LGBTQ news and entertainment
If you’ve spent any time in Times Square, you know “The Naked Cowboy” – who has become a kind of urban celebrity of sorts. Thank goodness he’s playing it safe in advance of Hurricane Irene and donning a smart life preserver. Just in case.
Thanks to Michael Halden for sharing this pic.
Stuart Varney, who hosts a show on the Fox Business Network, began a rebuttal of Jon Stewart skewering him for his comment that poor people aren’t that bad off because “99.6% have a refrigerator” by saying poor people “have things – what they lack is a richness of spirit.”
SRSLY.
No words left for that.
Via CNN: As Hurricane Irene barrels along the U.S. East Coast, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said the nation would be much better off without the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“I live on the Gulf Coast. We put up with hurricanes all the time,” the GOP presidential candidate told an NBC News reporter Friday at a New Hampshire campaign event. “There’s no magic about FEMA. More and more people are starting to recognize that.”
Paul has long been a critic of the agency, which he calls a “great contributor to deficit financing.”
Citing the Galveston hurricane in 1900 that obliterated much of the Texas coast, the libertarian-leaning congressman said Americans were able to rebuild their cities and put up a seawall without the federal government’s help.
“FEMA is not a good friend of most people in Texas,” Paul said. “All they do is come in and tell you what to do and can’t do. You can’t get in your houses. And they hinder the local people, and they hinder volunteers from going in.”
The agency received wide criticism in 2005 after failing to respond in a timely, organized manner to the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
New York-based Richard Renaldi is a gifted photographer whose work is exhibited internationally and has been published in The Advocate, GQ, Out, Time and Vogue.
One of Renaldi’s ongoing projects is the series of intimate portraits he shoots of himself and partner Seth Boyd in hotel rooms around the globe. This stylish, playful and fascinating body of work is also a document of Renaldi and Boyd’s longtime relationship.
Btw – you may notice – they are very easy on the eyes.
Some of my favorite images from the couple’s travels below. I’m not sure why, but the Missoula, Montana, pic is my favorite. Maybe because of all my traveling.
Click on a picture to see a larger version.
Or even better, to read and see more about Renaldi and his work, make sure you go to his website – www.renaldi.com.
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| Livingston, Guatemala |
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| Washington, D.C. |
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| Etosha National Park, Namibia |
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| Turin, Italy |
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| Missoula, Montana |
It’s been way too long since we’ve seen fabulous Eddy and Patsy crack a bottle of Bolly.
Shooting new episodes for the first time since 2004, Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders are filming scenes for an all-new ‘Absolutely Fabulous Christmas special.’
The Daily Mail UK snapped “the pair parading up and down Bond Street laden with designer bags from the likes of Louis Vuitton, The Kooples and Lanvin, in the never-ending quest to stay hip and cool.”
Last year, creator/writer/star Saunders fought and won a battle with breast cancer and announced the return of the series was coming.
Sweeties, dahlings, you look still absolutely fabulous!
UPDATE: Sen. Roberto Arango, a Republican who represents the capital of San Juan for the island’s governing party, presented his letter of resignation after a weekend meeting, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz said.
Schatz did not release the lawmaker’s letter, but said the circumstances that led to the resignation “are very lamentable.”
Local news media published photos from the application showing a man’s nude upper body with a cell phone obscuring his face. Another photo showed a rear view of a nude man on his hands and knees. Another showed a fuzzy image of a face that seemed to match Arango’s.
Arango has neither confirmed nor denied suggestions by local media that the photos might be of him and apparently was not asked if he had posted them. During a recent interview with WAPA TV in Puerto Rico, the senator said he has taken pictures of himself with a cell phone to document his recent weight loss.
ORIGINAL POST: Puerto Rico’s ‘Anthony Weiner’ is much more exciting than ours: Last week, images from Puerto Rican senator and GOP cheerleader Roberto Arango’s alleged profile on gay hook-up app Grindr surfaced.
Puerto Rico’s Sen. Roberto Arango, who chaired the local 2004 campaign to reelect George W. Bush, has been found showing his anus (NSFW) on the gay hook-up site Grindr.
Arango acknowledges that the photos are of him, but says he was merely posting images to show off his recent weight loss. IN HIS ANUS.
“You know I’ve been losing weight. As I shed that weight, I’ve been taking pictures. I don’t remember taking this particular picture but I’m not gonna say I didn’t take it. I’d tell you if I remembered taking the picture but I don’t.”
Prior to this scandal, Arango was mostly known for the ridicule he endured after publishing a grammatically disastrous letter demanding statehood for Puerto Rico because (among other reasons) so many fast food restaurants have outlets there.
In 2009 he voted in favor of Resolution 99 which would have amended Puerto Rico’s constitution to ban the recognition of same-sex marriages (it didn’t pass).
He has been opposed to civil union bills and in 2004 he used a rubber duck and made it quack to make fun of an opponent (in Puerto Rico, the word for duck, “pato”, means faggot.)
SRSLY people – how many ‘holier than thou’ – ‘I just want to keep my money and be rich’ closeted Republicans can there be?
Via JoeMyGod
Airlines have begun cancelling hundreds of flights to and from New York-area airports as Hurricane Irene draws closer—bad news for travelers trying to get the hell out of Dodge.
JetBlue has cancelled 882 flights so far, from Saturday through Monday, most of them at JFK Airport. The airline is waiving some change fees for cancelled flights — check their official site for more details.
AirTran is also cancelling flights across the East Coast and waiving some fees — here’s a full list of locations affected. Delta is too (full list here), as well as Continental-United (full list here).
The Port Authority has said they will be ready with “hundreds of cases of bottled water, diapers, cots, blankets and pillows” for any passengers that get stranded due to heavily delayed or canceled flights, and they have arranged to have at least one food vendor open day and night at JFK and LaGuardia.
Wayne Giroux’s family sure misses him after he was killed by a drunk driver last summer.
But there’s also someone else who misses Wayne — his dog Spot.
From WFAA-TV video:
It’s hard to tell who misses Wayne more… Wayne’s son Paul or Wayne’s dog.
At the same time, every day, Spot hangs around this quiet country road waiting for Wayne to come home.
“I have no doubt that‘s what she’s waiting for,” Paul said. “It breaks my heart every time I go over there.”
Twice a day, Spot leaves her post when Paul looks in on her. But he knows it’s not him the dog really wants to see.
“If you can ever find anything that loves you that much, it’s the most precious gift in the world,” he said.
It’s possible, one day, Spot might give up. But Paul doesn’t think so.
Around here, friends are for a lifetime.
Dogs rule. Period.
Few stories in the past week or so have touched more hearts that that of Hawkeye, the loyal Labrador retriever who lay down next to the flag-draped casket of his master, U.S. Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson.
One of the 30 U.S. military personnel killed in Afghanistan when their helicopter was hit by enemy fire on Aug. 6, Tumilson was remembered at a funeral service in Rockford, Iowa, on Aug. 19.
Hawkeye — not a military dog, but Tumilson’s personal pet — “led the family into the gym” where the funeral was held, as the Des Moines Register reports. And then he lay down.
A poignant picture taken by Tumilson’s cousin, Lisa Pembleton, has gotten lots of attention since then. So too have video reports aired and posted by local TV stations and the news networks.
Many readers wanted to know what was going to happen to Hawkeye and wondered if they could adopt him. There’s good news: According to Home Post, “Tumilson’s friend, Scott Nichols, will be Hawkeye’s new master.”
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| Hawkeye by his master’s casket – photo:Lisa Pembleton |