You know, before I saw the above video of “American Idol” hopeful Danny Noriega I already didn’t like him. Not because he’s a total flaming fruitcake of nonsense, because hey, it takes all kinds to make up the rainbow of life. Nope what I didn’t like about Danny, besides the fact he’s way prettier than I am, is that he’s such a little snotbag sh*t.

The way he rolls his eyes, pours it on for the camera, oozes pettiness and hostility, it’s all the things about today’s teenagers that I despise. His angst is completely insincere. We get it Danny, you are here, you’re queer, you want us to get used to it.

You aren’t the first gay teenager America’s ever seen. You aren’t even the first gay American Idol we’ve ever seen (Hello? Clay Aiken anyone?). Clearly, regardless of the opportunity you’ve been given to perform on the most watched singing talent show in the world, you are obviously pissed off about something in your life. Despite the fact, you are talented, attractive, charismatic and live in a world where you can be as openly “out” there as you want and for the most part, people accept you, you still can’t seem to spare us the drama and immaturity of your flippant insolence.

Also, how dare you crap on Santa and Christmas? This shows me how overly indulgent your parents must have been. They clearly should have spanked you more.

Danny, if you were my son, I’d wash your filthy mouth out with soap. Then I’d put a pretty little pink bow in your hair, some pick lipstick on your pouty little mouth and send you to your room.

Ebay, the online auction company, has gotten some flack for their decision to grant the Church of Scientology unfettered access to (via their VERO program) to “unauthorized” auctions selling “e-meters.”

An e-meter is the “technical” term for a low-quality lie-detector test. The purported function of an e-meter is to gage a person’s stress level during what is called “auditing,” by Scientology. Auditing is essentially a person being asked to reveal upsetting or difficult memories in an effort to “clear” or desensitize the person from these “memories” or incidents. The e-meter gages the person’s response to these events and the auditor monitors the e-meter for fluctuations.

These devices, which send a low wattage of electrical current from a person’s arm through their other arm, can be purchased by the Church of Scientology for the low price of $4500, according to an article on Radar Online.

Here’s more from that post:

The VeRO program is ostensibly for sellers who wish to block the sale of such counterfeit goods as, say, fake Prada handbags. However, given that the e-meters being sold on eBay are authentic, it appears the Church is operating outside of VeRO’s intended scope, and is thus guilty of, among other things, “price fixing, tortious interference with a contract, misrepresentation, perjury, unfair competition, discriminatory business practices, and religious discrimination.” (Most auctions have already been removed, but screengrabs are available here).

This isn’t the only price-gouging practice by the purportedly “religious” organization. One estimate pegs the cost of ascending from novice to OT9—one of the highest levels in Scientology—at between $365,000 and $380,000. Church-sponsored seminars and auditing sessions often run into the thousands of dollars. But, hey, that’s probably cheaper than psychiatric drugs!

An e-mail to an eBay spokesperson seeking comment was not returned by post time.

Apparently, not all the auctions have been intercepted, as the above picture comes from a current auction which you can view here. But you better act fast, I hear John Travolta and Tom Cruise are “wrestling” for who gets this item.

But wait, there’s more…

Warning:  This is three minutes and twenty seconds of your life that you’ll never have back again.  Don’t watch and then say I didn’t try to warn you.

There’s really not much else I can say to set up this video.  It’s disturbing on more levels than I want to think about.  Wasn’t this guy’s (and I use that term very, very loosely) fifteen minutes up about thirty minutes ago?  (That’s right, Chris, only in your wet dreams are you a star.)

Somebody needs to tell him that the circus has enough freaks.

(thanks to the not-as-freaky-as-Chrissy Michael at dlisted)

I say allegedly for legal purposes only, but let’s face it, where there’s smoke there’s almost certainly fire.

Remember Larry Craig, the Idaho senator who was busted for soliciting an undercover officer for gay sex in an airport bathroom? Yeah, well if that wasn’t unsavory enough for you, this handsome burly gay man has come forward with some very salacious allegations about Craig from 20 years ago.

