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From the comments section of the above thread, I discovered "a really nice web-comic about queer youth at www.khaoskomix.com with a very friendly community on the forum" -- I read through the various pages last night, and was not only impressed, but charmed. I can see it being of interest to queer/questioning youth with limited access to other resources (or even just to read for fun). So much so, that I'm gonna re-post this in the Queer studies: a suggested reading list thread.
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Site Lauches To Out DC Priests
| Quote: | Washington DC activist and JMG reader Phil Attey has launched ChurchOuting.org, a site intended to publicize the names of Catholic priests who are socially out but professionally closeted. Via press release:
| Quote: | A new local Internet and social media campaign was launched today in response to increasing anti-gay attacks by Archbishop Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington and to a 57 page Pastoral Letter, which was passed today by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) affirming the national church leadership’s opposition to recognition of civil marriage between same sex couples.
ChurchOuting.org is a clearinghouse for reports of priests who are openly gay men in social settings yet professionally closeted in their parishes. The campaign will also accept reports of heterosexual priests who are involved in romantic or sexual relationships, yet support the Archbishop's efforts to harm lesbian and gay families. “Their silence is criminal,” said Phil Attey, founder of ChurchOuting.org. “The increasing anti-gay attacks by the Archbishop and the USCCB not only harm gay and lesbian families seeking civil marriage recognition, but perpetuate the cycle of spiritual and emotional abuse that has harmed countless LGBT Catholic youth for generations.“
ChurchOuting.org provides an easy to use form to privately report priests in the Archdiocese who engage in romantic or sexual relationships, including detailed stories if available. Reports, once verified, will be used to pressure reported priests to vocally oppose the leadership’s anti-gay efforts, and ultimately to pressure the Archbishop to stop his anti-gay efforts here in Washington. |
Attey: "The Church hierarchy has crossed the line in diverting the mission of the church from helping the poor and caring for the sick to waging political campaigns to strip LGBT citizens of civil rights protections. We can no longer remain silent while this happens. Nor can our parish priests." |
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Publicly, and all, apparently... Lambert shocks, titillates crowd, gives ABC network a stroke at AMA ballyhoo by simulating fellatio with male dancer, "frenching" male keyboardist
| Quote: | ... The racy performance may have been too much for ABC - during some portions of the performance, the camera cut away from Adam's moves during the East Coast broadcast.
At least one celeb had to turn off the TV -- Sherri Shepherd, who Tweeted, "Did Adam Lambert just grind some dude's head in his crotch.... TO MY NIECE... GO TO BED NOW!
"And did Adam Lambert slip the tongue to one of his dancers???? Whoa... Celibate woman here... turning off t.v. now... somebody else recap," she continued. |
lol... and Sherri Shepherd's continued homophobia is no surprise -- I have never heard her complain about the endless cases of simulated heterosexual sex to be found everywhere you look on television, including mid-afternoon soap operas...
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Reaction to Lambert's appearance @ AMA event: Elisabeth Hasselbeck (the View) hated it, Rolling Stone loved it, Lambert thought there's a blatant double-standard
| Quote: | | ... “It’s a shame because I think that there’s a double standard going on in the entertainment community right now,” Lambert tells RS backstage after the show at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre. “Female performers have been doing this for years — pushing the envelope about sexuality — and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. We’re in 2009; it’s time to take risks, be a little more brave, time to open people’s eyes and if it offends them, then maybe I’m not for them. My goal was not to piss people off, it was to promote freedom of expression and artistic freedom.” If ABC opts not to broadcast several of the more risqué moments of “For Your Entertainment” in a few moments, “In a roundabout way it’s a form of discrimination because it is a double standard,” Lambert says. “They didn’t censor Britney and Madonna macking onstage did they? But yet two men kissing they’ll censor?” The famous 2003 Video Music Awards moment Lambert is referring to went down on cable television — on MTV, of course — rather than network television. |
ABC cancels subsequent Lambert appearance; CBS snaps him up
| Quote: | | JMG reader Roman suggests complaining to ABC's parent company Disney via this link. Teenager Miley Cyrus on a stripper pole: OK. Girl-on-girl-on-girl kissing: OK. Overt gay male sexuality? NOT OK. |
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Brian Burke's son, Brendan, comes out
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| Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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CBS promptly proves Lambert is entirely correct: they blur out his man-on-man kiss, then show Britney-Madonna kiss moments later
| Quote: | ... Lambert told CBS Early Show's Maggie Rodriguez in an interview before he performed this morning that he understood why ABC was upset about the performance, but he also said that there's a double standard:
"I think that if it had been a female pop performer doing the moves that were on the stage, I don't think there would be nearly as much of an outrage. At all. Like I said, there were other performers doing risque things. I think it's because I'm a gay male, and people haven't seen that before."
