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One of street artist Banksy's best known works, showing two British police officers kissing in a passionate embrace, is coming to America for auction, the Daily Mail reports.This news is sure to make Sue Sylvester yell into her megaphone.
Dolce & Gabbana have announced they will exclusively outfit "Glee"'s Matthew Morrison for his upcoming international tour, which begins June 6 in Dublin and ends in July 23 in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre.
Footage of filmmaker Kevin Smith officiating the February gay marriage of two Los Angeles Kings fans online, MetroWeekly reports.
Part of the ceremony was broadcast on ABC's Feb. 22 edition of "Nightline" in a segment about celebrity ministers. Tori Spelling and Kathy Griffin also were featured in the segment.
Hockey superfans Scott Loudon and Michael Wojtowicz have been together for 16 years and were wed in Smith's podcast studio and recorded for his SModcast podcast.
Marisela celebrates her 45th birthday Sunday with a performance at Circus Disco. Tickets, $15 presale and $50 VIP, are available in advance. Presale also are for sale online with the dreaded service fee.Madelyn Pugh Davis, who with her writing partners for the classic sitcom "I Love Lucy" concocted zany scenes in which the harebrained Lucy dangles from a hotel balcony, poses as a sculpture or stomps and wrestles in a vat full of grapes, died Wednesday. She was 90.
Davis, a pioneering female radio and TV comedy writer whose work with the red-haired queen of TV comedy spanned four decades, died Wednesday at her home in Bel-Air after a brief illness, said her son, Michael Quinn Martin, the Los Angeles Times reports.
In 2001, I interviewed writers Bob Carroll, 83, Davis, 81 and Bob Schiller, 82, to talk about their years of writing and loving ``Lucy.''
Here's a copy of that story.
A transgender inmate who says she has been repeatedly raped since her 2003 incarceration is asking a federal court in San Francisco for a state-funded gender-reassignment surgery so she can be transferred to a women's prison, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Evan Rachel Wood says she's a "romantic" bisexual in an interview with Esquire.
The 23-year-old actress (HBO's "Mildred Pierce" and "True Blood"), whose past boyfriends have included rocker Marilyn Manson and actor Jamie Bell, says, "I'm up for anything. Meet a nice guy, meet a nice girl." The writer eventually asks, "You date women?"
"Yes," Wood says. "Yeah, I'm more kind of like the guy when it comes to girls. I'm the dominant one." She continues, saying when she's with women her inner North Carolina gentleman comes out. "I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic."
The new season of "True Blood" debuts June 26.
(Photo: Evan Rachel Wood attends the New York Premiere of 'The Conspirator' at The Museum of Modern Art on April 11. Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
Patsy and Edina, everyone's favorite pill popping, bed hopping and alcohol swigging duo, appear to be heading back to TV in the British cult hit "Absolutely Fabulous," reports The Guardian.
Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders will reprise their roles as Patsy Stone and Edina Monsoon in three new episodes of the sitcom expected to begin filming later this year.
The BBC said it was "putting the finishing touches to the deal."
Lumley ignited speculation about a new season last year, when she told a reporter that Saunders had written her about relaunching the series.
"As for the original apology, I am amazed that people still think apologizing in such a way as to make it clear that it was the victims who misunderstood is acceptable. I had hoped that the sorry-if-you-are-oversensitive school of apology would by now have been thoroughly discredited."
"I am tired of people having this debate about the relative impact of pejorative words on their target minority group. If injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, then the relative power of an antigay gay slur is irrelevant, it is simply a threat to human dignity, and that should appall us all."
Almost everyone has heard the accusations - Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sounds like Madonna's "Express Yourself." Critics have said it. Fans have said. Even the Materialistic Woman herself has said it.
Lady Gaga, however, does not agree.
"I am not stupid enough to put out a record and be that moronic," Gaga told the NME (via the Prophet Blog) at the top of a rant that began with denial then quickly transformed into rage, indignation, devastation, and religious pandering, according to The Amp.
The blog called it Gaga's version of the Five Stages of Grief. It's an entertaining read.
Clay Aiken and Lance Bass are among the out performers who will guest-star on a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of the hit series "Drop Dead Diva," TV Squad reports.
It's that time of the month again.
