WHAT AN ENTRANCE: Newt Gingrich greets CPAC admirers to "Eye of the Tiger." Seriously.
ARTHUR: Can Russell Brand hold a candle to Dudley Moore?
"CASTLES IN THE SNOW:" Video from Twin Shadow's debut album, Forget.
RIGHT WING YOUTH OF AMERICA: Salon's Justin Elliot interviews man from "Youth for Western Civilization."
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Brand tweeted this from the set of the Arthur remake, saying, "At last. A bath from Helen Mirren. Never has getting clean been more dirty."
If you're familiar with the original, Mirren plays the John Gielgud role.
Same-sex marriage off to slow start in Portugal: 20 couples have married.
Spanish region of Catalonia bans bullfighting: "The ban — the first in mainland Spain — was hailed as a major victory by animal welfare groups that have long crusaded against what they consider to be a barbaric and outdated practice."
Russell Brand wears his undies to church — for remake of Arthur.
Nathaniel Rogers hits the Mad Men premiere in Times Square.
Old Spice's recent YouTube viral campaign was a huge success. Sales of its Body Wash are up 106%.
Great White Shark tagged off Cape Cod.
Cincinnati Episcopal priest resigns over gay issues within the church: "The Anglican Communion has been in a state of crisis for several years over the choice of the American Episcopal Church to ordain bishops living in openly homosexual relationships and to pronounce liturgical blessings on people living in same sex relationships."
Joan Rivers spotted shooting her reality TV show.
Sorry, not yet. Probably never.
Alexander Skarsgard is the new face of Hickey Freeman.
The NYT looks at how marriage equality has affected Cape Town, South Africa: "More than 3,000 same-sex couples have been married in South Africa, with about half of those couples including at least one foreigner, the government says. The law permitting same-sex marriage has begun to pave the way for greater tolerance of homosexuality, advocates contend, and the weddings have provided a shot in the arm to companies catering to those tying the knot.
'Apartheid suppressed tolerance, but once that was out of the way our society has moved so fast and most people just go with the flow,' said Mr. Brits, a nondenominational minister."
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission TABC has only made 81 arrests in 2010 for public intoxication as opposed to 761 in 2009. Did the Rainbow Lounge Raid in Fort Worth have something to do with the decrease?
James Franco's request to teach "special class" at Yale denied.
A Q&A with Hercules and Love Affair's Andy Butler.
Federal judge upholds dismissal of Michigan counseling student who refused to treat gay clients because of her religious beliefs: "In an order granting summary judgment to the university on Monday, Judge George Caram Steeh of the U.S. District Court in Detroit held that the university's requirement that the student be willing to serve people who are homosexual was reasonable, and did not amount to an infringement of the Christian student's constitutional rights to free speech and free expression of religion."
CBS President Nina Tassler and CBS "not happy with ourselves" over failing grade from GLAAD on LGBT representation.
NJ library removes Queer Anthology, cites child pornography?
Phoenix International Raceway reaches out to gay NASCAR fans: "PIR recognizes that they have a very diverse fan base and they want to reach out to all of them. While covering the Subway Fresh Fit 500 in April, Queer4Gears.com founder, Michael Myers began conversations
with Phoenix International Raceway officials.
To his knowledge, Myers said that this will be the first time that any NASCAR sanctioned facility has reached out to fans in the L.G.B.T. community.
'Just a small push like including the L.G.B.T. community on the official web site of Phoenix International Raceway is a step in the right direction for uniting the different stereotypes that surround the racetracks on a weekly basis' said Queer4Gears.com founder Michael Myers."
I hope the new Buffy the Vampire line of Jones soda doesn't taste like blood.
Au coeur des familles agricoles is a small non-profit that includes a club for gay farmers. Says one: "'We share personal stories, but mostly we discuss farming and agriculture,' Lampron said about the club, which will be represented in Montreal's gay pride parade next month for the first time by a few members who will be riding a tractor. 'It's great because we face similar challenges as both farmers and gay people living in rural regions -and we don't need to explain ourselves.'"
17 killed at so-called "love parade."
Target helps fund anti-gay Republican pol Tom Emmer in Minnesota? "Follow the money: Target gave $150,000 to Minnesota Forward, which bought TV ads for Tom Emmer, who says "I believe marriage is the union between one man and one woman," and who hangs out with a guy who thinks killing gays is moral."
Seagull hate = homophobia.
Gay discrimination suit where an elderly man was not allowed to se his dying partner is settled. He was awarded $600,000.
