I Didn't Say It ...

Ted Cruz, Texas senator and expert on masculinity … hold for laughter … on liberal men being unable to sexually satisfy a woman:

“How many radical leftists does it take to screw in a light bulb? That’s not funny! The left is so mad! They’re so unhappy! They’re so pissed off! And by way, if you were a liberal woman and you had to sleep with those weenies, you’d be pissed too. So respond with joy, have fun. Too many Republicans run around like they’ve got a stick somewhere it doesn’t belong.”

This from a man who allowed Thing 45 to call his wife ugly and his response was to throw his support behind the bully.

I bet Mrs. Cruz snipped off a little Teddy weenie.

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Stephen Colbert, The Late Show Host, on Faux Christians in this country:

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”

You cannot call yourself a Christian and then not act like one because everyone, including your 'god,' sees it.

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Brit Hume, proving his ignorance on Climate Change:

“Given the world situation we face now, with threats coming from multiple directions, climate change is a distraction. Climate change—worrying about climate change is almost a luxury. These are old fashioned threats that come from, you know, world powers that wish us ill. And, you know, China may say “We’ll be competitors and we won’t be adversaries,” or the rest of it. I think China is an adversary. I think Russia is, too. And I certainly think Iran is. And those threats are more immediate and more urgent than any threat that I think that climate change poses. So, let’s just hope that the administration, you know, doesn’t get too carried away with this. I was a little disturbed to see John Kerry at the table there today, our climate czar, because, you know, he thinks that’s job one and I guess for him it is. But I don’t think in terms of our national defense posture it’s anywhere near job one.” 

Hey Brit, the climate fails and the earth fails and everything dies, so nothing else matters. China won’t be an issue when the planet dies; or Russia or Iran and Iraq and North Korea. And so what is there to ‘defend’ if everything has been destroyed?

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Jodie Foster, actor,  on who she is, what people think of her and what life is like today:

“My philosophy is what people say about me is none of my business. I am who I am and what I do. Expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life easier. We live in a world where funerals are more important than dead, marriage is more important than love and looks are more important than the soul. We live in a packaging culture that despises content. "

That last line is everything.

I LOVE her.

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Andrew Scott, actor, on how acting helped “emancipate” him from shame around being gay:

“I’m happy to be able to say that to be emancipated from shame has been genuinely the biggest achievement of my life. For a long time, I have felt very comfortable with myself [as a gay man], but it doesn’t take much to go back there—something a taxi driver can say can still wound you. If he might say, ‘You’ve got a wife?’ You could go, ‘No, I don’t,’ or is that sort of a lie by omission? When I was 18 or 19, I was playing gay parts but I wasn’t out. A lot of people within the industry were queer, so I was surrounded by them and then, bit by bit, started to feel confident.”

I know this feeling, though I, too, have been emancipated from the so-called ‘shame.’ Every so often a client will be chatting with me and notice my wedding ring and ask what my wife’s ring looks like, and I always say:

“I don’t know what my wife’s ring looks like, but my husband’s looks just like this.”

And there you have it, I just came out ... again!

It’s baby steps, coming out, because the assumption is that you’re straight because most people are straight. I mean, we’ve come out at the grocery store, and the bank, and the local restaurants simply by behaving as a couple, but will still get the “Do you have a wife” question.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Jodie Foster, on how women are questioning past behaviors in the wake of #MeToo and how having an industry-savvy mother may have protected her from Hollywood’s abusers:

“I don’t think there is a woman I know, who doesn’t look back on when they were 15, 16, 17 or 18, who doesn’t put their hand on their head and say: ‘Why did I do that? Why was I like that? Why wasn’t I confident? Why didn’t I say no?’ …. The weird cauldron that made me ­– working from the time I was three years old, supporting my family by the time that I was seven, super-strong mom, over-confident personality, celebrity young enough that I learned to be stand-offish … I think there’s a whole bunch of reasons why I didn’t have the same path as someone who came to Hollywood at 22 with two cents in her pocket and just wanted more than anything else to be an actor; it’s just a different life.”

Woman are learning that they have the power. The power of ‘No’.

