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GLAAD to CNN: Fire Roland Martin over homophobic tweets.
'EX-GAY' NURSE RAGES: 'Homosexuality not a civil right'.
VIRGINIA passes bill allowing adoption agencies to deny gays.
GIVE ME ALL YOUR LUVIN: Madonna back with new VIDEO.
The head of the New Jersey Assembly will find out today how much support the chamber has for marriage equality:
Speaker Sheila Oliver tells The Associated Press that today's count will be the first time Assembly Democrats have been polled on marriage equality, even though both houses of the Legislature have made it their top priority...
...The legislation needs 41 Assembly votes to pass. The chamber has enough Democrats to pass the bill without Republican support, but not all Democrats support the bill. In the Senate, 21 votes are needed for passage.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has vowed to veto the bill.
Previously...
Angry 'Ex-Gay' Nurse Rages: Homosexuality is Not a Civil Right: VIDEO [tr]
NJ Teen MAkes HEartbreaking Plea to Lawmakers: Let My Dads Marry: VIDEO [tr]
Posted 7:29 AM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Marriage, New Jersey, News | Permalink | Comments (2)
Many of you got a glimpse of OK Go's video "Needing/Getting" from the Chevrolet ad during last night's Super Bowl. Here's the full extravaganza:
OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they'd play the right note no matter where they were struck.
Hear the music play, AFTER THE JUMP...
Continue reading "OK Go's Full 'Super Bowl' Ad Musical Extravaganza: VIDEO"
Posted 7:00 AM EST by Andy Towle in Advertising, Music, Music Video, News, OK Go, Super Bowl | Permalink | Comments (1)
Last night during the Super Bowl, H&M aired an underwear ad featuring a lovingly-photigraphed David Beckham wearing not very much. CNN's Roland Martin didn't like it much. He tweeted:
If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl
To which GLAAD promptly tweeted:
@rolandsmartin Advocates of gay bashing have no place at @CNN #SuperBowl #LGBT
To which Mr. Martin tweeted:
@GLAAD @cnn well you're clearly out of touch and clueless with what I tweeted. Way to assume, but you're way off base
Mr. Martin later insisted that he meant to advocate violence against soccer fans, not gay men. Which makes one wonder why, earlier in the day, Mr. Martin tweeted:
Who the hell was that New England Patriot they just showed in a head to toe pink suit? Oh, he needs a visit from #teamwhipdatass
Does pink remind Mr. Martin of soccer? In any case, GLAAD's not buying Mr. Martin's excuses: They've now posted a release to their website "demanding" that CNN "remove" Mr. Martin from the air.
To be fair, advocating for actual violence against gay people would be out of character for Mr. Martin. As GLAAD itself reporsts, on Mr. Martin's own website he advocates "loving" and "breaking bread" with LGBT people -- while praising his wife, a Baptist minister, for delivering so many of them from their unBiblical lifestyle with her special faith-healing witchery. Maybe Mr. Martin doesn't want to smack the ish out of sinners; maybe he only wants to smack the ish out of their sin.
Posted 1:20 AM EST by Brandon K. Thorp in CNN, David Beckham, GLAAD, Roland Martin, Super Bowl, Twitter | Permalink | Comments (33)
The New Yorker has published a long, thoughtful story suggesting that Tyler Clementi wasn't killed by homophobes. At least, not the way we might think.
It became widely understood that a closeted student at Rutgers had committed suicide after video of him having sex with a man was secretly shot and posted online. In fact, there was no posting, no observed sex, and no closet. But last spring, shortly before Molly Wei made a deal with prosecutors, Ravi was indicted on charges of invasion of privacy (sex crimes), bias intimidation (hate crimes), witness tampering, and evidence tampering. Bias intimidation is a sentence-booster that attaches itself to an underlying crime—usually, a violent one. Here the allegation, linked to snooping, is either that Ravi intended to harass Clementi because he was gay or that Clementi felt he’d been harassed for being gay. As he sat in the courtroom, his chin propped awkwardly on his fist, his predicament could be seen either as a state’s admirably muscular response to the abusive treatment of a vulnerable young man or as an attempt to criminalize teen-age odiousness by using statutes aimed at people more easily recognizable as hate-mongers and perverts.
Don't have a job? Blame Obama. (But if you've got one, thank a GOP governor.)
" ... the U.S. first kills people with drones, then fires on the rescuers and others who arrive at the scene where the new corpses and injured victims lie."
Barack Obama's really insistent that war with Iran is a last option. Is he protesting too much?
Read as a snickering Ivy-leaguer demonstrates his contempt for underpaid retail slaves.
T-Rex is incompetent but adorable.
The legacy of the Kennedy presidency just gets weirder by the year:
Mimi Alford, then Mimi Beardsley, interned at the White House in the summer of 1962, quickly caught the president’s eye. The 19-year-old joined the 45-year-old president for a noon swim four days into her internship. Later that day, he took her virginity in “Mrs. Kennedy’s room.”
At one point, during another noon swim, Kennedy allegedly asked Alford to “take care” of an aide ...“After he finished, he hitched up his pants and smiled at me.” Alford says their sex life was “varied and fun” and describes an affair that was more than just sex. They apparently spent an “inordinate amount of time taking baths” and listened to music together. He confided in her during key personal and professional moments, such as when his infant son died and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. But he never kissed her on the lips.
This model has a 20-inch waist and a corset. Thoughts?
Meet a lesbian atheist single mother from Point, TX (pop. 792), along with other nonbelievers in difficult situations:
... One by one, members of [Harry's] new family turned against him because of his lack of belief. Harry doesn’t see any of his American family any more. “The last one I saw was my cousin, Ronnie. Every time he invites me over to dinner, he turns to religion. Last time I saw him, I didn’t back out, I took him full on.
“I’ve been told things like ‘I hope you have an accident, die and go to hell.’ So that’s what I’ve been up against.”
Madonna's performance was fine, but maybe a little too classy. Football's over the top! A little dumb! Kind of crazy! Arguably unnexessary! Kind of like this!
Last night, Tatum Channing stripped during his on SNL monologue. Watch AFTER THE JUMP ...
Continue reading "NEWS: Tyler, Ravi, And Wei; The Doings Of Drones; Iran; Models; Channing Tatum"
Posted 11:46 PM EST by Brandon K. Thorp in Abercrombie & Fitch, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Iran, John F. Kennedy, Models, Religion, Steven Tyler, Tyler Clementi | Permalink | Comments (9)
If you missed Madonna's Halftime show at the Super Bowl (as you may well have, because as it turns out NBC's livestream of the event skipped it completely), you can watch it,
AFTER THE JUMP ...
Continue reading "WATCH: Madonna's Halftime Performance"
Posted 10:03 PM EST by Brandon K. Thorp in Football, Madonna, Sports, Super Bowl | Permalink | Comments (75)
Perhaps you've heard: Tonight at 6:30 p.m., Eastern Time, some of the biggest, fastest, strongest and richest men in America will meet on a field of painted grass in Indianapolis and practice war games. They will wear shoulder pads, and they will be watched by millions. If you would like to be among those millions, the event is streaming here. (Note: That's the only place it's streaming. If you don't want to stream, tune into NBC.)
There's no telling exactly when Madonna will take the stage for the Half Time show, but the earliest it could possibly be is 7:30, Eastern Standard. 8:30 p.m.'s most likely, it almost certainly won't be after 9:00.
UPDATE: Sorry! The livestream skipped the Halftime show completely. I just posted a vid of Madonna's performance, which you can watch here.
Posted 4:53 PM EST by Brandon K. Thorp in Football, Madonna, Sports | Permalink | Comments (19)
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