Names of some of the sessions offered by the Truth About Homosexuality event next month: “From gay pride to gay tyranny," “The ‘born gay hoax," “The battle over blood: ‘gay’ health risks and public policy," “Corrupting children, politicizing schools: the homosexual youth agenda," “Combating pro-homosexual media bias, confronting pro-gay ‘conservatives’," “From destroying DOMA to homosexualizing the military: Obama’s radical homosexual/transsexual agenda for America.”
The really hasn't been much of a summer in LA this year.
Nico Tortorella does MF magazine.
Somehow Sarah Palin rendered in over the top tabloid, Tawainese CGI is much less ridiculous than the real thing.
Russell Brand makes an ugly Katy Perry.
Some interesting stats on Apps.
Remember this kid? Well, he finally got to meet Lady Gaga in person.
Hate: Openly gay candidate's posters spray-painted with gay slur in Florida.
Best complaint I've heard so far about not being invited to a wedding. Said one person of Chelsea Clinton's nuptials: “I’m good enough to borrow a plane from, but not good enough to be invited to the wedding?”
Wow. Pilot ejects seconds before his jet crashes at an air show in Canada.
NY Attorney General candidates: Would you file suit against DOMA?
The Bilerico Project examines the money behind GetEQUAL.
A mystery space object (likely asteroid) struck Jupiter.
The Illegal Wedding Fair is happening this weekend in NYC.
David Mixner loved Stonewall Uprising: "As I watched the film, my stomach churned recalling my own experiences as a closeted gay man in the 1950's and 1960's." Trailer here.
Fran Drescher's ex-husband is gay.
Gary Coleman's wife comes off as a selfish, negligent bitch.
St. Petersburg, Russia Gay Pride organizers arrested at demonstration: "his public protest, organised on the last day of each month by the political opposition and several human rights groups, was not authorised by the authorities.
The French news agency Agence France Presse reported that 300 participants in the St. Petersburg rally. Organisers said that 100 people were arrested during the march.
St. Petersburg Gay Pride organisers Maria Efremenkova and Alexader Sheremetyev were among the people detained in St Petersburg.
'They were violent and threw us on the ground,' said Ms Efremenkova."
Enrique Iglesias teams up with Jersey Shore.
Johnny Weir is getting involved in the AIDS/Lifecycle benefit through one of his fans, named Rider X.
Fantastic Man features plus-size men in sponsored content.
Mississippi governor Haley Barbour praises BP, mocks news coverage of oil spill: "But we haven’t had, really, any impact. I mean, we haven’t had enough oil hit Mississippi’s beaches to fill up a milk jug."
Gay man, lesbian chosen for Pentagon panels.
Robyn and Kelis announce summer tour dates.
Portland center for gay youths reaches out to African-Americans in location move: "At our old location we saw primarily fairly affluent, white young people; our number for youth of color was really low, and we knew we were not meeting a community need. We discovered that when we serve youth in their neighborhood, they feel more safe and welcomed. It was the perfect choice to move to MLK."
Russell Brand flashes his headlights.
Concept art for
Chris Evans as Captain America.
West Valley, Utah passes LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance.
Photos - Gerard Butler gets in uniform for the Iraq war version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus: "Ralph Fiennes is starring in and directing the movie, which is about a banished hero of Rome who allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city."
The Good Men Project: a new online magazine for all men.
Austinites split over Gay Pride: "This week, two Austin groups — Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation and Queer Bomb — will salute the historic riots in distinct ways."
The NYT adopts Nate Silver and his site Five Thirty Eight.com.
Fightback NY PAC plays with the anti-gay rhetoric of NY state senator Ruben Diaz, Sr.
Iowa homophobe Chuck Hurley gathers up more than 800 anti-gay pastors in his latest attempt to kill the state's marriage equality law: "During this morning’’s news conference Hurley referred to the 800-plus ministers who signed his group’s petition as 'real' pastors.
'We are at a crisis moment in this state and we will either stand up for good, Godly, family and marriage or we will go the way of other civilizations that have said, ‘Oh well,’' Hurley said. 'We are here on behalf of 834 pastors who are not willing to say, ‘Oh well,’ and we applaud them for that.'"
Oasis' Noel Gallagher is set to take a role in the film version of British comedian Russell Brand's autobiography My Booky Wook, UK comedy site Chortle reports:
"The Oasis star has reportedly agreed to be in the movie of My Booky Wook movie â as has Little Britainâs David Walliams. Brand is also trying to persuade Michael Palin to make an appearance, but has not yet been successful. 'David will be playing himself, as my love rival,' the comic told the Daily Mirror. 'Michael has said really nice things about me so I'm hoping he'll play a character in it - a vindictive headmaster. Noel Gallagher will be in there, playing a seedy homosexual. He'll be a sexually androgynous, amorphous character - it'll be mad.'"
The film is being helmed by director Michael Winterbottom.
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