Who's Gay Today?

Apparently Ellen Page

I mean, come on already, is she??? You know, Lebanese! She certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy. And if you google "Ellen Page boyfriend," not a whole lot comes up, except for a link to some interview where she refers to an old beau. And if you google "Ellen Page dating," you get the news that she dated Ben Foster, but then you get a followup saying she denies that ever happened. Who did she go to the Oscars with? I couldn't tell from the cropped shots of her, but it looked like she was maybe with her mother? For guys, that used to signify 100% gay, but for girls, it might just mean young and/or Canadian--or, um, gay. And then there was the web item saying "Ellen Page is an out lesbian," but for all I know the guy who ran that is the same douche who started the whole "Marcia Cross is coming out" campaign.



I personally don't buy Musto's Oscar Date argument- I mean how old is she like 18? If i was that young and going to the Oscars I wouldn't take some guy I'd been going out with like for a month, chances are we wouldn't (and we didn't) stay together forever and that would just be embarrassing.
And here are some comments from that "Is Ellen Page an Out Lesbian" thread he references

• She was a guest on a local radio morning show in SF a few weeks ago. A caller called in and asked her if she was a lesbian. She was dead silent, then said she didn't want to respond. It was pretty clear by her response that it was true.
• The Curve magazine interview does contain something interesting: Curve: Do you have any ideas about why the X-men series is so wildly popular among gay and lesbian audiences? Ellen Page: Of course. There’s a whole school of thought that the X-men is basically a metaphor for homosexuality. The whole mutant gene thing, and this group who possesses that gene being ostracized from society. I think it’s public by now that in this film they find a cure for the mutation, right? Curve: Yup. Ellen Page: So, yeah. I was having a conversation about that just the other day. What would we do if they came up for a cure for homosexuality. Which I think is just totally bogus... Plus, Kitty Pryde! I mean, there’s a loaded name. There’s something there, right? "What would we do if they come up with a cure for homosexuality" suggests that Page and her friend be affected by the introduction of such a pill. The lack of an follow up suggests the interviewer is either an idiot or was told to avoid personal questions.
• Did you see her trying to walk in heels on Letterman last night? That was the giveaway.
• Ellen Page is from Nova Scotia so it's easy to confuse her with being a lesbian. Have you SEEN Nova Scotian women?!?! Flannel everything!
• She's deadpan, intelligent and cute. How could she be straight?

and from OurChart

• Well it appears yes she is. On the Oscars, she had the same blonde woman sitting by her that sat by her at the Independent Spirit awards. Could be some elaborate coincidence but more likely that's Ellen's girl.
• I have heard many rumors that she is gay or at least interested in girls. I have also heard that her "romantically" being linked to Ben Foster was just a ploy by both of their management to quieten rumors on both of their sexualities. Personally I think shes adorable and an amazing actress. She's just so funny yet intellectual in most of her interviews. She makes a Canadian proud, thats for sure.
  I'm sure that this question will come up quite often if her rumored lesbian werewolf movie comes out with her Juno costar Elizabeth Thirley currently titled Jack and Diane.
• Maybe she is, and she just doesn't know yet...She would make a good lesbian...

THOUGH if you've seen Hard Candy, a really disturbing movie, you can see why she might hate guys

P.s. you know the whole "gay or european" joke? there really should be a "lesbian or Canadian" correlate.

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The Veep Sweepstakes begin

unless Mitt and Mike's gods decide to work together and miraculously get them back in the race the nomination is John McCain's and so in these last days of February (!) it's only natural to start strategizing and hypothesizing and guessisizing who his running mate will be...6 months before the Republican National Convention. I must say my first choice would have been like Colin Powell but I didn't realize he was so old- where has the time gone? or maybe Condi to snatch the black and woman vote, though of course her association with GWeeB and possibly being a lesbian wouldn't really work.

George Will throws in his few cents in this WaPo column

McCain needs someone who will help him win and be a plausible president during the next four years. He has been in Washington more years than Clinton and Barack Obama combined, and today, as usual, but even more so, Washington is considered iniquitous, partly because McCain, our national scold, incessantly tells the country that its capital is awash in "corruption."

It would be reassuring were he to select a running mate with executive experience administering something larger than a senator's office. So an otherwise well-qualified senator, such as Kay Bailey Hutchison, might not be suitable.

Besides, McCain, who will be 72 on Inauguration Day, might need someone younger. Which would prevent the selection of Colin Powell, 70. Also, a McCain-Powell ticket would slight domestic issues, with which Powell has never been professionally engaged and McCain has rarely been preoccupied.

In politics, gratitude is optional but admirable, and McCain is indebted to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, 51, who endorsed him on the eve of his state's primary. Because the disastrous recent performance of Ohio's Republican Party will make it difficult for McCain to hold that state's 20 electoral votes, which Bush won, McCain must keep Florida's 27. Crist won the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary 64 to 33 even though, as Michael Barone writes in his Almanac of American Politics, that election was notably unpleasant: "Here a candidate was attacked for being both gay and for fathering a child out of wedlock."

Crist remains popular but not more so than his predecessor, Jeb Bush, 55. Bush, however, seems determined to take a sabbatical from politics. And it might seem tribal to have a Bush on the national ballot for a seventh time in eight elections.

Three two-term governors might help McCain, including Mississippi's Haley Barbour, 60. He has two things McCain lacks -- impeccable conservative credentials and a genial disposition. He was conspicuously competent in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. As a political director in the Reagan White House and as national party chairman, 1993-97, when Republicans ended 40 years of Democratic control of the House of Representatives, Barbour demonstrated political subtlety and an agreeable absence of righteousness, qualities McCain as president would need close at hand. Unfortunately, Barbour also was a lobbyist for a while, and the right to "petition the government for a redress of grievances" is another part of the First Amendment that the co-author of McCain-Feingold finds unimpressive.

South Carolina's Gov. Mark Sanford, 47, is more of a maverick than McCain, and Sanford faults his state party for being insufficiently conservative. His frugality has had him at daggers drawn with the state Legislature, which Republicans control. His populism is an acquired taste -- he should not have lugged those two live pigs into the Legislature to express his disapproval of pork -- but he favors expanding school choice, eliminating the state income tax and, at the national level, reforming entitlement programs.

Finally, Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty, 47, is national co-chairman of McCain's campaign. His is the only state (10 electoral votes) to go Democratic in the past eight presidential elections. The candidate who wins a majority of the electoral votes in the Mississippi Valley usually wins the White House. Pawlenty is a center-right politician in a center-right country, and the Minnesota Twins will open a new ballpark in 2010 because he helped to provide public funds, a practice that red-blooded Americans deplore in principle but enjoy in practice.

Pat Tomey, who as president of the conservative Club for Growth probably carries a bit more influence than Will offered up five acceptable candidates earlier this month in the Wall Street Journal

The Republican Party spent decades building its brand as the party of small government, free enterprise and fiscal discipline. That brand put Ronald Reagan in the White House in 1980 and gave Republicans control of Congress in 1994. When it became clear two years ago that Republicans had abandoned those principles, voters swept them from power.

