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[dardar1126]

Twitter:

BuzzFeed LGBT ‏@BuzzFeedLGBT 20m
Statement from ABC News: "We love @RobinRoberts and Amber, who we adore and have all known for a long time."

EDIT:

http://www.glaad.org/blog/good-morning-americas-robin-roberts-acknowledges-longtime-girlfriend

"Robin's courage continues to be unwavering, and today she has inspired countless young LGBT people and, in particular, LGBT people of color -- especially LGBT women of color -- who can now see a reflection of themselves on America's most-watched morning show," said GLAAD's Wilson Cruz. “As one of the nation’s most-trusted journalists, as well as a top athlete, Robin is also helping millions of viewers to better understand the rich diversity of the LGBT community."

 

[Anita18]

Two men are getting married on a float during the Rose Parade!

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/social-affairs/20131217/la-gay-couple-to-marry-on-rose-parade-float

It's worth getting up early and walking a mile for.

 

[dardar1126]

Twitter:

ClassicPics ‏@History_Pics 35m
Freddie Mercury on the shoulders of Santa Claus
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BcsG8swIQAA11OP.jpg

Merry Christmas, y'all!

 

[dardar1126]

First Lady Michelle Obama sends tweet to Robin Roberts:

FLOTUS ‏@FLOTUS 12m
.@RobinRoberts, I am so happy for you and Amber! You continue to make us all proud. -mo

 

[dardar1126]

Two men are getting married on a float during the Rose Parade!

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/social-affairs/20131217/la-gay-couple-to-marry-on-rose-parade-float

It's worth getting up early and walking a mile for.

Twitter:

The Associated Press ‏@AP 2m
Rose Parade officials undeterred by threats of boycott over planned gay wedding aboard float: http://apne.ws/1chWZ3X

 

[dots]

Happy New Year Crew!

May 2014 bring you health, love, and a bit of scandal




Love you guys!

 

[Anita18]

Twitter:

The Associated Press ‏@AP 2m
Rose Parade officials undeterred by threats of boycott over planned gay wedding aboard float: http://apne.ws/1chWZ3X

That's great, although I'm not so sure that there won't be protests there the day of. It certainly isn't San Francisco, after all. I will add my voice to the allies!

 

[Anita18]

I read this article over at the LATimes and it's extremely powerful. If you remember the gay soldier in Iraq (with the huge biceps) who showed his face to ask about DADT during the Google/YouTube Republican debate in 2011, this is his background:

At the airport, they watched soldiers embracing their families, saying goodbye. Hill and Snyder were hunkered under an escalator. "Like little rats, hiding," Hill would say.

....

Many mornings, Hill awakens to voice-mail messages from Snyder. He is careful to listen to them on a headset.

"I love you. I miss you. You're one day closer to getting home. You're my hero."

He is home on leave in May 2011 when they decide to get married. Ohio will not perform the ceremony, so they drive to Washington, D.C. He returns to war wearing a titanium wedding band.

Jessica, he says. For his screensaver, he uses the image of a lesbian friend.

http://lat.ms/1ceXCv0

Having been heterosexually-married myself in the past year, reading this article broke my heart. Finding someone who loves you, accepts you, and wants to spend the rest of their life with you is such a rare and beautiful thing. Anyone who tries to stop a pair of loving, supportive, consenting adults from marrying is sorely lacking a heart.

 

[skateboy]

Thank you for posting that, Anita18. Broke my heart, too.

 

[dardar1126]

Twitter:

Towleroad ‏@tlrd 1h
Rose Parade Gay Marriage Draws Ire of Some in LGBT Community http://tlrd.us/1hXDboC

 

[PeterG]

25 Celebs That Shocked Us When They Came Out As Gay

I'm just about to head out, don't have time to look over each page. If anyone compiles a list and posts it, I will rep you.

 

[AliasJohnDoe]

You're such a rep tease ..... ....I must spread it around before giving it to PeterG again.

 

[PeterG]

Okay, that was kind of a crappy article...

Matt Bomer
Jason Collins (basketball player)
Raven Symone
Ricky Martin
Lady Sovereign (UK rapper)

Portia DeRossi
Amber Heard (The Playboy Club)
Zachary Quinto
Victor Garber
Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls co-star)

Ian McKellen
Matt Dallas (Kyle XY lead star)
Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story)
Jodie Foster
Gillian Anderson

David Hyde Pierce
Kelly McGillis
Nathan Lane
Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City)
Wanda Sykes

Cary Grant
Jonathan Knight (New Kids On The Block)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Suze Orman
Annie Leibovitz

Cary Grant and Eleanor Roosevelt never came out!!! And Nathan Lane and David Hyde Pierce did NOT shock me when they came out! But most of the rest did surprise me. Anyway, welcome to the outside, 25 surprise out celebs!

 

[orientalplane]

Cary Grant was married five times and fathered a child, so while I know he had homosexual relationships/encounters (for a while the official line was that he "shared a house" with Randolph Scott ) I doubt he was wholly gay - more likely bisexual. I know Rock Hudson was made to marry once by his studio (MGM, I suppose), but if you were gay, why bother to do it five times? It's not worth the trouble. And at least one of the marriages took place after he'd retired from acting.

 

[PeterG]

ABC News Looks Back at One Big Gay Year (Video)

Some heroic people in that video!

Should Hypocritical Politicians Be Outed? Gay Journo Says Yes

In this day and age? I say yes. Ten, twenty years ago...hmm. Not sure...

Anti-LGBT Activist Links Trans People to Satan, Calls Robin Roberts 'Tragic'

What a charmer...

