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04/19/2007


Ryan Phillippe Quitting Acting, Moving to New York

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Actor Ryan Phillippe says he's tired of the lack of anonymity in L.A. and wants a new life. He tells Page Six brokers have been showing him places in NYC's Soho district:

"It's so hard to go out in LA. I'm going to move. I'm going to spend a third of my year in New York...I think I'm going to end my acting career. I'm so introverted. I'm ready to be behind the scenes. I'm 36, but I've been doing this for 20 years."


News: True Blood, Space Shuttles, iPad, Kellan Lutz

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 road Proud dad Ryan Phillipe takes pictures of his son on the football field. The paparazzi take his pictures.

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 road Another preview for the third season of True Blood. This time with 2 full minutes of fangs.

 road Marriage explosion in DC: "In the first three months of 2010, the court processed 376 applications. Since March 3 -- when gay marriage became legal in the District -- the marriage license office has received 2,082 applications. Based on the early numbers, the District is on target to issue four times as many marriage licenses this year as they did in 2009."

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 road Plan to observe the last shuttle launch in person? You might want to have a back-up plan.

 road Here's a first: A wedding in Japan has been officiated by a robot.

 road South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "The fact that Florida has the strictest law in the country banning gay adoption is embarrassing enough. Now, when you add the George Rekers fiasco — a combination of hypocrisy and tens of thousands of wasted tax dollars — you can add "shameful" to "embarrassing." The only hope is some good will come out of all this, and Florida lawmakers will get rid of an archaic ban on gay adoption that has no place in 21st century society."

 road Sacramento's California Museum will pay tribute to Harvey Milk tonight, a week before Harvey Milk Day this Saturday.

 road If you think forking over $499 an iPad is a lot, try spending $189,000.

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 road Article on the beliefs of ex-gay Bill Henson who is part of the group Fish On The Other Side: "The evangelical church should welcome gays without making it conditional on a change in their sexual behavior or orientation."

 road New Calvin Klein underwear model Kellan Lutz: "I could only hope and pray that I could have a career like Mark Wahlberg."


Ryan Phillippe Sad Nobody Got to See his Gay Kiss

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Ryan Phillippe gives an excellent interview to the Advocate's Brandon Voss that touches on various "gay" moments in his career, from his first acting role on One Life to Live, to Mark Christopher's 54, to his altercation with Jay Leno.

On his first acting role as a a gay teen on One Life to Live: "Until I moved to New York to do that show, I didn’t have any gay friends. Coming from a religious school and being 17, I did feel weirdness from the church, and I felt ostracized by people I knew back home who were uncomfortable with that subject matter. But not only did I have this whole awakening about humanity, the fact that I started my career doing something so provocative also gave me strength as an actor to make choices of value and substance as my career went on."

On 54, and the "secret" uncut version that exists: "I don’t know how big of an appetite there is for it, but I would certainly support a DVD release of that version. Breckin [Meyer] and I were a bit sad that nobody got to see us kiss."

On being sexually objectified: "You have to get comfortable with it and realize that sexuality and finding actors attractive are a big part of the entertainment industry."

On a visit he made to Austin, Texas: "We ended up going to a gay bar there, but I don’t even think anyone noticed me. I was kind of shocked. Maybe my gay fans are just better behaved than my straight fans."

Maybe he just wasn't giving his "gayest look".


Calvin Klein's Frat Pack

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There was plenty of eye candy on hand at the Calvin Klein A/W 2010 fashion show in NYC with Lee Pace, Jared Leto, Chace Crawford, Ryan Phillippe, and newly-minted underwear models Kellan Lutz, and Mehcad Brooks all on display.

Click to enlarge. More photo coverage here.

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News: David Huebner, Hadron Collider, Adam Lambert, Uganda

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ABC cancels Adam Lambert Good Morning America concert following complaints.

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Snapped up by CBS Early Show...

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Taylor Lautner wets T-shirt for Rolling Stone.

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David Huebner confirmed as Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.

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Foundation gives $12,000 matching grant to help revive former Southern Voice: "The Lloyd E. Russell Foundation will give $12,000 in matching funds to the new news outlet, according to a note posted on www.savesovo.com Gay activist and businessman Lloyd Russell was active in Atlanta politics as a Libertarian candidate in the 1990s. His nonprofit was started to support the gay community in Atlanta and in the Southeast."

Joe Lieberman: Bitter, party of one.

Signorile: Max Blumenthal on Palin's ties to homophobes and white supremacists.

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Ugandan president: European gays are "recruiting" in Africa. “We used to have very few homosexuals traditionally. They were not persecuted but were not encouraged either because it was clear that is not how God arranged things to be.”

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David Geffen to attend Obama state dinner?

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Ryan Phillippe takes a shirtless hike in L.A.'s Runyon Canyon.

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Straight couple's UK civil partnership bid rejected.

