03/02/2006
ACLU files lawsuit accusing West Virginia police chief of stopping rescuer from performing CPR on a man because "he assumed the ailing man had HIV and posed a health risk." The man, Claude Green, died of a heart attack. ACLU attorney: "He was simply a gay man in Welch, West Virginia, and because of that we can only assume that Chief Bowman assumed he had HIV and it was unsafe to even touch him."
Provincetown fizzle: no fireworks on the 4th of July. Last year the town struggled with violent brawls because of the crowds of out-of-towners that traveled up the Cape for the day.
(thanks brenner)
Interesting Outsports factoid about the use of football footage in Brokeback's Thanksgiving dinner scene. Apparently producers were denied footage from the NFL so the football game on TV was of the Canadian Football League. While Producer Dianna Ossana implied that it may have been anti-gay sentiment that caused the refusal, the NFL's explanation seems rational.
SICK: Cape Cod trial revealing ugly details of a murder fueled by meth use. Nathaniel J. Miksch has pleaded innocent to the murder of Timothy Maguire, whom he allegedly strangled and stuffed in a bedroom closet. According to reports, Miksch then went online to arrange for some anonymous sex which he had later the same weekend while Maguire's body was still sitting in the nearby closet.
Over 1,000 gay couples have married in Spain since it became legal.
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I suspect the NFL's real objection was to the very idea of turning off the game during Thanksgiving Dinner. You know they'd agree with both Jack's son and his father-in-law on that one. Football always takes priority over dinner table conversation!
Posted by: Nick | Mar 2, 2006 3:42:12 PM
Um, is it just me or does the NFL's statement make no sense whatsoever? If they think, as they say, that they "boys should watch football" comment is narrow-minded, and they also think (correctly) that the film intended it as such, then they should be happy to have their footage employed to make that point, right? The only way withholding their footage makes sense is if they disagree with the viewpoint of the film -- i.e., if they think the "boys should watch football" comment is perfectly acceptable. Which is, I'm sure, what most of the neanderthals who run the NFL think.
Posted by: Glenn | Mar 2, 2006 3:43:58 PM
Don't believe the NFL comment whatsoever! The actual footage on the TV was so brief. Further, the context was between Jack and his father-in-law and had little to do with football.
Posted by: Warren | Mar 2, 2006 4:34:02 PM
That letter from the NFL is one of the most disingenuous, condescending pieces of simpering, Clintonian drivel I have ever read. The faux piety is nauseating. Since when has the NFL ever been opposed to curse words (quelle horreur!) or the notion that football is an intrinsic part of a young boy's upbringing? Reminds me of the tortuous attempts by tobacco companies to discourage smoking by teenagers. Give me a break!
Posted by: GM | Mar 2, 2006 6:17:46 PM
Oh, PLEASE! The NFL is worried about coarse language and stereotypical implications of machismo? How freaking gullible do they think we are? I'm sure the PR people huddled in their think-tank had a good laugh when they hatched THAT rationale.
Posted by: zinc alloy | Mar 2, 2006 11:14:20 PM
Can someone run a search for what I'm sure is a very, VERY long list of movies and TV shows in which football provides background to a dysfunctional argument?
I've never heard any rationale that flimsy and transparent in my life.
Posted by: Jacko | Mar 3, 2006 7:11:42 AM
There's homophobia in professional football. Shocker.
Posted by: Brian | Mar 3, 2006 8:59:19 AM
Isn't Jerry Maguire pretty coarse in the language department, the poor image it casts of professional sports etc...NFL and several NFL teams were major supporters of it. Hmm, Mr. Cruise starred in it and played a straight man and the NFL supported the film. Messrs. Ledger and gyllenhaal star in BBM and play gay men and the NFL declined to support the film. Thus, using some silly logical thing we probably learned in middle school; we can conclude that the NFL only supports movies with gay men depicting straight men as opposed to straight men portraying gay men.
Posted by: JT | Mar 3, 2006 9:08:00 AM