And then what did the Early Show do?
They proved Lambert ABSOLUTELY RIGHT by blurring out the AMA footage of his gay kiss, and showing the Madonna - Britney Spears kiss moments later — while at the same time calling out ABC for editing the AMA footage for the west coast. |
The hypocrisy... it burns!
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| Quote: | | "Female performers have been doing this for years — pushing the envelope about sexuality — and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out." |
And straight people have been swapping spit on national TV for decades. Nobody freaks out about that, do they? |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Tehanu wrote: | | Quote: | | "Female performers have been doing this for years — pushing the envelope about sexuality — and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out." |
And straight people have been swapping spit on national TV for decades. Nobody freaks out about that, do they? |
Well when it goes on toooooo long, I tend to wonder out loud if they are checking each others' molars for little bits of stringy stuff that might be left over from lunch, and then speculating what it might actually be. For the most part, though, I have grown largely immune to it.
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| bagkitty wrote: | | Well when it goes on toooooo long, I tend to wonder out loud if they are checking each others' molars for little bits of stringy stuff that might be left over from lunch, and then speculating what it might actually be. |
Funny thing, that. I asked some of my co-workers about this very thing recently. They assure me that they are not speculating "what it might actually be." Nope. They say they're speculating on if it's still edible. What it might be is a secondary consideration. So they said. One compared it to the Five Second Rule.
I think they may have been joking with me, though. I do.
I had the occasion to watch said kiss. I generally avoid Mr Lambert's efforts on account of they're totally in need of some serious re-mixing. I think the re-mixes may need remixing in order to be properly palatable, but that's just a way of saying that Adam Lambert just isn't my cup of cocoa. But... it's not like I don't encounter news of pretty much everything he does. The smooch was just everywhere the other day and it was most annoying. About half of everyone was on about how "Oooh... that Glambert critter kissed one of his band members on TV."
"Band members?" That's weird. The guy has a name.
Of course, the other half of everyone chattering away about the smooch were aware of the fact that Tom Ratliff has a name. But then they were all on about how he was the keyboardist. Huh. And here I thought Mr. Ratliff played the bass.
So I rooted out video of the thing. That sure is some species of keyboard in his hands. Not much of a kiss, though. More of a peck. I totally kiss better than that. I should be famous. I'd definitely kiss Mr. Ratliff on television and it'd take up more than a few seconds of video. Whatever.
The song the Glambert critter was on about, though... really. My take-away thought after having heard the thing in its entirety was "Why wasn't Lisa Harriton playing keys?" That's a clear sign that something's not right. Time will tell. Perhaps Felipe Guerra can make something worth listening to out of it... or Ranlussy. I wouldn't be surprised if they could. After all, just today I was listening to this tune... some version of 'Poker Face' ... and I said to the cat, "This is absolutely the worst version of Poker Face ever. It is, Your Highness. It's a waste of the electricity powering the noise. Let's make the nasty sounds stop." He agreed, but then His Highness just detests all things GaGa for some reason, and so I did. Entirely by coincidence, this 'worst version ever' was the original product. Ouch.
