News: Sun Flares, Lukas Rossi, Gay Chile, Ryan Seacrest
Two Chicago students file lawsuit so they can wear anti-gay T-shirt that says "Be Happy, Not Gay": "According to the suit, one school administrator ordered Zamecnik to remove the T-shirt and another official ordered her to cross out 'NOT GAY' with a marker. The suit alleges Zamecnik suffered unlawful discrimination and humiliation because school officials didn't agree with her viewpoint. Nuxoll did not attend the school at the time of the incident." It's Tyler Chase Harper all over again.
REPORT: Beckhams sick of Tom Cruise trying to convert them to Scientology. "Victoria is tired of Tom being on her back about Scientology. Victoria is an old-fashioned British woman who believes in God. She finds it quite annoying that Tom is bugging her so much. Not too long ago, Tom left 18 messages in one hour to get them to join the church. But when Victoria says no, she means no."
The Ted Haggard massage table, crucified by fundamentalists who had it pulled from eBay, has a second coming.
Sanitation worker disciplined for attempting to get glamour shots of Naomi Campbell's floor-scrubbing fashion show.
Ryan Seacrest is neither gay nor bisexual, according to an old flame.
We've already seen him lock lips with his lead singer Lukas Rossi, but now we learn that Tommy Lee is also an equal opportunity toe sucker.
You know you are a weather geek when...
Hot: Space probe reveals "impossible" images from our sun. "Hinode has sent back startling images of the Sun's outer limb. Where astronomers expected to see a calm region called the chromosphere, they saw a seething mass of swaying spikes...Another surprise sighting is that of giant magnetic field loops crashing down onto the Sun's surface as if they were collapsing from exhaustion, a finding that Golub describes as 'impossible'. Previously, scientists thought they should emerge from the Sun and continue blowing out into space. 'Almost every day, we look at the data and we say – what the heck was that?' says Golub, a member of the XRT science team."
The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) has posted a gallery of shots from their recent New York benefit at ABC studios in Times Square.
Chile's first gay football team prepares to head to IGLF World Cup in Buenos Aires. Player: "There are a lot of spaces for the development of sports for heterosexuals, but we gays don’t have that. This is our space, and when we play, there’s nobody shouting abuse at us from the sidelines."
Here's the full article at The Stranger about anti-gay pastor Ken Hutcherson's alleged trip to Latvia at the behest of the White House.
Posted Mar. 23,2007 at 12:30 PM EST by Andy Towle in Censorship, Chicago, Chile, David Beckham, Ken Hutcherson, Mike Jones, News, Ryan Seacrest, Space, Ted Haggard, Tom Cruise, Tommy Lee, Victoria Beckham | Permalink
Congrats Andy on being one of their special guests! Nice to see Dave, too.
Posted by: Leland | Mar 23, 2007 12:55:17 PM
RE: Ryan SeaCRUST
I was wondering when they were going to do "damage control" after the AI outing. I knew they were gonna pull some "ex gf" or beard.
Posted by: Lito S | Mar 23, 2007 1:19:04 PM
The weirdest thing is that the beard's defence doesn't make sense. How does their alleged "amazing and passionate relationship" prove that he is not bisexual?
Posted by: Colin | Mar 23, 2007 1:41:33 PM
Good god is Tom Cruise a freak, or what?
Posted by: dc-20008 | Mar 23, 2007 1:43:11 PM
Hmmm....I'd say Tom Cruise falls into the "or what" category.
Posted by: THOR | Mar 23, 2007 2:16:33 PM
How did he get her number? Geez!
Posted by: Rad | Mar 23, 2007 2:32:24 PM
The endless stream of stupid people arrogantly declaring that someone else couldn’t possibly be gay/bi because of the speaker’s experiences/perceptions with/of them never fails to work my nerve. One wonders if the countless girls around the world who insisted that Lance Bass could not possibly be gay have sent Perez an apology yet. The woman who played Seinfeld’s mother sometimes pops up insisting that James Dean could not have possibly been gay because they had an affair, even though in the book she published about it in 2000 she acknowledged at least one M2M relationship Dean had when she knew him. She appeared on Larry King’s show in 2005 about the 50th anniversary of Dean’s death. While there as one of his former girlfriends, this time it was Martin Landau and Dennis Hopper, both Dean contemporaries, who insisted Dean wasn’t gay. Dean’s dicking around, including his affair with William Bast, has now been too well documented for them to have been unaware of it.
More than one married gay man with children has told me that they were sired while he was fantasizing about men. I used to tell groups I spoke to that the closest one could come to knowing what a individual's actual sexuality was would be to be next to them 24-7 their entire life. Even then, one couldn’t know which gender[s] they lusted after in their minds alone. There’s a big word for it: epistemology, the study of the ability to know. Don’t try remembering it, Shana, honey. Only this: Ryan could very well have been imaging that it was, oh, Anderson Cooper swinging on Little Ryan instead of you.
Such self-delusion is older than dirt, but what does it say about our culture/our future when pond scum like Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell are multimillion dollar celebrities?
Posted by: Leland | Mar 23, 2007 2:32:54 PM
Does anyone know where the "Ryan Seacrest is gay" thing got started? I haven't been paying too much attention. Unlike Lance, he does at least seem to have a head on his shoulders. (Towards the end there, Lance was hardly hiding anymore though.)
Now, Lukas Rossi seems very jealous! Tommy's always been "generous" though.
The whole James Dean mythology though, belongs in a long-ago era, so it's not surprising that his contemporaries live by a different set of rules. Dean's "career" is over, of course, so what does anyone gain from propping a fictional straightness--unless they simply find gayness unspeakable? They simply can't at this point change their minds.
Posted by: anon | Mar 23, 2007 4:51:40 PM
Tom Cruise is fucking crazy! For some reason every month their is another news story about his crazy sci-fi cult ramblings.
Now as you well know I am not a big fan of religion but I really find it hard to understand why someone could join a cult life Scientology. Hell the "religion was invented by a Science Fiction writer. I have had the misfortune to read some of the "believes" that hte cult puts out and it is friggen nuts. hell I think that I believe more in Christianity the Scientology.
Posted by: Nick | Mar 23, 2007 4:57:46 PM
Eww, Tommy Lee and whatever-his-name-is just need to stop.
Posted by: FanGirlHater | Mar 23, 2007 5:57:17 PM
Re Ryan Seacrest: So when having an ex gf mean you can't have gay sex and date guys as well??
Posted by: boardiesboi | Mar 23, 2007 6:36:17 PM
I must say I have never got the whole gay/bi thing with Seacrest. He has always struck me as one of those really awkward, Beauty and the Beast kind of guys that doesn't know how to chat up a girl...(not that I've read what his ex-gf says)
Posted by: atheist | Mar 23, 2007 6:52:32 PM
I'm so sick of these students wearing anti-gay t-shirts. They never wear anti-anyone else t-shirts.
There were some big names at the NLGJA dinner. Andy was right in there too.
I looked at the gay soccer team's picture and they were what I expected. They are a rag-tag team of soccer hobbists. I feel sorry for them, they don't have the opportunities that straight players do.
Posted by: Jack! | Mar 23, 2007 7:21:31 PM
Jeff Ragovin is hot. A Preppie Bear - an impossibly potent combo.
Posted by: just sayin' | Mar 24, 2007 3:29:12 AM