A man who worked for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition has filed a complaint against the activist and the organization saying he was subjected to harassment and discrimination and eventually fired for his sexual orientation, the Windy City Times reports.
Tommy R. Bennett (right), who worked for the organization from July 2007 to December 2009 as the national community affairs director, filed the complaint with the Chicago Commission on Human Relations. The article does not say when the compliant was filed.
On Friday, Jackson and Rainbow PUSH filed a joint response with the commission and issued a joint statement denying the allegations, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Bennett is asking for $98,300 in back pay, $350,000 for emotional distress and punitive damages.
Jackson ran for president in 1984 and 1988 on a platform of civil rights, including LGBT rights, and spoke at the LGBT March on Washington in 1987.
Two-time Oscar winner Jessica Lange has been cast as Constance, the nosy neighbor, in Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's FX drama pilot, "American Horror Story," according to The Hollywood Report.
In the thriller, which revolves around husband and wife Ben and Vivien Harmon ("Friday Night Lights"' Connie Britton), the couple move into a creepy San Francisco home next door to Constance (Lange) and her daughter with Down Syndrome who knows more about the house than everyone realizes.
Lange joins Denis O'Hare ("True Blood"'s Russell Edgington, vampire king of Mississippi), who plays Larry the Burn Guy, a former resident of the home.
Congressional advocates for LGBT immigration reform launched a two-pronged offensive Thursday with the reintroduction of the Uniting American Families Act and the release of a letter from 48 House of Representative members urging the Obama administration in part to suspend deportations faced by married gay spouses, The Advocate reports.
In the letter, House members asked Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to mitigate the discrimination faced by binational married couples following the administration's February announcement that it considers the Defense of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional.
The United American Families Act would help keep binational couples together by making family-based immigration inclusive of same-sex partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
But thus far the Obama administration appears unwilling to suspend the deportations, according to the article.
Asked whether the Department of Homeland Security has responded to the senators' letter, DHS spokesman Adam Fetcher told The Advocate in a statement, "The administration will respond to the members of Congress directly. Pursuant to the Attorney General's guidance, the Defense of Marriage Act remains in effect and the Executive Branch, including DHS, will continue to enforce it unless and until Congress repeals it or there a final judicial determination that it is unconstitutional."
Good ol' government at work.
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Jon Stewart, on Wednesday's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," skewered the media's ridiculous reactions to the J. Crew ad showing the company's creative director admiring her young son's pink-polished toenails.
What Stewart thought was a "pleasant, sweet little mother-son bondvertising, NBC, ABC, CNN and Fox recognized as Toemageddon."
LONG BEACH - Jacob Roundy has two dads.The Center Long Beach is hosting a support group for people who have been diagnosed HIV positive in the past two years.
The meetings are held 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the Center, 2017 E. Fourth St.
Dealing with a new HIV diagnosis can be a challenging and, at times, overwhelming experience, said Michael Buitron, outreach specialist with the C.A.R.E. (Comprehensive AIDS Resource Education) Program at St. Mary Medical Center and the support group's facilitator.
"It's still really, really tough for a lot of people," Buitron said. "There's so much stuff to negotiate when you're HIV positive, from finding an HIV-friendly doctor to dealing with the stigma some people have about dating someone who's positive."
Buitron leads the support group with three discussion topics: disclosure, dating and safer sex; managing medical care, understanding lab work and treatment options; and dealing with family, work and friends.
The Center also has expanded its HIV testing hours to 2-9 p.m. Monday through Friday and, starting Saturday, noon-3 p.m.
The testing takes 20 to 40 minutes, depending on individual counseling sessions and the number of clients being tested.
Anonymous and confidential testing are available.
Anyone who tests positive for HIV at the Center is referred to the C.A.R.E. Program for medical care, case management and mental health support.
The Center began HIV testing in January 2010 for the first time since 2005, thanks to a grant from the Los Angeles County Health Department.
The $393,000 grant, from the department's Office of AIDS Programs and Policy, funds the center's new rapid HIV testing program for 2 1/2 years.
For more information about the HIV-positive support group, contact Michael Buitron, 562-624-4977 or michael.buitron@chw.edu.
To schedule an HIV test, contact The Center Long Beach, 562-434-4455, Ext. 238.