The equally unsavory Wonkette has the straight scoop:

One night, Phillips continues, “I followed [Craig] from The Follies to a Capitol Hill neighborhood, parking on the street no telling how far from his house. We walked up the alley and through the back door of a house, with him repeating several times, ‘You were never here. You don’t know me. Right?’ and me responding, ‘Right!’ in boyish submission. As we tiptoed from the back door to the stairs to the upper floor, as if somebody else was home, he turned to grope my crotch and brush my face with his hand.” The house’s decor led Phillips to believe that this was a married man: “The bric-a-brac with family pictures didn’t scream ‘old queen’ to me; it announced a woman’s influence. Still, we made our way upstairs.

It gets WAY more detailed from there and I caution the reader, it is not for the weak of constitution. But in summary the gentleman telling the story, David, describes what is the typical MO for gay men (married or not) who are in the closet, hold positions of authority and feel free to use and abuse young men who are confused and insecure.

It really is no different than the way straight men use and abuse young women who are confused and insecure.

I lived in DC (including Dupont Circle - a predominantly gay community) from ‘87 to ‘96. I even visited male gay bars (I am a straight female, the music in these clubs were always great and the guys never hassle you, so there!) and there was definitely a heavy inclination on anonymous sex and some real promiscuity. And this was during a time when AIDS was an iron-clad death sentence.

Being gay, IMHO, is absolutely something a person has no choice in. You are what you are, and it is what it is. Really, what’s the big deal. We should all strive to be true to ourselves. But I never was able to comprehend the distasteful way some gay men treated each other. There were literally places you could go to and have sex with someone without even looking them in the eye, let alone knowing their name. It is this tawdry side of (mostly male) gay life I think people have a hard time coming to terms with. Dalliances and infidelities happen within every kind of sexual orientation, but men are so hardwired for sex, that when you put them together in groups as objects of sexuality, the results can be grim.

This is why I support gay marriage. As a society we should be encouraging monogamy, in what ever form love takes.

*steps off podium*

Oh, and Larry Craig is a disgusting, mean-spirited perv for treating a fellow human being like that.

Source: dlisted

Albus Dumbledore Comes Out Of The Closet

Wow, and I just thought he was British.

Yes, it’s true, the beloved Hogwart’s Head Master and mentor to Harry Potter is reportedly gay, and apparently carried a torch for his former friend turned rival Grindelwald, whom Dumbledore eventually was forced to duel and subsequently slayed. Talk about heartache. This may come as a shock to many fans of the Harry Potter series, but was understood by the author from the beginning. Rowling goes on to explain the essence of this relationship had much to do with Dumbledore’s reluctance to see the “bad” in Grindelwald, as he was blinded by love. Hmmm…love is a mysterious thing.

So how did this revelation come about? The fabulously wealthy, though quite reclusive author was giving a talk to a group of 1600 or so students at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Friday, when a student asked a profound question. From the Guardian post:

After reading briefly from her mega-selling book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, on Friday night, Rowling took questions from an audience of 1,600 students. A 19-year-old from Colorado asked about the avuncular headmaster of Hogwarts School: ‘Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?’

The author replied: ‘My truthful answer to you…I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.’ The audience reportedly fell silent - then erupted into prolonged applause.

Rowling, 42, continued: ‘Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald [a bad wizard he defeated long ago], and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down by him.’

She added: ‘Yeah, that’s how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, “I knew a girl once, whose hair…” I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “Dumbledore’s gay!”‘

Amazed by the warm reaction of the audience, Rowling, on her first US tour in seven years, joked: ‘Just imagine the fan fiction now.’

Well, as if the supernatural and overall occult tone of the series wasn’t enough to drive the bible-thumpers into a frenzy, we can only imagine the chaos and anarchy which will ensue based on this information. Let me see if I can prognosticate the future of the right-wing loonie headlines now:

Being Gay OK Says JK! Gay Is The New Black! Harry Potter Makes Children Worship The Devil, And Gay! They’re Here, They’re Queer, Now Burn Those Gay Witches!

Ok, those sucked, but you get my point. Which will likely be lost on the those who oppose Harry Potter anyway. Because you know, literature KILLS.

Seriously, there are worse things in life than being gay.

Like being stupid for example. Um…HELLO!

I love how gays can’t leave other gays alone.

Out Magazine’s lastest issue published a bold list of high profile gays titled “The Power 50, The Most Powerful Gay Men and Women In America.” Some are openly gay, like comedian Ellen Degeneres, financial expert Suze Orman (who only recently came out as gay) and Congressman Barney Frank, and of course, the ultra-sexy gossip gangsta Perez Hilton (Mario Laviendera) who is ranked at No. 17. Awesome!

