Judy Shepard, Matthew’s Mother, appeared Thursday evening on The Rachel Maddow, where she flatly rejected Representative Virginia Foxx apology for deemed Matthew’s murder a “hoax” and spoke about the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act and her fight to “bring gay rights up to a level of equality.”
As inane as is imaginable, the debate continues as to whether the American military ban on gays serving openly, enacted in 1993 by then President Clinton, should be repealed, with the campaign promise made by current President Obama being put on hold, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates having said he needs more time to study the issue, while the West Point graduating class of 2009 appears divided over the issue.
Meanwhile, a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows that a majority of Americans want the military ban on homosexuals serving openly repealed. 56% of those surveyed think the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is unfair, asking gays to serve hiding their sexual orientation.
Is a letter written to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman by Glen Sather, general manager of the New York Rangers, complaining about homophobic taunts directed at the team by Washington Capital fans an indication of progress or something much less?
Madonna wants to summer in the Hamptons, but the Hamptons do not want her.
Ryan Lochte trains – nothing is lost in translation.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Virginia Foxx Does Not Believe In Matthew Shepard, NOM’s Less Than Massive Attack, Eli And Peyton, Jonathan Rhys Meyers Did Not Go To Rehab
The fallout over the reprehensible remarks made by United States Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina intensified Thursday, one day after Foxx revised the circumstances of the anti-gay, hate-motivated murder of Matthew Shepard in a horribly misguided attempt to oppose the passing of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, named, more commonly, in honor and memory of the twenty-one Shepard killed in October, 1998, in Laramie, Wyoming. Wednesday, in Congress, Foxx said that the belief Shepard was killed because he was gay is a “hoax,” perpetuated in part to pass legislation designed to protect and strengthen the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered. Today, through a spokesperson, Foxx offered something like an apology, naturally blaming the media - ABC’s 20/20 to be precise – for suggesting that Matthew’s murder was an economic crime, not an anti-gay one.
The new National Organization for Marriage anti-gay marriage advertisement starring Miss Take is nowhere near the camp classic that was Gathering Storm, but Under Attack does come close.
The Brothers Manning – Eli and Peyton – and I need not say more.
Tudors star and fake heterosexual Jonathan Rhys Meyers wants you to know that he is not wild, preferring golf to partying, and that he did not, nor ever has been, in rehab. Okay?
The new National Organization for Marriage anti-gay marriage advertisement starring Miss Take is nowhere near the camp classic that was Gathering Storm, but Under Attack does come close.
The Brothers Manning – Eli and Peyton – and I need not say more.
Tudors star and fake heterosexual Jonathan Rhys Meyers wants you to know that he is not wild, preferring golf to partying, and that he did not, nor ever has been, in rehab. Okay?
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, New Gay Marriage Poll, Carrie Fischer On Broadway, Stephen Fry, Jason Statham, Boy George Prison Shower Scene
Democratic New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has yet to indicate his response to Wednesday’s passage of an amended legislation by the State Senate legalizing same-sex marriage. The Governor has three: sign off on the bill, allow the bill into law without his signature, or veto the bill.
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll released Thursday brings more bad news for the beleaguered American Republican Party, with public support for three key social issues the Party loves to wage war against at an all time high – gay marriage, immigration reform, and the legalization of marijuana – each an issue the Democratic Party, at least under the Obama Administration, has avoided making a priority, nullifying their deployment in a political battle.
Carrie Fischer is bringing her one woman show Wishful Drinking to Broadway this fall, previews beginning September 22nd, an opening scheduled for October 4th. The play will be a limited run ending January 3r, 2010.
Stephen Fry writes a letter to a sixteen-year old Stephen Fry.
Sizzling sexy Jason Statham says he is “rather large down there.”
Boy George and Jack Tweed – the husband of the late Jade Goody convicted of assaulting a cab drive with a golf club – literally ran into each other in the showers of the prison both are serving time in.
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll released Thursday brings more bad news for the beleaguered American Republican Party, with public support for three key social issues the Party loves to wage war against at an all time high – gay marriage, immigration reform, and the legalization of marijuana – each an issue the Democratic Party, at least under the Obama Administration, has avoided making a priority, nullifying their deployment in a political battle.
Carrie Fischer is bringing her one woman show Wishful Drinking to Broadway this fall, previews beginning September 22nd, an opening scheduled for October 4th. The play will be a limited run ending January 3r, 2010.
Stephen Fry writes a letter to a sixteen-year old Stephen Fry.
Sizzling sexy Jason Statham says he is “rather large down there.”
Boy George and Jack Tweed – the husband of the late Jade Goody convicted of assaulting a cab drive with a golf club – literally ran into each other in the showers of the prison both are serving time in.
Economic Gains Of Gay Marriage, Kelly McGillis Comes Out, Radio Shack Retail Revenge, Hilary Duff, Alex Rodriguez Serial Steroid User And Bad Tipper
The Des Moines Register looks at the possible economic gains to be had from Iowa’s legalization of gay marriage that took effect this past Monday, and tells the tale of one Beau Fodor, former Salvation Army retail advisor and current gay wedding planner extraordinaire to do so.
Kelly McGillis, star of Top Gun and Witness, has come out, I think.
Although not condoning violence, but if you have ever worked in retail for even a day, I am certain you have empathy for a Radio Shack employee who punched a customer trying to return a product in the face.
I have said before and will say it again – I love Hilary Duff – and now I and by extension you, have one more reason to love her, with Hilary partnering with the New York City Gay Men’s Health Crisis and AIDS Walk to bring attention to and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. Not only has she filmed a new public service announcement, and will light the Empire State Building red in honor of the event, but will walk the walk on May 17th, with, one hopes, her very cute hockey player boyfriend Mike Comrie.
Former Madonna mattress and sometime MLB player Alex Rodriguez is scheduled to return to the New York Yankee lineup May 8th, in Baltimore, to face the Orioles; a date rumored to have been chosen to beat the date of release of Sports Illustrated’s Serena Roberts’ book A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, which is released May 12th. The New York Daily News, however, leaked more details from the forthcoming book today, including that it is believed Alex used steroids as early as high school, was using as a Yankee, and, when with the Texas Rangers, indulging in “pitch tipping.” All that, and the book claims he was hated at Hooters for being a terrible tipper.
Kelly McGillis, star of Top Gun and Witness, has come out, I think.
Although not condoning violence, but if you have ever worked in retail for even a day, I am certain you have empathy for a Radio Shack employee who punched a customer trying to return a product in the face.
I have said before and will say it again – I love Hilary Duff – and now I and by extension you, have one more reason to love her, with Hilary partnering with the New York City Gay Men’s Health Crisis and AIDS Walk to bring attention to and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. Not only has she filmed a new public service announcement, and will light the Empire State Building red in honor of the event, but will walk the walk on May 17th, with, one hopes, her very cute hockey player boyfriend Mike Comrie.
Former Madonna mattress and sometime MLB player Alex Rodriguez is scheduled to return to the New York Yankee lineup May 8th, in Baltimore, to face the Orioles; a date rumored to have been chosen to beat the date of release of Sports Illustrated’s Serena Roberts’ book A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, which is released May 12th. The New York Daily News, however, leaked more details from the forthcoming book today, including that it is believed Alex used steroids as early as high school, was using as a Yankee, and, when with the Texas Rangers, indulging in “pitch tipping.” All that, and the book claims he was hated at Hooters for being a terrible tipper.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Republican Representative Foxx Foolishness, Matthew Shepard Act Passes, New NOM Ad Starring Carrie Prejean, Shia’s Underwear, Ryan Gosling
Despite or perhaps because of a spectacularly stupid statement made by Republican Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, who suggested that the murder of Matthew Shepard was in fact a robbery gone awry and not a hate-motivated killing – she actually referred to the description of his death as a “hoax” – the United State House of Representative passed the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act Wednesday by a margin of 249-175. The bill, more commonly known as the Matthew Shepard Act, now awaits the signature of President Obama before it becomes law.
Carrie Prejean – Miss California or Miss Take – is set to star in a new commercial for the wondrous winners at the National Organization for Marriage. The television advertisement, budgeted at one and half million dollars, titled No Offense, will debut Thursday in Washington at a press conference, and here is hoping it is as hilarious as their previous effort Gathering Storm.
Nothing comes between Hollywood hobo Shia LaBeouf and his Calvin’s, except that is, for his assistant with a fresh pair.
Ryan Gosling out and about Tuesday evening in New York City, tight sweater and tighter trousers making him picture perfect.
Carrie Prejean – Miss California or Miss Take – is set to star in a new commercial for the wondrous winners at the National Organization for Marriage. The television advertisement, budgeted at one and half million dollars, titled No Offense, will debut Thursday in Washington at a press conference, and here is hoping it is as hilarious as their previous effort Gathering Storm.
Nothing comes between Hollywood hobo Shia LaBeouf and his Calvin’s, except that is, for his assistant with a fresh pair.
Ryan Gosling out and about Tuesday evening in New York City, tight sweater and tighter trousers making him picture perfect.
Alberta Finally Protects Sexual Orientation From Discrimination, New Hampshire Senate Approves Gay Marriage, Twitter Quitters, Samantha Ronson
With typical ineptitude, the Alberta provincial led Conservative government, realizing it is in fact the 21st Century, passed legislation late Tuesday that amends the human rights code to include a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation, but stopped short of changes to the Human Rights Commission that would remove the right of the Commission to judge free speech cases, rather than rely upon the more efficient and judicious Criminal Code of Canada.
Somewhat surprisingly the New Hampshire Senate, with an economic efficiency, voted Wednesday to approve legislation legalizing gay marriage in the state, rejecting a committee’s recommendation given last week to vote down the bill. Democratic Governor John Lynch must now decide whether to veto the bill, as he hinted he would, approve the measure, or allow the bill to become law without his signature. If successfully passed, the law would take effect January 1st, 2010.
According to this report, more that half of all Twitter users abandon tweeting after merely one month of use.
Strippers at the opening of Sapphire East in New York City were apparently told by management that they could not work fully until guest DJ Samantha Ronson finished her set at 10:30PM, as Ronson would be distracted by the nude women – a story like that, just has to be true!
Somewhat surprisingly the New Hampshire Senate, with an economic efficiency, voted Wednesday to approve legislation legalizing gay marriage in the state, rejecting a committee’s recommendation given last week to vote down the bill. Democratic Governor John Lynch must now decide whether to veto the bill, as he hinted he would, approve the measure, or allow the bill to become law without his signature. If successfully passed, the law would take effect January 1st, 2010.
According to this report, more that half of all Twitter users abandon tweeting after merely one month of use.
Strippers at the opening of Sapphire East in New York City were apparently told by management that they could not work fully until guest DJ Samantha Ronson finished her set at 10:30PM, as Ronson would be distracted by the nude women – a story like that, just has to be true!
Transsexual Wins Employment Discrimination Suit Against Library Of Congress, Christians Acting Un-Christian Like, thirtysomething Treat, Tom Brady
United States District Court Justice James Robinson ruled Tuesday in favor of a former American Army Special Forces commandeer, awarding nearly one half million dollars to Diane Schroer, finding that she was rejected for employment with the Library of Congress because she was transitioning from male to female.
Continuing Christian charades Tuesday in Washington, D.C. as an estimated one-hundred and fifty Ministers gathered to protest the proposed legislation that would recognize same-sex marriages preformed elsewhere, as well as legalize gay marriage in the District. The event, titled Stand Up For Marriage, was an interfaith affair, with most ministers’ insisting that God was in their hearts and that he did not want to them to seem to sanction the legalization of homosexual marriage, and somehow I can envision a God fretting over fabulous gay men and women wishing to declare their committement to each other from a place of love.
Pop cultural coolness, with the announcement that after eighteen years, the television glory that is thirtysomething – sort of the Homer’s Odyssey of TV drama- will finally be available on DVD, season one released on August 25th, and the subsequent three seasons released every six months after that.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brady visited Vancouver, British Columbia over the weekend, ostensibly to see son Jack, who is staying in the coastal city with his Mother, actress Bridget Moynahan, with Jack growing cuter and cuter daily.
Continuing Christian charades Tuesday in Washington, D.C. as an estimated one-hundred and fifty Ministers gathered to protest the proposed legislation that would recognize same-sex marriages preformed elsewhere, as well as legalize gay marriage in the District. The event, titled Stand Up For Marriage, was an interfaith affair, with most ministers’ insisting that God was in their hearts and that he did not want to them to seem to sanction the legalization of homosexual marriage, and somehow I can envision a God fretting over fabulous gay men and women wishing to declare their committement to each other from a place of love.
Pop cultural coolness, with the announcement that after eighteen years, the television glory that is thirtysomething – sort of the Homer’s Odyssey of TV drama- will finally be available on DVD, season one released on August 25th, and the subsequent three seasons released every six months after that.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brady visited Vancouver, British Columbia over the weekend, ostensibly to see son Jack, who is staying in the coastal city with his Mother, actress Bridget Moynahan, with Jack growing cuter and cuter daily.