Archaeologists and anthropologists are digging the media out of a hole it dug for itself last week after reports called an unearthed skeleton a "gay" caveman.
The remains, found outside of Prague in the Czech Republic, are of a man lying on his left side and facing west, which is how many women of the time were laid to rest. The man also has items associated with females lying near him instead of weapons found with men.
And while acknowledging the "unusual" circumstances of the burial, John Hawks, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tells CNN it's impossible to tell if someone is homosexual by examining a skeleton. (Duh!. We could have told you that.)
Instead, the possibility of a third-gender grave - as outlined by the archaeologists - is more plausible, he says, noting that some cultures have a third category where, in some cases, men may have feminine characteristics or roles.
Historical correction: Cavemen lived 30,000 to 20,000 years ago. The remains found last week were from the Neolithic Age, about 5,000 years ago,
The New York Times published a comprehensive article last week on Outsports.com. The Website, launched in 1999, is run by Cyd Zeigler and Jim Buzinski, a former Press-Telegram sports editor.
"The core of what we do is cover the nexus of gays and sports," Zeigler says in the article.
Outsports.com has written about a gay Brigham Young athlete who abided by the university's honor code, published an essay from a lesbian basketball player at a Catholic girls school in California and featured the Miami (Ohio) hockey team a year after the death of the openly gay student manager Brendan Burke, a son of Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian Burke.
The site has tracked the travails of two college coaches who said they were fired because of their sexual orientation, broke the story of George Washington University's transgender basketball player, and interviewed at length the gay rugby star Gareth Thomas.
On Super Bowl Sunday, Outsports offered both analysis -- including a pregame "Super Bowl for the clueless" segment -- and opinion, including a wrap-up segment on "hot players of the game."
The critically-acclaimed "Contracorriente" ("Undertow") will be released on DVD and Blu-ray June 1.
It was Peru's submission last year to the Oscars for best foreign film. The movie also was screened last year at the Long Beach Q Film Festival.
Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Javier Fuentes--León, "Contrcorriente" is about a married fisherman's struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
In a tiny, traditional seaside village, Miguel (Christian Mercado), a young fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), are preparing to welcome their first child. But Miguel has a secret: he's in love with Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a painter who is ostracized by the town because he's gay. As the film unfolds, Miguel must find the courage to be true to himself.
Bonus features include deleted scenes and the featurettes: "Undertow: A Look Inside," "Behind-the-Scenes of Undertow," "Interview with Christian Mercado," and "Interview with Tatiana Astengo."
The film will be available on Blu-ray ($29.95) and DVD ($24.95).
Cal State Long Beach's student newspaper published an editorial this week criticizing the LGBT community, its allies for legislators for supporting SB 48, which would require public schools teach the contributions and achievements of gay people.
The editorial says efforts to pass this bill are premature. LGBT activists and their allies should focus their attention on equality and wait until people tolerate them before pushing such a bill.
Yes, equality - obviously - should be at the forefront of the civil rights battle, but the battle needs to be waged on several fronts simultaneously.
And saying the bill is premature is patronizing. Asking oppressed groups to wait until the majority is ready to grant them equality is a recipe for abuse of power and inhumane.
The editorial follows the twisted logic that while gay marriage is illegal it's inappropriate to teach the struggle of LGBT people.
"So before the historical influence of LGBT people is taught in school, we must first move to dispel federal intolerance. How else can we teach our kids if our own laws do not even support tolerance?"
Of course, when all else fails drag out the "Will someone please think of the childern" excuse.
Whether gay marriage is legal or illegal is irrelevant, Students need to the know how LGBT people are woven into the historical fabric of California and the nation. These trailblazers must be acknowledged, celebrated and embraced.
Saying otherwise locks them in the closet and dishonors their memory
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network is launching "Changing the Game," an initiative to combat homophobia in K-12 sports.
"Changing the Game" will focus on beginning a dialogue about inclusiveness in sports in schools and on teams.
GLSEN's Website says, "The Sport Project's mission is to assist K-12 schools in creating and maintaining an athletic and physical education climate that is based on the core principles of respect, safety and equal access for all students, teachers and coaches regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression and integrating these efforts into overall school plans to ensure a safe, respectful school climate and culture."
