How could anyone be mean to that face?! (Will Young, photo courtesy GETTY)
Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
- UK DJ Chris Moyles has been admonished by regulators for spoofing gay singer Will Young with two parody versions of his songs that included lyrics about his sexuality and were performed in a high, effeminate voice. The songs were performed on Young's 30th birthday. When you care enough to send the very best, eh Chris?
- The Chicago Tribune's searing expose on the real victim of Proposition 8: Bachelorette parties! Why many gay bars aren't welcoming feather-boa-wrapped galpals in the midst of the fight for marriage equality.
- It's been a little while since I rattled on about Cute With Chris, but the latest episode of the weekly celebration of all things cute/wrong is as good as any to mention thanks to the lesbian dog who was the victim of an attempted murder and the hilarious "How Did He Turn Out?" reader photo feature, which is pretty much a Pride Parade told through childhood photos (and kittens).
Ugly Betty's Michael Urie backstage with former Juilliard classmate Cody Green at West Side Story
- Check out this series of six extraordinary videos produced by The Guardian in the UK telling the stories of gay couples and families whose lives have been impacted by Proposition 8.
- Here's one to restore your faith in humanity: A seventh-grade teacher in Harlem recently invited his class to his commitment ceremony, and most of the class will be attending. When asked about the "controversial" invite, most of the students said there was nothing controversial about it, and some even corrected the reporter, noting that their teacher identifies as bisexual, not gay.
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Will Young
I'll be nicer to Will Young, if he wants, and if he really wants me to be nasty to him, I'd do that too - I'd be whatever he wanted, actually. I saw him recently on an rerun of Top Gear, and his laughter is just infectious. He's quite the catch. He so wanted to beat Simon Cowell's lap time in that crappy Chevy they make the celebrities drive around the track. And he did.
On a more serious note, I find it fascinating at the civilized enforcement of standards they have on British media. I can't decide if it needs to be implemented in the U.S., or if it encroaches on our free speech rights too much, and could be abused by a conservative administration. But the Brits seem to have an open society while still encouragin discourse to be civilized.
Bachelorette parties...
...I completely understand why the owners of these clubs would want to stop these parties. It absolutely is flaunting the right to marry in front of those club patrons. And not only that, the most out of control and crazy group that you will find anywhere is a group of women out on the town. They can be an unruly, disrespectful mob. They have learned this bad behaviour as a way of rebelling against patriarchy although many young women wouldn't see it this way.
And I agree with one of the club owners that said he might welcome them back if the women start marching with the men and raising money for equal rights. Every women that says she has gay men for friends should be vocal and active in supporting the issues. It's "right action".
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
boorish bachelorettes
I've always found the bachelorette parties who go to a gay bar to whore it up to be offensive, but what the hell?
The reasons they go seem to be
The only redeeming factor is that on occasion there's a very nice and kind young woman who's dragged along with one of these parties and who would never have stepped foot in a gay bar because of what her demonic preacher has been teller her all her life and once she actually sees gay men, she loses her fears and realizes that her preacher has been duping her and that all her friends are tramps (well, she may have realized that last point before the bachelorette party.)