The path back requires re-establishing the GOP as a party of limited government and economic freedom. This is essential to Mr. McCain's political future, the fortune of his party, and the economic well-being of the nation. And the first big indication that he intends to bring back the party of Reagan will be who Mr. McCain taps as his running mate.

- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford: If there is a governor anywhere in America who has demonstrated a commitment to economic conservatism, it is Mr. Sanford. The mild-mannered former congressman has been willing to wage spending fights even against members of his own party. Facing an inherited $155 million deficit, Mr. Sanford vetoed 106 spending items. When the Republican legislature over-rode all but one of his vetoes, he carried two pigs into the Capitol, one named Pork the other Barrel.

Mr. Sanford also pushed through property and small-business tax cuts. As a member of Congress, Mr. Sanford was a reliable opponent of legislation expanding the size of government, and a supporter of personal accounts for Social Security before it was politically acceptable. He was also a champion of school choice.

- South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint: When it comes to fighting government spending in Washington, Mr. DeMint can be found on the frontlines. Mr. DeMint, a strong believer in the power of free-market solutions, has introduced a number of bills to restrict the federal government's reach. He's proposed legislation that would allow Americans to buy health insurance across state lines, opening the health-care market to greater competition. He is pushing legislation that would improve on the No Child Left Behind Act by expanding school-choice options and empowering parents and local officials. Mr. DeMint has also taken aim at the burdens Sarbanes-Oxley imposed on our public companies. He wants to repeal the death tax. And he's an ardent free trader, never wavering on the issue even when viciously attacked during his 2004 Senate race.

Indiana Rep. Mike Pence: Over seven years in Congress, the former chairman of the Republican Study Committee has established himself as a principled, determined conservative. An active defender of political speech, Mr. Pence voted against McCain-Feingold campaign-finance restrictions and led the fight against the ironically named Fairness Doctrine, designed to limit the speech of conservative talk radio. On taxes, Mr. Pence has been a strong proponent of tax cuts, calling the death tax "an economic growth killer." Mr. Pence opposed the Republican-backed Medicare prescription drug bill, calling it "the beginning of socialized medicine in America." Instead, he introduced the Small Business Health Insurance Act to make it easier for small businesses to purchase health insurance.

Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm: [Ed. Note: He's still alive?!] He is best known for the spending reduction measure that bears his name, the Gramm-Rudman law, which required automatic budget cuts if the deficit was not decreased to specified levels. But Mr. Gramm is a stellar economic conservative across the board. To quote him, he was "conservative before conservative was cool." Before retiring from the Senate in 2002, he led fights against energy price caps, the "windfall profits" tax on oil companies, President Bill Clinton's tax hikes and Hillary Clinton's health-care behemoth. And he fought for welfare reform. He has fought against big-government measures like increasing mileage standards on automakers and voted against McCain-Feingold.

Forbes Inc. CEO Steve Forbes: While Mr. Forbes is an out-of-the-box pick, the desire for an outsider this year is huge. And with voters also worried about the economy, Mr. Forbes would be a natural complement to Mr. McCain. Given Mr. McCain's acknowledged unfamiliarity with economic issues, Mr. Forbes would provide the Arizona senator with instant credibility both with conservatives and independents who respect Mr. Forbes' business acumen. In addition, Mr. Forbes's ardent support for free trade, personal accounts for Social Security, the flat tax, school choice and less government overall has made him a darling of economic conservatives.

But whoever Johnny Mac picks ( it probably won't be Newt, even though he's offered himself) and I'm leaning toward Crist or Sanford but one thing is reasonably sure, he, or maybe she will have to toe Johnny's line on Castro ""I hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon."
Oh snap!
And people dare to think McCain's a communist plant

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Another Elizabeth II found within Republican Ranks

aka another old queen

One of GweeB’s appointments to the Federal bench announced his resignation effective April 1st by telephone in the Caribbean after being arrested for a DUI last week
Oh and he was wearing a black cocktail dress and fishnets

Robert Somma told police he had been at the Breezeway Pub where he had one gin and tonic about two hours earlier, the police report reveals. He later said he drank two gin and tonics.

The Breezeway Pub, at 14 Pearl St., bills itself as “New Hampshire’s favorite gay and alternative bar,” according to its web site.

The arresting officer reported Somma smelled of alcohol, slurred his speech and fell backwards against the door frame while getting out of his car.

Live Free or die, I guess
There’s nothing more to the story really but public shaming seems to be appropriate in this case and I’m proud I live in a country where judges are probably wearing matching bra and panties underneath their robes. I can only hope in Barack's New America they may do it more freely

I usually only like to make forward of conservatives who are busted in… let’s say hypocritical situations so while I don’t know anything about Somma’s record on the bench since he was a GweeB appointee I have to assume the worst and assuming he’s homophobic and yada and throw up this mug shot


And since he was a Bankruptcy judge I can’t tell if he necessarily was self hating or Larry Craigesque but here are some of his opinions to look over

These kind of situations must always be awkward if you're the wife

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Yoinked Out of The Closet

so remember Jason Rae, that 21 year old college kid from Marquette who also happens to be a superdelegate?
Remember how he's gay and it seemed like that was common knowledge?
Yeah, well about that...apparently in an interview with The Advocate Jason said that "I have not yet come out to my parents…I’ve been waiting for the right moment, and now just might happen to be that right moment."
Yeah it probably is a good time after bloggers like me (with a huge assist from the Big Lead) did that whole outing thing, reporting what we thought was no secret and as I'm sure proud parents would do yours probably scoured the internet for news.
Whoopsie- Sorry about that.
But I'm sure they already knew, even if they haven't said anything, I mean he did work at the Victory Fund, which after a minimal amount of googling you can learn is a group that "Provides financial and campaign support to gay and lesbian political candidates", oh and Gay and Lesbian is in its title. They've just been waiting for you
and also not to be stereotypical or whatever but as soon as I heard you talk in this video

my gaydar started shooting rainbows and playing Scissor Sisters...I'm just saying

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Who’s Gay Today?

Apparently Hayden Christensen. And it seems like this has either been an open secret or just a much discussed gossip item for a while
This site is pretty intensive and passionate about it back from 2003 (just a warning a lot of those links may be dead)

Recently, an American (gay-oriented) magazine published a picture of Hayden
Christensen with a young man who was described as Hayden's boyfriend. The young
man had colored his hair from dark to blonde, has been described as being better
looking than Hayden, and it has been claimed that he is an actor also.
Subsequently, speculation grew on the Internet and other environments that
Hayden Christensen was gay and that the young man in the picture was his
boyfriend.

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0159789/board/threads/
http://www.mostbeautifulman.com/gossip/haydengay.shtml

Have you seen that magazine? Have you seen that picture? Do you know who is
Hayden Christensen's 'boyfriend'?

