Monday, April 20, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi win the GLAAD Award for cutest married lesbians ever, Kathy Griffin sports a bikini bod and a White Knot for gay marriage on her crotch. Ilene Chaiken rants while Jennifer Beals, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey look helpless. Riding the elevator with Kate Walsh and T.R. Knight and going old school with Cher and Faye Dunaway. Plus, Kelly Clarkson teases the lesbians going from house frau to Coyote Ugly in her 'I Don’t Hook Up' video.
MATERIAL GIRL BUCKED OFF: Madonna was visiting the States, staying at famed photographer Steven Klein’s Bridgehampton estate when she took a spill from horseback. She blames the spill on a paparazzi spooking the horse and is recovering comfortably at pal Gwenyth Paltrow's pad.
DON'T BEAM ME UP SCOTTY! Though he was director JJ Abrams' first choice for the role of Captain John Kirk in the upcoming Star Trek prequel, Matt Damon turned down the opportunity to boldly go where no man has gone before.
This afternoon, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee issued an official notice that the federal hate crimes bill, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913), is scheduled for a full committee markup this week. The markup on the hate crimes bill will begin on Wednesday, April 22 at 10:15 a.m. in 2141 [...]
Jonathan Merritt, a 26-year-old faith and culture writer who serves as national spokesperson for the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative, has a must-read post up at USA Today that encourages self-professed Christians to do away with “rhetorical onslaughts” against LGBT people and take a deeper look at the way Jesus treated people who were marginalized by [...]
New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote a doozy of an article on Saturday that lampoons (or, harpoons, perhaps…) the anti-gay right wing for their desperate, grasping attacks against marriage equality.  I love that he points to that crazy National Organization for Marriage “Gathering Storm” ad that we helped turn into what Rich calls an [...]

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