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Important Casting Announcement
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EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. February, get here nowwwww.
11/20/2009
11/18/2009
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We’re curious whether you know that we made cover offers for you before American Idol was even halfway through its run. Apparently, Out was too gay, even for you. There was the issue of what it would do to your record sales, we were told. Imagine! A gay musician on the cover of a gay magazine. What might the parents think! It’s only because this cover is a group shot that includes a straight woman that your team would allow you to be photographed at all — albeit with the caveat that we must avoid making you look “too gay.” (Is that a medical term? Just curious). Luckily, you seemed unaware that a similar caution was issued to our interviewer.
Perhaps we should have had you and Cyndi [Lauper] in a tongue lock. That would be radical. It’s odd, because this magazine has done covers with Pete Wentz and Lady Gaga — getting straight men and women to do Out is easy these days. It gives them cred. Getting gay stars like yourself is another matter. Much easier to stick you in Details, where your homosexuality can be neutralized by having you awkwardly grabbing a woman’s breast and saying, “Women are pretty.” So are kittens, Adam, but it doesn’t mean you have to make out with them.
„The editor-in-chief of Out magazine puts Adam Lambert on blast for the strictures his “people” set on his appearance on the latest cover.
11/10/2009
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In many ways, Mr. Díaz seems conflicted. He relishes the role of the lonely dissident, sometimes practically taunting Democratic leaders to throw him out of the party. Still, the senator resents those who brand him a bigot for his views, and seems to plead for understanding.
“My religion doesn’t allow me to dance,” he said. “But that does not mean I don’t go to the party. My religion doesn’t allow me to drink. But that doesn’t mean I can’t hang around with my friends. My religion is against gay marriage. It means, I don’t agree with what you do. But let’s go out. Let’s go to the movies. Let’s be friends.”
„Rubén Díaz Sr. Is Familiar Voice Against Gay Marriage - NYTimes.com
It seems utterly perfunctory to even bother with this, but: UMMM NO. This is a false equivalence. If your religion doesn’t allow you to dance, but you’re happy to let other people dance, that’s cool. If your religion doesn’t allow you to drink, but you’re happy to allow other people to drink, that’s cool. If your religion doesn’t permit homosexuality, but you stand in the way of allowing others to live their lives at every turn, THEN YOU ARE A BIGOT. Are you sponsoring a new Prohibition amendment? Are you sponsoring the fucking Footloose amendment? No? Then sorry, this doesn’t work.
11/06/2009
» Marriage Equality New York
Start calling, writing, or e-mailing your representatives now: the State Senate goes into special session next Tuesday, and marriage equality is one of the possible issues at stake. All the info you need is at that link.
The text of the e-mail I just sent to Majority Leader Sampson, and Senator Onorato, follows.
Honorable Senators —
As a young gay man and a proud citizen of Astoria, Queens, I urge you to please do the right thing and schedule a vote on marriage equality for gay & lesbian men & women during the upcoming special session.
Senator Onorato, I know your position on the issue, but on behalf of your thousands of gay & lesbian constituents, their families, and the children growing up in your district who will one day be your constituents, I strongly encourage you to reconsider your stance. I hope to someday raise a family in this beautiful district, but I cannot do so in good conscience if my children will grow up in a place where their family’s right to exist on equal terms is publicly denigrated by our own representative. I honestly beg you: when this issue comes up for a vote, please do not stand in the way of my chance to be treated as an equal citizen in the eyes of the law.
Across the country, with every hateful, discriminatory ballot measure that strips away the rights that the Constitution should assure, millions of young gay men and women — myself included — are giving up hope that America will ever respect them as human beings, and are becoming sadly accustomed to a life of grinding bigotry. Please, do not let a chance go by to give us a fresh shot of hope.
Thank you for your time, and have a wonderful weekend!
-Chris Conroy
Astoria, Queens
11/04/2009
On "Homophobia"
A Facebook friend made a good point: “homophobia” does not mean what it says. On the one hand, it’s a nicer way to say someone is a bigot, because somehow that would be offensive? But at the same time, the idea that it describes someone as having a FEAR OF GAY PEOPLE is linguistically inaccurate.
The word originates from the Greek words homós (meaning “one and the same”) and phóbos (meaning “fear”). So really, “homophobia” means that you’re afraid of what you are - a fear of the same.
There’s some irony there, but I’m too annoyed to deal with it right now.
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For what it’s worth, I stopped using “homophobia” a long time ago. I just use “bigot.” I’m through using nice words.
10/20/2009
queer-as-ty / (via propertyofguy)
God grant me the serenity
to see the things I cannot touch;
courage to touch the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.Ha! Well put.
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I really need to go back to the gym.
