04/19/2006
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan resigns.
No Gay Pride for Ottawa, Canada? The city's celebration is bankrupt and needs $25,000 from the city to survive. Treasurer: "The psychological impact of missing a year would be pretty damaging to the gay community."
David and Victoria Beckham have a new stylist who got his name after he put Kylie Minogue in a pair of gold hot pants and turned her career around. Let's see if Becks shows up in gold hot pants anytime soon.
Jason Johnson, the student who was expelled from Kentucky's University of the Cumberlands for gay material on his MySpace site, has reached a deal with the University that will allow him to complete his work from off campus. Johnson was on the Dean's List and his dismissal had left him with a line-up of F's on his transcript. Kentucky Senate President David Williams visited the school yesterday and defended the Baptist school's right to dismiss Johnson. Said Williams: "Those people that don't want this university to have values and principles will be defeated."
Nepal's gay activist Blue Diamond Society has joined a movement to oust the autocratic government of King Gyanendra: "Nepal's gay community, already under repression from a patriarchal society, has been facing greater jeopardy since last year, when Gyanendra seized power with the help of the army and added political turmoil to the nearly decade-old Maoist insurgency. With security forces having been given greater authority, homosexuals have been at the mercy of assaults, arbitrary arrests and molestation inside police stations. As the kingdom's rights activists grapple with mounting human rights abuses inflicted on suspected Maoists and opposition party activists, the plight of homosexual detainees is being virtually ignored."
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I'm sure McClellin would like to 'spend more time with his family'.
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Posted by: mickeyitaliano | Apr 19, 2006 10:58:04 AM
Ottawa, Canada? How insulting to assume that no one knows the the capital of Canada is, in fact, in Canada.
Washington, U.S.A.?
Posted by: AndyPants | Apr 19, 2006 11:04:52 AM
Good to see that Riechen is getting all kinds of modeling jobs besides the sexy ones.
Posted by: noah | Apr 19, 2006 11:36:55 AM
Yeah, we wouldn't want the world to think that Reichen blew (!) his chance to be a positive role model for gay youth just for the sake of making money from taking his clothes off and creating what the gay world is in desperate need of--more jerk off material. But given that he's labeled himself a "Celebrity Activist," I'm SURE he was one of those arrested at his alma mater, the US Air Force Academy, last week along with members of Soulforce, protesting DADT. Reporters probably just failed to catch his name.
Posted by: Tagg | Apr 19, 2006 3:16:37 PM
It doesn't necessarily look like him but if it is I'm not surprised. He's a wonton media whore. Never understood why gay people lauded him as a gay hero based solely on the fact that he won a reality tv competition, was very good looking, then stared on another reality tv show full of reality show whores and neverweres where he played a gay guy playing an actor who played a straight guy very badly. Until now, I last saw him doing a bit part on an E clip show that highlights the good parts of the previous weeks reality shows.
Does anyone remember Harvey Milk or Larry Kramer? Has the bar for gay role models been adjusted so low that the only gay-role-model criteria are that the person be really hot? Calling this guy a gay hero is an affront. Just shut up, make pretty and let us know when your first porn movie comes out. And make hast with it, you’re aging as we speak.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Apr 19, 2006 4:08:10 PM
P.S. Bye Scott. I Tivo'd the news this morning so I can watch you say "I'm resigning so I can spend more time with my family."
One last lie for old times' sake.
I'm enjoying watching the futility of this exercise by the desperate Bush administration. I love particularly how he let’s the heads role of people we’ve never heard of or are of no real consequence to him or his ability to do whatever he wants to do. It’s all purely symbolic like reassigning Rove to look like Bush has done something significant when all this really does is provides a perfect opportunity to place Rove in the position he’s best at: the 2006 republican mid-term elections.
P.P.S. http://mindprod.com/politics/bushismsgay.html
hehe
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Apr 19, 2006 4:17:17 PM
I can't believe it... I'm a gay Ottawa teen myself, and I was just getting into the whole going to Pride thing, so I'll be CRUSHED if they don't have one this year. Thank goodness for Towleroad for me even getting this information, yet another reason why I'm such an avid reader. Keep it up Andy.
Posted by: Logan | Apr 19, 2006 11:56:31 PM