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Daily Archives: December 10, 2014
Celebrate the Holidays with Heart in Palm Springs
Celebrate the Holidays with Heart in Palm Springs
VNA California will host their inaugural Holiday Spectacular Concert on Monday, December 15, with proceeds benefiting the organization’s LGBT community Outreach programs. Get your tickets here.
Advocate.com Editors
www.advocate.com/travel/2014/12/10/celebrate-holidays-heart-palm-springs
Male Organ News
Male Organ News
Tom Ford is selling one for your neck for $800, Harpers Bazaar reports:
“It comes in three sizes, small, medium and large—so at the risk of offending anyone, we’d argue this is no time to get frugal. Large it is, for anyone on your Christmas gift list from the Samantha of your group, as a fertility talisman to the lady in your life looking to procreate, to your tongue-in-cheek Tom Ford-loving gay bestie or to that man who is proud as a peach with what he’s working with.”
Lance Bass and Michael Turchin had a themed bachelor party at The Abbey in L.A.: ” In addition to lap dances from hunky male dancers, Bass and Turchin celebrated with lots of penis-shaped party favors, including X-rated cups, straws and dirty necklaces.
And there’s a new 16,000 word oral history of Boogie Nights which includes gossip about Mark Wahlberg’s prosthetic:
“The model itself was made of plaster, with a little public merkin specially made to match Mark Wahlberg’s hair color. (The team also created a special bulge for his pants, “a woman’s stocking knee filled with birdseed.”) After the team tested some prototypes, the final penis ended up being a little smaller than Diggler’s oft-mentioned 13 inches: “We sculpted a version that was 12 inches long, and we tested it, and it was just way too big,” special-makeup-effects coordinator Howard Berger told Grantland.”
Andy Towle
PandaShow Abrete con mi Vieja Papuchis LGBT
PandaShow Abrete con mi Vieja Papuchis LGBT
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Who Was the First Person Robbie Rogers Came Out To?
Who Was the First Person Robbie Rogers Came Out To?
The MLS Cup champion tells his funny and random coming-out story.
Annie Hollenbeck
www.advocate.com/sports/2014/12/10/who-was-first-person-robbie-rogers-came-out
Alone against himself
PHOTOS: Activists Stage Kiss-In at Spanish Burger King That Ejected Gay Couple
PHOTOS: Activists Stage Kiss-In at Spanish Burger King That Ejected Gay Couple
A security guard couldn’t have known when he acted on his homophobia by throwing out a gay couple for kissing that he would spark a kiss-in by dozens of same-sex couples.
Thom Senzee
www.advocate.com/world/2014/12/10/photos-activists-stage-kiss-spanish-burger-king-ejected-gay-couple
I'm Still Bitter, Bill
I'm Still Bitter, Bill
Near the end of October, I was dressed in my finest to attend the annual Human Rights Campaign (HRC) National Dinner at the Washington Convention Center. My wife had received two tickets through her employer, a corporate sponsor of HRC. I had had meetings in New York on Friday night and Saturday morning, so Saturday afternoon I was tearing down the New Jersey Turnpike, then through Delaware and Maryland, to get back home to attend the dinner. I was tired but dressed to the nines and happy to have an evening out with my wife.
The featured speaker at this year’s HRC National Dinner was President Bill Clinton. It was his first return after speaking at the first HRC National Dinner in 1997. I confess that I like Bill. He is charismatic.
When Clinton took the stage, I settled in, knowing that his speeches tend to sound more like graduate seminars than the pithy pronouncements of sitting politicians. About 10 minutes into his lecture, however, he caught me off guard. Clinton said:
It wasn’t entirely predictable that in a country where gay marriage was illegal in 37 states, or maybe more, at the time, that the Supreme Court decision on [the Defense of Marriage Act] would lead to a rash of other decisions which meant that now it’s legal in 32 states and the District of Columbia.
