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May 30, 2007
May 29, 2007
In Poland, “[a] day after she received international scorn for telling a Polish publication she had asked for a report on whether Tinky Winky and other Teletubbies are promoting homosexuality to children, the country’s ombudsman for children is backing down.”–365 gay.com
“Less than a fortnight after Jerry Falwell’s death, a child-rights advocate in Poland has resurrected one of the evangelical leader’s most controversial causes: Determining the sexual orientation of Teletubbies.
“Ewa Sowinska, a government-appointed ‘watchdog’ over her nation’s kiddie purity, has taken it upon herself to investigate the possibility of homosexuality in the BBC toddler show.”–Emil Steiner, blog.washingtonpost.com
British concert Stephen Hough will not be allowed to perform in Vietnam, apparently because authorities there learned of his homosexuality from his website, reports pinknews.co.uk.
May 24, 2007
“Robert Shrum, the veteran Democratic strategist who worked on John Edwards’s 1998 Senate campaign in North Carolina, does not remember his onetime client very fondly,” says an article in today’s Washington Post.
“In his new memoir, ‘No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner,’ Shrum recalls asking Edwards at the outset of that campaign, ‘What is your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights?’
“‘I’m not comfortable around those people,’ Edwards replied, according to Shrum. He writes that the candidate’s wife, Elizabeth, told him: ‘John, you know that’s wrong.’”
“Longtime adult film store, The Movie Place on Tremont Street [in the South End of Boston], is closing its doors for good on May 31. The store, which carries adult movies for a predominately gay male clientele, is one of the last gay-owned and gay-themed storefronts on the street and has been in that location for more than 20 years.
“’We’re going because the neighborhood has changed,’ said owner Mark Adams, who lives on Chandler Street. Adams says he moved the business to the South End at a time when the neighborhood was a hub of gay and lesbian activity, but that over the last five years, the gay community has been moving out — and taking their business with them.”–baywindows.com
“Lawmakers who say the military has kicked out 58 Arabic linguists because they were gay want the Pentagon to explain how it can afford to let the valuable language specialists go.”–iht.com
Last night on Scarborough Country not only did Dan Abrams look as if he had not shaved recently enough, but also his hair looked as if he needed to run a comb through it. Why?
May 23, 2007
I thought that Dan Abrams should have shaved and put on a little more make-up last night before filling in as host of Scarborough Country. The slight stubble was distracting and did nothing to improve his appearance.
May 22, 2007
Massachusetts state senator Jarrett Barrios has announced plans to resign from his senate seat in July in order to become president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, reports townonline.com.