Maine Marches Ahead On Gay Marriage, Ed Koch Begs To Differ With Dick, Matthew Mitcham Ordered Out Of Mexico, Andy Roddick, Yankee Seat Sale
A joint Judiciary Committee in Maine Tuesday voted in favor of bill LD 1020, sending the legislation which would overturn a state wide ban on gay marriage to the Legislature where it will be debated in both the House and Senate, although the timeline for said debate has yet to made clear. The sponsor of the bill, Democrat Senator Dennis Damon, echoing a sentiment that gay marriage is a crucial, fundamental civil right, said that government is elected by the people to enact legislation to protect and strengthen the rights of minorities, while opponents of the measure, like Republican Senator David Hastings contend that the bill should become a voter referendum, allowing the electorate to make the decision as to whether gay men and women should legally be permitted to wed.
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, long the subject of speculation as to his sexual orientation, is rather upset at the way he is portrayed in the new Kirby Dick documentary Outrage, the film that looks at closeted politicians whose policies are often in direct contradiction to their secretive personal lives. In the film, Dick asserts that Koch did little to nothing on gay rights issue or AIDS, and that assertion has the former Mayor, well, outraged.
Australian gold medal winning diver and out gay god Matthew Mitcham, competing in Mexico along with teammate Alexandra Croak, has been ordered to leave the county immediately by the governing body that oversees Australian amateur athletics over concerns of the swine flu outbreak. Mitcham, who has been in Mexico for nearly two weeks, said he was more concerned with travelling in close quarters on a plane for long hours with others who have made have exposed to the flu, than staying in the country.
Andy Roddick says that having Elton John attend and work Roddick’s marriage to model Brooklyn Decker was “surreal," opposed to his creepy Mandy Moore obsession.
Front pages throughout New York City are trumpeting news that the New York Yankees, barely two weeks into the 2009 season, are aware that the sight of empty seats at the new New York Yankee Stadium is cause for concern and action, and the team’s management have gone awkwardly about cutting costs of tickets, from full season to individual games.
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, long the subject of speculation as to his sexual orientation, is rather upset at the way he is portrayed in the new Kirby Dick documentary Outrage, the film that looks at closeted politicians whose policies are often in direct contradiction to their secretive personal lives. In the film, Dick asserts that Koch did little to nothing on gay rights issue or AIDS, and that assertion has the former Mayor, well, outraged.
Australian gold medal winning diver and out gay god Matthew Mitcham, competing in Mexico along with teammate Alexandra Croak, has been ordered to leave the county immediately by the governing body that oversees Australian amateur athletics over concerns of the swine flu outbreak. Mitcham, who has been in Mexico for nearly two weeks, said he was more concerned with travelling in close quarters on a plane for long hours with others who have made have exposed to the flu, than staying in the country.
Andy Roddick says that having Elton John attend and work Roddick’s marriage to model Brooklyn Decker was “surreal," opposed to his creepy Mandy Moore obsession.
Front pages throughout New York City are trumpeting news that the New York Yankees, barely two weeks into the 2009 season, are aware that the sight of empty seats at the new New York Yankee Stadium is cause for concern and action, and the team’s management have gone awkwardly about cutting costs of tickets, from full season to individual games.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Guilty Gay Marriage Opponents, Patrick Schuster Streak Over, Ryan Lochte, Sarah Jessica Parker To Have Twins Via Surrogate, Wall Street Sequel
Speaking Tuesday in Albany, New York, in front of the State capital building, to mark the Empire State Pride Agenda’s Equality and Justice Day, Governor David A. Paterson made an interesting comment regarding those who oppose the legalization of gay marriage – he contends critics are afflicted with guilt.
An update on an earlier posting: sadly, the great left handed high school pitcher Patrick Schuster lost his bid for a fifth straight no-hitter Tuesday, giving up a double in the top of the third inning.
Ryan Lochte talks about fashion, training, and swimsuits, and yes, there are a lot of accompanying photographs.
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker representatives Tuesday announced that the couple is expecting twins this summer via a surrogate, but the announcement was a skeleton of the actual story, which Star magazine planned to release Wednesday. Broderick and Parker attempted to beat the release, but the Star story contains a number of details including the identity of the woman – a twenty-sex year old divorcee from Ohio whom the couple is paying thousands of dollars to.
Oliver Stone and Twentieth Century Fox have officially begun pre-production on Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to the eighties indictment on greed Wall Street, with Michael Douglas set to reprise his role as Gordon Gekko and Shia LaBeouf to star as a young trader.
An update on an earlier posting: sadly, the great left handed high school pitcher Patrick Schuster lost his bid for a fifth straight no-hitter Tuesday, giving up a double in the top of the third inning.
Ryan Lochte talks about fashion, training, and swimsuits, and yes, there are a lot of accompanying photographs.
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker representatives Tuesday announced that the couple is expecting twins this summer via a surrogate, but the announcement was a skeleton of the actual story, which Star magazine planned to release Wednesday. Broderick and Parker attempted to beat the release, but the Star story contains a number of details including the identity of the woman – a twenty-sex year old divorcee from Ohio whom the couple is paying thousands of dollars to.
Oliver Stone and Twentieth Century Fox have officially begun pre-production on Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to the eighties indictment on greed Wall Street, with Michael Douglas set to reprise his role as Gordon Gekko and Shia LaBeouf to star as a young trader.
Senator Arlen Specter Crosses Party Lines To The Democrats, Scientists Engineer Vitamin Fortified Corn, Eric Bana Bathroom Adventures, Hugh Jackman
While perhaps not exactly surprising, the announcement Tuesday that Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter intends to leave the Republican Party and serve as a Democrat still stunned a number of political insiders and observers. Specter, who said that he now finds his “political philosophy more in line” with the Democrats offers the magic and mythic sixtieth Senate vote, enough to avoid filibusters and a generous means to advance the Obama Administration’s agenda. The move also fuels speculation that the Republican party – increasingly a treacherous place for a moderate – is rapidly self-destructing.
A story that was lost amid growing concerns that the swine flu is rapidly reaching pandemic proportions Monday, was about a team of scientists who have engineered a genetic corn that contains three of the required daily nutrients – vitamin A, vitamin c, and folate – with the discovery meant to aid the diet of those living in developing countries.
Eric Bana dirty and sweaty, stripped down to his Jockey’s, gas station bathroom, trying to shower, um, count me in! Seriously, as many times as possible, count me in!
Bana’s fellow Australian, Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman, attended the premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in Tempe, Arizona (?) looking like a big gay leather daddy atop a motorcycle.
A story that was lost amid growing concerns that the swine flu is rapidly reaching pandemic proportions Monday, was about a team of scientists who have engineered a genetic corn that contains three of the required daily nutrients – vitamin A, vitamin c, and folate – with the discovery meant to aid the diet of those living in developing countries.
Eric Bana dirty and sweaty, stripped down to his Jockey’s, gas station bathroom, trying to shower, um, count me in! Seriously, as many times as possible, count me in!
Bana’s fellow Australian, Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman, attended the premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in Tempe, Arizona (?) looking like a big gay leather daddy atop a motorcycle.
Clay Aiken And Parker Lunch, Neil Patrick Harris And Jesus Celebrate, Britney Spears Gay Icon, Lincoln Lewis Strips, Jake Gyllenhaal, Gavin Newsome
Clay Aiken enjoyed a lunch date with best girl friend Tyra Banks Monday in Los Angeles, and brought along precious son Parker.
Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, and Jesus were among the guests fêting Renee Zellweger Saturday night in Manhattan on the occasion of her fortieth birthday, but no sign of ex-husband Kenny Chesney.
Britney Spears is to be awarded the Logo Always Next Forever Now – an honor bestowed on a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered icon – at a ceremony hosted by RuPaul to air on the Logo network June 13th.
Home and Away star and Australian hotness Lincoln Lewis, in Perth, displays the goods and what goods they are.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal leaves Los Angeles Monday liberally stealing Hugh Jackman’s look.
Last night charming San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome, so sexy, so smart, appearing on The Rachel Maddow Show, talking his upcoming campaign for Governor of the great state of California, and issues gay, including whether Proposition 8 would pass today. Gavin, excited about being in such close proximity to Miss Maddow, misspoke, saying that the ballot measure would be approved, but meant to that it would not, as his follow-up comments indicate.
Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, and Jesus were among the guests fêting Renee Zellweger Saturday night in Manhattan on the occasion of her fortieth birthday, but no sign of ex-husband Kenny Chesney.
Britney Spears is to be awarded the Logo Always Next Forever Now – an honor bestowed on a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered icon – at a ceremony hosted by RuPaul to air on the Logo network June 13th.
Home and Away star and Australian hotness Lincoln Lewis, in Perth, displays the goods and what goods they are.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal leaves Los Angeles Monday liberally stealing Hugh Jackman’s look.
Last night charming San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome, so sexy, so smart, appearing on The Rachel Maddow Show, talking his upcoming campaign for Governor of the great state of California, and issues gay, including whether Proposition 8 would pass today. Gavin, excited about being in such close proximity to Miss Maddow, misspoke, saying that the ballot measure would be approved, but meant to that it would not, as his follow-up comments indicate.
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Christian Carrie Prejean Lies, Ex-Mormon Chad Hardy Makes Men On Missions Sexy, Patrick Schuster’s No-Hitter Streak, Larry Wachowski, Diego And Gael
Carrie Prejean, Miss California might have made a big mistake when she told the Rock Church congregation Sunday in San Diego that Miss America pageant officials told her to publically apologize to the gay community for her banal response to a question regarding same-sex marriage; a statement officials now say was an outright lie. Roger Neal, a public relations spokesperson who works for the Miss California pageant is quoted as saying that no one either told Carrie “you must apologize to the gay or that she was not permitted to discuss her religious views. Other officials with the Miss California pageant expressed concern that Prejean’s appearance Sunday at the Rock Church – on record as regarding homosexuality as abnormal and unnatural - indicate an unwillingness to forgo expressing a personal agenda while fulfilling her duties, and speculation has been raised that she will be asked to resign and return her crown.
Chad Hardy, a lapsed Mormon entrepreneur who began the Men on a Mission calendars in 2007 is set to release the third in the series of nearly nude Mormon’s as well as plans to release a calendar of “Mormon muffins” this summer, despite the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints having excommunicated him and Brigham Young University officials having barred him from receiving his degree in communications, and despite growing opposition from LDS officials who see Hardy as an agitator. Hardy, however, regards himself as something of liberator.
A story of note from New Port Richey, Florida, where eighteen-year old high school senior Patrick Schuster, a left-handed pitcher for the Mitchell High boy’s team will start today in search of his fifth straight no-hitter – a streak begun on April 3rd.
A rare sighting in Los Angeles of Larry Wachowski, who, along with Brother Andy, has directed the revolutionary Matrix series of films, with Larry walking through Los Angeles International Airport appearing to be dressed as Lana, suggesting that reports Larry is transitioning to be true.
A not so rare, but so thoroughly pleasurable sighting of the hotness that is Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, as the twosome grace the Apple Store in New York City on Monday.
Chad Hardy, a lapsed Mormon entrepreneur who began the Men on a Mission calendars in 2007 is set to release the third in the series of nearly nude Mormon’s as well as plans to release a calendar of “Mormon muffins” this summer, despite the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints having excommunicated him and Brigham Young University officials having barred him from receiving his degree in communications, and despite growing opposition from LDS officials who see Hardy as an agitator. Hardy, however, regards himself as something of liberator.
A story of note from New Port Richey, Florida, where eighteen-year old high school senior Patrick Schuster, a left-handed pitcher for the Mitchell High boy’s team will start today in search of his fifth straight no-hitter – a streak begun on April 3rd.
A rare sighting in Los Angeles of Larry Wachowski, who, along with Brother Andy, has directed the revolutionary Matrix series of films, with Larry walking through Los Angeles International Airport appearing to be dressed as Lana, suggesting that reports Larry is transitioning to be true.
A not so rare, but so thoroughly pleasurable sighting of the hotness that is Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, as the twosome grace the Apple Store in New York City on Monday.
Monday, April 27, 2009
360 Same-Sex Couples Apply To Marry In Iowa, Pointless Petition, Cornell Christian Group Bans Gay Student, Lee Pace, Hugh Jackman, Bea And Rock Hudson
A great and gay new day was ushered in Monday, as Iowa became the fourth state in the union to legalize same-sex marriage, and at the end of the historic day, some three-hundred and sixty couples have applied for marriage licenses, the most, perhaps ironically, in Polk County, the site of the legal battle that originated a Supreme Court lawsuit which eventually led to the overturning of a state-wide ban on same-sex marriage.
