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Daily Archives: February 7, 2015
BBC’s Gay Anchorman Blames LGBT Drug Use on Lack of 'Discipline'
BBC’s Gay Anchorman Blames LGBT Drug Use on Lack of 'Discipline'
Evan Davis: “It’s something gay people have to watch out for.”
Dawn Ennis
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/02/07/bbc-s-gay-anchorman-blames-lgbt-drug-use-lack-discipline
Gay Iconography: Jennifer Hudson, From 'Idol' to Effie
Gay Iconography: Jennifer Hudson, From 'Idol' to Effie
People love a good comeback, and there are few greater pop culture comebacks in the last decade than that of Jennifer Hudson, the eliminated American Idol contestant who went on to become a multiple award-winning superstar. In addition to the accolades, she’s won over a huge gay audience with her powerful pipes as well as her perseverance and support for LGBT issues.
Hudson has spoken openly in interviews about her affinity for the gay community. In a chat with The Advocate in 2014, she said: “The gay community has meant so much to me throughout my life, and there have been many gay people who have been positive influences for me,” says Hudson. “From my best friend to many of my teachers, my first producer, and more — there have been so many.”
She’s performed at pride events and Disney’s unofficial gay days, and she partnered with W Hotels and the Human Rights Campaign for the Turn It Up For Change campaign, which amplified efforts to advocate for marriage equality and employment protections.
She did however briefly run afoul of the gay community after an interview in 2006 when Hudson was quoted talking about homosexuality being a sin. The singer would go on to clarify her remarks and reaffirm her commitment to the gay community in subsequent interviews, including one with Towleroad in 2008. “A lot of times you do interviews and everybody’s not a fan. They want to turn things around and display you in a certain way. It broke my heart because I don’t feel that way at all. It hurt to see me being misrepresented in that way.”
In her relatively short career, Hudson has gone from a reality-show also-ran to an Academy Award-winning actress and Grammy-winning singer with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Check out some of our favorite Jennifer Hudson moments, AFTER THE JUMP …
America first fell in love with Hudson during her run on season three of American Idol. Her most memorable performance on the show was a powerful performance of Elton John’s “Circle of Life.” Two weeks later, Hudson found herself in the bottom three with fellow favorites Fantasia Barrino and LaToya London. In what many called the most shocking American Idol elimination of all time, Hudson was sent home for her performance of “Weekend In New England,” by Barry Manilow.
Hudson really skyrocketed to stardom after Idol in her debut film role as Effie White in Dreamgirls. Hudson’s work in the film earned her a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her remarkable rendition of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” was only one part of what many considered a powerhouse performance from Hudson in the role. Hudson told Pride Source, “The song has its own spirit. It has an effect on everyone, but definitely on the gay community. I think they relate to it in a different type of way – in a special way. A lot of gay men I’ve met, they’re like, ‘In my heart, I am Effie.’ I relate to Effie, and I think that’s part of the connection. It’s a real situation that we all go through.”
If she hadn’t already enshrined her place in gay culture, her appearance in the first Sex and the City film certainly merited a mention. As the assistant to Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Hudson’s character Louise managed to help her through her break-up with Big and even helped the shockingly technology-inept Bradshaw with her website and e-mail.
Hudson’s self-titled debut earned her a Grammy Award and included her hit single “Spotlight,” above.
At the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, Jennifer Hudson joined Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Mary Lambert to perform the LGBT-ally anthem “Same Love.”
What’s your favorite Jennifer Hudson performance?
Bobby Hankinson
www.towleroad.com/2015/02/gay-iconography-jennifer-hudson-from-idol-to-effie.html
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Eyeing Presidential Run, Carly Fiorina Tip Toes Around Marriage
Eyeing Presidential Run, Carly Fiorina Tip Toes Around Marriage
The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and failed senate candidate pushes her conservative cred
Neal Broverman
Oh, No, I Really Liked 'Jupiter Ascending'
Oh, No, I Really Liked 'Jupiter Ascending'
Channing Tatum boxes a flying dinosaur in “Jupiter Ascending,” a ridiculous and joyful moment in a movie full of ridiculous and joyful moments. The scene even has its own score cue, courtesy of composer Michael Giacchino: “Flying Dinosaur Fight.”
That title is “Jupiter Ascending” in a nutshell. Obvious, garish, silly and so damn fun. “Jupiter Ascending” is bananas in the best and worst ways, an excessive, over-the-top amalgam of other science-fiction works (“Star Wars,” “The Fifth Element,” “Brazil,” “The Matrix,” “Dune,” H.P Lovecraft and Moebius). It’s the movie version of larceny. I can’t believe someone gave Andy and Lana Wachowski $175 million to make this movie; I get the feeling they can’t either.
