Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-man, is planning to unleash the world's first homosexual superhero in a new television programme.
Lee has reportedly created a character called Thom Creed, a high-school basketball player who is forced to hide his sexuality as well as his superpowers.
It is not known what kind of powers Creed will display.
Lee, the former head of Marvel Comics - who also created the Hulk and the X-Men -
will unveil Creed in an hour-long television special made in the US. [source]
A hot, masculine, gay teenage superhero runnin' around in tights? There's something kinda creepy about that.
Personally, I think Wonder Woman introduced us to gay superheros a long time ago. Her homeland
Paradise Island was a women-only community full of women with super powers.
U.S. television personality Ellen DeGeneres is scheduled to introduce her line of holistic pet care products on QVC, the TV shopping channel said.
The comedian is slated to appear on QVC Friday afternoon, live from the set of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in Los Angeles, to introduce her
HALO, Purely for Pets, products.
During the broadcast, DeGeneres is expected to offer signature items from her all-natural pet care line, including a variety of dog and cat food choices, supplements, natural treats and grooming supplies, with prices ranging from approximately $20 to $40.
Apparently, The American Family Association only cares about protecting heterosexual families:
Six weeks after passing a gay rights law, the Kalamazoo City Commission has voted to rescind it.
The commission voted Dec. 1 to make it a civil offense in the city of 7,200 to discriminate in housing, public accommodations or employment based on sexual orientation or being transgender.
The American Family Association of Michigan submitted petitions with about 1,600 signatures seeking the law's repeal. If officials found at least 1,273 signatures valid, the commission would have had to rescind the law or put it on the ballot.
The commission voted 7-0 Monday night to rescind it.
The AFA's actions in Kalamazoo City are the result of deep-rooted hatred and pure evil. It's extremely disheartening to know that a supposed "Christian"
organization that claims to protect families would willingly allow (and encourage!) employment and housing discrimination. This kind of discrimination
limits a homosexual's ability to provide food and shelter for his or her family.
There's a special place in hell for those kinds of "Christians."
Source: WWMT-TV. Image: Donald Wildmon - head of the AFA
Republican religious wingnuts don't have anything better to do. You would think
they would be focusing on the economy, instead of other people's bedrooms. From the AP:
The House Republican leader in
Maine is proposing to bolster the state's law restricting marriage to one man and one woman by making
it a constitutional amendment, ensuring that gay marriage will be debated this legislative session.
Rep. Josh Tardy is
expected to introduce the amendment. Legislation to allow gay marriage in Maine is also being
introduced. As it stands, Maine has a domestic partnership registry that's open to gay couples.
I have $100 that says Tardy will be caught havin' naughty public restroom sex with a dude any day now.
Since Indiana has more churches than schools, none of this should be a surprise. Opponents of same-sex marriage plan to try again to amend Indiana’s constitution to prohibit gay marriage:
The new proposed amendment states: "Only a marriage between one (1) man and one (1) woman shall be valid or recognized as marriage in Indiana.
A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized."
In previous legislative sessions, the proposed amendment stated: "Marriage in Indiana consists only of the union of one man and one woman.
This constitution or any other Indiana law may not be construed to require that the marital status or the
legal incidents of marriage be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."
Turner said that the changed language is meant to be clearer. It would not bar domestic partnerships, he said, but would bar civil unions.
Note the language used here: "A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for
unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized." It doesn't matter if the Indiana LGBT community calls it "marriage" or not,
Indiana bible bangers don't want gay couples to have any legal recognition at all. Sounds like a buncha hateful "Christians" to me.
Indiana, a no-fault divorce state (meaning you don't have to prove that either person did anything wrong in order to get a divorce),
doesn't track its divorce rates.
I find that
quite interesting. That certainly doesn't mean that people don't get divorced in Indiana.
It simply means bible bangers don't want documented proof that
divorce actually happens in Indiana.