At the same time, a petition signed by a paltry eighteen-thousand, less that 1% of the Iowa population, circulated online by one Senator Merlin Bartz, a Republican, who, because of his initiation faces an ethics complaint, the most signatures, again, ironically, were in Polk County. As an aside, Senator Bartz can be reached by phone at (641) 748-2724 or by email at merlin.bartz@legis.state.ia.us, in case you want to express your opinion. I certain he would enjoy hearing from you.
A Christian student group at Cornell University in under fire Monday, after the organization, the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship expelled a member, Chris Donohoe, who graduates this year, after Mr. Donohoe told them he had accepted his homosexuality. The group, which receives student funding, insists Donohoe was not removed because of homophobia.
Some new stills of hotness Colin Firth and very hotness Lee Pace from the set of the Tom Ford debut directed film A Single Man. The movie, which Ford has also adapted from a Christopher Isherwood novel, features Nicholas Hoult, Julianne Moore, and Ginnifer Goodwin.
Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman is the sexiest man alive and he and Fox Studios intends to keep it that way, cancelling the Mexican premiere of X-Man Origins: Wolverine due to health concerns surrounding the outbreak of the swine flu. The event, according to a spokesperson, is likely to be rescheduled.
Reason number umpteenth to love Bea Arthur and regard her passing Saturday with sadness: a stealthy seventies serenade between Miss Bea and her best gay friend Rock Hudson called Sniff Swig Puff and yes the lyrics contain the lines and now its pills, and now its pot, and now its poppers, and god knows what.”
At the same time, a petition signed by a paltry eighteen-thousand, less that 1% of the Iowa population, circulated online by one Senator Merlin Bartz, a Republican, who, because of his initiation faces an ethics complaint, the most signatures, again, ironically, were in Polk County. As an aside, Senator Bartz can be reached by phone at (641) 748-2724 or by email at merlin.bartz@legis.state.ia.us, in case you want to express your opinion. I certain he would enjoy hearing from you.
A Christian student group at Cornell University in under fire Monday, after the organization, the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship expelled a member, Chris Donohoe, who graduates this year, after Mr. Donohoe told them he had accepted his homosexuality. The group, which receives student funding, insists Donohoe was not removed because of homophobia.
Some new stills of hotness Colin Firth and very hotness Lee Pace from the set of the Tom Ford debut directed film A Single Man. The movie, which Ford has also adapted from a Christopher Isherwood novel, features Nicholas Hoult, Julianne Moore, and Ginnifer Goodwin.
Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman is the sexiest man alive and he and Fox Studios intends to keep it that way, cancelling the Mexican premiere of X-Man Origins: Wolverine due to health concerns surrounding the outbreak of the swine flu. The event, according to a spokesperson, is likely to be rescheduled.
Reason number umpteenth to love Bea Arthur and regard her passing Saturday with sadness: a stealthy seventies serenade between Miss Bea and her best gay friend Rock Hudson called Sniff Swig Puff and yes the lyrics contain the lines and now its pills, and now its pot, and now its poppers, and god knows what.”
Iowa Gay Marriage Protest Petitions Made Public, Miss California Contends Gay Is A Behavior, Lance Bass Behaves Badly, Jake Gyllenhaal, Philip Markoff
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who Friday stated that all same-sex marriage applications a matter of public record, today said that each and every gay marriage protest petition against gay marriage will to be considered public, and will be released under Iowa law.
Miss California – or Miss Take as I like to call her – granted an interview Sunday, after attending services at the Rock Church in San Diego, California, where she contended that being gay is a choice, “a behavior that develops over the time.”
Professional gay Lance Bass celebrated his thirtieth birthday Saturday at My House in Los Angeles, and although he does not actually turn thirty till May 4th, Mr. Bass, who never met a tight white tee shirt he did not like, enjoyed himself and then.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal makes the scene in Santa Monica Friday.
The case of Philip Markoff, the alleged Craigslist killer, has taken another surprising twist among the previous turns, with NBC’s Today Show reported exclusively Monday morning that Markoff targeted gay men and transvestites as well, worrying officials that there may be another set of victims yet to come forward.
Miss California – or Miss Take as I like to call her – granted an interview Sunday, after attending services at the Rock Church in San Diego, California, where she contended that being gay is a choice, “a behavior that develops over the time.”
Professional gay Lance Bass celebrated his thirtieth birthday Saturday at My House in Los Angeles, and although he does not actually turn thirty till May 4th, Mr. Bass, who never met a tight white tee shirt he did not like, enjoyed himself and then. Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal makes the scene in Santa Monica Friday.
The case of Philip Markoff, the alleged Craigslist killer, has taken another surprising twist among the previous turns, with NBC’s Today Show reported exclusively Monday morning that Markoff targeted gay men and transvestites as well, worrying officials that there may be another set of victims yet to come forward.
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Gay Day One In Iowa, Madonna Has Her Own Personal Jesus, Lorenzo Martone And Marc Jacobs’ Rules Of Engagement, Carrie Prejean Is Not Sorry, Jon Hamm
The day has barely just begun in Iowa and already it is a great, historic day for gays, as the state officially takes its place as the fourth in union to offer same-sex marriage, and couples from every corner in the Hawkeye State are registering to wed. The Des Moines Register has continuous coverage – you can follow their update off the paper’s Twitter page – including the story of Melisa Keeton and Shelley Wolfe, who were the first couple in line with license in hand and who are expected to be married within the hour. Congratulations to everyone!
Madonna, currently recovering from falling – literally and figuratively – has Jesus by her side and she can thank friend Marc Jacobs, who wrote a letter over support for Jesus’ work permit, and is busy campaigning to find Jesus work as a model.
Last week, Marc’s fiancé Lorenzo Martone made with the details on how the couple became engaged, with Lorenzo having planned a picture perfect engagement moment.
Carrie Prejean, Miss California, took her homosexual hating heart to church Sunday, The Rock Church in her hometown of San Diego, California to be precise, where she spoke of being told by officials (of what, she does not say) to apologize to the gay community for her anti-gay marriage statements at the Miss America pageant, and of her refusal to do just that because she “was representing the majority of people in California.” She is an idiot’s dream and looks a little like an overly tanned transvestite, and my warmest wishes go out to her “boyfriend” Michael Phelps.
Jon Hamm – so hot, so talented – and his equal, girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt have set up their own production company, Points West Pictures, and are in the process of developing three projects, two of which are original scripts by Westfeldt.
Madonna, currently recovering from falling – literally and figuratively – has Jesus by her side and she can thank friend Marc Jacobs, who wrote a letter over support for Jesus’ work permit, and is busy campaigning to find Jesus work as a model.
Last week, Marc’s fiancé Lorenzo Martone made with the details on how the couple became engaged, with Lorenzo having planned a picture perfect engagement moment.
Carrie Prejean, Miss California, took her homosexual hating heart to church Sunday, The Rock Church in her hometown of San Diego, California to be precise, where she spoke of being told by officials (of what, she does not say) to apologize to the gay community for her anti-gay marriage statements at the Miss America pageant, and of her refusal to do just that because she “was representing the majority of people in California.” She is an idiot’s dream and looks a little like an overly tanned transvestite, and my warmest wishes go out to her “boyfriend” Michael Phelps.
Jon Hamm – so hot, so talented – and his equal, girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt have set up their own production company, Points West Pictures, and are in the process of developing three projects, two of which are original scripts by Westfeldt.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Clay Aiken Gets New Coif, Lindsay Lohan Loses More Weight, Casey Aldridge Accident, Ryan McPartlin, Philip Markoff, Danny Cipriani, Travis Snider
Clay Aiken, resplendent in red, leaves a Los Angeles salon Saturday afternoon, with a stunning new hair style.
Alarming new photographs of Lindsay Lohan have surfaced, the actress on vacation in Hawaii with her sister Ali, Lindsay stunningly gaunt.
Casey Aldridge, the father of Jamie-Lynn Spears baby girl Maddie was involved in a car accident early Sunday morning. Police have charged the nineteen year old with careless operation of a motor vehicle.
The season finale of Chuck airs Monday, and it is rumored that it might be in fact the series finale of this very enjoyable show, and one of the stars, one of the cutest stars in fact, Ryan McPartlin, who plays Capitan Fantastic, talks things Chicago, Chuck, and Mad Men.
The Boston Globe reports on accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff and how those who around him are wondering what clues they might have missed as to his true character, while the National Enquirer reports that his fiancé, Megan McAllister, who last week seemed a textbook example of denial, has now ended their engagement.
The impossibly cute Danny Cipriani chooses a casual clothing ensemble for a night on the town.
Meet Travis Snider, Toronto Blue Jay rookie outfielder and my new favorite Major League Baseball crush.
Alarming new photographs of Lindsay Lohan have surfaced, the actress on vacation in Hawaii with her sister Ali, Lindsay stunningly gaunt.
Casey Aldridge, the father of Jamie-Lynn Spears baby girl Maddie was involved in a car accident early Sunday morning. Police have charged the nineteen year old with careless operation of a motor vehicle.
The season finale of Chuck airs Monday, and it is rumored that it might be in fact the series finale of this very enjoyable show, and one of the stars, one of the cutest stars in fact, Ryan McPartlin, who plays Capitan Fantastic, talks things Chicago, Chuck, and Mad Men.
The Boston Globe reports on accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff and how those who around him are wondering what clues they might have missed as to his true character, while the National Enquirer reports that his fiancé, Megan McAllister, who last week seemed a textbook example of denial, has now ended their engagement.
The impossibly cute Danny Cipriani chooses a casual clothing ensemble for a night on the town.
Meet Travis Snider, Toronto Blue Jay rookie outfielder and my new favorite Major League Baseball crush.
Nick Jonas Link To Focus On The Family, Demi Lovato On Jaheem Herrera Suicide, Zac Efron, Prince Harry, Brad Pitt Chooses Canadian Side Of The Falls
Buried in the not too distant past of Nick Jonas – he of the Jonas Brethren three – is a somewhat troubling relationship with Focus on the Family, the rabidly anti-gay group of bigots masquerading as Christians, so troubling in fact that the site – Clubhouse – has removed the original link.
In a series of four separate Twitter tweets, Demi Lovato called attention to the tragic suicide of eleven-year old Jaheem Herrera, who hung himself in his bedroom on April 16th after repeatedly being bullied at school, where it was apparently assumed he was gay. Lovato urged the American Education to take action to end harassment and demand schools do more to eradicate an epidemic of hate and intolerance.
Zac Efron in Germany on the never ending promotional parade for 17 Again, is reportedly experiencing a rough patch on the road to relationship happiness with “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens, not accompanying Mr. Efron on the trip since Zac has grown weary of her appearance in public wearing little more than an oversized shirt, which is an odd complaint since I’m certain there is not a pair of Efron’s underwear I and the world have yet to see.
That rascally royal red head Prince Harry continues to do his lineage proud, out and about early Saturday morning, looking much the worse for wear.
While Angelina Jolie was kept busy filming in Albany, New York, Hall of Fame DILF Brad Pitt took his two sons Maddox and Pax, his mother and father, and a phalanx of bodyguards to Niagara Falls, Ontario Saturday, where all donned those hideous baby blue see through rain ponchos, and enjoyed the ride on the Maid of Mist relatively unnoticed by other tourists, although United States border patrol guards commented that Mr. Pitt was “very pleasant.”
In a series of four separate Twitter tweets, Demi Lovato called attention to the tragic suicide of eleven-year old Jaheem Herrera, who hung himself in his bedroom on April 16th after repeatedly being bullied at school, where it was apparently assumed he was gay. Lovato urged the American Education to take action to end harassment and demand schools do more to eradicate an epidemic of hate and intolerance.
Zac Efron in Germany on the never ending promotional parade for 17 Again, is reportedly experiencing a rough patch on the road to relationship happiness with “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens, not accompanying Mr. Efron on the trip since Zac has grown weary of her appearance in public wearing little more than an oversized shirt, which is an odd complaint since I’m certain there is not a pair of Efron’s underwear I and the world have yet to see.
That rascally royal red head Prince Harry continues to do his lineage proud, out and about early Saturday morning, looking much the worse for wear.
While Angelina Jolie was kept busy filming in Albany, New York, Hall of Fame DILF Brad Pitt took his two sons Maddox and Pax, his mother and father, and a phalanx of bodyguards to Niagara Falls, Ontario Saturday, where all donned those hideous baby blue see through rain ponchos, and enjoyed the ride on the Maid of Mist relatively unnoticed by other tourists, although United States border patrol guards commented that Mr. Pitt was “very pleasant.”
Five Year History Of Gay Marriage In Massachusetts, Presbyterian Church Votes Again Not To Allow Gays To Serve, Swine Flu Outbreak Prompts Emergency
On the eve of legislation in Iowa that makes legal same-sex marriage, the Des Moines Register examines Massachusetts, where, for five years gay men and women have married, and the supposed threats to tradition marriage, and by extension, the traditional idea of family, have never materialized. Some changes are apparent – notably that the Catholic Church got out of the business of adoption because it would not allow same-sex couples the right to adopt - but that can hardly be seen as a negative consequence. Same-sex spousal access to employee benefits, including health care and decisions made around health issues, however, are some of the many positive consequences of affording gay men and women in the state equal rights.