However, the details of the contents of that picture do not really matter to the
contents of this article, but instead, the details of the contents of the heart,
mind, and soul, of Trevor Blumas and Hayden Christensen, is what really matters
to this article, and should be what matters to you also, I suggest.

A few years ago, Hayden Christensen appeared in a film entitled 'Life as a
House' in which he apparently played a disturbed homosexual, dressed in extreme
fashion and spiking and coloring his hair and wearing jewelry and piercings in a
reckless manner, but in which his character eventually rejects and impugns
homosexuals and homosexuality, and which is also one of the themes of the movie
itself.

A few years ago, Trevor Blumas appeared in a film entitled 'The Unsaid':
http://www.universalway.org/Foreign/trevorblumas.html#Unsaid
which appeared on the surface (in the end) to be a film portraying homosexuals
in an apparently negative light, but actually did not, and Trevor played his
role sensitive to homosexual issues, with an awareness of gay/bisexual teen
suicide issues, and as if he blamed his father in the film for his gay teen
suicide, and not his 'molester.'

A few years ago, Hayden Christensen obtained the role of Anakin Skywalker (Darth
Vader) in the "Star Wars" series of films, and a few years ago, it is said,
Hayden Christensen did an interview with "The Advocate" magazine in which it has
been described by some that he all but says he's gay. And a few years ago Trevor
Blumas started doing things like spiking his hair, and wearing necklaces, and
wearing earrings in both his ears, and wearing rings on his right hand ring
finger, and wearing exclusively silver jewelry.

Hayden Christensen's interview in "The Advocate"? (see post on Thursday November
24, 2001 2:46 PM PT) -
http://www.hayden-christensen.com/archive_news01.htm
(Is it still there?)

Recently, after the publication of the above-mentioned picture in the magazine
claiming that he was gay, Hayden Christensen, previously described by some
people as "anti-social" and rarely seen or photographed with a girl, has
embarked upon a personal publicity campaign denying that he is gay, including
saying exactly so in an article, being photographed with a "female friend" in
Australia
http://www.universalway.org/paulpetersen.html#Beards
and publicizing his attempts to extend kissing scenes with Natalie Portman on
the set of "Star Wars: Episode III" which recently completed filming in
Australia
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0121766
So instead of being proud of his boyfriend, Hayden Christensen lives his life
like he is ashamed of that boyfriend.

And recently, in May of 2003, the film "The Unsaid":
http://www.universalway.org/trevorblumas.html#Unsaid
was released on VHS and throughout the world, and many people who saw that film
became immediate fans of Trevor Blumas, the majority of those fans being male.
And recently, a new publicity photo was found on the Internet taken a few years
ago with Trevor wearing silver loop earrings in both ears and a necklace, along
with a white T-shirt and a white background that paints a picture of this young
man as a pure spirit of great wisdom and beauty.
http://www.universalway.org/trevorblumas.html#Earrings
And also recently, an update about Trevor's life and career just up and appeared
at the Trevor Blumas forum at Filmbug.com:
http://www.filmbug.com/db/263722-8
And also recently, it was discovered that Trevor's latest role is in a movie
entitled "Prom Queen," which is about Marc Hall, the 17 year old gay Ontario
high school student who wanted to bring his boyfriend to his Catholic High
School prom and ended up suing his school, and won the right to do so in a
controversial court case.
http://www.universalway.org/trevorblumas.html#PromQueen

So, while Trevor Blumas courageously orchestrates his life as a literal coming
out party, with an obvious full awareness of the problem of fatherless homes and
the plight of gay/bisexual teens all throughout the world and highlighted by his
appearance in the controversial film 'Prom Queen,' Hayden Christensen embarks
upon a publicity campaign designed to deny his true sexuality and protect his
acting career, alleged reputation, and flow of royalties:
Where Have You Gone, Rock Hudson -
http://www.universalway.org/paulpetersen.html#RockHudson
And no discussion of sexuality is allowed at the Hayden Christensen web site
message forum, and the fans at Hayden Christensen's IMDB message forum insult
and impugn homosexuals and homosexuality with impunity, and Hayden Christensen
allows all this to continue.

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0159789/board/threads/
http://www.hayden-christensen.com/messageboard.html
Hayden Christensen and Trevor Blumas are a case study that prove that true
beauty is not defined by only physical attributes, but also by mental and
spiritual attributes that are just as, if not more, important than beauty that
is only skin (or face) deep.

You see, the thing about Trevor Blumas is, as beautiful as Trevor is at first
glance, his heart, mind, and soul are even more beautiful.

And some other people, like Hayden Christensen, who at first glance appear to be
beautiful in their own right, are not really as beautiful as they may seem, and
could learn alot from a remarkable young man named Trevor Blumas.

Or, you know Hayden's not actually gay. Not everyone is... though that picture is more Hayden Panettierre than Hayden Fry
But Hayden has been linked to Aaron Carter

Pop star Aaron Carter has been linked in a sexual tryst with Star Wars star
Hayden Christensen, who plays Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the recent
"Star Wars" series of movies.

The following article reports that Carter was seen "giving major head" to
both Christensen and his long-time boyfriend, Canadian actor Trevor Blumas:

Did Trevor Blumas "Date" Aaron Carter? Is Aaron Carter Gay? -

Dude, Darth soo wasn’t gay. Stephen Glass? Maaaybe but if Hayden were gay I’d hope he'd be with someone cooler than a Backstreet Boy’s brother. Someone like, I don't know Ewan McGregor. I'm sure the slash fiction machine has been on this for a while now...


Though Trevor is incredibly gorgeous. wow.
wow.

(alerted to the possible outing by Gawker)
(pic of Hayden found on A Socialite's Life)

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Jenny and the Queen

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So recently I’ve been noticing a lot of those Jenny Craig commercials featuring Queen Latifah where she talks about how “so many people are supporting me in my” trying to lose weight with Jenny and that got me thinking- what exactly does it say that Queen Latifah whose girlfriend (I mean really close friend) Jeanette Jenkins is a personal trainer and fitness expert and yet she’s hawking a different approach to weight loss and claiming that it’s working for her?
(is there trouble in The Queen’s castle?)

I know that not everyone can afford to be dating (I mean be friends with and a client of) a personal trainer and so this is accessible to more people (who can afford $61 a pound! ) but…wouldn’t that maybe perhaps in some people’s minds (like mine) kind of be a criticism of the efficacy of The Hollywood Trainer 21 Day Weight Loss Plan?
I don't know but between Jenny and Jeanette I'd have to go with Jeanette- I mean look how intense and focused she looks


*in case you can't read what the Queen had to say about Jeanette's workout plan here's the text
"I'm very excited that Jeanette decided to put together the Hollywood Trainer series because it will give more people a chance to benefit from her workouts. There are a lot of people out there who want to adopt a healthy lifestyle but they don't know how to do it. Jeanette's program will show them how."
"For me personally, traveling as much as I do, I can't take Jeanette everywhere with me. Now, I can take Jeanette on the road with me in a series of tapes and get the same results that I would get if I was working out in a gym with her."