Does any of it make sense? Sort of? Earth, it turns out, is an ostensible cattle farm (one of millions, it seems) and three siblings — played with increasing camp excellence by Tuppence Middleton, Douglas Booth and Eddie Redmayne — want it for themselves. The problem is that Earth belongs, unwittingly, to Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), a Russian immigrant and maid-for-hire living in Chicago who’s also queen of the universe. The siblings, in turn, kidnap or trick Jupiter at various times in the narrative in attempts to gain control of her planet. Tatum plays Caine Wise, a disgraced soldier turned bounty hunter who tries to save her. He’s half man and half wolf. At one point, Caine compares himself to a dog.
The “why” is the trickier part: “Jupiter Ascending” mixes the science-fiction of “The Matrix” and “Prometheus” together to explain some of it, but even a fan would be hard-pressed to give a detailed account of character motivations. (I won’t even try.) But plot and character are MacGuffins in this film, the unnecessary accessories that drive the movie’s whirling nonsense forward. Who cares why Jupiter is revealed to be an exact genetic replica of the siblings’ mother, when Eddie Redmayne is shouting at a few minions?
Ah, Eddie Redmayne. Let’s pause here to say if he were to win his possible future Oscar for “Jupiter Ascending” instead of “The Theory of Everything,” it would be deserved. He goes full Oldman in this movie, and it’s the kind of go-for-broke performance more actors should be given the slack to try. Any and all talk about this being Redmayne’s “Norbit” is both suspect and silly. He’s great in “Jupiter Ascending,” doing exactly what the material asks him to do.
Is “Jupiter Ascending” bad? A lot of critics think so. The film has a 22-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with reviews calling it “swollen,” “lost” and “laughably inane.” According to the Wachowskis, the original script was more than 200 pages; the film is just 125 minutes. Many reviewers have cited how “Jupiter Ascending” comes across like an adaptation of a comic-book series or franchise sequel that only the Wachowskis know exist. “When Caine Wise first appears in this movie, it really does feel like the film wants you to think, Ah, yes, my favorite character, Caine Wise. How we’ve grown with you over the years. I hope you succeed again, old friend,” Mike Ryan wrote for Uproxx. He’s not alone in that very valid critique.
But does a movie so steeped in its influences — there’s an entire homage to “Brazil” that literally ends with a Terry Gilliam cameo — really need any true set up? We’re rooting for Caine and Jupiter because they’re our heroes. We want Redmayne’s villainous Balem Abrasax (great name / lost Asia album title) to get a well-deserved comeuppance. To quote “Beauty and the Beast,” yet another movie to which “Jupiter Ascending” owes a debt: It’s a tale as old as time.
“Nowadays, people who write about movies are obsessed with derivative material in a way they never were before,” Lana Wachowksi told BuzzFeed about the post-9/11 film landscape. “They hunger for familiarity, and they actually have a suspicion of originality.”
What’s funny is that the Wachowskis have given us familiarity here too, and people still don’t like it. Maybe I shouldn’t either? Whatever. How am I supposed to hate a movie that gave us a scene like this?
Lance Bass Says Perez Hilton Bullied Him Into Coming Out in 2006: VIDEO
Lance Bass Says Perez Hilton Bullied Him Into Coming Out in 2006: VIDEO
In an interview with UK’s Attitude, Lance Bass revealed that he was bullied into coming out by bloggers like Perez Hilton after he was given a 24-hour ultimatum back in July 2006.
The Independent reports:
The singer, 35, told the Ricki Lake show in 2013 that he was frightened to come out in the early Ninetines and late Noughties, because he feared it would have “completely ruined” the hugely popular boyband.
He has since told Attitude that he was given a day to choose between coming out, or being outed.
“Two years before I came out I was really bullied on the internet by bloggers, that’s when Perez Hilton just started and was just really malicious against me,” he said.
“So, because of the bloggers like him hounding me, all the other magazines started calling me and saying , ‘Look, we know you’re gay, you can write the story with or without us, but we have to write it,’ I decided to go with People [magazine] and I think they did a great job.
“I had 24 hours to decide if I was going to come out or not, and within 24 hours it was on the stands.”
Check out a clip of Bass talking with childhood friends about living in the closet during his NSNYC days that aired on the Lance Loves Michael: The Lance Bass Wedding special earlier this week, AFTER THE JUMP…
Kyler Geoffroy
Cute Pinoy Portal Podcast #1 LGBT – oriented podcast in Philippines
Cute Pinoy Portal Podcast #1 LGBT – oriented podcast in Philippines
Ricky Martin Shows It Off, Scott Eastwood Is All Wet And More On Instagram
Ricky Martin Shows It Off, Scott Eastwood Is All Wet And More On Instagram
This week, Channing Tatum revealed he has some fire down below, Looking’s Frankie J. Alvarez stripped down for a photo shoot and Neil Patrick Harris and hubby David Burtka showed off their magical home. Here’s what happened on Instagram:
Oh, Ricky Martin!
