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Thursday, June 05
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Source: Gay City News , Advocate Gay literati were the stars in LA on May 29th as 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards -- affectionately known as the "Lammys" -- were held on in what is likely America's gayest two square miles -- West Hollywood. Twenty-one books received awards. Highlights include the LGBT anthology First Person Queer , edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press) and The IHOP Papers , by Ali Leibegott (Carroll & Graf) in the category of Women's Fiction. The award represents double triumph for Leibegott, who received a Publishing Triangle...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: SF Gate , New York Post , PR-Inside When George Takei -- best known for playing Sulu on "Star Trek" -- weds longtime boyfriend Brad Altman in September, his best man will be Walter Koenig, who played Chekhov on "Star Trek," and the matron of honor will be Nichelle Nichols, best known as Uhura. Leonard "Spock" Nimoy is also among the 200 invited guests. Takei and Altman plan to marry Sept. 14 in the Democracy Forum at the Japanese National Museum in Los Angeles. Takei, who had a recurring role on NBC's "Heroes" last year, and Altman plan to honeymoon...
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Tuesday, June 03
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Source: Hounslow Guardian , Press Association , PinkNews.com , SkyNews Kevin Greening, a popular morning DJ on England's Radio One network, died after taking a cocktail of cocaine, ecstasy, and GHB, which was followed by a bondage sex session involving a sling, mask, gaffer tape and cling film, an inquest heard yesterday. The inquest concluded today that his death was "misadventure," PinkNews reports. In testimony before a coroner's court, Greening's boyfriend Sean Griffin broke down briefly as he gave evidence of the events leading up to his partner's death on Saturday...
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Sunday, May 04
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Source: New York Daily News , (Newark) Star-Ledger On Tuesday, after three years of failed negotiations, insults, and nonstop bickering over everything from Barnes & Noble parking lots to pony rides, the McGreevey divorce finally goes to trial. Legal analysts expect New Jersey's former first couple will approach new lows, even for divorce court. "I'm not going to tell you this is going to be the worst case ever in the history of New Jersey divorces," said Charles Abut, a matrimonial lawyer who operates the New Jersey Family Law blog. "But I think if you asked longtime...
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Friday, May 02
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Source: Monsters & Critics , AFP Two men were jailed for five years each today after being found guilty of a £50,000 ($100,000 USD) blackmail plot against a member of the royal family. Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan demanded the money for a set of recordings featuring "scandalous" remarks by a royal employee and charges of gay sex. They were convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey following a three-week trial estimated to have cost more than one million pounds. Each salacious detail of the trial was splashed onto the covers of London tabloids last month. In early 2007, the pair made...
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Friday, May 02
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Source: BBC News , InTheNews.co.uk Alan Cumming told Detour, "It's quite a good kind of thing for skinny people" when photographers want to take naked pictures of him. photo: AlanCumming.com Actor Alan Cumming told the BBC that the media's attitude to homosexuality is keeps gay actors from coming out. The 43-year-old X-Men 2 star said, "I don't think the people that go see films care that much -- the media make it more of a deal and it's made into controversy." Cumming's comments followed a complaint from Stephen Fry that he had been pigeonholed by casting...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: Times (London) , BBC News Quentin Crisp portrait photo via Flickr John Hurt will reprise one of his most famous roles 33 years on when he dons Quentin Crisp’s cravat once more in a sequel to The Naked Civil Servant . British TV network ITV is to produce An Englishman In New York , a new 90-minute drama, in which Hurt reprises his acclaimed role as the maverick gay icon. Hurt, 68 , won the Bafta Best Actor award for the 1975 Thames Television film, based on Crisp’s memoirs, which were first published in 1968. T he Naked Civil Servant documented Crisp’s troubles when he refused to hide his...
