A crop-circled Jeremy Kost with Daniel Vosovic (Pic: Getty)
Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
- Out Project Runway Season Two runner-up Daniel Vosovic has been keeping busy since being robbed of that crown. A few months ago he released his first book, Fashion Inside Out (with foreword by none other than Tim Gunn). Tuesday night he made an appearance at the "After The Party" exhibition opening in NYC for out Jeremy Kost (who's become famous with his Polaroid pics of celebrities).
- Thequietus.com has an interview with gay-adjacent Vince Clark, who helped provide the soundtrack to many gay boy's lives in the 80's with his work with Depeche Mode, Yaz, and Erasure. He's announced that the next Erasure album (with out Andy Bell) will have a "much darker nature".
- Was the animated kid's movie Ratatouille a a coming out picture? That's the subject of a lecture being given today at UCLA with the title Queering Ratatouille: A Rat Reclaiming French Cuisine.
- Above you can see today's opening pitch in the Prop 8 hearings as Shannon Minter, Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights begins the oral arguments before the California Supreme Court. Minter spars with the questioning justices over whether Prop 8 is a valid way to change the state constitution, and what Prop 8 says about the rights of a group of citizens to be protected from a vote put to the majority. Unfortunately, the general consensus is that the hearings did not go well for us. The court has ninety days to rule.
- Finally, here are a couple of new websites that may spark your political interest. The newly launched Tell-Three asks visitors to "tell three people what it's like for you or your loved ones to be LGBT. Because we used to think coming out would win us our rights. Now we know it takes more than that." And the Human Rights Campaign has started End The Lies, which aims to "combat anti-LGBT lies spread by the right-wing".
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This guy!
Mike Radon (sans glasses)
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on Thu, 2009-03-05 19:35.
Mike Radon
You know, it's not like wouldn't step into traffic on a busy street just for second glimpse of Mike, but I think I prefer him with the nerd glasses. Otherwise, he's almost too intimidating. He does make the reporting on Prop 8 go down a bit easier though - my mind went completely blank when I look at the picture. I watched the hearings all afternoon, and it wasn't pretty.
I can't really get behind Remmie being gay - I totally get it as a "coming out" story - same way the X-Men is a coming out story. Anything else is projecting bigtime. Not even the most subversive part of Disney (Pixar) is ready to give us even a coded gay hero in a $150 million dollar children's movie.
Nerd glasses
Yep - you're 100% right. With the glasses he looks interesting and approachable. Without them he looks anodyne sexy but bland.
Also agree about the Prop 8 hearings today
The original gay rat was Gus Gus in "Cinderella"
And he didn't need a coming out story. He was out from the start.
Prop 8 Will Be Upheld by Courts
As much as it pains me to say this, Proposition 8 will most likely be held up by the California Supreme Court. The main argument, that it was more of a Constitutional revision as opposed to a simple amendment was a flimsy argument at best and never really had any serious ground to stand on under California law.
The best thing that any of us can hope for right now is to wait for a bunch of the old people who voted yes on this measure in November to die and then have a ballot measure repealing the amendment. It might take a while (10 years?) but it's the most logical possibility.
It won't take that long
We're not going back in the closet. We're out and proud and living our lives in full public view. The phobes who go on and on an on about "Traditional Marriage" act as if the institution has never changed. But of course it has. Women are no longer treated as property. For eons they were. Birth control and Roe vs. Wade cemented thosae changes. Plus interracial mariage used to be illegal and at the time the Civil Rights act became law was opposed by more people than gay marriage is today.
Society isn't statics. People live differently and the culture responds to that fact -- whether they like it or not.