LGBTQ news and entertainment
Having watched every season of SURVIVOR, I have to say Colton Cumbie is easily my least liked player to ever appear on the show.
Earlier this season, before being forced from the game due to health issues, he spent his time on the show spouting bigoted and racist statements about everything from poverty to skin color to little people.
Last night on the reunion show, Jeff Probst looked back on some of Colton’s statements and asked how that played back to Colton once he was home.
A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that 62 percent of Americans support recognizing same-sex relationships via either full marriage equality or civil unions. That number jumped to 70 percent when asked of those aged 18-44 across parties. Independent voters back marriage equality and civil unions by a robust 62 percent.
A Gallup poll released late last week also showed that a considerable majority of independents strongly backed President Obama’s support for marriage equality.
Despite the growing public support for marriage equality, Mitt Romney continues to buck the will of the majority of Americans – supporting neither marriage equality nor civil unions. That position puts him further to the right on LGBT equality than even former President George W. Bush, who did support civil unions.
Learn more about Mitt Romney’s anti-LGBT positions.
Andrew Sullivan, whose Newsweek article “The First Gay President” is getting a lot of attention as much for its text as its cover image, appeared on The Chris Matthews Show on Sunday and offered an emotional account of what Obama’s announcement meant to him.
Said Sullivan:
It’s hugely important and to tell you the truth, I didn’t realize how important it would be until it happened. Beforehand, I was kind of steeled. I was like, ‘I don’t care, he’s going to disappoint us again.’ And then I sat down and watched our president tell me that I am his equal, that I’m no longer outside, I’m fully part of this family and to hear the president who is in some ways a father figure speak to that, the tears came down like with many people in our families, to be included.
I never understood the power of a president’s words until that day, really. I thought, all that matters is the states and the Congress and the Defense of Marriage Act and I had all this in my head and suddenly this man saying, ‘I’m with you, I get it, you’re like me, I’m like you, there is nothing between us, we are the same people and we are equal human beings and I want to treat you the way you treat me.’ That — that was overwhelming. That’s all I can say. I was at a loss for words.
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Olivia Newton-John on The Candi & Randy Show!
Olivia has spent decades not only as a chart topping music icon and star of film (Grease, Xanadu) & TV (Sordid Lives, Glee) but as an international ambassador of good health & well-being.
After her own cancer journey 20 years ago, she emerged as a breast cancer activist who advocates the best in not only western medicine but alternative holistic therapies that help support the body, mind and spirit.
Olivia has written a best-selling cook book of health-conscious recipes – “LivWise: easy recipes for a healthy, happy life” – to help everyone reach their goals of health and well-being. All proceeds go to the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre.
Plus, we talk with Olivia’s co-owner/partner Gregg Cave about their award-winning spa and retreat GAIA, named for “mother earth” located in Australia, where centering your physical and mental health is the ultimate goal.
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| My mother in the late 1950s. She passed away when I was 6 years old. |
I wrote this last year for the first Mother’s Day here on The Randy Report. It still sums up what I feel about the happy day, so I thought I’d repost for those of you who hadn’t found TRR yet…
Dear Mom,
Just wanted to say I’m thinking of you on your day. Even though it’s been 42 years since we saw each other, you’re on my mind every Mother’s Day.
Growing up without you I had so many people say to me “it must have been rough not having a mom” – but they didn’t know you had a plan for me the whole time.
I’m always thankful you sent so many fantastic women to be a part of my life along the way. We all definitely need great women around us and I’ve been so blessed to have them in my life the whole way; whether it was our neighbor across the street Beverly Hardin, my god mother Lee Sullivan, “big Diane” Roberts and “Ma Bell” John Bell’s mom in high school or Carlye’s mom Jackie, I always felt surrounded by that ‘mom energy.’ I never felt like a motherless child.
I always knew you were there every step. The day I discovered I had a gift for moving and dancing, I knew where it came from, and I never took credit for that. Your gift opened more doors than imaginable. I lived the dream because of you.
Speaking of ‘the dream’, thank you for Donna McKechnie who calls me “the son she never had.” I never dreamed I would work with my inspiration; and it’s always a high to work, talk, and just spend time with her. Sometimes when she laughs, I see you and I know you’re here.
And while she wasn’t a mother figure to me, more than any other woman in my life, thank you for sending Carlye to me. While my early childhood was kind of splintered, practically my whole life has been grounded in knowing I have family wherever Carlye is. To quote a famous country song: “she’s half the man I am.”
All these things assured me that I belonged. Somewhere. Wherever I was.
Although time and space may separate us, that’s what I’ve learned about family – there may be distance, but not disconnect.
By the way, that other gift that connects me to you – the cancer journey – thanks for that. I thought of you the whole way. It was a rough ride for both of us, and even though it may look like I came out of it a little better than you in the end, I hope I got the message. Even from the age of six, I remember your courage. And I tried to emulate that every day along the way. Cancer is not just something I see on TV anymore. Having lived it through you and now personally myself, I stop and talk to every child, every woman, every man that’s taking that journey. Even if all I have to offer is just a smile and a touch on their shoulder, I let them know we go on. And at the end of all of it we can come out a bit improved, if we pay attention. Thanks for that.
I know where you are today the weather is amazing. I know you and Dad will go dancing on a cloud tonight. That’s what you two do.
Tell him I love and miss him. As you know, he did a great job on his own with Gary and me for a long, long time. I smile when I think about you two being together again.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.
I love you.
p.s. last one – thanks for the blond hair. Michael likes it. Who knows if I’d be married for 17 years without it? One more gift. xoxo
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| Me and Jackie Hughes – Carlye’s mom – the woman I have called Mother for over 30 years. |
ABC has officially ordered 666 Park Avenue to a series for the 2012 – 2013 season.
The series will star Terry O’Quinn (Lost), Vanessa Williams, Dave Annable, Rachael Taylor, Mercedes Masohn, Robert Buckley, Helena Mattsson and Erik Palladino in the show.
The series is about The Drake, an apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that is owned by Gavin Doran (O’Quinn) and his wife Olivia (Williams) and whose residents who are unaware that they’re under the effects of dark supernatural forces. All the residents think that their dreams are coming true but find out they’re making what feels like a deal with the Devil.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday backed away from his support of adoptions by same-sex couples, saying that he simply “acknowledges” the legality of such adoptions in many states.
Mitt Romney said on Thursday: “And if two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship, or even to adopt a child — in my state individuals of the same sex were able to adopt children. In my view, that’s something that people have a right to do. But to call that marriage is something that in my view is a departure from the real meaning of that word.”
But then on Friday, he was asked, in an interview with CBS’ WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., how his opposition to same-sex marriage “squared” with his support for gay adoptions. Romney told anchor Paul Cameron: “Well actually I think all states but one allow gay adoption, so that’s a position which has been decided by most of the state legislators, including the one in my state some time ago. So I simply acknowledge the fact that gay adoption is legal in all states but one.”
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Apparently, Elton John wasn’t having a good time during his concert last night at the Colosseum in Las Vegas
From Norm Clark:
During one of his outbursts at the Colosseum, the Rocket Man exploded, saying “somebody in my production team is (bleeping) fired,” a backstage spy told the Review-Journal.
“He made an ass of himself,” said the source.
The 65-year-old six-time Grammy winner started his show 20 minutes later and ended it 25 minutes early, according to the source.
Stagehands were seen mopping up water after each of John’s outbursts. Booing erupted after the fourth time he threw his water glass.
This was caught on video by 12 cameras shooting during the show as a dancer posted on Twitter saying she was shooting a video with the singing legend.
Ruh-roh…