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Monday, April 28
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Source: Out.com , Evening Echo Actor William Baldwin has launched a stinging attack on his younger brother Stephen's opposition to equal rights for same-sex couples. 'Usual Suspects' star Stephen, 41, is the only Republican member of the famous family, and his siblings despair of his conservative views. Eldest brother Alec, has attempted to change Stephen's mind in the past, and he now has 44-year-old William on his back. 'Backdraft' actor William - who dates a transsexual onscreen in TV show 'Dirty Sexy Money' - tells Out.com that his brother Stephen might be striving...
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Sunday, April 27
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Source: Associated Press , BBC , GLAAD press release Portia De Rossi and Ellen Degeneres at last night's GLAAD awards. Degeneres presented the group's Vanguard Award to Janet Jackson. photo via EvilBeetGossip Bravo's Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List won an award last night for outstanding reality program during the 19th annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards at the Kodak Theatre on Saturday night. Griffin accepted the award from "my gays." Earlier, Griffin opened the show by inviting her mother, Maggie Griffin, onstage to quiz her about her knowledge...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: E! Online E!'s Marc Malkin interviewed Janet Jackson as she made initial preparations for her Saturday appearance at the latest iteration of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD) 19th Annual Media Awards. The ceremony this Saturday will be held at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles where emcee Ellen DeGeneres will present Jackson with GLAAD's Vanguard Award. The gay media group's award gives Malkin a great chance to ask Jackson some juicy (in celeb-interview terms, anyway) questions on gay issues, like why rumors about her own sexual orientation have...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Daily Collegian Album cover art by Howard Cruse image: Tom Wilson Weinberg State College, Penn -- In 1975, cartoonist Howard Cruse was a staff artist at a Birmingham, Ala. ad agency. But beginning at dawn each day until he had to leave for work, Cruse would spend his time writing and drawing comics for underground comic publications. "Underground comics meant cutting the bullshit and getting to the truth," Cruse said. Last night, Cruse spoke about his life and the comics he has created as a reflection of some of his own life experiences. Those experiences range from growing up...
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Saturday, April 19
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Source: GaySocialits.com , MSNBC , Washington Post Chelsea Clinton went on Friday night gay club crawl in Philadelphia photo: GaySocialites.com Chelsea Clinton stopped traffic Friday night as she wandered the streets of Philadelphia on a gay bar crawl, winning rave reviews for both her politics and her appearance. Led around the neighborhood by Gov. Ed Rendell, Chelsea was mobbed by local gays and lesbians, as she walked from one club to the next. They ran up to hug her, posed for pictures and certainly invaded her personal space. “I grabbed her ass,” one young woman exclaimed to her friends after...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: Associated Press via CNN , E! Online King shooting Lance Bass doesn't want others to stay silent as he did. He wants the youth of America to get in sync with sexual tolerance. So he's made a public service announcement for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The erstwhile 'N Syncer filmed the announcement to urge students to stop the bullying, harassment and discrimination occurring in schools. [See YouTube video of the announcement at the bottom of this post.] "Everyday, thousands of students are silenced," Bass says in the spot. "They're...
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Wednesday, April 16
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Source: Globe and Mail , AfterElton Luke Macfarlane photo via AfterElton LOS ANGELES -- Next month, in the season finale of his hit television series Brothers & Sisters , Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane will dress his best and say his vows as his character, Scotty Wandell, marries his partner, Kevin Walker. It's an episode the London, Ont.-born actor is looking forward to, on many levels: It's one of the few shows on network television to portray a gay marriage between two main characters -- a feat the 28-year-old actor is quite proud of, from a professional perspective. But the episode...
