LGBTQ news and entertainment
Can you believe it’s been 30 years since we first heard “It’s Raining Men?”
And Martha Wash still sounds fantastic.
Many people may not know that Paul Schaffer, music director for David Letterman, co-wrote the song with Paul Jabara back in the 1970s.
Via JoeMyGod
Apparently, Mark Steines left Entertainment Tonight to host Hallmark Channel’s new daytime talker Home & Family with Trading Spaces Paige Davis.
To be honest, I rarely watch the entertainment news shows anymore as I’m here all day reading all the news that it’s pretty much old news by 7pm each day.
I have a little history with Paige Davis as we performed in CHICAGO the Musical together for a time before her Trading Spaces days. I remember reaching out to congratulate her a few times during the TS run, but never received a reply. On to bigger and better I guessed.
Home & Family airs at 10 am EST on Hallmark.
The first of a four-part series made in each of the states that have marriage equality votes this November, this short shares the experiences of same-sex couples who want to get married in Maine. Three more short films will follow documenting the struggles in Washington, Maryland and Minnesota.
Marriage For All Families captures the real experience of same-sex couples, to show that they have the same challenges, responsibilities, and aspirations as other couples. Still, they are strangers in the eyes of the law. That’s why marriage equality is so important: it aligns personality reality with legal reality, as a simple matter of fairness and equality.
Read more about the short films and the support from The Four by clicking here.
(via reddit)
Parody of “The Devil Wears Prada” with Madonna playing Meryl playing Anna Wintour with Lady Gaga as the assistant and Cher as….well, CHER!
Via BoyCulture
Let’s hear it for the good guys at Washington United for Marriage!
Both of these ads are terrific in that they address the “religious freedom” concerns some people have. I think that’s a very good thing to at least attempt to let folks know churches and clergy won’t be forced to do anything against their faith.
I like these a lot.
MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts married his partner of 12 years, Patrick Abner, in New York over the weekend in a ceremony officiated by California lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom.
Abner and Roberts announced their engagement June 25, 2011, a day after New York State approved marriage equality.
The ceremony and reception were held on the rooftop of the Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel, TV Newser reports. Attendees included CNN’s Don Lemon, Nate Berkus, Good Morning America’s Sam Champion, and reality star Carson Kressley.
Roberts tweeted this pic Monday morning: “Morning in NYC is pretty sweet waking up as a married man!”
Via Advocate.com
Stephen Barton, who was one of the victims of the Aurora, CO, gun shooting tragedy this summer, asks that we hold our two Presidential candidates accountable and “demand a plan” for how they plan to stop senseless gun violence in America.
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| Matt Birk (left) and Chris Kluwe (right) |
Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, wrote a commentary piece for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune opposing marriage equality.
“Marriage redefinition will affect the broader well-being of children and the welfare of society,” he wrote. “As a Christian and a citizen, I am compelled to care about both.”
He added, “A defense of marriage is not meant as an offense to any person or group. All people should be afforded their inalienable American freedoms. There is no opposition between providing basic human rights to everyone and preserving marriage as the sacred union of one man and one woman.”
Birk’s former teammate, Chris Kluwe of the Minnesota Vikings, wrote a rebuttal to Birk’s commentary saying, in part:
I know Matt Birk, having played with him for multiple years in the NFL. I respect Matt, and I respect his right to his own views and ideas.
However, in this instance, Matt I think you’re wrong. This is not an attack on you as a person or your beliefs, but the argument you presented in the Star Tribune simply does not stand up to logical inspection.
Your argument lacks facts, sources, or statistics. You can’t just say “Same-sex marriage is bad for kids because I think it’s bad for kids, and I think it’s bad for kids because it’s bad for kids”. That’s called circular reasoning and it’s a logical fallacy. If you want us to understand why same-sex marriage is bad for kids, you need to provide some sort of substantial evidence. Tell us that children from same-sex couples are more likely to grow up broke and miserable and alone and will end their days starving in a gutter.
You’re trying to raise a religious argument in a secular matter. The First Amendment isn’t just about the freedom FOR religion, it’s also about the freedom FROM religion. The word “marriage” appears in thousands of legal documents and laws in this nation, and to attempt to narrowly define it through a religious application means you’re trying to assert a religious viewpoint on those who may not necessarily hold the same views. Our founding fathers knew quite clearly the dangers that state sponsored religious persecution could inflict (they lived through it!), and the First Amendment is worded in favor of state neutrality for a reason. I will support your right to worship at whatever altar you choose, but I will not support you trying to force it on someone else, or to deny someone else legal benefits due to religious reasoning.
Chris Kluwe goes point by point with logic and respect, and makes clear why marriage equality is a good thing for society.
Make sure you read Kluwe’s post by clicking here.
Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight Blog on the New York Times, writes a really interesting article comparing the current Presidential election to a football game.
He makes the analogy that campaigns, like football games, can be viewed as having four quarters;
1st – Primary Season
2nd – Clinching party nomination
3rd – National convention and short period thereafter
4th – Last few weeks including Presidential debates
We would be, at this point, in the “4th quarter” of this election.
Nate also makes note of the fact that, statistically speaking, according to the win probability calculator at AdvancedNFLStats.com, an N.F.L. team down by field goal with 10 minutes left to play in the fourth quarter has a 34 percent probability of winning the game. A team down by a touchdown wins just 16 percent of the time.
Nate goes on the compare where Romney is at this point – in many polls down seven points from President Obama – saying Romney is more like a touchdown behind than a field goal.
Go read his article by clicking here. Very interesting how this could be viewed and where things might go from here to election day.