Writer E. Lynn Harris is dead

E. Lynn Harris, the African-American, openly author, died while on a book tour. He was 54.

He was on tour for his most recent book, , about the lover of an .

Harris grew up in Little Rock and attended the at Fayetteville, …

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Will John Travolta Renounce The Church Of Scientology?

There’s a rumor going around that one of Scientology’s most powerful , John Travolta, is looking to leave the draconian once and for all. After the year he’s had, it .

According to the Daily - who rounded up some interesting on the matter - it appears to be a very real possibility. To say Travolta’s had a rough go of it recently would be putting it very, very lightly.

On the of things, Travolta’s big role this year performed under studio expectations. An complete aside, when you consider his :

His son Jett - reportedly autistic, a the refuses to dignify - passed away earlier this year. Travolta defied Scientology and acknowledged it. Some sleazy website put together a theory that enlists the idea of Travolta not only having a lover, but the lover - his son’s - being a primary cause of his son’s death. Which is besides the fact that someone tried to extort him over documents involved in his son’s transportation, and his wife might’ve tried (successfully) to get Roger Friedman fired by going to the at over ’s comments on Scientology.

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Gay incident reopens Salt Lake City’s Main Street plaza wounds

It’s the wound that won’t heal. The rift that won’t close. And earlier this month, two lovers’ purportedly innocuous late-night — though LDS Church officials insist it was far more amorous than that — ripped it wide open.

Utah’s simmering religious divide boiled over — once again — at the geographical and philosophical of church and state: the Main Street Plaza in downtown Salt Lake City.

“It is a that will continue to be peeled away — and may never heal,” says Dani Eyer, the former director who fought to preserve First Amendment rights on the plaza.

Matt and say they held hands, kissed and then squabbled with on the LDS Church-owned square. police issued a ticket for trespassing. In , supporters of the couple staged a “-in” outside the plaza and plan another such today.

The Church — a to which 60 percent of belong — defended its right to regulate “” on the plaza.

“What we’re seeing now is a of what should have been obvious from the very beginning,” says former Mayor Anderson. “This block of Main Street never should have been conveyed to the Church. It was a recipe for ongoing between the Church and those who are not .”

The church bought the strip of Main — from to — in 1999 after then- and the City Council, with the only two non- dissenting, signed off on the $8. deal. But the burned for five more years as were asked to settle the prickly issue of whether the church could govern on the plaza and whether the city could retain a public right of way (as outlined in the original deal).

“It was meant to be for everybody,” Eyer says. “Where come and go their go with them.”

After a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2002, activities returned to the plaza. But by anti- — including cries of “” and “harlot” hurled at newlywed — “sustained divisions” that “reached to the point of ” between and non-, Anderson says.

In the end, he agreed to trade the public easement for cash and land to build a west-side community center.

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Author E. Lynn Harris dies at age 54

The openly , best-selling author E. Lynn Harris died earlier this morning while on a book tour along the . The tour was in promotion of his eleventh , “Basketball Jones“, the story of a player in the NBA and his lover. While the is still unknown, his did say that the Harris’s had recently declined. Further questions, however, went unanswered. The , known best for his books centered on life as a , , was 54 at the time of his death.

Born in Flint, Michigan, E. Lynn Harris moved around a , finally finding his home and settling down in the South. As a student at the University of Arkansas, he become the school’s first male and was, till his , a Razorbacks fan. Later in life, Harris returned as a in the school’s English department.

 

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James Franco Surprised By Sean Penn Gay Love Scene In ‘Milk’

’s with Sean Penn in Milk left him feeling uncomfortable - because his co-star wanted to out a full-on scene.

Franco, who San Francisco

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Milk’s lover in the Van Sant film, knew he’d have to pucker-up with Penn - but was shocked when the director told him the actor wanted to take it further.

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