Canadian Blood Services is suing Kyle Freeman who readily admits he lied repeatedly about having sex with men when he donated blood. CBS has a policy that forbids men who have had sex with another male to donate. Freeman is counter-suing, arguing that the policy banning for a lifetime gay men from being blood donors is a violation of his constitutional right to equal treatment whatever his sexual orientation. Freeman is also arguing that the policy itself is without scientifically validation. The suit will examine whether the Canadian Blood Service’s insistence that a donor has the legal duty to disclose information about their personal, sexual history, even if those questions appear not necessary or are blatantly discriminatory. Freeman, who is HIV negative, insists that the question asked by the CBS should be whether the donor has engaged in unprotected sex, because to imply that gay men are at a higher risk for contracting HIV is discrimination.
The Canadian Government is investigating whether untreated water was dumped unlawfully by the Fairmount Lake Louise Hotel into Lake Louise, an investigation that comes two weeks after reports that the hotel had lost 510,000 cubic meters of water from the World Heritage site since 2002.
A fraternity at George Washington University, Beta Theta Pi, wants to hold the homophobia from fraternity life , and dispel commonly held conceptions that frats are not welcoming to gays.
The first look at T.R. Knight, who is starring as Leo Frank in the Los Angeles revival of Parade, the 1998 Tony Award winning musical, the play’s opening night this Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum.
Adam Lambert thanks his fans, via a video of the sexy singer, for their generosity and support in raising an astonishing 229,000 to be donated to high need public school classrooms, Mr. Lambert rocking a goatee and guyliner.
An interview with Killers front man and all around sex on a stick Brandon Flowers in the new issue of Paper, where Brandon talks about his favorite Beatles’ song, his favorite word, and battling the fickle press.
Ed Westwick graces the cover of the Winter 09/Spring 10 issue of Arena Homme Plus, shirtless no less, and while it is not pretty, it is Chuck Bass.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Vatican Blames Homosexual Priests, National Equality Speakers, New Jersey Gay Marriage War, Edmund White, Ryan Phillippe, A Steady Rain Opening
The Catholic Church is angry, very, very angry, about allegations that it has a problem with priests molesting children and would like the misinformation corrected. The Vatican issued a statement Sunday following a United Nations human rights council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, stating that the churches were incidents of sexual abuse were rampant were more likely to Protestant than Catholic, and continuing saying that the majority of Church clergy who committed sexual abuse were not pedophiles, but were homosexuals. “Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90 % belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17,” the statement read. It added that “available research” revealed that only 1.5 to 5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sexual abuse. The statement concluded, defiantly, saying “As the Catholic church has been busy cleaning its own house, it would be good if other institutions and authorities, where the major part of abuses are reported, could do the same and inform the media about it.”
An updated list of speakers set to address the National Equality March on October 11th, in Washington, D.C. including Dustin Lance Black, Judy Shepard, and Lieutenant Dan Choi.
Republican legislators and ultra conservative activists in New Jersey, worried that the Democratic controlled House will introduce a bill legalizing gay marriage, are pushing hard for a constitutional amendment to be passed that would define marriage as that only existing between a man and a woman. The amendment would appear on a November 2010.
A review of the Edmund White memoir, his second, City Boy, My Life in New York During the 1960’s and 70’s, White confessing that initially he “was a living contradiction, “saying that when he first arrived in New York City he “was still a self-hating gay man going to a straight psychotherapist with the intention of getting cured and getting married. There was no ‘gay pride’ back then – there was only gay fear and gay isolation and gay distrust and gay self-hatred.”
The most beautiful man in the world, Ryan Phillippe, proving his ranking as a Hall of Fame DILF is easily justified, taking son Deacon to the doctor Tuesday in Beverly Hills, California, Ryan still scowling, still skulking, still so sexy.
A twofer of Hall of Fame DILF, as Mr. Daniel Craig and Mr. Hugh Jackman are triumphant on opening night of their new play A Steady Rain, the duo appearing at a press conference at the Harvard Club post-performance.
An updated list of speakers set to address the National Equality March on October 11th, in Washington, D.C. including Dustin Lance Black, Judy Shepard, and Lieutenant Dan Choi.
Republican legislators and ultra conservative activists in New Jersey, worried that the Democratic controlled House will introduce a bill legalizing gay marriage, are pushing hard for a constitutional amendment to be passed that would define marriage as that only existing between a man and a woman. The amendment would appear on a November 2010.
A review of the Edmund White memoir, his second, City Boy, My Life in New York During the 1960’s and 70’s, White confessing that initially he “was a living contradiction, “saying that when he first arrived in New York City he “was still a self-hating gay man going to a straight psychotherapist with the intention of getting cured and getting married. There was no ‘gay pride’ back then – there was only gay fear and gay isolation and gay distrust and gay self-hatred.”
The most beautiful man in the world, Ryan Phillippe, proving his ranking as a Hall of Fame DILF is easily justified, taking son Deacon to the doctor Tuesday in Beverly Hills, California, Ryan still scowling, still skulking, still so sexy.
A twofer of Hall of Fame DILF, as Mr. Daniel Craig and Mr. Hugh Jackman are triumphant on opening night of their new play A Steady Rain, the duo appearing at a press conference at the Harvard Club post-performance.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Court Dismisses Lesbian Visitation Case, The Laramie Project Epilogue, New Orleans Saints Scott Fujita For Gay Rights Now, Commonwealth Utilities
A truly terrible ruling by a United States District Court Tuesday in Miami, Florida who dismissed a lawsuit filed Janice Langbehn, a native of Washington State whose partner of seventeen years was admitted to the Jackson Memorial Hospital, a hospital that refused Langbehn visitation rights. Lisa Pond, who along with Langbehn and their three children, were set to sail on a gay families cruise through the Caribbean, when Pond suffered an aneurysm on February 17th, 2007. She died a day later. In rendering the dismissal the court echoed the sentiment of Jackson Memorial, saying in effect that the Hospital was under no obligation to let visitors of any kind access to a patient. Janice Langbehn filed the suit in June of 2008.
When a new production of The Laramie Project premieres October 12th the play’s epilogue will give voice to the killer of Matthew Shepard, Aaron McKinney, who has yet to express any remorse for the brutal slaying of Shepard, the 21 year old gay college student McKinney and Russell Henderson targeted on the night of October 7th, 1998, robbing him, pistol whipping him, and leaving him tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Matthew was found nearly a day later, and died on October 12th. In the epilogue, McKinney is quoted as saying “the night I did it, I did have hatred for homosexuals.”
Scott Fujita, Cal State, linebacker, defensive captain for the New Orleans Saints just became a hero times one hundred, not only endorsing the National Equality March set for October 11th in Washington, but he articulates an intelligent, thoughtful arguement for gay marriage. Similar to Baltimore Ravens’ linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, who wrote recently in the Huffington Post for full support of equal rights for gays, Fujita said he hopes that Brendon’s prediction that gay marriage will legal across America in ten years, and says he hopes it does not take as long as that. “People,” Scott said, “could look at this issue without blinders on … the blinders imposed by their church, their parents, their friends or, in our case, their coaches and locker rooms. I wish they would realize that it’s not a religious issue. It’s not a government issues. It’s not even a gay/straight issue of a question of your manhood. It’s a human issue. And until more people see that, we stuck arguing with people who don’t have an argument.”
A great video of the Commonwealth Utilities spring/summer 2010 show staged at the hipper than hip Astor Place Hair, that features Chad White, Kerry Degman, my favorite male model of the moment, Brad Goreski, Sean Avery, and a bevy of beautiful boys.
When a new production of The Laramie Project premieres October 12th the play’s epilogue will give voice to the killer of Matthew Shepard, Aaron McKinney, who has yet to express any remorse for the brutal slaying of Shepard, the 21 year old gay college student McKinney and Russell Henderson targeted on the night of October 7th, 1998, robbing him, pistol whipping him, and leaving him tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Matthew was found nearly a day later, and died on October 12th. In the epilogue, McKinney is quoted as saying “the night I did it, I did have hatred for homosexuals.”
Scott Fujita, Cal State, linebacker, defensive captain for the New Orleans Saints just became a hero times one hundred, not only endorsing the National Equality March set for October 11th in Washington, but he articulates an intelligent, thoughtful arguement for gay marriage. Similar to Baltimore Ravens’ linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, who wrote recently in the Huffington Post for full support of equal rights for gays, Fujita said he hopes that Brendon’s prediction that gay marriage will legal across America in ten years, and says he hopes it does not take as long as that. “People,” Scott said, “could look at this issue without blinders on … the blinders imposed by their church, their parents, their friends or, in our case, their coaches and locker rooms. I wish they would realize that it’s not a religious issue. It’s not a government issues. It’s not even a gay/straight issue of a question of your manhood. It’s a human issue. And until more people see that, we stuck arguing with people who don’t have an argument.”
A great video of the Commonwealth Utilities spring/summer 2010 show staged at the hipper than hip Astor Place Hair, that features Chad White, Kerry Degman, my favorite male model of the moment, Brad Goreski, Sean Avery, and a bevy of beautiful boys.
German Gay Power Couple, Cleveland Rocks 2014 Gay Games, Defending Polanski, Rufus Wainwright, Marc Jacobs, Gossip Girl Kevin Zegers, Ryan Reynolds
With the election Sunday of Angela Merkel as Germany’s new Chancellor, Guido Westerville, 47 years old and openly gay, is poised to be named the country’s next foreign minister, and Westerville and his partner of eight years, Michael Mronz, 42 years old, have literally and figuratively become the celebrated power gay couple almost overnight. Westerville, who came out publically in 2004, is regarded a the great homosexual hope in Germany, a well placed, powerful politician who can act as a conduit for the expanding and strengthening gay rights in the country.
Cleveland and the Akron, Ohio area have been awarded the 2014 Gay Games. The announcement was made Tuesday in Cologne, Germany, the site of the 2010 Gay Games. Cleveland and Akron area organizers bested competition from Washington, D.C. and from Chicago to be the host city.
Pedro Almodovar is among a number of prominent filmmakers expressing outrage at the arrest of Roman Polanski thirty-one years after he was charged with statutory rape in Los Angeles, California.
Rufus Wainwright is so new he is shiny. He has a new CD/DVD release, Milwaukee At Last!!!, a live concert captured by Albert Maysles, of Grey Gardens fame, a number of upcoming concerts, and a new home, in New York City, in Chelsea, a destination that Rufus claims he “loves to hate.”
Marc Jacobs has reportedly signed on to star, along with rumored husband Lorenzo Martone, on Logo’s Kept, a reality show along the lines of Real Housewives of Atlanta, except that all the couples will be gay men, and by that I mean gayer men than those that appear on the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Canadian cuteness Kevin Zegers, so good in Transamerica, is set to star in a multi-episode arc on Gossip Girl.
Fellow Canadian cuties Ryan Reynolds rents a car. It isn’t a lot, I’ll grant you, but it is Ryan Reynolds and he is surprisingly smoking sexy.
Cleveland and the Akron, Ohio area have been awarded the 2014 Gay Games. The announcement was made Tuesday in Cologne, Germany, the site of the 2010 Gay Games. Cleveland and Akron area organizers bested competition from Washington, D.C. and from Chicago to be the host city.
Pedro Almodovar is among a number of prominent filmmakers expressing outrage at the arrest of Roman Polanski thirty-one years after he was charged with statutory rape in Los Angeles, California.
Rufus Wainwright is so new he is shiny. He has a new CD/DVD release, Milwaukee At Last!!!, a live concert captured by Albert Maysles, of Grey Gardens fame, a number of upcoming concerts, and a new home, in New York City, in Chelsea, a destination that Rufus claims he “loves to hate.”
Marc Jacobs has reportedly signed on to star, along with rumored husband Lorenzo Martone, on Logo’s Kept, a reality show along the lines of Real Housewives of Atlanta, except that all the couples will be gay men, and by that I mean gayer men than those that appear on the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Canadian cuteness Kevin Zegers, so good in Transamerica, is set to star in a multi-episode arc on Gossip Girl.
Fellow Canadian cuties Ryan Reynolds rents a car. It isn’t a lot, I’ll grant you, but it is Ryan Reynolds and he is surprisingly smoking sexy.
