August 4, 2010 - Proposition 8 ruled unconstitutional
From the ruling: "Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite sex couples are superior to same sex couples."
Source: Judge Hands Victory to Proposition 8 Opponents, Gay-Marriage Ban Overturned
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I'm back! I'm hungry!
LOL and de rock, it is gone! (maybe blogger is being touchy or changed something re direct links or direct links to that site? Idk)
Yeah it's a direct link problem (I just posted one and it vanished). Whether it's blogger or the settings got changed on WFT (accident or on purpose) Idk.
Quick, someone go to babble and use their blog to experiment!
LOL and de rock, it is gone!
WTF is this, blogger black hole? :)
Other blogs are having the same problem - from Blogger Help Forum:
Blogger has been posting comments today, then wiping them out. This has happened regularly every month for the past three months. What has Blogger done to correct this problem? What can I do to correct it?
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I just went back to my blog. Where upon last glance I had 7 comments total, upon revisiting my comment count - which reflected correctly the comments at this point existing - read 4 comments. (Three comments had simple disappeared.)
Portia de Rossi's second anniversary gift for Ellen DeGeneres? A name change.
The actress, who tied the knot with the talk show host, 52, on Aug. 17, 2008, has asked the court to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres, according to a petition filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court.
As for the reason, the papers, which were initially signed by Rossi, 37, in March, say, "Petitioner is taking the last name of her spouse."
But de Rossi isn't a DeGeneres just yet. The name change won't be official until a hearing, scheduled for Sept. 23, takes place.
An old-fashioned girl :)
Damn, comments are still disappearing.
Made For the Role — Typecasting By Voice
Thanks for this, enjoyed it.
Okay, I'm going to try reposting my earlier comment on Amber Heard, and without a direct link.
Regarding the IMDB entry someone put up early today about her being involved with some director, that IMDB post was only put up yesterday, and refers to information on Wiki that appears to date back to April of 2009. I think someone is just rushing to try and prove she is straight, because it seems pretty clear that she is currently dating a woman, and not that director.
Since she says she is bisexual, it is possible she dated that guy and then moved on.
A fan site that claims to have the blessing of her reps refers to Tasya as her girlfriend, and has pictures of them holding hands while out and about in San Diego for comic Con.
www.amber-heard.net/page/2/
For awhile now people have been saying that actresses can only be openly bisexual if they are currently dating men.
I guess another tree just fell in that homophobic HW forrest (if you don't count Lohan, who is crazy and has no career).
Portia de Rossi
Of course she can do what she wants but I wish women would keep their names and not change it to their spouse's, whether straight or gay. Also it cracks me up how a lot of women i.e. celebs, Maggie Gyllenhaal for example, give their kids the father's last name (whether the parents are married or not). Might sound radical but IMO sons should get the father's last name and daughters should take the mother's. That way the name heritage stays through the generations, male and female.
I like the way it's done in some of the Latin countries, where both names mother's and father's surnames are taken? I think that's how it's done anyway. :)
Amber Heard has been rumoured to be a lesbian for YEARS. I don't think anyone is surprised she has a girlfriend.
Johnathon Schaech and One Tree Hill actress Jana Kramer have split after being married for only a little more than one month.
Jana’s rep tells Life & Style, “Jana and Johnathon have agreed to dissolve their marriage. Jana is humbled by the outpouring of support from her fans, friends and family, and appreciates the respect of her privacy.”
The couple, who got engaged in 2009 and married over the July 4th weekend, split because of their big age gap and because Jana didn’t like living in Johnathon’s bachelor pad, according to a source close to Jana.
This was the second marriage for Johnathon, who was previously married to Christina Applegate.
Another marriage celebrating the sanctity of heterosexuals!
For awhile now people have been saying that actresses can only be openly bisexual if they are currently dating men. I guess another tree just fell in that homophobic HW forrest...
Not yet, Amber isn't A or B list.
The couple, who got engaged in 2009 and married over the July 4th weekend, split because of their big age gap and because Jana didn’t like living in Johnathon’s bachelor pad, according to a source close to Jana.
LOL!
i have an addiction to ice cream. this is serious. i am pacing the room right now. trying not to eat it.
about 7 hours ago via web
its all i want. its all i care about in life. without it, there is no reason to go on!!!!!! i need an intervention. i need rehab.
about 7 hours ago via web
Fuck it. I'm out the door to get some ice cream.
about 7 hours ago via web
The inside of Austin's head is an arid space.
JtotheAke: I hate American teens. I'm gonna go punch them all in the genitals for voting for Douchebag Lautner over Jake Gyllenhaal.
about 4 hours ago
jaycarlile: Just left flight night at AOC as Maggie Gyllenhaal and her husband walked in. She looks great.
about 6 hours ago
Freeedilein: @CarrieH6676 how do u do it, that jake gyllenhaal always answers u ? :-O (you're soo lucky) haha ask him with the german shepherd thing :D:D
about 14 hours ago
"I ask Efron why he supposes Cruise bothered reaching out to him. "I don't know," he says. "I don't even want to know. It's just so cool that he gave a shit, the fact that he cared at all. No one else did that."
