs, who showed his Fall 2009 line Monday at New York’s Fashion Week – which, inexplicably, highlighted ponchos and shoulder pads – took lunch with his very boyfriend Lorenzo Martone, with Jacobs still rocking a skirt.
Alex Rodriguez Reminds Us He Is Remarkably Stupid, No More Sports Drama, David Beckham’s Balls, Prince Harry Flies, Palin Promotes Heterosexual Agenda
Serial steroid user, congenital liar, and sometime Madonna mattress, Alex Rodriguez spoke to a phalanx of New York media and sports writers about an hour ago, in Tampa Bay, Florida, at the home of Yankee’s spring training, Steinbrenner Stadium, in a tent along the third base line.
To suggest that the press conference was a well orchestrated and was meant to minimize the substantial damage done not only to Rodriguez, but to MLB by revealing as little as possible while allowing Alex to offer feeble, well worn clichéd apologies would be a gargantuan understatement. Based on ever account I have read, you could substitute Barry Bonds, Michael Phelps, or Michael Vick for Rodriguez and it would have sounded the same: plenty of “I was young and stupid” and “I’m ready to put this behind me” bandied about without inching any closer to the truth of why an elite athlete who earns hundreds of millions of dollars would feel free to cheat everyone and anyone.
Are the Alex Rodriguez steroid saga and the chronic Brett Favre retiring, comeback, retiring drama the end of the sports diva? Here is hoping!
David Beckham – he is sad, apparently, because owing to his wife’s penchant for faux-celebrity and an iron clad contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy, Mr. Beckham will be unable to remain in Milan – groped himself, quite deliberately in fact.
Prince Harry – the ridiculously sexy royal red head – last ordered by the British military to attend mandatory racial sensitivity training, was piloting a helicopter today, outfitted in some fabulous fetish fashions.
And finally, Alaska Governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, aided and abetted by FOX News, continues to proffer and promote her heterosexual agenda, which has something to do with corroding the political discourse and children having sex with children and then having children, as evidenced by Sarah’s daughter Bristol.
To suggest that the press conference was a well orchestrated and was meant to minimize the substantial damage done not only to Rodriguez, but to MLB by revealing as little as possible while allowing Alex to offer feeble, well worn clichéd apologies would be a gargantuan understatement. Based on ever account I have read, you could substitute Barry Bonds, Michael Phelps, or Michael Vick for Rodriguez and it would have sounded the same: plenty of “I was young and stupid” and “I’m ready to put this behind me” bandied about without inching any closer to the truth of why an elite athlete who earns hundreds of millions of dollars would feel free to cheat everyone and anyone.
Are the Alex Rodriguez steroid saga and the chronic Brett Favre retiring, comeback, retiring drama the end of the sports diva? Here is hoping!
David Beckham – he is sad, apparently, because owing to his wife’s penchant for faux-celebrity and an iron clad contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy, Mr. Beckham will be unable to remain in Milan – groped himself, quite deliberately in fact.
Prince Harry – the ridiculously sexy royal red head – last ordered by the British military to attend mandatory racial sensitivity training, was piloting a helicopter today, outfitted in some fabulous fetish fashions.
And finally, Alaska Governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, aided and abetted by FOX News, continues to proffer and promote her heterosexual agenda, which has something to do with corroding the political discourse and children having sex with children and then having children, as evidenced by Sarah’s daughter Bristol.
Fred Phelps Plans Protest Abroad, Facebook Fallout, GQ’S Most Stylish Not So Much, JT Fashion, Kanye West Co-Opts Gay, Chris Evans, Drunk Finance
The Westboro Baptist Church – home to Fred Phelps and his merry band of hate mongering marauders – have threatened to mobilize internationally, stating, via their violent web site, that the anti-gay group intends to be in Britain this Friday, protesting a college production in Basingstoke of The Laramie Project; the protest apparently transpiring mere moments before God “shortly destroys the U.K. and the world.” The purported demonstration seems an idle threat however, given the recent anemic performances of the WBC. One, it is doubtful they would obtain passports; two, even if they did, it is unlikely they would clear customs; and three, a trip abroad seems like a lot of work for the most lethargic religious zealots ever.