Maine Catholics Dividing Over Gay Marriage, Adam Lambert Album News, Baptiste Giabiconi, Chad White Model Behavior, Luke Wilkins Nude
As I previously posted, this past Sunday several Catholic Churches in Maine held a special second collection to raise money to support the passage of Question 1, a ballot measure that seeks to overturn the state’s same sex marriage bill, signed into law this past May. The Church, borrowing a page from the playbook of hate run by the Mormons, is careful to couch the argument not as one that is overtly anti-gay, which it is, but as an argument suggesting that marriage is an idea, a conceit, one that in theory brings together a man and a woman who then procreate, a tradition that should be protected at all costs. Thankfully, in Maine, the Church foray once again into politics, has helped create a division down party lines, a group called Catholics For Marriage Equality forming and calling for a no vote on Question 1. However Bishop Richard J. Malone, who is initiating the Church’s involvement in the fight to repeal the legislation, maintains that “same-sex marriage is a dangerous sociological experiment that many of us believe will have negative consequences for society as a whole. Children need the love of a mother and a father.”
Adam Lambert, as I posted earlier, has the number two album on Amazon.com Bestsellers list, owning to tremendous pre-order sales that began this past Sunday. That album, yet to be titled, according to Lambert, will be anything but Lambert’s own, Adam saying that “I think there’ a little bit of a misconception out in the public that people that come out of American Idol are puppetted and kind of controlled,” adding “that hasn’t been my experience one bit.” Lambert is also excited that Ellen DeGeneres is set to takeover from Paula Abdul, and says “I can’t wait to see her banter with Simon Cowell. I think she’ll give him a hard time. I hope she does.”
The beautiful Baptiste Giabiconi, as seen by Karl Lagerfeld, is naked again, this time in a surrealist spread in Italian Elle.
More, much, much more of Chad White as photographed by Daniel D’Ottavio, Chad not nude, but nearly.
Luke Wilkins, a German actor/model is nude, at least in a film called Nesthocker, and as a warning, the pictures are vaguely NSFW.
Adam Lambert, as I posted earlier, has the number two album on Amazon.com Bestsellers list, owning to tremendous pre-order sales that began this past Sunday. That album, yet to be titled, according to Lambert, will be anything but Lambert’s own, Adam saying that “I think there’ a little bit of a misconception out in the public that people that come out of American Idol are puppetted and kind of controlled,” adding “that hasn’t been my experience one bit.” Lambert is also excited that Ellen DeGeneres is set to takeover from Paula Abdul, and says “I can’t wait to see her banter with Simon Cowell. I think she’ll give him a hard time. I hope she does.”
The beautiful Baptiste Giabiconi, as seen by Karl Lagerfeld, is naked again, this time in a surrealist spread in Italian Elle.
More, much, much more of Chad White as photographed by Daniel D’Ottavio, Chad not nude, but nearly.
Luke Wilkins, a German actor/model is nude, at least in a film called Nesthocker, and as a warning, the pictures are vaguely NSFW.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Referendum 71 Approval Battle, Neil Patrick Harris, Adam Lambert Album Amazon Best Seller, Folsom, John Barrowman Told Stay In Closet, Sarah Palin
A day in the life of the Approve Referendum 71 campaign, in words and pictures.
Neil Patrick Harris talks Jon Hamm, the National Equality March, and Match Game.
Adam Lambert’s yet to be released, yet to be titled debut album is number two on the Bestsellers list at Amazon.com, this after reports surfaced Sunday that the album was available for pre-order. The album is not scheduled for release until November 24th, but with preorder sales Lambert sits just behind of Barbra Streisand, but ahead of the Beatles, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.
Images from the 2009 Folsom Street Fair.
John Barrowman, whose autobiography, I Am What I Am, was released Monday, tells a story in the book of a gay producer being sent to Barrowman early in his career and suggesting that Barrowman stay in the closet for the good of his career. According to Barrowman, the producer said “John, we wondered if you really wanted to reveal that you’re gay? We think it might change how people feel about you.” Barrowman, angered, said “I really hope you’re not saying this, because I’m not going in the closet for you or anyone. You’ve hired me to be a professional, not to have sex. Being a gay man has nothing tp dp with my abilities on this show.”
Four months, four hundred pages, the Sarah Palin penned Going Rogue: An American Life is, um, finished, and going to press, Harper Collins announcing that the, um, book’s release date has been moved ahead from the spring of 2010 to November 17th, 2009.
Neil Patrick Harris talks Jon Hamm, the National Equality March, and Match Game.
Adam Lambert’s yet to be released, yet to be titled debut album is number two on the Bestsellers list at Amazon.com, this after reports surfaced Sunday that the album was available for pre-order. The album is not scheduled for release until November 24th, but with preorder sales Lambert sits just behind of Barbra Streisand, but ahead of the Beatles, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.
Images from the 2009 Folsom Street Fair.
John Barrowman, whose autobiography, I Am What I Am, was released Monday, tells a story in the book of a gay producer being sent to Barrowman early in his career and suggesting that Barrowman stay in the closet for the good of his career. According to Barrowman, the producer said “John, we wondered if you really wanted to reveal that you’re gay? We think it might change how people feel about you.” Barrowman, angered, said “I really hope you’re not saying this, because I’m not going in the closet for you or anyone. You’ve hired me to be a professional, not to have sex. Being a gay man has nothing tp dp with my abilities on this show.”
Four months, four hundred pages, the Sarah Palin penned Going Rogue: An American Life is, um, finished, and going to press, Harper Collins announcing that the, um, book’s release date has been moved ahead from the spring of 2010 to November 17th, 2009.
Another Gay Bashing In London Ontario, One Suspect Arrested, Another Outstanding
For the second time in two weeks, there is a report of another violent gay bashing in London, Ontario, this one occurring early on the morning of Sunday, September 27, against two men in the city’s downtown core. Erik Rozenski, was celebrating his 27th birthday Saturday night and was leaving the party at approximately 3:00 am with his boyfriend. The two, holding hands, attracted the attention of two males, who began making hateful gay slurs toward the two. The two then attacked Rozenski and his boyfriend, who quickly called 911, sending the two thugs running. London Police Services confirm the attack and also confirm that a 22 year old, Michael Kyle Gordon, of Richmond Hill, Ontario, was later arrested and charged with assault. A second suspect is still outstanding. If you have any information, please call London Police Services directly at 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers.
Jose Socrates Reelected Portuguese Prime Minister Promising To Legalize Gay Marriage, Gay Rights Or Golf, Boston College Defends Anti-Gay Professor
Jose Socrates, the 52 year old Socialist leader, was reelected Sunday as Portugal’s Prime Minister, on a platform of reform, and said that once returned to office he will not “waver in implementing reforms, even when they are met with incomprehension, obstacles and opponents.” Socrates, in his attempts to modernize the country, has battled with the Roman Catholic Church, whose influence is profound both politically and socially. In 2007 Socrates and his government legalized abortion, and one of his more prominent campaign pledges was that if reelected, he would pass legislation sanctioning gay marriage.
There are reports that as gays from around the United States converge upon Washington, D.C. for the National Equality March on October 11th, demanding equal rights, President Barack Obama will be on the other side of the country, in San Francisco, California, attending the President’s Cup golf tournament, scheduled to take place from October 6th through the 11th. Obama, along with former president’s George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who recently revealed he had changed his mind on gay marriage, have all been invited to the tournament, though as of today have not confirmed whether they will be attending or not.
As I posted Saturday, Boston College Law Professor Scott Fitzgibbon appears in anti-gay marriage ad, one that airs in Maine, stating that gay marriage will bring with it the end of times, or something akin to that sentiment. The College, in the guise of John Garvey, the school’s dean, has come to the defense of the Fitzgibbon, stating that he is “free to express his views” and that “his public statements represent his own opinions.” Dean Garvey continued, saying that “free expression is central to our mission as a law school committed to public discourse and the free exchange of ideas and opinions.” A find conceit, Dean Garvey articulates, except for one obvious point: marriage is a civil right, and civil rights are not up for debate.
There are reports that as gays from around the United States converge upon Washington, D.C. for the National Equality March on October 11th, demanding equal rights, President Barack Obama will be on the other side of the country, in San Francisco, California, attending the President’s Cup golf tournament, scheduled to take place from October 6th through the 11th. Obama, along with former president’s George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who recently revealed he had changed his mind on gay marriage, have all been invited to the tournament, though as of today have not confirmed whether they will be attending or not.
As I posted Saturday, Boston College Law Professor Scott Fitzgibbon appears in anti-gay marriage ad, one that airs in Maine, stating that gay marriage will bring with it the end of times, or something akin to that sentiment. The College, in the guise of John Garvey, the school’s dean, has come to the defense of the Fitzgibbon, stating that he is “free to express his views” and that “his public statements represent his own opinions.” Dean Garvey continued, saying that “free expression is central to our mission as a law school committed to public discourse and the free exchange of ideas and opinions.” A find conceit, Dean Garvey articulates, except for one obvious point: marriage is a civil right, and civil rights are not up for debate.
Emile Norman, Warren G Would Rather Gays Remain Hidden, Robbie Williams, Robert Pattison Another Man, Taylor Lautner, Hugh Jackman
Emile Norman has died. He was 91. Mr. Norman, a revolutionary artist and gay man, is most famously known for his extraordinary work, created in 1958, of a four story mosaic window at San Francisco’s California Masonic Temple, a work which effortlessly lends itself to repeat viewings, and is a wonder of poetry and of story telling. Mr. Norman also led a life as an out gay partnered man, Brooks Clement, who died in 1973.
Warren G, rapper, remember, Regulate, released in 1994, of course you don’t and there is no real reason you should, except that inexplicably Mr. G has a new album and he talks to Vanity Fair about a correlation between the current economic collapse and gays. Apparently, Mr. G, who “ain’t got no problem with the gays,” would rather gays stay way back in the closet, hidden from the world, and not on television or in the movies, for all too see. Says Mr. G “I know it happens, but let’s keep it behind the scenes. Ain’t nothin’ wrong it if that’s what two dudes wanna do. Cool. But that’ not bring that out into the world, where the kids can see that. We don’t want all the kids doing that. ‘Cause that ain’t how we was originally put here to do.”
I am not certain what is most awkward about this story: that Robbie Williams and Take That are headed to the studio to record or that Robbie Williams is headed to the alter to marry a woman.
Robert Pattison appears on the cover of the British fashion magazine AnOther Man, photographed by the always interesting Hedi Slimane, Pattison channeling the spirit of Marlon Brando and James Dean.
Pattison’s Twilight co-star and heir to his sexual objectification throne, Taylor Lautner, meanwhile, finds all the attention directed towards his body “uncomfortable.”
Hugh Jackman hails a cab in New York City last Thursday, and while hailing a cab might not seem that special, remember, it is Hugh Jackman and he is the sexiest man alive.
Warren G, rapper, remember, Regulate, released in 1994, of course you don’t and there is no real reason you should, except that inexplicably Mr. G has a new album and he talks to Vanity Fair about a correlation between the current economic collapse and gays. Apparently, Mr. G, who “ain’t got no problem with the gays,” would rather gays stay way back in the closet, hidden from the world, and not on television or in the movies, for all too see. Says Mr. G “I know it happens, but let’s keep it behind the scenes. Ain’t nothin’ wrong it if that’s what two dudes wanna do. Cool. But that’ not bring that out into the world, where the kids can see that. We don’t want all the kids doing that. ‘Cause that ain’t how we was originally put here to do.”
I am not certain what is most awkward about this story: that Robbie Williams and Take That are headed to the studio to record or that Robbie Williams is headed to the alter to marry a woman.
Robert Pattison appears on the cover of the British fashion magazine AnOther Man, photographed by the always interesting Hedi Slimane, Pattison channeling the spirit of Marlon Brando and James Dean.
Pattison’s Twilight co-star and heir to his sexual objectification throne, Taylor Lautner, meanwhile, finds all the attention directed towards his body “uncomfortable.”
Hugh Jackman hails a cab in New York City last Thursday, and while hailing a cab might not seem that special, remember, it is Hugh Jackman and he is the sexiest man alive.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Amazon Adam Lambert, Bonus Ben Cohen Coverage, Justin Gaston Models Bikini Briefs, Chad White Does Too, Chace Crawford Charming
American Idol runner up Adam Lambert’s debut album, which has yet to be titled, but is scheduled for release on November 24th, is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.
Bonus coverage of big bear Ben Cohen’s appearance on the cover of Attitude and inside the magazine, Cohen, the British rugby star, seen wearing little more than a pair of tiny Calvin Klein briefs.
