Challenge to Anti-LGBT Law in Nigeria Dismissed
Today Nigeria’s Federal High Court dismissed a challenge to Nigeria’s vast and oppressive anti-LGBT law according to BuzzFeed News.
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Daily Archives: October 22, 2014
Bryan Singer Expecting First Child With Queer As Folk Actress Michelle Clunie
Bryan Singer Expecting First Child With Queer As Folk Actress Michelle Clunie
We didn’t see this one coming. Now that his legal worries seem to be behind him for the moment, X-Men director and lover of twinks Bryan Singer is about to become a daddy.
No, that’s not what his lovers will seductively call him (call it a gut feeling but we don’t think he’s into that). He’s expecting his first child with Queer As Folk actress Michelle Clunie.
Bryan’s rep Simon Halls told E! News:
“Best friends for 25 years, mother and father are both very excited about the upcoming birth and look forward to co-parenting the child together. The pair have been planning this baby for years and have been trying for the last two.”
In even more shocking news, E! also reports that Michelle is not acting as surrogate, meaning the two conceived naturally.
Bryan told Out earlier this year:
“I’m quite bisexual. In the last five years, I’ve had two girlfriends—one for two years, one for eight months…In the end, it’s probably going to be a guy. I emotionally lean towards male relationships, so I’m happy to say I’m gay, too, if it’s a one-syllable, easy answer.”
Funny how we’ve never once heard of him trotting around town with a woman, but hey, maybe that’s just media bias for you. Or, you know, maybe not.
It’s worth noting that Halls also announced the pregnancy in the same way you’d expect a big-budget blockbuster to be teased:
“I can confirm that Michelle Clunie and Bryan Singer are happily expecting a baby together in early 2015,” he told press.
Coming soon to a delivery room near you.
Dan Tracer
NEWS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tesla, Bryan Singer's Baby, Ottawa Attack
NEWS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tesla, Bryan Singer's Baby, Ottawa Attack
NASA creates Soundcloud account: “More than 60 samples have been added to the agency’s new dedicated Soundcloud account, but listeners are unable to leave comments underneath the files. Astronaut communications, including “Houston, we’ve had a problem” and “the Eagle has landed”, can be heard – as well as some more abstract noises made by working spacecraft and debris. In space itself, sound is unable to travel as there is no air.”
Benedict Cumberbatch continues to look historical as he plays Richard III in The Hollow Crown.
The Hunt for Red October: “Last Thursday, a Swedish newspaper reported that the Swedish military had intercepted Russian-language radio traffic on a Russian emergency channel, and that the communications were between Russia’s European enclave at Kaliningrad and a source somewhere in the Stockholm Archipelago. What followed were a slew of news and allegations — including alleged photos of a Russian submarine just off the Swedish coast not far from Stockholm, and reports about a mysterious man swimming ashore.”
Lindsay Lohan posts tweet voicing support for Brazilian presidential candidate then deletes it. Internet speculates motives.
Michigan Governor bans sale of Tesla cars.
Michelle Clunie, a.k.a. Melanie from the U.S. version of Queer As Folk, is having Bryan Singer’s baby.
Former Executive Editor and iconic newspaperman Ben Bradlee has died. Obituary from The Washington Post.
First Look: Johnny Depp as the Big Bad Wolf in Into The Woods.
Monica Lewinsky is speaking out about internet bullying apparently inspired by Tyler Clementi.
More photos from the set of Magic Mike XXL.
Sarah Jessica Parker angers owners of Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment with unauthorized photo shoot.
Republican Congressman Trent Franks bemoans secular liberal America: “IS [the Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS] may succeed in committing violence against Christians because “the secular left” in America is diluting the country’s Christian heritage. He said that IS may rise into power just as the Nazis did even though at one point they were just “a bunch of idiots riding across France [sic] in their brownshirts.”
FBI said to be working closely with the Canadian government to determine if today’s attack was a terrorist action.
Sean Mandell
Idaho Gov. Begs Court to Reverse 'Bad Law' of Marriage Equality
Idaho Gov. Begs Court to Reverse 'Bad Law' of Marriage Equality
A unanimous decision from a federal appeals court bringing marriage equality to Idaho ‘appears to be judicial policymaking masquerading as law,’ according to the governor.
