Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Mock Reporter's Epic Fail 'Skeleton Twins' Interview: VIDEO

Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Mock Reporter's Epic Fail 'Skeleton Twins' Interview: VIDEO

Parente

Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader are currently on screen together in The Skeleton Twins, in which they play a brother and sister from a dysfunctional family struggling to reconnect after many years.

KWGN’s Chris Parente attempted to bluff his way through an interview with them after not having seen the film, and made the mistake of asking Wiig about her full-frontal scene, wondering if she has any advice for people on going nude.

Trouble is, there is no nude scene in The Skeleton Twins.

Watch Parente get caught red-faced, AFTER THE JUMP


Andy Towle

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/skeleton.html

St. Petersburg Queerfest Hit With Additional Closures and Attacks from Anti-gay Activists & Police: VIDEO

St. Petersburg Queerfest Hit With Additional Closures and Attacks from Anti-gay Activists & Police: VIDEO

Queerfest

As we reported earlier, the International Queer Culture Festival in St. Petersberg had a rough opening week – with a series of disruptions by numerous anti-gay activists – including lawmaker (and leading sponsor of Russia’s anti-gay propaganda ban) Vitaly Milonov. Now, however, it has become clear that the roadblocks being placed on the festival are coming from more than just anti-gay activists, but from Russian police as well. 

In an updated post, GLAAD reports that QueerFest has faced additional venue closures and harassment – with police attempting on Wednesday to shut down a press conference ironically titled “Who is Shutting Down QueerFest?” Festival organizers have stopped openly publishing festival venues and have opted to streaming events through an online feed. 

Organizers have shared a video of the opening ceremony attack, which you can watch AFTER THE JUMP

You can also head over to GLAAD to see the timeline of anti-gay incidents at Queerfest. 

 


Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/queerfest.html

Maggie Gallagher Says Duck Dynasty Is Responsible For Dip in Public Support for Gay Marriage

Maggie Gallagher Says Duck Dynasty Is Responsible For Dip in Public Support for Gay Marriage

Maggie

In a new post over at the National Review, NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher offers her take on the recent Pew poll that found a 5-point dip in public support for gay marriage (49%).

Writes Gallagher: 

It may well be an outlier, but here is why I suspect not:

White Evangelical support for gay marriage dropped 4 percentage points, from 22 percent to 18 percent; Catholic support dropped 9 percentage points, from 61 percent to 52 percent. (White mainline Protestant opinion was virtually unchanged, rising from 56 percent support to 57 percent support.) Unaffiliated support for gay marriage continued its rise — from 71 percent to 76 percent in just one year.

But something happened over the last year to give traditional Christians second thoughts about what gay marriage would mean. What could that be?

RobertsonThe most likely candidate is A&E’s decision to suspend Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, after he expressed, rather colorfully, rather standard orthodox Christian views on gay sex.

The Duck Dynasty incident was not, of course, alone. In the spring of 2014, 65,000 people signed their names to a petition stating that Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich must either recant his opposition to gay marriage or be fired. The firestorm caused him to step down. The Eich case is salient for gay-marriage opponents because he had done nothing to deserve a public tarring and feathering except contribute once to the Prop 8 campaign in California. 

Gallagher goes on to point out that a similar drop in support occured back in 2009 in response to the backlash against Miss California Carrie Prejean after she stated her opposition to marriage equality


Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/gallagher.html