International Jock releases the unpublished proofs of former Miley Cyrus accessory Justin Gaston, Mr. Gaston, unshaven and unwashed, modeling a pair on teeny, tiny yellow bikini briefs, the cutie clearly circumcised, in case you’re keeping count.
Curiously cute Chad White, too, modeling a pair a of Calvin Klein bikini briefs, as photographed by Daniel Dottavio.
Chace Crawford, according to reports, bypassed security with his charm, and headed straight for a waiting place, en route to New York after spending the weekend in Los Angeles prepped for work on the scheduled Footloose sequel.
Bonus coverage of big bear Ben Cohen’s appearance on the cover of Attitude and inside the magazine, Cohen, the British rugby star, seen wearing little more than a pair of tiny Calvin Klein briefs.
International Jock releases the unpublished proofs of former Miley Cyrus accessory Justin Gaston, Mr. Gaston, unshaven and unwashed, modeling a pair on teeny, tiny yellow bikini briefs, the cutie clearly circumcised, in case you’re keeping count.
Curiously cute Chad White, too, modeling a pair a of Calvin Klein bikini briefs, as photographed by Daniel Dottavio.
Chace Crawford, according to reports, bypassed security with his charm, and headed straight for a waiting place, en route to New York after spending the weekend in Los Angeles prepped for work on the scheduled Footloose sequel.
Australian Gay Bashing Murder, Prince Harry Hotness, Sam Handley Sex Pictures, Lance Bass Out, Sheer Shirted Alexander Skarsgard, Taylor Lautner
Police in Sydney, Australia are reporting that a 37 year old man found murdered in the city’s Centennial Park was likely the victim of a gay bashing. The man, who was attacked violently, was discovered by two joggers Saturday morning, and it is believed that he died between the hours of 3:00 am and 6:00 am Saturday. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, while police have not ruled out a robbery or a random attack, the popular park “contains a number of gay beats.”
Everyone’s favorite rascally red headed royal, Prince Harry, leaving London Club Raffles, the royal’s favorite, where he spent Saturday evening through till early Sunday morning celebrating with his brother William.
The Sam Handley sex scandal, such as it is, continues in the United Kingdom, the tabloid The Sun publishing one of the naked photos found on the 25 year old physical education grammar school teacher found online at a gay site.
Professional gay Lance Bass out last night, celebrated the birthday of Nicky Hilton, joined by an unidentified young man, both men looking a little worse for wear.
Professional sex object Alexander Skarsgard was in Austin, Texas, Saturday evening, appearing at a Fantastic Fest 2009 screening, where the supremely sultry Skarsgard, wearing a sheer shirt, introduced his new film Metropia.
Taylor Lautner seen at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday evening leaving for Vancouver, British Columbia, continuing his work on the latest Twilight installment Eclipse.
Everyone’s favorite rascally red headed royal, Prince Harry, leaving London Club Raffles, the royal’s favorite, where he spent Saturday evening through till early Sunday morning celebrating with his brother William.
The Sam Handley sex scandal, such as it is, continues in the United Kingdom, the tabloid The Sun publishing one of the naked photos found on the 25 year old physical education grammar school teacher found online at a gay site.
Professional gay Lance Bass out last night, celebrated the birthday of Nicky Hilton, joined by an unidentified young man, both men looking a little worse for wear.
Professional sex object Alexander Skarsgard was in Austin, Texas, Saturday evening, appearing at a Fantastic Fest 2009 screening, where the supremely sultry Skarsgard, wearing a sheer shirt, introduced his new film Metropia.
Taylor Lautner seen at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday evening leaving for Vancouver, British Columbia, continuing his work on the latest Twilight installment Eclipse.
Mormon Church Sets Clock Back To Nineteen Fifties On Gay Issues, Her Name Is Barbra Streisand, Sarah Jessica Parker, Barry Diller
When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints general authority Bruce C. Halfen spoke last week to an assembled group of Mormons, many, if not all in attendance who sought to reverse their same sex attraction and told them that being gay is “not in your DNA’ most observers responded with a combination of derision and disbelief. But was Halfen articulating a personal conviction or a shift in the Mormon Church’s views on homosexuality. As recent as 2006, the Church, addressing whether being gay was a matter of nature or nurture, said that the LDS “does not have a position on the causes of any of theses susceptibilities or inclinations, including those related to same-gender attraction. Those are scientific questions – whether nature or nature – those are things the church doesn’t have a position on.” But, in 2009, when Halfen said that lesbians were likely abused as children and that gay men, during a critical stage of puberty, “fixated” on the notion they were gay, he seemed to send the Mormon Church back some fifty years, say 1959. According to David Melson, the executive director of Affirmation, a support group for homosexual Mormons, many of who have stop practicing their faith, what Halfen said was “just flat wrong” and that telling gay, with enough prayer, their sexual orientation can be changed, “borders on cruel.”
A rare pop cultural moment occurred Saturday night, in New York City, at the Village Vanguard, the petite jazz club in the West Village, Barbra Streisand taking the tiny stage, entertaining an intimate audience of fans, who were lucky enough to win tickets via an online lottery, family, friends, some, like Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clinton, famous, some not, and a mass of humanity who gathered outside, on the streets. A set list that included a number of songs from Streisand’s new album, Love Is The Answer, a collection of jazz standards, were interspersed with Barbra’s best – The Way We Were, Evergreen – and by all reports, everyone, those in attendance and those who stood outside, were help rapt by a living legend, her name being Barbra seen departing after the show.
One of those lucky enough to secure a ticket to the show was one Sarah Jessica Parker, who arrived with a very cute, unidentified young man.
Also in attendance Saturday night, was Barry Diller and his new boyfriend, also very cute, also unidentified.
A rare pop cultural moment occurred Saturday night, in New York City, at the Village Vanguard, the petite jazz club in the West Village, Barbra Streisand taking the tiny stage, entertaining an intimate audience of fans, who were lucky enough to win tickets via an online lottery, family, friends, some, like Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clinton, famous, some not, and a mass of humanity who gathered outside, on the streets. A set list that included a number of songs from Streisand’s new album, Love Is The Answer, a collection of jazz standards, were interspersed with Barbra’s best – The Way We Were, Evergreen – and by all reports, everyone, those in attendance and those who stood outside, were help rapt by a living legend, her name being Barbra seen departing after the show.
One of those lucky enough to secure a ticket to the show was one Sarah Jessica Parker, who arrived with a very cute, unidentified young man.
Also in attendance Saturday night, was Barry Diller and his new boyfriend, also very cute, also unidentified.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Alex Myros Apprehended Arriving From Calgary, Professor Howls Hysteria, Gay Divorce Canadian Style, Zac Efron, Elizabeth Taylor, Simone Lucioli
Alex Myros, the 22 year old suspect in the gay bashing of 28 year old Brandon Wright in London, Ontario on September 8th, now being held in custody by London Police Services, was arrested Thursday evening at the London International Airport, after arriving in the city from Calgary, Alberta, where Myros had been known to have been staying since a warrant was issued for arrest ten days earlier. Myros was taken into custody without incident, but, according to his attorney, Jeanine LeRoy, police had agreed to let Myros, accompanied by LeRoy, to turn himself him Friday morning. Constable Amy Phillipo said that LeRoy had in fact contacted the London Police, but “in consideration of the seriousness of the allegations” and “not withstanding the conversation with Mr. Myros’ lawyer” authorities opted to apprehend Alex as he arrived at the airport.
Scott Fitzgibbon, a professor of law at Boston College, is under fire for his unsanctioned appearance in an ad supporting the Maine Marriage initiative, a ballot measure that seeks to overturn the state’s same sex marriage law passed in May. Stoking the fire of fiction, Fitzgibbon warns that unless the initiative is passed “there could be real consequences for Mainers. Legal experts predict a flood of lawsuits against individuals, small businesses, and religious groups. Church organizations could lose their tax exemption, homosexual marriage would be taught in public schools, whether their parents like or not.”
In 2008 there were nearly 600 gay marriages performed legally in British Columbia for out of country couples, including 482 from the United States, but of those who wed in the Canadian province, the marriage process itself was relatively simple, but if divorce is now an option, that process will be anything but simple. The law in fact requires that one of the two spouses be a resident of the area they were married in for a minimum of one year, and that, is not something easily accomplished.
Zac Efron, hiding or missing, was out and about Friday in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he continues filming The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, flashing his chiseled cheek bones and the peace sign.
Wheelchair bound, 77 year old Elizabeth Taylor made her first appearance since the funeral of her friend Michael Jackson, when the legend appeared at the annual Macy’s Passport 2009 HIV/AIDS fashion fundraising show in Santa, Monica, California, on Thursday night, Taylor, frail, but feisty and full of love.
Male model Simone Lucioli is appearing on Britain’s X-Factor, where he performed a version of Queen’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love, although Lucioli’s lovely voice was not the only obvious asset.
Scott Fitzgibbon, a professor of law at Boston College, is under fire for his unsanctioned appearance in an ad supporting the Maine Marriage initiative, a ballot measure that seeks to overturn the state’s same sex marriage law passed in May. Stoking the fire of fiction, Fitzgibbon warns that unless the initiative is passed “there could be real consequences for Mainers. Legal experts predict a flood of lawsuits against individuals, small businesses, and religious groups. Church organizations could lose their tax exemption, homosexual marriage would be taught in public schools, whether their parents like or not.”
In 2008 there were nearly 600 gay marriages performed legally in British Columbia for out of country couples, including 482 from the United States, but of those who wed in the Canadian province, the marriage process itself was relatively simple, but if divorce is now an option, that process will be anything but simple. The law in fact requires that one of the two spouses be a resident of the area they were married in for a minimum of one year, and that, is not something easily accomplished.
Zac Efron, hiding or missing, was out and about Friday in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he continues filming The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, flashing his chiseled cheek bones and the peace sign.
Wheelchair bound, 77 year old Elizabeth Taylor made her first appearance since the funeral of her friend Michael Jackson, when the legend appeared at the annual Macy’s Passport 2009 HIV/AIDS fashion fundraising show in Santa, Monica, California, on Thursday night, Taylor, frail, but feisty and full of love.
Male model Simone Lucioli is appearing on Britain’s X-Factor, where he performed a version of Queen’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love, although Lucioli’s lovely voice was not the only obvious asset.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Bill Clinton Says Was Wrong To Oppose Gay Marriage, Closeted MLB Player Retiring, Teacher Gay Drama, Gisele Bundchen, Shia LaBeouf, Gay Housewives
Anderson Cooper Friday asked former United States President Bill Clinton “do you now believe that gay people have full rights to civil marriage nationwide,” and Clinton responded that although he still contends marriage is a issue best decided by individual states and religious organizations, he is no longer opposed to gay marriage. Clinton also underlines his long standing support of the right of gay couple to adopt. The former president clarified that he “was wrong” to oppose the legalization of gay marriage, and says that he “grew up in a different time” and “was hung up on the word” gay.
The Major League Baseball player who authors the blog A Gay Athlete’s Life posted an entry Tuesday that, owing to an injury suffered in 2006, he would likely be retiring after the 2009 season, although he added that “nothing was set in stone.”
Sam Handley, a 25 year old physical education teacher at an all boys grammar school in Folkestone, Kent, has been suspended after the students found naked pictures of Handley online. Mr. Handley, who denies any wrongdoing, is suspended pending an investigation by the school.
Gisele Bundchen says she and husband Tom Brady do not know the sex of their baby and will not until Bundchen gives birth sometime in December.
Shia LaBeouf, hard at work on the set of the Oliver Stone Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps – which we all hope is working title – spotted in a smart suit and loafers, but Shia seems to have forgotten both socks and underwear.
The threat that is the gay version of the Real Housewives of Atlanta is apparently becoming a reality.
The Major League Baseball player who authors the blog A Gay Athlete’s Life posted an entry Tuesday that, owing to an injury suffered in 2006, he would likely be retiring after the 2009 season, although he added that “nothing was set in stone.”
Sam Handley, a 25 year old physical education teacher at an all boys grammar school in Folkestone, Kent, has been suspended after the students found naked pictures of Handley online. Mr. Handley, who denies any wrongdoing, is suspended pending an investigation by the school.
Gisele Bundchen says she and husband Tom Brady do not know the sex of their baby and will not until Bundchen gives birth sometime in December.
Shia LaBeouf, hard at work on the set of the Oliver Stone Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps – which we all hope is working title – spotted in a smart suit and loafers, but Shia seems to have forgotten both socks and underwear.
The threat that is the gay version of the Real Housewives of Atlanta is apparently becoming a reality.
