AfterElton Briefs: The "Eastenders" gay kiss is a ratings juggernaut, Bravo's big gay gabfest, and more!

Armand Illo?...Armadillo?...really? lol

If you look, the reflection gives a very good additional angle =D ha!

My tounge would catch your tounge...were the world mine :-)

I did think it was weird they didn't put Lance with a guy, but I will give People credit for letting him come out on their cover, and they certainly let him say he was gay in that Bachelor thing, plus they also had Adam Lambert. Overall, it was a pretty good issue of People.

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Oh, God, why am I not surprised? *facepalm* Beginning to suspect that he's a NOM plant, slowly carrying out a circuitous plot to demonize our entire community.

(On a lighter note: scars on thighs are hot.)

Can I be next to punch him in the face?  The garbage that comes out of his mouth is beginning to get a little annoying.  And to get into a tif with Santa Fergie... unforgivable!!

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somewhere, carrie prejean is sitting and thinking: 'karma is a bitch, not me'

he has no credit anymore from here on out. he can't get mad at anymore closeted stars, anti-gay marriage folks, or anyone else who uses gay slurs. nope, he's lost all credibility.

Besides Glaad, i think top blog sites (lgbt related) like AE, towleroad and whatever else need to call him out, loud and clear. I know i've done my fair share of calling him out. it's fun. :-P

Yeah, when I saw the picture from People, I was pretty ticked. I mean, I can give People credit for giving Ellen, Lance, Clay, etc. a supportive environment to come out publicly. I can give them kudos for picking a couple of out guys for their hottest bachelors list. And I get that they had a theme for the photoshoots.  But it wouldn't have killed them to pair Lance with a dude.

My understanding is that Adam made the list, too - wonder how he felt about being paired with a girl, if they did it to him, too?

As for the pink haired troll, I think he's actually crossed a line here with a lot of people that he'd somehow managed to not cross before.  I'm not a fan of will.I.am in the slightest, I find him pretentious.  But I find the troll to be less believable, and frankly, I'm surprised someone hasn't hit him before.  And you never, ever, ever get to use that word as "the most hurtful insult you can think of."  It demeans us all.  Even more than he normally does.

Excerpts from Digital Spy, May 28, 2009 - Kris Green

EastEnders executive producer Diederick Santer talking about Syed and Christian.

BEGIN QUOTE

The pair will then launch into a full-blown affair of the heart.

The story will primarily focus on Syed's struggles to come to terms with his sexuality as a practising Muslim.

Describing the plot as a "traditional love affair, albeit with a modern multicultural twist"...

EastEnders executive producer Diederick Santer said:

"To all intents and purposes, Syed's a 'good' Muslim man: he doesn't drink, smoke or engage in sex before marriage. But he struggles with his sexuality when he finds himself drawn to Christian and he believes this goes against his faith.

"This is not a story about Syed and Christian's physical relationship - we don't see anything beyond one kiss. It's more about the inner turmoil and conflict Syed endures trying to remain true to his faith while questioning his sexuality."

END QUOTE

 

I find that statement troubling on so many levels.  Not that I think there has to be some major make-out fest or even that they have sex (since sex would be an issue for Syed whether he had feeling for a man or not)

But how can you say you are telling a "traditional love affair" that is a "full blown affair of the heart" and not allow the characters to explore their feelings romantically.

The way he describes it makes it seem like the story isn't about Christian and his feelings at all. 

There at two sides to a love story.  Maybe it's just the wording he uses but something about it just doesn't sit right.

Is it really just a story about Syed being in the closet and struggling with his feelings or is it an actual love story where Christian gets to have a relationship that lasts for once?

Sigh...

"That's our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment." (Bayard Rustin)  **   "Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common" (Dorothy Parker)

For the record, not sure when it happened, but it just popped up in my searches - GLAAD has called on the Pink Haired Troll to apologize for using homophobic slurs.  I find this to be appropriate, and frankly, I'm giggling just a little.  From GLAAD:

New York, NY, June 22, 2009 – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today issued the following statement in response to a video posted by celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, in which he made the following remarks about a confrontation with will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and members of the band’s entourage.

"And that is when I made the split-second decision - that I was gonna say what I thought was the worst possible thing that thug [will.i.am] would ever want to hear. As I was standing my ground - without being violent or physical which I would never do - I told him - and you know what? I don't need to respect you and you're a f**. You're gay and stop being such a f***ot."

"These are vulgar anti-gay slurs that feed a climate of hatred and intolerance toward our community," said Rashad Robinson, Senior Director of Media Programs at GLAAD. “For someone in our own community to use it to attack another person by saying that it is, quote, ‘The worst possible thing that thug would ever want to hear,’ is incredibly dangerous. It legitimizes use of a slur that is often linked to violence against our community. And it sends a message that it is OK to attempt to dehumanize people by exploiting anti-gay attitudes.”

“We have reached out to Hilton and asked him to apologize for promoting this anti-gay slur, and we would ask media outlets to avoid repetition of the slur in their coverage of this story.”

Reuters is reporting that Toronto police have charged Liborio Molina, the manager of the Black Eyed Peas, with assault.