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Michelle Wolf, on _____’s Supreme Court nomination and the presumed attack on Roe V Wade from a group of Pro-Life hypocrites:

“It’s so ironic that Trump could be the guy that ends legal abortion. That dude has been responsible for more abortions than the invention of back alleys … We were originally gonna use coat hangers. And before that, stairs.”

Women, and men, need to fight this every which way we can.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle, Fox News host and Junior’s current mistress, on outspoken liberals:

“Who are these jokers? You see them on television, and they have a blog, and everyone thinks they’re a journalist, and they’re a joke. They’re provocateurs. They have no substance and no meat, let alone any intellect. It’s unbelievable in this day and age anyone calls themselves a journalist because they can post something on the Internet. I just take issue with people who are complete liars and smear merchants and say things that are not true, and they know that they’re not true, and some of these people need to get a beatdown, and I’m happy to give it to them.”

Wow; so this woman, stupid enough to break up with Gavin Newsom and take up with that oil slick of a piece of trash, thinks people who disagree with her, people who stand up for themselves, deserve a “beat down.”

Sit in a corner until your next trick comes along.

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Bill Maher, on, ahem, _____’s dick:

“Although honestly, doesn’t everything about this man just scream microdick? The bragging, and the buildings with my name on it! And the debates. He was talking about his dick at the debates! That guy is president. Remember that?”

And let’s not forget that he actually is a dick.

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Elizabeth Warren, on _____’s bullying:

"I can handle a bully. But here’s the really creepy part: In the same breath, he mocked the entire #MeToo movement. He mocked women who are bravely coming forward and saying that they’ve been harassed and abused by guys just like Donald _____. [He] isn’t just trying to scare me—he's trying to bully all women and make us all shut up. He still doesn't think guys like him should be held accountable for what they say or do. You know what, Donald? You don't scare us. Women fight back. Women vote, organize marches, knock on doors, make phone calls, run for office – and win. We'll sweep your Republican enablers out of office this November. And that means, all hands on deck. Use the ballot to stop the patriarchal fascist white supremacists who want to loot the economy and rape Mother Earth."

And cast a goddamned vote!

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Stephen Colbert, celebrating the news from Thailand that the 12 boys and their soccer coach were rescued from a flooded cave … and taking a jab at _____:

”All 12 Thai boys and their coach have been rescued from the cave that they were trapped in for more than two weeks. That feels good. In fact, it’s a great story that gives everyone hope. And it reminds us of the importance of permission slips for field trips to flooded caves. Everybody loves this story. Are you listening, Mr. President? Freeing children makes people like you!”

Ah, but those aren’t immigrant boys.

_____ hates immigrants, unless he marries one to give her a green card and get her parents into the country.

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Sarah Palin, quitter, on being duped into giving an interview to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for his new program on Showtime:

“Yup — we were duped. Ya’ got me, Sacha. Feel better now? I join a long list of American public personalities who have fallen victim to the evil, exploitive, sick ‘humor’ of the British ‘comedian’ Sacha Baron Cohen, enabled and sponsored by CBS/Showtime. This ‘legit opportunity’ to honor American Vets and contribute to a ‘legit Showtime historical documentary’ was requested of me via a speakers bureau. Out of respect for what I was led to believe would be a thoughtful discussion with someone who had served in uniform, I sat through a long ‘interview’ full of Hollywoodism’s disrespect and sarcasm—but finally had enough and literally, physically removed my mic and walked out, much to Cohen’s chagrin.”

She’s just mad because, once again, she’s shown the world how stupid she is; this isn’t the first time Palin was duped by the media, but since she’s such a famewhore, she’s now trying to turn it into another ‘Look at me’ moment.

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Larry Kramer, saying, for gays, the worst is yet to come:

“We’ve come a certain distance from such a blanket suffocation. But by the time a modicum of acceptance by the outside world starts to arrive, we are visited with a plague. It is a plague of disease, and with our new president it continues to be a plague of hate. There is not one cabinet member who has supportive or welcoming words for us. Every week, it seems, Mr. _____ appoints another judge who is on record as hating us. They will serve for many years. A new Supreme Court will further echo this disdain.”