Andrew Goldman is a good writer and this is a very revealing read.
THE AGONY OF ZAC EFRON
http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/cover-stars/201009/zac-efron-actor-high-school-musical-charlie-st-cloud?currentPage=1#ixzz0w8BgVj39
Last night blogger hated all links - clickable and not clickable :)
So there is perfectly good explanation for spending time with Michelle and Matilda beside dating.
I bet you that after award season ends, she and Ryan will hook up. There is definite chemistry. If they hooked up now, it'd be Heath/Michelle during BBM promo all over again. They hooked up on set and promoted the movie as a couple. Do you think Michelle wants such a reputation? Constantly falling for her young co stars on set? Nope!
It's interesting that after spending 9 hours for the photo shoot and dinner with Ryan, we see pap pics with Matilda too after many months. Arranged? To show she's still a good mom, after she spent the whole day with sexy Ryan? Wouldn't surprise me. ;)
To show she's still a good mom, after she spent the whole day with sexy Ryan?
Huh??? Michelle spent the whole day, just like any other day, with Matilda.
To show she's still a good mom...
Bullshit, stop trashing Michelle.
5:43 AM, no she spent the day doing a photo shoot with Ryan for the W magazine, afterwards they met up again for dinner.
You were there?
No, but it's being reported all over internet, so...
Arranged? To show she's still a good mom, after she spent the whole day with sexy Ryan? Wouldn't surprise me. ;)
I really, really hope you aren't serious.
she spent the day doing a photo shoot with Ryan for the W magazine
Post from yesterday was about Michelle spending time with Ryan, not working on movie promotion.
Ryan Gosling’s weekend
There was a W Magazine photo shoot with Michelle Williams that took place in Leslieville presumably for their film Blue Valentine. Williams is shooting a movie in town so he, and they, came to her. Jesus, his hair. And in that leather jacket. And the way he’s filling out his t-shirt. Can’t wait to see these pictures.
Although Ryan and Michelle left the shoot separately, the two met up later for dinner at Swan. Much as I wish it though, there is nothing to suggest that there was anything romantic about their evening together.
Blue Valentine is screening at TIFF. Following the film’s strong reception in Cannes, they say it could mount an Oscar run, and there’s no better place to kick off a campaign than in Toronto. I’m attaching that clip again, the one I attached a couple of months ago. Be careful when you’re watching it. The Too Much Factor is, well, it’s too much. I can hardly stand it.
Ryan also spent time with his ma before catching a flight back to Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Am told he was very low key at the airport, was not bothered at the gate or on the plane – he flew executive – and photos of his arrival at LAX are attached to this post, near the end. How do I work now? How???
As if Michelle was above arranging ops. IMO, she did arrange the one and only op with the Ledger family after Gilliam's infamous VF interview. Those celebs are all the same, more or less.
^^Image obsessed that is!
Sorry 6:05 AM, all celebrities aren't the same and do not arrange paparazzi ops.
As if Michelle was above arranging ops.
Michelle doesn't need them, she doesn't sell anything.
In a new article, Zac Efron moans "best… orgasm… ever!" with his pants unzipped in a public restroom, and Tom Cruise takes him for a pleasure ride on his motorcycle. Conclusion: "Nothing about Efron merits even flipping on the gaydar."
Coming from gay-straight laddie mag Details, that gaydar quip almost reads as a punchline. Without further ado, the five gayest moments from "The Agony of Zac Efron," select bold-faced emphasis mine:
"You ride motorcycles?" [Tom] Cruise asked him. Alas, he didn't. "You wanna learn how?" Cruise invited him out to his house, taught him how a motorcycle engine works, showed him the hangar with his dozens of pristine bikes-including the Triumphs he rode in the Mission: Impossible movies. Efron was allowed to ride a pedigree-less dirt bike.
"Oh…my…God," Efron says with a gasp. "It's like the best…orgasm…ever! And I just keep coming!" Efron and I are in the Soho House bathroom after a pee, and he's lingering at the sink, letting the water pour over his diseased wrists.
Context: Efron had a raging poison oak rashwhile Details writer Andrew Goldman was following him around. (A "crust resembling swollen cornflakes" had overtaken his body.) But it's so much more fun when you don't know that, right? Like so:
Coaxing commences; negotiations occur. "Okay, I'll show you my back, but the front's pretty gross, man," he says, then lifts his shirt.
When he got up to head to the john, I noticed that his pants were fully unbuttoned and unzipped. "I'm just airing it out," he'd said. "It just itches too much."
Here in the bathroom, the topic of other bathrooms comes up, specifically the Japanese one at the famous Los Angeles sushi place Matsuhisa, which has a bidet-like contraption that will essentially shampoo your anus. "Yeah, Vanessa [Hudgens, Efron's purported girlfriend] has one of those," he says.