The United States Presbyterian Church voted Saturday not to allow gay and lesbian clergy to serve openly, but according to all reports the narrow margin of defeat (the sealed ballots have yet to be tallied) can be read as a good sign for proponents of homosexuals gaining equal standing in the Church.
The United States Sunday declared a public health emergency in an effort to combat the growing spread of the swine flu, and minimize the impact of the disease that to date has been reported in twenty cases in America, a strain that seems slightly less lethal than those in Mexico, where the outbreak originated on or about April 13th, and where at least eight-six people have died from the flu, another fifteen-hundred ill. Canada is third country to report cases of the human version of the disease, with four students in the Maritimes confirmed ill with a mild strain and two individuals in British Columbia testing positive.
The United States Presbyterian Church voted Saturday not to allow gay and lesbian clergy to serve openly, but according to all reports the narrow margin of defeat (the sealed ballots have yet to be tallied) can be read as a good sign for proponents of homosexuals gaining equal standing in the Church.
The United States Sunday declared a public health emergency in an effort to combat the growing spread of the swine flu, and minimize the impact of the disease that to date has been reported in twenty cases in America, a strain that seems slightly less lethal than those in Mexico, where the outbreak originated on or about April 13th, and where at least eight-six people have died from the flu, another fifteen-hundred ill. Canada is third country to report cases of the human version of the disease, with four students in the Maritimes confirmed ill with a mild strain and two individuals in British Columbia testing positive.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Bea Arthur Dead At 86, The Most Progressive State In The Union Is Iowa, John Barrowman Hearts Celine, Kerry Degman Male Model, Chace Crawford
Bea Arthur died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 86. The cause of death was cancer. Miss Arthur was a lot of everything, but for me, she will always and forever be Maude Findlay, the acerbic, caftan wearing, hi-ball drinking, proto-feminist liberal witty wonder from Tuckahoe, New York, a television role that earned her five Emmy nominations, winning the award for best actress in a comedy series in 1977. In 1985, the role of divorcee Dorothy on the Golden Girls would bring her second pop culture gold, for which she won another Emmy in 1988. Bea Arthur was a husky voiced, knowing broad in the best sense of that word, and I miss her already.
This Monday marks the first day that gay men and women can legally obtain a marriage licenses in Iowa, a historic turn so progressive that it seems discordant with a state whose image of one of staid middle-class gentility.
Hall of Fame DILF John Barrowman confesses that his heart will go on forever with a love for Celine Dion, a statement I find troubling, and yet who am I to judge?
Tetu offers a retrospective of some of the magazine’s cover men, one Mr. Kerry Degman being an example of real hotness, in a vaguely NSFW way.
Chace Crawford, scruffy and sexy, works well into the night in New York on the set of Twelve, with an almost heterosexual intensity.
This Monday marks the first day that gay men and women can legally obtain a marriage licenses in Iowa, a historic turn so progressive that it seems discordant with a state whose image of one of staid middle-class gentility.
Hall of Fame DILF John Barrowman confesses that his heart will go on forever with a love for Celine Dion, a statement I find troubling, and yet who am I to judge?
Tetu offers a retrospective of some of the magazine’s cover men, one Mr. Kerry Degman being an example of real hotness, in a vaguely NSFW way.
Chace Crawford, scruffy and sexy, works well into the night in New York on the set of Twelve, with an almost heterosexual intensity.
Corona del Mar High School Defeat Westboro Baptist Church And Revival Of Rent Opens
The Corona del Mar High School production of Rent, whose journey from proposal to rehearsals to opening night has been marred by controversies and threatened lawsuits, ended in a way Friday night, the curtain rising on the award winning musical that documents the drama of artists living in the East Village, in the eighties, borrowing a template from La Boehme to talk of love, tolerance, and the scourge of AIDS. And fittingly, this Rent, suggested by the school’s drama teacher, Ron Martin, after he encountered anti-gay sentiments among the student body and thought Jonathan Larson’s work would work to generate a conversation about acceptance and inclusion did more.
The Westboro Baptist Church, home of hate mongering Fred Phelps, had threatened a demonstration and an anemic array of three WBC members carried signs that read "Fags Are Beasts" did materialize – yes three – but they were met by hundreds of students, who had come together in a kind of improvised counter protest, carried signs that read "God Love Gays" and "Love Is Not A Sin." They chanted, and sang, and within minutes, the three anti-gay bigots masquerading as Christians walked away, defeated by something big and true, and something that they will likely never understand.
And then the show went on.
The Westboro Baptist Church, home of hate mongering Fred Phelps, had threatened a demonstration and an anemic array of three WBC members carried signs that read "Fags Are Beasts" did materialize – yes three – but they were met by hundreds of students, who had come together in a kind of improvised counter protest, carried signs that read "God Love Gays" and "Love Is Not A Sin." They chanted, and sang, and within minutes, the three anti-gay bigots masquerading as Christians walked away, defeated by something big and true, and something that they will likely never understand.
And then the show went on.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Hollister The Town Takes Aim At Hollister The Retailer, James Franco Gaydar Goes Off, Nude Nick Youngquest, Faked Idol Feud, Prince William, Zac
Hollister, California, an agricultural hamlet of some thirty-thousand citizens east of Monterey Bay, is likely best known in the annals of popular culture as the origin of the 1950’s film The Wild One, starring an rebellious rebel Marlon Brando, but now is most often associated with the Abercrombie & Fitch label that works too hard to cultivate an image of sand and surf. And so, as you might have anticipated, the fight between a corporate retailer whose sales have slipped in the last year and a tiny town whose economy is struggling of who in fact owns Hollister is just getting started.
James Franco keeps hinting at his homosexuality.
The complete Nick Youngquest Tetu portfolio is now available, which is considerably sexy, and slightly NSFW.
Is the feud between American Idol contestants Adam Lambert and Kris Allen mostly manufactured by the show’s deceitful, duplicitous producers? Um, do you really need to ask?
Prince William had a secret, two in fact, but they are secrets no more.
Zac Efron, departing Los Angeles International Airport Friday, was not in the mood for the pesky and pushy paparazzi.
James Franco keeps hinting at his homosexuality.
The complete Nick Youngquest Tetu portfolio is now available, which is considerably sexy, and slightly NSFW.
Is the feud between American Idol contestants Adam Lambert and Kris Allen mostly manufactured by the show’s deceitful, duplicitous producers? Um, do you really need to ask?
Prince William had a secret, two in fact, but they are secrets no more.
Zac Efron, departing Los Angeles International Airport Friday, was not in the mood for the pesky and pushy paparazzi.
New Hampshire Senate Committee Gay Marriage Setback, Channing Tatum, Dean Sheremet Plays Straight, Broadway Bonnets, Liberating Liberace, Almodovar
The New Hampshire Senate Committee comprised of five Senators that had been hearing testimony on legislation in that state to legalize same-sex marriage split their votes on the issue, three against and two in favor. The bill, along with three others – medical marijuana, mandatory seat belts, and the death penalty – will be sent to the to full Senate next week for a vote, but given the Committee’s recommendation, passage is unlikely.
Channing Tatum likes his guns.
Dean Sheremet along side his beard, um, wife, the philandering LeAnn Rimes, attempt to act like a happy heterosexual married couple, with little success.
This coming Monday, April 27th, and Tuesday, April 28th, the 23rd Annual Easter Bonnet Competition to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will be held, hosted in part by Hair’s sexy Gavin Creel and Danny Burstein from South Pacific, and judges including James Gandolfini. Last year’s event raised a record three million, seven-hundred thousand dollars.
Is the resurrection and renaissance of Liberace really underway? It seems so, with the announcement Thursday of a new Broadway show – Liberace: The Man, the Music, and the Memories, starring Wayward Pickard, scheduled to be a theatre by October.
Pedro Almodovar is reportedly developing an hour long television series scheduled for the fall based on his 1988 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Channing Tatum likes his guns.
Dean Sheremet along side his beard, um, wife, the philandering LeAnn Rimes, attempt to act like a happy heterosexual married couple, with little success.
This coming Monday, April 27th, and Tuesday, April 28th, the 23rd Annual Easter Bonnet Competition to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will be held, hosted in part by Hair’s sexy Gavin Creel and Danny Burstein from South Pacific, and judges including James Gandolfini. Last year’s event raised a record three million, seven-hundred thousand dollars.
Is the resurrection and renaissance of Liberace really underway? It seems so, with the announcement Thursday of a new Broadway show – Liberace: The Man, the Music, and the Memories, starring Wayward Pickard, scheduled to be a theatre by October.
Pedro Almodovar is reportedly developing an hour long television series scheduled for the fall based on his 1988 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Senator Feinstein Saves Shirley Tan, The Glee Dilemma, The Temperamental Michael Urie, MLB’s First Openly Gay Player, Arthur Giddon
California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill Wednesday that grants Shirley Tan a stay on an impending deportation order until at least next year and that if passed, will allow the Philippine native and mother of two twin’s permanent residency. Tan was scheduled to face a deportation hearing May 10th, but her case caught the attention of many, including the Democratic Senator. Tan, who along with her partner Jay Mercado, an American citizen, are raising the twin boys, are a homosexual couple and as such do not qualify for legal permanent residency in the same manner afforded heterosexual couples.
Glee, the new Fox series from Ryan Murphy, premiering May 19th after the season finale of this season’s American Idol (how gay a night of programming will that be?) looks stunning – clever, hilarious, insightful, and daringly original, and therein lays the show’s problem: can something that daring and inventive find an audience?
The unsinkable Michael Urie stars along side Thomas Jay Ryan in a limited run of The Temperamentals with previews beginning April 30th, temperamental being a code word for gay men in the nineteen fifties.
Quite quietly, the Oakland Athletics signed the first openly gay MLB player, Tyler Patton, a star pitcher in the Homo League with the Kansas City Gay Royals.
The Boston Red Sox this Saturday will have on hand a special bat boy – Arthur Giddon who will be celebrating his one-hundredth birthday.
Glee, the new Fox series from Ryan Murphy, premiering May 19th after the season finale of this season’s American Idol (how gay a night of programming will that be?) looks stunning – clever, hilarious, insightful, and daringly original, and therein lays the show’s problem: can something that daring and inventive find an audience?
The unsinkable Michael Urie stars along side Thomas Jay Ryan in a limited run of The Temperamentals with previews beginning April 30th, temperamental being a code word for gay men in the nineteen fifties.
Quite quietly, the Oakland Athletics signed the first openly gay MLB player, Tyler Patton, a star pitcher in the Homo League with the Kansas City Gay Royals.
The Boston Red Sox this Saturday will have on hand a special bat boy – Arthur Giddon who will be celebrating his one-hundredth birthday.
Michael Urie, Levi Johnston Is Not This Year’s Model, Jim Parsons Picture Perfection, Ellen Rescues Lindsay, Michael Phelps Tells Time And Denies, Zac
The unsinkable Michael Urie – love him – tweets that Ugly Betty has been renewed for a fourth season.
Levis Johnston nascent modeling career might actually be non-existent.
The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons - love him - appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman last night (joining an ample bosomed Beyonce), where he was all charming and cute, and where he looked geek sexy in both his pre-taping casual mode and his post-taping formal mode.
Ellen DeGeneres, empathic wonder that she is, reached out to troubled Lindsay Lohan, inviting Lohan on her show to engage in some talk therapy, Lindsay startlingly emaciated, saying that she was caught off guard by the recent breakup of her and ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
What becomes an Olympic gold medal winning record holder, strip club aficionado, with a fondness for dating brazenly stupid women whose views on same-sex marriage are bothersome banal? A watch of course, a very expensive watch.
Mr. Phelps, at the opening of the aforementioned Omega flagship store in New York City, played coy when asked to confirm whether or whether not he was in fact seeing the notorious homophobe Carrie Prejean, to which Michael offered a non-denial denial.
Zac Efron – love him - who purportedly has a penchant for all things Prada was decidedly un-Prada Wednesday, leaving a studio ensconced in a very casual ensemble.
Levis Johnston nascent modeling career might actually be non-existent.
The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons - love him - appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman last night (joining an ample bosomed Beyonce), where he was all charming and cute, and where he looked geek sexy in both his pre-taping casual mode and his post-taping formal mode.
Ellen DeGeneres, empathic wonder that she is, reached out to troubled Lindsay Lohan, inviting Lohan on her show to engage in some talk therapy, Lindsay startlingly emaciated, saying that she was caught off guard by the recent breakup of her and ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
What becomes an Olympic gold medal winning record holder, strip club aficionado, with a fondness for dating brazenly stupid women whose views on same-sex marriage are bothersome banal? A watch of course, a very expensive watch.
