Four women come together to create the band, Antigone Rising, in what their bio describes as the “second phase of their career.” See the first of a two part interview with members of the band here. In 2005, they’d opened for The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and Rob Thomas. After an “unpredictable” period due to a [...]
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INTERVIEW FEATURE — Queer Talk: “Kissing Wives” and Antigone Rising (Part One) [VIDEO]
You’ve seen the “Gay Marriage Already Won” Time covers. The lesbian couple, or as I’ve heard it described, the “kissing wives” cover (the kissing engaged guys – Russell Hart and Eric LaBonté – were good, too, of course) are Kristen and Sarah Ellis-Henderson. Kristen and Sarah were married in New York in 2011, and have [...]
NBC News Reports: PNAS Study Reveals Penis Size “Does Affect Attractiveness”
The human male possesses the Italian designer faucet of penises. They’re pretty big, the biggest of any primate’s relative to body size. And they’re showy, too, right out there, front and center on our upright bodies (i.e., they don’t retract), as if they were meant to be seen as part of the décor. Why? A [...]
Mad Men: The Doorway of Love and Death [Full Episode]
“People will do anything to relieve their anxiety.” – Doctor friend of Don Draper THE PORTRAIT of a louse is never pretty. When it’s “Mad Men’s” Don Draper (Jon Hamm) it’s guaranteed to be uglier than most. When death is swirling in a man’s mind, his savage fear won’t be whetted by sex or love. [...]
Queer Talk: Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson Endorses Marriage Equality
South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson joined the vast majority of his colleagues today, coming out in support of marriage equality. Via Talking Points Memo: As one Democrat after another came out in support of marriage equality over the last month, Johnson’s reticence on the subject confused some, as he will not seek re-election next [...]
Queer Talk: Sen. Landrieu (D) Follows Un-evolved Constituents, Sen. Pryor (D) Says He’s “Uncertain”
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (D), says she’s evolved, but her constituents haven’t, so she’ll follow them. That’s not exactly how Landrieu put it on Friday, that she’ll “follow” her constituents, but it’s clear she isn’t ready to lead. She remains among the last of the Democratic Senators – all four of them – who haven’t [...]
Queer Talk: Phelps’ Westboro Church to Picket Roger Ebert’s Funeral
The Westboro Baptist Church, lead by Fred Phelps and family, has announced in its usual very non-loving-their-neighbor-as-themselves manner that they’ll add Roger Ebert’s funeral to the many they have picketed over the years. Ebert, they say, was a “fag enabler.” According to Hollywood Reporter, the group … complains that (Ebert) used his Twitter ‘to mock [...]
Hillary’s Mark Penn Question Answers Itself
The question for someone considering whether or not to support Clinton in 2016 is, will a Clinton 2016 campaign pass the Mark Penn Test? The Mark Penn Test, which I just invented, determines whether or not a person should be trusted with the presidency, based solely on one criterion: Whether or not they pay Mark [...]
Page Six: “GIRLS” Loses Charlie
Christopher Abbott — who plays Allison Williams’ boyfriend Charlie on Lena Dunham’s HBO series “Girls” — has abruptly left the show, we’ve exclusively learned. [...] But sources told Page Six that Abbott and Dunham began butting heads as the critical-darling series entered production again. [Page Six] THINGS WERE just getting interesting with Charlie at the [...]
Susan Patton Revives “MRS. Degree” for Princeton Female Students
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.” – Susan Patton’s Marriage Advice for College Women THERE ARE way too many well-educated, well-meaning professional women these days giving relationship advice that simply don’t [...]
Krauthammer Sides with Bill O’Reilly, and the Laura Ingraham “Thump the Bible” Smackdown
“The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals,” he said. “That’s where the compelling argument is: ‘We are Americans. We just want to be treated like everybody else.’ That’s a compelling argument. And to deny that you’ve got to have a very strong argument on the other side.” … “And the other side hasn’t [...]
Tiger Woods 2.0: The Big Win, A New Love, and Beating the “Stalk-a-Razzi”
‘Winning Takes Care Of Everything’ was the tagline placed on an image of Tiger the day after he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and regained the #1 world golf ranking. It immediately created a firestorm of social and traditional media blowback, given the obvious interpretations related to Woods’ off the course scandal and very messy [...]
Don’t Rush Barbara Walters, She’s Not Done Yet
Her 1999 conversation with Monica Lewinsky remains the highest-rated news interview in television history. [Daily Beast] WHEN WALTERS arrived to sit next to Harry Reasoner his salary had to be raised, because as the first female news anchor in television history, Barbara Walters was getting paid more than the man. However, Walters’ $1-million-a-year contract also [...]
Republican Sweetheart Ben Carson’s Sorry If He Offended Anyone Over his Beasty, NAMBLA Word Choices
“Now perhaps the examples were not the best choice of words, and I certainly apologize if I offended anyone,” he added. “But the point that I was making was that no group of individuals, whoever they are, whatever their belief systems, gets to change traditional definitions. The reason I believe the way I do, I [...]
Queer Talk: “Say No to Gray Marriage” and Other Non-Traditional [VIDEOS]
For a bit of a break, and to mark the historic marriage equality week, and with a quick nod to the Easter Bunny showing up on the ubiquitous “red for love” equality symbol, a few videos. Some have been around for a year or so, but they’re still quite relevant. Humor is used with LGBT [...]
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