All the more reason to vote blue, and only blue, for years to come.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Blaine Stewart, openly gay Virginia Beach news anchor, on the snow storm this week:

“Get ready for a pounding. Some of us could see 8 inches or more. That’s too much — even for me.”

Blaine, that’s too much information, even for me.

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Richard Gere, saying that China is the reason he doesn’t get any big acting jobs any more:

“There are definitely movies that I can’t be in because the Chinese will say, ‘Not with him.’ I recently had an episode where someone said they could not finance a film with me because it would upset the Chinese. There was something I was going do with a Chinese director, and two weeks before we were going to shoot, he called saying, ‘Sorry, I can’t do it. We had a secret phone call on a protected line. If I had worked with this director, he, his family would never have been allowed to leave the country ever again, and he would never work.”

Gere has long drawn attention to China’s horrendous human rights situation and says that’s why he only gets smaller film roles.

But, he says, he doesn’t regret the change because he has something that Hollywood doesn’t: money and, in conjunction, freedom.

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Jodie Foster, on those big budget superhero movies:

“Going to the movies has become like a theme park. Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses and shareholders is like fracking — you get the best return right now but you wreck the earth. It’s ruining the viewing habits of the American population and then ultimately the rest of the world.”

I kind of agree, mainly because I have no real interest in these superhero movies because, at their core, they are all very much alike.

Give me a small movie with a good story and I’m all in.

Give me a Jodie Foster movie.

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Donald _____, on Steve Bannon, after that new bombshell book revealed how Bannon now feels about the Fat Bastard:

“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party. Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country.”

Delusional say what? Does he think anyone, other than his Basket of Deplorables, will forget the praise he heaped on Bannon?

Bannon was quoted in that new book calling the Trump campaign team’s meeting with Russians “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” and claimed “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”

Gosh, it’s fun to see mean girls turn on each other.

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Anderson Cooper, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, saying he walked out of the new Star Wars movie:

“I actually saw it last night, I walked out. I know, I’m sorry. I have a lot going on, I had a lot of work to do and a lot on my mind. It wasn’t a protest, I’m going to see it again. I had too much in my head. About 45 minutes in I said, ‘I’m not giving this the attention it deserves.’”

Anderson? Call me. I’ll go see it with you ….

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Meryl Streep, on the time Dustin Hoffman, accused sexual harasser,  admits that Hoffman, went too far in a Kramer vs. Kramer scene:

"I’m sure that I have inadvertently hurt people in physical scenes, but there’s a certain amount of forgiveness in that. But this was my first movie, and it was my first take in my first movie, and he just slapped me. And you see it in the movie. It was overstepping. But I think those things are being corrected in this moment. And they’re not politically corrected; they’re fixed. They will be fixed, because people won’t accept it anymore. So that’s a good thing."

Hoffman also made light of the fact that Streep’s boyfriend at the time had recently died after a long illness, so, yeah, he’s a pig.

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Matt Evers, professional ice skater, coming out as gay, and saying he was inspired by seeing what his uncle went through after being diagnosed with HIV:

"He was part of the original San Francisco and New York Fire Island crowd back in the 70s and 80s. I didn't know I was gay at the time, but when he was dying it hit me really hard that he didn't know the love of his mum, my grandmother. They were strict Catholics at the tip of the Bible belt. I wasn't aware of why his passing and the thought of him never being accepted by his own family hurt me so much until I realized I was gay. It's scary, the difference between generations [but] I live my life by example, and I want to show young people that what you feel or how you were born isn't something bad."

How sad to have your own family disown because you were born gay; and how hard that would have been growing up gay and knowing how your family feels.

Welcome out, Matt, and please accept as our Coming Out gifts, a copy of The Gay Agenda and the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven.

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Random Musings

Update on the story I posted earlier this week [HERE] about Earl Bullard, the mayor of Latta, South Carolina who fired the police chief Crystal Moore because she’s a lesbian.

It seems the good people of Latta aren’t having this because this week the town council voted unanimously to block Bullard from replacing Moore during the next two months. That followed a vote from last week to hold a referendum on a new structure for government that would enable the town council to hire Moore back.

A standing room only crowd turned out for a council meeting to show their support for Moore.

In Small Town South Carolina of all places!