Mr. Phelps, at the opening of the aforementioned Omega flagship store in New York City, played coy when asked to confirm whether or whether not he was in fact seeing the notorious homophobe Carrie Prejean, to which Michael offered a non-denial denial.
Zac Efron – love him - who purportedly has a penchant for all things Prada was decidedly un-Prada Wednesday, leaving a studio ensconced in a very casual ensemble.
Masters And Johnson Faked Gay Reversion Study, Connecticut Codifies Gay Marriage Law, New Jersey Supports Gay Marriage, Governor Paterson Backs Off
According to this story from Scientific American, the claim made by Masters and Johnson to have reverted gay men and women to heterosexuality with an astonishing seventy percent success rate was likely made up – a creative lie – in order to cultivate the couple’s reputation as successful sex therapists. Since the sexual researchers and their work are used as the model for the contemporary conversion therapy, this new revelation is staggeringly important.
Late Wednesday, Connecticut legislators passed a measure that amends the state’s Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized gay marriage, providing an exemption for religious organizations to opt out of the requirements contained in the law that recognized the union of two individuals instead of a definition of marriage as that only existing between a man and woman. According to the Hartford Courant, the codification means that Knights of Columbus – an affiliation of the Catholic Church – is not required by law to make available any of its facilities for same-sex marriage celebrations, nor would a Catholic priest be required to perform the ceremony. Some anti-gay zealots had wanted a law that would allow florists, for example, to be able to exercise the right to refuse, a proposal replete with irony that thankfully was not accepted.
By the narrowest of margins, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows that the state of New Jersey is in favor of gay marriage by a margin of 49 percent to 43 percent.
Is New York Governor David A. Paterson backing down from his passionate promise to bring gay marriage to the Empire State or simply deferring to State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith and his insistence that putting the issue to a vote without knowing the outcome is playing reckless politics?
Late Wednesday, Connecticut legislators passed a measure that amends the state’s Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized gay marriage, providing an exemption for religious organizations to opt out of the requirements contained in the law that recognized the union of two individuals instead of a definition of marriage as that only existing between a man and woman. According to the Hartford Courant, the codification means that Knights of Columbus – an affiliation of the Catholic Church – is not required by law to make available any of its facilities for same-sex marriage celebrations, nor would a Catholic priest be required to perform the ceremony. Some anti-gay zealots had wanted a law that would allow florists, for example, to be able to exercise the right to refuse, a proposal replete with irony that thankfully was not accepted.
By the narrowest of margins, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows that the state of New Jersey is in favor of gay marriage by a margin of 49 percent to 43 percent.
Is New York Governor David A. Paterson backing down from his passionate promise to bring gay marriage to the Empire State or simply deferring to State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith and his insistence that putting the issue to a vote without knowing the outcome is playing reckless politics?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Allan Andrade Found Guilty In Murder Of Angie Zapata
Breaking: A jury in Greeley, Colorado took two hours to return a verdict of guilty on all four counts in the trail of Allen Andrade, convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal, senseless slaying of eighteen-year old Angie Zapata. Andrade killed Zapata with a fire extinguisher after discovering Angie, a transsexual, was still a biological male. In addition to the charge of first-degree murder, and perhaps most important, Andrade was charged and convicted with committing a bias-motivated crime, which activists hope to utilize to help pass a federal protection law, the Matthew Shepard Act. Andrade was also found guilty of motor vehicle theft, and identity theft. He will receive an automatic life sentence.
Christian Charade At Maine Gay Marriage Hearing, Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Moss, Sexy Spanish Tennis Stars, Gisele Bundchen Pregnant, Love Not Laws
An update on the Maine gay marriage hearings: at least three thousand individuals filled an auditorium in Augusta, the state capital, for a day of testimony for and against the passing of two separate house bills – LD1020, which would alter the definition of marriage to that existing between two individuals and LD1118, which would extend benefits and rights to same-sex partners without formally recognizing those couples are legally married.
According to the Bangor Daily News, testimony was predictably emotionally on both sides, with the numbers of proponents for the passage of a same-sex marriage law outnumbering the opponents by an estimated three to one. Bishop Richard Malone, of the Portland, Maine archdiocese, said that he and hundreds of thousands of Catholics in the state opposed gay marriage not out of homophobia, but out of “concern for the institution of marriage itself,” saying that “marriage as practiced in America today falls short of its ideals, but redefining it will make our problems worse, not better.” Adding to the display of Christian intellect was one Revered Steve Sobel, of the Franklin, Maine Baptist Church, who called sex between members of the same sex a “perversion,” and that by extension gay marriage would then “moralize and justify a perversion.”
The AV Club interviews Bret Easton Ellis, who rightly argues that the only perfect adaption of any of his books was the grossly overlooked Rules of Attraction, a great film, full of stunning performances.
Kate Moss cleans up for Marc Jacobs and Vogue.
The Spanish edition of Elle profiles several of the hottest male tennis players from Spain, nothing lost in translation since sexy is an international language.
A glowing Gisele Bundchen, in Madrid, Spain Wednesday to launch the Ipanema-Gisele Bundchen footwear line, and quite honestly it appears that Miss Gisele and new husband Tom Brady are quite likely expecting.
Love Not Laws is a coalition of various individuals all of whom support same-sex marriage throughout the United States, formed in part to act as an articulate, thoughtful counterpart to the hysteria cultivated by the National Organization for Marriage and that organization’s laughable and ludicrous “gathering storm” anti-gay marriage ads. The group has released its first video, featuring Alex Mapa and Wilson Cruz among others, and its great stuff.
According to the Bangor Daily News, testimony was predictably emotionally on both sides, with the numbers of proponents for the passage of a same-sex marriage law outnumbering the opponents by an estimated three to one. Bishop Richard Malone, of the Portland, Maine archdiocese, said that he and hundreds of thousands of Catholics in the state opposed gay marriage not out of homophobia, but out of “concern for the institution of marriage itself,” saying that “marriage as practiced in America today falls short of its ideals, but redefining it will make our problems worse, not better.” Adding to the display of Christian intellect was one Revered Steve Sobel, of the Franklin, Maine Baptist Church, who called sex between members of the same sex a “perversion,” and that by extension gay marriage would then “moralize and justify a perversion.”
The AV Club interviews Bret Easton Ellis, who rightly argues that the only perfect adaption of any of his books was the grossly overlooked Rules of Attraction, a great film, full of stunning performances.
Kate Moss cleans up for Marc Jacobs and Vogue.
The Spanish edition of Elle profiles several of the hottest male tennis players from Spain, nothing lost in translation since sexy is an international language.
A glowing Gisele Bundchen, in Madrid, Spain Wednesday to launch the Ipanema-Gisele Bundchen footwear line, and quite honestly it appears that Miss Gisele and new husband Tom Brady are quite likely expecting.
Love Not Laws is a coalition of various individuals all of whom support same-sex marriage throughout the United States, formed in part to act as an articulate, thoughtful counterpart to the hysteria cultivated by the National Organization for Marriage and that organization’s laughable and ludicrous “gathering storm” anti-gay marriage ads. The group has released its first video, featuring Alex Mapa and Wilson Cruz among others, and its great stuff.
Gavin Rossdale Gay Rumors Resurface, Hugh Jackman Does Not Deny He Is Gay, Tim Gunn, Michael Phelps Dating Miss. California, New Hollywood Press
In Touch magazine is reported that British eighties androgynous act Marilyn had at least a five year romantic relationship with Gavin Rossdale, a claim first made by Boy George in 1995, but at the time denied by all. Now Marilyn is confirming the relationship, saying Gavin “was the love of my life.” Not surprisingly, a representative for Rossdale, married to Gwen Stefani, father of two children, denies the story.
Hugh Jackman talks to Kevin Sessums in the latest issues of Parade magazine, and Hall of Fame DILF offers something of a non-denial denial that he is gay.
The dashing and delightful Tim Gunn, he of Project Runway should you not yet know, talks to OK! magazine and tells that he is not in a relationship, having “not been on a date in twenty-six years.” He also offers advice for those struggling to come out, and that if elected president, his first act would to be to end the war in Iraq, and reinvest that money into education and health care for all.
Since suggesting that she supported only opposite marriage, not same-sex marriage, and managing to thrust the terrible Perez Hilton into the awkward and ill-fitting role as gay marriage spokesperson, Miss. California now, via her grandmother, confirms she is dating Mr. Michael Phelps, a rumor she denied Monday when queried about their relationship, the conclusions of which, including the character of Phelps, you can draw on your own.
In an era of blogging, can traditional Hollywood trade papers like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter compete or are they just content to play along?
Hugh Jackman talks to Kevin Sessums in the latest issues of Parade magazine, and Hall of Fame DILF offers something of a non-denial denial that he is gay.
The dashing and delightful Tim Gunn, he of Project Runway should you not yet know, talks to OK! magazine and tells that he is not in a relationship, having “not been on a date in twenty-six years.” He also offers advice for those struggling to come out, and that if elected president, his first act would to be to end the war in Iraq, and reinvest that money into education and health care for all.
Since suggesting that she supported only opposite marriage, not same-sex marriage, and managing to thrust the terrible Perez Hilton into the awkward and ill-fitting role as gay marriage spokesperson, Miss. California now, via her grandmother, confirms she is dating Mr. Michael Phelps, a rumor she denied Monday when queried about their relationship, the conclusions of which, including the character of Phelps, you can draw on your own.
In an era of blogging, can traditional Hollywood trade papers like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter compete or are they just content to play along?
Accused Angie Zapata Killer Says Gay Things Need To Die, Maine Gay Marriage Battle, Great Barrier Reef Returns, Freddie Mac Executive Found Dead
Both sides in the trial of Allen Andrade will give their closing testimonies Wednesday, the prosecution and defense each resting late Tuesday. The thirty-two year old Andrade is accused of first-degree murder in connection to the brutal killing of Angie Zapata, the eighteen-year old transgendered woman who was beaten with a fire extinguisher last July. The defense argued that Zapata tricked Andrade into thinking she was a biological woman, and that Allen was reacting out of deception. Prosecutors, meanwhile, argued that Andrade knew of Zapata’s gender, and played a recording of a phone call made by Allen from jail to his girlfriend where he randomly says “gay things need to die.”
As hearings begin in Maine Wednesday on two separate proposed pieces of legislation, one redefining the state’s wording of marriage as that existing between two individuals, the other offering a domestic partner registry, a compromise that would afford same-sex couples all rights granted to heterosexual couples, a new poll finds the citizens of Maine equally divided on either side of gay marriage.
According to scientists, some sections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef that, owing to higher sea temperatures three years ago were badly bleached have made a “spectacular recovery” due mostly to a fortunate set of circumstances.
David Kellermanm, who since March was the acting chief financial officer of embattled American mortgage lender Freddie Mac, was found dead early Wednesday morning at his home in Fairfax County, Virginia the result of an apparent suicide.
As hearings begin in Maine Wednesday on two separate proposed pieces of legislation, one redefining the state’s wording of marriage as that existing between two individuals, the other offering a domestic partner registry, a compromise that would afford same-sex couples all rights granted to heterosexual couples, a new poll finds the citizens of Maine equally divided on either side of gay marriage.
According to scientists, some sections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef that, owing to higher sea temperatures three years ago were badly bleached have made a “spectacular recovery” due mostly to a fortunate set of circumstances.
David Kellermanm, who since March was the acting chief financial officer of embattled American mortgage lender Freddie Mac, was found dead early Wednesday morning at his home in Fairfax County, Virginia the result of an apparent suicide.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
New Planet, Bush And Clinton, Britney On Gay Marriage, Eliza Dushku To Make Robert Mapplethorpe Film, Project Runway, Chace Crawford, Hugh Jackman
Astronomers in Europe announced that they have discovered a planet stunningly similar in size to that of Earth.
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are scheduled to speak, “in conversation,” on May 29th in Toronto, Ontario, an announcement met mostly with astonishing ambivalence.
Britney Spears has weighed in, via Twitter, on gay marriage, and she (or her people) said “love is love!” The statement so profound that I want it tattooed on my thigh.
Eliza Dushku – she will always be Faith to me – is going forward with a film based on the life of famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who chronicled the rich and infamous, as well as the gay subculture of S&M, during the nineteen seventies and eighties, and who died at age forty-two from AIDS related complications, enlisting her brother Nate, who bears a striking resemblance to Robert, to star.
The Lifetime Network announced that Project Runway will debut on August 20th, this season set in Los Angeles with guest judges to include Christiana Aguilera, Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria-Parker, and Rebecca Romijn. Lifetime also announced that the new Margaret Cho series Drop Dead Diva will debut July 12th.
Pretend heterosexual Chace Crawford in Central Park Tuesday, filming the upcoming Twelve, looking all scruffy and sexy.
Hall of Fame DILF and the sexiest man alive Hugh Jackman left his foot and hand prints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, with Mr. Jackman proving himself armed and dangerously hot.
