Posted 5/17/2012 11:00:00 AM
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 By Todd Masterson Contributor
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I recently went to visit my grandpa in a nursing home in Missouri. He didn’t live in the nursing home, but was only staying there temporarily for physical therapy and recovery from a fall. The fall really tore up his shoulder and sprained his hip. He also had a giant bruise on his thigh and what seemed like a lazy black eye. It looked like the results of a really nasty fall from a really high ledge. But-what-had-happened-was, he had gone to the kitchen to get some water, and while he was walking through the living room he ... fell. He just fell. Because he’s 89, and just-falling is a thing that can happen to you. And that fall can hurt you so bad that you have to be checked into a rehab facility for a month of physical therapy and ...
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Posted 5/17/2012 9:31:00 AM
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 By Karen Ocamb News Editor
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TMZ
is reporting that disco queen Donna Summer has succumbed to cancer. Summer was a fixture in the songbook that defined many LGBT lives. TMZ reports:
We’re told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death. She was 63 years old.
Sources close to Summer tell us … the singer was trying to keep the extent of her illness under wraps. We spoke to someone who was with Summer a couple of weeks ago … who says she didn’t seem too bad.
In fact, we’re told she was focused on trying to finish up an album she had been working on.
Summer was a 5-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the ’70s with iconic hits like “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls.”
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Posted 5/17/2012 9:19:00 AM
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By Karen Ocamb News Editor
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A firestorm erupted Wednesday, May 16, a May 12
“exclusive” interview in the National Conservative Examiner with professional boxer Manny Pacquiaocame to light in which the boxer cited the Old Testament:
Pacquiao’s directive for Obama calls societies to fear God and not to promote sin, inclusive of same-sex marriage and cohabitation, notwithstanding what Leviticus 20:13 has been pointing all along: “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
Pacquiao, bearing a conservative stance on the Reproductive Bill which is still pending in the Philippine Congress for approval even after contemptuous debates, believes the sweeping campaign of Obama favoring the gays and lesbians to legally marry is nothing more than a direct attack on the moral society and against the ...
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Posted 5/16/2012 5:00:00 PM
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 By Stephan Horbelt Editor
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Sometimes music speaks where words fail, and it's exactly those situations that form the basis of brand-new OWN Network show
Real Life: The Musical. On the show, reality series, individuals who are tongue-tied, amateur singers get the opportunity to surprise that special someone by staging a live 'flash musical,' à la
Glee. The show premieres Saturday, June 9, at 10 p.m. Watch the trailer below.
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Posted 5/16/2012 1:43:00 PM
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By Stephan Horbelt Editor
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Qwerty recently unveiled its
exclusive story with Dennis Mayer and John Hart, the
gay couple who was arrested in March while aboard an Atlantis cruise ship touring the Caribbean. Controversy ensued when the couple was charged with having sex on their private balcony in
plain sight of onlookers. The couple for a long time maintained they were not having sex, but in their own words to Qwerty, they finally fess up!
Read the couple's entire statement
here. I repost (and comment on) parts of the statement below.
Let’s set the record straight. We’re not addressing this to bash or tell people to boycott Atlantis Events. We’re not suing anyone nor are we looking for fifteen minutes of fame. I can think of far better ways and in a much better light if that were the case. We simply went on what ...
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Posted 5/16/2012 12:07:00 PM
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By Stephan Horbelt Editor
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Those who will be in Long Beach to celebrate Pride during this weekend, May 18-20, will be happy to hear that rainbow flags will fly aboard the Queen Mary when the iconic ocean liner hosts the very first Proud Mary Weekend. Planned to coincide with Long Beach Pride, the second largest Pride celebration in the country, the ship's festivities include Poseidon, an off-the-charts dance party on Saturday night, and a special brunch on Sunday.
Taking place in a three-story event hall that formerly housed one of the Queen Mary’s enormous boilers, Poseidon promises to be the hottest dance event of the weekend. Complete with aerial performers, go-go dancers and a few other surprises, party-goers will be treated to music by DJs Manny Lehman and Scotty K spinning the top dance beats. Poseidon will also feature a live performance by nternational pop ...
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Posted 5/16/2012 11:20:00 AM
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 By Nathaniel Grey Film/TV Correspondent
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Last fall, the usual circle of religious hypocrites blasted ABC for airing
GCB, which, per the book it was based on, represented the three words
Good Christian Bitches. The fact that the alphabet network was sensitive enough to use just the initials was lost on them. Now that the very witty comedy has been cancelled, I expect their victory dance (with snakes) will be short lived. The show taking
GCB's time slot on Sundays is a supernatural drama called 666 Park Avenue. Three cheers for Karma. The series is written and produced by
Fringe's David Wilcox and stars
Brothers and Sisters vet Dave Annabelle,
Desperate Housewives' Vanessa Williams and
Lost star Terry O'Quinn as the sinister building owner.
Among ABC's other new fall series is the comedy How To Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) starring ...
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Posted 5/16/2012 9:38:00 AM
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 By Kevin Taft Contributor
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Outfest is collaborating with the Downtown Independent Theatre to celebrate Outfest’s 30th Anniversary with a new monthly screening series called "Downtown 30." On one Wednesday each month, Outfest will feature either a new LGBT film or a film not yet released on DVD for your viewing pleasure.
In April, the series kicked off with a rare screening of Robert Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean starring gay icons Cher and Karen Black, and featuring Kathy Bates in one of her first-ever screen appearances.
This month, “Downtown 30” will present Johnny Guitar. Directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford as a butch gunslinger, Guitar is an over-the-top western that “upends any preconceived notions about gender roles of the Old West.” While not received well by U.S. critics at the time, it was beloved by French ...
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