So... yeah. Were the Glambert critter to take my advice (and he just doesn't) I'd strongly urge him to have Erich Ensastigue fix everything and then just lip-sync the shows. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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CBS has responded with a really lame excuse:
| Quote: | | "We gave this some real thought. The Madonna image is very familiar and has appeared countless times, including many times on morning television. The Adam Lambert image is a subject of great current controversy, has not been nearly as widely disseminated and, for all we know, may still lead to legal consequences." |
ETA: here's the CBS News feedback form:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml
Also, their telephone #: 212-975-4321
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| Quote: | | The Adam Lambert image is a subject of great current controversy, has not been nearly as widely disseminated and, for all we know, may still lead to legal consequences. |
Legal consequences? What legal consequences? |
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| Tehanu wrote: | | Quote: | | The Adam Lambert image is a subject of great current controversy, has not been nearly as widely disseminated and, for all we know, may still lead to legal consequences. |
Legal consequences? What legal consequences? |
Exactly -- it's transparent bullshit. And now we get this from the MSM:
Adam Lambert furor spreads to gay community
| Quote: | ... Some members of the gay community also scorned Lambert.
Jennifer Vanasco, editor in chief of website 365gay.com, said his performance hurt the cause of gay marriage in the eyes of mainstream Americans "who think gay life is exactly what (he) portrayed on the American Music Awards." |
For their information, 365gay.com is (last I heard) owned by a company that is owned by *straights* and Jennifer Vanasco doesn't speak for "the gay community" any more than Joe Solmonese does. By FAR, the most amount of feedback that I've read from most queers has been disgust with ABC and CBS, and declarations of support for Lambert, even from queers who previously had no use for him.
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| I really AM curious about what kind of legal consequences they could be talking about. I mean, I really don't see any. Are they thinking that this is equivalent to Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction? The FCC is going to swoop down on them for daring to show two men kissing? |
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I really don't think they believe that themselves. They're just trying to come up with a reason -- any reason, no matter how ridiculous -- to explain their behaviour. Other than the truth, that is.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Tehanu wrote: | | I really AM curious about what kind of legal consequences they could be talking about. I mean, I really don't see any. Are they thinking that this is equivalent to Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction? The FCC is going to swoop down on them for daring to show two men kissing? |
BTW, by their own "standards"....
| Quote: | | The Madonna image is very familiar and has appeared countless times, including many times on morning television. The Adam Lambert image is a subject of great current controversy, has not been nearly as widely disseminated and, for all we know, may still lead to legal consequences." |
Janet Jackson's boob-shot has been even MORE "widely disseminated", yet they don't run around airing that... it's all hogwash.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Tehanu wrote: | | I really AM curious about what kind of legal consequences they could be talking about. I mean, I really don't see any. Are they thinking that this is equivalent to Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction? The FCC is going to swoop down on them for daring to show two men kissing? |
I believe I read that the legal consequences they worried about were that the guy Adam jkissed may be straight, and the kiss might be sexual harrassment, and if CBS showed it on TV they might be regarded as contributing to or worsening the harrassment.
I'm not clear what relevance it could have that the guy might be straight. Are straight women harrassed by an unwanted kiss only in a case where the kiss comes from another woman?
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Never mind that if the whole act was planned, he would have consented to being part of it.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:34 am Post subject: |
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ABC hosts Chris Brown after cancelling Adam Lambert
| Quote: | Apparently domestic violence is okay with ABC, but a gay kiss? No way.
Just days after cancelling Adam Lambert's scheduled appearance on Good Morning America, the ABC show announced it will host Chris Brown for an interview and performance next week.
ABC cancelled Lambert's interview following his performance at the American Music Awards last weekend. The network said it was uncomfortable with Lambert's performance, which featured a gay kiss and some face/crotch grinding with a male backup dancer.
Brown was recently convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend, singer Rihanna, in an attack earlier this year. He was sentenced to five years of probation and 1,400 hours of community service.
An ABC rep tried to deflect criticism, saying that Brown was booked before Lambert's AMA performance. But really -- that's a weak excuse. An early booking didn't stop them from cancelling on Lambert. ABC should step up and admit what was really at play when they ditched Lambert: homophobia. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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[Meant to post this earlier and I forgot.]
JMG reader, "Fritz", responding to another comment, makes a great point:
| Quote: | "It's been well documented that straight males are turned on and very cool with female on female sexuality."
Attach a plesmograph to the penis of any straight male and then show him photos of nude men and men kissing.
Guess what will happen? The man will become sexually aroused.
This has been proven time and time again. However, we live in a society that tells men that becoming sexually aroused by other men is the worst thing ever. It causes them to hate their own natural state of arousal and project that hatred on gay men.