“While not all the facts in this case are known, the violence that appears to have been committed against Perez Hilton is unacceptable and ought to be condemned in the strongest possible terms,” said Robinson.

http://www.glaad.org/Page.aspx?pid=787

I'm not a crazed fangirl for Will I Am but as pop rap groups go I have always loved that the Peas don't promote anti-gay sentiments or mysogyny in their music.

Will I Am didn't call Perez any names even when he would have been justified in doing so (not for being gay but for being an arse). 

Even in his video responses where Perez called him a "disgusting human being", Will I Am commented on Perez' behavior but did not even hint at anything anti gay in his comments or call Perez names.

Perez knew that Will I Am never touched him.  He knows what Polo Molina looks like since he has seen and spoken to the Black Eyed Peas many times.

Perez out and out lied when he tweeted and later stated that Will I Am and his "bodyguards" assaulted him.

What makes Perez think that the worst thing you could call anyone is "gay" or "faggot".  Really, the worst?

I still think Perez just thought folks would immediately believe anything he said if he claimed he was attacked by a black rapper (and implied he thought the Black Eyed Peas had guns) and he was definitely counting on the gay press to take his side without question.

He's a parasite and he should be sued for slander by Will I Am for using the Internet to accuse someone of assaulting him when he was blatantly lying.  There will always be people who believe that Will I Am assaulted Perez or made his manager do it and that's just unfair.

Polo Molina is in jail and the Toronto PD will take care of him and I'm sure Perez will have a field day talking, video blogging and twittering about it.

Hope he made it to that Lady Gaga party he tweeted about trying to get to in such a rush while he was supposedly "bleeding" and in fear that he might lose his eye.

Idiota!

"That's our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment." (Bayard Rustin)  **   "Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common" (Dorothy Parker)

The hypocrisy and double-standards of Perez Hilton are epic. I'm confused by how passionately he's saying that violence is never the answer, how it should never be ignored or taken lightly, when he posts crap like this: http://perezhilton.com/2008-02-08-pussy-got-pounded

I just don't understand how he thinks he can deal out all this meanness and nastyness on such a large scale without eliciting a violent, angry response. And the fact that he used the F word to provoke Will.i.am the "thug" with a "gun" makes me furious. His website is just a hotbed of negative energy and bad karma. I'm glad he got what's coming to him.

After Perez slammed Dustin Lance Black's life so outrageously on the eve of Gay Pride, he seems only interested in self-agrandizment.  I do not see him as a gay activist at all.  Sleaze is as sleaze does, and Perez Hilton is deep scum.

The truth is most gossip columnists do their careers in, Walter Winchell,  Rona Barrett, Joyce Haber, and even Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons over stayed their welcome.  It is too bad that such people prey off the lives of others when they have nothing to offer but vitriol.  Perez Hilton is not helping gay people (or anyone else) gain acceptance, instead he is perpetuating the idea that it is shameful and bad to be gay or lesbian.  He glories in kicking people to the ground that need help.

It makes me irate to think that as this fat slob grows wealthy, kids are dying by suicide, bullying, and outright hate by demonstrating that gays are bad and sinful. Instead of getting a messsage of love and acceptance for marriage equality across in the wake of the Carrie Prejean cause celebre Hilton turned it into a personal attack on his his personal rights and journalistic integrity. 

When Hilton first rose to fame I was intrigued but it became immediately evident that he was pushing his own agenda rather than being informative or helpful.  He is closer to a domestic terrorist than he is to a good citizen.

That's all I am saying... 

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He constantly attacked  Isiah Washington for calling TR Knight the f word and then he does the same thing to Will i am.

He a total hipocrate self-loather. He's not just bad for the gay community. He's bad for the human community.

Perez is an hipocrite and he doesn't know what objetive means.

And the gay rights are only an excuse for him. The way he treated Adam Lambert was really lame.

I remember last year he out two actors in his couple alert, the circunstances where very similar, one was a soap actor and the other a nightime series actor (at least is nightime here in spain), there was previous rumours about them, and both where coupled with fellow (less known) actor.

Curiously the article about the soap actor has nothing wrong (apart of the fact that talk about his sexuality when he is not out), he wished happiness, make a joke about how he and his partner are look alike, and in general was nice (apart from the disrespect of out someone, of course).

The other one was totally different, it was written in a very derogatory way, full of disrespect, and he made bad taste jokes about who was the top and who was the bottom.

As i know nor the soap actor neither the other have any kind of relationship with Perez (if they have friendship with him, he probably didn't publish that news), so the only difference was the way that he perceive both actors. Totally subjective.

Even some of the actor that come out after he outed them in his blog are very bad treated, like Lance Bass or T R Knight

I just love Fergie in the background, "We're all cool guys, we're all just trying to have a good time..." LOL

As for PHT, all I can say is WTF! That's seriously the most idiotic thing I've heard him do (and his response to GLAAD!) and he's done a lot. How does he make a living off this shiznit? It's insane to me that people still read him and have any sort of respect for him. 

Besides, no one likes a beligerent drunky, and even though he may not have been "violent," his remarks were certainly inflamatory and definitely aimed to incite some big reaction. Just because he didn't throw any punches doesn't mean that he wasn't violent in thought and speech. 

Ugh. 

If this were Neil Patrick Harris, instead of Lance Bass, it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow.  At any rate, the "note" from Lance on the photo tells the tale.

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