United States Joints Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen Tuesday told a Senate panel hearing on the military policy banning gays from serving openly that now was the time to repeal the ban, that it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force individuals to “lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.” Mullen appeared alongside Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who announced plans to remove the third-party accusation rule applicable to the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy” and to begin a year-long study into dismantled the policy. Congress, and only Congress, which passed the law under the Clinton administration in 1993, must now pass a new law to overturn the current one.
Galileo Capital Management, an investment banking firm founded by Anders Jacobsen and Paul Thompson, both openly gay, announced that they are starting LGBT Capital, a specialist corporate advisory and investment management division that will exclusively concentrate on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender consumer market. LGBT Capital will also develop a fund to invest in companies worldwide that provide products and offer services to the gay community.
HBO is reportedly in negotiations with Sex and the City creator Darren Star to develop a biopic about Anita Bryant. Bryant, a Miss America runner-up, was later a pop star, then spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission, before being born-again, and targeting gays with the most insidious type of hatred, contributing in large part to a culture that believed gay men and women recruited children, since, in Bryant’s brain, gays could not biologically reproduce.
The Academy Award nominations were announced Tuesday, Avatar and The Hurt Locker leading with nine nominations each, including best picture, in the recently re-expanded category. Precious earned six nominations, including best picture, best actress, best director, and best supporting actress. Colin Firth earned a nomination for best actor based on his work in A Single Man. Not surprisingly, but still stupid, Sandra Bullock earned a nomination for best actress. A welcomed surprise was a best supporting actress nomination for Maggie Gyllenhaal. Some of the nominations were leaked late last night by ABC.com, the network televising the 82nd Oscars on March 7th.
The first issue of Supplementaire has been published, featuring a sexy, sandy editorial by photographer Kemuel Valdes and a very nude Mason. (NSFW)
Sergio, Big Brother Brazil’s openly gay and very cute contestant, tans nude après swimming. (NSFW)
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