On March 16 in NYC, Madonna will make her first appearance at the GLAAD Awards to present Anderson Cooper with the Vito Russo Award, which is given to out public figures who have had a major impact on gay visibility and rights.
Tickets will set you back a few bucks, but they're mostly tax deductible. Click here to purchase.
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Tim Tebow does the right thing.
Rob Kardashian pulls a reverse Boy George.
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Indiana teacher who called gays "purposeless" suspended.
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GLAAD honoree Anderson Cooper's wine necklace:
Tying one on (his neck)
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GLAAD announces its Media Award nominees.
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Emmy Rossum sings "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)".
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Aleksandr Ovchinnikov's hotness by Ruslan Elquest. (Work Unfriendly)
Yet another sexiest-tennis-players list. (Can never be too many.)
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Water discovered on Mercury.
Director James Gunn apologizes for anti-gay, misogynist rant.
Michigan teacher suspended for playing pro-gay music video.
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Is Lindsay Lohan a Wanted woman?
Polish court okays gay inheritance.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn settles with maid.
Colin Farrell rides in on white horse.
Madonna's corset sells for over $50K.
Another DOMA case ruled unconstitutional.
Is Rep. Aaron "I'm not gay" Schock (R-Illinois) a gubernatorial maybe?
Call me "Governor," maybe?
Today, I'm joining GLAAD by wearing purple for Spirit Day (that's #SpiritDay to all of you on Twitter) in support of LGBT youth.
Justin Bartha of The New Normal
According to GLAAD, this year's TV shows feature the highest-ever percentage of LGBT characters. ABC has the highest percentage, at 5.2%. Anti-gay forces make it seem like TV is dripping with gay, gay, gay, but if the network with the highest percentage clocks in at 5.2%, that shows gay people are anything but wildly overrepresented.
NFL punter Chris Kluwe, the marriage advocate who coined the phrase "lustful cockmonster," speaks to Out.
Kentucky restaurant shut down for harvesting roadkill.
Take a moment to revel in the adorability of model Andre Ziehe.
GLAAD hands out its Amplifier Awards.
Sotheby's auctions woolly mammoth skeleton.
Chick-fil-A's Dan Cathy is still very much an asshole:
October 19 is Spirit Day, an annual day to wear purple as a show of solidarity in the fight for LGBT youth. GLAAD has launched the campaign here, if you'd like more info. Otherwise, figure out what you have that's purple and bring it out of the closet on the 19th.
Joseph almost committed suicide because of anti-gay bullying
Spirit Day is all about supporting people like Joseph from Tennessee, whose story is movingly told in this short video by Elliott London. Please share it...
I think it's great when public condemnation or intervention from GLAAD pushes a personality to apologize for an egregious offense against the LGBT community, but Paris Hilton's blubbering apology really doesn't move me. She was taped in a cab exclaiming to a (gay) friend that gay men probably all have HIV and she wouldn't want to be gay because then she'd die of AIDS, etc.
Her PRs have tried to claim she was speaking about HIV-positive people who seek out unprotected sex, but in context, that really does not hold water.
In this case, I feel like GLAAD—which I otherwise support—is just helping to provide cover for a reprehensible human being.
I mean, what was her excuse for her past racist comments like these and these? Like too many rich assholes, Paris Hilton has a contemptuous outlook on the rest of the world; gays are just a part of that.