Alex Myros Arrested, Rome Pro-Gay Protest, Toronto Mayor Miller, Clay Aiken Takes In DRIFT, Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Alex Myros, the 22 year old suspect in what London, Ontario Police Services are labeling a hate crime in connection with a violent gay bashing attack against Brandon Wright in the middle of day on September 8th, was arrested late last night at the city’ airport. Myros, a former football player, is scheduled to appear in a London court Friday to face charges of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, forcible confinement, and two counts of uttering threats to cause death.
Over 30,000 Romans took part in a torch lit protest through the streets of the city Thursday against the recent increases in the number of violent incidents directed towards gays in the capital city and throughout Italy. Rome’s Mayor, Gianni Alemanno, a right-wing former Neo-Fascist, participated in the night’s protest, Alemanno partnering with center left political opposition in decrying the attacks in, more importantly, in calling for an expansion and strengthening of anti-discrimination laws to aid in protecting gays.
Friday, Toronto, Ontario Mayor David Miller announced that he would not seek re-election, and that his second term would be his last. Miller, whose early promise and accomplishments have been badly tarnished by a series of serious missteps – mostly recently his bungled handling of the city’s garbage strike. His announcement, a surprise to most, is regarded as great news for presumptive mayoral candidate, the province’s Deputy Premier George Smitherman, the openly gay Liberal who intends to seek the mayor’s office in 2010.
Clay Aiken, who is working on material for a new album to be released in 2010, was out and about Thursday evening in Raleigh, North Carolina where he attending a production of the new play DRIFT, a musical rumored to be Broadway bound.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the really cute red headed openly gay 33 year old who stars as an openly gay partnered new father on ABC’s Modern Family, talks about coming out, what to expect on the show’s inaugural season, but strangely fails to mention his rather close relationship with one Zachary Quinto.
Over 30,000 Romans took part in a torch lit protest through the streets of the city Thursday against the recent increases in the number of violent incidents directed towards gays in the capital city and throughout Italy. Rome’s Mayor, Gianni Alemanno, a right-wing former Neo-Fascist, participated in the night’s protest, Alemanno partnering with center left political opposition in decrying the attacks in, more importantly, in calling for an expansion and strengthening of anti-discrimination laws to aid in protecting gays.
Friday, Toronto, Ontario Mayor David Miller announced that he would not seek re-election, and that his second term would be his last. Miller, whose early promise and accomplishments have been badly tarnished by a series of serious missteps – mostly recently his bungled handling of the city’s garbage strike. His announcement, a surprise to most, is regarded as great news for presumptive mayoral candidate, the province’s Deputy Premier George Smitherman, the openly gay Liberal who intends to seek the mayor’s office in 2010.
Clay Aiken, who is working on material for a new album to be released in 2010, was out and about Thursday evening in Raleigh, North Carolina where he attending a production of the new play DRIFT, a musical rumored to be Broadway bound.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the really cute red headed openly gay 33 year old who stars as an openly gay partnered new father on ABC’s Modern Family, talks about coming out, what to expect on the show’s inaugural season, but strangely fails to mention his rather close relationship with one Zachary Quinto.
Court Rules Westboro Baptist Church Protected By First Amendment, Guilford College Student Statement, Kirk Cameron Defends Cameron Craziness
The 4th United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia ruled Thursday that the protest by the Fred Phelps led Westboro Baptist Church outside the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq was and is protected speech, covered by the First Amendment, and therefore did not violate the privacy of the military member’s family. The decision in effect reverses a lower court’s ruling that awarded the family five million dollars in damages. Judge Robert B King, who authored the majority opinion, wrote that “Notwithstanding the distasteful and repugnant nature of the words being challenged in these proceedings, we are constrained to conclude that the defendant’s signs and (what it has on its Web sites) are constitutionally protected.”
A statement made by the Guilford College student, in Greensboro, North Carolina who was the subject of the two violently anti-gay letters last week, discussing his response to the incidents and his hope that a lesson of acceptance and tolerance can be culled from the hateful crimes.
Former actor Kirk Cameron responds to criticisms over his plan, along with partner Ray Comfort, to distribute an edition of the Origin of Species with Comfort’s new, rambling introduction that attempts to refute Darwin’s original claims and to counter the atheist inclinations of the work. The two will distribute the edition on the top 50 college and university campuses across America on November 19th. “Atheism,” says Cameron, has been on the rise for years now and the Bible of the atheist is The Origin of Species. We have a situation in our country where young people are entering college with a belief in God and exiting with that faith being stripped and shredded.” I could point out that obvious, that Cameron’s charade as a Christian incites aggression and violence, or that faith or anything kind is usually faith because it is tested, but, well, I’m better than that.
A statement made by the Guilford College student, in Greensboro, North Carolina who was the subject of the two violently anti-gay letters last week, discussing his response to the incidents and his hope that a lesson of acceptance and tolerance can be culled from the hateful crimes.
Former actor Kirk Cameron responds to criticisms over his plan, along with partner Ray Comfort, to distribute an edition of the Origin of Species with Comfort’s new, rambling introduction that attempts to refute Darwin’s original claims and to counter the atheist inclinations of the work. The two will distribute the edition on the top 50 college and university campuses across America on November 19th. “Atheism,” says Cameron, has been on the rise for years now and the Bible of the atheist is The Origin of Species. We have a situation in our country where young people are entering college with a belief in God and exiting with that faith being stripped and shredded.” I could point out that obvious, that Cameron’s charade as a Christian incites aggression and violence, or that faith or anything kind is usually faith because it is tested, but, well, I’m better than that.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Neil Patrick Harris Hits The Britney Spears Circus, Kirk Cameron Christian Craziness, Coming Out Young In America, Glee Greatness
Mr. Neil Patrick Harris holds a can of sugar free Red Bull arriving Wednesday night at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, California for a concert by Britney Spears, the man smart enough to watch his weight balanced with a need for speed or its caffeinated substitute.
Kirk Cameron, former actor and current Christian charade, well, he’s not so smart, Kirk and partner Ray Comfort revising Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species to include an introduction that corrects a great plight, according to Cameron, who insists that a majority of college professors identify as atheists – Godless beings who believe Darwin and his theory of evolution despite, again according to Cameron, antidotal evidence that suggests Darwin was a misogynist racist and whose connection to Hitler is an obvious one. I think. To be honest Kirk’s closeted histrionics and conservative hysteria is boring after a few seconds, consequently I was not paying close attention, but you're welcome to try.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis chronicles the lives and loves of gay Midwestern American teenagers for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the tales of happy and healthy 13 and 14 year olds surrounded by the love and support of their family and friends a welcomed antidote to the perception that gays are inherently lonely and terribly sad.
Glee too, provides another point of view of what it means to be gay, last night’s episode entitled Preggers managing to combine football, Single Ladies, and Curt’s coming out into one grand, great fifty-some minutes of fun and fierceness. Curt coming out to his Father was handled honestly, and with a surprising depth for network television, and the scene should serve as study guide. Below, the much talked about final second Beyonce audible and Curt's kick.
Kirk Cameron, former actor and current Christian charade, well, he’s not so smart, Kirk and partner Ray Comfort revising Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species to include an introduction that corrects a great plight, according to Cameron, who insists that a majority of college professors identify as atheists – Godless beings who believe Darwin and his theory of evolution despite, again according to Cameron, antidotal evidence that suggests Darwin was a misogynist racist and whose connection to Hitler is an obvious one. I think. To be honest Kirk’s closeted histrionics and conservative hysteria is boring after a few seconds, consequently I was not paying close attention, but you're welcome to try.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis chronicles the lives and loves of gay Midwestern American teenagers for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the tales of happy and healthy 13 and 14 year olds surrounded by the love and support of their family and friends a welcomed antidote to the perception that gays are inherently lonely and terribly sad.
Glee too, provides another point of view of what it means to be gay, last night’s episode entitled Preggers managing to combine football, Single Ladies, and Curt’s coming out into one grand, great fifty-some minutes of fun and fierceness. Curt coming out to his Father was handled honestly, and with a surprising depth for network television, and the scene should serve as study guide. Below, the much talked about final second Beyonce audible and Curt's kick.
Guilford College Vigil, San Francisco Supervisor Seeks Mayor’s Office, Carrie Prejean Costumed, One Tree Hill Hunks, Trevor Donavan Shirtless, He Wolf
A vigil was held Wednesday night in Greensboro, North Carolina, on the campus of Guilford College, to protest the two violently anti-gay letters delivered to a student last week. The event co-hosted by the Guilford Pride and by the Peace Society, and was attended by an estimated 400 individual that included students, faculty members, and members of the community, almost all of whom held white candles. To date no suspects or persons of interest have been identified.
On Wednesday, San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty announced that he intended to run for mayor in 2012, seeking the seat of the soon to be departing Gavin Newsom who intends to run for governor of the state of California, and was recently indorsed by former President Clinton. Dufty, openly gay and the father of a three year old daughter will be aided in his campaign by former Obama deputy national campaign director Steve Hildebrand, recently an outspoken critic of Obama and the President’s record on gay rights. Hildebrand will act as a consultant for Dufty, who indicates he wants to be seen as the grassroots candidate for the office.
Anti-gay hate mongering beauty pageant failure Carrie Prejean is a model for the Women of Marvel, your one stop costume sort of shop, Carrie continuing to keep it classy.
One Tree Hill purportedly has a point; although I am convinced it is to showcase nearly naked males, not necessarily a bad thing at all, but by my count within the first two minutes of the season’s second show there were shots of Austin Nichols shaving in his quite tight boxerbriefs as well as an endless parade of Robert Buckley and James Lafferty on the beach, tucked into swimsuits. The dialogue on the CW series is not so memorable, but the scenery, very much so.
90210 star Trevor Donavan, who at 30 years old plays a 19 year old high school senior, shops topless last Thursday at the Armani Exchange in Los Angeles, California. Why, shirtless you might ask? Well, there are no answers per se.
Andrew Foster, a 19 year old University of Washington sophomore majoring in violin performance, has taken the viral world by storm with his YouTube parody of the Shakira video for She Wolf, aptly renamed He Wolf. Foster says he was inspired after viewing the video and finding it “ridiculous and disturbing and different that anything.” For reasons that remain unclear, YouTube has flagged the work as inappropriate and adult only, objections which, as you’ll see, are rather ridiculous.
On Wednesday, San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty announced that he intended to run for mayor in 2012, seeking the seat of the soon to be departing Gavin Newsom who intends to run for governor of the state of California, and was recently indorsed by former President Clinton. Dufty, openly gay and the father of a three year old daughter will be aided in his campaign by former Obama deputy national campaign director Steve Hildebrand, recently an outspoken critic of Obama and the President’s record on gay rights. Hildebrand will act as a consultant for Dufty, who indicates he wants to be seen as the grassroots candidate for the office.
Anti-gay hate mongering beauty pageant failure Carrie Prejean is a model for the Women of Marvel, your one stop costume sort of shop, Carrie continuing to keep it classy.
One Tree Hill purportedly has a point; although I am convinced it is to showcase nearly naked males, not necessarily a bad thing at all, but by my count within the first two minutes of the season’s second show there were shots of Austin Nichols shaving in his quite tight boxerbriefs as well as an endless parade of Robert Buckley and James Lafferty on the beach, tucked into swimsuits. The dialogue on the CW series is not so memorable, but the scenery, very much so.
90210 star Trevor Donavan, who at 30 years old plays a 19 year old high school senior, shops topless last Thursday at the Armani Exchange in Los Angeles, California. Why, shirtless you might ask? Well, there are no answers per se.
Andrew Foster, a 19 year old University of Washington sophomore majoring in violin performance, has taken the viral world by storm with his YouTube parody of the Shakira video for She Wolf, aptly renamed He Wolf. Foster says he was inspired after viewing the video and finding it “ridiculous and disturbing and different that anything.” For reasons that remain unclear, YouTube has flagged the work as inappropriate and adult only, objections which, as you’ll see, are rather ridiculous.
AIDS Vaccine Demonstrates Limited But Promising Results, Prop 8 Repeal Filed For 2010, Employment Nondiscrimination Act, Joy Behar Bashes The Ukraine
Results of a new AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand over the past three years have yielded significant statistical results, the announcement made early Thursday morning of a study involving over 16,000 volunteers. The vaccine, a combination of two genetically engineered vaccines that had not previously worked in a trial of humans, protected too few individuals to be regarded an unqualified success – the effective rate was 31.2 percent - but Doctor Anthony S. Fauci, director of the American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the trial’s backers, said that that although he did not want to qualify the results as “breakthrough,” the findings were of great importance. “For more than twenty years now, vaccines trials have essentially been failures,” Fauci said, “Now it’s like were groping down an unlit path, and a door has been opened. We can start asking some very important questions.”