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There goes the straight male vote

It seems like Barack Obama is either afraid of strippers, or doesn’t support women who feel the need to earn money that women in order to, let’s be clichéd, pay their way through college, or believes that women don’t have the right to choose how they use their body , instead taking it upon himself to decide what is appropriate and/or degrading. Barack Obama- Anti Education. Anti Feminist. Anti-Freedom.
Moralist.

(or at least the way I spin this article)

From the BBC

Some years before Barack Obama began his run for the White House he found himself on a pub crawl in England helping give a traditional British send-off to a nervous bridegroom.

Then in his 30s, Mr Obama found himself witnessing the British ritual of the pre-wedding humiliation of the bridegroom. Ian and his friends had just moved to a pub called The Rose, when the predictable happened.

"When we got there we had a couple of drinks. Then there was a bit of a commotion and they sort of directed me into a back room with one exit," recalls Ian.

"Lo and behold, a strippergram turned up. She was a St Trinian's school girl."

"As she started I saw that he [Obama] was making an exit. He obviously saw my embarrassment because I was marrying his sister."

Soon afterwards [Obama] decided it was time to return to his hotel room.

Unless he went back to his hotel room to do lines of coke, which is always a possibility, that kind of story, about running away from a stripper can’t sit too well with straight guys.
I mean aren’t Presidents supposed to spirit away strippers and mistresses to that secret room off of the oval office? I don't trust one who wouldn't; seems too...Republican (see: Reagan, Ronald; Bush, George Walker)

This almost makes me want to start a rumor that Barack Obama is gay and just see if that spreads. I mean even gay guys can have kids and Michelle is a little mannish (not a fan) so that’s no straight proof
Plus this guy seems like the farthest thing from a liar


I mean he’s never come out and said he’s not gay (and it is obviously his responsibility to refute any allegations or lies that people like me put out onto the internets)

Keep it on the down low, Barack


Hmm, maybe that's why Barack supports ministers who support "reparative therapy"- he's obviously self hating.

p.s. that picture, which was attached to the original article makes me want to vomit

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Big Spending Scientologists

Lafayette Hubbard would be quite happy
From Page Six

Longtime Scientologist Nancy Cartwright — best known as the voice of Bart Simpson — last year gave the church $10 million to help spread the word of founder L. Ron Hubbard into other galaxies.

It was all part of Scientology’s Global Salvage effort, which aims to “de-aberrate” Earth — meaning to rid mankind of psychology ills and other “aberrant” behavior.

In 2004, [Tom Cruise Mapother] was awarded a Platinum Meritorious Award for a $2.5 million gift. Two years later, he doled out another $2.5 million, for which the International Association of Scientologists kicked him up to Diamond Meritorious awardee.

Recent Scientology publications reveal that a host of A-list Scientologists were honored for their generosity at a black-tie awards ceremony at the church’s headquarters in Clearwater, Fla., last summer.


Here are some of the celeb gifts from 2007 and their corresponding rewards:

* Nancy Cartwright, 50, Patron Laureate Award: $10 million.
* Kirstie Alley, 57, Diamond Meritorious Award: $5 million.
* John Travolta, 53, Gold Meritorious Award: $1 million.
* Kelly Preston, 45, Gold Meritorious Award: $1 million.
* Priscilla Presley, 62, Patron Award: $50,000.

Uh oh John- Tom is more clear than you

Well, even if you don’t receive anything else, such as spiritual gifts for your millions upon millions of dollars at least you get “various gold trophies, crystal statuettes and plaques” as well as fancy titles.

Yeah and those are just like donations, which are on top of all the other services and charges (see how much they’ll cost you)
Two hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars (give or take a 10)just to reach OT VIII, jesus hubbard christ! Y'know in Christianity monks and priests take vows of poverty and get to know all the secrets. Bizzare

Is anyone else interested in seeing Nancy Cartwright doing that Tom Cruise video in the voice of Bart Simpson? Because I am, for at least 3 more minutes

Oh and your “Global Salvage effort, which aims to “de-aberrate” Earth — meaning to rid mankind of psychology ills and other “aberrant” behavior.”
Hmm, how’s that working out for y’all? And though I'm kind of curios about it....It sounds too much to me like cleansing and not so much the good kind- more the ethnic

P.s. Does anyone know who Steve Brackell or Jack and Lucy Murphy are? I want to persecute and boycott.

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Who's Gay Today

apparently Family Guy's Stewie Griffin.

In an interview with the Advocate (brought to my attention by Defamer) Seth McFarlane lets this slip out

Which character do gay fans respond to the most?
Generally they respond to Stewie, because he's arguably the most complex character. He originally began as this diabolical villain, but then we delved into the idea of his confused sexuality. We all feel that Stewie is almost certainly gay, and he's in the process of figuring it out for himself. We haven't ever really locked into it because we get a lot of good jokes from both sides, but we treat him oftentimes as if we were writing a gay character.

And even though it's not nearly as "earthshaking" as the fact that Dumbledore loved Grindevald it's still interesting enough to share, I guess. Of course I'm still not going to watch the show...

Anyway, even if Stewie is just figuring it out, whether he likes boys or not, at least one Family Guy viewer had his gaydar up and picked up the signs


And in other "coming out" news, if you're a fan of the band Faker or its lead singer Nathan Hudson, well he's gay too.

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Color Me Surprised (Clothed in Sequins & Glitter)

When I saw the tease: “Skater proposes to partner on ice” I immediately thought that some figure skater proposed to, ahem, his “partner”- I mean it is figure skating and all- it seemed like an open enough venue to do something like that.

But then I actually clicked on the story, and I actually remembered there is pairs figure skating, that I saw it was John Baldwin Jr who proposed to his pairs partner Rena Inoue

I just thought this was an urban legend but there are really straight male figure skaters?

Inoue and Baldwin have plenty to celebrate, too. As they took their bows, Baldwin dropped to his knees and asked his longtime girlfriend to marry him. Stunned, she could only stare at him at first.


"I didn't know. He didn't tell me and I don't think he told anybody," Inoue said. "At first I was just so shocked. I didn't know what was going on here."


Said Baldwin, "I told her she's the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, how much respect I have for her and that everything I've accomplished in my career and on the ice is because of her."

As the crowd cheered, Baldwin asked again. With tears rolling down her face, Inoue said yes.

Awwwwwww. But while doing a minimal amount of research I discovered that I was asking the wrong question- there are really gay male figure skaters? Because at least openly, gay male figure skaters are in the minority. From Outsports:

Unofficial insider estimates range [claim that] from 25% to nearly 50% [of male figure skaters are gay]. But unbelievably, in 2006, [Rudy] Galindo remains the only top-level skater to have come out while Olympic-eligible.