On National Freedom to Marry Day, Thursday, February 12, 2009, at
local marriage counters in cities all over the country, same-sex couples
will request marriage licenses at their local County Clerk's Offices to
raise awareness of the harms and impact that the inability to marry causes
on their families. This national event is hosted yearly by Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA)
and this year they have asked Join the Impact for our help to make this their largest Marriage Counter Action yet!
U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today called on the Senate to pass legislation that ensures equal pay for women and minorities in the workforce. All five Democratic women spoke on the Senate floor in support of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. The Senate is expected to hold a cloture vote on a motion to proceed to the Lilly Ledbetter Bill at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 15, 2009. The House passed the bill on Friday, January 9, 2009.
The Lilly Ledbetter Bill was written to remedy the 2007 Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. decision in which a divided Supreme Court held that workers must sue for pay discrimination within 180 days after the original pay-setting decision, no matter how long the unfair pay continues. Lower courts already have begun citing the ruling in decisions that erode civil rights.
Fifty-four Senators have co-sponsored the Lilly Ledbetter Bill, which amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 so that the statute of limitations runs from the date of the actual payment of a discriminatory wage, not just from the time of hiring. This means employees can seek a remedy based on each discriminating paycheck, not just during the first 180 days of pay discrimination.
I had a different blog post planned for this evening, but my computer kept freezing while I was typing it out. I'm irritated now,
so tonight's post will be a series of random things that are annoying me at the moment. I know. Random randomness is so gay.
Windows Vista sucks.
It's completely incompatible with . . . well, pretty much everything. - which is one of the reasons why my brand new laptop keeps
lockin' up and giving me so much grief.
Too much snow on the ground so I didn't get to drive to Chicago for today's
DOMA protest. So far,
DOMA tweets don't look as promising
as the November 15th Proposition 8 protests.
Facebook advertisers need to learn a little bit about how to target the right market.
This ad (they obviously haven't seen my skin!) and
this ad (God never calls me, he sends text messages) never should
have popped up on my page. But this ad was meant just for me. They
don't have to pay me to complain. I'll do it for free.
I bought my teenagers their own Acer netbook for Christmas
and told them they could never use Mama's work laptop again. They don't listen. I have all kinds of spyware on my computer
- again - and I have to run Spybot and a full virus scan tonight - again.
Oh! The police (better known as Po-Po) showed up last night looking for my 16 year old - about an argument (that's what he said, an argument)
he had with a group of kids from the westside of town (translation: a group of white boys from the nicer side of town) about 3 weeks ago.
I said, "This happened 3 weeks ago and you're just coming here tonight?" He said, "We tried calling." Umm, what? You tried calling? Give me a fuckin' break.
I asked him if he had a warrant, he said, "No." I said, "Well don't come back until you do." He left.
I'm all out of Pinot Noir - but I'm not going out in this weather to buy more. Spring can't come soon enough.
The American Family Association (AFA) posted a new call-to-action on its web site, asking its members to boycott Pepsi. The AFA says:
PepsiCo has refused a request by AFA to remain neutral in the culture war. The company indicated that it will continue major financial support of homosexual organizations. AFA wrote Pepsi two times (on October 14 and October 29) requesting a meeting to discuss Pepsi's neutrality in the culture war.
The AFA also launched a boycott of Campbell's Soup, demanding they also remain neutral in the culture war.
I don't get it. Pepsi and Campbell's Soup must remain neutral, unless they're donating money to anti-gay organizations like the AFA, right? The AFA's Pepsi complaint reads:
In the last two years, Pepsi has given $500,000 to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and $500,000 to the Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). The $1,000,000 was to be used to help promote homosexuality in the workplace. Pepsi refuses to give money to any pro-family organization that opposes the homosexual agenda. Plus, every homosexual organization we know of is overwhelmingly pro-abortion.
To this, Paul Boykas, Pepsi's Director of Public Policy responded:
In 2008, the PepsiCo Foundation awarded a grant to Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays to support a national program specifically designed for workplace environments.