That’s all well and good, because well, those people have stated they are gay, and as such, clearly don’t mind being considered gay. But what I find truly WRONG — on so many levels — is that they put two people on the cover who haven’t come out as being gay, actress Jodie Foster and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper with the caption “The Class Closet, Why Stars Won’t Come Out And Play.”
But wait, there’s more…

Sir Ian McKellan, a favorite around our house, has been openly out about his sexual orientation since 1988.  Not only has this NOT hurt his career, it really hasn’t affected his reputation as a respected actor and reasonable human being for that matter. 

Having scored big playing the larger-than-life wizard Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s excellent film adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s epic Lord of the RingsTriology, Mr. McKellan is everywhere.  Recently, lending his voice to the animated film Flushed Awayand of course as Mageneato in all three X-Men films.  Ian is a huge star, and is now using his power to draw attention to an issue that he feels needs to be addressed: forcing actors and actresses to hide their sexual orientation. 

According to Starpulse, McKellan has criticized actors/actresses for not disclosing their proclivities in the past, but is not complaining that the root cause may be the movie makers themselves:

“With all that liberal attitude (in Hollywood), you have a local industry which is saying to local people who live in the area - ‘When you come to work, you are not gay.’ And I think to myself, ‘Can people whose minds work like that make good films? And if at the heart of Hollywood there is that lie, how many other lies are there?’

“And it’s the producers who have this problem - God knows what sort of people they are - who think that it’s impossible for you and me to fancy the same person. Well, what dull lives they must have.”

I applaud Ian McKellan for being upfront at a time when many people were still in the closet.  As each day passes and we become more aware of what makes the human mind tick and the biology of sexuality, how is it even remotely okay to judge a person for their natural needs and desires?  Ignorance and bigotry in an industry that prides itself on being left of the mainstream, and so deeply wishes to influence the very heart of who we are as a culture, should be setting the standard for what we find acceptable.  Perhaps if more notable and well-respected folks like Sir Ian were to speak up, they will listen.

Being gay is perfectly acceptable by my standards.

Being a raging, vacant, self-absorbed, hate-filled whore, not so much. Yes, Paris Hilton, I am talking to you, beeyotch.  When’s Hollywood going to do something about her blighting its very existence? I know this isn’t really related, but I couldn’t help myself.

Perez Hilton, celebrity ass-kisser extraordinaire demonstrates why he never reports news on certain celebs.  Mario L. celebrates his birthday with a host of celebs, coincidentally all the same names you see him sucking up to on his piece of crap website.

I wonder when the herpes is going to take over his face and where are the pictures of him making out with Paris’ butthole?

Thank goodness I am a real journalist above such shady goings on. 

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Many of the celeb sites keep blabbing on an on about the punk band The Gossip and their lead singer Beth Ditto.  Beth is a big girl.  A big girl who likes girls, which is totally fine with me, because I am not into girls.  But since being gay is the new black, she and her band are totally the new thing.  Um, ok. Are the other two members gay?

The Gossip’s alright, but they are hardly the first “gayish” band.  I mean hello gay people, there have been others.  Like Pansy Division. 

Enjoy and embrace your gayness.  Or embrace a gay person. But I would ask them first, or they might sue you.

Superman, Wonderwoman, Aquaman, Batman and the Flash are set to star side by side in a live-action film. Warner Brothers, drooling at the prospects of capitalizing on the popularity of comic book heroes on the silver screen, have greenlighted the project.

I think I just dropped a deuce in my pants. Can you imagine all that superheroness in one movie? We just bought the sleek and newly redone Justice League Seasons One and Two for my son. But seeing how he’s three and not old enough to appreciate the dark, brooding and sophisticated modern superheroes, I am the only one who is willing to watch them. Something about the vague lesbian nature of Wonderwomen makes me slightly uncomfortable.

Speaking of which, there is something very familiar about that Super Friends logo. Doesn’t GLAAD have that same logo? If not, they should totally borrow it. Look at them - all super-inclusive and whatnot. Heroes of all shapes, sizes, gender, species. Every damn color in the superhero rainbow.

Since I am total dork and have a son OBSESSED with superheroes, whether of the Marvel or DC variety, you know our asses will be all over it when it comes out.

I wonder if they will do a live action of the Ambiguously Gay Duo? Wait, wasn’t that called Broke Back Mountain?