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are scheduled to speak, “in conversation,” on May 29th in Toronto, Ontario, an announcement met mostly with astonishing ambivalence.
Britney Spears has weighed in, via Twitter, on gay marriage, and she (or her people) said “love is love!” The statement so profound that I want it tattooed on my thigh.
Eliza Dushku – she will always be Faith to me – is going forward with a film based on the life of famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who chronicled the rich and infamous, as well as the gay subculture of S&M, during the nineteen seventies and eighties, and who died at age forty-two from AIDS related complications, enlisting her brother Nate, who bears a striking resemblance to Robert, to star.
The Lifetime Network announced that Project Runway will debut on August 20th, this season set in Los Angeles with guest judges to include Christiana Aguilera, Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria-Parker, and Rebecca Romijn. Lifetime also announced that the new Margaret Cho series Drop Dead Diva will debut July 12th.
Pretend heterosexual Chace Crawford in Central Park Tuesday, filming the upcoming Twelve, looking all scruffy and sexy.
Hall of Fame DILF and the sexiest man alive Hugh Jackman left his foot and hand prints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, with Mr. Jackman proving himself armed and dangerously hot.
Dr. Horrible To Be Big Bouncy Broadway Musical, Jillian Michaels Romances Vanessa Marcil, Cynthia Nixon, Miley Hearts Gays, Rafael Nadal, Ryan Lochte
Joss Whedon hints that the beyond brilliance of the internet’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along, starring sexy Neil Patrick Harris, might soon be transformed into a fully formed Broadway musical, and that alone is reason enough to live.
Buried inside this report documenting the bad behavior of bisexual troublemaker and sometime actress Michelle Rodriguez at her manager and best friend’s wedding, is news of a new lovely lesbian couple just in time to replace outgoing couple of last year Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson, with Page Six revealing that Biggest Loser angry trainer Jillian Michaels was “seen canoodling on the dance floor with actress Vanessa Marcil,” she most recently of Without a Trace. My whole life, I’ve rarely been reported to be seen canoodling on a dance floor or floors of any kind!
Contenders for lovely lesbian couple of the year Cynthia Nixon and girlfriend Christine Marinoni were seen out and about enjoying an early spring day in Manhattan.
Public nuisance Miley Cyrus weighs in on gay marriage via Twitter, so you just know all our battles will now be won with Miss. Miley on side.
Rafael Nadal won the Monte Carlo Masters Sunday, defeating Novak Djokovic two sets to one, setting a record in doing so, becoming the first player in history to win at Monte Carlo five straight times, and truly when Nadal wins, we all win.
Speedo released a behind the scenes video of the recent photo shoot for the company’s 2010 catalogue, none of which is as important as it contains fabulous footage of Ben Wildman-Tobriner, Michael Phelps, and yes, Ryan Lochte.
Buried inside this report documenting the bad behavior of bisexual troublemaker and sometime actress Michelle Rodriguez at her manager and best friend’s wedding, is news of a new lovely lesbian couple just in time to replace outgoing couple of last year Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson, with Page Six revealing that Biggest Loser angry trainer Jillian Michaels was “seen canoodling on the dance floor with actress Vanessa Marcil,” she most recently of Without a Trace. My whole life, I’ve rarely been reported to be seen canoodling on a dance floor or floors of any kind!
Contenders for lovely lesbian couple of the year Cynthia Nixon and girlfriend Christine Marinoni were seen out and about enjoying an early spring day in Manhattan.
Public nuisance Miley Cyrus weighs in on gay marriage via Twitter, so you just know all our battles will now be won with Miss. Miley on side.
Rafael Nadal won the Monte Carlo Masters Sunday, defeating Novak Djokovic two sets to one, setting a record in doing so, becoming the first player in history to win at Monte Carlo five straight times, and truly when Nadal wins, we all win.
Speedo released a behind the scenes video of the recent photo shoot for the company’s 2010 catalogue, none of which is as important as it contains fabulous footage of Ben Wildman-Tobriner, Michael Phelps, and yes, Ryan Lochte.
Maine Gay Marriage Battle, New Hampshire Transgendered Seeks State Seat, Newsom Announces California Governor Campaign, Stunning Craigslist Arrest
Ground zero in the battle for legalizing gay marriage in the United States suddenly shifts to Maine, public hearings scheduled for Wednesday on two separate bills. One, a bill sponsored by Democrat Senator Dennis Damon, would revise the state’s definition of marriage to that existing between two individuals, legalizing same-sex marriage, while adding a provision that no religious institution in the state need comply with the legislation if homosexuality conflicted with their teachings. The second bill is a compromise of sorts, sponsored by Republican Representative Leslie Fossel that would create a domestic registry for same-sex couples, affording benefits, protections and rights equal to those enjoyed by married straight couples. In 1997 Maine legislators instituted a law that banned same-sex marriage, while avoiding allowing a state-wide voter initiative, at the time arguing the issue was too divisive.
Gerri Cannon, a leading transgendered activist in New Hampshire, who will address the Senate Thursday in connection to testimony on a proposed bill in the state that will make illegal discrimination against the transgendered by employers, landlords, and others, has said she is considering running for public office, next year, her sights set on a state representative seat up for election in 2010.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome, an ardent supporter of gay rights, announced an hour or so ago, via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, that he is an official candidate for the office of California governor.
Police in Boston have arrested a twenty-two year old Boston University medical student in connection with the murder of Julissa Brisman who was killed in a city hotel room on April 14th, and an attack that included armed robbery and kidnapping on a prostitute on April 10th. Both individuals had placed ads on Craigslist to which Philip Markoff allegedly responded.
Gerri Cannon, a leading transgendered activist in New Hampshire, who will address the Senate Thursday in connection to testimony on a proposed bill in the state that will make illegal discrimination against the transgendered by employers, landlords, and others, has said she is considering running for public office, next year, her sights set on a state representative seat up for election in 2010.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome, an ardent supporter of gay rights, announced an hour or so ago, via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, that he is an official candidate for the office of California governor.
Police in Boston have arrested a twenty-two year old Boston University medical student in connection with the murder of Julissa Brisman who was killed in a city hotel room on April 14th, and an attack that included armed robbery and kidnapping on a prostitute on April 10th. Both individuals had placed ads on Craigslist to which Philip Markoff allegedly responded.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Rudy Recants On Gay Marriage, The Amazing Race Bitch Fest, Pulitzer Prize, Andy Roddick Marriage Photos, David Beckham, Kellan Lutz, Channing Tatum
Late Monday, Rudy Giuliani recanted slightly on his anti-gay marriage position made public in a New York Post interview I posted on earlier, telling an Albany, New York radio station that the issue would not be made prominent if he chose to run for Governor of the Empire State, saying that “the economy overshadows everything.”
Sunday night’s episode of The Amazing Race saw a smack down of sorts between team Margie and Luke and team Jen and Kisha, with the bitch bomb dropped more than once.
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday, with the much beleaguered New York Times earning five awards.
Andy Roddick married Brooklyn Decker Friday in a twilight ceremony at Roddick’s home in Austin, Texas, serenaded by Elton John, the twosome a match slightly left of romantic, the first pictures of the bride and groom, who picked the moment to practice his golf game.
The very suitable Andy Murray and David Beckham make a cute couple.
The New York City premiere of Fighter was held Monday night, none of which is as important or interesting as star in Channing Tatum suited up.
Hall of Fame DILF Peter Facinelli and Kellan Lutz make an even cuter couple.
Sunday night’s episode of The Amazing Race saw a smack down of sorts between team Margie and Luke and team Jen and Kisha, with the bitch bomb dropped more than once.
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday, with the much beleaguered New York Times earning five awards.
Andy Roddick married Brooklyn Decker Friday in a twilight ceremony at Roddick’s home in Austin, Texas, serenaded by Elton John, the twosome a match slightly left of romantic, the first pictures of the bride and groom, who picked the moment to practice his golf game.
The very suitable Andy Murray and David Beckham make a cute couple.
The New York City premiere of Fighter was held Monday night, none of which is as important or interesting as star in Channing Tatum suited up.
Hall of Fame DILF Peter Facinelli and Kellan Lutz make an even cuter couple.
Support For New York Gay Marriage Bill, Rudy Giuliani Defends Opposite Marriage, Apprentice Homophobia, Carrie Prejean Pouts, Morrissey, Jason Mraz
A poll released Monday shows support for New York Governor David A. Paterson remains relatively low, but support for his gay marriage proposal is comparably high, with over fifty-three percent of those questioned indicting New York should pass a same-sex marriage law.
Failed Presidential candidate, former New York City Mayor, and thrice married heterosexual (once to his second cousin) Rudy Giuliani tells the New York Post he is opposed to Paterson proposal for same-sex marriage, and managed to anger everyone.
Howard Ebison, an openly gay contestant on the British version of The Apprentice, and of the two teams project manager, was given the task of making over the seaside town of Margate, and Ebison suggested making it a gay resort, to the obvious objection of teammate Mona Lewis who said she vehemently opposed the idea since she did not want her six year old son exposed to homosexuals. She also asked whether gays like bowling.
Miss, California, Carrie Prejean, who, when asked whether she supported same-sex marriage, said she firmly believed in “opposite marriage” only, is now blaming the ridiculous response for her losing the Miss. USA pageant, telling Billy Bush “it cost me the crown.” Carrie, whose fifteen minutes expired days ago, also told Bush that her sister, while not gay, is a gay activist, as well as second lieutenant in the Air Force, linking the two with a logic that defies comprehension.
Is Morrissey morphing into the alternative, gayer late day Elvis?
Jason Mraz makes with more of the seriously geek sexy look.
Failed Presidential candidate, former New York City Mayor, and thrice married heterosexual (once to his second cousin) Rudy Giuliani tells the New York Post he is opposed to Paterson proposal for same-sex marriage, and managed to anger everyone.
Howard Ebison, an openly gay contestant on the British version of The Apprentice, and of the two teams project manager, was given the task of making over the seaside town of Margate, and Ebison suggested making it a gay resort, to the obvious objection of teammate Mona Lewis who said she vehemently opposed the idea since she did not want her six year old son exposed to homosexuals. She also asked whether gays like bowling.
Miss, California, Carrie Prejean, who, when asked whether she supported same-sex marriage, said she firmly believed in “opposite marriage” only, is now blaming the ridiculous response for her losing the Miss. USA pageant, telling Billy Bush “it cost me the crown.” Carrie, whose fifteen minutes expired days ago, also told Bush that her sister, while not gay, is a gay activist, as well as second lieutenant in the Air Force, linking the two with a logic that defies comprehension.
Is Morrissey morphing into the alternative, gayer late day Elvis?
Jason Mraz makes with more of the seriously geek sexy look.
San Francisco Schools Introduce Gay Youth Site, Stephen Hawking, Water Boarding, Neil Patrick Harris Does Drag, Ro On Susan Boyle, Sweden Has Talent
The San Francisco Unified School District’s health program unveiled a website that aims to afford resources meant to assist gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth. It is the only such program to date in the United States, and the site, through implementation, aims to end violence – both emotional and physical – directed towards LGBT youth, while creating something of support system where often times no is available. The service, unfortunately and unsurprisingly, is not with detractors.
Sixty-seven year old physicist Stephen Hawking has been hospitalized, and will be kept there overnight for testing.
According to newly released C.I.A. memos, agents, acting on orders from President Bush, employed the technique of torture known as water boarding two-hundred and sixty-six times on two individuals – Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, both Al Qaeda prisoners.
Neil Patrick Harris hosted the TV Land Awards, airing April 26th, and Neil being game for most anything, donned drag to honor the spirit of one Pamela Anderson and one David Hasselhoff.
Rosie O’Donnell waxes poetic, the results equally disturbing and mystifying.
While Ro, along with every else, is momentarily caught up in the Susan Boyle ballyhoo, Sweden’s Got Talent offers something young, blond, and nearly nude that is as equally enjoyable.
Sixty-seven year old physicist Stephen Hawking has been hospitalized, and will be kept there overnight for testing.
According to newly released C.I.A. memos, agents, acting on orders from President Bush, employed the technique of torture known as water boarding two-hundred and sixty-six times on two individuals – Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, both Al Qaeda prisoners.
Neil Patrick Harris hosted the TV Land Awards, airing April 26th, and Neil being game for most anything, donned drag to honor the spirit of one Pamela Anderson and one David Hasselhoff.
Rosie O’Donnell waxes poetic, the results equally disturbing and mystifying.
While Ro, along with every else, is momentarily caught up in the Susan Boyle ballyhoo, Sweden’s Got Talent offers something young, blond, and nearly nude that is as equally enjoyable.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Same-Sex Marriage Is To Opposite Marriage As Not Yet Legal In All Fifty United States Is To Legal In All Fifty United States
I am not sure what this whole mess is, expect that it is the Miss. America contest, Billy Bush is the far too coiffed host, and for reasons that remain inexplicable a smug Perez Hilton is judge number eight and he asks a question of Miss. California, who shins unnaturally and seems to have an unusual number of teeth, on same-sex marriage that seems inappropriately and somewhat surprisingly political and Miss California's response predictably elevates said mess to such great heights, and even after all of that I intend from this moment on to refer to heterosexual marriage as opposite marriage merely because I can!