What hasn't changed is that many of the officials, judges, and skating federations, especially in the U.S., make it clear that they prefer male skaters to look "masculine" and will be harsher on effeminate-looking skaters when it comes to giving marks or desirable competitive assignments

Trying not to be deemed gay in skating requires behavior ranging from the overt, such as dating women, to details so subtle that they affect the very way the skater moves his limbs while putting himself out there to be judged.
There are some moves, such as laybacks and spirals, that are more frequently done by women and considered effeminate on men. Obviously, skaters like to include their strongest moves in their programs, but a male skater who is strong in these moves knows that to perform them is to risk prejudice.

That is so screwed up it’s sick. Who would’ve thought that in the gayest sport ever you could still be discriminated against for actually being gay.

But why would everyone just assume? From Salon.com

Former gold medalist Brian Boitano, addressing this phenomenon, explains it with three words: "Sequins and glitter."

None of the skaters in this year's [2002] Olympics -- for all the sequins, all the glitter, all the stereotypically gay mannerisms and speech patterns -- is publicly gay. In fact, only one international-level figure skater has ever openly declared himself a gay man -- Rudy Galindo, the 1996 U.S. champion, who came out in USA Today reporter Christine Brennan's book "Inside Edge" weeks before winning his title.

And Galindo says that almost every figure skater he's ever met is straight.

I never thought about it but is Brian Boitano gay? Not that it matters but I want to know (and no one seems to be sure)

It is a real shame though- if a boy, gay or not, wants to spin around in tights he should be allowed to, and be allowed to spin freely and openly no matter who he "practices his routine with" after hours.

(an admission- even though he’s really annoying and prissy a lot of the time I really think Johnny Wier is cute…in that Rufus way. They sort of like similar, don’t they?)

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America Will Get The Idol It Deserves....(Un)fortunately It Won't Be Either of These Two

I mean we have the bitchy deluded one who when he fails because of his lack of inherent talent blame a conspiracy
And then we have the uber religious kid who’s never been kissed and is saving himself for marriage and so... has the key to his dad’s heart (creepy much?) who sets my gaydar off like whoa and is in the closet even if he doesn't know it yet

Don't those two character studies sum up too much of America?

Firstly it must be said that I am opposed to American Idol(and about what they mean and shape with so much of culture, especially regarding "norms") and I've only watched the second season, but somehow I've learned of these two contestants and they're too...unique to not share

Anyway here is performing what I thought would be, from that sustained “And” at the beginning, Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love you but then morphed into “And I Am Telling You” just liked Jennifer (Hudson or Holliday) would sing it- if they had been deaf since birth and were now being tortured in the recording booth, ladies and gentlemen this is what American Idol has wrought- Joshua Bosen from South Carolina (a southern ghetto queen if I've ever seen one)

Josh they didn't say South Carolina sucks, they said you do

And here is Bruce Dickson from Dallas, the kid who holds the key to his father's heart.Does anyone know if his mo is still around, because it would make more sense to me for her to hold the heart. Moving on notice how he says he's never kissed "a girl" leaving about half of the population to have fun with.

I really like how Seacrest reaffirms "his heterosexuality;" fathers lock your daughters up if those two hit the town. Anyway Bruce wasn't horrible and he seems like a nice enough kid, he just needs to take that heart away from his dad and give it to that one special boy who you can't live without...oh and move out of Texas.

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Young Zac Efron; Just As Gay as Older Zach Efron

Yet another reason why I heart hulu; so last night as has become my new custom (because I refuse to watch Duel…anymore) I was watching Firefly and the episode I happened to be up, Safe, at the very beginning had a flashback concerning Simon the Doctor and his “troubled” sister River showing when they were young. And while I was watching them I almost immediately noticed that young Simon was none other Zac Efron

According to IMDb it was his first ever filmed role (so it has that going for it) but yeah even back then, even without the singing and dancing and rampant “metrosexuality” Zac Efron was so totally gay. (if he had a “dedicated source box” I’m sure he’s use it for gay porn) I think it’s his smile or that twinkle in his eye.
Another thought-I read somewhere that like 60 percent of girls under like 14 have a poster of Zac Efron on their wall so the question is ; is Zach Efron raising a nation of "fag hags"?
Only time will tell, but my answer is...yes.

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Who's Gay Today

REPORTEDLY

Lindsay Lohan:
(from Page Six)

WE might not see Lindsay Lohan fall into anything serious with a guy anytime soon — sources say the starlet is investing most of her time in her new best friend, Courtenay Semel. Last week, Lohan attended a holiday and house-warming party at the Los Angeles home of "Power Lesbian" Jeanette Longoria with Semel, the daughter of Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel, one partygoer told Page Six. The spy at the sapphic soiree also overheard the duo refer to themselves as roommates, and one Hollywood insider claimed they've been living together in a house in LA for about a month.

"Lindsay came with Courtenay to the party around midnight and they stayed for an hour," said our spywitness. "The girls held hands and were with each other the whole time." The tipster added, "Every time I see Lindsay, there's Courtenay. They are always together." Other insiders said that although the blond actress is still friends with her deejay pal Samantha Ronson — with whom Lohan has reportedly made out in the past — her friends say Lindsay has been spending most of her time recently with Semel. A rep for Lohan told Page Six, "The two are good friends, nothing more."" The close pals left together, and were spotted the next day shopping in Beverly Hills.

So in the interest of not just spreading rumours and innuendos (my god she's roommates with a girl! and they go shopping.together!) but rather to judge by purely superficial means if ,for Lindsay, Courtenay Semel is an upgrade over Samantha Ronson
Samantha


Courtenay

I have to say that's an upgrade, an even bigger one if you remember the fact that Courtenay's dad is a billionaire and Lindsay is broke

John Travolta:
(he's been flaming in the closet longer than I've been alive)

From Queerty

One highlight was when Travolta met Max Crumm, the young actor starring in Grease in the role Travolta made famous in film.

According to a spy, Crumm “planted himself right next to Mama Turnblad and was there through the end of the night.”

Quipped another guest: “Well, guess we know what John is doing later tonight.

My god he's talking to a young actor about a role they've both played. They must be flirting-they have nothing in common.
But yeah, he's gay, but is Max Crumm an upgrade?

Random plane guy that Travolta kissed


Max Crumm


yeah that's probably an upgrade. The plane guy looks kinda caveman, at least from the sides. P.S. is it a fact that Max is gay or is he just "broadway" and thus assumed to be?

So the gay news of today is that closeted possibly queer stars have upgraded their choices of "very close friends"

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Ewan McGregor To "Play" Gay Again

And somehow it's newsworthy; maybe it's the fact that Jim Carrey is his love interest. meh, either way.

I Love Philip Morris (is not as I thought about a smoker and the cigarette company)

Ewan McGregor will play the romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in "I Love You Phillip Morris," a dark comedy that marks the directing debut of "Bad Santa" scribes Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.

