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ACE: Robert Pattinson’s GLAAD Award

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:00:28 +0000

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has held the first gala for the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday, March 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City and “Little Ashes” has taken home a prize.

The movie starring Robert Pattinson was named Outstanding Film for Limited Release category, beating up other nominees including “Casi Divas”, “The Country Teacher”, “Phoebe in Wonderland” and “The Secrets”.

Read more about Robert and other GLAAD award recipients at: Ace Showbiz!

The DC: GLAAD Awards!

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:00:13 +0000

Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon and the ABC drama series “Brothers & Sisters” are among this year’s recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Presented Saturday in New York, winners of the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards also include the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the Lifetime network film “Prayers for Bobby” and a report on CNN’s “American Morning” program called “Why Will Won’t Pledge Allegiance.”

For the rest of this post and many other great GLBT related posts, click here to visit – The Daily Caller!

Lez Get Real: Ask Ellen!

James — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:00:07 +0000

There’s a great post on Lez Get Real that exposes a Twitter and Facebook movement aimed at getting Ellen DeGeneres to put together a prom for the students of Itawamba High School after theirs was canceled because a lesbian student wanted to bring her girlfriend as a date.

According to the post:

The LGBT community has been tweeting and facebook this story all over the internet to try to bring attention to McMillen’s plight. We know what this statement means, The Itawamba School District is trying to villify McMillen to all her classmates, students that might have been indifferent or even supportive of her sexual orientation before, will now blame her for the prom being cancelled. We also know that an “unofficial” prom will be organized and McMillen will not be invited. It is probable that McMillen is not the only LGBT student at the school, so the school district is effectively endorsing a “no gays allowed” prom.

Ellen Degeneres Fans see this as an opportunity to step up and do for the LGBT community what Oprah has done in the African American community.

Read more and get the links at: Lez Get Real!

No Grey, Just Red!

Jason Shaw — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:56:01 +0000

More tales from our very own English eccentric, Jason Shaw. You know him, he’s the one that writes all those stories, the one that was a DJ, the one that was told he was camp by one Mr Crisp! Growing older day by day, English style!

Today, my crotch is seriously sore! I mean seriously! OK, so that may be a tad more information that you wanted to hear right now, perhaps you just popped by to hear a lil bit of gossip or a snagget of news or a funky photo of one of the Seafront Fans. But there you are confronted by a statement of fact on the state of my lower portions. I’m sorry, but, if you know anything about this blog, you’ll know that, I’m honest, painfully honest and to the point. And right now the point is my crotch is a throbbing seething mass of soreness!

First of all, it was a little on the sore side, because after the unwanted appearance of a grey hair in the downstairs man-garden the other week and the following rapid intervention of razor blades, the playing field was bare. However, as everyone knows, unless you keep cutting the lawn, the grass grows back, which is what’s going on downstairs. It’s as itchy as an itchy thing, the hair has grown to stubble length and that makes it itchy and sore and a right pain!

That could have been that, but for some silly reason, this morning I woke with a buzz in my body. Nope I’d not accidentally turned on my rampant rabbit during the night, but I felt buzzy inside. The weather was fine, so clear and bright, yes cold but, it’s a taste of sun, which to be honest, is a bit of a novelty for me. Anyway, I knew I just had to do something and like a cast member from Glee, I sprung into action, bounded and danced my way downstairs. I was alive, I was fruity and buzzy, as I think I may have already said. I got me bike gear out, got me gloves on, wrapped myself up, went outside and out the gate. My mind puzzled a little bit, then I realised I’d forgotten the bike. So after I retrieved the bike, I set off down the road heading south, east, north, west, OK, so I’m not 100% sure which direction I was heading, well I kinda did, I mean, I know I wasn’t going south, after all, I’m in Brighton, you can’t really go south from here, not without getting ya feet wet! And I know north is heading towards the hills, up country, towards London and I wasn’t going that way. Anyway, I think I was heading west, from west Hove, passed Portslade, Fishersgate, Southwick, round Shoreham then up to Bramber and all the way back!.

This was my first little ride of the winter, I say little, it’s about 20 miles in total round trip. Now, at this time, a few hours later, I really wish I’d woken up without a buzz, that I’d woken up in a grouchy mood, a mood where all I wanted to do was wrap myself up in my duvet and snuggle on the sofa. For, if I’d been like that, my arse would not be saddle sore, my right leg would not be swollen round the knee, and my crutch would not be chaffed red sodding raw!

I’m not always great at giving advice, sometimes it’s a bit wishy washy, but if you never take advice from me ever again, take this little snogette – Do not ever cycle when you’ve got re-growth going on in the undercrackers department. Don’t do it, the resulting stubble rash ain’t clever, but it sure is big, it sure is red and it sure is sore!!!!

Always more from Jason on

www.seafrontdiary.com

Equality Forum: Remembering

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:00:04 +0000

To commemorate the 45^th anniversary of the Selma Marches, Equality Forum will unveil Life Magazine photojournalist Dan Budnik’s image of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Selma in March 1965.