The fallout over the recent changes (made surreptitiously) to the Facebook users agreement continues, with confusing and contradicting explanations by almost everyone, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as well as an abject failure to anticipate the obvious tensions between sharing highly personal information and who ultimately owns that information, able to distribute it all freely.
The complete list of GQ magazine’s top ten stylish American men is here and is it seriously anti-climatic.
It is hardly coincidence that Justin Timberlake heads the list, given his recent foray into the world of fashion with the William Rast line of clothing, shown as a part of New York Fashion Week, Jessica Biel, the Hilton sisters, Emile Hirsch, and Anna Wintour in attendence, since the company is advertising heavily in both GQ and the other Conde Nast fashion book Vogue.
Not to be outdone magazine cover-wise, megalomaniac Kanye West graces the cover of the March Details magazine, and inside speaks music and how he plans to turn the word gay in something akin to good, as in “dude, those pants are gay.” And again, I did not just make that up.
The seriously sexy Chris Evans claims that subsequent to turning vegetarian his skin turned green – a story so great it just has to be true!
Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who appeared very inebriated at a news conference Saturday in Rome, site of the recent G-7 finance meeting, has resigned, not surprisingly since the video footage captured a man who was beyond drunk.
The fallout over the recent changes (made surreptitiously) to the Facebook users agreement continues, with confusing and contradicting explanations by almost everyone, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as well as an abject failure to anticipate the obvious tensions between sharing highly personal information and who ultimately owns that information, able to distribute it all freely.
The complete list of GQ magazine’s top ten stylish American men is here and is it seriously anti-climatic.
It is hardly coincidence that Justin Timberlake heads the list, given his recent foray into the world of fashion with the William Rast line of clothing, shown as a part of New York Fashion Week, Jessica Biel, the Hilton sisters, Emile Hirsch, and Anna Wintour in attendence, since the company is advertising heavily in both GQ and the other Conde Nast fashion book Vogue.
Not to be outdone magazine cover-wise, megalomaniac Kanye West graces the cover of the March Details magazine, and inside speaks music and how he plans to turn the word gay in something akin to good, as in “dude, those pants are gay.” And again, I did not just make that up.
The seriously sexy Chris Evans claims that subsequent to turning vegetarian his skin turned green – a story so great it just has to be true!
Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who appeared very inebriated at a news conference Saturday in Rome, site of the recent G-7 finance meeting, has resigned, not surprisingly since the video footage captured a man who was beyond drunk.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Terrific Tom Brady, Ian Thorpe And Pot, Zac Efron Wants To Shave His Head, Mel White Dodges Cheese, Shia Sighting, Fashionable Timberlake, Male Models
Hall of Fame DILF Tom Brady – or “my Tommy” as I like to call him – is up to good, rendering him just a little more attractive than he already is, which is a pretty impressive feat. Mr. Brady will be on hand Tuesday at the West End House Boys & Girls Club in Boston, where he is expected to announce his donation of one-thousand laptops to children in New England and thirty-one countries worldwide. Everyone say aw.
Ian Thorpe – who is still not gay and all over New York Fashion Week – showed support for fellow Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, saying he believes Mr. Phelps’ apology was sincere. Thorpe also, if the quote is accurate, showed support for pot.
Pretend heterosexual Zac Efron is threatening to shave his head and subsequently embark on a year long world wide sabbatical, not to contribute in any meaningful way to the plight of the human condition, but because he has grown tired of the paparazzi. All of this comes as Efron’s name is being linked to a new movie version of the cult cartoon series Johnny Quest where Zac would play the lead.
Gay activist and founder of Soulforce Mel White and his screenwriter son Mike are contestants on the new edition of The Amazing Race, the fourteenth season to be precise, which debuted Sunday night, and despite the White team not predicted to win, place, or show, they did entertain mightily, entering the phrase “don’t let the cheese hit me” into the modern lexicon.
