News: Montana, Hugh Jackman, Parasites, Ig Nobels, Tuna
Montana woman files appeal over historic Montana same-sex partner custody ruling.
Where did Charlie go when he was young? Tuna kindergarten.
Interested in what Shrek the Musical sounds like? Download a free tune.
Gold-winning gay Aussie Olympian hires “the man who helped turn Ian Thorpe into a multimillionaire, David Flaskas, to manage his career away from the dive towers.” Mitcham has yet to score a major sponsorship - is homophobia to blame?
Canadian candidate who told a high school assembly gays should be executed is banned from future debates.
Senator Larry Craig gives farewell speech to empty chamber. Crapper goes unmentioned in colleague Mike Crapo’s good-bye lauding the accomplishments of his retiring colleague : “It has been a privilege for me to serve with Senator Craig during my time in Congress. My wife, Susan, and I wish him and his wife, Suzanne, well as they begin a new chapter in their lives.”
Police looking into violent gay bashing outside club in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: “The victim was treated in hospital. Shortly afterwards a man appeared at hospital with injuries to his hand. Police say the man bragged about his assault at the Embassy Club.”
Hugh Jackman lookin’ spiffy.
Catholic churches in Michigan town of Hamtramck urge voters to reject town’s anti-discrimination that includes protections for sexual orientation: “We have to keep the morals and have the regular families and bring up children according to God’s law. Keep it the way it was from the beginning.”
Equality Maryland to honor transgender model Isis.
Alien parasites killing sharks off the coast of Oregon. Damn, those things look nasty.
I’m very sorry to report the passing of Rupert, the cutest deer ever.
Facebook censors gay men’s retailer Priape: “Michael Ain, Priape’s director of marketing and sales, says Facebook is treating Priape differently than it does similar pages aimed at heterosexual audiences.”
Duke University to host Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson: “Janie Long, director of the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life-which organized Robinson’s visit-said she hoped his appearance would help to open a campus conversation on faith and identity. ‘This is something that I deal with with students quite frequently,’ she said. ‘And because I very much want students from all kinds of faith backgrounds-it’s not students that are Christians, it’s really all faith backgrounds-it’s a chance for those students to be exposed to someone who I think is really an excellent role model in terms of balancing different parts of identity.’”
Madonna and A-Rod reportedly dine together in NYC.
Out Dartmouth runner Jamal Brown shares his experiences as an openly gay college athlete.
There are two out gay men on this season’s Top Chef — meet them.
Broadway’s Hairspray to close.
Annual Ig Nobel Prizes awarded.
CBS in trouble for Survivor peen moment that nobody saw.
A new comedy TV series based on the childhood memoirs of Simon Doonan by the writer of Beautiful Thing comes to the BBC: “This glittering and hilarious series delves inside Simon’s youthful memories and his desire to escape suburban Reading and live amongst the ‘beautiful people’ - from his perspective as a window dresser in a New York department store.”
CDC: 1 in 5 unaware they are infected with HIV.
Building in Bangkok’s gay area collapses: “The collapse happened on Tuesday in Bangkok’s Silom Soi 4 at around 4pm local time (10pm NZ time), when the Soi is largely unattended. There are no reports of fatalities or injuries. The four-story building, currently under renovation and operating as Roxy Club, partially fell to the ground, crushing motorcyles and furniture, leaving the street covered in large pieces of concrete and other debris.”
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Last to Know
While media outlets and blogs have been discussing McCain’s pull-out from Michigan for over 24 hours, Governor Sarah Palin heard about it reading the newspaper this morning. In the clip, FOX News’ Carl Cameron misidentifies Palin as the Democratic nominee.
Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP…
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Evan Wolfson on the Biden-Palin Debate and the Freedom to Marry
This message regarding last night’s debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin arrived in our mailbox from Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom To Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. I’m happy to republish it here.
As I’ve noted to some colleagues and reporters, analyzing last night’s exchange on same-sex couples and marriage:
The good news is that Senator Biden expressed his belief that gay and non-gay couples should be treated equally under the law, and committed to support for the incidents of marriage, the legal protections and responsibilities that come with marriage. The bad news is that he stopped short of supporting actual equality through the freedom to marry itself, the only way to provide the full security, clarity, and protections that marriage alone brings, and failed (as did the moderator) to point out the inconsistencies and falsehoods in Governor Palin’s answer. His comments garbled the distinction between religious rites of marriage, properly left to religions to decide, and the legal right to marry, regulated by the government, which should not discriminate. Supporters of gay equality should not be using the anti-gay forces’ false talking-point (introduced by Governor Palin) that ending gay couples’ exclusion from marriage is “redefining” marriage; marriage is not “defined” by who is denied it.
Continued, AFTER THE JUMP…
The good news in Governor Palin’s answer was that she felt obliged to go out of her way to proclaim herself “tolerant of adults in America choosing their partners, choosing relationships that they deem best for themselves,” a position that, if true, raises the question of why the law should then discriminate against those Americans, whether in marriage or other legal mechanisms such as domestic partnership (which she opposed in Alaska and tried to overturn by constitutional amendment).