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Monday, April 07
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Source: Out , eCanadaNow.com , AfterElton.com Los Angeles -- Ellen DeGeneres has been named the most ‘Influential Gay Woman in America’ by Out magazine. The talk show host topped the magazine’s list of the most ‘Influential Gay Men and Women in America’ in their Power 50 issue. Former talk-show host and current cruise-ship impresario, Rosie O'Donnell rates spot #31 on the list. The magazine's editor's explain, "[W]hile Ellen's puppy palaver didn't even dent her popularity, Rosie's score dropped significantly when she stepped down as The View 's lightning rod."...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Out in Hollywood , the Daily Dish (SFGate) Jay Leno apologized last night for last week's bizarre bit with Ryan Phillippe on "The Tonight Show" when Ryan was on to promote his new movie "Stop-Loss." Jay brought up Ryan's early role as a gay teen on the ABC soap "One Life to Live." He asked Phillippe, "Can you give me your gayest look? Say that camera is Billy Bob ... Billy Bob has just ridden in shirtless from Wyoming." But the joke has backfired on Leno. Ryan looked instantly uncomfortable and said: "Wow. That is so something I don't...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Monsters & Critics , Starpulse Janet Jackson photo by Kenny Rogers via CelebrityGossipz.com Janet Jackson will be honored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) during the organization's 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on April 26th. Gay comedienne and TV personality Ellen DeGeneres will present the pop superstar with the night's Vanguard Award. The Nasty singer says, "I have received a number of awards throughout my career, but I am so proud to be receiving this from GLAAD. I thank them for this honor from the bottom of my heart." Jackson is set...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Ventura County Star , TransWorldNews King shooting A dozen students from E.O. Green School in Oxnard stood around a picnic table at a local park Tuesday eating pink vegan cupcakes and waiting for autographed photos of two reality TV stars. Most of the eighth-graders gathered in the park had never watched CBS' "The Amazing Race," or heard of Kynt and Vyxsin, one of 11 teams that raced around the world on the show's 12th edition. But that didn't matter, said Jesus Cruz, 13. "They came all the way from Kentucky to see us," he said, "and I think that's...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: New Republic , Stanford Daily Porn star and producer Michael Lucas spoke at Stanford last month about safe sex, but his neocon political views generated controversy both before and during the talk Stanford Daily photo by Mehmet Inonu About 50 students gathered last month at Stanford for a lively, candid discussion with gay pornographic actor, activist and entrepreneur Michael Lucas. During a lengthy question and answer session, students inquired about his personal views and challenged him on his controversial beliefs. Michael Lucas discussed sexual health and AIDS prevention in the adult...
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Thursday, March 20
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Source: TIME Rita Mae Brown, foxhunting photo: RitaMaeBrown.com No one could ever accuse Rita Mae Brown, 63, of having lived a boring life. The bestselling author of 37 books is nothing if not versatile: feminist activist, mystery writer, lesbian pioneer, fox hunter, screenwriter, novelist, animal rescuer. She even became a tabloid star during her three-year relationship with tennis superstar Martina Navratilova. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Brown, who was in Pennsylvania on tour for her latest book, The Purrfect Murder (Bantam). TIME: Your 1973 book Ruby Fruit Jungle was a groundbreaking...
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Tuesday, March 18
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Source: Reuters , Hollywood Reporter , Advocate , Playbill NEW YORK -- Rufus Wainwright, MTV Networks president Brian Graden and the CBS soap opera "As The World Turns" were among the big winners Monday at the 19th annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards (GLAAD). Television journalist Barbara Walters was honored for her reporting on transgender children and she said the award was among the most important she had even received. "You can forget all the Emmys," Walters said in accepting the award for television newsmagazine journalism at the ceremony in...
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Monday, March 17
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Source: Brisbane Courier-Mail Brisbane, Queensland -- WORD-association time. Jodie Foster. Intense. Anguished. Dramatic characters. The Accused . Silence of the Lambs . Performances so tightly coiled, so raw and personal, it's sometimes uncomfortable to watch. Panic Room , Flightplan . If like most people, this is where your brain immediately travelled, you're about to be reprogrammed. For the first time, the screen veteran and former child star has tried her hand at a family-rated physical comedy as an adult. The result is Nim's Island , a delightful fast-paced romp about a magical...
