LOGO's Noah's Arc took on the debate of masculine vs. feminine gays and Keith Boykin applauds: “What's different about the queens on this television series is that they're not one-dimensional. Unlike the queens on sitcoms and big budget movies, the queens on ‘Noah's Arc' don't exist simply for comic relief. They have real lives and real struggles with real issues. That's never been done before on television.” Rod 2.0 breaks it down scene by scene with an emphasis on the hotness.
Ryan Miner, a 19-year-old student at Duquesne University who said gays are “subhuman,” says he'd rather be expelled than write a 10-page paper that was assigned to him as punishment by the school's office of judicial affairs. At odds are the school's anti-discrimination and harassment policy and the student's first amendment rights. Duquesne, strangely enough, is a Catholic University. What would the Pope do?
Truman Capote was a rock star of his time, says Capote director Bennett Miller: “To some degree the writer was replaced by rock stars. (Capote) was a rock star. Even before he wrote his first book, just from his short stories, he had national recognition. I don't know what changed … You've just got to give a blow job to somebody on a videotape and you're a celebrity, you know what I mean? The number of celebrities, the number of people with that kind of recognition, compared to then, is exponential to the exponential. I think the average person — you might not think you'd be able to — could easily name a thousand people if I set you down to name a thousand people who are famous.”
Several Ohio groups who pushed for the ban on gay marriage in advance of last November's election are accused of hiding more than $2 million.
San Francisco police are investigating the death of a 48-year-old gay man who was found unconscious in a pool of blood on Bryant Street.
The victim, Barry Nielsen, an artist, was acting as a greeter at an art event at the time of the incident. Police says his injuries are inconsistent with a fall, and are treating it as a possible homicide. Anyone with information is urged to call the SFPD at (415) 558-5411.
Following yesterday's Sheryl Swoopes lesbian
non-revelation, Oddjack places bets on the top five pro athletes most likely to come out next, based on “rumor, inuendo [sic], and guilty-by-association reasoning.”
Can you watch a three hour movie about a giant gorilla terrorizing Manhattan? Could you watch a three hour movie about a sinking ship?