A broad coalition of advocacy groups Thursday filed ballot language with the State of California for an initiative to be voted on in November 2010 that would repeal Proposition 8. Despite pleas from gay activists that 2010 is too soon to being a fight to bring back the legalization of gay marriage in the state, the group Love Honor Cherish, said in statement that “Starting today, there is new hope for committed gay and lesbian couples who want to get married. We’re back on the path toward full equality.” The initiative now needs one million certified signatures to qualify, and that number must be met by the end of April, 2010.
On Wednesday, Representatives Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and Tammy Baldwin, Democrat Wisconsin, openly gay members of the United States Congress urged the passage of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, legislation that ban any employer from making any and all decisions about the hiring, firing, promoting, or pay raises based on an employees sexual orientation or gender identity. The military, religious organizations and businesses with less than fifteen employees would be exempted. Twenty-one states currently ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and twelve ban discrimination based on gender identity.
Joy Behar takes the Ukraine to task for denying Elton John and his partner David Furnish an adoption bid of a fourteen year old HIV positive orphan, stating the obvious: that the real objection on the part of government officials is, simply put, John and Furnish are gay and gay in the Ukraine is not good.
A broad coalition of advocacy groups Thursday filed ballot language with the State of California for an initiative to be voted on in November 2010 that would repeal Proposition 8. Despite pleas from gay activists that 2010 is too soon to being a fight to bring back the legalization of gay marriage in the state, the group Love Honor Cherish, said in statement that “Starting today, there is new hope for committed gay and lesbian couples who want to get married. We’re back on the path toward full equality.” The initiative now needs one million certified signatures to qualify, and that number must be met by the end of April, 2010.
On Wednesday, Representatives Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and Tammy Baldwin, Democrat Wisconsin, openly gay members of the United States Congress urged the passage of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, legislation that ban any employer from making any and all decisions about the hiring, firing, promoting, or pay raises based on an employees sexual orientation or gender identity. The military, religious organizations and businesses with less than fifteen employees would be exempted. Twenty-one states currently ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and twelve ban discrimination based on gender identity.
Joy Behar takes the Ukraine to task for denying Elton John and his partner David Furnish an adoption bid of a fourteen year old HIV positive orphan, stating the obvious: that the real objection on the part of government officials is, simply put, John and Furnish are gay and gay in the Ukraine is not good.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Alan Cumming, Big Ben Cohen, Boston Red Sox Rookie Hazing, Wizard Of Oz Marks An Anniversary, Kellan Lutz Is August, Male Model Mania
Alan Cumming, whose new album, I Bought A Blue Car Today, was released Tuesday (the title is taken from the American citizenship test) talks about his caberaet show, the life lived by he and his husband Grant Shaffer, an illustrator, in New York City alongside two dogs and on the status of the Julie Taymor and U2 Broadway bound musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which stars Cumming as the Green Goblin.
Ben Cohen, big British rugby star and a bit of bear, graces the cover of Attitude magazine, inside purportedly telling all and posing in his white Calvin Klein briefs in a shower, effortlessly demonstrating just how big a star he actually is.
Nothing says Major League Baseball hilarity and hijinks like a group of Boston Red Sox rookies donning drag, this year’s hazing theme the Wizard of Oz, featuring Daniel Bard, Dusty Brown, Josh Reddick, and many, many more.
MGM’s Wizard of Oz, coincidentally, is celebrating its 70th anniversary and a new, restored print of the iconic film opens in theaters Wednesday night, the DVD being released next Tuesday.
Kellan Lutz graces the cover of the October issue of August magazine, Malaysia’s magazine for men, Kellan keeping on getting bigger and bigger, literally and figuratively.
Greg Vaughan photographs a series of sexy male models for a shoot titled The Night is Young for Contributing Editor, and as a warning, the site is sort of NSFW.
Ben Cohen, big British rugby star and a bit of bear, graces the cover of Attitude magazine, inside purportedly telling all and posing in his white Calvin Klein briefs in a shower, effortlessly demonstrating just how big a star he actually is.
Nothing says Major League Baseball hilarity and hijinks like a group of Boston Red Sox rookies donning drag, this year’s hazing theme the Wizard of Oz, featuring Daniel Bard, Dusty Brown, Josh Reddick, and many, many more.
MGM’s Wizard of Oz, coincidentally, is celebrating its 70th anniversary and a new, restored print of the iconic film opens in theaters Wednesday night, the DVD being released next Tuesday.
Kellan Lutz graces the cover of the October issue of August magazine, Malaysia’s magazine for men, Kellan keeping on getting bigger and bigger, literally and figuratively.
Greg Vaughan photographs a series of sexy male models for a shoot titled The Night is Young for Contributing Editor, and as a warning, the site is sort of NSFW.
Fred Phelps Threatens To Take Manhattan, Referendum 71 Back Bound For Court Again, R-71 Poll, Call Mika Whatever You Want Just Not Gay
Guess who is scheduled to set foot in the mean streets of Manhattan this Thursday? Fred Phelps and his band of merry hate mongers, the Westboro Baptist Church! That according to their picket itinerary, which is never very reliable – the group seems so unmotivated lately. However, if their threats are to be believed, the anti-gay, anti-everything Christians are headed to the United Nations, mentioning something about “filthy, hateful, and useless figs.” Yes, “figs” not “fags.”
A hearing has been set for October 14th, in Pasadena, California at the 9th United States Circuit Court of Appeals, at which time Washington State attorneys will present arguments that the petitions for Referendum 71 should be made public. Referendum 71 will ask Washington State voters whether to approve or reject an expanded, strengthened domestic partnership law that gay couples the same benefits and rights as those enjoyed by married straight couples. ProtectMarriage.com, which gathered the petitions, sees the law as shortcut to enacting legislation that would legalize gay marriage in the state, and, according to the anti-gay organization, traditional marriage defined as that existing between a man and woman needs to be protected at all costs.
A new poll on R-71, released Tuesday, suggest that if held today, the anti-gay initiative would be voted down, but by the slimmest of margins, implying that there remains a great deal of work to be done by gay activists in the state. Using the exact language of the referendum, the poll asked respondents whether they approved or rejected the following:
This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that domestic partnership is not marriage.
51 percent said they would approve, 44 percent said they would reject, and 5 percent were undecided. The referendum will appear on the upcoming November ballot.
Mika, whose engaging new album The Boy Who Knew Too Much was released yesterday, has come out, kind of, in a sort of Elton John retro 1970’s Rolling Stone interview way, telling the free Netherland gay newspaper Gay&Night that “I’ve never labeled myself. But having said that, I’ve never limited my life, I’ve never limited who I sleep with. So, whatever … call me whatever you want. Call me bisexual, if you need a term for me.”
A hearing has been set for October 14th, in Pasadena, California at the 9th United States Circuit Court of Appeals, at which time Washington State attorneys will present arguments that the petitions for Referendum 71 should be made public. Referendum 71 will ask Washington State voters whether to approve or reject an expanded, strengthened domestic partnership law that gay couples the same benefits and rights as those enjoyed by married straight couples. ProtectMarriage.com, which gathered the petitions, sees the law as shortcut to enacting legislation that would legalize gay marriage in the state, and, according to the anti-gay organization, traditional marriage defined as that existing between a man and woman needs to be protected at all costs.
A new poll on R-71, released Tuesday, suggest that if held today, the anti-gay initiative would be voted down, but by the slimmest of margins, implying that there remains a great deal of work to be done by gay activists in the state. Using the exact language of the referendum, the poll asked respondents whether they approved or rejected the following:
This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that domestic partnership is not marriage.
51 percent said they would approve, 44 percent said they would reject, and 5 percent were undecided. The referendum will appear on the upcoming November ballot.
Mika, whose engaging new album The Boy Who Knew Too Much was released yesterday, has come out, kind of, in a sort of Elton John retro 1970’s Rolling Stone interview way, telling the free Netherland gay newspaper Gay&Night that “I’ve never labeled myself. But having said that, I’ve never limited my life, I’ve never limited who I sleep with. So, whatever … call me whatever you want. Call me bisexual, if you need a term for me.”
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Ellen Defends Her Judging Skills, Anderson Cooper, Tom Brady Sued, Plaxico Burress Begins Prison Term, Rafael Nadal Models
Stating “I’ve spent my whole life being judged” Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show Tuesday defended accusations that she is not qualified to replace Paula Abdul on American Idol. DeGeneres, connecting being gay with being judged, continued, saying “I will be empathetic, and I will be truthful. I will be an honest judge without being mean.”
Anderson Cooper, on the mean streets of Manhattan Monday, waving either hello or goodbye or a little of both.
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen are reportedly being sued by two photographers who claim that Brady’s bodyguard’s shot at them after the couple’s wedding reception in Costa Rica earlier in the year. The couple was married in Santa Monica, California in December of 2008, but celebrated later with family and friends. There has yet to be a comment from either Brady or Bundchen.
Plaxico Burress, the former New York Giant, began serving a two year sentence Tuesday, the result of a charge of second degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Rafael Nadal for the new Nike AW77 hoodie.
Anderson Cooper, on the mean streets of Manhattan Monday, waving either hello or goodbye or a little of both.
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen are reportedly being sued by two photographers who claim that Brady’s bodyguard’s shot at them after the couple’s wedding reception in Costa Rica earlier in the year. The couple was married in Santa Monica, California in December of 2008, but celebrated later with family and friends. There has yet to be a comment from either Brady or Bundchen.
Plaxico Burress, the former New York Giant, began serving a two year sentence Tuesday, the result of a charge of second degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Rafael Nadal for the new Nike AW77 hoodie.
Gay Guilford College Threatened With Death, Catholics Call Pro-Gay Politicians Perform Public Penance, Social Science Defends Same Sex Families
The campus of Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina, will be the scene of a gay rights protest Wednesday, after an incident involving a gay student last week threatened the openly gay man’s life. On September 14th, that student found a note on his door that in addition to using anti-gay slurs contained a death threat concluding that “nobody wants your kind on campus.” On September 17th, a rock thrown his window had a note attached that in part read “you don’t deserve life like the rest of the world. It’s bad enough with out all the gay crap pulling people down. It’s sick, unnatural, and death is almost too good for you. Almost.” Guilford College President Kent Chabotar said that anyone involved in the hate crimes will be accountable.
Archbishop Raymond Burke, Catholic Prefect of the Vatican’s Apostolic Signatura, continues the theme of Christians behaving badly, telling an audience Friday in Washington, D.C. at the 14th annual Partnership Dinner that “neither Holy Communion nor funeral rites should be administered to” politicians who support pro-choice or same sex marriage, a statement meant to be an obvious slight against the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Burke concluded that any Catholic politician seen to publically support “greatly sinful acts … like abortion and marriage” must have their “repentance … also be public.”
A trio of scholars refutes with grace and intelligence, the fallacious argument that children are at risk when raised by a same sex couple, arguing that Maine’s gay marriage should not be repealed. Writing an opinions piece in Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News, the three conclude that:
Loving families headed by same-sex couples are not going away. There is no good reason why they should. The research on marriage, families and children shows that children living with same-sex parents are as psychologically healthy as children living with heterosexual parents, including their biological parents. Opponents of same-sex marriage should stop pretending otherwise, and they should stop distorting what social science research has actually documented on this very important issue. And they might consider that the children who grow up with same-sex parents are overwhelmingly clear about one simple point: What hurts them the most are the beliefs and the actions of people in their communities who think their families are not as legitimate and not as ordinary as any other family.
Archbishop Raymond Burke, Catholic Prefect of the Vatican’s Apostolic Signatura, continues the theme of Christians behaving badly, telling an audience Friday in Washington, D.C. at the 14th annual Partnership Dinner that “neither Holy Communion nor funeral rites should be administered to” politicians who support pro-choice or same sex marriage, a statement meant to be an obvious slight against the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Burke concluded that any Catholic politician seen to publically support “greatly sinful acts … like abortion and marriage” must have their “repentance … also be public.”