It doesn't even matter which gender this man prefers for sex. Once you admit to shampooing your anus in a men's magazine featuring a photograph of you in a tight tank top on its cover, you are—for all intents and purposes—gay. That's just the way it works, Zac.
Gawker / Defamer
photos of his arrival at LAX are attached to this post, near the end. How do I work now? How???
Lainey, you should try to find a boyfriend. :)
LOL Gawker comment:
The only thing missing from this story is a flying dildo.
@BettyCrocker: No, Tom Cruise is mentioned.
The only thing missing from this story is a flying dildo.
That's because I have it!
Not bad!
Mmmmph!
Let's play catch!
I know where the balls are!
Dear Ted:
Are all the male actors who beard self-centered, moneygrubbing, greedy fame whores, or are there some who beard who sincerely believe they are doing it for the "greater good"? For instance, to protect a relationship or something they stand for that would be totally eclipsed by "scandal" if they were to come out? Not that they're right, but they sincerely believe that to be true.
—Bunny
Dear Funny Bunny:
Suppose the latter can be true, but it isn't usually; greedy fame whores might be a bit harsh. Think scared actors who care more about their career than furthering the greater good. Sometimes a person wants both their career and their love life to thrive, and in order to do that, they think they have to beard. Just ask Grey Goose.
Bitch Back
Sometimes I wonder if Austin is an intentional red herring (his name and the GG name/alcohol) and Peter Sarsgaard is really GG.
WHAT???
Aunt Maggie, Pops Pete and Dada Jake!
Portia De Rossi should keep her name. Has she thought of what the new one sounds like?! Portion Degenerates.
Sounds very distinctive :)
Rock test!
Because fundamentalist Muslims do not tolerate gays (and, you know, want to kill them), Red Eye's Greg Gutfeld says he is planning to open a gay bar next to the controversial Ground Zero mosque. Gutfeld says that he wants to "break down barriers and reduce deadly homophobia" when in reality he just wants to assault the Muslims with something as abhorrent to them as the Ground Zero mosque is to right-wing conservatives.
Gutfeld's post:
So, the Muslim investors championing the construction of the new mosque near Ground Zero claim it's all about strengthening the relationship between the Muslim and non-Muslim world.
As an American, I believe they have every right to build the mosque - after all, if they buy the land and they follow the law - who can stop them?
Which is, why, in the spirit of outreach, I've decided to do the same thing.
I'm announcing tonight, that I am planning to build and open the first gay bar that caters not only to the west, but also Islamic gay men. To best express my sincere desire for dialogue, the bar will be situated next to the mosque Park51, in an available commercial space.
...
Towleroad
in reality he just wants to assault the Muslims with something as abhorrent to them as the Ground Zero mosque is to right-wing conservatives
Ground Zero mosque????????? I'm a right-wing conservative in this case. What a slap.
Rock test!
Oh look, blogger doesn't eat comments :)
Sometimes I wonder if Austin is an intentional red herring (his name and the GG name/alcohol) and Peter Sarsgaard is really GG.
Nah ... besides I think someone asked Ted if Maggie and Peter had their own BVs and he said no.
The "God hates fags" crowd from Westboro Baptist Church was scheduled to protest the Adam Lambert concert in Springfield, Missouri on Saturday night.
Fans were ready. Two hundred counter-protesters showed up. However, the Fred Phelps clan didn't, Daily Kos reports:
"Still, the openly gay singer (a frequent target of WBC ire) came out to greet his supporters and autograph their protest signs; tweeted his outrage at the 'Westboro Bastard Church of Ignorance'; and kissed a male bandmate during his show, adding: 'Suck on this, Westboro.'"
Watch video of the kiss, and of Lambert's visit to the counterprotesters...
Towleroad
Ground Zero mosque????????? I'm a right-wing conservative in this case. What a slap.
So you're aligned with Sarah Palin on this one.
I don't get the hysteria. Right wing freepers are using this to spread hate. The location is not actually at Ground Zero, but a a few blocks away.
Anyway, here's what your leader Sarah says:
"Earlier today, Mayor Bloomberg responded to my comments about the planned mosque at Ground Zero by suggesting that a decision not to allow the building of a mosque at that sacred place would somehow violate American principles of tolerance and openness.
No one is disputing that America stands for – and should stand for – religious tolerance. It is a foundation of our republic. This is not an issue of religious tolerance but of common moral sense. To build a mosque at Ground Zero is a stab in the heart of the families of the innocent victims of those horrific attacks. Just days after 9/11, the spiritual leader of the organization that wants to build the mosque, Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, suggested that blame be placed on the innocents when he stated that the “United States’ policies were an accessory to the crime that happened” and that “in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA.”
btw, I remember Maggie saying something along the same lines as Rauf...