Some of the most popular straight porn involves group sex between two or more men and one woman -- the gangbang or double entry themes.
This is what makes the double standard even more infuriating. |
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The hypocrisy is absolutely astounding. It's not just the much discussed Madonna-Britney kiss but also live concerts and videos by the likes of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Fergie of the BEP where they all frequently kiss other women while straight boys around the world hoot and holler. 
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| Quote: | | Guess what will happen? |
Um... the study will be repeatedly mischaracterized and its results discarded in favor of the fantasy du jour? Just guessing.
Fritz is right about one thing: there has been at least one study involving plesmographs, penises, and images of various sorts. My recollection of it is substantially different from that of Fritz.
It might be advisable, if one insists, to dig up that study and check to see whether there's anything, anything at all, in it that would be applicable to "any straight male" before using it as ammo for Adam Lambert's kissing fandango.
I wouldn't advise such a thing myself. My recollection is apparently a whole lot different, especially on the "proven time and time again" part. |
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Mererdith Baxter, of Family Ties fame, has come out.
| Quote: | Since her TV career heyday in the 1970s and ’80s as a darling of the popular prime-time series Family and Family Ties, Meredith Baxter has mainly flown under the radar, with the exception of a few acclaimed turns in made-for-TV movies such as My Breast and A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story. That is until she boarded the Sweet Caribbean Cruise with thousands of other lesbians last month. If the woman who famously played Elyse Keaton, liberal mother to Michael J. Fox’s conservative Alex on the long-running sitcom Family Ties, thought she would go unnoticed amid generations of gay women who idolized her for her blond-haired, blue-eyed, all-American good looks, she was wrong.
When the 62-year-old actress realized that she and her partner of four years, Nancy Locke, a 54-year-old contractor, were making a splash on the lesbian cruise, Baxter decided to take control of the story she knew would follow when she came back to shore — and come out publicly. True to form for Baxter, who has been sober for 19 years and has spoken at engagements across the country about her battle with alcoholism, the Emmy Award-nominated actress wanted to make sure their were no skeletons in her closet.
... The Advocate: Let’s get right to it. What has brought you to this point, where you’re coming out publicly?
Meredith Baxter: Well, to be honest, it was time. And promoted probably from the attention brought from having been on the cruise, I knew that something was coming from that. So I thought, Let me just beat them to it and tell it in my words instead of someone’s made-up words.
... When did you realize you were gay?
Thirteen years ago I had a short-term affair with somebody — a woman — who I just cared for tremendously as a person, was not really attracted to her, but the best way to describe it, [a romance] seemed like the next natural step in our relationship just because I cared about her a lot. Not once — it’s probably hard to imagine — but not once did it occur to me that I was a lesbian. Not once. I just thought, OK, I don’t think so, and went off and got married again for a short period of time. And a couple years after that, I entered my next foray into being with a woman, and the penny dropped at that point.
[i]And was that a revelation, or just a slow aha! moment?
No, it was pretty much a revelation. The analogy I’ve used is a story [from] when I was a kid. I never could see very well and I said something to my parents and it kind of went unnoticed, or no one really responded to it. I guess I didn’t make enough noise. When I was 12 I tried on a [friend’s] pair of glasses and I was stunned with how clearly I could see. In truth, I used to think trees looked like lollipops because there was a solid stake and this solid ball. I didn’t know most people could see leaves. Oh, this is how the world is perceived? That’s kind of what having that second relationship made me realize — that this is where I want to be because I was dead to the world in many other ways. I’ve been married three times, and I have a slew of children, but I’ve never felt that kind of connection before in that kind of awakening. It was very profound for me. |
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I wonder how Bernie feels, knowing he was just her 'beard'?
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So, she was recognized while out cruising?
Y'know, that sentence would mean a *whole* different thing when applied to a gay man. Just sayin'...