One thing I hate, and which feels like steel-tipped fingernails slowly sliding down a chalkboard, is when people say “exspecially’ instead of ‘especially’.

Knock it off.

Lupita Nyong'o is People magazine’s ‘Most Beautiful’ woman, marking just the third time in the 25-year history of the ‘Most Beautiful’ issue that a Black woman has graced the cover. 

And she deserves it!

All I can say is that they got it right, and, well, let’s try to see more women of color on the cover, eh?

After coming out last year during a Golden Globes speech, this past weekend Jodie Foster married her girlfriend Alexandra Hedison.

Congratulations to the happy couple.

And congratulations to husband-in-my-head Matt Bomer who revealed this week that he has been married to his longtime partner Simon Halls since 2011.

Married to someone else or not, he still gets to be husband-in-my-head.

After Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady came out in support for same-sex marriage a gaggle of Republicans sought to oust him from his job because, you know, gays and equality and shiz. Brady resigned last May, citing his wife's battle with cancer and his desire to focus on his family after four years as chairman and two as a Republican National Committee member.

Bad news, followed by good news.

When Illinois Republicans voted this week for all 18 state central committee member posts they ousted six of the seven Republican Neanderthals who wanted Brady removed for his support of LGBT rights.

Maybe the GOP is changing, y’all. Maybe.

More good news? Okay … the Kentucky legislature has adjourned for the year without voting on a bill that would have allowed Senator Crazy Rand Paul to appear twice on the 2016 ballot. 

Paul had asked the state to change the law so that he could retain his Senate seat while running for president because even he knows he’ll never be president and he wants that Senate Seat Safety Net.

Brian Wilkerson, a spokesman for Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo: "In Kentucky, you ought to run for one office at a time. The speaker's thoughts haven't changed on that."

And Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Steve Beshear, is highly unlikely to call the legislature into special session to consider the measure so that means if Crazy Rand Paul's allies in the legislature want to try again, they're going to have to wait until the legislature reconvenes next January.

And by that time, a number of 2016 White House contenders may already be officially in the race making Paul’s chances slimmer than Oprah fitting into a size twelve.

Boo-yah!

Onto another kind of race, RuPaul’s Drag Race:

This week’s Mini-Challenge was to create “Twerks of Art” and the ladies did so by covering their bodies in paint and rolling all over a giant canvas. It was all kinds of creepy and icky and gooey. Let’s move on …

The Main Challenge began with the queens being teamed up with biologically female brides for a wedding makeover but then came the twist; the queens wouldn’t be making over the women as pretty little brides, they’d be making over the husbands into pretty not-so-little brides.

Let’s dish:

Bianca Del Rio was the week’s big winner. First, she won the ‘Twerk of Art’ mini-challenge, though I’m sure she’ll forget to add that to her resume. But her ‘bride’ was by far the best of the bunch, and she totally rocked the Mother of the Bride runway look. She and her drag daughter actually looked alike on the runway and matched in wedding dress and Mother of the Bride couture. Plus, Bianca is an all out riot, and so quick with the comebacks:  "Don't call me mommy in public."

BenDeLaCreme is also coming on strong. And she really played up the Mother of the Bride act, and also created a unique march down the aisle. I am still Team BenDeLa, but I am leaning toward Team Bianca, too.

Courtney Act is pretty; Courtney Act looked better than her bride. Not good for the Mother of the Bride to wear a sexy, nearly see-thru number while her drag daughter basically wore window dressing and a sheet.

Darienne Lake got the tough challenge: Goth Wedding. But she pulled it off somewhat, at least with her drag daughter who seemed ready to try out for next season’s Drag Race, But Darienne completely missed the Goth Mother of the Bride mark so points off for that.

Adore Delano, I do not adore. She can’t sew, and she apparently can’t apply make-up, either to herself or anyone else. This was a mess from the get-go and looked more like In Bred Cousin F**Ker Wedding than anything else; bad wigs—even her drag daughter questioned the style level of the hair—and bad gowns and bad makeup.

Joslyn Fox got the uncomfortable groom who was a professional, or semi-professional, basketball player who cared only about what his teammates night think when they saw him in a dress. Honey, why go on a show called ‘Drag Race’ if you worried about being seen in drag. And then, puking on the runway? How Willem of you.