Palin was responding to Mike Bloomberg:
On Monday, the mayor denounced Palin’s stance on the mosque during a news conference in lower Manhattan. He defended the proposed mosque.
“I think our young men and women overseas are fighting for exactly this – for the right of people to practice their religion and for government to not pick and choose which religions they support, which religions they don’t,” he said.
“Sarah Palin has a right to her opinions, but I could not disagree more. Everything the United States stands for and New York stands for is tolerance and openness, and I think it’s a great message for the world that unlike in other places where they might actually ban people from wearing a burqa or they might actually keep people from building a building, that’s not what America was founded on, nor is it what America should become.”
I'm with Mike on this one, and Fareed Zakaria. I guarantee that the liberal Gyllenhaals are, too.
Actor Maggie Gyllenhaal has waded into sensitive political waters by raising questions about the September 11 attacks and US foreign policy.
Gyllenhaal, 27, stars in The Great New Wonderful, a film which deals with the aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. She said in an interview last week that the United States "is responsible in some way" for the attacks.
A fan website devoted to Gyllenhaal was overwhelmed with criticism, forcing the site's editor to remove the ability to post messages "because it's gotten too outta hand." The local daily tabloid, Newsday, reports that a firefighter chatroom has encouraged users to voice their criticism on the actor's fan site and the newspaper has also conducted its own online poll over the remarks.
In a statement issued earlier this week, Gyllenhaal said September 11 was "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world. Because it is always useful as individuals or nations to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict.
"Not to have the courage to ask these questions of ourselves is to betray the victims of 9/11." She also expressed her grief for "everyone who suffered and everyone who died in the catastrophe."
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 April 2005
So you're aligned with Sarah Palin on this one.
I don't care who agrees or disagrees. It is a horrible idea and a slap in the face of people whose loved ones were killed.
I'm with Mike on this one, and Fareed Zakaria. I guarantee that the liberal Gyllenhaals are, too.
Mike plays dumb.
No one wants to "keep people from building a building", some people have a problem with a mosque so near to the place were people were killed in the name of religious intolerance. Big difference.
I do believe that people have the right to build it [the mosque] there, but the timing could have been better, a little more sensitive. :(
The people building the mosque and who will be attending religious services there are/were not responsible for the events of 9/11. This country was founded upon religious freedom, but I do think the timing of the opening could have been better planned, not around the time of 9/11. :(
If you think the Christian world has a problem with gay people, you should try orthodox Judaism. For centuries homosexuality has been taboo; it's not what nice Jewish boys or girls do. The biblical proscription against "men lying with men as though with a woman" (Leviticus 20:13) is considered the very bedrock of Jewish morality. For traditional Judaism marriage is the highest state of social bonding – a true union of body and soul. Despite some odd exceptions in biblical and rabbinical literature, (Jeremiah is told by God to stay single, Ben Azzai, one of the greatest of the Mishnaic teachers, remains a bachelor by choice), even celibacy was frowned upon. Part of this opposition was no doubt based on a response to the cultural environment – pagan in the biblical era, Christian in the rabbinic one. But despite major shifts in sociological contexts, the ban against homosexuality was rigidly enforced throughout the centuries. Whilst in other areas the rabbis often showed great flexibility and understanding, this particular area remained off-limits.
In recent years, however, homosexuality, among even the most Orthodox sectors of Judaism, has become a growing feature of contemporary Jewish life. In both America and Israel – the world's two largest Jewish communities – it has not been uncommon for rabbis and others to "come out", often suffering the consequences that such a confession entails. Moreover, reports of homosexual relations between rabbi-teachers and their students have been a regular feature of news items in both communities. In Israel and the US these behaviours have been the subject of a number of feature and documentary films.
Still, it was something of a surprise when, on 22 July, a large group of Orthodox Israeli and American rabbis, teachers, psychologists and community leaders published a "statement of principles on the place of Jews with a homosexual orientation in our community". The statement, which has some 170 signatories, many of them prominent in their respective communities, took some six months to prepare, undergoing countless revisions. The fact that so many rabbis eventually agreed to issue a joint statement is something a miracle in and of itself. There are no popes in the Modern Orthodox world. Rabbis are respected for their individual learning and their ability to solve current problems in the light of the tradition. For so many authorities to agree to such a radical shift in attitude reflects the seriousness of the issue.
The statement declares:
"All human beings are created in the image of God and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect … Embarrassing, harassing or demeaning someone with a homosexual orientation or same-sex attraction is a violation of Torah prohibitions that embody the deepest values of Judaism."
...
Queerty
Fascinating. Judaism is a beautiful religion. :)
SALON: Tom Hardy: A bi-curious star is born
(This article gets some facts wrong. He has a son, not a daughter.)