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GLAAD Excuses ABC Over Adam Lambert
| Quote: | After talking to them about a possible anti-gay double standard, GLAAD has issued a statement excusing ABC for canceling several scheduled appearances by Adam Lambert after his performance on the American Music Awards.
| Quote: | After these discussions ABC issued the following statement to GLAAD: "Given the live nature of the American Music Awards, Adam Lambert’s performance, which differed greatly from his rehearsal, caught many, including the network, off guard. This is not a question of Lambert’s sexual orientation. As is evidenced by GLAAD’s media report card, ABC is at the forefront of positive gay and lesbian portrayal on television. We welcome openly gay performers and look forward to continuing our great work within the LGBT community."
“It would appear that the kiss between Adam Lambert and his keyboardist did not factor into ABC’s decision,” said Jarrett Barrios, President of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). “ABC has a history of positive gay and transgender inclusion that includes featuring kisses between gay and lesbian couples on-air.” “We applaud the visibility of openly gay performers and congratulate Adam Lambert for sharing his story on the Ellen DeGeneres Show this week as well as his upcoming appearance on The Jay Leno Show,” Barrios said. |
GLAAD's statement immediately caused a furor on social networking sites, after which they issued this update.
| Quote: | | Since his American Music Awards performance occurred GLAAD has consistently advocated that Adam Lambert and openly gay artists not be held to a double standard. As we have expressed publicly, it is disappointing that ABC will not give Lambert a chance to perform at this time. GLAAD’s discussions with ABC focused on confirming that his sexual orientation was not a factor in their decisions. ABC confirmed this is not about a same-sex kiss or his sexual orientation but about being “caught off guard.” GLAAD asked ABC and calls on them for clarification on “caught off guard” so that the community knows why Lambert is being denied the opportunity to perform on the network. |
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Signorile: "when do we put this group out of its misery?"
| Quote: | | ... People were pretty pissed on Facebook as well. After things blew up a bit, GLAAD issued an update, trying to back track, but it's just more BS. As I asked on Twitter, when do we put this group out of its misery? |
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Larry Kramer to out everyone you've ever heard of in new book
| Quote: | New York magazine's Jesse Green takes a look at Larry Kramer's 4,000 page historical journey, The American People, which he's been at work on since 1978, the triumphs, failures, and fights in between then and now, and what will likely be seen as its most controversial topics when it's published (hopefully in 2011):
| Quote: | Though The American People includes controversial sections set in worlds and times Kramer has himself experienced, it is his “queering” of beloved historical figures that will surely get the most attention. “His idea of history is that everyone was gay: Joe Louis, De Gaulle, anybody,” jokes Kramer’s friend and Yale classmate Calvin Trillin. With Lincoln, at least, Kramer isn’t alone; recent academic studies, and articles in the popular press, have debated the nature of Lincoln’s feelings for his roommate Joshua Speed, with whom he shared a bed for four years and a loving correspondence thereafter. But Kramer says he has new evidence, including details of other male lovers, that expands on accounts that first came to light when a diary and stash of letters were supposedly found under the floorboards of a building in which Lincoln and Speed lived together. Even so, what he writes about other famous names in American history will, he advertises, prove “far more stomach-turning” to the masses.
“I do not think it is too much to state that Washington was major gay,” he says. “That the big love of his life was Hamilton, who returned that love, and that Lafayette and Washington were involved with each other romantically over many years. Others I go into include Lewis, who was desperately in love with Clark, and who committed suicide when the expedition was over and he would be with Clark no more.” He says he has “much, much better stuff” about J. Edgar Hoover than anyone has reported, as well as on FDR’s foreign-policy adviser Sumner Welles, former CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, and even Kramer’s old nemesis Ed Koch, who has lived in the same building as Kramer since he left Gracie Mansion, and who always denied joining the fold. |
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Is Ricky Martin.... edging out?
| Quote: | After his impassioned holiday message about anti-gay hate crimes, followed by this possibly disingenuous Twitter post about blood donation,
| Quote: | i want to donate blood, have you ever?
quiero donar sangre, alguna vez lo haz hecho? |
it seems that Ricky Martin is edging ever closer to finally and formally coming out. Martin has long taken the Luther Vandross route of flatly refusing to discuss his personal life, something that many in the LGBT community have no problem with as long as he's not claiming to be straight or speaking against gay causes.