Pat Griffin, GLSEN Sports Project Director and former director of It Takes a Team Education Campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Issues in Sport at the Women's Sports Foundation, is the project's head coach.
The advisory group and all-star supporters includes Hall of Fame, Olympic and National Champion athletes, award-winning journalists, former college athletic directors and current professional, college and high school coaches.
The members include Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com columnist LZ Granderson, Olympic softball medalists Jessica Mendoza and Lauren Lappin, NFL player Scott Fujita and former NFL player Wade Davis, WNBA player Candice Wiggins, Toronto Maple Leafs President and General Manager Brian Burke, National Center for Lesbian Rights sports project director Helen Carroll, three-time All-American wrestler Hudson Taylor, Outsports.com co-founder Cyd Zeigler, WNBA Coach Lin Dunn, rugby player Ben Cohen, former MLB player Billy Bean and former NBA player John Amaechi.
LGBT health research is a strikingly underdeveloped field and researchers need more data about the demographics of these populations, improved methods for collecting and analyzing data and an increased participation of sexual and gender minorities in research, according to a report released by the Institute of Medicine.
The lack of information is due in part to inadequate data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity in federally funded surveys and electronic health records.
The report recommended data inclusion for LGBT populations and urged the National Institutes of Health, which sponsored the study, to devote more research to LGBT health and to create a comprehensive training approach to the field. Researchers need to actively focus attention on the LGBT population, as they have done with other minority groups, the report says.
"There's so little research that we couldn't just identify the gaps," says Robert Graham, committee chair of the report and a professor of family medicine at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, an interview with The Advocate. "We needed to base our findings across a more broad and encompassing degree of needs in terms of research."
He-Man, Skeletor and other characters from the Masters of the Universe get a homo-erotic makeover in a New York art exhibit benefitting homeless LGBT youth.
"Skeletor Saves" features an eclectic collective of artists - ranging from Marc Jacobs and Helmut Lang to adult film actors Francois Sagat and Buck Angel - who demonstrate the sexual archetypes and connotations from the popular cartoon series.
The art, is a genre-bending mix of nerdy homage and fetishistic hero-worship, is both kitschy and provocative.
He-Man's "appeal goes beyond sexual orientation boundaries," says Brian Moylan, one of the exhibit's three curators, in an interview with OUT magazine. "Little straight boys just understand him less ironically."
The exhibit is a benefit for the Ali Forney Center, a shelter for homeless LGBT youth in New York.
All works are for sale.
(Photo: New York Skeletor by Martine)
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal judge who struck down California's gay marriage ban has confirmed longtime rumors he's gay, and said his sexuality was irrelevant in deciding the landmark case, the Associated Press via the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) awards, taking place in Hollywood Sunday, WonderWall counts down the 15 most powerful gays and lesbians in the media.
The annual White Party in Palm Springs, where 20,000 shirtless gay men congregate for four days of partying and playing, fun in the sun and nonstop pulsating dance music, is more than a dance-party orgy, the Desert Sun in Palms Springs reports.
The morality Gestapo and religious extremists clicked their heals three times and got their wish - Gay people are the most targeted minority in the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports.
The new issue of Intelligence Report, the Center's magazine, also contains a map charting 1,002 active hate groups in the United States; 68 groups are in California, including ones in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Huntington Beach.
Thirteen organizations that have taken a public stance against homosexuality, such as the Family Research Council, on the list.
Being antigay didn't earn any group a spot on the list, but name-calling and spouting arguments - proven untrue - against homosexuality did win a prize. Spreading lies about gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people can lead to violence, says Mark Potok, an editor with Intelligence Report.
"The Family Research Council does engage, certainly in our view, in the propagation of known falsehoods in an effort to defame gay people," Potok says.
The Family Research Council - SURPRISE, SURPRISE - says the accusations are false
It's time for California students to learn their ABCs about LGBT people.
State Sen. Mark D. Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced SB 48, which would require new social science textbooks and other instructional materials include "a study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans ... to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society."
Leno said the proposed law would cost nothing. Textbooks would be changed in the next scheduled revisions, due to be approved by the state in a couple of years, the Los Angeles Times reports.