The initiative seeks to promote further understanding and equality in the places where people spend much of their time at work.
Among the values promoted by the PepsiCo Foundation is ensuring a work environment that is respectful and where associates are valued for their contributions.
I guess Pepsi has decided that the AFA doesn't share its respect for diverse people and cultures.
The AFA tried unsuccessfully to boycott Kraft, Microsoft, McDonald's and Ford because they refused to remain neutral as well.
Update: I just did a Google search for Paul Boykas, Pepsi's Director of Public Policy. I think you'll find his political contributions list quite interesting.
If shitty drag shows with tired ass drag queens don't keep people out of the gay bars around here, this won't either.
Here's a copy of the Ricin threat sent to 11 gay bars in Seattle:
Update 7:30am: I just read a post on a private forum that suggests this letter was written by a gay man because it lacks any mention of God and it's missing colorful anti-gay slurs. The letter actually reminds me of all the "I just inherited a large sum of money and I need your help" SPAM. Those SPAM letters look like someone is trying too hard to sound like a Native English speaker.
Ain't this some shit? Supporters of Proposition 8 - a law that strips homosexual taxpaying Americans of the most basic human right - have filed a lawsuit asking the state of California to keep their donation records private:
Supporters of the November ballot measure that banned gay marriages in California have filed a lawsuit seeking to block their campaign finance records from public view, saying the reports have led to harassment of donors.
"No one should have to worry about getting a death threat because of the way he or she votes," said James Bopp Jr., an attorney representing two groups that supported Proposition 8, Protect Marriage.com and the National Organization for Marriage California.
Bullshit. Companies that supported Yes on 8 are worried about their bottom line, but they're claiming they're worried about their safety so they look like victims instead of hateful and greedy bastards.
Members of the LGBT community are boycotting companies that donated to the Yes on 8 campaign, teaching businesses everywhere a very valuable lesson about the LGBT community's economic power: mess with our rights, we'll mess with your revenue. Did they really think we would continue to spend money at their establishment so they could then turn around and donate that money to help pass anti-gay legislation? We're gay, not stupid.
Finding a good lesbian movie online can get a little frustrating, especially when a Google search for the phrase lesbian movies results in nothing but
shitty overrated lesbian porn.
But my dear lezzies, fret no more! OneMoreLesbian.com has done all the
huntin' and peckin' around for you and they've housed the world's largest database of lesbian movies all in one spot.
I met the folks over at OneMoreLesbian.com a couple of months ago when they joined our sister site
GayWallet.com. I spent two days doing nothing but sitting on my computer and browsing their archives.
There's so much to see there, but here are a couple of my favorites:
Interviews With My Next Girlfriend
The stuffy, wanna-be conservative, prudish lesbian (who's just dyin' to get laid, but won't admit it!) kinda reminds me of the women I keep running into.
An Unexpected Love (a Lifetime Presentation)
Part 1 of 11
I received this press release from Logo yesterday. At the risk of sounding like a hater, I have to say my first thought was "Dear lord! An entire month of drag queens? You're kidding, right?" Ya have to know our local Rockford, IL/Beloit, WI drag queens to know where that thought came from.
They inspire. They change lives. They define fabulous. And by the powers invested by Logo, the drag community finally has their own first ever national history month this January 2009. Who brought back fake eyelashes in style? Who taught us how to wear makeup (lots of it) to achieve that youthful look? Who inspired us to "sashay" and "shante" in times of potential paparazzi opportunities? This national history month will demonstrate the drag community as the vital cornerstone of modern popular culture as they courageously fight for a more sparkling tomorrow.
Logo will bring in the new year with the launch of the drag-dedicated site, draghistorymonth.com, that honors the achievements and heritage of drag icons from centuries past to today.
Logo has also created a public education campaign designed to raise awareness about all things drag and its impact on American culture. A series of original PSAs, featuring drag queen superstar Varla Jean Merman, builds off the dedicated website and honors the "generations of gender illusionists" and the days before press-on nails. Viewers in the PSA are then directed to draghistorymonth.com for more information on the evolution of the artistry of drag.
