The New York Times reports on a disturbing new obstacle for gays seeking asylum in the United States: applicants being dismissed as being not gay enough. “Judges and immigrations officials are adding a new hurdle in gay asylum cases that an applicant’s homosexuality must be socially visible,” said Lori Adams, a lawyer at Human Rights First, a non-profit group, who advises people seeking asylum based on sexuality. “The rationale is that if you don’t look obviously gay, you can go home and hide your sexuality and don’t need to be worried about being persecuted.”
The Holland Sentinel on changes made on Hope College, the Michigan-based private Christian college’s Board of Trustees Friday announcing a new statement on Human Sexuality, replacing a now 16 year old Institutional Statement on Homosexuality, adopting in 1995. The action arrives after an unsuccessful attempt to hold a public address on campus by Dustin Lance Black that was to be preceded by a screening of Milk. The new policy is actually not an improvement on the old, the Position on Human Sexuality reading in part that “This biblical witness calls us to life of chastity among the unmarried and the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman ... Accordingly Hope College will not recognize or support campus groups whose aim by statement, practice, or intimation is to promote a vision of human sexuality that is contrary to this understanding of biblical teaching.”
Jonathan Knight has officially come out, Pink is the New Blog reporting that after Tiffany “accidentally” outed the New Kids on the Block singer (two years after an ex-boyfriend did the same during an article in the National Enquirer) Knight posted a blog entry on his official Web site that he is, indeed gay. The entry, in full, reads “To all my fans who have expressed concern: I have never been outed by anyone but myself. I did so almost twenty years ago. I never knew that I would have to do it all over again publicly just because I reunited with NKOTB! I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the pre requisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption, ‘I am gay’. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected! My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine! If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn’t even know me! I love living my life being open and honest, but at this time I choose not to discuss my private life any further! My fellow band members don’t discuss their private lives with their loved ones and I don’t feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine! Jonathan” And yes, Jonathan Knight knows he employs the exclamation point a tad too much.
Jonathan Groff was a special guest of the Broadway Artists Alliance for a special Glee-themed master class, Broadway World with the pictorial documentation of the very cute (and out) Groff and the young students.
Jay Cutler, scruffy and scowling, spotted in Los Angeles sans limp.
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