Guess which Hollywood hobo, back in Los Angeles, has a new bag? Literally.
Justin Timberlake graces the cover of the March GQ, the magazine having voted him the most fashionable American man.
Behold the male model.
Ian Thorpe – who is still not gay and all over New York Fashion Week – showed support for fellow Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, saying he believes Mr. Phelps’ apology was sincere. Thorpe also, if the quote is accurate, showed support for pot.
Pretend heterosexual Zac Efron is threatening to shave his head and subsequently embark on a year long world wide sabbatical, not to contribute in any meaningful way to the plight of the human condition, but because he has grown tired of the paparazzi. All of this comes as Efron’s name is being linked to a new movie version of the cult cartoon series Johnny Quest where Zac would play the lead.
Gay activist and founder of Soulforce Mel White and his screenwriter son Mike are contestants on the new edition of The Amazing Race, the fourteenth season to be precise, which debuted Sunday night, and despite the White team not predicted to win, place, or show, they did entertain mightily, entering the phrase “don’t let the cheese hit me” into the modern lexicon.
Guess which Hollywood hobo, back in Los Angeles, has a new bag? Literally.
Justin Timberlake graces the cover of the March GQ, the magazine having voted him the most fashionable American man.
Behold the male model.
Nate Silver On Utah Governor’s Civil Union Support, Oscar Predictions, Colliding Subs, Y-3 Gets Gay, Phelps Avoids Arrest, Morrissey, Hugh Jackman
Nate Silver – so clever a statistician – helps underline how profound the announcement last week was by Utah Governor Jon Huntsmen Junior that he intends to support legislation in that state that would support same-sex civil unions. Utah is the most conservative state in America and home to the majority of Mormons – already proven to be the most fervent opponents of gay marriage – so as Silver rightly points out, the move by Huntsmen can not be considered the currying of political favor, and is instead I think another marker in the shifting sensibilities that are slowly, but steadily eroding politics of hate.
Silver by the way, predicts this Sunday’s Academy Award’s winners, all of whom I would agree with except for Kate Winslet and Mickey Rourke as Best Actress and Best Actor respectively, but that perhaps is merely wishing thinking on my part.
If two nuclear submarines collide in the Atlantic Ocean, does it make a noise?
New York Fashion Week continues, and the Yohji Yamamoto show for his Y-3 collection might have been the most inadvertently gayest presentation, with a front row that featured, among others, Ian Thorpe, Kanye West, and Rufus Wainwright – one of those men actually out and one I may have had a dalliance with. I will leave it to you do solve said mystery.
Breaking news: the South Carolina Sheriff Leon Lott, who’s much criticized investigation into the Michael Phelps’ smoking bong photograph, which has already resulted in the arrests of eight individuals, has announced that there is insufficient to charge Phelps, all of which makes sense in a kind Murder She Wrote way, where a number of people NOT photographed smoking a gigantic green bong are arrested and the one in the picture is NOT. Only in America kids, only in America.
Morrissey – his new album, Years of Refusal is released this week – has suggested that he will likely take the grow older gracefully approach and retire within five years.
Finally, as it should be, the first trailer for the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine, featuring Hall of Fame DILF and your Academy Award host Hugh Jackman, which features some not very subtle images of gay bondage, but who is to complain?
Silver by the way, predicts this Sunday’s Academy Award’s winners, all of whom I would agree with except for Kate Winslet and Mickey Rourke as Best Actress and Best Actor respectively, but that perhaps is merely wishing thinking on my part.
If two nuclear submarines collide in the Atlantic Ocean, does it make a noise?
New York Fashion Week continues, and the Yohji Yamamoto show for his Y-3 collection might have been the most inadvertently gayest presentation, with a front row that featured, among others, Ian Thorpe, Kanye West, and Rufus Wainwright – one of those men actually out and one I may have had a dalliance with. I will leave it to you do solve said mystery.