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Monday, March 17
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Source: Glasgow Daily Record , PinkNews Dan Gillespie Sells of The Feeling photo: Virgin Media Out gay Brit pop singer Dan Gillespie Sells has called on gay musicians to come out of the closet. The Feeling frontman, who came out publicly in 2006, is urging other stars to follow in his footsteps and stop "living a lie". He said, "The world would be a healthier place if people were more honest about their sexuality and the entertainment industry would be healthier if people were more honest. "The more of us who come out, the easier it is for others. My advice for anyone considering...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: E! Online , Yahoo News , PageOneQ King shooting "If you think gay teens like Lawrence King are safe in our schools," says Grey's Anatomy's T. R. Knight, "you're wrong." In partnership with GLSEN, LGBT-oriented television network Logo , is airing a public service announcement urging awareness and vigilance against homophobia, transphobia and discrimination in schools. The ad was made in response to the recent murder of openly gay junior high student Lawrence King. The E!Online includes a streaming player showing the ad . "One more murder, one more life...
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Wednesday, March 05
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Source: Reuters , Towleroad , Associated Press David Hernandez works the low rise in this undated photo via Towleroad LOS ANGELES -- "American Idol" producers are shrugging off the latest publicity-generating sex semi-scandal to hit the top-rated U.S. television show. They've said contestant David Hernandez can stay in the competition despite his past as a stripper. "We've had strippers on the show before," executive producer Ken Warwick was quoted on Tuesday as telling the Web site TVGuide.com. "We're never judgmental about people who do things like that. "If...
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Wednesday, February 27
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Source: Philadelphia Daily News Keyontyli and Taleon Goffney have appeared in net porn videos as Keyon and Teyon photo via hotflashes.blogspot [not safe for work] Fleshbot, as usual, has an explicit gallery of very NSFW images of the pre-jailed twins Philadelphia -- TWINS Keyontyli and Taleon Goffney have been arrested for allegedly breaking into area businesses by cutting rooftop holes to gain entry. Turns out, they were also just as skilled at breaking into their second, more respectable careers -- as hardcore gay-porn stars. The 25-year-old Goffney twins, both of New Jersey, were arrested Feb...
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Friday, February 22
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Source: New York Daily News and Los Angeles Times On the Valentine's Day episode of the CBS soap "As the World Turns," all the couples kissed -- except Luke and Noah. They hugged instead. That did it for a group of the show's fans. They have launched a campaign protesting what they call discrimination against the gay pair, who got together last September and have not gone much beyond hugging since then. It all started last Christmas, when Luke and Noah were about to kiss. Though fans had seen them kiss before, this time the camera panned up to the mistletoe. Over the next few...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Anchorage Daily News Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn denied that he was involved in an altercation on New Year's Day in which a man claimed on an emergency phone call that Quinn made an anti-gay slur at him. In a statement released Wednesday through the Browns, Quinn said he had dinner on New Year's Eve with his girlfriend and other couples but that nothing else happened. See summary of original charge "At no time that night was I involved in a verbal or physical altercation, nor did I have any interaction with the police," Quinn said in the statement. "I...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer and UPI Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn photo via Flickr Columbus, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn, a Columbus native, was part of a group of men shouting insults at gay passers-by outside a Columbus bar early on New Year's Day, according to a 9-1-1 call made to police. An emergency call to police was placed by Seth Harris at 2:35 a.m. Jan. 1 who reported that he encountered the group near a restaurant next door to one of Columbus' most popular gay bars. Update: Quinn denies the charges On the 9-1-1 call, Harris said that "Brady...
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Tuesday, February 12
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Source: Hartford Courant WALLINGFORD, Conn -- He spoke with a slight twang, offered the occasional critique of student fashion, and fired back when teenagers accused him of things like deceiving the country into war and polarizing American political culture. He was also forced to respond to a tough set of questions from a high school student about marriage equality. "I appreciate that I'm a myth," Karl Rove told the 850 or so Choate Rosemary Hall students, administrators and faculty members who packed an auditorium on the prep school's Wallingford campus Monday. Myth or not, Rove...
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