... But for a dude to be even suspected of taking a walk on the wild side has traditionally been a potential career-killer. What are blind items for, if not to chronicle the alleged homosexual dalliances of our heartthrobs? For prominent men to admit having had -- and thoroughly enjoyed -- gay experiences is something we've rarely seen since the height of glam rock. Yet Hardy – who played a gay mobster in "RocknRolla" – is discovering that frankness hasn't damned him to an immediate punt from the hot-young-thing list. In fact, his star has risen exponentially since a revealing 2008 interview in the gay magazine Attitude was picked up late last month in the UK Daily Mail. The appreciative delight with which the revelation has been met may perhaps best be summed up by the online commenter who cheered, in classic British fashion, "Phwoooooaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr."
Was his admission a calculated PR strategy from an up-and-coming actor talking to the gay press, a way of staving off tawdry rumors before they wound up on the cover of The Star? Was it a hasty remark from a less-than-media-savvy performer who hadn't yet caught his big break? Does it matter? Because despite making it clear he's "done experimenting," and that "the gay sex bit does nothing for me," Hardy's admission that "There's plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life" was a winning change from typical Hollywood hyper masculine, let's-throw-a-homo-joke-in-every-ten-minutes celebrity culture. Entertainment Weekly has dubbed him "the LeBron James of sexualilty – everybody wants him" and yes indeedy they do.
Awwww, he's wonderful. Tom is taking the world by storm I think, since Inception. :)
This article gets some facts wrong.
This is wrong too: "For prominent men to admit having had -- and thoroughly enjoyed -- gay experiences", he said just the opposite.
It's implied he enjoyed it in the past - experimenting implies repeating. ;)
Comment to the Salon article:
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:31 AM ET
This is old news to anyone who ever read Freud
or even is vaguely familiar with his work or the work of his associates. What's next for the eternal ingenues at Salon: announcing that the earth is round?
—austinboy
[is austinboy saying that Hardy's revelations about same-sex dabbling are old news, or that it's old news there's a shift in our attitudes about male sexuality?]
To me, it says that same sex experimenting is more common than anyone thinks.
Interesting article. Makes you wonder what the reaction would be if Hardy didn't try to make it clear that his dabbling days are over.
Freud believed that all humans were bisexual, by which he primarily meant that everyone incorporates aspects of both sexes.
It's implied he enjoyed it in the past - experimenting implies repeating. ;)
It isn't because Hardy was explicit. Tom said that he was a boy (very young), that he did not enjoy gay sex, did not go all the way and will never have gay sex again.
I don't think the Mosque downtown is a slap to 9/11 victims. To me caving to the bigots means the terrorists win.
And I don't know why people assume none of the victims were Muslims? My memory is that the victims were of every race, religion, nationality and age imaginable, and that some of the victims were Muslims.
The people behind the mosque are very active in interfaith organizations and are hardly radicals by any stretch of the imagination.
Finally, the mosque is being built several blocks away on private land. It is not being built on the public land that the WTC was on. It's in a stretch of blocks made up of tacky fast food restaurants and electronic stores. If anything it will be an improvement on what is there now.
My memory is that the victims were of every race, religion, nationality and age imaginable, and that some of the victims were Muslims.
I think this is very true.
My memory is that the victims were of every race, religion, nationality and age imaginable, and that some of the victims were Muslims.
Who were the terrorists?
I don't think the Mosque downtown is a slap to 9/11 victims.
Their families disagree with you.
Victims' kins protest mosque plan at 9/11 site
The terrorists were extremeists; not representitive of Muslims in general. That said, the timing is a little questionable - around that time should be a day of solemnity all around.
This is wrong too: "For prominent men to admit having had -- and thoroughly enjoyed -- gay experiences", he said just the opposite.
You're right. Funny how the story is evolving. Those admissions of Tom's were sourced from a two-year-old Attitude interview about Hardy's role in RocknRolla. The magazine asked him specifically if he'd had gay flings and he answered, Yes he did. He then said, "I've played with everything and everyone. But I'm not into men sexually. I love the form and the physicality but the gay sex bit does nothing for me."
Too bad, but nothing's set in stone. ;)
Who were the terrorists?
The terrorists were Muslims.
Too bad, but nothing's set in stone.
Give me just 15 minutes with Tom!
Jake, here's what you'd get.
Party Hardy
some people have a problem with a mosque so near to the place were people were killed in the name of religious intolerance
How ironic, then, that some Americans now want to ban the mosque because of their own religious intolerance.
Who were the terrorists?
The terrorists were Muslims.
They were extremist Muslims. Not all Muslims are evil.
How ironic, then, that some Americans now want to ban the mosque because of their own religious intolerance.
Exactly. It's a vicious cycle that has to end.
How ironic, then, that some Americans now want to ban the mosque because of their own religious intolerance.
It is NOT about religious intolerance and it is NOT about banning the mosque.
Do you give a damn about people who were victims and their families? Their feelings mean nothing to you? Their feelings aren't important enough to look for a compromise solution?
So how long is enough time? It's been 9 years.