#Sol #vida #calma #relax #Music #Life #PuertoRico #Caribe #Caribbean #barefeet #Saltyhair at #peace #beYOU #seTÚ
A photo posted by Ricky (@ricky_martin) on Jan 31, 2015 at 11:45am PST
Bianca Del Rio is so good with children.
My life. A photo posted by Bianca Del Rio (@thebiancadelrio) on Feb 5, 2015 at 11:26pm PST
Remember that time Raul Castillo played a Narcocorrido singer?
A photo posted by Raúl Castillo (@officialraulcastillo) on Feb 2, 2015 at 3:59pm PST
Even birdwatching can’t come between John Stamos and his Calvins.
You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Birdwatching. A photo posted by John Stamos (@johnstamos) on Feb 3, 2015 at 11:46am PST
Johnny Weir likes it upside down.
Working my ass off. Summer is coming.
A photo posted by JOHNNY WEIR (@johnnygweir) on Feb 6, 2015 at 8:16am PST
Russell Tovey spent some quality time with his best boy.
Me and my boy A photo posted by Russelltovey (@russelltovey) on Feb 1, 2015 at 6:00am PST
Designer Andrew Christian and model Pablo Hernandez went cruising.
Hanging out in the aft(ass) of the ship with @andrewchristianintl #pablohernandez #pablohernandezofficial #AndrewChristian #friends #latino #pride #atlantisevents #cruise #gaycation #nofilter #fun #sun #outdoors
A photo posted by Pablo Hernandez Official Page (@pablohernandezofficial) on Feb 6, 2015 at 9:50am PST
Even Terry Miller can have a bad hair day.
February #bedhead. A photo posted by Terry Miller (@terrysphots) on Feb 5, 2015 at 9:46am PST
Colton Haynes gave a shout out to his partner in crime.
Happy bday to my partner in crime @travisatreo ! Ur so old! Happy to have ya in my life bud & will annoy u for many yrs to come A photo posted by Colton Haynes (@coltonlhaynes) on Feb 3, 2015 at 5:03pm PST
EJ Johnson dressed down for the Super Bowl.
How divas prepare for the Super Bowl @ezrajwilliam #superbowl #teamthis A photo posted by EJ Johnson (@ejjohnson_) on Feb 1, 2015 at 3:09pm PST
Hugh Jackman is counting the days until his Broadway show The River ends its run.
A photo posted by Hugh Jackman (@thehughjackman) on Feb 3, 2015 at 3:59pm PST
Despite photographic evidence to the contrary, Shemar Moore claims to hate balls.
I hate Balls!!! But I grind Hard for my Baby Girls!!! ???????????????????????? A video posted by Shemar Moore (@shemarfmoore) on Feb 6, 2015 at 12:59pm PST
Unlike his vampire character, Ian Somerhalder sleeps on the job.
A photo posted by iansomerhalder (@iansomerhalder) on Feb 4, 2015 at 10:35am PST
Model David Gandy is behind the wheel.
Be sure to watch the Classic Car Show tomorrow on Ch 5 at 7pm (UK). See my FB or twitter for a teaser video A photo posted by David Gandy (@davidgandy_official) on Feb 4, 2015 at 9:21am PST
Scott Eastwood is the new face of Cool Water.
A photo posted by Scott Eastwood (@scotteastwood) on Feb 6, 2015 at 11:46am PST
Jeremy Kinser
SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reveals Which Ruling She'd Undo if She Could: VIDEO
SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reveals Which Ruling She'd Undo if She Could: VIDEO
“If I had any talent in the world, any talent that God could give me, I’d be a great diva.”
SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sat down at Georgetown this week for an interview.
She was asked about the cases the Court has heard and about which ruling she might undo if she could, the Guardian reports:
….it would be the Citizens United decision. “I think our system is being polluted by money,” Ginsburg said.
Ginsburg said she is optimistic that “sensible restrictions” on campaign financing will one day be in place, quoting her late husband Martin Ginsburg to explain why: “The true symbol of the United States is not the eagle, it’s the pendulum – when it swings too far in one direction, it will swing back.” …
Ginsburg’s long fight for gender equality may have led some to believe she would pick the Hobby Lobby ruling, which allows corporations to be exempt from providing healthcare that covers women’s reproductive services on religious grounds. But she said the many recent and aggressive attempts to restrict women’s access to health services could be stopped.
On the subject of women, she discussed the career challenges she was faced with, answered another question she gets asked a lot: “When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court.”
Watch her answer that question perfectly, AFTER THE JUMP…
Andy Towle