While Gov. Jerry Brown has not taken a stance on the measure, lawmakers and activists are hopeful a Democratic governor might be more supportive of the movement, which was approved five years ago by legislators only to be opposed. by then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Morality police and opposition activists say the usual blah, blah, blah nonsense. For example, at a education committee hearing, Sen. Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) said the bill would "sexualize the training of our children at an early age," according to the article.
The bill is supported by the California Teachers Association and the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Kevin Keller, the gay character whose debut in Veronica No. 202 prompted an unprecedented sell-out last year, will get his own miniseries this summer, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.THANK YOU...NEXT TRAILER from Thank You...Next on Vimeo.
"Glee" star Matthew Morrison, who plays teacher Will Schuester, says the gay rumors about him go back to his Broadway days, and they've never bothered him, Morrison says in an interview with London's The Daily Mail.
"I sing and dance for a living and there is that connotation associated with me," Morrison, 32, tells The Daily Mail. "I don't care, I know my truth. Does it make it difficult to get with women? No. It makes it easier. My time on Broadway was the best. There was a lot of beautiful dancers -- and being one of the only straight guys ... I kinda had a lot of options."
Morrison has participated with his "Glee" costars in a number of charity events, including ones to combat bullying in schools and advocate for gay rights and the AIDS benefit such as Broadway Bares.
Rumors aside, Morrison is preparing for his pop album debut, which drops May 10.
Dan Savage is going back to school.
MTV has ordered "Savage U," a new series featuring sex-advice columnist and "It Gets Better" creator Dan Savage, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The late-night show will feature Savage talking sex, love and relationships while touring college campuses. The show's broadcast date was not mentioned.
"What Dan's able to do is bring incredible frankness to the topic of sexuality and spin it with a great sense of humor," said David Janollari, MTV's head of programming, in the article.
Savage's "It Gets Better" book, based on the anti-bullying campaign he launched last year, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in March.
More than half a century before Madonna's blond ambitions, "Blonde Bombshell" Jean Harlow helped define glamour and sex appeal during the early days of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Harlow is the very prototype of all the blonde icons who followed, from Marilyn Monroe to Jayne Mansfield, an original blueprint for glamour and tragedy.
But the real Harlow, who died in 1937 at the age of 26, was a stark contrast to her silver-screen persona.
"She was an enigma who was soft spoken and intelligent who read four books a week, liked sex and gin, but couldn't be separated from her mother," says Mark Vieira, who, along with Darrell Rooney, authored the new book, "Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937."
The out authors will sign copies of the book 5 p.m. Sunday at Book Soup in West Hollywood.
Their book coincides with the centennial Harlow's birth.
With more than 280 images, most never published, according to the authors, "Harlow in Hollywood" chronicles Harlow's rise to Hollywood sex symbol and how she created that star genre.
The book also illustrates how Harlow personified the Art Deco style and helped create Hollywood's glamourous image.
However, she also was surrounded by blood-thirsty people, this time in the form of her gold-digging mother, who was a constant companion and ultimate "stage mother."
Harlow died of kidney disease at age 26. During her brief career she reigned as a queen of the silver screen and has since been named one of 50 greatest stars in Hollywood history by Entertainment Weekly.
Electro-indie duo Uh Huh Her mix electro beats with moody electronic textures on their six-song EP, "Black and Blue." A full CD is expected this summer.
The Los Angeles-based duo- which plays El Rey Theatre tonight, is out musicians Camila Grey (keyboards and guitar) and Leisha Hailey (keyboards and bass).
Listeners might have been more familiar with Hailey's character "Alice" on "The L Word" than they were with her role in 1990s indie duo The Murmurs. For Grey, Uh Huh Her is her first group since the lo-fi indie-rock outfit Mellowdrone.
Uh Huh Her also play Phoenix Pride April 16.
The 12-episode, fourth season of "True Blood" will kick off 9 p.m. June 26, HBO announced Friday.
What bloody drama awaits waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who can hear people's thoughts, and her soul mate, 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer)?
It's easier to drive a steak into a vampire's heart than get executive producer Alan Ball or the cast to tell anything about the upcoming fourth season; however, last month, Ball and numerous members of the cast attended a PaleyFest panel and dropped a few morsels.