Angie Zapata, GLAAD Gets Hopeful, Bishop Robinson Calls For Clearer Separation Of Church And State, Frank Rich Op-Ed, Zac Efron
A follow up to an earlier post from Sunday: family and friends have created a web page in honor of Angie Zapata, the murdered transsexual woman from Greeley, Colorado, available at AngieZapta.com. The site has a biography of Angie, as well as detailed information on the proposed Matthew Shepard Act, the federal law that would secure and strengthen protections for gays, lesbians, and transgendered who are the deliberately targeted victims of hate crimes. I think it is important to remember that the brutal death of anyone diminishes us all, not just a certain segment of society, and Angie’s death, like that of Lawrence King or more recently Carl Walker-Hoover needs to made be prominent, if only to remind anyone and everyone that real change has yet to come.
A follow up too on Saturday evening’s GLAAD Excellence in Media Awards, as USA Today reporting that the night was all about sending a message of hope, with Alan Cummings referring to the evening as being “like the Oscars for gayness,” although as the Oscars are already almost as gay as can be, I’m not certain the analogy works. The passing of Proposition 8 was on the minds of many in attendance, including George Takei, who, husband Brad Altman close by, said that despite the setback, gays will “ultimately prevail,” and that the LGBT community needs to remain “optimistic.”
Openly gay New Hampshire Episcopalian bishop Eugene Robinson, in Los Angeles to accept an award from GLAAD – the Stephen F. Kolzak award – told an audience Sunday that churches in the United States should not be in the business of marriage at all, stating that civil marriage and religious marriage need to be rendered distinct, and that the separation of church and state needs to be made explicit.
Much has been made about Frank Rich’s The Bigot’s Last Hurrah op-ed piece in Sunday’s New York Times, called a devastating satirical piece eviscerating intolerant hate mongers. It is an insightful, well written piece, using last week’s laughable National Organization for Marriage’s Gathering Storm commercial as a jumping off point, but I wonder (and worry) exactly how many bigots actually read Time’s op-ed pieces, not to mention how many would comprehend what they were reading?
Zac Efron and “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens sat courtside Sunday at the Staples Center, watching the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Utah Jazz 113-110, Zac, rocking a tee, shorts, and flip flops, exposing his oddly sexual feet, as well as rocking Ray Bans, apparently unable to look TMZ head Harvey Levin directly in the eye.
A follow up too on Saturday evening’s GLAAD Excellence in Media Awards, as USA Today reporting that the night was all about sending a message of hope, with Alan Cummings referring to the evening as being “like the Oscars for gayness,” although as the Oscars are already almost as gay as can be, I’m not certain the analogy works. The passing of Proposition 8 was on the minds of many in attendance, including George Takei, who, husband Brad Altman close by, said that despite the setback, gays will “ultimately prevail,” and that the LGBT community needs to remain “optimistic.”
Openly gay New Hampshire Episcopalian bishop Eugene Robinson, in Los Angeles to accept an award from GLAAD – the Stephen F. Kolzak award – told an audience Sunday that churches in the United States should not be in the business of marriage at all, stating that civil marriage and religious marriage need to be rendered distinct, and that the separation of church and state needs to be made explicit.
Much has been made about Frank Rich’s The Bigot’s Last Hurrah op-ed piece in Sunday’s New York Times, called a devastating satirical piece eviscerating intolerant hate mongers. It is an insightful, well written piece, using last week’s laughable National Organization for Marriage’s Gathering Storm commercial as a jumping off point, but I wonder (and worry) exactly how many bigots actually read Time’s op-ed pieces, not to mention how many would comprehend what they were reading?
Zac Efron and “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens sat courtside Sunday at the Staples Center, watching the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Utah Jazz 113-110, Zac, rocking a tee, shorts, and flip flops, exposing his oddly sexual feet, as well as rocking Ray Bans, apparently unable to look TMZ head Harvey Levin directly in the eye.
Colorado Transgender Murder Trial, Gay Role Model Matthew Mitcham, GLAAD Awards, Jake Gyllenhaal Flies Low, Madonna Falls Off, Prince Harry
The trial of Allen Ray Andrade began last week in Weld County, Colorado, Andrade, thirty-two year old convicted felon charged with the first-degree murder and committing a bias-based crime in connection with the killing of Angie Zapata, an eighteen-year old transgendered who was beaten with a fire extinguisher, after Andrade realized she was biologically a man. If convicted, Andrade will be sentenced to life in prison, the hate crime statue only adding an additional three years, but the inclusion important as Colorado, along with only eleven other states in America, including the District of Columbia, offer gender-identity as a special protected class.
As well, gay activists intend to use the killing of Angie Zapata to underline the need for passage of a new federal law, introduced in Congress earlier this year – the Matthew Shepard Act – giving the government the power to prosecute bias-based crimes where the victim was specially selected because of race, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity. That bill is being opposed by a number of groups including the Colorado based Focus on Family, who regard the law as helping to “create classes of favored victims” as well as moving towards “criminalizing speech.”
Olympic gold medal winner Matthew Mitcham, in England to compete in the third round of the World Series of diving, says that he has experienced nothing but a positive, supportive response from his fellow athletes after the twenty-one year came out three months before the Beijing Games. Mitcham said that he has not “experienced any homophobia in sport,” but adds that few corporate sponsorship endorsements have been offered to him. “It took me a very long time to secure any form of sponsorship after the Olympics,” said Matthew, “and that’s still my only sponsorship.” Mitcham also said that he more than happily accepts being a role model for gay men and women, saying that he chooses to embrace it and aims to be the best role model he can be.
Saturday evening in Los Angeles the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards – the west coast edition – were held, with Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi honored for their wedding day episode of Ellen’s talk show, Marc Cherry was honored with best comedy series for Desperate Housewives, Milk was awarded best film, and Kathy Griffin, resplendent and right on in a bikini, was given the Vanguard Award. Prop 8: The Musical was also given special recognition.
Make believe couple Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon on hand Saturday at Coachella, Mr. Gyllenhaal unaware for most of the day that his fly was undone.
Saturday, Madonna fell from a horse she was riding at the Hampton estate of photographer Steven Klein, although she was not seriously injured. By her side, along with Klein, was Jesus, back from ex-boyfriend exile.
On Friday night, that rascally royal red head Prince Harry, stealing liberally from Zac Efron’s look book, was out and about, appearing all adorable as always.
As well, gay activists intend to use the killing of Angie Zapata to underline the need for passage of a new federal law, introduced in Congress earlier this year – the Matthew Shepard Act – giving the government the power to prosecute bias-based crimes where the victim was specially selected because of race, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity. That bill is being opposed by a number of groups including the Colorado based Focus on Family, who regard the law as helping to “create classes of favored victims” as well as moving towards “criminalizing speech.”
Olympic gold medal winner Matthew Mitcham, in England to compete in the third round of the World Series of diving, says that he has experienced nothing but a positive, supportive response from his fellow athletes after the twenty-one year came out three months before the Beijing Games. Mitcham said that he has not “experienced any homophobia in sport,” but adds that few corporate sponsorship endorsements have been offered to him. “It took me a very long time to secure any form of sponsorship after the Olympics,” said Matthew, “and that’s still my only sponsorship.” Mitcham also said that he more than happily accepts being a role model for gay men and women, saying that he chooses to embrace it and aims to be the best role model he can be.
Saturday evening in Los Angeles the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards – the west coast edition – were held, with Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi honored for their wedding day episode of Ellen’s talk show, Marc Cherry was honored with best comedy series for Desperate Housewives, Milk was awarded best film, and Kathy Griffin, resplendent and right on in a bikini, was given the Vanguard Award. Prop 8: The Musical was also given special recognition.
Make believe couple Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon on hand Saturday at Coachella, Mr. Gyllenhaal unaware for most of the day that his fly was undone.
Saturday, Madonna fell from a horse she was riding at the Hampton estate of photographer Steven Klein, although she was not seriously injured. By her side, along with Klein, was Jesus, back from ex-boyfriend exile.
On Friday night, that rascally royal red head Prince Harry, stealing liberally from Zac Efron’s look book, was out and about, appearing all adorable as always.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Steve Schmidt Warns Republican Party, Iowa County Recorders Warned To Obey Gay Marriage Law, NOM Nonsense, Morrissey Hates Meat, Scott Speedman
Steve Schmidt delivered a speech Friday to the Log Cabin Republican gay rights group in Washington, where as anticipated, he called on the Party to support same-sex marriage, warning that actively opposing gay marriage runs the risk of continuing to alienate voters and turning the Republicans into a sectarian political party.
The Assistant Attorney General of Iowa is responsible for Friday’s memo to state county recorders, reminding officials to comply with the Iowa Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. The memo’s necessity arose after some state Republicans spoke of adding a “conscious clause” to the constitutional amendment that would permit county recorders to opt out of issuing a marriage license to homosexual couples if their religion opposes gay marriage.
The National Organization for Marriage, led by Maggie Gallagher, have, um, thanked Stephen Colbert for parodying the group’s A Storm is Gathering ad, insisting that Colbert was “a double-agent, pretending to pretend to be a conservative, to pull one over on Hollywood,” and that now she is certain, apparently contending that Colbert is actually anti-gay marriage.
Morrissey managed to advocate the message that meat is murder all while delivering a set Friday evening in Coachella mostly of Smiths’ songs, including opening with This Charming Man and ending with How Soon Is Now? Morrissey walked off the state repeatedly during his performance, complaining of being nauseated by the smell of a nearby barbeque.
Scott Speedman, so sexy, did Coachella Friday, working a sort of late Vincent Van Gough look minus the whole missing ear accessory.
The Assistant Attorney General of Iowa is responsible for Friday’s memo to state county recorders, reminding officials to comply with the Iowa Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. The memo’s necessity arose after some state Republicans spoke of adding a “conscious clause” to the constitutional amendment that would permit county recorders to opt out of issuing a marriage license to homosexual couples if their religion opposes gay marriage.
The National Organization for Marriage, led by Maggie Gallagher, have, um, thanked Stephen Colbert for parodying the group’s A Storm is Gathering ad, insisting that Colbert was “a double-agent, pretending to pretend to be a conservative, to pull one over on Hollywood,” and that now she is certain, apparently contending that Colbert is actually anti-gay marriage.
Morrissey managed to advocate the message that meat is murder all while delivering a set Friday evening in Coachella mostly of Smiths’ songs, including opening with This Charming Man and ending with How Soon Is Now? Morrissey walked off the state repeatedly during his performance, complaining of being nauseated by the smell of a nearby barbeque.
Scott Speedman, so sexy, did Coachella Friday, working a sort of late Vincent Van Gough look minus the whole missing ear accessory.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Day Of Silence, American River College Students Vote To Oppose Day As Being Propaganda, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover
Friday was the thirteenth annual Day of Silence, born in 1996 at the University of Virginia, the student led event, sponsored by GLSEN, is meant to attract attention in part to the historic harassment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth in suffered at schools throughout the United States. This year two stories of note in connection to the event that help underline the systemic problem of intolerance directed most often at the LGBT.
In Sacramento, California, student leaders at the American River College voted to pass a resolution banning the Day on campus, stating the event “has been used to silence and harass religious students at local public schools for expressing their viewpoints,” thereby opposing tolerance.
Friday, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover would have celebrated his twelve birthday. On Monday, Carl took an electrical cord and hung himself. He had been bullied for weeks, taunted by classmates, called “faggot” and “gay,” even though at age eleven it was unlikely Carl identified sexually one way or another. His mother contacted the school when the torment began, and they did next to nothing.
In Sacramento, California, student leaders at the American River College voted to pass a resolution banning the Day on campus, stating the event “has been used to silence and harass religious students at local public schools for expressing their viewpoints,” thereby opposing tolerance.
Friday, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover would have celebrated his twelve birthday. On Monday, Carl took an electrical cord and hung himself. He had been bullied for weeks, taunted by classmates, called “faggot” and “gay,” even though at age eleven it was unlikely Carl identified sexually one way or another. His mother contacted the school when the torment began, and they did next to nothing.
Steve Schmidt Asks Republicans To Support Gay Marriage, Wendy And Lisa Come Out, Lady Gaga, Bow Wow, Sexy Serb, Adam Lambert, Jim Parsons, Zac Efron
Expected to state that there is not a thing un-American about gay marriage, former senior advisor to Senator John McCain, Steve Schmidt is at this hour addressing a meeting of the Log Cabin Republicans, the party’s supporter of gay rights. Mr. Schmidt, who is not gay, but has a sister who is, is also expected to argue that there is something inherently conservative in an argument for same-sex marriage, and will say that he believes “conservatives, more than liberals, insists that rights come with responsibilities. No other exercise of one’s liberty comes with greater responsibility than marriage.”