Lip Sync For Your Life: Adore v Joslyn. And it was no contest. I couldn’t have cared less which queen went home but watching Joslyn out-of-sync-lip-sync was painful. Adore really mopped the floor with her and Joslyn took her drag on home.

What did YOU think?

Last season on Once Upon A Time — a show that never saw a hot guy and didn’t want to put him in tight leather pants — we met Sean Maguire, who plays Robin Hood. He was hot, and then he was gone. Luckily, for me anyway, the show brought him and his hot Britishness back.

And luckily Devious Maids s also back because, while the show is at times trite, some of the dialogue is whip-smart-funny and there are at least two new hotties to admire this season.

Dominic Adams plays hot bodyguard with a hot body that needs a guard to keep me off it, while Mark Deklin — last seen as the closeted gay husband on Good Christian Bitches — is back as a hot man with a secret past.

Yum.

I got a kick out of the stories that Hillary Clinton planted the shoe thrower so she would look more presidential, like George W, Bush, because here’s George W. Bush being, well, ex-presidential.

Four of the five living presidents — only Daddy Bush was missing — spoke at the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library as part of a summit honoring the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and this is how George W Bush opened his speech:

“Former presidents compare their libraries the way other men may compare their, well … Just wondering how LBJ would have handled that. He was a funny guy at times.”

Yeah, commemorating the Civil Rights Act is the perfect place for a penis joke.

Fucking frat boy asshat.

Over there to the Italy, the city council of Latina voted in favor of a motion to support the recognition of a same-sex couple’s marriage.

Antonio Garullo and Mario Ottocento [above] were the first Italian gay couple to be married more than 10 years ago in Holland, and in 2004 they asked the Ufficio dello Stato Civile of Latina to register their marriage but their application was turned down.

The couple sued the town, and in 2005 the Tribunale of Latina rejected their complaint. They appealed to the Court of Appeal of Rome and were denied a second time. They appealed that denial to the Supreme Court of Cassation who, in 2012, also rejected their appeal but delivered a landmark opinion for LGBT rights saying Italian laws should treat gay and straight couples equally. 

So, Antonio and Mario asked the town of Latina to record their marriage again, and on April 15, 2014, the Council of the Latina approved in a 14-2 vote a motion in support of the record of their marriage.

The motion is addressed to the Italian Government, which will decide whether or not the commune of Latina can register the marriage but I love that the two men never gave up, and won’t ever give up.

Ralph Reed brought his anti-LGBT hate to ABC's This Week to talk about gay adoption and gay parenting and Russia’s anti-gay adoption laws. [the emphasis in the quotes is mine]

Ralph Reed: “The social science on this is clear. This isn’t about Vladimir Putin, this is about what’s best for children here in the United States. The social science is irrefutable: a child who grows up in a home without the mother and father present, and they both very unique procreative, nurturing, and socializing roles, they’re nine times more likely to end up dropping out of high school; they’re five times more likely to end up in poverty; and they’re three times more likely to end up addicted to drugs and alcohol.”

Cokie Roberts, host of This Week: “But the social science is also irrefutable that a child raised in an orphanage is in much worse shape than a child raised in a home. And the fact that people are willing to take these children and raise them, and raise them in a loving way, is clearly better for these children.”

Ralph Reed: “I think the social science is just simply not in yet on same-sex couples. I think the law has every right to set an ideal. And the ideal is a mother and a father.”

Love how he contradicts himself within seconds of saying the science is clear, and then saying the science is not in yet.

Asshat can’t even forge a decent anti-gay argument.

So, earlier we talked about Matt Bomer’s marriage some three years ago and I felt sad that he would only and always be just a husband-in-my-head, but then I saw that picture and, well, I’m okay with my fantasies.

Excuse me for a moment …

I'm back. I posted a while back about Mississippi's Don't Serve The Gays Because The Baby Jeebus Said So law, and talked about the group, If You're Buying, We're Selling placing decals into windows of businesses that don't discriminate.

Well, I checked out their website, HERE, and imagine my surprise when I saw my little old blag listed under Press Reports.

How cool is that?