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Madonna Responds To Dolce & Gabbana

(Tipped by JMG reader Eric)

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Tony Perkins Praises Dolce & Gabbana

“The minds behind the world-famous D&G brand have been creating more controversy than clothing lately, as the duo comes clean about their surprisingly conservative views. As expected, celebrities have turned on the pair with a ferocity that took the Italians by surprise. Singer Elton John has been the most vocal, calling Dolce and Gabbana’s thinking ‘archaic’ and demanding a Tinsel …

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Glenn Beck Defends Dolce & Gabbana

Right Wing Watch has the transcript: “Is this the kind of freedom that we’re at? Anyone who feels the same as Dolce and Gabbana, let me ask you, are they empowered to express their view or are they now afraid that Hollywood and progressives will come after them? The party of progress is making progress indeed, back to the Dark …

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Dolce & Gabbana Talk To CNN

Embattled billionaire designers Dolce and Gabbana took to CNN this morning for some damage control. In an exclusive interview on Wednesday, Dolce said his views on IVF were private, personal beliefs based on his sense of a traditional Sicilian family. “I believe in the traditional family,” he said. “It is impossible to change my culture for something different. It’s me… …

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Andy Cohen Auctions His D&G Suit

From the eBay listing: “Direct from my personal closet, I am auctioning off a 2014, black, wool Dolce & Gabbana suit. It’s got 2 buttons and a few strands of genuine Wacha hair on it. The size is 40 Regular. The suit can be yours and all the money will go to the Family Equality Council, an organization committed to …

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Gabbana Thanks Robert Oscar Lopez

Stefano Gabbana today thanked Robert Oscar Lopez and other crackpot alleged children of gay parents after they posted a public letter praising his vile stance against LGBT families. From the letter: Nobody receives more vicious attacks from the lobby than those who come from the gay community and question its policies: children of gay couples just as much as the …

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Gabbana: We’re Like Charlie Hebdo

They may be trying to walk back their anti-LGBT comments in the press, but yesterday Stefano Gabbana took to Instagram to compare their situation to Charlie Hebdo. Not incidentally, the #BoycottDolceGabbana hashtag is trending at  #1 in the United States at this writing. (Tipped by JMG reader John)

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Dolce & Gabbana Attempt To Walk It Back: We Weren’t Trying To Be Judgmental

Now that there are international calls for a boycott of their billion-dollar brand, Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana are trying to walk back their foul denouncement of LGBT families. Via the Associated Press: Gabbana said in a statement Sunday that “it was never our intention to judge other people’s choices. We do believe in freedom and love.” Dolce says he …

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Haters Are Thrilled That Italian Designers Dolce & Gabbana Oppose LGBT Rights

Hate group leader Austin Ruse writes at Breitbart: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, founders of the eponymous fashion house, have come out strongly against gay marriage, the notion of gay families, and the use of surrogacy to procreate. The billionaire pair, who used to be romantically linked, gave an interview with the Italian magazine Panorama, in which they said, “The …

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Headline Of The Day

Via the Associated Press: A Montana lawmaker is seeking to strengthen the state’s indecent exposure law, stopping just short of his wish to outlaw yoga pants. Rep. David Moore on Tuesday introduced House Bill 365 in the House Judiciary Committee in response to a group of naked bicyclists who rolled through Missoula in August. The proposal would expand indecent exposure …

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Abercrombie CEO Steps Down

Controversial openly gay Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries stepped down yesterday after more than 20 years of helming the iconic brand. Via the Washington Post: Jeffries, 70, has led the company since 1992 and built Abercrombie into an icon of the teen fashion industry. Yet he came under fire last year for comments that resurfaced about how “a lot …

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Vogueing Viral Star Becomes Model

Back in October a routine Las Vegas news clip went viral after viewers fixated on a kid that was fiercely posing and vogueing in the background. Since then 15 year-old Brendan Jordan has appeared on chat shows and was surprised by RuPaul with an invitation to a Drag Race taping. And now he’s a model. From the text of the …

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HomoQuotable – Michelangelo Signorile

“The Benham brothers have attributes and just a general vibe that, for years, have translated as ‘gay.’ But obviously there are a lot of straight men, even homophobes, who now exhibit these characteristics, seemingly free to act on their creative instincts, more comfortable about it — precisely because of the queer movement’s challenge to conventional ideas about masculinity. Some of …

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NEW YORK CITY: Statue Of Liberty To “Dress” For Halloween In Promo Stunt

As part of a promotional stunt for a menswear line, on Halloween a helicopter will suspend a giant bow tie in front of the Statue Of Liberty in order to create the illusion that the tie is actually affixed there. The feds are not happy. The National Park Service told ABC News it doesn’t have a say in Graham’s project …

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Oscar De La Renta Dies At Age 82

Fashion legend Oscar De La Renta has died at the age of 82. The man — often described as the “sultan of suave” — dressed every first lady since Jacqueline Kennedy. Among those whose glamor factor his dresses jazzed up: Oprah Winfrey, Ann Hathaway and, most recently, George Clooney’s bride Amal Alamuddin. “We will always remember him as the man …

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Fashion Faux Pas

Spain’s Zara clothing chain, which has 5500 stores worldwide, has yanked a children’s “sheriff” shirt after criticism that it resembles the uniforms worn in Nazi concentration camps. Via the Times Of Israel: For only NIS 80, your little tyke can have that fashion forward fresh from the concentration camp look now on sale at international chain Zara. The children’s 65% …

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Bears Hate J.Crew?

JMG reader Dick snapped the above photo at the J. Crew outlet in Soho. I called the store and the clerk that answered the phone said the slogan is a reference to the “campfire theme” of the window display. She said that she was unaware of the meaning of “bear” in gay circles and that the Columbus Circle store has …

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Telegraph Trend Piece: Spornosexuals

Britain’s Telegraph: “The metrosexual is dead, long live the spornosexual: a more extreme sex and body-obsessed male. But who exactly are they? We found out.” Spoiler: They’re pretty much the gay men of the last 25 years.

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TRAILER: Yves Saint Laurent

NPR interviewed the filmmakers yesterday: In 2009, Forbes designer Yves Saint Laurent the “Top-Earning Dead Celebrity” of the year. (Surely a bittersweet distinction.) Now, Saint Laurent’s success — and how it was shaped and fed by his lover and manager Pierre Berge — is the subject of the new film Yves Saint Laurent. In it, their relationship is both interactive …

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Fashion Review: NOM’s Hate March

Wonkette writer Beth Ethier has posted a fashion review of NOM’s hate march. Here’s how the above photo is captioned: “National Organization for Marriage President and Hate-Marcher in Chief Brian Brown, shown here sassing it up in the VIP corral, chose a navy suit, which is the traditional garb of his tribe (self-satisfied, irrationally homophobic twatfaces).” Hit the link for …

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