I feel as bad as anyone about what happened to the people in WTC. My girlfriend's grandmother lived a few blocks away and had to be evacuated out of the area, and she was in the WTC when the first on the WTC happened in the 90s. I used to do business with some of the companies hardest hit by 9/11, and I've often wondered how many people I may have met at parties, etc., were victims. How many of the people who may have served me a drink at the restaurant at the top were victims? This was something I felt very personally, even if thank God nobody I really knew was a victim.
But for better or worse, I don't have a "victim" mentality when it comes to these things. I don't think it is healthy to expect the world to stop because of a disaster like this.
Over the years I've personally known many people who are Muslims. To discriminate against them because what extremists do is wrong.
I could just as easily rail against everyone who is a Christian because of all the things so-called Christians have done against gays and lesbians in the name of religion. But I don't, because I recognize that as in every group, there are good people and there are bad people.
That should be first attack on the WTC, the one in which a truck with bombs was parked in the garage.
And before anyone says you can't compare homophobes to terrorists, lots of gay men and women have been viciously attacked and murdered by homophobes, and some of these people justify what they do by saying things like God hates fags.
But for better or worse, I don't have a "victim" mentality when it comes to these things.
Tell that to people who lost their parents, children, brothers, sisters, husbands and wives.
I could just as easily rail against everyone who is a Christian because of all the things so-called Christians have done against gays and lesbians in the name of religion.
There is a difference. Christians don't kill in the name of God anymore. Muslims still do. And not just gays.
There is a difference. Christians don't kill in the name of God anymore. Muslims still do. And not just gays.
I guess you haven't heard about the proposed "kill the gays" legislation in Uganda, and the role that Christian evangelists had in convincing the Christians that it was okay to think about such a law because homosexuality is an evil thing, but something that can be cured if only the gay or lesbian would see the error of their ways.
By the way, not only does that bill call for the death penalty for homosexuals, it makes it crime for your friends, family, etc. to not report you if they know you are engaging in homosexual activity.
It is NOT about religious intolerance and it is NOT about banning the mosque.
What's it about then? Don't give me that "common decency" dodge.
And please note that not all the victim's families are opposed to the mosque.
I knew 2 people who were killed in the attack. One was the husband of a colleague. She is not opposed to the mosque. She refuses to meet hate with hate.
Uganda is an exception to the rule.
What's it about then? Don't give me that "common decency" dodge.
Read posts. You probably think that victims should have no rights.
OT - Newt Gingrich's disgraceful BS exposed by his ex-wife.
"He could have been president," she explained. "But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don't like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new . . . you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way."
Marianne Gingrich suggested that her ex-husband "believes that what he says in public and how he lives don't have to be connected" and added, "If you believe that, then yeah, you can run for president. ... He always told me that he's always going to pull the rabbit out of the hat."
Gingrich's second wife zeroed-in on what she suggested might be her ex-husband's achilles' heel: "He was impressed easily by position, status, money," she says.
link
Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican
Christians don't kill in the name of God anymore.
Michigan Christian Militia Group Hutaree indicted in a plot to kill police officers
This group is not representative of Christians, just as the 9-11 terrorists are not representative of Muslims.
Uganda is an exception to the rule.
And terrorists are the except to the rule when it comes to Muslims living in this country.
Also, I forgot to say in my previous post that the Christian evangelists who were active in Uganda, and whose "studies" the politicians there were relying on were Americans. Some of them had ties to a quasi-religious group called "The Family", whose members include quite a few right wing members of the US Congress. Some of them distanced themselves from what was going on in Uganda, but some of them refused to do so.
Read posts. You probably think that victims should have no rights.
It's about victim's rights to collectively punish an entire religious group because of the actions of some extremists?
Because banning the mosque does amount to collective punishment.
Didn't Tim McVeigh have ties to Christian militia groups, and think he was doing God's work when be bombed the government building in Oklahoma?
This group is not representative of Christians, just as the 9-11 terrorists are not representative of Muslims.
You are missing the point, we are talking about Muslim COUNTRIES and their LAWS, not terrorists.
LGBT topics and Islam
^^Extremist.
I don't get your point 1:58.
Christians don't kill in the name of God anymore.
Maybe not officially, but many US Christians see the war in Iraq/Afghanistan as backed by God. Before his handlers shushed him, George W Bush called the war on terrorism a crusade.
A lot of evangelicals went over to Iraq after enough bad guys had been killed off to try and convert the rest.
It's about victim's rights to collectively punish an entire religious group because of the actions of some extremists?
PUNISH???
2,976 dead and 6,000+ injured, but that was long time ago, why would anyone want to piss off Muslims and look for another location for the mosque? Right?
I don't get your point 1:58.
My point: it is not true that only terrorists are bad guys, a lot of Muslim countries have LAWS against gays and women's rights.
Justice is more than law.
So, are we going to start discriminating against people from all those bad countries? Only the straight Muslim men from those countries? Should we not allow the ones who have more moderate views to enter this country, and build mosques?