Mad Chance's Andrew Lazar will produce with Far Shariat. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp is fully financing, and Besson is exec producer.

Carrey signed earlier in the fall to star in the fact-based tale as Steven Russell, a married father whose conman ways introduced him to the Texas prison system. There, he fell in love with cellmate Phillip Morris.

His love for Morris motivated his escape from prisons four times, once by using a green pen and bucket of water to change his prison outfit into what appeared to be surgical scrubs, another time by faking his death from AIDS and signing his own death certificate. Morris eventually got out, but Russell's escapades got him a 144-year sentence.

Sounds like it could be...something
But Ewan, I mean is he really straight? Because he plays gay so well

from Velvet Goldmine (a movie that was so homoerotic and sexy and also the main reason I think Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a member of the Queer Kids Club*)

and from that totally homoerotic saga the Star Wars prequels- read the subtext

Ewan McGregor: Elijah Wood gay. And still really hot.

*t-shirts coming soon

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Things To Do This Week: Monday-Wednesday

• Monday:
• Bugsy Malone [starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster!] then Phantom of the Paradise at the New Beverly
• The Cinema Cabaret: Neo-Benshi Live Film Narration "The Jack H. Skirball Screening Series presents poets from L.A., San Francisco and New York as they convene to re-approach the Japanese “film teller” tradition of benshi, in which writers or actors narrate alongside silent films. Tonight’s neo-benshi invites performers to select scenes from popular TV or film, mute the soundtrack and “re-inscribe the familiar images with new meanings,” featuring new looks at Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Kiss Me Deadly, Rebel Without a Cause and more" at REDCAT
• Polaroid Stories at the Actor’s Playpen
• Robert Haas at the Los Angeles Central Library @ 7
• USC Thornton Chamber Music Marathon "USC Thornton students jam at the annual event featuring three nights of nonstop chamber music performances" at Newman Recital Hall @ 5
• San Francisco
• Undoing at Sundance Kabuki
• The Great Dictator at the Castro Theatre
• Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show at Bimbo's 365 Club
  

• Tuesday:
  
• A Place To Bury Strangers at the Silverlake Lounge,
• Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings at the El Rey
• SF
• Marc Cohn at the Palace of Fine Arts
• "Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 Until Now" at SF Museum of Modern Art
• Juliette & the Licks (!)(!) at the Great American Music Hall
• "Damned If You Duhig" at Annie’s Social Club
  

• Wednesday:
• Lagerfeld Confidential at the Aero
• A sneak preview of Paul Schrader’s The Walker "starring Woody Harrelson as Carter Page, a D.C. gay confidant and “walker” for some of capitol hill’s most important wives, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall and Lily Tomlin" at the Egyptian
• and I think the Spice Girls show is sold out but if you wanna try a scalper they’re at Staples
• SF
• "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Escapades at the Shotwell Studios
• Once at the Red Vic (I adore this movie!)
  

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The Internet is One Big Knitting Circle

Knitting circles are supposed to be places for gossip right?
Anyway I saw this on Queerty this morning and I was immediately hooked and intrigued

This successful rapper has drawn headlines in the past over his alleged homosexual acts. Since the start of his career rumors have swirled that he plays for the other team. However in a recent interview, when asked about if there are any misconceptions about him that he would like to clear up he immediately defended himself calling the rumors nonsense. This particular MC burst on the scene with a catchy tune that had everyone using his trademark accent.However after three albums his celebrity star has seemed to have descended.

He had a bitter battle with another popular rapper and even accused said rapper of shady business practices. But has since resolved all issues with said rapper. This particular hip-hop star has delved into creating a female fashion line, which have further spread the gay rumor.

No matter how much he tries to deny the gay rumors theres [sic] a certain tattoo that seems to haunt him when people see it.

It was originally posted here asking the question "Which Rapper is Denying Gay Rumors?" and according to the comments people seem to think it's either Nelly, Chingy or The Game.
Well through my extensive knowledge and minutes upon minutes of research I want to try to deduce the identity. My original and pretty immediate guess was Nelly, fyi.

Since the start of his career rumors have swirled that he plays for the other team: A lot of people seem to think that Chingy's gay or at least bisexual. I really can't find anything for Nelly or The Game. A Red stripe for Chingy

This particular MC burst on the scene with a catchy tune that had everyone using his trademark accent: Nelly's first hit was Country Grammar and I remember there being maybe an accent, though I'm not sure if it could be considered "trademark" worthy. The Game is from L.A. and we usually don't have accents plus his opening single wasn't anywhere near as catchy as Nelly or Chingy. Chingy's first single (and the only one I know by him) was Right Thurr and I remember everyone everyone doing that "thurr" thing. It was annoying. An Orange stripe for Chingy

However after three albums his celebrity star has seemed to have descended: This one I had a little trouble with, interpretation wise. Did it mean after the first big album he had three subpar albums? two subpar albums? For Nelly I remember his second album being a monster, Nellyville, and he's only release two other albums since then (with another supposedly being released within a week or two) for a total of 4+1 and, at least in my mind, his celebrity has dipped. The Game has only released two albums, so that should maybe disqualify him (though he did make really homophobic statements so, maybe self hating a bit?) Chingy has released three albums with a fourth due by the end of the year. Hmm. Matches up well. That's a Yellow stripe for Chingy

He had a bitter battle with another popular rapper and even accused said rapper of shady business practices. But has since resolved all issues with said rapper: All of them have had beefs- Nelly with Eminem and KRS-One, Chingy was in a feud with Nelly and Ludacris. The Game with...just about everyone really. Though i haven't found any mention to business dealing so far for any of them. [UPDATE: Upon further research Chingy accused DTP of mismanaging his money. Winner.] A Green stripe for Chingy

This particular hip-hop star has delved into creating a female fashion line: The Game created a fashion line but it's for men. The Frank Pace collection. Nelly has had a fashion line for women for a few years called Apple Bottom so maybe that's it. Chingy has just launched a line call Pink Monkey, which is...interesting (and sounds like something I'd think a creative homophobic racist would call a black gay dude) I'm giving a Blue stripe to Chingy

No matter how much he tries to deny the gay rumors theres [sic] a certain tattoo that seems to haunt him when people see it.: The Game has a butterfly tattoo near his eye, but face tattoos are really scary so I don't think people would consider that "gay". Nelly has a bundle of tattoos though I can't see the specifics, though I'm sure there's one that has to be embarrassing. Chingy has a tattoo on his neck that says Daddy's Angel. And finally a Purple stripe to Chingy.

and we all know what red orange yellow green blue and purple in that order makes

Well, that was surprisingly one sided. All that's left to do is appear on the cover of Vibe (and hang out with Bow Wow.) Chingy has totally won today's gay sweepstakes.
(and this was soo much fun, I'm a little embarrassed.)

