LGBTQ news and entertainment
I recently discovered the very funny Twitter account of Jack Mackenroth, of Project Runway fame among other things. So I decided to post some of my favorite tweets so far.
If you think these are funny and you don’t follow him yet – head to Twitter and start following @jackmackenroth
Rudy Giuliani announced today he’s not running for president.
Giuliani made his announcement at a Long Island Association event in New York State.
The announcement comes one week after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin both separately formally declared that they would not make bids for the GOP nomination.
Giuliani, who spent much of this year considering a possible run for the White House, said,”If it’s too late for Chris Christie, it’s too late for me.”
If you got this far in terms of reading about this, you did better than me…
What? Did someone say something interesting?
At a town hall in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, Mitt Romney was asked 4 separate times his views on same-sex marriage. Romney was unwilling or unable to make the case for why he would not recognize families with parents of the same gender, even as he spoke in a state that has permitted gays and lesbians to marry since 2009.
“I can say look, there are a lot of folks who are raised by one parent, through divorce through death or through having a child out of wedlock,” Romney replied. “But my view is a society recognizes that the ideal setting for raising a child is when you have the benefit of two people working together and where one is male and one is female. I happen to believe that and that’s the reason that I think as a society we say, ‘You know what? We are going to call marriage what it has been called for 6,000 years.'”
So why not support civil unions?
“What I would support is letting people who are of the same gender form, if you will, partnership agreements,” he replied. “If they want to have a partnership with someone else and have, as a result of that, such things as hospital visitation rights and similar benefits of that nature.”
In separate news, it was announced that NJ Gov. Chris Christie will be supporting Mitt Romney for President.
A one-night stand that becomes something more – an unconventional love story between two young men trying to make sense of their lives.
On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a nightclub, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen. And so begins a weekend – in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex – that will resonate throughout their lives.
The NY Times: “Perfectly realised. A bracing, present tense exploration of sex, intimacy and love.”
LA Weekly: “A small, perfect thing. Likely a classic.”
Chicago Tribune: “Weekend is one of the year’s very best in any genre.”
Chicago Sun-Times: “This is a smart, sensitive, perceptive film. It underlines the difficulty of making connections outside our individual boxes of time and space.”
For more info and for screening locations, go to the official website: weekend-film.com
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On Oct. 11, 1987, half a million people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. It was the second such demonstration in our nation’s capital and resulted in the founding of a number of LGBT organizations.
Recognizing that the LGBT community often reacted defensively to anti-gay actions, they came up with the idea of a national day to celebrate coming out and chose the anniversary of that second march on Washington to mark it. From this idea the National Coming Out Day was born.
To this day National Coming Out Day continues to promote a safe world for LGBT individuals to live truthfully and openly.
More at HRC.org
Olivia Newton-John and friend Yvette Nipar, who owns BeSoDoSo T-Shirts, are collaborating on a limited edition t-shirt for cancer awareness with proceeds to benefit the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre.
About BeSoDoSo (from Yvette): “This started with me wanting to make any bit of a difference that I could.”
“I knew I was doing the right thing when the owner of one of my stores called
& said “A women going through treatment for Breast Cancer just bought all of the
“Attitude is everything” shirts to share with her fellow fighters”! And when I was
told that “Don’t let fear stop you” was pivotal in helping an actress who had all but left the business, go for it one more time, & now works constantly.”
“Be So Do So’s designs/sayings are not mass produced; I like it like that.”
More details to come.
Click here to vote in the poll. I’m betting FOX News won’t air the actual results.
The NBA has cancelled the first 2 weeks of the NBA season due to inability to come to agreement with the players union.
Excerpt from Wolf Blitzer’s excellent post about the current NBA stalemate. Read the whole post here.
I don’t feel badly for the players or the owners at all.
At a time of severe economic hardship around the country with very high unemployment, I can’t worry about players who make $700,000 a year or $7 million a year. These are enormous salaries.
There are tens of millions of people around the country who are simply struggling to put food on the table.
The owners are very wealthy and I can’t feel sorry for them even though the NBA says 22 of the 30 teams in the league lose money.
But I do feel sorry for the fans, many of whom will simply get fed up with the NBA and will turn to college basketball and other sports for their entertainment.
And I feel especially sad when I think of all the hard-working employees who work at the arenas or in nearby neighborhoods; people who sell popcorn or beer at the stadiums; people who work at the restaurants and bars. These people can’t afford to lose a season, especially during these tough economic times. Thousands of them are about to lose their jobs.
These are the people I worry most about.
It’s simply ridiculous that the owners and the players can’t figure out a fair way to split $4 billion in revenue and play ball.
(via press release from EQCA) Anti-equality advocates announced that they have failed to collect the required number of signatures to place a referendum for the November 2012 ballot to overturn the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act.
The FAIR Education Act was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown earlier this year. It requires schools to integrate age-appropriate and factual information about historical roles of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, people with disabilities and people of color into existing social science instruction.
“The FAIR Education Act will simply ensure that California’s students learn an honest, accurate, and inclusive account of history, but opponents of equality have grossly distorted the intent and the effect of the FAIR Education act in their quest to secure signatures for this referendum. Today’s victory shows that their lies cannot stand up to our truth,” said Roland Palencia, Equality California Executive Director.
“Now it’s time to focus on implementing the FAIR Education Act and demonstrate to the public that our opponents’ lies are nothing more than smear tactics designed to censor the historical contributions of LGBT people, people with disabilities and people of color from social studies classes,” said Laura Valdez, Interim Executive Director of Gay-Straight Alliance Network.