LGBTQ news and entertainment
Katy Perry was presented with the Trevor Hero Award at Trevor Live on December 2, 2012 at the Hollywood Palladium.
In the video, she describes how her own thoughts about the LGBT community have evolved, and she explains how meaningful her time spent at The Trevor Project has been.
I love when a community comes together for the right reasons.
From Dominic Holden at The Stranger:
After learning that City Hall is fully booked for weddings on December 9, the first day gay couples can legally wed in Washington State, King County Superior Court judge Susan Craighead called this afternoon to let me know that judges have made a plan. Judges will come into the courthouse on their day off, unpaid, to meet the demand.
Many people were told there was no room left at City Hall, Judge Craighead said on the phone, and wanted me to post this to help get the word out. “The building isn’t even heated, but we are willing to be in our courtrooms marrying people as needed. The court just realized that the community needs our services, and we are happy to provide them.”
When time was growing short in 2008 right before Prop 8 was passed in California, Michael and I headed to Palm Springs to get married. We had already gotten married in Toronto in 2003, but really wanted a US marriage license.
The folks at City Hall in Palm Springs were swamped with couples looking to get married before the ax fell election day. Even with a full, packed schedule, the receptionist said “come down, we aren’t turning anyone away.”
We arrived to find couples and families filling the entry hall of City Hall. Ceremonies were taking place everywhere in the building as the mayor and all city council members could perform the marriage ceremony. And in a quiet corner of the City Council Meeting room, the Mayor Pro Tem Ginny Foat married us.
I’m thrilled for the couples in King County. A very exciting and emotional time ahead this weekend. I wish the best for every single couple and family.
Celebrate kids!
Photographer Meryl Schenker captured this moment at a Washington state marriage bureau today. The photo already has 1400 shares on Facebook.
From Meryl’s PhotoShelter page: “One month after Washington State voters approved the state’s marriage equality law in Ref. 74, same-sex couples get marriage licenses for the first time on December 6th, 2012.
“At around 1:30am, Larry Duncan, 56, left, and Randy Shepherd, 48, from North Bend, Wash. got their marriage license. The two plan to wed on December 9th, the first day it is possible for them to wed in Washington State. They have been together for 11 years.”
(via JMG)
Hmm… Lots of talent on display here, but my personal thought is this is a bit “busy.”
Cute, clever lifts and steps but the emphasis appears to be on the “clever” instead of intention.
Just me maybe…
Buzzfeed has assembled a great list of “60 Reasons To Be Proud in 2012.”
Here are just a few of my favorites. Definitely head over to Buzzfeed to feel good about the LGBT community’s best year to date in terms of advancement and good news:
The hip hop duo, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, released a song in support of marriage equality.
A record 23 openly gay athletes competed in Summer Olympics and 10 of them took home medals.
Featherweight Orlando Cruz won his match just days after he became the first openly gay boxer.
NFL punter, Chris Kluwe, was not afraid to be a vocal ally and stand up for LGBT issues.
Rugby player Ben Cohen launched “StandUp,” a magazine to highlight the best in sports culture while also trying to end bullying and homophobia.
Barack Obama became the first sitting president to publicly support same-sex marriage.
Much more at Buzzfeed. Go take a look and remember what a good year this has been for the LGBT community.
Ian Parks – sexy “Hot Toddy” from the hit web series WHERE THE BEARS ARE – joins Candi & Randy to talk about the fun and furry series, the newly released DVD of Season 1 – and bonus extras included – and plans for Season 2.
Part Golden Girls, part Murder She Wrote, this web series mixes in camp with a murder mystery that’s something of a gay-version of Clue.
Click here for more info on WHERE THE BEARS ARE and how to buy the DVD.
Hit the player above to listen.
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| Ian Parks (front) with “the 3 Bears” |
Out artist Frank Ocean tied with several big names for the most Grammy nominations in the 55th annual list announced late Wednesday.
Ocean received 5 nominations in some of the biggest categories: Album of the Year for Channel Orange, record of the year for “Thinkin Bout You” and Best New Artist. He was also nominated for Urban Contemporary Album and Rap/Sun Collaboration for “No Church in the Wild,” which he performs with Jay-Z, Kanye West and The-Dream.
Ocean’s five nominations tie him for the most with Kanye West, Jay-Z, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons and fun. It’s a big moment after rappers like 50 Cent cautioned that others in hip hop and R&B were closely watching whether Ocean would succeed after disclosing in the lyrics to two of his new songs — “Bad Religion” and “Forrest Gump” — that he had been in a relationship with a man. Ocean followed up by making his coming out clear in a post on Tumblr.
You can see the full list of nominees at the Grammy Awards’ website.
More on Frank Ocean at The Advocate
Page Six has the sordid details:
If that wasn’t eye-roll inducing enough, Gruber goes on to state that it’s impossible for bystanders not to fall for him.
SRSLY? Did he really say that? I just can’t wrap my head around ego like that.
Gruber also insists in the Page Six interview that he’s straight and didn’t date Calvin Klein for the money or lifestyle. His book, tentatively titled Obsession: My Life With Calvin Klein, will be released in January.
Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina is stepping down in January to take the helm as president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that spends its $80 million annual budget fighting everything from raising taxes to marriage equality to giving ex-convicts the right to vote.
The Wall Street Journal reports that DeMint’s departure means that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will name a successor who will then run on their own during a special 2014 election.
DeMint, a former US Rep. elected to the Senate in 2004 and reelected during the Tea Party surge of 2010, has made homophobia a hallmark of his Senate career: he has consistently said gay marriage will destroy society and even went so far as to say that gay people and single women shouldn’t be teachers, a remark he lated defended.
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Shortly after midnight last night, Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller were among the first Washington state couples to receive to their marriage licenses. Savage and Miller first married in Canada in 2005.
Hundreds of couples lined up in downtown Seattle Wednesday night for the state’s first batch of same-sex marriage licenses, in a historic, jubilant event that began at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and was expected to last for hours. They formed an eager, festive crowd, with couples young and old braving a night-time chill and wee-hours wait for the chance to make history at the normally dull King County Administration building. Supporters cheered for them with roses, coffee, hand-warmers and serenades of “Going to the Chapel.”
Photo via Seattle Slog, where you can find many more.
