LGBTQ news and entertainment
Jeff Timmons, Nick and Drew Lachey hanging at Tao Beach celebrating Nick’s bachelor party weekend in Las Vegas. 98 Degrees reunion talk???
One question – having seen Jeff’s amazing body as Chippendales’ Special Musical Guest at the Rio Hotel – why is he wearing a t-shirt at a pool party?
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Have a great, relaxing holiday weekend kids…
“Lazy Afternoon” by Vanessa Williams
Nice cocktail, float by the pool, great music from Vanessa Williams,… ahhh.
In a bittersweet moment for LGBT supporters, Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the recently passed Civil Unions bill into law today.
Many thought for a long part of the legislative debate, that marriage equality would come to pass. Chafee had urged the General Assembly to consider same-sex marriage this legislative session. But some legislators felt it would be doomed in a state populated by many elderly and Catholic voters.
Civil unions legislation, sponsored by Rep. Peter J. Petrarca, D-Lincoln, emerged in early May after Speaker Fox, who is openly gay and a supporter of same-sex marriage, announced that support was lacking for same-sex marriage legislation.
Despite opposition from many marriage-equality advocates, the compromise legislation passed the Senate, 21 to 16, on Wednesday night during the General Assembly’s mad dash to finish its session.
Chafee said he signed the civil unions bill with “reservations” because it “brings tangible rights and benefits to thousands of Rhode Islanders. It also provides a foundation from which we will continue to fight for full marriage equality.”
He had two major criticisms of the civil union bill: that it failed to provide full marriage equality to same-sex couples and that it allowed religious entities to choose to not recognize civil unions.
The new law includes a section that says no religious organization — including some hospitals, cemeteries, schools and community centers — or its employees may be required to treat as valid any civil union, providing a religious exemption “of unparalleled and alarming scope,” Chafee said in a statement.
As a result, a civil union spouse could be denied the right to make medical decisions for his or her partner, access to health insurance benefits, property rights in adjoining burial plots or family memberships at some community centers. That could cause partners significant harm at critical moments in their lives, the governor said.
Neighboring states Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as nearby Vermont and New Hampshire, allow full marriage for same-sex couples, leaving Rhode Island a bit of the odd man out in New England.
Hawaii and Illinois celebrated the passing of civil unions in their states, but Rhode Island was looked to be the next full marriage equality state.
GLEE’s Cory Monteith for the “Straight But Not Narrow” campaign.
Cool.
This little guy can’t get enough of his belly tickled.
Dogs rule.
OK, you have to give it to this guy. Absolutely FULL OUT!
This song is from Barbra Streisand’s new CD coming out in August 2011.
For everyone who has forgotten – with auto-tune being so prevalent – what a real singer sounds like…
THIS is a real singer.
Matt Zarley gives a very open and honest interview to guyspy.com – online today.
“WTF,” the first single off Zarley’s upcoming album, “Change Begins with Me,” is about one of those gorgeous guys who seduces you, romances you, claims to love you, then disappears. It’s also a true story. More puzzling to Zarley is that the guy didn’t acknowledge the situation. “He could said, ‘Look, I don’t want to do a long-distance thing,’” he says. “He could have closed the chapter.”
The guy didn’t turn the page, but Zarley did. “I got the song out of it,”
With honesty comes opinions, and Zarley, he has a few. He thinks “The Book of Mormon” is the best Broadway show since “Les Miserable,” but has a little more trouble with TV’s “Glee.”
“I wish the singing wasn’t so Auto-Tuned,” he says, while acknowledging the almost impossible workload of the performers. “It’s the same as using Photoshop. It takes away the uniqueness of the voice. It doesn’t sound like anyone.”
Zarley’s a huge fan of India.Arie and grew up on Whitney Houston (“she was untouchable; the best artist ever”). He also thinks Lady GaGa is amazing, if over-publicized. “She gets shoved down our throats,” he says. “There are four artists that are successful at a time and that’s it. The gay community act like she and Britney are it.”
As for Spears, Zarley is a bit bewildered by her current events. “She’s got wonderful star quality and she’s always had the “It” factor,” he says. “When she performs now there’s a vacancy there. I understand that you can’t go full out and be singing all the time, but she should be better than ever. I’m not sure if we should just be saying ‘this is okay,’ when there might be cause for concern.”
As a counterpoint, Zarley points to Janet Jackson, an artist who’s also known for singing along to the tune. The difference, he says, it that 45-year-old Miss Jackson can still ace the routine. “She may not be singing live all the time but she still knocks the choreography out of the park.”
Read more at guyspy.com
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As she walks across the stage to accept her diploma and graduate, her brother – a Marine – surprises his sister on her big day.
I love these videos.
Marcus Bachmann, the husband of GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), said in a radio interview unearthed by ThinkProgress that “barbarians need to be educated” when asked how parents should deal with their homosexual children.
“They need to be disciplined,” he said last year on Point of View Radio Talk Show. “Just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn’t mean that we are supposed to go down that road. That’s what is called the sinful nature.”
“And let’s face it: what is our culture, what is our public education system doing today?” he continued. “They are giving full, wide-open doors to children, not only giving encouragement to think it but to encourage action steps.
That’s why when we understand what truly is the percentage of homosexuals in this country, it is small. But by these open doors, I can see and we are experiencing, that it is starting to increase.”
Marcus runs a Christian-based counseling center in Minnesota.
Politico reported Michele Bachmann attacked President Barack Obama in Charleston on Wednesday for not defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman.
“The president refuses to stand for marriage,” she said. “One thing we need to recognize in this country is that the family is the fundamental unit of government.”
(via rawstory.com)