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Lesbian U.S. war resister seeking asylum in Canada speaks: "My mom misses me and she wants me to come back home. Sometimes she cries when I talk with her, wishing she could see me. It's hard. (My family) is hoping the best for me."

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Do we now know what happened to Demi Moore's hip?

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University of North Texas students vote down the right of same-sex couples' eligibility for homecoming king and queen titles: "A total of 4,895 students voted, or 13.5 percent of the student body. "No" votes were 2,836, or 58 percent of the ballots, while 2,059 students, or 42 percent, voted yes. Student leaders say turnout was high."

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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders may testify in Prop 8 case.

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VIDEO: Paula Deen hit by a ham.

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Bang: Hadron Collider produces first collisions.

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Vermont judge awards full custody of 7-year-old girl to non-biological lesbian parent: "Jenkins' ex-partner - Lisa Miller - denied visitation rights, and the judge in the case got angry. Miller refused to let Jenkins even visit Isabella — who was conceived while the pair were together — while the custody proceedings continued for months. And that was enough for Judge William Cohen, who called the battle 'a first-of-its kind parent custody change,' to eliminate any chance of Miller to have custody of her biological daughter."

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P. Diddy to sell his scent on HSN?

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Westboro Baptist Church targets pop-punk band All Time Low: "How do you know how far gone a society is? You look at their social icons. When you look at these gender-confused, haphazard freakazoids then you can plainly see that america is DOOMED, for real! This is the final generation, and a little concussion is the least of their worries."

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D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier blasted for failing to take adequate steps to protect gays, lesbians, and transgender people from hate crimes: "Kris Baumann, chair of the Fraternal Order of Police, and officials with five local LGBT organizations said Lanier has turned down their repeated request to assign more officers to the department’s highly acclaimed Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit, whose ranks have been reduced from seven to two members since Lanier became chief in 2007."


News: Subway Deli, California, Cheyenne Jackson, India Adoption

road.jpg Subway restaurant chain takes action after franchisee's donation to "Yes on 8" campaign revealed.

Califiresroad.jpg Wingnut blames California fires on Proposition 8 protestors.

road.jpg Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepard again demonstrate their supreme lack of decency and brain power.

road.jpg Return of the crackhive.

road.jpg Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno' crashes the set of NBC's Medium: "No one had a clue it was Sacha playing Bruno. It’s amazing he was able to infiltrate the set and pull this off."

road.jpg Marriage Equality foes attempting to get anti-gay referendum on next ballot in Illinois: "Proponents of an Illinois constitutional amendment to restrict marriage to heterosexuals, buoyed by voter approval in three states on Nov. 4, say they’re gearing up to try again in 2010."

road.jpg Cheyenne Jackson to star in musical about Mormons from the creators of South Park?

Tricktrickroad.jpg Gay rapper Deadlee responds to homophobic Trick Trick album: "My first thought is to get crazy and warn him that this f**got will kick his ass — but I am so on Cloud 9 with Obama winning, and the way he did it. Obama was called a terrorist, unpatriotic, and the entire time kept his cool, I so wish I was like that. I know who I am and my self worth that I really don’t give a f**k who or what a Trick Trick has to say. There is still a lot of hate against gays, and a Trick Trick just perpetuates the hate…so if Trick Trick really does plan on putting an AK to my head. I ain’t going out like that! Trick Trick will be the only b***h that ends up dead!"

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Mumbairoad.jpg Gay Israeli couple conceive baby in Mumbai: " Yonatan and Omer Gher came to the city in January and the in-vitro fertilisation was successful through an unknown egg donor and sperms from Yonatan in the first attempt itself, infertility specialist Dr Gautam Allahbadia told PTI. The embryo was then successfully implanted in a surrogate mother selected by the couple and Evyatar (meaning more fathers in Hebrew) was born on October 12, Allahbadia said. Since the couple had to submit proof of their paternity (through DNA test) to the Israeli government, after completing all the necessary paper work, they left for Israel last night, the doctor said." More...

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Dobsonroad.jpg More layoffs at 'Focus on the Family': "Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — an estimated 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California. Critics are holding up the layoffs, which come just two months after the organization’s last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of the ministry.

road.jpg Twilight: Vampire brat pack film premieres in London.

Footballshortsroad.jpg Football players develop new tactic - the dropping of the pants.

road.jpg Trans-national group of gay activists agrees on Slavic Gay Pride alternating every year between Moscow and Minsk: " The agreement came at the weekend when activists from GayRussia.ru and the Moscow Pride organising committee met for the first time with Belarusian groups Gay.by and Gayby.by, the Belarusian Initiative for Sexual and Gender Equality and the LGBT Rights Committee of the Belarusian Green Party. 'We were looking to cooperate with Belarusian gay activists this year, but until recently we believed that local activists were not yet ready for public events,' said Moscow Pride chief organiser Nikolai Alekseev."

road.jpg Project to track LGBT hate crimes receives $80,000 in funding from Australian government.

road.jpg Young X-Men character revealed to be gay.





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