However many others take the position that a person who regularly speaks to millions has an ethical and/or moral responsibility to be open and honest about who he is, for the good of his fellow queers. The question, of course, is whether an entertainer (or a politician or a cable news anchor or any person who willingly seeks public attention) has an obligation to come out. |
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| And look at the comments on that one. Yowch. |
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Unfortunately, that's relatively mild -- you should read some of the bitter old queens at Joe's place (particularly "Dwerk" when the subject of trans folk comes up). Dis-GUSTING.
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Submitted Without Comment
| Quote: | Via Craiglist NYC:
| Quote: | | my name is william and i am a 29 year old gay male from pennsylvania and am ObSeSeD!!! with lAdY GAga! i have 2 tickets for the 1/21 show at Radio City Music Hall (my fav venu haha) and i want to go with a woman and am willing to give up 1 ticket for her for FREE. butt in return i want her to come with me to meet my jewish mother (crazy) and have coffee with her and me as she passes through the city. she duznt know i am OUT yet and i cant have that convo with her yet. all my lesbian friends are sooo butch so i was hoping for a straight girl. i will even buy food and drinks all night w/ the ticket too..everything is on me.. i kind of want to be straight for 1 night (except for the fact that im goinz to the gaga concert...HOLLA gayboys!..) but i think it would be cool, maybe we can hook up too, i havent seen a vagina since i was 13 and i have a big dick, so who knows...maybe we can have some fun! straight girlz only please..gayboys hit me up on grindr only (wilzim29) i wanna be straight for a night so leave me alone and make my mother happy! |
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| Quote: | | she duznt know i am OUT yet and i cant have that convo with her yet. |
Note to the quaint 'mo youngsters of the world: this sentence is pretty much the very definition of "closeted." Just sayin'. If they don't know you're out and if you can't tell them that you're out, you're just not out... no matter how nifty you think it sounds to identify yourself as 'out.' Words have meanings. |
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"Outrage" Director Kirby Dick Responds to Awards Snub: 'Isn't it Time for GLAAD to Stop Protecting the Closet?'
| Quote: | Last week I posted about GLAAD's perplexing explanation of their snub of Kirby Dick's Outrage, a documentary exposing hypocritical, closet politicians, from its media awards. Among those questioning it, Movieline said GLAAD delivered Kirby Dick's "very brave, very necessary" film "a final insult" by snubbing it. Indiewire wondered why it had been ignored.
In a statement to Towleroad, Kirby Dick has responded.
Wrote GLAAD:
| Quote: | The GLAAD Media Awards are about elevating and promoting the fair, accurate and inclusive stories of LGBT issues, people and allies that have increased awareness, understanding and respect for our lives and our pursuit of equality.
Outrage is a fine movie and an important one that focused attention on anti-LGBT politicians whose efforts put our community and our families in harm’s way. But the GLAAD Media Awards aren't the Academy Awards, they are about highlighting media that move America by telling the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people - not those who run from who they are.
The decision to come out as LGBT is an extremely personal one that benefits the individual and the people who know them. While there is certainly an argument that is made for speculating on the sexual orientation of anti-LGBT politicians in an effort to hold them accountable for the harms they inflict on our community, that sort of speculation doesn't promote awareness, understanding and respect for our lives and thus does not fit the criteria for the GLAAD Media Awards. |
Towleroad obtained an official statement from filmmaker Kirby Dick about the snub and GLAAD's explanation for it.
Writes Dick:
| Quote: | "While I was understandably disappointed that Outrage did not receive a GLAAD Media Award nomination, I know that awards are subjective and am happy that attention is being brought to all the excellent LGBT media projects that were nominated.
However, I take issue with GLAAD’s statement explaining the reasoning behind their decision to not award the film a nomination. Their claim that Outrage "does not fit the criteria of the GLAAD Media Awards" is untrue. In fact, the film meets all four criteria listed on their website: "Fair, Accurate and Inclusive Representations" of "the LGBT Community", "Boldness and Originality", "Impact", and "Overall Quality".