Her assertion of non-judgmental “tolerance” is inconsistent with her chuch’s hosting an anti-gay “change through prayer” program that she has refused to repudiate. And her claim that “not in a McCain-Palin administration, to do anything to prohibit, say, visitations in a hospital or contracts being signed, negotiated between parties” is at odds with Senator McCain’s support for anti-gay constitutional amendments such as the one in Arizona that would have impeded legal acknowledgment of gay couples and denied the range of protections, from marriage down to specific legal measures such as partnership recognition, to unmarried couples, gay and non-gay.
McCain’s and Palin’s actions — nearly always rejecting pro-gay steps and measures, nearly always supporting anti-gay positions — is the worst news.
Overall, then, the bad news is that while one party’s positions are immensely better than the others, both candidates failed to support full equality for America’s gay families (despite Governor Palin’s invocation of “equal rights” as an American value in her closing); the worse news is that the real and immense difference between their actual positions — one supporting actual movement toward equality and fairness, the other offering bland assurances belied by actual policy positions deepening discrimination — may have gotten lost.
And, to end on a positive, it is good news that yet again we see that the discussion around marriage equality is moving politicians, sincerely or otherwise, to greater acknowledgment of gay families and the wrongness of discrimination against them. That one presidential ticket is indeed committed to specific legal measures to reduce discrimination and, indeed, tacit support for marriage equality, even if they won’t yet embrace or explain it, is perhaps best of all.
— Evan Wolfson, FreedomtoMarry.org
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John Barrowman Goes Homo and Hetero in Music Video
The multi-talented John Barrowman’s lookin’ might pretty in the video for his new single “What About Us” which was just released in the UK. The track itself is a bit of a snooze for me but perfect for those of you who dig adult contemporary and are prone to singing aloud in your car when you think nobody’s watching.
Props to Barrowman though, for going with a gay and straight couple in the video. I wouldn’t have expected less from him. Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP…
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San Diego Firefighter Jury Still Deliberating Gay Harassment Case
They’ve been deliberating the case for two days and there’s evidence of disagreement:
“The panel submitted three questions Thursday to San Diego Superior Court Judge Michael Anello; contents of two of the questions were not disclosed. In the morning, the jurors asked the judge about the amount of jurors needed to reach a verdict. The question was quickly answered: at least nine jurors need to agree on a count in order to reach a verdict in a civil trial. Two other questions were submitted to Anello Thursday afternoon.”
On Wednesday, a lawyer asked for $1 million for each firefighter in the case.
Background
Atty Wants $1 Million Each for SD Firefighters ‘Harassed’ at Gay Pride [tr]
Judge: Firefighters Case Ready to Go to Jury [tr]
Firefighter Testifies in San Diego Gay Pride Trial [tr]
SD Firefighters Required ‘Critical-Incident Stress Debriefing’ After Gay Pride Parade [tr]
San Diego Firefighter Gay ‘Harassment’ Trial Begins [tr]
San Diego Firefighters Claim Threats After Gay Pride Complaint [tr]
San Diego Firefighters Sue Dept for Gay Pride Sexual Harassment [tr]
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Bill O’Reilly Attacks Barney Frank on Wall Street Mess
Tempers raged between Bill O’Reilly and Barney Frank on The O’Reilly Factor last night.
O’Reilly goes after Frank’s “manliness” over the Wall Street mess, blaming investor losses on a statement Frank made in July. O’Reilly calls Frank a “coward” and Frank calls O’Reilly a “bully.”
This is the biggest O’Reilly rant I’ve seen in a long time.
Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP…
And with this, I have to bring back yesterday’s Lil’ O’Reilly.
(via queerty)
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Bill O’Reilly Attacks Barney Frank on Wall Street Mess
Tempers raged between Bill O’Reilly and Barney Frank on The O’Reilly Factor last night.
O’Reilly goes after Frank’s “manliness” over the Wall Street mess, blaming investor losses on a statement Frank made in July. O’Reilly calls Frank a “coward” and Frank calls O’Reilly a “bully.”
This is the biggest O’Reilly rant I’ve seen in a long time.
Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP…
And with this, I have to bring back yesterday’s Lil’ O’Reilly.
(via queerty)
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Barack Obama Dress Hits Paris Runway
Barack Obama also made an appearance at the Jean-Charles de Castelbajac 2009 ready-to-wear show in Paris, in the form of a sparkling canary yellow dress, complete with “Yes” glove. In the spirit of fairness, the model also wore a “No” glove on the other hand.
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Runway Model Refuses Note from Sacha Baron Cohen in Paris
Sacha Baron Cohen, as gay Austrian reporter Bruno, commandeered yet another catwalk in Paris, tryiing to hand a model a piece of paper during Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s spring/summer 2009 women’s ready-to-wear fashion show. He then disappeared backstage.
Yesterday, he was spotted making noise in the audience at Stella McCartney’s show, and last week he showed up on a runway in Milan and was arrested.
Annoyed yet? He probably hopes you are.
A clip from the end of that show (without Bruno) AFTER THE JUMP…
Previously
Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Bruno’ Invades Stella McCartney’s Paris Show [tr]
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Gay Bruno Strikes Again, on the Milan Catwalk! [tr]
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Watch the Full Debate
If you missed it, AFTER THE JUMP…
Here’s our wrap-up
Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin Debate in St. Louis [tr]
Joe Biden and Sarah Palin Debate Gay Rights [tr]
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