A trio of scholars refutes with grace and intelligence, the fallacious argument that children are at risk when raised by a same sex couple, arguing that Maine’s gay marriage should not be repealed. Writing an opinions piece in Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News, the three conclude that:
Loving families headed by same-sex couples are not going away. There is no good reason why they should. The research on marriage, families and children shows that children living with same-sex parents are as psychologically healthy as children living with heterosexual parents, including their biological parents. Opponents of same-sex marriage should stop pretending otherwise, and they should stop distorting what social science research has actually documented on this very important issue. And they might consider that the children who grow up with same-sex parents are overwhelmingly clear about one simple point: What hurts them the most are the beliefs and the actions of people in their communities who think their families are not as legitimate and not as ordinary as any other family.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Serbia To Ban Anti-Gay Ultranationalists, President Obama On Letterman, James Franco Enrolls In Queer Cinema, Alexander Skarsgard Candid, Hugh Jackman
The Associated Press is reporting that Serbia’s junior justice minister, Slobodan Homen, said Monday that the government intends to pass legislation that would ban political organizations who threaten others, specifically signaling out the ultranationalist Serb Popular Movement 1389, who claimed credit for the cancelling of Belgrade Pride Parade this past Sunday. The group, who threatened violence against participants in the parade, said that the cancellation was a victory against “infidels and Satanists.”
The New York Times reports on President Obama’s visit to The Late Show with David Letterman Monday evening, Obama the sole guest, “surprisingly serious,” although there was a light, albeit odd moment that involved a heart-shaped potato.
The New York University newspaper – The Local – reports that James Franco has enrolled in Queer Cinema 101, but that the fantastic Franco missed the term’s first class.
Alexander Skarsgard spotted in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a hotel lobby, so sexy and smoldering.
Hugh Jackman, looking every inch the sexiest man alive, helps kick off Climate Change Week, in New York City Monday.
The New York Times reports on President Obama’s visit to The Late Show with David Letterman Monday evening, Obama the sole guest, “surprisingly serious,” although there was a light, albeit odd moment that involved a heart-shaped potato.
The New York University newspaper – The Local – reports that James Franco has enrolled in Queer Cinema 101, but that the fantastic Franco missed the term’s first class.
Alexander Skarsgard spotted in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a hotel lobby, so sexy and smoldering.
Hugh Jackman, looking every inch the sexiest man alive, helps kick off Climate Change Week, in New York City Monday.
Mormon Leader Suggests Gay Is Something Satan Makes You Do, Facebook Outs You, Precious People Choice, New Moon Madness, New Moon Soundtrack, Madonna
Bruce C. Hafen, a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Elder, a keynote speaker at the 19th annual Evergreen International Conference, itself a nonprofit group that helps Mormons “overcome homosexual behavior” and diminish same sex attraction” said Saturday that Satan is responsible for gay behavior and that “if you are faithful on resurrection morning – and maybe even before then – you will rise with normal attractions for the opposite sex.” So, in conclusion, being gay is neither natural nor a choice, it is merely the work of the devil.
Apparently, hiding your homosexuality is not an option, at least not in the world that is Facebook, a study done by two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovering that a male’s profile can be studied to determine if he is gay based on the number of friends he has. I know, stunningly serious scholarly work, right?
Precious, directed by Lee Daniels based on the novel Push, written by Sapphire, and starring Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique won the Toronto International Film Festival’s People Choice Award Saturday, the film and cast certain to be Oscar contenders. The People Choice’s Award for Documentary was won by Canadian Leanne Pooley, who lives in New Zealand, for The Topp Twins, a study of twin lesbian county music and comedy stars.
The Los Angeles Times visit the set of New Moon, producing a plethora of photographs of Robert Pattison and Taylor Lautner in varying stages of undress.
The complete track listing for New Moon’s soundtrack was released Monday, and it looks excellent, featuring new material from Bon Iver and St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, The Killers, and one Mr. Thom Yorke.
Madonna, as the thirty-eight track double CD Celebration is released, talks to the Times of London, the artist more and more becoming a kind of pop culture Rorschach test.
Apparently, hiding your homosexuality is not an option, at least not in the world that is Facebook, a study done by two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovering that a male’s profile can be studied to determine if he is gay based on the number of friends he has. I know, stunningly serious scholarly work, right?
Precious, directed by Lee Daniels based on the novel Push, written by Sapphire, and starring Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique won the Toronto International Film Festival’s People Choice Award Saturday, the film and cast certain to be Oscar contenders. The People Choice’s Award for Documentary was won by Canadian Leanne Pooley, who lives in New Zealand, for The Topp Twins, a study of twin lesbian county music and comedy stars.
The Los Angeles Times visit the set of New Moon, producing a plethora of photographs of Robert Pattison and Taylor Lautner in varying stages of undress.
The complete track listing for New Moon’s soundtrack was released Monday, and it looks excellent, featuring new material from Bon Iver and St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, The Killers, and one Mr. Thom Yorke.
Madonna, as the thirty-eight track double CD Celebration is released, talks to the Times of London, the artist more and more becoming a kind of pop culture Rorschach test.
Effortlessly Engaging Neil Patrick Harris Hosts Emmys, Cherry Jones Wins, Jim Parsons Loses But Is Big Winner Nonetheless
Neil Patrick Harris hosted the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday evening, Harris charming, engaging, and funny, as always, effortlessly entertaining in what should quite quickly become a tradition, if the Television Arts and Science Academy has any sense. From the opening number Put Down the Remote– which was very funny, albeit too short – to his constant asides, Harris was, well, perfect. And the inclusion of Mr. John Hodgeman as announcer by the way was an excellent touch.
As for the awards, there were a few surprises – Kristen Chenoweth for supporting actress in a comedy series – the great, but sadly late Pushing Daisies, Toni Collette for actress in a comedy series for her wondrous work in The United States of Tara, Cherry Jones for supporting actress in a drama series for 24, and Ken Howard, for supporting actor in a miniseries or movie for Grey Gardens. Biggest disappointment of the evening was the gross oversight of Jim Parsons, whose work is so great, it looks deceptively simple. However, if not for the work of Harris, seen below arriving to the ceremony with his boyfriend, the very cute David Burtka, I doubt I would have watched (and in truth, I watched Mad Men and Curb Your Enthusiasm, both of which were beyond brilliant, opting to follow the remainder of the Emmys online and flipping during commercials).
On the subject of the ever adorable and talented Jim Parsons, another appraisal of his tremendous work on The Big Bang Theory, pointing out the obvious that the man is seriously gifted.
As for the awards, there were a few surprises – Kristen Chenoweth for supporting actress in a comedy series – the great, but sadly late Pushing Daisies, Toni Collette for actress in a comedy series for her wondrous work in The United States of Tara, Cherry Jones for supporting actress in a drama series for 24, and Ken Howard, for supporting actor in a miniseries or movie for Grey Gardens. Biggest disappointment of the evening was the gross oversight of Jim Parsons, whose work is so great, it looks deceptively simple. However, if not for the work of Harris, seen below arriving to the ceremony with his boyfriend, the very cute David Burtka, I doubt I would have watched (and in truth, I watched Mad Men and Curb Your Enthusiasm, both of which were beyond brilliant, opting to follow the remainder of the Emmys online and flipping during commercials).
On the subject of the ever adorable and talented Jim Parsons, another appraisal of his tremendous work on The Big Bang Theory, pointing out the obvious that the man is seriously gifted.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Science Of Gay Male Sexuality, Beth Ditto Bans Girlfriend, Mark Sanchez Struts, Ambassador Gisele Bundchen, Neil Patrick Harris Luxurious
Scientific American reports on attempts by scientists to understand the complicated world that is the sexuality of the gay male, trying to comprehend the roles of tops and bottoms beyond the obvious implications of the words.
Gossip lead singer Beth Ditto has reportedly banned her girlfriend from travelling with the band on their upcoming United Kingdom tour, because, according to Ditto she wants her protected from the notoriously gossip, mean-spirited British press. “Say what you want about me,” said Ditto, “but do not talk about the people I love. I will lose my mind.”
Mr. Mark Sanchez, rookie quarterback for the New York Jets, carries the game ball after leading the Jets to an improbable upset of the Tom Brady steered New England Patriots 16-13, the Jets and Sanchez sitting pretty at 2-0.
Mrs. Brady, meanwhile, made the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environmental Program, Gisele Bundchen just starting to show an obvious baby bump, in New York City at Washington Square on hand for the announcement.
Neil Patrick Harris, about to host the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, was on hand at the HBO Luxury Lounge on Saturday, sizing the swag at the Bulgari Skin Care Suite.
Gossip lead singer Beth Ditto has reportedly banned her girlfriend from travelling with the band on their upcoming United Kingdom tour, because, according to Ditto she wants her protected from the notoriously gossip, mean-spirited British press. “Say what you want about me,” said Ditto, “but do not talk about the people I love. I will lose my mind.”
Mr. Mark Sanchez, rookie quarterback for the New York Jets, carries the game ball after leading the Jets to an improbable upset of the Tom Brady steered New England Patriots 16-13, the Jets and Sanchez sitting pretty at 2-0.
Mrs. Brady, meanwhile, made the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environmental Program, Gisele Bundchen just starting to show an obvious baby bump, in New York City at Washington Square on hand for the announcement.
Neil Patrick Harris, about to host the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, was on hand at the HBO Luxury Lounge on Saturday, sizing the swag at the Bulgari Skin Care Suite.
South African Athletics Head Lied About Castor Semenya, Mike Huckabee Still Hates Gays, Jim Parsons Profile, Chris Pine And Mystery Male Go Marketing
The South African government is demanding that Leonard Chuene resign his role as the president of Athletics South Africa after he admitted last week that Castor Semenya had undergone a gender test prior to the International Track and Field Championships in Berlin, Germany last month. Semenya won the 800 meters race at that event, but was subjected to a battery of gender tests after her victory; tests that later concluded the runner was intersexed.
On Friday, failed presidential candidate Mike Huckabee won a straw poll of five Republican 2012 contenders taken at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, an anti-gay, archly conservative Christian coalition meeting in Washington, D.C. Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, addressed the conference, saying, “there are so many people who told us a conservatives that we should move to the center, on the sanctity of marriage or the sanctity of life,” adding that he was not certain “the center makes a whole lot of sense when it’s coming from people who certainly don’t have out interest, or our country’s interest, at heart.” Although early, Huckabee’s statements underline an unwillingness to detach from the anti-gay, anti-choice rhetoric on the part of presumptive leaders in the race for the Republican leadership.
A great profile of Jim Parsons, Emmy nominated and heavily favored to win for best performance by an actor in a comedy series for his work in The Big Bang Theory, by Mr. Parsons hometown Houston Chronicle.
Chris Pine, seen in New York City Saturday, alongside a mystery male companion (who, by the way, owns the same J.Crew zip cardigan as I) the twosome meandering through the mean streets of the Village, stopping at Union Square Farmer’s Market.
On Friday, failed presidential candidate Mike Huckabee won a straw poll of five Republican 2012 contenders taken at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, an anti-gay, archly conservative Christian coalition meeting in Washington, D.C. Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, addressed the conference, saying, “there are so many people who told us a conservatives that we should move to the center, on the sanctity of marriage or the sanctity of life,” adding that he was not certain “the center makes a whole lot of sense when it’s coming from people who certainly don’t have out interest, or our country’s interest, at heart.” Although early, Huckabee’s statements underline an unwillingness to detach from the anti-gay, anti-choice rhetoric on the part of presumptive leaders in the race for the Republican leadership.
A great profile of Jim Parsons, Emmy nominated and heavily favored to win for best performance by an actor in a comedy series for his work in The Big Bang Theory, by Mr. Parsons hometown Houston Chronicle.
Chris Pine, seen in New York City Saturday, alongside a mystery male companion (who, by the way, owns the same J.Crew zip cardigan as I) the twosome meandering through the mean streets of the Village, stopping at Union Square Farmer’s Market.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Belgrade Pride Parade Cancelled, Canadian Queer Hall Of Fame Induction, Jim Parsons Picked To Win Emmy, Host Neil Patrick Harris Will Do Dr. Horrible
Amid threats of violence and admittance by the government that, although offering protection, could do little to guarantee absolute safety, the organizers of the Belgrade Gay Pride Parade have cancelled the event. The parade, which was to be the first in Serbia since 2001, was scheduled for Sunday, but Saturday organizer Dragana Vuckovic said that Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic “handed us a paper informing us that the parade was not possible (in central Belgrade) because the risks were too high.” She added that the police had suggested that in order to minimize security breaches and prevent violence, the parade be held in a field, but Vuckovic said that “would be unacceptable for us.” The ultra-nationalist Serb Popular Movement 1389, a terrorist group who threatened participants, said that the cancellation was “a great victory for normal Serbia,” and that “in our city, infidels and Satanists will not pass.”
