 |
| (via JMG) |
Pew Poll: Marriage Equality April 2012
Rachel Maddow on Wendy Williams Show
Rachel Maddow appeared on The Wendy Williams Show today and talks about how she was outed to her parents, where she met her partner Susan, and why she follows Ice-T and Coco.
Jeff Timmons on 98 Degrees reunion rumors
Earlier this month, millions of pop music fans were excited when they heard rumors that former ’90s boy band 98 Degrees was reuniting for a tour this summer.
Unfortunately, said rumors were quickly shot down by band member and soon-to-be-father Nick Lachey, who on Twitter wrote, “So psyched to see all the excitement for a 98 degree tour, but the only tour I’ll be doing this summer is at baby’s ‘r us.” (Nick and his wife, Vanessa Lachey, are expecting their first child together this year.)
“I honestly don’t think it’s gonna happen at all now,” founder and creator of 98 Degrees Jeff Timmons said, candidly. “If it wasn’t gonna happen now, it wasn’t gonna happen last year … Maybe it’ll never happen.”
“We had gotten serious about it,” he said, of the proposed summer tour. “So much so that a tour was being put together for us; a 15-city tour. We got on the phone, all of the guys discussed it, and it seemed like a go. And then not everybody wanted to do it, for various reasons. We make decisions collectively as a group; not one person make decisions. [Since] not all four of us were on the same page, we decided not to do it.”
“I would love to get back in the studio with 98 degrees, but I just don’t think it’s gonna happen,” Timmons says. “Some of us want to do music, and some of us don’t. We all gotta want to do it; we can’t be forced into that. It’ll come through in the music. So, I don’t think it’s gonna happen. I would love the opportunity, but right now it doesn’t seem like it’s gonna go down.”
Read more at Celebuzz
Morning Joe
From the IWC Flagship Boutique NYC grand opening
Video: “Homecoming”
“All men can be heroes. All men can be husbands. End marriage discrimination.”
Released online by the Coalition for Equal Marriage, the video is designed to encourage support for the introduction of marriage equality in the UK.
Viewers can sign the petition here,
The Candi & Randy Show: Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams
Listen to internet radio with CandiXRandy on Blog Talk Radio.
Catch Vanessa Williams and her mother Helen for a full hour on The Candi & Randy Show as they talk about their new book “You Have No Idea.” Both women are charming and direct. Great guests, great chat, great show!
YOU HAVE NO IDEA is the highly anticipated first book from award winning singer and actress Vanessa Williams and her mother Helen.
Vanessa and Helen discuss it all: from becoming the first black Miss America in 1983 and the controversy that followed, to her debut and success on Broadway, and her resurgence in recent years on network television in Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. Vanessa has proven she has serious staying power, and as readers will learn, that survivor mentality and resilience is inherited from her mother, Helen.
No stone is left unturned. Filled with personal family photos and mementos, YOU HAVE NO IDEA is an empowering celebration of the love between a mother and daughter and the lives, thus far, of two women who have consistently defied the odds to achieve success—no matter how uncertain their paths might have been.
I really encourage everyone to read the new book. It’s sure to entertain and touch you. The book is available today – April 17th – everywhere!
Check it out on Amazon. I got mine!
President Obama slow-jams the news
You know, I like that not only is President Obama a constitutional scholar with a law degree from Havard, but he can also be cool.
NC: Sen. Kay Hagan Speaks Out Against Amendment One
NC: Gov. Bev Purdue Speaks Out Against Amendment One
For more information, please visit www.protectallncfamilies.org
Pennsylvania to get first openly gay state legislator
Brian Sims has won a decisive Democratic primary in his Philadelphia district and will become Pennsylvania’s first openly gay state representative.
Sims defeated a longtime incumbent to capture the Democratic nomination in the heavily Democratic District 182, and will face no Republican opponent this November.
Sims, a former member of the Victory Campaign Board, is a distinguished policy attorney and civil rights advocate from Center City Philadelphia. The former Staff Counsel for Policy and Planning at the Philadelphia Bar Association, he recently stepped down as the President of the Board of Directors of Equality Pennsylvania.
(source)