A Kent couple who claimed to be experts in immigration cases advised clients to falsely claim to be gay and subject to persecution or even death if they returned home so they could win asylum in the U.S., according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
. . .
In one instance, involving an individual identified only as A.K., Steven Mahoney is alleged to have advised him to say on immigration applications that he was gay and that the militia in his country had attempted to rape his wife because of it, according to the indictment. Helena Mahoney allegedly helped the man obtain "documents about the gay community to assist A.K. in preparing for his asylum interview," the indictment alleges.
Another immigrant, identified as G.V., reportedly submitted documents to the immigration officials claiming that he was afraid he would be maimed if he returned to his homeland "when in truth ... G.V. was not afraid of such maiming," according to the indictment [source: Alleged advice to asylum seekers: Tell feds you're gay]
I dated EP, a Russian immigrant for about 5 months. I remember her trying desperately to find an "expert witness" who would provide her with documents that illustrated how horrible it was to be a homosexual in Russia. She said, "People do it all the time. They just lie and the judge never questions it. How can they prove otherwise?" After learning that several of EP's Russian friends had manipulated Americans into marrying them so they could get citizenship (then walked out on them the day the ink dried on their green card), I decided I didn't ever want to see EP again. You are who you associate with.
What I found most interesting during my time with EP was her overwhelming hatred of almost all things American. When I asked her why she wanted to be in this country (since she appeared to hate it so much), she said she'd been here so long it had become her home. I'm guessing that even the worst things about the USA are still better than the best things about Russia.
Reports of overwhelming African American support for Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage were exaggerated in exit polls, a new look at the November election results has found.
"Party identification, age, religiosity and political view had much bigger effects than race, gender or having gay and lesbian family and friends," said Patrick Egan of New York University, who wrote the report with Kenneth Sherrill of Hunter College of New York for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. [source: SFGate]
This article is about 2 months too late, but I have to tell ya: it was very interesting being bombarded by white homosexuals who suddenly realized the LGBT community has done a poor job of breaking down racial barriers.
Even though new research suggests that the media exaggerated Black support for Prop 8 (bad media! bad, bad media!) I hope the LGBT commumity doesn't ignore the fact that our community has to do a better job of creating alliances with non-LGBT individuals and organizations. This analysis of the successful Yes on 8 strategy can teach us a thing or two.
I have insomnia and I refuse to turn on the TV because I'm sure I'll hear nothing but obnoxious Billy Mays infomercials. Seriously, the person who keeps hiring him to do commercials must be a gay man who loves hairy men with big mouths. Umm, yep.
I just finished reading this blog where I found this picture of Rachel Maddow. I'm not a Maddow fan, but that's a nice picture of the new poster child for lesbianism. At least our new poster child is really a lesbian, unlike this woman and this woman.
I'm incredibly annoyed with the HRC. They're still beatin' the hell outta the Rick Warren issue, but if you visit their web site there's absolutely no mention of the nationwide DOMA protests on January 10 - organized by Join the Impact. I hit the search feature in the top right-hand corner of their site and searched for Prop 8 and noticed there's no mention of the nationwide November 15, 2008 Prop 8 protests - also organized by Join the Impact. I even checked the "Take Action" page; still no mention of the DOMA ptotests on January 10.
Does the HRC support and promote only those protests they have organized and that they have deemed are important for the LGBT community? It sure looks that way to me.
Yes, for years the HRC did great work for the LGBT community. But in recent years, it's starting to look like the organization cares more about lining its pockets with corporate sponsorship dollars than it does with actually motivating the LGBT community to organize grassroots LGBT equality campaigns. If you belong to their mailing list, you'll notice that the only thing they ever really want us to do is write letters, sign petitions, and send them money. I suppose I could work up a sweat writin' some letters and signin' some petitions, but seriously, where the hell has that gotten us?