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It's Not Easy Being Green

When I was on College Humor yesterday, marveling at the creativity and twisted sense of humor of my generation I saw this video of Kermit (the Frog) and his reaction to the infamous 2 girls 1 cup


of course I found it shocking and funny but also I thought "Poor Kermit" because I remembered a similar parody of Kermit singing "Hurt." Now with the Nine Inch Nails' version* I get really depressed, the Johnny Cash version leaves me feeling sad and quite sorry for him, but with Kermit's version I feel sorry for us all

And I wouldn't doubt that there are hundreds of other similar parodies lurking in the alley of the internet. It's all so much I was tempted for about half of a second to post this Chris "14:58" Crocker parody. But that ship has sailed (and hopefully sunk.)
I'm sure Jim Henson must be spinning in his grave (assuming of course that there's a hand up his rear and twisting) but then I remembered this article by Virgina Heffernan about how Sesame Street was never that innocent.
From the article

According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old School” is adults-only: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups

Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist.

Which brought Parente to a feature of “Sesame Street” that had not been reconstructed: the chronically mood-disordered Oscar the Grouch. On the first episode, Oscar seems irredeemably miserable — hypersensitive, sarcastic, misanthropic. (Bert, too, is described as grouchy; none of the characters, in fact, is especially sunshiney except maybe Ernie, who also seems slow.) “We might not be able to create a character like Oscar now,” she said.

Snuffleupagus is visible only to Big Bird; since 1985, all the characters can see him, as Big Bird’s old protestations that he was not hallucinating came to seem a little creepy, not to mention somewhat strained. As for Cookie Monster, he can be seen in the old-school episodes in his former inglorious incarnation: a blue, googly-eyed cookievore with a signature gobble (“om nom nom nom”). Originally designed by Jim Henson for use in commercials for General Foods International and Frito-Lay, Cookie Monster was never a righteous figure.

Damn, they were all screwed up, not to mention Miss Piggy must have had horrible self esteem, always chasing a man who doesn't want her (I kinda think Kermit was gay- here are the lyrics to It's Not Easy Being Green; look closer.) and that Animal was based upon a rock star who died young because of a drug overdose. And people wondered why Generation X was so "whatever."
And of course all of this reminded me of that great Dave Chappelle stand up bit from Killing Them Softly



*I really feel like my first exposure to that sing was while playing Mario 64 and listening to Howard Stern as he was, in the same manner of Bruce Springsteen's Secret Garden interspersed with dialogue from Jerry Maguire, was attempting to splice dialogue from the movie Private Parts and the miscarriage scene into Hurt. And I wonder why I'm so screwy...

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Google Takes The Pulse of Nations

Google has released a study showing which countries are the world's leading searchers of certain terms in a pretty fun and fascinating view of the zeitgeist. Here are some of the terms and the countries which search for them the most (as long as my totally uninformed reasons for their popularity which are the first things that comes to mind.)

"Hitler"- Germany, Mexico, Austria
(the Anschluss is still full of nazi sympathies. plus everyone loves to be rebellious)
"Nazi"- Chile, Austria, United Kingdom
(same as above but also Harry's costume may be sparking a trend, or maybe historical research because the Nazis did play a part in the British history of last century)
"Gay"- Chile, Mexico, Colombia
(either people in Latin American countries are so macho they don't know what gay is and are doing research or they're all gay and looking to hook up)
"Jihad" - Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan
( muslims are planning a righteous war. obvi)
"Terrorism" - Pakistan, Philippines, Australia
(see above)
"Hangover" - Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
(ah- all these countries like to drink and so suffer the morning after consequences and are looking for a remedy. Notice that the Irish are the number one country in this category, not to perpetuate any stereotypes)
"Burrito" - United States, Argentina, Canada
(burritos are amazing and a perfect slacker stoner food, hence the US and Canada connection.)
"Iraq" - United States, Australia, Canada
(ummmm...Hot Shots!Part Deux?)
"Taliban" - Pakistan, Australia, Canada
(I'm sure there are a few Taliban sympathizers in Pakistan. And Canadians...like beards and are often mistaken for Talibani.)
"Tom Cruise" - Canada, United States, Australia
(we enjoy making fun of his craziness, but that was more of a year ago which is why Canada has searched him more than America; the jumping on the couch fiasco has just made it's way up north)
"Britney Spears" - Mexico, Venezuela, Canada
(crazy needs no translation.)
"Homosexual" - Philippines, Chile, Venezuela
(people in Chile are really interested in the "gay question"-see above- but it could also be a Roman Catholic disapproval like thing with the more clinical "homosexual" being searched instead of "gay")
"Love" - Philippines, Australia, United States
(the Phillipines google this to see if homosexuals are capable of love. The U.S. is finding out what the Beatles Show is about and the Australians are just lovely people)
"Botox" - Australia, United States, United Kingdom
(we're the "western world" and we have disposable income along with an obsession with beauty and youth)
"Viagra" - Italy, United Kingdom, Germany
(can't get it up. I mean have you seen their Heads of State's? Prodi, Brown, Merkel. J/K I actually love Angela)
"David Beckham" - Venezuela, United Kingdom, Mexico
(he's f*cking hot. Oh and those countries love football.)
"Kate Moss" - Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden
(she's f*cking hot and everyone loves train wrecks.)
"Dolly Buster" - Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia
(I have no idea what this term means, but judging from it's popularity in Eastern Europe it's probably weird. And having to do with Russia or communism)[UPDATE: She's a porn star with huge boobs. That explains it.]
"Car bomb" - Australia, United States, Canada
(we all watch too much television and are paranoid. Or we're trying to figure out how to get rid of enemies.)
"Marijuana" - Canada, United States, Australia
(we all love weed)
"IAEA" - Austria, Pakistan, Iran
(Pakistan and Iran have a lot of experience with that agency and are trying to figure out ways to either start or stop impending nuclear war. Or maybe no one knows what that acronym stands for and are trying to figure that out.)
"sex"-Egypt, India, Turkey
(perhaps their countries are so sexually repressed that they search the internet for any kind of titilation or information. I'm not surprised the term searched was just plain "sex" and it was in more repressed countires. Anywhere in the west the search terms would be a lot more specific and crude. God bless freedom.)

and today I'm sure Larry Craig was one of the big things googled because of his interview last night, which I watched of course. But I realized something about how they were advertising the interview with Matt Lauer asking him if he was gay and I knew he wouldn't come out then and say he was because we already would have found out that news. Nothing that big can stay a secret from all of the editors and producers and local affliates; somewhere along the way it would have leaked. But I still watched trying to pick up a clue from his body language, his verbal language offered no clue because he is a life long politician and thus adept at lying. My favorite part was the repeated use of " the bathroom for bathroom sake" or some phrase like that.What I came away from it with was simply that it's really sad that he just can't come out. I kind of felt sorry for him. That he decided he had to live that straight life long ago and now can't escape it. That he came of age at such a time where people couldn't just be, but had to conform and get a wife who you may end up hurting. And I feel kind of bad for his wife who being the partner of a senator especially in a state such as Idaho must have built her life around him and for him to be gay would be devastating; to live with someone and think you know them so well but to find out that it was all a lie is tragic. But it's also sad that Larry is so delusional and so boxed in that he reiterated his disapproval for that lifestyle,which I think he mentioned could be seen in his voting record, there really is no way out. Though it is his grave is his own closet and he can lay in there. And I really hope he keeps fighting, for purely political reasons. If he were to resign then the appointee, if they chose to run for reelection could then point to this year of interim experience as a qualification and asset. But if Larry held onto his seat (and chooses not to seek another term as he may have said once, though his word means very little) then, though it would still be unlikely because it is such a red state, a Democrat could still have a chance to pick up that seat. I'd just repeat "republican," "bathroom," "scandal" over and over again (along with George Bush and Iraq for good measure)

(there. have I offended every country yet?)