I sat up. People clapped and cheered. I was flummoxed. Did Bill Clinton not realize that a big part of the reason that gay marriage had been illegal in so many states was that he’d signed DOMA into law, emboldening our opponents to pass constitutional amendments banning gay marriage in 31 states? Could he not make the connections between his disastrous decision at a weak moment in his presidency and the consequences that gay and lesbian people endured for almost two decades? It almost sounded like Clinton, the president who’d signed DOMA, and seemingly happily, was suggesting that we had him to thank for the advancement of marriage equality. I almost felt like he was insinuating, “See? Without DOMA these advancements might not have happened!” Had he somehow erased from his memory the fact that his signature on that bill had created an enormous backlash and allowed people to think that, yes, gay and lesbian relationships are less than heterosexual relationships, that heterosexual marriage must be defended? Did he suggest that where we are today is in part a result of his bad behavior? I was enraged.
Then Clinton continued:
Lawyers like Roberta Kaplan and plaintiffs like Edie Windsor — I think they thought about it. But somebody figured out, “Hey, we ought to take this decision and run with it just as far as we can go.”
Bill Clinton has never apologized for signing DOMA. Certainly he has become an important ally of lesbian and gay people, but I can’t give him a pass.
I’m still bitter, Bill. While other gay and lesbian people applauded and cheered, I sat in disbelief. I still remember the day you signed DOMA. The anger. The disappointment. The despair. I still remember watching states pass gay-marriage prohibitions quite easily. I cannot forget, and I cannot forgive until there is a proper apology. Even then, I am never going to be prepared to give you credit for the advancements of marriage equality. I want to be better than all of this bitterness, Bill, but I want you to be better too. Man up. Apologize with some sincerity. The stress and pain you caused millions of gay and lesbian people cannot easily be forgiven. You had a chance to lead on this issue. You didn’t. Now you need to be in awe of what we did in response to your cowardice. You are not the first politician to be cowardly, nor are you the first politician to suggest that your nefarious actions has a silver lining, but, Bill, I expected more from you. Some of us remember. We are watching. We are waiting.
American Authors Joins HRC’s Equality Rocks Campaign
American Authors Joins HRC’s Equality Rocks Campaign
Alt-rock band American Authors has joined HRC’s Equality Rocks campaign in support of marriage equality.
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NEWS: Meryl Streep Is Oxygen, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Gay Divorce, 204 Out Olympians
NEWS: Meryl Streep Is Oxygen, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Gay Divorce, 204 Out Olympians
Illinois gay community mourns Republican Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka: “Equality Illinois CEO Bernard Cherkasov called Topinka a leader in supporting issues important to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Illinoisans. He said she endorsed same-sex marriage in Illinois and even offered to be a flower girl for any same-sex couple that would have her. Cherkasov also said Topinka opened her office to Equality Illinois’ delegation on the group’s annual Springfield lobbying days. He says she also attended Chicago’s Pride Parade and the group’s annual galas.”
Anna Kendrick: Meryl Streep = oxygen.
The road ahead for LGBT rights in the US post-2014 midterms: “What lingers are employment protections, housing and public accommodations protections, safe schools legislation, marriage equality in all 50 states, access to credit without discrimination, and the right for transgender service members to serve openly. To get there, it is essential to win the hearts and minds of those living in many Southern, Midwestern and Great Plains states where few equal rights exist for LGBT residents.”
Malala Yousafzai accepts Nobel Peace Prize: “The terrorists tried to stop us. Neither their ideas nor their bullets could win. We survived. And since that day, our voices have grown louder and louder.” Yousafzai also called attention to her friends in the audience, noting that her story is not all that uncommon. “I tell my story not because it is unique but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.”
Do all dogs go to heaven? Pope Francis weighs in.
Leaked correspondence between Sony’s Amy Pascal and uber-producer Scott Rudin sets tongues wagging.
SAG Nominations are out.
Orlando Bloom talks his locks and what they have in common with Harry Styles with Ellen.
Adam Lambert shows off new ink on Instagram.
Study shows same-sex couples are divorcing at a lower rate than their opposite-sex counterparts.
Former CIA directors respond to the CIA torture report.
OutSports takes a look at the 204 current and former Olympians who have come out to identify as LGBTI.
Brazil had 3,701 gay marriages in 2013, the 1st year such unions were legal.
Hallmark recalls Hannukah gift wrap that has swastika embedded in its design.
Heartbreaking account of sexual assault: “I realized two months later that I hadn’t had sex with a man. I had been assaulted.”
Sean Mandell