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Road100 take part in first Gay Pride march in Pune, India. "People laugh at us. Many do not understand our sentiments. This leads to frustration among the people who support homosexuality...The picture can change if the society gives attention to their issues. That’s why we had organized this parade. It was the first of its kind parade in Pune. We have decided to hold it every year."

RoadAustralian Catholic school rejects child of lesbian couple.

RoadChris Meloni officially joins cast of True Blood: "Meloni will play an 'ancient and powerful vampire who holds the fate of Bill and Eric in his hands.'"

RoadFridae.com founder Stuart Koe sues holding company: "Dr Stuart Koe, who started the website in 2000, is claiming that they owe him S$260,000 and wrongfully conspired against him to forfeit his shares in Fridae.com Ltd. Named in his statement of claim - which was seen by Today - are Fridae.com Ltd, its directors Ms Foo Siew Bee alias Joan Foo Mahony, Mr Peter Edmund O'Connor and Mr Guillaume Levy-Lambert, and its web design and maintenance company Jungle Media."

RoadThe first official stills from The Great Gatsby.

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RoadVinny Guadagnino talks cocktails, bullying at Manhattan lounge: “Kids are getting bullied to the point where they’re killing themselves, and it breaks my heart,” Guadagnino says. “I realize that I have a big voice, so I’m doing what I can to help.”

RoadHairier people less likely to be bitten by bedbugs.

RoadDocumentary on Falcon Studios' Chuck Holmes raises funds.

RoadConservative radio show host Michael Savage offers Newt Gingrich $1 million to drop out of race.

RoadElizabeth Taylor jewelry auction brings in $116 million: "Christie's sale of 80 items had been estimated to raise about $20m (£13m), but took more than double the record for a single collection. The highlight was a necklace featuring a 16th Century pearl which sold for $11.8m (£7.6m), a record for the gem...Part of the proceeds will go to The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation, which she established in 1991."

RoadKelly Clarkson debuts music video for "Stronger".

WorkitRoadNew ABC comedy Work It offends transgender activists (and likely everyone else too, just for being bad). "Work It makes a mockery of transgender experiences. It portrays 'men in dresses ' (a common caricature of transgender people) as comically absurd, while, at the same time, depicting a world in which the difference between one's gender presentation and gender at birth is a non-issue."

RoadRue McClanahan estate sale this Saturday.

RoadCatholic bishop speaks out against former NYT columnist Chandler Burr, who is trying to adopt two Colombian children: “I do not know him and I am not accusing him of anything, but one thing is clear and that is that he has homosexual tendencies and he is going to receive a boy of 10-years-old and an adolescent of 13, and between them there won’t be a father-son relationship.”

RoadGay men in Kent County, Michigan being targeted for entrapment: "A group including a Holland minister and a board member of Equality Michigan say sheriff’s deputies arrested 33 gay men in county parks in 2010 under the state’s soliciting and accosting statute, but claim about half of those arrests involved two men merely speaking to undercover deputies, or making casual contact like holding hands."

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  1. Transgender activists offended?! You're kidding!!

    Posted by: Jerry | Dec 14, 2011 4:14:37 PM


  2. How is "Working It" any more offensive than dumb fare like "Bosom Buddies"? It seems like the transgender folks complaining about this are begging to make the joe in the street believe that transgenderism is like transvestism or a lifestyle clothing choice.

    Posted by: MikeW | Dec 14, 2011 4:18:08 PM


  3. "Work It" just looks like crap TV (and a knock-off of "Bosom Buddies"). But I wonder how some transgender people feel about films like "Some Like It Hot", "Tootsie" or "Mrs. Doubt fire". The whole "guys dressed as women" thing has been a staple in comedy for years. I never had the impression that there was denigration of transgenders in these films.

    Posted by: Albert | Dec 14, 2011 4:19:25 PM


  4. It's 2010, get out of the bushes...

    Posted by: Hollywood, CA | Dec 14, 2011 4:32:16 PM


  5. I can only hope that "Work It" is DOA. The promo's look... WRETCHED.

    Posted by: 99% | Dec 14, 2011 4:45:42 PM


  6. WIN! To combat the bed bug epidemic all we have to do is make guys hairier? I envision a pill of some kind?

    "Hey there, did you hear hairy men can protect you from bed bugs?" Is my new pick-up line.

    Posted by: at | Dec 14, 2011 5:00:45 PM


  7. Transgeder activist have no sense of humor...Leo looks too pretty as Gatsby...and now that sexiest man alive has joined the cast I might have to start watching "True Blood"

    Posted by: jaragon | Dec 14, 2011 5:05:38 PM


  8. Catholic bishops would certainly know something about being attracted to children

    Posted by: Steve | Dec 14, 2011 5:39:55 PM


  9. @STEVE, absolutely, they are simply pissed that the courts in Colombia have ordered the country's family welfare institute to return the children to the custody of their adoptive father. Congratulations to Chandler Burr for winning this fight, I am sure he will make an excellent father for these boys.

    Posted by: Xavi | Dec 14, 2011 6:20:18 PM


  10. You are too right Steve! Projection!

    Posted by: David R. | Dec 14, 2011 7:13:56 PM


  11. The "comedy" from cross-dressing by people who are doing it for purposes other than a sense of fulfillment would seem to come from trying to be something one is not, and failing. How is that connected to trans people trying to be what they feel they are? I read the article, and the comments, and I'm trying to understand.

    Posted by: TJ | Dec 14, 2011 7:52:43 PM


  12. @TJ, They are probably offended by being constantly pidginholed in these "acceptable" or "Understood" states of drag. To a transgender person, they were born in an incorrect body, There is no cross dressing.

    Fun game: Pretend that you were born in the wrong body, pretend that you had to deal with that as a kid, (I am assuming you are a dude) If being gay affected you at all, growing up trans seems like the same thing only you dont get a sense of community from gay people (See comments) and you get the same or worse treatment from straight people.

    Thinking that trans activists are too high strung is an insensitive over simplification of their whole deal. I am no expert but they have it harder than we do.

    Posted by: Fenrox | Dec 16, 2011 9:17:10 AM


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