LGBTQ news and entertainment
Emergency room treatment is expensive and isn’t free. Taxpayers pay for it.
The Affordable Care Act asks that folks who can afford to at least pay for some kind of catastrophic care insurance. I thought conservatives liked the idea of people being responsible for themselves?
And then there’s the flip flop on this issue by Romney. He really is good at contradicting himself. It’s not rhetoric anymore. It’s habit.
While promoting her new collection of unreleased songs “Release Me” with Katie Couric, Barbra Streisand mentions another forthcoming project, an album of duets. Asked which artists she would like to perform with, the singer mentions that she enjoys Usher, John Legend, and Keith Urban. But she saves the bigger surprise for the host, saying, “Actually, my very, very exciting duet partner is my son.”
Streisand then shares a story about accidentally hearing her son humming and reveals that the press-shy Gould has been recording music.
“And I tell you, when I heard the things he’s recorded, the musicianship, the sound of his voice, it’s like he has a little chamber music orchestra right in his vocal cords,” she says. “I said, ‘Jason, I have to sing with you. You have to be on my duets album.’ Not only that, ‘You have to come’ — he’s never performed live.”
Couric asks if this means he’ll be performing during her October 11 concert in Brooklyn, to which Streisand nods her head yes.
The duet during her October 11 concert will mark the second known professional collaboration between mother and son. Gould costarred in Streisand’s 1991 box office smash The Prince of Tides.
For Streisand concert information go here.
Via the Advocate
In what is easily the most anti-climactic possibility for an announcement regarding the Supreme Court and marriage equality, SCOTUS released it’s list of cases it will take up this year and the California Prop 8 case is not on the list.
However, that is not the end of the road for Prop 8 just yet. There are still other variables in this equation.
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:
Some have speculated that the Supreme Court may wait to consider our case until later this fall when the Justices will decide whether to grant review in several cases challenging the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.
Folks in the UK are talking about X Factor contestant Ella Henderson’s “Adele-isation” of Cher’s hit dance song “Believe.”
In some ways, it reminds me of Matt Albers recent cover of “I Want To Dance With Somebody.” Sometimes when you slow the song down, you do the lyricist a favor and their work enjoys some new light. “Believe” sounds practically poignant in this version by Ella.
Cher herself gave the performance a thumbs up by tweeting her support.
And can you believe the original show only aired for ONE season?
JoeMyGod points to this clip (with groovy graphics!) in celebration. As predicted, I can still sing along to the whole clip.
Something I didn’t know – the show was set only 100 years in the future. At 50 years, how do you think we’re doing?
Andrew Sullivan says President Obama will become Ronald Reagan if reelected:
“If Obama wins, to put it bluntly, he will become the Democrats’ Reagan. The narrative writes itself. He will emerge as an iconic figure who struggled through a recession and a terrorized world, reshaping the economy within it, passing universal health care, strafing the ranks of al-Qaeda, presiding over a civil-rights revolution, and then enjoying the fruits of the recovery.”
Read the rest at The Daily Beast
Yeah – that’s pretty ripped if you ask me…
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.” – Mitt Romney, telling a fundraiser crowd about Ann’s Friday flight that was diverted due to smoke in the cabin.
Twitter, of course, is loving the whole thing:
This woman’s voice makes my eyes bleed.
Somehow, a woman who is smart enough to get a book deal and smart enough to get paid to speak in different places thinks “civil rights” can only apply to black people because “we owe them.”
The simple fact of the matter is: civil rights are any rights afforded by a civil government. And the LGBT stance is if other people have those rights – WE are deserving of those rights. Not special rights – equal rights.
How this woman can not understand this simple concept, I don’t know…
Pardon me as I wipe my bleeding eyes.
Modern Family won four Emmy Awards last night, including its third consecutive trophy for best comedy series.
ABC’s hit LGBT-inclusive sitcom also won awards for Directing (director Steve Levitan), and supporting actors Julie Bowen and Eric Stonestreet.
Jessica Lange, as expected won for outstanding supporting actress for her work in Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story. This was Lange’s second win as she previously won for best actress in a miniseries/TV movie for the 2008 drama Grey Gardens.
My personal favorite win of the night was Julianne Moore for best actress in a miniseries/TV movie for her fab portrayal of Sarah Palin. Game Change, HBO’s drama about the 2008 election, also won for best miniseries/TV movie, best director for Jay Roach, and Danny Strong for best writing for miniseries/TV movie.
Moore, a longtime ally to the LGBT community, said in her acceptance speech: “I feel so validated because Sarah Palin gave me a big thumbs down,” Moore said while accepting the trophy.
Interesting fact of the night: Mad Men set a new record by losing all seventeen Emmys it was nominated for.