Years after the obvious – and I mean YEARS – Wendy and Lisa have come out, officially, and have done so in style, in a great, thoughtful interview, where they deem their former employer Prince “a fancy lesbian.” The duo, two of the best session musicians ever, also discuss institutionalized homophobia in the recording industry, Grace Jones, and their new album White Flags of Winter Chimneys.
Lady GaGa goes gaga for tacky tit tape.
Bow Wow – so straight it hurts. Homosexual he is not.
Meet Serbian male model hotness Andrija Bikic.
American Idol frontrunner and passive/aggressive homosexual Adam Lambert, along with Idol’s Alison Iraheta and Lil Rounds, throws out the opening pitch at Thursday’s MLB game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, and he does so convincingly.
Great geek sexy Jim Parsons, along with The Big Bang Theory cast mates, attending PaleyFest Thursday evening in Los Angeles, Parsons clearly the fan favorite.
GQ offers outtakes of the magazine’s photo shoot with cover boy Zac Efron, and yes, there are glimpses galore of Mr. Efron’s underwear.
Years after the obvious – and I mean YEARS – Wendy and Lisa have come out, officially, and have done so in style, in a great, thoughtful interview, where they deem their former employer Prince “a fancy lesbian.” The duo, two of the best session musicians ever, also discuss institutionalized homophobia in the recording industry, Grace Jones, and their new album White Flags of Winter Chimneys.
Lady GaGa goes gaga for tacky tit tape.
Bow Wow – so straight it hurts. Homosexual he is not.
Meet Serbian male model hotness Andrija Bikic.
American Idol frontrunner and passive/aggressive homosexual Adam Lambert, along with Idol’s Alison Iraheta and Lil Rounds, throws out the opening pitch at Thursday’s MLB game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, and he does so convincingly.
Great geek sexy Jim Parsons, along with The Big Bang Theory cast mates, attending PaleyFest Thursday evening in Los Angeles, Parsons clearly the fan favorite.
GQ offers outtakes of the magazine’s photo shoot with cover boy Zac Efron, and yes, there are glimpses galore of Mr. Efron’s underwear.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
C.I.A. Interrogation Memos Released Detailing Damage Done, Lindsay Lohan On Ellen, Anderson Cooper Gets New Bed, Cam Gigandet. Gwyneth Hates Winona
The United States Justice Department, acting on orders by President Obama, released memos Thursday that described in dulling detail C.I.A. interrogation techniques used and authorized by the George W. Bush administration. The memos confirm long held speculation that the C.I.A. used torture as a part of its agenda to interrogate suspected terrorists and are as deeply disgraceful as one could dread. Obama has stated the operatives who employed the torture techniques will not, under any circumstances, be prosecuted, as they were only following orders.
Lovely Lindsay Lohan is schedule to sit down with Ellen DeGeneres in an episode to air April 23rd, where she is expected to tell all about her recent breakup with Samantha Ronson and the resulting drama that ensued.
Lovely Anderson Cooper (Coop to his friends, of which you and I certainly are) has a new bed, courtesy of his equally lovely Mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, who, designing a room for the annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House (it is like Edith Wharton meets Gossip Girl meets Gay) meant to echo a bedroom Little Gloria maintained as a girl, causally mentions that she, working with designer partner Matthew Patrick Smyth, chose to cover the headboard of the bed in a “silver-blue moiré fabric,” a swatch of which she sent to Anderson, who “liked it.”
Cam Gigandet, who is so sexy, officially became a DILF and a Hall of Fame one at that, as he and his girlfriend welcomed a baby girl on April 14th.
Gwyneth Paltrow proves to be quite the bitch.
Lovely Lindsay Lohan is schedule to sit down with Ellen DeGeneres in an episode to air April 23rd, where she is expected to tell all about her recent breakup with Samantha Ronson and the resulting drama that ensued.
Lovely Anderson Cooper (Coop to his friends, of which you and I certainly are) has a new bed, courtesy of his equally lovely Mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, who, designing a room for the annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House (it is like Edith Wharton meets Gossip Girl meets Gay) meant to echo a bedroom Little Gloria maintained as a girl, causally mentions that she, working with designer partner Matthew Patrick Smyth, chose to cover the headboard of the bed in a “silver-blue moiré fabric,” a swatch of which she sent to Anderson, who “liked it.”
Cam Gigandet, who is so sexy, officially became a DILF and a Hall of Fame one at that, as he and his girlfriend welcomed a baby girl on April 14th.
Gwyneth Paltrow proves to be quite the bitch.
Rupert Everett Has New Face But Still Hates You, Ronaldo Takes It Off, Ashton Kutcher, Heidi Klum, Woody Allen vs. American Apparel, Josh Hartnett Fib
So the brutally bitter Rupert Everett, last heard voicing his disapproval at the shallow indifference of gay men, what with their Abercrombie and Fitch wardrobes, all accessorized by baby strollers, debuts a new face – one slightly left of God given – one, in fact, so disturbingly unnatural I had to look away. To which I say hypocrite much?
Cristiano Ronaldo scored the lone goal Wednesday, leading his Manchester United to a victory over FC Porto, none of which is as important or as sexy as Ronaldo celebrating said victory by stripping.
This whole one million Twitter match between Ashton Kutcher and CNN is a tad confusing or maybe just completely irrelevant, but Kutcher is cute and loves him the gays, so go Ashton!
While the legal wrangling left Project Runway in limbo for months, host and lovely human being in her own right Heidi Klum used the down time to conceive, formally announcing she is four months pregnant, all of which had me wonder whether she will welcome her next child by saying “as you know, in labor, one day you’re in and the next you’re out.”
Woody Allen claims that the morally murky clothier American Apparel is trying to harass him, this after Allen launched a lawsuit claiming the company stole his image for an advertising campaign last fall.
Josh Hartnett, sporting a small, but sexy moustache, was out and about in New York City Wednesday night, supporting the New Yorkers For Children Spring Dinner Dance, telling us all that his recent hospital stay was the result of a “stomach bug, like a twenty-four hour thing,” which is oh so believable.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored the lone goal Wednesday, leading his Manchester United to a victory over FC Porto, none of which is as important or as sexy as Ronaldo celebrating said victory by stripping.
This whole one million Twitter match between Ashton Kutcher and CNN is a tad confusing or maybe just completely irrelevant, but Kutcher is cute and loves him the gays, so go Ashton!
While the legal wrangling left Project Runway in limbo for months, host and lovely human being in her own right Heidi Klum used the down time to conceive, formally announcing she is four months pregnant, all of which had me wonder whether she will welcome her next child by saying “as you know, in labor, one day you’re in and the next you’re out.”
Woody Allen claims that the morally murky clothier American Apparel is trying to harass him, this after Allen launched a lawsuit claiming the company stole his image for an advertising campaign last fall.
Josh Hartnett, sporting a small, but sexy moustache, was out and about in New York City Wednesday night, supporting the New Yorkers For Children Spring Dinner Dance, telling us all that his recent hospital stay was the result of a “stomach bug, like a twenty-four hour thing,” which is oh so believable.
New York Governor Announces Gay Marriage Bill, Washington State Extends Same-Sex Rights, Alberta Government Abhors Transgendered, Tea Bagging Blowout
New York Governor David A. Paterson, as promised, introduced legislation Thursday morning that if passed will legalize same-sex marriage in the Empire State, and he made the announcement according to all reports with great eloquence and a kind of political poetry, drawing an analogy between the exclusion of gay men and women from political and social equality and the struggle by the LGBT community to attain equal right to that of the African-American civil rights and the Suffragette movement of the early 19th Century. Governor Paterson is expected to assume a larger role in the gathering of votes needed to pass the bill, aided in part by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who spoke at length about the state having no right to decide who and who can not marry, adding that it was “not the state’s place to define marriage in a way that excludes a segment of the population from the legal benefits associated with marriage.”
The Washington State Legislature Wednesday passed into law a bill that expands the rights and privileges of same-sex domestic partners, now afforded gay couples in the state all the benefits and rights enjoyed by married heterosexuals, including employment and labor rights, as well as access to health benefits and pensions.
The Alberta Government last week announced it was eliminating access to gender reassignment surgery from the province’s health care coverage – as cost cutting measure, it said, as the Premier Ed Stelmach led Conservatives posted a deficit for the first time in over thirty years. Wednesday, twelve transgendered individuals filed human rights complaints in protest. Health Minister Ron Liepert late Tuesday evening said the province will honor forty-eight gender reassignment candidates already preparing for surgery, but that gesture seemed more like an obvious political calculation meant to distract attention from what the government intends to do.
Yesterday, tax day in the United States, was also a day of protest by a coalition consisting mostly of conspiracy theorists, racists, and right-wing extremists demonstrating President Barack Obama’s purported raising of taxes (which is in fact a fallacy), the day given the unfortunate name tea bagging day, with tea baggers from all over gathered to tea bag various government figures. It was grotesquely embarrassing to witness. Rachel Maddow, ably aided by Ana Marie Cox, however, explain it all or at least try to, with the intrepid Ana acting as roving reporter among the tea baggers themselves.
The Washington State Legislature Wednesday passed into law a bill that expands the rights and privileges of same-sex domestic partners, now afforded gay couples in the state all the benefits and rights enjoyed by married heterosexuals, including employment and labor rights, as well as access to health benefits and pensions.
The Alberta Government last week announced it was eliminating access to gender reassignment surgery from the province’s health care coverage – as cost cutting measure, it said, as the Premier Ed Stelmach led Conservatives posted a deficit for the first time in over thirty years. Wednesday, twelve transgendered individuals filed human rights complaints in protest. Health Minister Ron Liepert late Tuesday evening said the province will honor forty-eight gender reassignment candidates already preparing for surgery, but that gesture seemed more like an obvious political calculation meant to distract attention from what the government intends to do.
Yesterday, tax day in the United States, was also a day of protest by a coalition consisting mostly of conspiracy theorists, racists, and right-wing extremists demonstrating President Barack Obama’s purported raising of taxes (which is in fact a fallacy), the day given the unfortunate name tea bagging day, with tea baggers from all over gathered to tea bag various government figures. It was grotesquely embarrassing to witness. Rachel Maddow, ably aided by Ana Marie Cox, however, explain it all or at least try to, with the intrepid Ana acting as roving reporter among the tea baggers themselves.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Eric Bana, Leonardo DiCaprio, Liberace Museum Turns Thirty, Isaac Mizrahi, NBC Censures Zac Efron Foot Fetish Skit, Sarah Palin’s Dad Attacks Levi
Eric Bana is all in the Details.
Leonardo DiCaprio, minus boyfriend Lucas Hass, all scruffy and sexy, courtside Tuesday at the Staples Center, where he watched the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Utah Jazz 125-112.
Memory and time have not been particularly kind to Liberace, but the Las Vegas museum that bears his name turns thirty today, offering all day admission of thirty cents, and there are those that expect a Liberace renaissance soon.
Isaac Mizrahi, in Chicago last week previewing his new spring line for Liz Claiborne, insists his idea of true happiness is sitting on the sofa, eating ice cream, watching television with his dogs.
NBC/Universal needs to offer an explanation, and quite quickly, as to why it removed a clip of a Saturday Night Live skit featuring a foot fetish older brother, played by Jason Sudeikis, tongue bathing Zac Efron’s hairy feet from NBC.com. YouTube and the full episode on iTunes, because to outward appearances the edit/censure seems rooted in homophobia.
The war of words between the family of latent Alaska Governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston, the father of Palin’s grandson, continues, the latest salvo being fired by Palin’s Father, who wishes Levi would take some of the supposed money he has earned appearing on shows like Tyra Banks, and “buy some diapers with it.”
Leonardo DiCaprio, minus boyfriend Lucas Hass, all scruffy and sexy, courtside Tuesday at the Staples Center, where he watched the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Utah Jazz 125-112.
Memory and time have not been particularly kind to Liberace, but the Las Vegas museum that bears his name turns thirty today, offering all day admission of thirty cents, and there are those that expect a Liberace renaissance soon.
Isaac Mizrahi, in Chicago last week previewing his new spring line for Liz Claiborne, insists his idea of true happiness is sitting on the sofa, eating ice cream, watching television with his dogs.
NBC/Universal needs to offer an explanation, and quite quickly, as to why it removed a clip of a Saturday Night Live skit featuring a foot fetish older brother, played by Jason Sudeikis, tongue bathing Zac Efron’s hairy feet from NBC.com. YouTube and the full episode on iTunes, because to outward appearances the edit/censure seems rooted in homophobia.
The war of words between the family of latent Alaska Governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston, the father of Palin’s grandson, continues, the latest salvo being fired by Palin’s Father, who wishes Levi would take some of the supposed money he has earned appearing on shows like Tyra Banks, and “buy some diapers with it.”
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