More troubling is their position that the subject of my film - the hypocrisy of closeted politicians and the harm they do the lives of millions of LGBT citizens - is inappropriate for the GLAAD awards. By taking this position, GLAAD is playing into the same philosophy that has kept the closet in place in politics for decades and has caused so much damage. Like the mainstream media which has been silent on this hypocrisy, GLAAD seems to think that by avoiding this complex subject it will go away. Just the opposite, the longer attention is not brought to the subject, the more the damage of the closet will continue, both in politics and in Hollywood.
The Supreme Court has just issued a ruling that exemplifies this country's long history of keeping LGBT concerns in the closet by voting to not allow cameras to cover our country's most urgent civil rights trial. Isn't it time for GLAAD to stop protecting the closet as well?" |
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| Hephaestion wrote: | SC Lt. Governor Andre Bauer: gay talk is "improper", "ridiculous", "silly"...
| Quote: | South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer was asked by SCBD Charleston about rumors he is gay.
Said Bauer:
| Quote: | | I don’t think it’s a proper question. I think it’s a little bit ridiculous and it’s sad that politics has gotten to that. But if somebody had a question I don't have a problem with going ahead and airing it and getting it out of the way because I don't want that to linger, much like this other problem is lingering. I want to move forward. I want to talk about real issues, how to get improved job growth. How you get education to a better level than it is now, how you fix the budget problem that we've got — not continue to dwell on some silly question in the first place. |
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Nah, Bauer would much rather talk about why the state should not give food or shelter to children whose parents fail drug tests or don't attend PTA meetings:
| Quote: | | Quote: | | "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better." |
-- South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, saying the state should not give assistance to the children of parents that fail drug tests or don't attend PTA meetings. According to Bauer, students that receive free lunches get the lowest grades, so (presumably) they should starve. Bauer, who was outed last year by Mike Rogers, is running to replace disgraced Gov. Mark "Appalachian Trail" Sanford. |
What a piece of work, eh?
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Bauer says he regrets comparing poor to small animals... then does it again.
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Bauer's assholery, on tape
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It case anyone was wondering, it appears that Lady Gaga outed herself when asked point blank by Barbara Walters whether she was bisexual. I didn't see any reporting on it at the time, but it is mentioned in another article in the Globe and Mail:
| Quote: | When Lady Gaga sat down with Barbara Walters in January, she tottered out on platform heels, dressed in a classic black Chanel suit, her Marilyn Monroe hair in a white cloud around her perfectly made-up face. Walters asked point-blank, in her prurient-as-a-concerned-aunt fashion, whether she was bisexual.
Lady Gaga hesitated, as any lady would when asked about her bedroom preferences on national TV. But then she confirmed that she had sexual relations with men and women.
Walters never asked for clarification about the rumours of intersexuality. But she did wonder whether the singer cared about the speculation over her sexuality. Lady Gaga said no, adding, “I like pushing boundaries.” |
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| Sorry TS, the only thing I got from that is that Lady Gaga outed herself as being obsessed with ca$h. If Walters had asked if she were an octasexual, she would have been coy. |
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Hey, one for our team! 
What's up with conflating intersexuality and sexuality, though? |
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| Tehanu wrote: | Hey, one for our team!
What's up with conflating intersexuality and sexuality, though? |
The only thing I am conflating is Lady Gaga and the desire for ca$h. Does anyone really disagree?
She is a Madonna wannabe...as in, she wanna get the ca$h made by musicians from Madonna's era. With all of the downloading going on, it is in the best interests of musicians to become celebrities. Accidentally on purpose generating interest in your genitallia, which you refuse to identify, is pretty lame and not activism.
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I went to read the full Globe article. And their oh-so-charming headline? "Lady Gaga and the hermaphrodite controversy: Is she or isn't she?"
Folks. Hermaphrodite? It's the 21st century. And it's a pity, because the article itself, past the first few shock-value paragraphs, is actually not too bad (at a 101 level) in its discussion of intersexuality and the fight for acceptance. As well as the sexual double-standard between people identified as men and those identified as women.
| Quote: | The penis speculation reared its head at the Glastonbury festival as Lady Gaga, the provocative pop artist, hopped off a motorbike in a very short skirt revealing a sticky-outty part no one knew she had.
... To defy categorization – not a bad ambition for an avant-garde artist – suggesting you're a hermaphrodite with bits of both female and male reproductive parts is one way to do it.
