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Caleb Eigsti

Watch: Emmy Winner Jane Lynch’s Prop 8 Film

August 30, 2010 11:39 AM by Caleb Eigsti
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Glee’s Emmy award-winning actress, Jane Lynch, stars in this comedic take on classic arguments for Prop 8. In 2008, after the elections and the votes were in, Lynch made “Love Is Love” as a response to the ridiculous nature of the very law that was being created.

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Celebrities

Watch: Glee’s Jane Lynch Wins Best Supporting Actress, Thanks Her Wife

August 29, 2010 11:05 PM by David Badash
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At tonight’s Emmy Awards, actress Jane Lynch, who plays Sue Sylvester on “Glee,” won the award for “Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy.” Introduced by Stephen Colbert, Lynch broke character by being endearingly not in control. In her speech she thanked her parents who raised her on the South Side of Chicago, Lynch said, “I [...]

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Celebrities

UPDATED! USA Today’s Piece On Hollywood, Gay Characters, Includes “Transgendered”

August 24, 2010 3:39 PM by David Badash
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UPDATE: August 25, 2010 7:00 PM: I just received an email from GLAAD, which reads, in part, “USA Today has updated the article to reflect accurate terminology. I believe it was your letter that did the trick.” Excellent! I’ll call that a win! Thank you, GLAAD, and thanks, USA Today for acting so quickly. ### [...]

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Caleb Eigsti

“Why Do Men Have Nipples?”

August 24, 2010 12:04 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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The Golden Girls…what can be said about the Golden Girls that has never been said? Nothing. So I will leave it at that and let you watch this little clip where the Golden Girls take on marriage equality.

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Caleb Eigsti

Watch: Wanda Sykes: “…Then Don’t Marry Somebody Of The Same Sex.”

August 18, 2010 11:16 AM by Caleb Eigsti
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Wanda Sykes takes on gay marriage in her stand up routine. Her view is very simple… If you don’t believe in same-sex marriage, then don’t marry somebody of the same sex. Basically she’s saying, for those of you who need it said in plain english, Maggie Gallagher…if you don’t like it…don’t do it! Sykes also [...]

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Caleb Eigsti

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: “I Actually Support Gay Marriage.”

August 17, 2010 4:16 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck, cohost of ABC’s The View, speaks out in favor of gay marriage and against what she feels are the misconceptions people have of her based on her personality. Besides being the youngest member of The View‘s panel, an interview with Fancast shows Hasselbeck’s support of gay marriage, and also a woman’s right to [...]

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Caleb Eigsti

Ellen DeGeneres: “And Maybe It’s Cause I’m Gay That I Think We Should All Be Equal”

August 2, 2010 6:39 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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Thought I would do a series highlighting video with opinions on marriage. Most are celebrities, most are funny, but they all need to be heard. The messages that are being sent from the Right are not of love, they are not of rights and equality, and they are hurtful. Besides, I believe everyone needs a [...]

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Celebrities

Tweet Of The Day: Ricky Martin

July 15, 2010 12:45 PM by David Badash
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Celebrities

At The Tonys, No Gay Husbands

June 14, 2010 1:33 PM by David Badash
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At last night’s Tony Awards, there were no gay husbands. Not even in “La Cage aux Folles,” which features a same-sex couple and won three Tonys. It’s the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the best of the best, our Tony-award winning actors, actresses, directors, producers, etc., in same-sex relationships are [...]

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Caleb Eigsti

Name That Evangelical Hypocrite!

May 26, 2010 3:00 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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The Facts:

* Born March 30, 1934
* Is the co-founder, chairman and president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN)
* Allegedly forced a male employee, Enoch Lonnie Ford, into having homosexual acts
* Paid $425,000 to Enoch to keep quiet
* Was sued for plagiarism, but settled out of court

The Culprit:

* This weeks Evangelical Hypocrite is [...]

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Bigotry Watch

Name That Evangelical Hypocrite!

May 19, 2010 11:09 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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The second in our new weekly series, appearing each Wednesday, detailing the transgressions of those who have preached so virulently against the LGBTQ community.

The Facts:

* He was an American Pentecostal Evangelist
* He described himself as a “seeing profit” or a “mystic”
* He interviews he said that homosexuality was a sin against God
* He admitted his desire for men before and after being “born again”
* He died of AIDS at the age of 43

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Arts

Happy Birthday Armistead Maupin, A Writer Who Happens To Be Gay

May 13, 2010 3:03 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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Armistead Maupin was born May 13, 1944 and turned 66 today. He grew up in a conservative Christian home in Washington D.C. and moved, early in life, to North Carolina where he was raised.
Armistead is best-known for his series Tales of the City. He has also written two other [...]

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Red State’s Caleb Howe Takes 1372 Words To Tell Roger Ebert He’s Sorry

May 13, 2010 8:35 AM by David Badash
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I don’t like Caleb Howe. But I love Twitter. And I use it all the time. To meet people, to form communities, to understand how people think. For me, Twitter is all about people. And every time I hit “enter,” I know every one of those 140-or-less-character messages I send is going to affect some [...]

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