08/22/2005
REPORT: "Piano man" not a mad virtuoso musician but a gay man who had been trying to commit suicide when he was found, soaking wet in a black suit on the south coast of England last April.
Alabama gay rights group opens offices in Birmingham and Montgomery in anticipation of next year's vote on banning same-sex marriage. Montgomery office is just down the street from the homes of anti-gay Governor Bob Riley and the state president of the Christian Coalition.
Eric Rudolph, bomber behind Olympic park, gay bar, and abortion clinic bombings will spend the rest of his life in prison; "smirked and rolled his eyes" at testimony of victims "refuting his anti-abortion, anti-homosexual beliefs."
Apparently the mother of Natalee Holloway isn't the only thing that pisses off the people of Aruba. The autonomous republic is expected to obey the law of the Netherlands but can't stomach the idea of gay marriage, legalized there in 2001. Arubans' attitude toward homosexuality has caused many gays to either leave the island or face the prospect of violence towards them. A lesbian couple filed a lawsuit against the Aruban government to have their marriage recognized and won. The government appealed, and a decision is expected Tuesday. The lesbian couple has since left the island out of fear for their safety.
Electronic music pioneer Bob Moog dead at 71.
Ricky Martin surfaces sporting a faux-hawk.
Courtesy of BoiFromTroy, the gay viewer's guide to college football 2005 (and the flesh that goes along with it).
D.C. comics says "holy lawsuit" to erotic Batman and Robin art.
Pube SHOCK: New D&G ads raise eyebrows. Ad exec: "Creatively I don't think it's effective. There's no wit, there's no humor to it and it's very blatant. ... I think it's so gross that it borders on tastelessness."
Posted 1:22 PM EST by Andy Towle in Elsewhere | Permalink
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eek....I guess my parady T-shirt of Charlie Brown & Linus at Gay Pride could get me sued too!
Posted by: Patrick | Aug 22, 2005 2:15:15 PM
see the ad in question here:
http://www.ohlalaparis.com/ohlalaparis/2005/08/shave_the_head_.html
Posted by: bradley | Aug 22, 2005 2:19:21 PM
Photo caption in Ricky Martin mohawk pic should be Icky Martin Cut, not rickymartincut.
Posted by: Morris | Aug 22, 2005 2:42:53 PM
I love me some football. Big hot sweaty men pushing each other around laying on top of each other. Rubbing each others butts mmm
Posted by: Donald | Aug 22, 2005 2:51:08 PM
Hmm, the pubes thing seems to be a new trend. A recent Paco Rabanne ad in newspapers and magazines here (UK) has a pretty low waistband as well (http://www.atelier.abelgratis.co.uk/pics/pr_ad.jpg). The difference between here and the US is that no one here seems bothered, at least so far as I've seen. Bring on the pubes, say I. :)
Posted by: John C | Aug 22, 2005 4:03:41 PM
Love the pics on boifromtroy's site...and those D & G ads are sick! I saw them in a fashion mag, and though...ummmm NO! Not sexy at all...
Posted by: Roy | Aug 22, 2005 8:02:51 PM
I'm delighted (albeit confused) to learn that greyer, thinning hair is a "gay and younger" look. Soon, I'll be swarmed by 22 year old twinks!
Posted by: buster | Aug 22, 2005 8:07:12 PM
I posted the ad too, with nice big detail shots.
Posted by: The Malcontent | Aug 22, 2005 9:40:44 PM
Thank you Robert Moog for your amazing synthesizers. I used to own one and even at the lower end of the Moog scale, that thing could get the most amazing sounds.
RIP.
Posted by: Jim | Aug 22, 2005 9:49:31 PM
It's just a little hair! This country is so prude. How is showing some hair "tasteless" and as the commenter upthread says, "Not sexy at all." What, do you shave all your pubes off to look like a 12 year old boy? Pubes are back in, D&G is just riding that trend.
Posted by: Stefan | Aug 22, 2005 9:54:56 PM
I find it interesting that they covered up the hair with a fig leaf as if it were terribly obscene, in Andy's original link. Oh, they can show all the skin down there, just not if it has any hair on it! Why is it that facial hair, armpit hair, or chest hair, all similar signals of sexual maturity, do not get the same censorship?
Posted by: tennisfreak | Aug 22, 2005 11:09:13 PM
I just can't believe people are making such a big deal about the hair that it actually had to be censored. I never saw it as such a big deal. Is that really something to feel ashamed about or sometihng?
And I'm so disappointed, being a big DC comic fan. [geekage]
Posted by: Vee | Aug 23, 2005 2:08:38 AM
I saw these ads posted on Ohlala Paris, and it didn't register with me at all that there was anything unusual. Maybe it is just a difference between the USA and UK, but I thought- "Sexy ad; nothing new." We get images like that all the time- admittedly mostly in the gay press- so the controversy just passed over my head.
Posted by: Mark Manley | Aug 23, 2005 4:36:28 AM
Ooh, thanks to The Malcontent for the big pics!
Posted by: John C | Aug 23, 2005 6:34:21 AM
To quote: "...thought he was a musical genius who'd lost his mind...but he's really a gay German..."
These people have solved the mysteries of human sexuality. I'd love to read of their interpretations of a gay Canadian, a gay American, a gay Brit,
Posted by: Mark | Aug 23, 2005 10:18:43 AM
if he can't play the piano, who the heck named him Piano Man?
Posted by: james | Aug 23, 2005 11:16:45 AM
the hospital people confused a single note from a classical recital?
Posted by: james | Aug 23, 2005 11:17:41 AM