If you plan to scam someone, you might want to check your spelling. But then again, anyone who falls for that kind of scam won't even notice the spelling error.
Anywho ... I'm slowly coming back to life after a very long holiday vacation. I'll be back to my usual rants soon. Very soon.
Rick Warren's popularity seems to be off the charts - thanks to the fuss liberals and gays made over his participation in President-Elect Obama's inauguration. Great job, folks!
Rick Warren has been invited to speak at the Martin Luther King Commemorative Service, but gay-friendly African American pastor Rev. Joseph Lowery wasn't invited? See page 3 of the events schedule. Seems very purposeful to me. Conservative religious Blacks are supporting Obama's decision to invite Rick Warren to speak at his inauguration. That move sends a very loud and crystal clear message to the LGBT community.
The UPI reports:
Evangelical Rev. Rick Warren has been invited to speak at the Martin Luther King Commemorative Service in Atlanta the day before Barack Obama's inaugural.
Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in California and author of the best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life," will be the main speaker for the Jan. 19 service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said. The service is one of the major events of a week of activities in Atlanta in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King.
We (the collective LGBT "we") seem to be losing the Rick Warren battle. And it's just what we deserve. We have to learn to pick our battles better.
The LGBT community's unnecessary temper tantram about Rick Warren has rallied more support for him - and this time that support comes from the one group the LGBT community needed to mend fences with the most: conservative religious Black folks. I'm hoping we've learned our lesson, but I seriously doubt it.
Of course the controversy continues. It's the holidays and the news business is slow.
Anywho . . . Rick Warren went shopping at a gay-friendly bookstore in West Hollywood:
What will pissed off gay people bitch about after the inauguration?
I'm willing to bet NONE of these angry gays will participate in the National DOMA protest on January 10 - because Bill and Hillary Clinton gave us DOMA. Gay boys love Hillary the Diva so her anti-gay behavior has been forgiven.
A rally calling on the Iraqi Government to free Montather Al-Ziedi, the man who threw his shoes at George W. Bush, will be held Monday, December 29 at noon in front of the Iraqi consulate [site currently inaccessible] to the United States, located at 1801 P Street NW in Washington, DC.
The rally is timed to immediately precede Mr. Al-Ziedi's appearance in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on Dec. 31, New Year's Eve. Mr. Al-Ziedi was arrested December 14 after hurling his shoes at Mr. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad.
"Al-Zeidi did not attempt to physically hurt George Bush but to insult him and express the deep anger that so many Iraqis feel over the U.S. occupation. He should be immediately released and the Iraqi government should be held accountable for abusing him while in custody," said Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK.
"The treatment Al-Zeidi has received should shame all Americans and is likely to motivate as much anti-American sentiment as have the photos of torture at Abu Ghraib," said David Swanson, cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org. "While our President and Vice President openly confess to authorizing torture, their puppet government in Iraq tortures a man for throwing shoes, in complete absence of even the pretense of 'interrogation,' much less a ticking time bomb. Freeing Al-Zeidi will not fix this situation. We must also put Bush and Cheney behind bars."
"There are credible reports that Montather Al-Ziedi has been tortured while in the custody of the government of Iraq," said Nick Mottern, Director of Consumers for Peace, one of the rally organizers, "and this alone provides the basis for setting him free."
"Mr. Al-Ziedi's act, in the context of the suffering caused by the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, can be seen as a legitimate form of self-expression," Mottern said, "but in any case his action is something that should be treated as nothing more than a misdemeanor in which his time already spent in jail would be more than sufficient."
At the close of the rally, organizers will deliver a petition to Ambassador of Iraq to the United States Samir Sumaida'ie at the Iraqi embassy at 3421 Massachusetts Avenue NW.
U.S. television personality 
Six weeks after passing a 
The House Republican leader in
Maine is proposing to bolster the state's law restricting marriage to one man and one woman by making
it a constitutional amendment, ensuring that gay marriage will be debated this legislative session.
