LGBTQ news and entertainment
Damian Goddard, anti-gay Canadian sportswriter-turned-NOM-spokesman, slapped Anderson via Twitter for posting a supportive tweet about out NCAA basketball player Derrick Gordon.
Anderson Cooper slapped back…
(h/t Towleroad)
The Coop gets deep sitting in the Watch What Happens Live green room:
“Last time I was here Cher was here. I wonder what she’s doing right now?”
“I wonder if Andy (Cohen) will ever pay his tab at Eastern Bloc? I wonder if I can ask him? So cheap…”
“I can’t remember the last time I got drunk on a Monday…”
Former Minnesota Vikings player Chris Kluwe discusses his allegations of homophobia in the Vikings organization which may have led to Kluwe’s release from the team.
Kluwe: “I made sure that I had witnesses because that’s a very easy defamation of character case and it would be pretty easy for him to prevail in a court of law…I am 100% confident in everything I related is how it happened and really encouraged by the fact that the Vikings are taking it seriously and opening an investigation because I think once they talk with people they’ll find out what happened.”
Anderson noted that the investigation does not have subpoena power so it’s up to players to cooperate and asks Kluwe if he thinks players will come forward.
Kluwe responded: “I’m confident because it’s the right thing to do. One thing that I’m going to push for is there must be anonymity for these witnesses because being black-balled in the NFL is a very real possibility and this is not something I’m going to force my friends to submit to…”
I love that Chris makes a statement by wearing a hat from the Principle 6 Campaign.
Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter states that any form of discrimination is incompatible with the Olympics, and the IOC has confirmed that this includes sexual orientation.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper was not having it when Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho on Monday insinuated that Cooper is biased against Republicans.
Cooper asked the Republican why the House won’t allow a vote on a clean CR to “see” if it would pass. Labrador insisted there are not enough votes to pass the bill.
When Labrador practically accused Cooper of doing the bidding of the Democrats, Cooper was quick to refute the allegation.
“All of a sudden, just because you don’t like the fact that the Republicans are in control of the House of Representatives, you want to make sure that the Republicans actually pass the Democrat’s–” Labrador began before being interrupted.
“I don’t have a stake in this,” he said. “This is the way it works in journalism. When you’re not on Fox News, you get contentious interviews. When you’re not on MSNBC and a liberal, you get contentious interviews. My job is to ask you questions that are different than you think, just as my next guest, who’s a Democrat, I’m gonna ask the same kinds of questions… that’s what a journalist does.”
(source)
Alec Baldwin, while on Howard Stern discussing the controversy around his calling a Daily Mail reporter a “toxic little queen,” took aim at Anderson Cooper for posting the following tweet in response to his choice of words:
“Why does #AlecBaldwin get a pass when he uses gay slurs? If a conservative talked of beating up a “queen” they would be vilified.”
Said Baldwin:
“Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff. Now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!”
(via kennethinthe212.com)
George Zimmerman Juror B-37 (B37) Interview With Anderson Cooper on CNN – Part 1 CNN’s Anderson Cooper landed the first “exclusive” interview with one of the six women who sat on the George Zimmerman murder trial jury for the last month. Seated in darkness and identified only as Juror B-37, the woman told Cooper is “seems like it’s been years” since the trial began and shared which moments of the proceedings had the biggest impact on her.
Speaking about the opening statements, the juror called defense attorney Don West’s knock-knock joke “horrible.” She said, “nobody got it. I didn’t get it until later, and then I thought about it, and I’m like, I guess that could have been funny, but not in the context he told it.” She told Cooper that in general she found the witnesses to be “credible” and said when it came to the 911 call audio of the screams, she believed those who said it was Zimmerman’s voice “because of the evidence that he was the one that had gotten beaten.” All but one of the six jurors agreed with that assessment. “I don’t think there was a doubt,” she said, “that everybody else thought it was George’s voice.”
If there was one witness who the juror didn’t find entirely credible it was Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel. “I didn’t think it was credible, but I felt sorry for her. She didn’t ask to be in this place. She wanted to go. She didn’t want to be any part of this case. I think she felt inadequate toward everyone because of her education and her communication skills. I just felt sadness for her.” She added, “she was embarrassed by being there, because of her education and her communication skills, that she just wasn’t a good witness.”
The juror had announced she was writing a book about the case, but after hours of outrage on social media for Sharlene Martin of Martin Literary Management LLC to drop the juror, it was announced that a book deal was no longer in the works, via a statement published by Buzzfeed:
“I realize it was necessary for our jury to be sequestered in order to protest our verdict from unfair outside influence, but that isolation shielded me from the depth of pain that exists among the general public over every aspect of this case. The potential book was always intended to be a respectful observation of the trial from my and my husband’s perspectives solely and it was to be an observation that our ‘system’ of justice can get so complicated that it creates a conflict with our ‘spirit’ of justice.
“Now that I am returned to my family and to society in general, I have realized that the best direction for me to go is away from writing any sort of book and return instead to my life as it was before I was called to sit on this jury.”
Anderson Cooper uses the “Ridiculist” to poke fun at himself for his total “fanboy” behavior with Cher on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live.”
Best line: “You try keeping a 46 year-old gay man away from Cher.”
It’s actually charming that he gets all googly about the diva. I’ve done it myself and it’s usually when I least expect it. It just happens to us.
And then, there’s his coworkers who came up with a nifty graphic of Anderson doing his best Cher impersonation…
(via Queerty)
Christopher Beck served as a U.S. Navy SEAL in some of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan and earned medals and commendations including the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart
But for 20 years while Beck was fighting for his country, he was also fighting an inner battle over his identity. He wanted to live his life as a woman.
After retiring in 2011, Beck did just that. Chris Beck is now Kristin Beck.
Kristin has written a book, Warrior Princess, about her journey as a US Navy Seal and the process of living life in the light today.
Last night, Kristin spoke with Anderson Cooper about the transition from being a masculine Navy SEAL to a feminine woman.
More of the interview below:
(via Anderson Cooper 360°)
With castmembers Bill Hader and Seth Meyers leaving the show, Hader’s club-kid “Stefon” married Meyer’s “Weekend Update” host. But first Meyers had to chase Stefon through the streets of New York and prevent him from marrying Anderson Cooper.
Plus, in an effort to help those about to face fabulous gay weddings, there is now “New Xanax for gay summer weddings.”
NFL and Super Bowl champion Brendon Ayanbadejo appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss overcoming barriers and accepting gay athletes.