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Ephemeral Desires: Things that are too cool/trendy for me*

but I still would like to see, see happen or experience

• Since it is National Coming Out Day for the following people to come out (and play) and for them to be accepted as they were before (yadas)
• Anderson Cooper
• Larry Craig
• A certain someone (he knows who he is)
  
• Kevin Spacey
• Clay Aiken (or Barry Manillow as he'll be called in 30 years )
• My Brother
• Jodie Foster
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers
• Condoleeza Rice
• On a totally unrelated note, an 84 year old Iowan while meeting Hillary Clinton suggested she change her hairstyle and model it after Paris Hilton. I would love to see this happen, or more accurately to see Paris Hilton become President.
• Stephen Colbert's (soon to be Pulitizer Prize winning) book "I Am America (and So Can You!)" was released on Tuesday. And while I forgot all about this I still want it to be number one on the bestseller list, as I know Stephen does as well. You can buy it here.
• Another book I want to read is Bus Stop Knobs or to be able to see some of that "graffiti" around, preferably on schools and nunneries.
  
• So conservative minds are up in arms that the Google logo images that they change for holidays have never been changed to somehting fitting these conservative mind's idea of patriotism. If these conservatives could get a grip and chill, or just go away, I'd be happy.
• Scientist at the University of Bolton (Michael) are developing a "smart bra" that "will not only be able to detect cancers before tumors develop, but that the undergarments will also be able to assess the effectiveness of women already undergoing cancer treatment." That sounds amazing and if it actually works would be a great thing for the world. These scientist would so be shortlisted for a Nobel Prize.
• Speaking of Nobel Prizes I would love if Al Gore won a Nobel Prize. I mean an Oscar and an Emmy plus a Nobel, phenomenal. And it's not like the Nobel committee doesn't have a record of giving out these awards to prove a political point by honoring people who hate GWeeB
  
• If I can see all of the movies mentioned in this New York Times Article about the fall releases of specialty films I'd say that would be a nice little gig. It can be that hard to be a movie critic, I mean look at Shawn Edwards.
• Maybe in the near future I could watch such movies on T-4N Teleglasses which "connect to any NTSC-capable video player (including iPods) and delivers images directly to the eye via a pair of tiny monitors tucked away behind the lenses,” PinkTentacle explained. “The 640 x 480 screen resolution at close proximity simulates the effect of watching a 45-inch screen from 2 meters (6 feet) away, and each monitor can be focused and adjusted for an optimal picture that reduces eye strain. Audio is delivered through a pair of frame-mounted earphones" or on the similar iTheatre that "replicates the effect of watching a massive 50" screen from a distance of 8.5 feet...the effect is like having a home cinema grafted on to your retinas - amazing! And there's no need to strain because the dual screens cause eyes to focus at a comfortable distance and iTheater works with almost any video source"
• Though if I tried sea water I wouldn't need a fancy movie sunglasses to see "things." I always wondered why it was such a bad thing to drink seawater; in my mind if you drank it it might dehydrate you so that you'd hallucinate or something "mind expanding" but after reading the effects "Take a lot of salt into your body and your metabolism very quickly goes into crisis. From every cell, water molecules rush off like so many voluntary firemen to try to dilute and carry off the sudden intake of salt. This leaves the cells dangerously short of the water they need to carry out their normal functions. They become, in a word, dehydrated. In extreme situations, dehydration will lead to seizures, unconsciousness, and brain damage. Meanwhile, the overworked blood cells carry the salt to the kidneys, which eventually become overwhelmed and shut down. Without functioning kidneys you die. That is why we don't drink seawater." I think I'll let someone else work out the kinks first."
  
• And finally I know drugs are horrible and all and dealing with the hardcore ones is like taking your life into your hands but still I would never want to blow up and get fat like Pete Doherty did in rehab.Maybe heroin has its purpose. I mean geez! what became of the likely lad? I think Kate Moss may be quite okay with Pete marrying someone else.
  

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Good For Her!

this may make me like Microsoft a little more. maaayybe. From Valleywag (via Queerty)
Michael Wallent, a general manager at Microsoft, will return to work in January as Megan Wallent. He came out to colleagues as transgender last month, first in person and then by email.
[skip ahead]
Wallent hopes that when he comes back to work, "maybe there are some questions, and then we move on and I keep doing the work I've been doing for 11 years." But at 6'2", Megan Wallent will cut a striking figure.

I am far from a techie, or geek or whatever and so I have no idea how important "Michael" was but anytime someone comes out an angel gets cute little rainbow wings and so I'm estatic for her. Welcome to the world, Megan

And speaking of people who couldn't wait for National Coming Out Day (which is tomorrow) sources are reporting that Bow Wow (oh how they grow up- I remember when he was lil') and Omarion are gay. For each other:

But a source in JD's camp claims that the real cause for the split was that Bow Wow expressed to [Jermaine Dupri] that his relationship with Omarion was more than simply musical after the two were caught engaged in a sexual activity. The source would not go into detail but said "He (Jermaine Dupri) was going nuts about it. These two were in a main room in the house doing all this. Me and two other assistants was with him (Jermaine Dupri) and we saw it going down and he sent us out of the room and was yelling and screaming at them".
The source claims that during the confrontation, Bow Wow and Omarion confirmed what had happened.
A producer who worked on the first Omarion-Bow Wow single released only a few months ago, confirms that, "what was going on with them in the backrooms and in the studio was more than just two dudes working on music. These dudes was feeling each other like a man and a woman". He declined to go into detail but he also added that in the music industry it is not uncommon..."to see something like that. Folks do it all the time. Sometimes they do it for money or to get they deals. Some of them are just under the table with what they like sexually".
A former member of Omarion's group B2K... when asked about the two's relationship, he declined to say anything more out of "friendship". But he would neither confirm nor deny.

(yay totally unsubstantiated rumours!)
well I guess if you have to have a beard Ciara is not a bad one at all. But if they are gay I think they're both at that coming out early twenties final realization phase so good for them. I still won't listen to their music but it's always good to discover others on the queer team

We accept her! We accept her! One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble, gooble gobble! One of us! One of us

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