The First 'Finding Prince Charming': Remembering Bravo's 'Boy Meets Boy'
Logo’s Finding Prince Charming is a gay twist on The Bachelor, yet Bravo did the same thing 13 years ago (with an exploitative straight twist). Read our July 2003 cover story on Boy Meets Boy below.
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Kylie Minogue’s Hot, Pro-Gay Fiancé Joshua Sasse Displays Full Rising Talent
Gay marriage still isn’t legal in Australia, and you can be sure that ticks off one of the country’s finest exports — Kylie Minogue.
But you can count her fiancé, British actor Joshua Sasse, among those who are equally as peeved.
“He’s so adamant to fight for gay rights in Australia and it’s coming from the most genuine place,” Kylie has said of her beau. “He just can’t fathom that same-sex marriage hasn’t been legalised and of course I back him up on that, we are waiting for it to happen.”
Now that sounds like a real man — way to go, Kylie.
If you haven’t been introduced to Sasse, his progay politics aren’t the only satisfying quality he possesses.
It’s not hard to see why the pop princess fell for him. And if you want the full view (and who doesn’t?), our friends at C&C have vigilantly catalogued some of Josh’s other rising talents.
Texas ‘Ex-Gay’ Group Defends Billboard Promoting Reparative Therapy: VIDEO
A Texas organization has come under fire for posting billboards supporting “ex-gay” therapy in Waco.
Sponsored by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX), the billboard reads “Ex-gays prove change is possible.” PFOX has posted images on Facebook calling homosexuality a “dysfunction” and stating “I was born a sinner but Jesus changed my orientation.”
Reverend Charley Garrison of Central Metropolitan Church Central told ABC:
“Ex-gays implies there’s something wrong with gay, lesbian, and transgendered people. I understand why someone would be drawn to that sort of billboard. Ex-gay therapy does not do any good and in fact, can do harm in increasing the suicide rate in the LGBTQ community.”
However, defending the billboard, David Pickup, a licensed psychotherapist and board member of PFOX said “the people who are criticizing this, they are automatically assuming for everyone homosexuality is genetic or inborn. Because they are assuming this about everyone they are hurting a lot of people who have traumatic causes for their homoerotic feelings. So that’s why need billboards like the one in Waco that tell the truth.”
Pickup added that reparative therapy does not aim to convert people but seeks to address unresolved emotional issues.
Garrison has considered launching a billboard in response to PFOX. However, having discussed the issue with friends and assessed the costs involved he is instead hoping to organize an LGBTQ pride event.
Watch Matt Baume’s Horrible History of Ex-Gay Cures below.
(Images via Facebook)
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Seth Meyers Compares Scandals Surrounding Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump – WATCH
Seth Meyers dug into scandals that have dogged each of the two major presidential campaigns this cycle, and came up with a maybe not surprising result: one of these things is not like the other.
Meyers touched on Clinton’s emails and her use of a private server during her tenure as Secretary of State, but he also got into accusations of ‘pay-for-play’ involving both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump Foundation.
And it turns out there are some pretty stark differences.
Said Meyers, “It’s not exactly clear what the Trump Foundation does. The Clinton Foundation provides lifesaving care to AIDS patients. While the Trump Foundation once gave $250 to the Special Olympics and $100 to the March of Dimes. Did he think the name meant that you could only give dimes?”
Meyers also dove into the Trump Foundation’s illegal campaign contribution to anti-gay Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who dropped an investigation into Trump University around the time Trump made that donation.
Watch, below.
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Marcia Clark is Going to the Emmys (Video)
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N.C. Gov. McCrory Says He Stopped 'Boys Using Girls' Showers' (Video)
A new ad doubles-down on House Bill 2’s discrimination.
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‘Gay Bachelor’ Robert Sepulveda Jr. Elaborates On What He Did, Didn’t Do In The Past
A few years from now, Robert Sepulveda Jr. will be shrugging off reports that he was once the star of LOGO’s “Finding Prince Charming.” But for now, he’s continuing to come clean about his past — the rumors, the fact, and the (supposed) lies.
In an interview with People, Sepulveda addresses a number of topics, from private videos to furniture stores to paying the bills.
Related: Logo Execs Claim They Didn’t Know “Gay Bachelor” Was An Escort
On his rumored adult film past:
“There are stories that I did porn. I never did porn.
“There is a video circulating out there that I shot privately and sent to an ex-boyfriend. It feels so violating that someone would take something so private and share it with the world. I want to work to make sure there are laws protecting people from similar situations. It’s just not right.”
Related: Should “Finding Prince Charming” Acknowledge Robert Sepúlveda Jr.’s Escorting Past?
On how he arrived at his decision to escort:
“The small furniture store I was working at suddenly went out of business.
“I didn’t know how I was going to pay rent or my [college] tuition or buy food.
“I saw no other way to support myself so I decided to do it too. I had all those expenses, I just knew that I had to do something. I had no other choice.”
Related: Bachelor On ‘Finding Prince Charming’ Shamed By Other Contestants For Flamboyance
On whether he expected his past to come up when he signed on to do Finding Prince Charming:
“I didn’t want to have to talk about that time in my life again. But I’m not ashamed of my past. I own it, and I talk about it with the guys on [Finding Prince Charming.]”
It begs the question: if he didn’t want to talk about his life, why sign on to be the focus of a reality dating show?
Finding Prince Charming premieres tonight at 9/8c on Logo.
Reality Show About Gay U.S. Ambassador Comes To Netflix
Rufus Gifford (r) with husband Stephen DeVincent (l). Via Netflix.
Netflix has released Danish TV documentary series “I Am the Ambassador” for streaming. The six-episode series follows U.S. ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford. The series dates back to 2014, but this release will bring it to a much wider audience.
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Gifford admits that when he agreed to make the series he did not anticipate this, writing on Instagram that he thought only a “few thousand people would see it.”
“While I am incredibly nervous about the show being aired all over the world — especially in my home country — I believe in it with all my heart,” he added.
Netflix subscribers can watch the show here, and check out the feature PBS ran on the show for more below.