The reception of African American and GLBT leaders will take place on Monday, March 15 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Equality Forum office, 1420 Locust Street, Suite 300, Philadelphia.

“Dr. King’s dream inspired all Americans and had a profound impact on the gay civil rights movement,” stated Malcolm Lazin, Executive Director, Equality Forum. “Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King were outspoken advocates of gay equality.”

“We had marched with Martin Luther King, seven of us from the Mattachine Society of Washington in 1963, and from that time on, we’d always had our own dream about a march of similar proportions,” said Gay Pioneer Jack Nichols.

Openly gay Bayard Rustin was the lead organizer of the March on Washington in August 1963. In October 1963, openly gay James Baldwin and Dick Gregory with his wife were the first nationally prominent blacks to protest for voters rights in Selma

“The Budnik photograph will remain in the Equality Forum office as a reminder of the debt the GLBT civil rights movement owes to Dr. King,” said Temple Professor Debra Blair, Chair of Equality Forum’s Board of Directors.

Equality Forum is a national and international GLBT civil rights organization with an educational focus. Equality Forum coordinates GLBT History Month, produces documentary films, undertakes high-impact initiatives and presents the largest annual national and international GLBT civil rights summit.

For more information, please click here to visit the Equality Forum!

For more on the Marches from Selma to Montgomery, click here!

Mambam: Do You Need Improvment?

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:00:29 +0000

I nearly didn’t get round to posting anything today. I’ve been off work and decided to visit my parents in the afternoon.

I just got back, had something to eat and sat in front of the TV, only to be confronted with one of the most horrendous shows on TV, Embarrassing Bodies.

It’s like car crash TV. You can’t believe what your watching, but at the same time can’t turn over.
As i type this a man is being examined in the arse area (very graphically) and has been told he isn’t wiping his bum properly.

More at: Mambam!

Cynthia Nixon Is Fighting Back

James — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:00:45 +0000

“I’m supporting Fight Back New York so we can finally show these anti-equality senators that there are consequences to their actions. That they can lose their seats for voting against our rights. Fight Back New York is smart, strategic political action committee with the sole purpose of defeating senators who voted ‘no’ on equality.” – Cynthia Nixon

Are you ready to help Cynthia Nixon Fight Back? Click here for more information!

US: Haim Dies at 38

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:33 +0000

If you remember “The Lost Boys”, you’ll remember how cute this guy was when he was younger! According to US Magazine –

Former teen heartthrob and actor Corey Haim — best known for 80s films including License to Drive and the Lost Boys — has died at the age of 38.

According to police, Haim, who had past substance-abuse problems, died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday of an accidental overdose.

More at: US!

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Conceit, Greed or Paranoia?

James — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:24 +0000

Yesterday, during my morning drive, I heard a story on NPR which I find absolutely hilarious…yet odd enough, sad. Looks as though our favorite straight lesbian party girl Lindsay Lohan is suing eTrade for $100 million, and not for a transaction gone wrong either, but because of the following commercial.

Yup, that’s right. I would appear that Lohan seems to think they’re referring to her and perhaps poking fun of the fact she’s had her issues with alcohol.

Much like the report said however, I too never associated Lohan with the commercial, but probably will now.

Conceit, paranoia, greed or a combination of all three?

The Advocate: I Am Who I Am

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

One of the things that Sean Hayes loves about Los Angeles’s Marino Ristorante, the old-school Italian restaurant he picked as the setting for this interview, is the music. “They play the craziest renditions of Frank Sinatra,” he says. “Stuff I’ve never heard. Like he sings ‘Close to You’ by the Carpenters.”

Sure enough, not 10 minutes later, Sinatra is crooning, “Why do birds suddenly appear…”

“That song! So romantic for our interview!” Hayes exclaims.

It’s not the first gay hint the actor has dropped since our lunch began, nor is it the last. When I order the same dish he does—rigatoni with tomato sauce and chicken—he proclaims, “It must be a gay thing: the pasta with chicken. It’s all the craze!”

And when he laments that he has to look good for the next day’s Advocate photo shoot, he says, “I’m so fucking fat right now. I’m not even kidding.”

Sizing up the handsome, salt-and-pepper-goateed man across from me, I offer a sincere reply: “Oh, please. You look great. You don’t need to worry.”
His response: “You haven’t seen me naked.” And with a Jack McFarland–like, high-pitched flourish, he adds, “Yet!”

If the guy who spent eight years playing über-gay Jack on Will & Grace had his way, coy suggestions that he is of a certain proclivity (wink, wink) would be all he ever shared publicly on the topic of his sexuality. But nearly four years since the long-running sitcom ended, the 39-year-old not only is preparing to make his Broadway debut in the first revival of the 1968 musical Promises, Promises but also has agreed to his first interview with The Advocate.

Still, we should be clear on one thing: He’s not happy about sitting down with the magazine. And to understand why, let’s get a little backstory.

The above is printed with permission and the entire post can be found at: The Advocate!