Sunnivie Brydum
Anderson Cooper Destroys Pat Robertson's 'Towels Have AIDS' Warning
Anderson Cooper Destroys Pat Robertson's 'Towels Have AIDS' Warning
Anderson Cooper tore straight into conservative Christian media personality Pat Robertson on Tuesday night for his ridiculous and offensive claims about AIDS.
While responding to a “The 700 Club” viewer, Robertson cautioned traveling to Kenya, not because of Ebola, but because “the towels could have AIDS.”
During the latest edition of the “Ridiculist” on “Anderson Cooper 360,” the visibly infuriated host set the record straight:
“Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels,” Cooper said.
The CNN host went on to tease that maybe the best thing for all of us to do is to just stay in the United States and not travel at all.
“Except steer clear of San Francisco,” he added. “Because that’s of course where all the gay people live and Pat Robertson thinks they have an ingenious way of giving you ‘the stuff.'”
Cooper for the win.
British man jailed for 19 days in Morocco for being gay calls ordeal 'hell on Earth'
With Less Than Two Weeks Until Election Day, it’s Time to Get Out the Vote
With Less Than Two Weeks Until Election Day, it’s Time to Get Out the Vote
With less than two weeks until Election Day, HRC staff and volunteers are working nationwide to help elect pro-equality candidates.
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Antoine Dodson Unveils Butch New Look, Sticking By That Whole “Ex-Gay” Story
Antoine Dodson Unveils Butch New Look, Sticking By That Whole “Ex-Gay” Story
“Human rape whistle” Antoine Dodson became somewhat of an underground gay celebrity with his “Hide your kids, hide your wife” platform, until May of last year when he revealed he was “no longer into homosexuality” and had become a Black Hebrew Israelite. It’s a natural progression.
He’s also accepted paychecks and the hope of more fame by appearing on Tosh.0 multiple times, where he knows he’s repeatedly subjecting himself to national ridicule. Anything to sell T-shirts, we guess.
Here’s some highlights from his most recent interview:
Tosh: How has your life changed from being on my show?
Antoine: A whole lot. I have a girlfriend.
T: That’s very confusing. What’s his name?
A: (Haha.)
…
T: Have you told your family you’re back in the closet?
A: When I told my family I was back in the closet, they kind of believed it.
T: I hope you become gay again.
You can watch all the awkwardness here:
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Dan Tracer
Pat Robertson: Gay Rights Advocates 'are Terrorists…Radicals…and Extremists' — VIDEO
Pat Robertson: Gay Rights Advocates 'are Terrorists…Radicals…and Extremists' — VIDEO
Last week, the right-wing freaked out over subpoenas sent to Houston area pastors for “all speeches, presentations, or sermons related to HERO, the Petition, Mayor Annise Parker, homosexuality, or gender identity prepared by, delivered by, revised by, or approved by you or in your possession.”
HERO, is Houston’s LGBT-inclusive Equal Rights Ordinance and the subpoenas, which were acknowledged to be too broad by Mayor Annise Parker and were issued by outside attorneys working for the city pro bono, were being used to find out if there were specific instructions from area pastors to their congregations about how to fill out the petitions for putting the ordinance up for public referendum.
Of course this fit well into the right-wing’s religious persecution meme, and here’s how Robertson reacted (again) on his show today, Right Wing Watch reports:
It’s one thing to want to persuade somebody to believe like you do, that’s what Christianity is about, to bring the Gospel message and say this is good news and we’d like you to accept it. It’s something else to take the arm of the government to force somebody to do something that is against, contrary to their religion, and that’s what these homosexuals are trying to do. They are trying to force people who are Christians to marry them or else face jail, to make cakes honoring them or else go to jail and give their sermons over and divulge their innermost thoughts or go to jail, that’s the kind of thing we’re dealing with.
These people are terrorists, they’re radicals and they’re extremists…
Added Pat: “What’s being done in Houston is a gay—the woman they elected is a homosexual, she’s a lesbian, and she’s trying to force pastors to conform to her beliefs.”
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Andy Towle
LGBT History Month Stop Motion
LGBT History Month Stop Motion