The Canadian Queer Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, the center created, according to Hall Chairmen Paul Therien, to mark the 40th anniversary of Canada decrimalizing homosexuality. Toward that end, one of the five inaugural inductees was former Primer Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, instrumental in helping to change the law in 1969, Trudeau famously announcing that “there’s no place for the state in the bedroom’s of the nation.”
Jim Parsons, so seriously sexy, on hand Thursday at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards nominee’s reception, the terribly talented Mr. Parsons nominated for his work on The Big Bang Theory for best actor in a comedy series, and I believe that Parsons will win.
The host of Sunday’s Emmy Awards ceremony, the as sexy and as talented Mr. Neil Patrick Harris will – yes, will – treat viewers to a Dr. Horrible themed song and dance production number midway through the show!
The Canadian Queer Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, the center created, according to Hall Chairmen Paul Therien, to mark the 40th anniversary of Canada decrimalizing homosexuality. Toward that end, one of the five inaugural inductees was former Primer Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, instrumental in helping to change the law in 1969, Trudeau famously announcing that “there’s no place for the state in the bedroom’s of the nation.”
Jim Parsons, so seriously sexy, on hand Thursday at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards nominee’s reception, the terribly talented Mr. Parsons nominated for his work on The Big Bang Theory for best actor in a comedy series, and I believe that Parsons will win.
The host of Sunday’s Emmy Awards ceremony, the as sexy and as talented Mr. Neil Patrick Harris will – yes, will – treat viewers to a Dr. Horrible themed song and dance production number midway through the show!
Canadian Human Rights Museum CEO An Anti-Gay Politician, Tom Ford Talks A Single Man, Adam Lambert And Drake LaBry Pink Up, Robert Pattison
Last week Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed fellow Conservative Stuart Murray Chairman of the new national museum, the Canadian Human Rights Museum to be built by 2012 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and to suggest that the selection of Murray, the former leader of the Manitoba Conservative’s who chronically voted against gay rights, inexplicable, would be an gross understatement. In 2002, Murray led his caucus in voting as a block against a proposed NDP bill that would have extended the right to adopt to gays and lesbians. In an effort to quell the growing outrage over the appointment, Murray released a statement Thursday that in part read “I welcome the opportunity to meet with representatives from the LGBT community to a meeting at their earliest convenience to introduce myself to them, and to hear directly about their concerns.”
Tom Ford talks about A Single Man, his luminous, thoughtful directorial debut that almost never was.
Adam Lambert and boyfriend Drake LaBry, seriously sexy each, attended the Pink concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California Friday night, seen leaving, and while I’m not necessarily a fan of the suspenders over an undershirt look, Drake somehow makes it work.
Robert Pattinson, out and about Friday evening in Vancouver, British Columbia, seen leaving an Eclipse cast party, walking in the rain.
Tom Ford talks about A Single Man, his luminous, thoughtful directorial debut that almost never was.
Adam Lambert and boyfriend Drake LaBry, seriously sexy each, attended the Pink concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California Friday night, seen leaving, and while I’m not necessarily a fan of the suspenders over an undershirt look, Drake somehow makes it work.
Robert Pattinson, out and about Friday evening in Vancouver, British Columbia, seen leaving an Eclipse cast party, walking in the rain.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Gavin Newsome A New Daddy, Zac Efron Calendar Boy, Deuix du Stade Calendar, Ben Affleck Muscular Man In Blue, Brad Pitt Light In Loafers
Congratulations to San Francisco Mayor and likely candidate for governor of California Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer, who welcomed a baby girl into the world Friday afternoon at approximately 12:39PM. Montana Tessa Newsome weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and is the happy couple’s first child. Tessa is the name of the Mayor’s late mother.
The twink calendar for 2010 - maybe for the ages - is without question the one belonging to Zac Efron, which reduces Mr. Efron to a seventeen year old.
The antithesis of that calendar is the 2010 Dieux du Stade, a loving look at Europe’s most sexy rugby players, a necessity, all in the name of charity no less.
Ben Affleck on the Boston set of this new film, The Town, which Affleck is directing as well as starring in, alongside the great Jon Hamm, the equally great Jeremy Renner, and the as equally great Blake Lively, Ben being the hot cop.
Brad Pitt, meanwhile, Friday evening attending the 57th annual San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain, Friday being all fabulous, faking jazz hands while rocking some seriously fashionable black monogrammed suede loafers.
The twink calendar for 2010 - maybe for the ages - is without question the one belonging to Zac Efron, which reduces Mr. Efron to a seventeen year old.
The antithesis of that calendar is the 2010 Dieux du Stade, a loving look at Europe’s most sexy rugby players, a necessity, all in the name of charity no less.
Ben Affleck on the Boston set of this new film, The Town, which Affleck is directing as well as starring in, alongside the great Jon Hamm, the equally great Jeremy Renner, and the as equally great Blake Lively, Ben being the hot cop.
Brad Pitt, meanwhile, Friday evening attending the 57th annual San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain, Friday being all fabulous, faking jazz hands while rocking some seriously fashionable black monogrammed suede loafers.
Serbia Promise Gays Protection, Gay Job Fair In New York City, Poll Suggests Support For Gay Marriage In Maine Dropping, Carrie Prejean Hears Voices
Thursday, government officials in Serbia offered a guarantee to protect participants in this Sunday’s scheduled gay pride parade in Belgrade. The government intends to deploy thousands of police officers to defend against the threat of violence by right wing extremists.
A report on a job fair held in New York City – the Out to Work job fair, for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered. The fair, which was started to attract employees to gay friendly employers using the Human Right Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, which evaluates workplaces and assigns grades, attracted about 2,500 people, who lined up, resumes in hand, to meet with representatives from AT&T, HBO, and the Gay Men’s Heath Crisis Center.
A poll conducted by Daily Kos and Research 2000 found that support for gay marriage has fallen off by a small margin in Maine, by given the results last year in California, the results have worried gay activists.
Carrie Prejean, addressing an audience at the Values Voters Summit, a conservative coalition in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, said of her answer opposing gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant that ultimately cost her not only that title, but her Miss California crown, that she was “so proud of the answer that I gave. God chose me for that moment.” When asked at the Miss USA contest whether she supported gay marriage or not, Prejean responded that she believed “that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
A report on a job fair held in New York City – the Out to Work job fair, for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered. The fair, which was started to attract employees to gay friendly employers using the Human Right Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, which evaluates workplaces and assigns grades, attracted about 2,500 people, who lined up, resumes in hand, to meet with representatives from AT&T, HBO, and the Gay Men’s Heath Crisis Center.
A poll conducted by Daily Kos and Research 2000 found that support for gay marriage has fallen off by a small margin in Maine, by given the results last year in California, the results have worried gay activists.
Carrie Prejean, addressing an audience at the Values Voters Summit, a conservative coalition in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, said of her answer opposing gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant that ultimately cost her not only that title, but her Miss California crown, that she was “so proud of the answer that I gave. God chose me for that moment.” When asked at the Miss USA contest whether she supported gay marriage or not, Prejean responded that she believed “that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Nancy Pelosi Evokes Harvey Milk Memory, Scary Oath Keepers, Insurance Company Fined For Dropping HIV+ Teen, Lindsay Lohan, Dirty Matt Dallas
Nancy Pelosi, the United States Speaker of the House, speaking at a press conference Thursday morning in Washington, addressed a question about the current environment of political discourse, an environment whose tone was punctuated by last week’s outburst of South Carolina Republican Representative Joe Wilson, who yelled “You lie” during President Obama’s speech to Congress. Pelosi began by saying “we are a free country, and this balance between freedom and safety is one that we have to carefully balance,” then added, emotionally, “I saw this, myself, in the late ‘70’s in San Francisco. This kind of rhetoric was very frightening, and it created a climate in which violence took place," Pelosi clearly evoking the image of assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, both of whom were killed by former supervisor Dan White on November 27th, 1978.
Toward that end, perfectly encapsulating Pelosi’s real fear, meet the men and women of the Oath Keepers, an American anti-government group whose philosophical stance of paranoia and racism is wildly at odds with reality.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina has ordered Fortis Insurance to pay ten million dollars in damages for a decision to revoke the coverage of Jerome Mitchell, who, one year after applying and receiving a policy, tried to donate blood to the Red Cross only to discover that he was HIV positive. Fortis, arguing that Mitchell, 17 years old at the time, misrepresented his medial history, rescinding the plan, an act the Judge, during her ruling on Thursday, deemed “reprehensible.”
As inexplicable though it may seem, the House of Ungaro interviewed a number of celebrities, Madonna and Paris Hilton among them, before opting for Lindsay Lohan as the fashion label’s new muse. Lohan will bring a style that is “something younger, more cool, with a different attitude,” said President Mounir Moufarrige Wednesday, adding that “she will be a travelling advertisement.”
Tyler Shields, photographing Matt Dallas, who was last seen on date with his boyfriend, in dirt, the behind the scenes video as disturbing as it is dirty.
Toward that end, perfectly encapsulating Pelosi’s real fear, meet the men and women of the Oath Keepers, an American anti-government group whose philosophical stance of paranoia and racism is wildly at odds with reality.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina has ordered Fortis Insurance to pay ten million dollars in damages for a decision to revoke the coverage of Jerome Mitchell, who, one year after applying and receiving a policy, tried to donate blood to the Red Cross only to discover that he was HIV positive. Fortis, arguing that Mitchell, 17 years old at the time, misrepresented his medial history, rescinding the plan, an act the Judge, during her ruling on Thursday, deemed “reprehensible.”
As inexplicable though it may seem, the House of Ungaro interviewed a number of celebrities, Madonna and Paris Hilton among them, before opting for Lindsay Lohan as the fashion label’s new muse. Lohan will bring a style that is “something younger, more cool, with a different attitude,” said President Mounir Moufarrige Wednesday, adding that “she will be a travelling advertisement.”
Tyler Shields, photographing Matt Dallas, who was last seen on date with his boyfriend, in dirt, the behind the scenes video as disturbing as it is dirty.
Arrest Made In Annie Le Murder, Anti-Gay Senator Posed Nude, Chace Crawford Hearts Taylor Swift, Kellan Lutz Hearts Himself, I Heart Brad Goreski
The Hartford Courant is reporting that police have arrested Raymond Clark III and charged the Yale University lab technician with the murder of Annie Le, the Yale graduate student whose body was discovered hidden inside two foot crawl space at a lab on campus this past Sunday. She had been missing for days. The arrest was made early Thursday morning at a motel in Cromwell, Connecticut without incident, Clark appearing before a judge where the charges against him were read and where bail was set at three million dollars.
According to Newsweek, anti-gay Massachusetts Republican state senator Scott Brown, who is running for the United States Senate seat of the late Edward Kennedy posed nude for Cosmopolitan when he was a 22 year old law student at Boston College. Brown likes to cultivate a reputation as a social conservative, who voted for an amendment in 2007 banning gay marriage.
According to US Weekly, Chace Crawford came to the defense of Taylor Swift, saying “I’m so proud of you. Don’t let anyone ever take your spotlight ever again.” Chace Crawford: always with the sound advice.
Kellan Lutz, in a Vancouver, British Columbia gym, loves his look a little too much.
Brad Goreski, Mr. Geek Sexy himself, at Marchesa spring/summer 2010 show as a part of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, next to Rachel Zoe.
According to Newsweek, anti-gay Massachusetts Republican state senator Scott Brown, who is running for the United States Senate seat of the late Edward Kennedy posed nude for Cosmopolitan when he was a 22 year old law student at Boston College. Brown likes to cultivate a reputation as a social conservative, who voted for an amendment in 2007 banning gay marriage.
According to US Weekly, Chace Crawford came to the defense of Taylor Swift, saying “I’m so proud of you. Don’t let anyone ever take your spotlight ever again.” Chace Crawford: always with the sound advice.
Kellan Lutz, in a Vancouver, British Columbia gym, loves his look a little too much.
Brad Goreski, Mr. Geek Sexy himself, at Marchesa spring/summer 2010 show as a part of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, next to Rachel Zoe.
