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LZ Granderson on ESPN today asks: Where’s Floyd Mayweather Jr. outcry?

LZ Granderson on ESPN today asks:

Where’s Floyd Mayweather Jr. outcry?


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With the stories Ken Mehlman, Judge Walker, etc., the timing for a special show live from SF at the NLGJA convention couldn’t be more perfect, though it’s been planned it for months: “Outing: 20 Years Later: The Ethics of Reporting on the Sexual Orientation of Public Figures.”  In the wake of national discussions about former Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign manager and RNC chairman Ken Mehlman (who recently came out as gay), federal Judge Vaughn Walker (who overturned Prop 8) and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (who, in the end, had a friend come forward to confirm she is straight), “The Michelangelo Signorile Show” hosts a special live broadcast and panel discussion.The two-hour event takes place at the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association (NLGJA) 20th annual convention at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, as a plenary discussion on Friday, September 3rd, 11 PT, 2 ET and broacasts live on Sirius XM OutQ (Sirius 109, XM 98). It will air live for the first two hours of the regular show (it will rebroadcast during the last two ours of the regular show). Our panel includes Mike Rogers of Blogactive, who was at the forefront of reporting on Senator Larry Craig, Congressman Mark Foley, Ken Mehlman and many others; LZ Granderson, columnist for ESPN Page 2, host of the web-based ESPN360 talk show “Game Night” and a frequent commentator for CNN.com; and Michael Triplett, a contributor for the media analysis site Mediaite, assistant chief of correspondents for the Bureau of National Affairs, and a board member of NLGJA. They and other gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender NLGJA members in the audience, journalists from across the country, will be participating, asking questions and commenting, as will be listeners from coast to coast calling in.

With the stories Ken Mehlman, Judge Walker, etc., the timing for a special show live from SF at the NLGJA convention couldn’t be more perfect, though it’s been planned it for months: “Outing: 20 Years Later: The Ethics of Reporting on the Sexual Orientation of Public Figures.” 

In the wake of national discussions about former Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign manager and RNC chairman Ken Mehlman (who recently came out as gay), federal Judge Vaughn Walker (who overturned Prop 8) and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (who, in the end, had a friend come forward to confirm she is straight), “The Michelangelo Signorile Show” hosts a special live broadcast and panel discussion.

The two-hour event takes place at the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association (NLGJA) 20th annual convention at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, as a plenary discussion on Friday, September 3rd, 11 PT, 2 ET and broacasts live on Sirius XM OutQ (Sirius 109, XM 98). It will air live for the first two hours of the regular show (it will rebroadcast during the last two ours of the regular show). 

Our panel includes Mike Rogers of Blogactive, who was at the forefront of reporting on Senator Larry Craig, Congressman Mark Foley, Ken Mehlman and many others; LZ Granderson, columnist for ESPN Page 2, host of the web-based ESPN360 talk show “Game Night” and a frequent commentator for CNN.com; and Michael Triplett, a contributor for the media analysis site Mediaite, assistant chief of correspondents for the Bureau of National Affairs, and a board member of NLGJA. They and other gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender NLGJA members in the audience, journalists from across the country, will be participating, asking questions and commenting, as will be listeners from coast to coast calling in.



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Sudden Hole In Your Schedule?: Half-Price Sale On Kinsey Sicks Performances NOV 5-13! Word from the Kinsey’s: The Kinsey Sicks will be getting free experimental cosmetic surgery from some of North Korea’s most promising first-year med students! During their recovery, they will be unfit to be seen in public, except on stage with lots and lots of make-up in front of audiences with low expectations. Not that this is any different from normal. Won’t you please support the futile efforts of the gals to beautify themselves? Here’s how: Click the gorgeous image above to book them now, or visit outmedia.org! First come-first served! You’re not the only tasteless cheapskate, you know!  Half price shows are available: Fri November 5 (northeast US only) Sat November 6 (northeast US only) Sun Nov 7 Mon Nov 8 Tues Nov 9 Wed Nov 10 Thurs Nov 11 Fri Nov 12 (western USA only) Sat Nov 13  (western USA only)

Sudden Hole In Your Schedule?: Half-Price Sale On Kinsey Sicks Performances NOV 5-13!