... Hermaphroditism is an old term for a condition now commonly referred to as intersex, in which there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries). Some form of gender ambiguity occurs in one in every 2,000 births, according to the Intersex Society of North America. Intersex is now part of mainstream discourse (and activism), as people born with ambiguous genitalia who were surgically assigned a gender talk openly about living in the wrong body.
... The cultural fascination with the idea of intersex may be part of our collective (and slow) adjustment to the eventual acceptance of it. It could also speak to our fear of “other” – a deep anxiety about how we understand our species. Gender is an organizing principle of society, after all.
But long before (and even since) the growing awareness about intersexuality issues, the possibility of someone having both male and female parts has served to illuminate rigid cultural attitudes about expectations for male and female behaviour.
... Clearly, the message is that for a woman to have a less-than-demure sexuality she has to have some hidden cojones.
... But if the hermaphrodite label is used as punishment – or a need to “place” women who don't quite fit ideals in terms of looks, ambition or sexuality – it also serves to titillate, something Lady Gaga is never afraid of exploiting. |
Cross-posted in the Intersex Issues thread. |
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Baba Wawa sez she feels partly responsible for killing Ricky Martin's career:
| Quote: | Barbara Walters was asked by the Toronto Star about the one regret she has in her long professional career. Her answer? A series of questions she asked a Latin pop heart throb 10 years ago.
| Quote: | | In 2000, I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to do it made everyone decide that he was. A lot of people say that destroyed his career, and when I think back on it now I feel it was an inappropriate question. |
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Sean Hayes carps at "The Advocate" for hectoring him about not coming out for years, now that he's finally coming out (sort of)
| Quote: | "I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never. I believe that nobody owes anything to anybody. Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don’t know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life?
"I feel like I’ve contributed monumentally to the success of the gay movement in America, and if anyone wants to argue that, I’m open to it. You’re welcome, Advocate. Why would you go down that path with somebody who’s done so much to contribute to the gay community? That was my beef about it. What more do you want me to do? Do you want me to stand on a float? And then what? It’s never enough." |
I feel like I’ve contributed monumentally to the success of the gay movement in America, and if anyone wants to argue that, I’m open to it.
Monumentally?! Oh, I'll certainly argue that, honey. Richard Simmons did as much as Hayes for "the success of the gay movement in America", if we're going by number of hours prancing about on television. And as far as prancing about on television goes, the guys on "Queer Eye" did more than Hayes or Simmons, because at least they were open about their gaiety. As far as "monumentally" goes, you ain't no Tim Gill or David Mixner, sweety -- you ain't even Gavin Newsom or Ted Olson, neither of whom IS gay.
In short, get OVER yourself, Miss Thang. You ain't done nothin' that Paul Lynde wasn't doing 30 years ago.
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Southworth & Boltz: Newly Out Evangelicals Team Up For National Tour
| Quote: | Azariah Southworth and Ray Boltz, two enormously popular evangelical figures who rocked the Christian world when they came out in 2008, are teaming up for a tour. Via press release:
| Quote: | Over the past 20 years, Ray Boltz has been one of the driving forces behind Christian music, garnering three Dove Awards and selling 4.5 million albums. Since announcing they’re gay in 2008, Boltz and Southworth have been shunned by the Christian music world. Boltz comments, “I am looking forward to touring with Azariah Southworth during 2010. We both ‘came out’ publicly at the same time and we both have experienced acceptance from people who understand and rejection from some of those who don’t. We hope by being “true” to who we are, we can make a difference for others in the same situation.”
Southworth hosted a popular Christian television show, The Remix, for two seasons. It was syndicated to more than 128 million homes and watched by over 200,000 per week on one network. However, he lost everything after announcing he was ready to live his life “authentically and honestly” in April 2008. Southworth comments, “Ray’s and my story are very similar. On the tour, we will share our stories through the performance of spoken word and songs. As I share my stories in segments, Ray will play his new and old songs which convey the joy, heartache and healing we have experienced. This tour is our two stories which contain one message. That message is the joy and peace there is to be found by living true.” |
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I wonder what took Randi so long? Maybe he was worried that his numerous enemies would use it against him?
I have a lot of respect for him.
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