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Pussy Willow's 'Whose Child Is This?'
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New Mexico Supreme Court Declares Gay Marriage Legal
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Crystal Ball
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Brian Boitano Comes Out Ahead of Sochi Olympics
Good for him, even if his "part of me" line is a little tired..
Via NYDN:
The Olympic gold medalist has announced his sexual orientation after being named to the United States 2014 Sochi Olympics delegation. "I am many things: a son, a brother, and uncle, a friend, an athlete, a cook, an author, and being gay is just one part of who I am," Boitano said in a statement on Thursday. Read HERE.
Everyone used to tell my college boyfriend he looked like Brian back in the '80s, although Derek was way hotter!
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Chicks (With Dicks)
Missing an apostrophe, but the sentiment is spot-on.
(Both seen on Facebook)
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David Gandy Looks Really Good Naked
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Leaky Fawcett
With a crying Jaclyn Smith and a lifetime of fame on his side, a jury in L.A. ruled that Ryan O'Neal could keep the Andy Warhol silk screen of his late love, Farrah Fawcett, despite the fact that it's obvious that he stole it from her condo after she died. While I don't think they followed the law, it wouldn't be the first time jurors let their emotions rule the day. The University of Texas will be fine without it, but here's hoping it stays in the family and son Redmond doesn't pawn it for drug money one day. Read HERE.
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I Went to a Garden Party
Saw my first-ever basketball game last night -- Duke vs. UCLA at Madison Square Garden. I don't mean just first "in person" -- I've never even watched one on television. The crowd was ridiculously hot -- all those preppy Duke grads turned investment bankers -- but I have to tell you something, guys: That's one fucking stupid game. Luckily, the Bruins' coach, Steve Alford, was hot enough to hold my attention till the end.
Hoosier daddy
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Morning Wood
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Weight a Minute
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Song of the Day: 'Christmas Is Almost Here' by Carly Simon
Beautiful seasonal original written by Carly's former brother-in-law Livingston Taylor.
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My Detroit Dream House
This four-bedroom manse in Birmingham, Mich., goes for $2.8 million and is close to downtown -- like Mary Tyler Moore's old place on steroids! Full listening HERE.
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Win It! 'Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival' by Sean Strub
I have two copies of AIDS activist Sean Strub's upcoming memoir, "Body Counts," for the first two people to e-mail me with the name of their favorite LGBT memoir HERE.
"Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival" (Scribner) will be released Jan. 14. Pre-order your copy HERE.
Description:
Sean Strub, founder of the groundbreaking POZ magazine, producer of the hit play "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me," and the first openly HIV-positive candidate for U.S. Congress, charts his remarkable life—a story of politics and AIDS and a powerful testament to loss, hope, and survival.
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C., from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the U.S. Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital’s political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in shame.
When the AIDS epidemic hit in the early 1980s, Strub was living in New York and soon found himself attending “more funerals than birthday parties.” Scared and angry, he turned to radical activism to combat discrimination and demand research. Strub takes readers through his own diagnosis and inside ACT UP, the activist organization that transformed a stigmatized cause into one of the defining political movements of our time.
From the New York of Studio 54 and Andy Warhol’s Factory to the intersection of politics and burgeoning LGBT and AIDS movements, Strub’s story crackles with history. He recounts his role in shocking AIDS demonstrations at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the home of U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. "Body Counts" is a vivid portrait of a tumultuous era, with an astonishing cast of characters, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Keith Haring, Bill Clinton, and Yoko Ono.
By the time a new class of drugs transformed the epidemic in 1996, Strub was emaciated and covered with Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions, the scarlet letter of AIDS. He was among the fortunate who returned, Lazaruslike, from the brink of death.
Strub has written a vital, inspiring memoir, unprecedented in scope, about this deeply important period of American history.
Visit the author's official page HERE.
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Kid
Natalie Hynde -- Ray Davies and Chrissie Hynde's cute daughter -- is all grown up now. She really favors her mom, but how scary is it that when Chrissie sang "I've got a kid, I'm 33 baby" it was 30 years ago?!!!
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Serena Williams Gets Lost in the '80s
The best part of Serena Williams''80s party is that Chris Evert messaged her on Twitter to say that she used to wear that exact same outfit!
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Does Andy Roddick Have a Boyfriend? -- Blind Item
I'm (still) not saying Andy Roddick is gay, but his name was the first to come up related to this blind item:
This A list model/B- list mostly movie actress has been in the news this week. She says that she has finally realized that her husband just doesn't like women and that he is loving his new job because he is around guys all the time and never wants to come home. She told someone on the set of her shoot that she thinks he found a boyfriend, but isn't sure.
Andy, of course, now works for the Fox Sports Network.
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Court Rules Utah Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
The non-duck momentum continues!
The Associated Press reports:
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a 53-page ruling Friday saying Utah's law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and lesbian couples' rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment. Shelby says the state failed to show that allowing same-sex marriages would affect opposite-sex marriages in any way, and the state's unsupported fears and speculations are insufficient to justify deny allowing same-sex marriages. Attorneys for the state argued that Utah's law promotes the state's interest in "responsible procreation" and the "optimal mode of child-rearing." The lawsuit was brought by three gay and lesbian couples in Utah.
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Separate, but Equal?
Writer/activist Tim Murphy has reservations about this HIV Equal promo shoot -- "Can we pls have an #HIV campaign that teaches us re: prevention, testing and treatment? What is this glammy nonsense?" -- but I'm actually sort of relieved by it. Apparently I'm not hot enough to be infected with HIV ...
ALL CAPS commentary mine:
HIV Equal is an all-inclusive anti-stigma and HIV testing initiative sponsored by Norwalk, CT-based World Health Clinicians that recently photographed many familiar faces in Los Angeles. The campaign and health initiative are acutely aware that HIV affects everyone [WHO IS WHITE, MALE AND RIDICULOUSLY ATTRACTIVE], and its aim is to photograph people from all walks of [BEAUTIFUL] life, in cities across the country, to illustrate that fact.
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On the Rag, Vol. 282
A weekly look at what's making news in the free gay mags:
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Get Out with Matthew Camp HERE.
Get Out with Monster bar/club owner Frankie Rice HERE.
Frontiers (LA): Is Drew Droege the hardest-working Chloe in Los Angeles? Online edition HERE.
Next: Dusty St. Amand and the 2013 Year in Review are HERE.
Metro Weekly (DC): The What, When and Who of 2013 / Read HERE.
Echo (Phoenix): The Man and Woman of the Year ... and More HERE.
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