Word from the Kinsey’s:

The Kinsey Sicks will be getting free experimental cosmetic surgery from some of North Korea’s most promising first-year med students! During their recovery, they will be unfit to be seen in public, except on stage with lots and lots of make-up in front of audiences with low expectations. Not that this is any different from normal. Won’t you please support the futile efforts of the gals to beautify themselves? Here’s how:

Click the gorgeous image above to book them now, or visit outmedia.org! First come-first served! You’re not the only tasteless cheapskate, you know!


 Half price shows are available:
  • Fri November 5 (northeast US only)
  • Sat November 6 (northeast US only)
  • Sun Nov 7
  • Mon Nov 8
  • Tues Nov 9
  • Wed Nov 10
  • Thurs Nov 11
  • Fri Nov 12 (western USA only)
  • Sat Nov 13  (western USA only)


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We know that you’re flocking back to campuses today, and we sure hope your summer’s have been studded with great experiences. Back on April 30, we shared with you this video by Emily Wunderlich, who won Campus Pride and OUTmedia’s “Be Queer, Buy Queer!” contest for college students around the planet. When she won we said, “With simple engineering and her empowered voice, Emily Wunderlich of UW-LaCrosse is a student not only making change, she’s creating it. Her video embodied the message of BQBQ! She used her voice to show that every member of the LGBTQQIA community can stand together and make a difference. So take note and remember “dollar signs change times”.

We never thought back then that the winner of BQBQ! whose voice and vision we stumbled upon, and who won the $10K prize in free entertainment for her campus on 4/8-9, 2011, would then pursue us for an internship. She actually fled her beloved Wisconsin and its cheese to grab a bite of the Big Apple. But now we know why apples go so well with cheese, and social media spawns power-packed relationships. Here are some of my parting words to Emily delivered at her BBQ farewell where she brought out her WI balsamic sticky ribs recipe, and we used enough WI dairy products in mac ‘n cheese, and garlic mashed potatoes and forever  proved that bagel obsessed Brooklynites can be cheeseheads too.

“Clearly you are a winner in slamming us the truth, being a video soothsayer showing us what’s possible in a politically enlightened future.  However, who knew that your gifts far exceeded the confines of a 2 minute video.  You are a burst of rarified energy that is dripping with smarts.  If set loose on the planet you might singlehandedly stem oil seepage, and keep the shores and marine life in an uncontaminated state. You might deliver knockouts to queer bashers, trans haters, and just those who don’t get it and affirm the possibilities of a myriad of gender identities and expressions”. 

I won’t continue and embarrass Emily any further, but wish her a super year at UW-L, and great success bringing hordes of students around the Midwest to OUTmedia’s QueerCampus CultureFest.  If any of you are interested in interning for  OUTmedia out of our office in NY and our new office opening in Chicago, or working virtually, contact us at info@OUTmedia.org and let us know.  We hope you’ll “Like” us on the Facebook social plug in above. Be on the lookout for our job post  for interns ‘10-‘11.



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From white or black, the N-word is not OK Special to CNN LZ Granderson says he was at a club of mainly white people singing along to hip hop music He was shocked when they all began shouting the n-word along with Kanye West song “What is it with white people and that word?” he asks, but then notes that Kanye brought it up Writer: Word too freighted and hurtful to be tossed around by Dr. Laura or anyone else

From white or black, the N-word is not OK

Special to CNN

  • LZ Granderson says he was at a club of mainly white people singing along to hip hop music
  • He was shocked when they all began shouting the n-word along with Kanye West song
  • “What is it with white people and that word?” he asks, but then notes that Kanye brought it up
  • Writer: Word too freighted and hurtful to be tossed around by Dr. Laura or anyone else


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Californians are soon to be popping corks!!! However, not ready to marry by Aug.18, Jason’s sleeping with vinyl.

