LGBTQ news and entertainment
In an extra clip shot standing in the streets of Bangladesh, Team Chippendales‘ James Davis talks about growing up without plumbing and electricity; Jaymes Vaughan shares that his father is battling cancer.
Watch this un-aired clip from the show, and you’ll start to see why these guys are so passionate about winning.
The Advocate is reporting that cousins Anthony Ray Jenkins and David Jason Jenkins were found guilty of kidnapping in the 2011 attack on Kevin Pennington, who is gay.
However, they were acquitted of hate-crime charges.
Federal prosecutors had argued that the Jenkinses planned to kidnap, beat and kill Pennington because of his sexual orientation. Defense attorneys argued the dispute happened because of a drug deal turned sour. Attorney Willis Coffey suggested that Pennington’s allegations were motivated by a political agenda.
“Coffey said Pennington pushed the idea that he was attacked for being gay to serve his own political agenda,” according to the AP. “Coffey invoked the name of President Barack Obama, who is unpopular in Kentucky and lost badly in the state four years ago.”
President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The legislation expanded federal hate-crime law to cover sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or gender.
The Jenkinses are scheduled to be sentenced in February.
Nate Silver, of the FiveThirtyEight blog for the NY Times, sees numbers slowly trending in President Obama’s direction. The President has crept back up to a projected 71% chance of re-election.
Accidental Bear shares the cover of this month’s Junior Magazine, featuring the handsome Maklon Barcaro.
The publication is marketed to the gay community with no adult content; includes essays and articles on behavior, culture, fashion, music, art, cinema and Brazilian Men.
Says the magazine, “Junior is sexy without being sexist, modern without being arrogant.”
On newstands all over Brazil, 18 cities in Portugal, selected places in Miami and Paris.
Within hours of Romney’s endorsement, Mourdock made his “pregnancies resulting from rape are a gift from God.”
Timing is everything, kids…
After printing stories suggesting that Tom Cruise had “abandoned” his daughter Suri, his lawyer Bert Fields filed a defamation lawsuit against the tabloids who ran the headlines.
The magazine covers appeared on Life & Style and InTouch in the weeks after Cruise divorced actress Katie Holmes, with whom he shares 6-year-old daughter Suri, according to a defamation lawsuit Cruise filed against the publisher in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
“Tom is a caring father who dearly loves Suri,” Cruise lawyer Bert Fields said. “She’s a vital part of his life and always will be. To say he has ‘abandoned’ her is a vicious lie. To say it in lurid headlines with a tearful picture of Suri is reprehensible.”
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“When he took over, the country was in very very difficult straits. We were in the one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression. The fiscal system was collapsing. Wall Street was in chaos, we had 800,000 jobs lost in that first month of the Obama administration and unemployment peaked a few months later at 10 percent. So we were in real trouble. The auto industry was collapsing, the housing was starting to collapse and we were in very difficult straits. And I saw over the next several years, stabilization come back in the financial community, housing is now starting to pick up after four years, it’s starting to pick up. Consumer confidence is rising.” – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, announcing his endorsement of President Obama.
In response to the Donald’s preposterous $5 million offer to President Obama for his passport and college records.
Colbert just kills me…
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The Commerce Department says new home sales increased 5.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted 389,000-unit annual rate in September compared with a month earlier.
At September’s sales pace it would take 4.5 months to sell the houses on the market, the lowest since the peak of the housing bubble in October 2005. This low inventory seems to be a sign that there will be demand for new homes in the future.
Remember folks, Mitt Romney is telling you President Obama “made things worse.”
Corporations making record profits, housing market healing, stock market almost doubled, our military is out of Iraq, DADT is gone, unemployment numbers falling,…
Sound worse to you?
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