Monthly Archives: February 2009

2009 Oscar Winners – Sean Penn And Dustin Lance Black Win For Milk

Sean Penn scored an upset tonight taking Best Actor for Milk. He also probably exploded a few million wingnut craniums with his acceptance speech. HEH. The highlight for me, however, was screenwriter Dustin Lance Black’s eloquent message to the gay youth of America. Best Original ScreenplayDustin Lance Black – Milk!!!!!Best ActressKate Winslet – The ReaderBest ActorSean Penn – Milk!!!!! Best …

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Arkansas: A Symbolic Move For Atheism

Although the Supreme Court ruled it as unconstitutional in 1961, several states’ constitutions still contain (now unenforceable) laws that ban atheists from holding public office. A proposed voter referendum may repeal that archaic law in Arkansas. Amendment 19 of the Arkansas Constitution says “No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments …

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Oscar Odds On Obama Mentions

British online gaming sites are giving odds on how many Oscar winners will mention Barack Obama during their acceptance speech. The odds-on favorite is that no one will. The most interesting of the specials is perhaps the amount of winners that will mention President Barrack Obama in their acceptance speeches. The favourite is no one which is 7/4 with Paddy …

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Italian Pop Star Hijacks Song Festival With Song In Support Of “Ex-Gay” Movement

As gay activists protested outside, wingnut Italian pop star Povia used the nationally televised Sanremo Song Festival to perform his song about an “ex-gay” who finds the love of a woman. Christianist outfit LifeSiteNews exults: “Luca was Gay” recounts the liberation of a psychologically injured man from the homosexual lifestyle. “Luca”, who is believed to be based on the Italian …

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#1 This Week In 1966

This week in 1966, Frank Sinatra’s daughter Nancy scored her only solo #1 hit when These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ spent one week at the top of Billboard’s pop chart. Songwriter Lee Hazelwood told Sinatra to sing the song as if she were a 16 year-old giving the kiss-off to a 40 year-old man. The song’s memorable bass line …

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Tonight: Blowoff Brooklyn

Blowoff’s bears bounce back to Brooklyn tonight at the Southpaw @ 125 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Directions here. Doors open 10PM. $15, advance tickets here.

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Broadway Friday

– You’ve still got a few days to get tickets to Monday’s gigantic marriage equality fundraiser, Defying Inequality. Appearing: Jane Fonda, Keith Olbermann, Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein, Nathan Lane, the casts of many hit Broadways shows, and many more. – Will Ferrell’s smash one-man show about Dubya, You’re Welcome America, has recouped its investment in just a couple of weeks. …

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Sir Ivan – For What It’s Worth

Hey, look – it’s a non-hippie protest song. Sir Ivan is actually zillionaire Long Island banker-cum-philanthropist Ivan Wilzig, who is well-known around these parts for his 12,000 square foot medieval castle in Water Mill. Wilzig has ditched Wall Street for a music career to promote his Peaceman anti-war charity. Some of you might remember him as a contestant on Sci-Fi …

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Minnesota’s Gay Senator Flips Us The Bird

Openly gay Minnesota Republican state Sen. Paul Koering is under fire for refusing to support same-sex marriage because the state has “more important” items on the agenda. Koering is getting a lot of understandable flack from his fellow gays and this, in part, is how his assistant is responding to complaining emails: I can testify all day long about how …

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The Sanctity Of Marriage, Part 98

You can’t get married once, but any old hetero loon can get married 23 times. Throughout her life, she has been Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Street and Mrs. Smith. She was also Mrs. Moyer, Mrs. Massie and Mrs. McMillan. But the former Mrs. Berisford, Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Essex was born Linda Lou Taylor. She grew up in Alexandria, Ind., a …

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NYU Protests Get Ugly

Things got out of control last night at the continuing tuition protest at NYU. Riot police used pepper spray and at least one student was beaten with a baton. Students are demanding that the school reveal its operating budget and endowments and that some scholarships be granted to students from the Gaza Strip. The school’s cafeteria has been “occupied” for …

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Obama Reverses U.S. Position On LGBT Issues At The United Nations

Remember last year when Dubya refused to allow the U.S. to consign a UN resolution calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide, putting us in league with the Organization of the Islamic Conference? Check this out. At the so-called “Durban Review Conference” on racism and xenophopia underway in Geneva, Europe again put forward language condemning “all forms of discrimination and …

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IMPrezUB2

Princess Sparkle Pony points out the amusing name of this show at DC’s Newseum. Head over to Sparkle Pony’s site for an amusing reworking of the billboard.

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Santorum Flashback

I was starting to do a post about some bullshit Rick Santorum is up to, but I got such a case of the giggles from this old 2006 photo of his kids that I had to run it again. Anyway the story is here, but the Santorum-encrusted pull quote is something about why we’ll never see democracy in an Islamic …

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North Dakota Senate Approves Adding Gays To Existing Protected Classes

Yesterday the North Dakota senate voted to add sexual orientation to its list of groups protected from discrimination. “If someone is not doing their job, or habitually tardy, or doesn’t get along with people, they can still be fired, whether gay, lesbian or straight,” said Sen. Tom Fiebiger, D-Fargo. “What employers can’t do under this law is fire someone because …

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Lawrence King’s Family Sues Everybody For Not Destroying His Gayness

The family of murdered gay teen Lawrence King has filed suit against just about everybody that ever knew him for not insisting that he “tone down” his feminine ways. Because that’s why he was murdered. Not because Brandon McInerney was a Nazi-obsessed skinhead wannabe who hated gays. The family of a gay teenager who was shot to death in class …

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It’s Only Rape If She’s A Real Woman

In what is somehow being hailed as a landmark case, a South Korean court has convicted a man for raping a transsexual woman, but apparently only because it was proven that the woman had been having regular vaginal sex with her longtime partner, therefore making her a “real” woman capable of being raped. The Busan District Court yesterday convicted a …

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Multivitamins Do Nothing

According to the largest study ever done on multivitamin users, there is no apparent health benefit to those horse pills. The largest study ever conducted in post-menopausal women has found “convincing evidence” that multivitamin use has “little or no influence” on the risk of common cancers, cardiovascular disease or dying from any cause in post-menopausal women. The research involved 161,808 …

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Tyra’s “I Hate Being Gay” Show

Yesterday Tyra Banks hosted a handful of homo sad sacks on her show where the subjects derided their fellow gays for being effeminate, disgusting, weak, terrifying, shameful, preying pedophiles. The first dumbo plans to be straight by the time he’s 30. So he says in his upspeaking valley girl voice. He’s also grossed out by dicks that don’t look exactly …

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Buttars To Lose Senate Judiciary Committee Post Over Anti-Gay Rant

Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars will be stripped of his key Senate Judiciary Committee post because of his hateful anti-gay rant in the documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition. An anti-gay diatribe by Sen. Chris Buttars will cost him his spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee, The Tribune has learned. Senate Republicans, prompted by complaints from minority Democrats, held a frank …

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