Meet Eugene A. Delgaudio, a Republican, and a Loudoun County Virginia Supervisor, an ignorant individual so spectacularly stupid it does defy logic. On January 6th, the board of supervisors voted to expand and strengthen the County’s non-discrimination policy to include an ordinance prohibiting county employment bias on the basis of sexual orientation. At the meeting, Delgaudio opposed, offended he said by the language in the measure to include protections for the transgendered. He suggested the extension to cover transgendered was ”bizarre” and "freaky.” Later, in a letter to supporters, Delgaudio, playing to the crowd, wrote “if a man dressed as a woman wants a jobs, you have to treat ‘it’ the same as a normal person.” Subsequent to the supervisor’s remarks, the Loudoun Times-Mirror editorial board wrote that the supervisor should apologize, suggesting he served as an embarrassment to the image of the county. The board too, called for him to issue an apology, James Burton, an Independent, said Delgaudio had “conducted himself in a manner best described in my opinion as histrionic, and his choice of words were and should have been an embarrassment to this board and to the county.” Burton added that the use of the word ‘it’ was ‘demeaning, insulting and dehumanizing.” Delgaudio issued a statement, as insulting and offensive as his initial remarks, saying “with apologies to the real-life Tootsies” and “to all their defenders who are calling me all sorts of names and, like Mr. Burton, are saying I should apologize.” He then turned to James Burton and said, “Lady doth protest too much.”
A rumoured protest in Park City, Utah, outside of the Sundance screening of 8: The Mormon Proposition failed to materialize Sunday. On Friday,
America Forever, a Utah based anti-gay group, issued thousands of faxes denouncing the film and the festival, but they too were no shows. The film examines the unprecedented influence and involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in passing
Proposition 8, the California voter amendment that repealed a gay marriage law.
James Franco and Jon Hamm at the Sundance Film Festival screening of Howl, Franco starring as the beat poet Allen Ginsberg and at a press conference the two actors asked about
Proposition 8, the two cute, smart advocates for gay equality.
Tim Tebow is unapologetic about his appearance in an anti-abortion advertisement for the anti-gay group Focus on the Family, the thirty second spot scheduled to air during the Super Bowl on February 7th. Tebow, who intends to enter the NFL draft this year, said “I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe, and I’m never shy about that. I don’t feel like I’m very preachy about it, but I do stand up for what I believe. Unfortunately in today’s society not many athletes tend to do that. So I’m just standing for something.”
Ryan Gosling, Sunday at Sundance, at Park City, Utah, attending the premier of
Blue Valentine, co-starring Michelle Williams, which Gosling says is an erotic thriller, the tale of an unhappy couple who take to a theme hotel to live their relationship over from the beginning.
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