Sorry, my comment at 1:59 was in response to the Timothy McVeigh comment at 1:52. :)
2,976 dead and 6,000+ injured, but that was long time ago, why would anyone want to piss off Muslims and look for another location for the mosque?
This isn't about how many were killed, it's about freedom and the right of Americans to build a place of worship on land they own. But since you cite numbers, informed estimates place Iraqi civilian casualties at over 100,000. Many innocent people on the Muslim side have paid for the actions of the 911 extremists.
a lot of Muslim countries have LAWS against gays and women's rights.
Very true. Also, Saudi Arabian law, for example, does not recognize religious freedom and the public practice of non-Muslim religions is prohibited.
Thank god America is not like that.
I mean, thank God. :)
Heath Ledger - Rare Casting Footage from THIHAY
bb heath
So, are we going to start discriminating against people from all those bad countries?
What is discriminating about compromising, finding another location and acknowledging other people and their emotional needs? Do tell.
^^guh, he was exquisite.
Wow, JGL does resemble a young Heath very much. *swoon*
This isn't about how many were killed, it's about freedom and the right of Americans to build a place of worship on land they own.
NO ONE said nor implied that owners have no right to build on their land. NO ONE.
NO ONE said nor implied that Muslims have no right to build a place of worship. NO ONE. Is this clear enough?
Victims didn't choose Ground Zero location and can't be blamed for Ground Zero being a graveyard too. With a bit of good will another Mosque location could have been found and justice better served.
Wow, JGL does resemble a young Heath very much.
I don't see it, not when he talks or moves.
I see it around the eyes, very much.
GOP-linked Punk Rock Ministry Says Executing Gays is Moral
Heath Ledger - Rare Casting Footage from THIHAY
Thanks for posting! There must be so much more footage like this out there, we can only hope that we'll get to see it one day.
Heath Ledger - Rare Casting Footage from THIHAY
He was hot. Not wonder Jakey had a lil man crush. :D
Lil?
Heath/JGL
^^Yes. :)
eternaldawn: Lulz, Jake Gyllenhaal at La Mill.
about 4 hours ago
Lil?
There is nothing lil about Jake! :)
Lil?
A friend who saw this pic said that Jake gives him the "you were really good to me last night" look. ;)
Gay male friend?
Gay male friend?
Straight male actually. Although afterwards he said that he was just kidding. IDK if he really was just kidding though.
Tell him this is a serious matter :)
Tell him this is a serious matter :)
Yeah, for us. ;)
Hutton Gibson -- a 91-year-old former "Jeopardy" grand champion -- went on the Political Cesspool Radio Program to discuss the issues involving the Catholic Church.
During the interview, Hutton is asked if he believes the Catholic Church has been "politicized" to the point where they can't address controversial issues such as homosexuality.
Hutton responds, "It's not willing to do so because half of the people there in the Vatican are queer." When asked if he thinks Benedict is a homosexual, Hutton replies, "I certainly do ... why else would he put up with this" ... adding, "He's a slippery character."
TMZ - Mel Gibson's Dad -- The Pope is a 'Homosexual'
Yeah, for us. ;)
He doesn't need to know that, too much details will just confuse him, lol.
I personally think we'll never know for sure what kind of relationship they (J & H) had. Only Jake knows and he'll probably never tell, if there's something to tell.
Oh, there is a lot to tell, that much is certain.
C'mon Atticus. Learn to talk and write a tell-all.
I'm hungry!
No food until you write chapter one of Life with Daddy.
rosebeforehoez: Jake Gyllenhaal was in line behind me at erewhon buying a shit load of sardines.
5 minutes ago
Sardines?! Fuck I hope this doesn't mean we're getting a cat.
Well Jake either wants sardines for sun protection, to keep his aorta healthy, calm and lift his mood or for prostate protection. I can't imagine anyone eating them for the taste!
I can't imagine anyone eating them for the taste!
Love Sardine Pâté!
*gives his dinner bowl a side eye then inhales it*
Heath Ledger - Rare Casting Footage from THIHAY
Aw, Heath. Beautiful, beautiful man. Thanks for the link :)
BridgettTerran: took Navilie to the beach for her first visit, she loved it she tried to crawl into the Ocean,then ran into Maggie Gyllenhaal,such a sweetie
28 minutes ago
Navilie
LOL is Naville an adult person, baby or dog?!
A Lol for the Inception movie fans here.
galpalmal253: RT @StevePoolKOMO: Pic from wrap party for the film Grassroots. I'm with Joel Moore from Avatar & Stephen Gyllenhaal the director http://twitpic.com/2djuum
about 4 hours ago
IvySkittlez: First day in LA and I've already seen Maggie gyllenhaal and Matthew Perry...epic win!
about 8 hours ago
A Lol for the Inception movie fans here.