Calgary Lawyer Argues Anti-Gay Rhetoric Free Speech, Indonesia Aceh Passes Gay Lashing Law, Tampa Police Chief Openly Gay Female, Nashville Protects
An attorney in Calgary, Alberta, on Wednesday, appealing a decision made against right wing Reverend Stephen Boissoin by the provinces Human Rights Commission which ruled that a letter Mr. Boissoin sent to the Red Deer Advocate in 2002 arguing that “homosexual right activists those who defend them are just as immoral as pedophiles, drug dealer, and pimps who plague our communities” was hate speech, has in turn agued that the letter was actually an exercise in free speech. Gerry Chipeur told the court that the letter did not violate the Alberta human rights code, and that “nobody should have to the power to use the tools that are available to the state, to use the police powers of the state, to prosecute someone else who they disagree with,” implying that silencing Mr. Boission’s dangerous, hateful, inflammatory rhetoric was government censorship.
Legislators in the tiny conservative Indonesia province of Aceh who in a few weeks are to be replaced by a more moderate, modern government, implemented horrific morality based laws Monday, including a law that adulterers can be stoned to death and that homosexuality is punishable by public lashings and up to eight years in prison. Human rights groups were quick to point out that the laws all violate international treaties signed by Indonesia that protects the rights of women and of minorities, but it remains unclear as to whether the new government will be forced to subscribe to the new laws.
Tampa, Florida Mayor Pam Iorio appointed Tampa native Jane Castor the city’s next police chief, not only news because Castor becomes the city’s first female police chief, but because she becomes the city’s first female, openly gay mother of two police chief.
In Nashville, Tennessee Tuesday, the city council passed an ordinance that guarantees all current and future city employees protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Legislators in the tiny conservative Indonesia province of Aceh who in a few weeks are to be replaced by a more moderate, modern government, implemented horrific morality based laws Monday, including a law that adulterers can be stoned to death and that homosexuality is punishable by public lashings and up to eight years in prison. Human rights groups were quick to point out that the laws all violate international treaties signed by Indonesia that protects the rights of women and of minorities, but it remains unclear as to whether the new government will be forced to subscribe to the new laws.
Tampa, Florida Mayor Pam Iorio appointed Tampa native Jane Castor the city’s next police chief, not only news because Castor becomes the city’s first female police chief, but because she becomes the city’s first female, openly gay mother of two police chief.
In Nashville, Tennessee Tuesday, the city council passed an ordinance that guarantees all current and future city employees protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Mary Travers, Henry Gibson, Maritime Girls Hockey Team Recognized For Fighting Homophobia, Chad White, Kerry Degman, Josh Hartnett, Mario Lopez
Mary Travers has died. She was 72. Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary, an important influence on the development of the socially conscious folk music of the late 1950’ and 1960’s, was also critical in the birthing the popularity of bohemian counterculture, a style sans artifice borrowed from artist as seemingly disparate as Nico, Marianne Faithful, and Kim Gordon.
Henry Gibson has died. He was 73. Gibson, the definition of underrated, was one of the original members of the television revolution that was Laugh-In, the show airing on NBC from 1968 to 1973, Henry famously playing a poet. He appeared in Robert Altman’s ensemble landmark 1975 film Nashville, as well as in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 film Magnolia.
The Woodstock High School Lady Thunder girls hockey team has been awarded the 2009 New Brunswick Human Rights Award for its efforts to stand up to homophobia. Two of the players – Alyssa McLean and Sierra Paul – were about to be outed online, and chose to come out to the team, all of whom fully supported the two. However, other teams were not supportive, subjected the players to anti-gay slurs, and refusing to shake hands wit the two. The team responded with button, rainbow colored, the word homophobia drawn with a line through it. Jami Manderville, a teammate, said of the effort, “we are not only a team, but we are a family and families stick together and stand up for each other no matter what.” The chairman of the provincial Human Rights Commission, Gordon Porter, said “the way in which there young women responded to these incidents by promoting respect and acceptance for sexual orientation diversity within their hockey league serves as a model for the promotion of human right among youth.”
Model madness backstage at the Commonwealth Utilities show this past Sunday, a part of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Kerry Degman and Chad White striking an oh so sexy pose.
Josh Hartnett does German GQ.
Nip/Tuck, which begins its sixth season October 14th, welcomes back Mario Lopez, who reprises his role as Doctor Mike Hamoui, Lopez as Hamoui loving him some leather and lingerie.
Henry Gibson has died. He was 73. Gibson, the definition of underrated, was one of the original members of the television revolution that was Laugh-In, the show airing on NBC from 1968 to 1973, Henry famously playing a poet. He appeared in Robert Altman’s ensemble landmark 1975 film Nashville, as well as in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 film Magnolia.
The Woodstock High School Lady Thunder girls hockey team has been awarded the 2009 New Brunswick Human Rights Award for its efforts to stand up to homophobia. Two of the players – Alyssa McLean and Sierra Paul – were about to be outed online, and chose to come out to the team, all of whom fully supported the two. However, other teams were not supportive, subjected the players to anti-gay slurs, and refusing to shake hands wit the two. The team responded with button, rainbow colored, the word homophobia drawn with a line through it. Jami Manderville, a teammate, said of the effort, “we are not only a team, but we are a family and families stick together and stand up for each other no matter what.” The chairman of the provincial Human Rights Commission, Gordon Porter, said “the way in which there young women responded to these incidents by promoting respect and acceptance for sexual orientation diversity within their hockey league serves as a model for the promotion of human right among youth.”
Model madness backstage at the Commonwealth Utilities show this past Sunday, a part of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Kerry Degman and Chad White striking an oh so sexy pose.
Josh Hartnett does German GQ.
Nip/Tuck, which begins its sixth season October 14th, welcomes back Mario Lopez, who reprises his role as Doctor Mike Hamoui, Lopez as Hamoui loving him some leather and lingerie.
George Takei Plays Newlywed Game, Adam Shankman, Tom Ford Promised Oscar, Piven Monologues Threatened, James Franco, Robbie Williams, Madonna
Husband and husband George Takei and Brad Altman will be revolutionaries once more, albeit pop cultural ones, the two becoming the first gay couple to ever on the iconic Newlywed Game, when the show, which debuted in 1966, is revamped for the Game Show Network beginning October 12th. Takei said both he and Brad were thrilled, adding that “it's pretty historic for us. It’s going to be a great experience for both of us to see how well we really know each other after 22 years together.”
Adam Shankman will be joining So You Think You Can Dance as a regular judge beginning with the October 27th episode. Shankman, who has been a guest judge, will join Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, whom I love, against my better judgment.
Thankfully, Tom Ford’s directorial debut, the award winning A Single Man, has found distribution, the Weinstein Company picking up the film and announcing it would be heavily promoted for Oscar consideration, , in fact the Oscar angle played a pivotal part in securing the rights to the movie, Harvey Weinstein paying a paltry two million dollars, plus promises of an Academy Award.
Jeremy Piven has, in a moment straight from Seinfeld, hired an attorney seeking a cease and desist order be served to the producers of The Piven Monologues, a Public Theater offering of all the best moments of the pretend actor’s sudden departure from Speed-the-Plow, because, Piven, claimed, his mercury levels had risen to toxic levels after ingesting a diet rich in raw fish.
James Franco covers VMAN.
Robbie Williams was seen in Paris, weaving through a hotel lobby, wearing silk pajamas and a robe, carrying a light saber, all of which is either far more or far less than you or anyone needs to know.
A dressed down Madonna and Jesus – wearing a Rocky tee shirt – join photographer Steve Klein for dinner in New York City on Tuesday night.
Adam Shankman will be joining So You Think You Can Dance as a regular judge beginning with the October 27th episode. Shankman, who has been a guest judge, will join Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, whom I love, against my better judgment.
Thankfully, Tom Ford’s directorial debut, the award winning A Single Man, has found distribution, the Weinstein Company picking up the film and announcing it would be heavily promoted for Oscar consideration, , in fact the Oscar angle played a pivotal part in securing the rights to the movie, Harvey Weinstein paying a paltry two million dollars, plus promises of an Academy Award.
Jeremy Piven has, in a moment straight from Seinfeld, hired an attorney seeking a cease and desist order be served to the producers of The Piven Monologues, a Public Theater offering of all the best moments of the pretend actor’s sudden departure from Speed-the-Plow, because, Piven, claimed, his mercury levels had risen to toxic levels after ingesting a diet rich in raw fish.
James Franco covers VMAN.
Robbie Williams was seen in Paris, weaving through a hotel lobby, wearing silk pajamas and a robe, carrying a light saber, all of which is either far more or far less than you or anyone needs to know.
A dressed down Madonna and Jesus – wearing a Rocky tee shirt – join photographer Steve Klein for dinner in New York City on Tuesday night.
London Ontario Gay Basher Hailed As Hero Three Months Ago
Another update on Alexander Myros, the twenty-two year old wanted in connection with the gay bashing in London, Ontario on September 8 that left Brandon Wright badly beaten, barely able to jump from a moving vehicle for his life. A warrant was issued Tuesday for Myros, a former member of the London Silverbacks, an amateur football team, and an affiliate of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, wanted for aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, forcible confinement, and two counts of uttering death threats. London Police Services believe Myros has made his way to Western Canada. The police also confirm that the incident is being investigated as a hate crime – Myros repeatedly said to Wright during the attack “I’m going to kill you, you stupid faggot.”
The London Free Press is reporting that in June, on a Silverbacks’ trip back from a game in Indianapolis, Myros and two other members of the team were heros, rescuing a brother and sister from a burning SUV that had just blown a tire and hit the back of the team’s Greyhound bus. Myros, for his effort, received the Red Cross Rescuers Award, along with his two teammates. He was cut from the football team September 1st.
The London Free Press is reporting that in June, on a Silverbacks’ trip back from a game in Indianapolis, Myros and two other members of the team were heros, rescuing a brother and sister from a burning SUV that had just blown a tire and hit the back of the team’s Greyhound bus. Myros, for his effort, received the Red Cross Rescuers Award, along with his two teammates. He was cut from the football team September 1st.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Warrant Issued For Suspect In London Ontario Bashing, Uruguay Adoption Law Likely Anti-Gay, Nicole Kidman As Transsexual. Eddie Izzard, Zachary Quinto
Late Tuesday, London Police Services issued an arrest warrant for Alexander Myros, twenty-two, wanted in connection with the gay bashing on September 8th of Brandon Wright in the southwestern Ontario city. Police stated that they do not know the exact whereabouts of Myros, but believe he has fled to Western Canada.
The Associated Press is reporting that the new law in Uruguay initially thought to allow gay men and women to adopt might be the antithesis of a pro-gay bill, expressly forbidding gays from adopting. According to the AP, as written “the enables couples in civil unions to adopt children without impediment. Since the country allows gays to enter into civil unions, activists assumed that the legislation would permit gays to adopt. However, the law also states that children must take the surname of both the mother and father, and that clause concerns many, who see it a way for the courts to obstruct homosexuals from adopting.
The Danish Girl, the movie based on the book of the same name that I posted about previously, starring Nicole Kidman as the first person to undergo a sex change operation, transitioning from male to female in 1931, will now be directed by Tom as Alfredson, but will now longer co-star Charlize Theron.
Eddie Izzard completed the equivalent of running 43 marathons in 51 days, crossing the finishing line Tuesday in Trafalgar Square, London, raising an astonishing amount of over 300,000 dollars for Sport Relief.
Zachary Quinto, seen out and about today in Los Angeles, California, in his Silver Lake neighborhood, on a lunch run for two.
The Associated Press is reporting that the new law in Uruguay initially thought to allow gay men and women to adopt might be the antithesis of a pro-gay bill, expressly forbidding gays from adopting. According to the AP, as written “the enables couples in civil unions to adopt children without impediment. Since the country allows gays to enter into civil unions, activists assumed that the legislation would permit gays to adopt. However, the law also states that children must take the surname of both the mother and father, and that clause concerns many, who see it a way for the courts to obstruct homosexuals from adopting.
The Danish Girl, the movie based on the book of the same name that I posted about previously, starring Nicole Kidman as the first person to undergo a sex change operation, transitioning from male to female in 1931, will now be directed by Tom as Alfredson, but will now longer co-star Charlize Theron.
Eddie Izzard completed the equivalent of running 43 marathons in 51 days, crossing the finishing line Tuesday in Trafalgar Square, London, raising an astonishing amount of over 300,000 dollars for Sport Relief.
Zachary Quinto, seen out and about today in Los Angeles, California, in his Silver Lake neighborhood, on a lunch run for two.
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