Breaking news: the South Carolina Sheriff Leon Lott, who’s much criticized investigation into the Michael Phelps’ smoking bong photograph, which has already resulted in the arrests of eight individuals, has announced that there is insufficient to charge Phelps, all of which makes sense in a kind Murder She Wrote way, where a number of people NOT photographed smoking a gigantic green bong are arrested and the one in the picture is NOT. Only in America kids, only in America.
Morrissey – his new album, Years of Refusal is released this week – has suggested that he will likely take the grow older gracefully approach and retire within five years.
Finally, as it should be, the first trailer for the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine, featuring Hall of Fame DILF and your Academy Award host Hugh Jackman, which features some not very subtle images of gay bondage, but who is to complain?
Obamificating Gay Rights Movement, Focus On The Family Frivolity, Art Manifesto, Lindsay Lohan Could Use A Snack, Jay Brannan Is Gay But Is Not
Opponents of anti-gay marriage legislation in American intend to Obamify the gay rights movement, borrowing a page from the President’s political play book, and married the new with the old. The strategy – employing new media, utilizing technological outlets like Facebook and YouTube as well as old fashion door to door knocking – will also include something that was noticeably absent from the No On 8 campaign to battle the passing of Proposition 8: the personalizing of the struggle for equal rights by gay men and women.
The Los Angeles City College is being sued by a Christian student who alleges that several weeks after the passing of Proposition 8, while giving an anti-gay marriage speech in a public speaking class, his professor refused to let him finish, calling him a “fascist bastard.” Lawyers for the student, Jonathan Lopez, intend to show that the professor, John Matteson, stifled the right to freedom of religious expression, and that Lopez is a “victim of religious persecution.” Those lawyers, it should be stressed, are from the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian consortium co-founded by hate monger James Dobson, he of Focus on the Family, which recently tired and failed to stop the publication of donors to Proposition 8.
Holland Cotter writes this engaging and hugely informative manifesto that calls for a return to a culture where art is valued above all else.
Lovely lesbian Lindsay Lohan, who could stand to eat, talks of her brand 6126 line of leggings and her plans to expand beyond said leggings. She made the comments while attending the opening of British designer Matthew Williamson’s new Manhattan store, where she spoke of Samantha Ronson and deli food.
Jay Brennan, the singer, songwriter (he co-wrote a rather special song with Margaret Cho), and actor – he memorably appeared in John Mitchell Cameron’s Shortbus – has issues, big, weighty issues with what he deems the “gay factor.” Brennan, who is gay, strongly resents being categorized a “gay” artist, finding the definition limiting and well do not even get him started on the Rainbow Pride flag; just don’t.
The Los Angeles City College is being sued by a Christian student who alleges that several weeks after the passing of Proposition 8, while giving an anti-gay marriage speech in a public speaking class, his professor refused to let him finish, calling him a “fascist bastard.” Lawyers for the student, Jonathan Lopez, intend to show that the professor, John Matteson, stifled the right to freedom of religious expression, and that Lopez is a “victim of religious persecution.” Those lawyers, it should be stressed, are from the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian consortium co-founded by hate monger James Dobson, he of Focus on the Family, which recently tired and failed to stop the publication of donors to Proposition 8.
Holland Cotter writes this engaging and hugely informative manifesto that calls for a return to a culture where art is valued above all else.
Lovely lesbian Lindsay Lohan, who could stand to eat, talks of her brand 6126 line of leggings and her plans to expand beyond said leggings. She made the comments while attending the opening of British designer Matthew Williamson’s new Manhattan store, where she spoke of Samantha Ronson and deli food.
Jay Brennan, the singer, songwriter (he co-wrote a rather special song with Margaret Cho), and actor – he memorably appeared in John Mitchell Cameron’s Shortbus – has issues, big, weighty issues with what he deems the “gay factor.” Brennan, who is gay, strongly resents being categorized a “gay” artist, finding the definition limiting and well do not even get him started on the Rainbow Pride flag; just don’t.
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