Exciting news from the Washington Post, who calculates via a survey that there at least 20 votes available from Maryland senators who have publicly committed to supporting a bill to come to the floor of the Senate in the coming weeks to legalize same sex marriage, the bill requiring 24 yes votes to pass in chamber. A hearing on the legislation is scheduled in the Judicial Proceedings Committee next week, where a majority of members have indicated that they will send the bill to the floor. Among those declaring support for the bill, Senator Allan H. Kittleman (Republican-Howard), who said he was prepared to break with party lines.
Italian researchers who specialize in solving art mysteries said Wednesday that they have discovered the disputed identity of the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and that the model was a man, the AFP reports. Silvano Vinceti, chairman of the Italian national committee for cultural heritage, said that the Florence-born Renaissance artist’s male apprentice and likely love Salai was the main inspiration for the famed painting. Salai, whose real name was Gain Giacomo Caprotti, was allegedly an effeminate young artist who worked with da Vinci for 25 years, and is thought to serve as model and muse for several of his works. Almost immediately, the claim was disputed by experts at the Louvre, where the painting hangs.
The Georgia Voice interviews Clay Aiken, currently on his “Tired and True” tour. Aiken discusses coming out, and explains that like New Kids on the Block singer Jonathan Knight, who recently confirmed what was an open secret kept for several years, like Knight, Aiken was never really in. “There was this misconception that I was not out,” he says. “I was in ‘Spamalot’ and everyone knew, but I don’t necessarily want to sit at a table with strangers and tell them. When you come out, you do it with people you are comfortable with.” Aiken concedes that coming out has made little difference in his career. A few people might have been surprised, he says, but it has had no adverse affect. “I definitely do see the liberation and understand the rationalization of people wanting me to be out,” he says. “On the other hand, I wouldn’t say that coming out has made me happier because that implies I was not happy before and I was.”
The wonderful – and wondrous - Born This Way blog, a photo-essay project for gay adults to submit pictures from their childhood, snapshots that capture them, innocently, that show the beginnings of the innate gay selves. It is frequently very funny, and often poignant.
The pretty Alex Pettyfer spotted in Miami Beach Thursday acting the tease.
The rubber-suited Andrew Garfield and his curiously cute buttocks seen on the Los Angeles set of the Spider-Man reboot movie, performing some oddly homo-erotic manoeuvres on a co-star.
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