10/11/2009
10/11/2009
“ Obama’s major achievement - the one thing he has actually done - is invite gay families to the Easter egg-roll. „
Live-Blogging The HRC Dinner (via homosuperior)
Sullivan’s got a pretty biting, but very well supported, analysis of the President’s HRC Speech tonight.
If I may:
“He says he wants to end discrimination in employment even as he is firing more gay people solely for being gay than any other employer in the country - as commander-in-chief. And if an employer is firing gay people all the time, is it tolerable to accept as a response that he will stop doing it one day - but gives no time-line at all to hold him to?
Look: I didn’t expect these issues to be front and center given his appalling inheritance; I know he has many other things on his plate; I didn’t expect the moon; I didn’t believe he would do any of this immediately; I understand that the real job is for us to do, not him, and that most of the action is in the states. And I remain a strong supporter of him in foreign policy and in the way he is clearly trying to move this country past the ideological divides of the recent past.
But the sad truth is: he is refusing to take any responsibility for his clear refusal to fulfill clear campaign pledges on the core matter of civil rights and has given no substantive, verifiable pledges or deadlines by which he can be held accountable. What that means, I’m afraid, is that this speech was highfalutin bullshit. There were no meaningful commitments within a time certain, not even a commitment to fulfilling them in his first term; just meaningless, feel-good commitments that we have no way of holding him to. Once the dust settles, ask yourself. What did he promise to achieve in the next year? Or two years? Or four years? The answer is: nothing.
HRC, of course, is putting no pressure on him; Joe Solmonese’s disgraceful email actually took all pressure off him by saying he’d be happy to wait till 2017 for HRC to hold Obama accountable. HRC are putting pressure, as they always have, on gay people to go to the back of the line and be grateful a president attends their fundraising event. The only word for this is a racket. And if gay people do not rise up and demand change from this organization and stop funding a group whose goal has always been to sell the Democrats to gay people rather than secure civil rights, then they will continue to suffer the discrimination they live under day after day.”
(via adeandabet)
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Co-signed. I mean let’s be honest, here: is there a single constituency in this country that is violently opposed to repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell at this point? Is anybody really going to fight on this? Repealing DOMA, that’s a big one, I don’t expect that to happen without a lot of burnt political capital and some serious demagoguery. But Don’t Ask Don’t Tell seems like it is frankly a gimme. Perhaps I misread the situation.
09/22/2009
09/03/2009
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Pet Shop Boys - “The Way It Used To Be” - Yes
If you follow my Twitter page, then you know I went to the Pet Shop Boys concert last night, alone, and that being alone in a crowd of affluent, coupled gay men was pretty depressing for me (I’d just had to flog my second ticket to the show for $50 on Craigslist; it was bought back in those heady days when I had a boyfriend). But then the show started, and it was totally worth all the pre-show grief. I don’t have the brainpower for a full-on writeup, but I would refer you to this Brooklyn Vegan post for the setlist and some excellent photographs, and to YouTube for video of my favorite performance of the night, “Two Divided By Zero” (unfortunately this high-quality video was recorded at a festival performance, so the full stage set isn’t in evidence; refer to the photo post for that). The PSB always have amazing and ingenious stage shows (can’t wait for the inevitable DVD), and I got to hear two of my absolute all-time favorite deep cuts, “Two Divided By Zero” and “King’s Cross,” so I’m a happy camper.
The above MP3 is my favorite song from the current PSB album; it absolutely nails that uniquely gay melancholy that I come to the Pet Shop Boys for, and as a bonus, it’s a very New York-specific kind of song. Plus, it’s just full of awesome hooks. It kills me when Tennant quasi-raps, it really does.
(Plays: 24)
08/27/2009
» Madonna singles discography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yes I’m being nerdy about the CELEBRATION tracklist shut up.
08/11/2009
I Wanna
me: MATTHEW
In reviewing your liked posts
Matthew: yes
me: I discovered the photo of Trent Reznor on THE PRICE IS RIGHT
Matthew: yes
me: LITERALLY AMAZING
Matthew: yes.
me: I seriously want to marry that guy
I’m, like, 80% sure I could put up with his shit
Matthew: could you put up with heterosexuality
me: Well, no, probably not
I mean, he can fuck chicks on the side, i don’t care
As long as he’s still into it with me
08/10/2009
According to IMDB, if you like Dawson’s Creek, you will enjoy other REALLY, REALLY GAY SHIT.
07/22/2009
Ciara (w/ Missy Elliott) - “Work”
This is the most hardcore lesbian pornography I’ve ever seen.
07/12/2009
Qualities I hope my next boyfriend will have:
1. Cable.
2. Air-conditioning.
3. A boat.
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I can generally settle for two out of three, as long as one of them is air conditioning.