Did anyone admit he/she doesn't understand Inception? :)
"The notion of a "gay gene" disturbs me in two unhappily familiar ways. First, it reinforces the common and simplistic notion that people belong to one of two "teams." Such thinking denies the experience of people like me and Jane and millions of others like us; it would be merely annoying if it weren't for the hurt it can cause. Bi teenagers feel pressure to choose sides, bi adults hear from gays that they're in denial, and much dialogue about sexuality is unnecessarily polarized. It's politically very convenient for gay activists, Christian fundamentalists and social conservatives to put everything in "us versus them" terms, but sexuality is much more fluid than that. Second, it is just one more tiresome example of genetic absolutism—not that scientists subscribe to this, but everyone else seems to. To deny that environment, upbringing, friendship or chance have any significant role in shaping an individual's development is simply pernicious."
— "Dick," an actual bisexual adult male, hates it when you eliminate the middle center of a Venn Diagram [via; photo of The Real World's Mike Manning via]
Queerty
IHJ gallery
October 3, 2004 - Jake Listening To His iPod While Out In SoHo
^^^^
Big ring! :)
It's politically very convenient for gay activists, Christian fundamentalists and social conservatives to put everything in "us versus them" terms, but sexuality is much more fluid than that.
Nah, sexuality is fluid for a small minority. Bisexuals are complaining too much.
ineption
Completely inept at understanding the film, Inception.
example: You don't understand Christopher Nolan's latest masterpiece? Talk about ineption.
I'm trisexual. I try to hump everyone. Actually it doesn't even have to be alive... chairs, footstools, table legs, pillows, stepladders, air... it's all good.
P.S. Daddy's bed pillows are the best to hump.
Just for Atticus - LMAO!
:)
P.S. Daddy's bed pillows are the best to hump.
Fuck!
Just for Atticus - LMAO!
Funny, I get that "Do I know you" look all the time. Huh.
What's that awful smell on my client's pillows?
Damn, I forgot to save that hot rentboy twitter account!
In the mid-'80s, a new breed of action movies provided escapism on an unparalleled level, offering a world where heavily-armed good always conquered evil — generally in the form of Communists, rogue cyborgs, domestic terrorists, criminal masterminds, or diabolical ninja warriors. And, as is often the case, this hypermasculinity covered a layer of repressed homoeroticism. So, in honor of Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, a film that features almost all of the iconic '80s/early '90s action heroes, we present a retrospective of the most homoerotic action-movie moments — where sweat-kissed muscle-men fight to the death, where intense stare-downs are thick with stifled sexual tension, and where a gun is almost always more than just a gun.
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10) Showdown In Little Tokyo (1991)
With the '80s gone and just a little over a year and a half left in Bush Sr.'s presidency, closeted homoeroticism in action movies was falling by the wayside. It was the '90s now — what was the point of hiding it? This short scene from Showdown In Little Tokyo pretty much sums it all up. Dolph Lundgren walks around in his underwear, sticking any weapon he can find in the band of his skivvies. And then Brandon Lee just says it: "Kenner, just in case we get killed, I wanted to tell you, you have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man." A nonchalant thank you, a quick closeup of Lundgren's chest and crotch, some fighting, and the Reagan years are pretty much over
10 Great Moments in Action Movie Homoeroticism
audrey_ma: I recommend watching Love and Other Drugs out November 2010! :) Just saw the screening today! Loved the movie.
3 hours ago
Anyone has any idea why we haven't seen one promo pic or trailer for LAOD yet?
Damn, I forgot to save that hot rentboy twitter account!
*cough*
rentboy twitter
Someone is lazy!
Not Rentboy, LAOD marketing is lazy!
Anyone has any idea why we haven't seen one promo pic or trailer for LAOD yet?
It's a boner of a movie? They can't get it up on a screen? They're waiting for the film to get soft?
Thanks 7:18 AM! Oh my, his tweets are so NSFW :)
I work HARD for my money!
You're welcome. It's annoying tho, cos if you read back a week or two he got a promotion at work so he's cutting down on his rentboy business and just keeping a few regulars. Damn. I mean I'm happy for him lol but I want to hear more adventures!
I just hope Jake and Anne get some decent reviews for the flick.
The flick or did you write fUck?!
he's cutting down on his rentboy business and just keeping a few regulars
*sigh*
The flick or did you write fUck?!
I meant flick, but we can't exclude yet that it's maybe a giant fuck.
It's a boner of a movie? They can't get it up on a screen? They're waiting for the film to get soft?
Soft? Never!
IMO a movie like LOAD is better to come up suddenly rather than months and months of promotion. I think people might buzz about it more..especially if there's a "leak" (PR I'm talking to you) that it's so racy that waiting for the ratings board to decide R or NC-17 caused the promo/trailer delay.
Suck a fuck!
"Oh my, his tweets are so NSFW"
And lol to think they'll be archived in the Library of Congress.
7:35 AM - nothing and no one suggests that LAOD could be considered NC-17.
Of course not 7:39 #2. But if there's a little bit of publicity that it barely squeaked by an NC-17 rating people will run to see it in droves.
:)
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