Californians are soon to be popping corks!!! However, not ready to marry by Aug.18, Jason’s sleeping with vinyl.


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 I have watched this 3 times and am ready to commit to memory. It will arm me for exchanges with the unyielding homophobes I encounter. It also has brought me some peace in reconciling my abject pain over his winning arguments in Bush v. Gore. What with Rosh Hashonah close, is this his karmic atonement?


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Name Dropping with Jason Stuart… Leslie Jordan Jason’s got a new online talk show! It’s Actors’ Studio meets Comics Unleashed meets imdb.com. His first guest is the Emmy winner Leslie Jordan, who you might know as “Beverly Leslie” from Will & Grace or as “Brother Boy” from Sordid Lives.  Leslie is hysterical and tells stories like no one else. In this wide-ranging interview he talks about… The night he spent in a jail cell with Robert Downey, Jr. How he lost his virginity. Why his Emmy statuette is broken. What it’s like working with the exacting and reclusive writer/producer David E. Kelly. How he got his break on Will & Grace…. and who was supposed to play the part of Beverly Leslie!  

Name Dropping with Jason Stuart… Leslie Jordan

Jason’s got a new online talk show! It’s Actors’ Studio meets Comics Unleashed meets imdb.com.

His first guest is the Emmy winner Leslie Jordan, who you might know as “Beverly Leslie” from Will & Grace or as “Brother Boy” from Sordid Lives.  Leslie is hysterical and tells stories like no one else. In this wide-ranging interview he talks about…

  • The night he spent in a jail cell with Robert Downey, Jr.
  • How he lost his virginity.
  • Why his Emmy statuette is broken.
  • What it’s like working with the exacting and reclusive writer/producer David E. Kelly.
  • How he got his break on Will & Grace…. and who was supposed to play the part of Beverly Leslie!
 


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What it Says About Us When a 17-Month-Old Boy Is Beaten to Death for “Acting Like a Girl”

What it Says About Us When a 17-Month-Old Boy Is Beaten to Death for “Acting Like a Girl”


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Prop H8 Overturned!!!

Prop H8 Overturned!!!


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A spooky song about BP (British Petroleum) and the “Drill, Baby, Drill” mentality from America’s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet: The Kinsey Sicks! Oil? Crude? Well! We assure you…it’s quite refined! Share it with your friends! Share it with your enemies!


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The author of the new poetry collection If Jesus Were Gay & other poems and the new spoken word/music collaboration album Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier, which inspired a dance presentation choreographed by Ferdinand De Jesus and spawned a music video for “Legendary (The E-Mix)”, Emanuel Xavier has been named a 2010 GLBT History Month Icon by the Equality Forum, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance national and international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) civil rights through education. 

The author of the new poetry collection If Jesus Were Gay & other poems and the new spoken word/music collaboration album Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier, which inspired a dance presentation choreographed by Ferdinand De Jesus and spawned a music video for “Legendary (The E-Mix)”, Emanuel Xavier has been named a 2010 GLBT History Month Icon by the Equality Forum, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance national and international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) civil rights through education. 


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YES!!!! BIG HUGS — TO ALL THE CAMPUS PRIDE CAMP 2010 & PAST HAPPY CAMPERS!!! xoxo

YES!!!! BIG HUGS — TO ALL THE CAMPUS PRIDE CAMP 2010 & PAST HAPPY CAMPERS!!! xoxo


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Now that Dan Choi has given his ring to Harry Reid, will Harry renew his vow, or is this just another shoddy Vegas marriage?

Now that Dan Choi has given his ring to Harry Reid, will Harry renew his vow, or is this just another shoddy Vegas marriage?


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LZ Granderson on Shaq: The end of Shaq’s line is near He’s a Hall of Famer, but he might also be persona non grata this offseason

LZ Granderson on Shaq:

The end of Shaq’s line is near

He’s a Hall of Famer, but he might also be persona non grata this offseason