LGBTQ news and entertainment
I really want to just write “submitted without comment” but it’s just too hard to do that.
The YouTube poster just wrote “Quite possibly one of the worst vanity music videos of all time.”
The one thing I HAVE to say is: at least there are cowboys in the video.
Randy Phillips, the gay airman who skyrocketed to Internet fame after coming out to his dad on YouTube the day Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed, shares his story about why his generation needs to talk about AIDS.
Louis Smith, 21-year-old from Peterborough, who won bronze on the pommel horse at the Beijing Olympics, has stripped off for this month’s Cosmopolitan magazine.
The gymnast recently tweeted that he has already been getting a lot of female attention in the run up to the Olympic Games.
Gee, can’t imagine why…
Stopping by The Colbert Report to discuss hosting The Tony Awards for the third time, Neil Patrick Harris is comedy gold with Stephen Colbert. I literally laughed out loud. Enjoy…
Hamlet, the mini-pig, really hates the stairs. But he really loves oatmeal.
Make sure you catch his last step.
Denmark’s Parliament today voted that same-sex couples there can have a full marriage ceremony in church, rather than having truncated, “less-than” ceremonies.
From ABC News:
Denmark’s Parliament has approved a law allowing same-sex couples to get married in formal church weddings instead of the short blessing ceremonies that the state’s Lutheran Church currently offers.
Lawmakers voted 85-24 on Thursday to change Denmark’s marriage laws.
The law takes effect June 15 and will put Denmark on par with countries such as Iceland and Sweden that allow full wedding ceremonies for gay and lesbian couples.
Tune in to The Candi & Randy Show as we welcome some of this year’s celebrated Tony Award nominees as they discuss the process, success and joys of being a part of the 2011-2012 Broadway theatrical season.
We celebrate the best of Broadway this year by inviting Tony nominated directors, choreographers, actors and composers to talk about their work, nominations and their thoughts on the current Broadway season.
Our guests include Judith Light (Other Desert Cities), Kathleen Marshall (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Norm Lewis (The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess), Chris Gattelli (Newsies), and Wayne Barker (Peter and the Starcatcher).
Another federal judge has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), finding that the law “should not be presumed to be constitutional, and should instead be subject to a heightened form of judicial scrutiny.”
The victory comes in the case of Edie Windsor, who was seeking a refund of the federal estate tax paid by the estate of her late wife. From the ruling:
The Court declares that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional as applied to the Plaintiff. Plaintiff is awarded judgment in the amount of $353,053.00, plus interest and costs allowed by law.
It’s another loss for Paul Clement and House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives (“BLAG”), who had claimed that her homosexuality was a “choice.”
Windsor’s attorneys had argued that “DOMA violates the Equal Protection principles of the U.S. Constitution because it recognizes existing marriages of heterosexual couples, but not of same-sex couples, despite the fact that New York State treats all marriages the same.”
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From The New Civil Rights Movement: 29% of Republicans — almost three out of every ten — believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay. 20% of Independents and 16% of Democrats agree, according to a vast new Pew Research Center Values Study.
Overall, 21% of Americans still believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.
Other demographic breakdowns:
24% of men and 19% of women believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.
30% of those 65 and older and 23% of those 50 – 64 believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.
27% of Hispanics, 24% of Blacks, and 20% of whites believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.
31% of those with a high school diploma or less believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.
One the positive side, those numbers are about half of what they were a quarter-century ago.
The new campaign video for Dylan George and Abbot + Main featuring Kellan Lutz and Kate Upton.
Thank you…