 

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Should Hypocritical Politicians Be Outed? Gay Journo Says Yes

You want to know my honest opinion? [No filters]

I'm joyous Aaron Schock is getting outed in such a public and humiliating way! People like him are the reason gay kids commit suicide.

He has been a [homophobe] enemy of gay rights for sometime now, and I CANNOT WAIT for this to blow up.


Long live the queen!

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834515c5469e2016766837003970b-500wi


and He follows freaking Tom Daley!!!!!

 

[Anita18]

You want to know my honest opinion? [No filters]

I'm joyous Aaron Schock is getting outed in such a public and humiliating way! People like him are the reason gay kids commit suicide.

He has been a [homophobe] enemy of gay rights for sometime now, and I CANNOT WAIT for this to blow up.


Long live the queen!

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834515c5469e2016766837003970b-500wi


and He follows freaking Tom Daley!!!!!

I think this sums it up pretty well:

It’s really pretty simple—if you’ve made MY sexual identity a political issue, you don’t get to hide your own.

https://twitter.com/JBYoder/status/419543429945651202

 

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I think this sums it up pretty well:



https://twitter.com/JBYoder/status/419543429945651202

Well well well... the article he mentions is like a gift basket.

http://americablog.com/2014/01/2014-looking-gay-old-year-aaron-schock.html

It all starts from

Fun little bonus post. Of the 19 tweets favorited by Aaron Schock on Twitter, 3 are to this guy. He’s Schock’s most favorited Tweeter:

http://americablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/aaron-schock-twitter-favorite-2.jpg

http://americablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/aaron-schock-twitter-favorites.jpg

So he is following and liking an aspiring porn star who want to work with Michael Lucas(porn king) and who tweets to Jake Cruise( former gay porn king)

This is what Court Anderson posted about Aaron Schock before he locked down his account. Of the 11 photos that Court Anderson posted on Twitter, guess who pops up? Aaron Schock. One of the other photos is of a really hot naked guy with a huge member, and not of the congressional kind. Here’s Anderson’s tweet about Schock that I grabbed before he locked the account:

http://americablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/aaron-schock-twitter-favorite-3.jpg

 

[Ziggy]

Sorry Schock but you can't hide the gayface!

 

[Anita18]

Well well well... the article he mentions is like a gift basket.

http://americablog.com/2014/01/2014-looking-gay-old-year-aaron-schock.html

It all starts from



So he is following and liking an aspiring porn star who want to work with Michael Lucas(porn king) and who tweets to Jake Cruise( former gay porn king)

LMAO that article is GOLD.

And seriously, that guy is barely IN the closet! Hollywood tabloids have outed celebs with 100x less than that! Hilarious.

 

[dardar1126]

http://www.towleroad.com/2014/01/dick-clark.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=spreadtwitter&utm_content=%3C$MTEntryPermalink$%3E

01/06/2014

'AMERICAN BANDSTAND' DANCERS: DICK CLARK ENGAGED IN 'WITCH HUNTS' TO PURGE SHOW OF GAYS

BY ANDY TOWLE

Excerpt:

Frank Brancaccio (pictured, via this interview) and Eddie Kelly (pictured below, from this interview), two gay former American Bandstand dancers tell the National Enquirer that late host Dick Clark had his producers conduct "witch hunts" to "purge gays from the ranks."

 

[PeterG]

'AMERICAN BANDSTAND' DANCERS: DICK CLARK ENGAGED IN 'WITCH HUNTS' TO PURGE SHOW OF GAYS

That was the television show for which Barry Manilow sang the theme song?

 

[dardar1126]

Twitter:

Pam Spaulding ‏@pamspaulding 2m
RT @NewsPolitics: GMA's Robin Roberts Debuts Photo with Girlfriend, Announces: 'Never Been Happier or Healthier' http://bit.ly/1cT9hAV

 

[dardar1126]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lance...y-mom-di_b_4556471.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices

Lance Bass - Singer, actor, producer, writer, entrepreneur and philanthropist

The First Thing My Mom Did When She Learned I Was Gay... and the 'Miracle' That Occurred After
Posted: 01/09/2014 8:49 am

Growing up as a gay kid in the south was not easy. The constant fear of people discovering who you really were and the inevitable shame that would fall upon you and your family dictated how you lived your life everyday. Luckily for me, I was fortunate enough to move to places where it wasn't a constant daily reminder that I was an abomination. For my family, however, they still live in ground zero of intolerance for the LGBT community and have the unique pressure of having a well known gay relative. When I came out, they came out.

For years they have had to deal with the judgmental looks and constant condolences from friends and strangers as if I had died. "I'm so sorry, you are in our thoughts."

 

[IceAlisa]

Israel unveils gay Holocaust victims memorial

 

[skateboy]

Israel unveils gay Holocaust victims memorial

Very nice. I loved this comment:

"I think in Israel today it is very important to show that a human being is a human being is a human being"

As it should be for the entire world.

 

[Ziggy]

"I think in Israel today it is very important to show that a human being is a human being is a human being"

Isn't it just?

 

[GarrAargHrumph]

That was the television show for which Barry Manilow sang the theme song?

Barry's version of "Bandstand Boogie" was used by the show as its theme song starting in the late 1970's, but the version most people remember, from the earlier years of the show, was an instrumental, done by a big band.

 

[dardar1126]

Twitter:

huffpostgay ‏@huffpostgay 23m
Church congregation protests treatment of gay choir director in AMAZING way http://huff.to/1dnKGVl

 

[PeterG]

I saw this online a while back and thought it was great:

Advice columnist Amy Dickinson responds to a parent who wrote in upset that her son ‘won’t listen to reason’ and ‘stop being gay’:

“You could teach your son an important lesson by changing your own sexuality to show him how easy it is. Try it for the next year or so.”