Showing posts with label Cynthia Nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cynthia Nixon. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Random Musings
Back in March, Carlos lost
his job because, well, let me put it in my own words, the health care company
for whom he was working, couldn’t manage a gumball machine much less a
business and they went under.
Bad news, eh?
Good news? The company
that was taking over for the old group was hiring people from the old company.
Bad news? The position Carlos
held was paid for out of a Ryan White Grant and the new company had yet to
receive that grant so Carlos would not be hired at that time.
Good news? A woman who
runs a dental clinic for homeless, low-income and HIV patients needed an office
manager and offered the job to Carlos. She told him that she new this wasn’t
the job he wanted but that he could have it until something better came along.
Bad news? The pay was
really low, and the hours, well, low, too.
Good news? Carlos met a
woman here in Smallville, AKA Camden, who runs a counseling group. She wants
someone to work with the Hispanic population in our county and thought Carlos
would be perfect.
Bad news? There is none.
The money is comparable to the job he had for the health care company and the
hours are good. There is the opportunity for this new job to pay for education and
training as a counselor, and, in my mind, best of all, the new job is right
here in Camden, which means Carlo’s commute goes from 80 miles a day to about
twenty.
Good news? When Carlos
gave notice at the dental clinic his boss was like, Go! Good for you! Go! Talk about a fabulous boss, woman, human
being!
Congratulations baby.
_____________________
Out there in Washington,
home of The Dog’s Mother AKA Froggy, a new, independent, statewide poll finds
that an overwhelming majority of voters approve of the Washington’s law
extending civil marriage to same-sex couples.
Oh, but they do.
Washington voters approve
of the law by a 54-33% margin.
In addition to
extraordinary support by 87% of Democrats, the poll also found significant
support among Independents, nearly mirroring the full poll, at 52-36%.
Still, next week equality opponents
are expected to submit more than enough signatures to put the existing law
allowing same-sex marriage up for a vote come November.
Still, with support on the
rise, I am confident that Washingtonians will approve equality.
I mean, it’s equality,
right?
_________________
Three
years after getting engaged
at a rally to support
marriage equality in New York state, Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni were
married this past Sunday.
The Sex and the City actress, and Tony nominee, and the education
activist, have been together since 2004, and Marinoni gave birth to their son, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni, in February
2011.
Nixon has two
children from her previous relationship with photographer Danny Mozes.
Congratulations
and best wishes to the newlyweds.
_________________________
And when I give my review
of things, I tend to get kinda snarky. And, every so often, I get some of those
folks about whom I right, in perhaps a snarly way, to write me and tell me how
they feel.
I used to get Tweets from
Mondo of Project Runway after I’d Tweet my recap of the show, and now, some of
the folks from Design Star are responding to my first recap of this season:
@BobSlatten Thank you for the hilarious review of the show. Hopefully I can give you a more fabulous gay next week!
And then I got this comment, which may, or may not, be the real Bex—though I’m thinking it might be:
Bex Hale said...
This is hilarious! I think I'd rather read your blog than
watch the show. - Nerdy Bex
___________________________
So, I’m sure most of you
have heard the story, and seen the awful video, of that four-year-old boy
singing "Ain't No Homos Getting Into Heaven" in his Indiana ‘church’.
Well, after allowing the
parents of that child to use him to spread hate, the ‘church’ has posted a message
to their website:
The Pastor and members of Apostolic Truth Tabernacle do not condone, teach, or practice hate of any person for any reason. We believe and hope that every person can find true Bible salvation and the mercy and grace of God in their lives. We are a strong advocate of the family unit according to the teachings and precepts found in the Holy Bible. We believe the Holy Bible is the Divinely-inspired Word of God and we will continue to uphold and preach that which is found in scripture.
Um, okay, you may not condone hate, but you most
certainly teach it when the parents of a four-year-old taught their son that
song and the pastor of that ‘church’ allowed him to sing it.
That’s teaching. And, yeah, it’s practicing hate, too.
____________________
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has congratulated Latina and out
Lesbian, Mary Gonzalez, on
her win
in a decisive Democratic primary to represent District 75 in the Texas House of
Representatives.
Yes. ♫♪Texas has a Lesbian In It♪♫.
Gonzalez faces no Republican opponent in November,
meaning she will win the El Paso seat and become the state’s only openly LGBT
lawmaker.
Congrats Ms. Gonzalez.
And congrats to Texas, too.
And congrats to Texas, too.
__________________________
And let's end with the current Song In My Head, from the Broadway Musical, The Book of Mormon. I wake up singing it, and have been known to start off with the line, ♫♪Turn it off♪♫ at the most inappropriate times....like when someone else is talking:
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Friday, February 03, 2012
I Didn't Say It........
Cynthia Nixon, clearing things up:
"My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my personal story of being gay. I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. However, to the extent that anyone wishes to interpret my words in a strictly legal context I would like to clarify: While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship."
Like homosexuality, bisexuality is not a choice.
The choice lies within bisexuality when you choose which gender to whom you are attracted. And you have the choice, as a bisexual, to switch that up.
Bisexuality isn't a choice, but what you do with it is.
Sarah, home-schooled fourteen-year-old, on Maryland and marriage equality:
"Today is my 14th birthday and it would be the best birthday present ever if you would vote NO on gay marriage. I really feel bad for the kids who have two parents of the same gender. Even though some kids think it's fine, they have no idea what kind of wonderful experiences they miss out on. I don't want more kids to get confused about what's right and okay. I really don't want to grow up in a world where marriage isn't such a special thing anymore...It's rather scary to think that when I grow up the legislature or the court can change the definition of any word they want. If they could change the definition of marriage then they could change the definition of any word. People have the choice to be gay, but I don't want to be affected by their choice. People say that they were born that way, but I've met really nice adults who did change."
Isn't it cute how little Sarah's teachers, er, parents, er, teachers, give her this special homework assignment--and the proceed to give her an 'A' grade for it?
I mean, what's the point of having children and homeschooling them if you can't use them as pawns in your own personal bigotry?
And they think same-sex parents are a bad thing.
Joey Barton, professional footballer, on homophobia in sports:
"It's a subject quite close to my heart because my dad's youngest brother, the youngest of my uncles, is gay. And I didn't know for a long, long time. He thought because of the society that we were brought up in, which was quite working class, that it would be frowned upon or that we would disown him. So for a lot of years he was in turmoil and was resenting himself for the fact he had these feelings. I was like, 'I love you for you — not for the fact that you are straight or bisexual or all different manner of things. I love you because you're you.'"
I've said it before, and will keep saying it: to change people's minds on the LGBT community, everyone needs to come out.
If some of us live our lives in secrecy and shadow, it makes us look like we live in shame.
And there is no shame in being gay.
Only fabulousness.
Newt Gingrich, still riding the one-man-three-women marriage train:
"It's pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman. This is a historic doctrine driven deep into the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and it's a perfect example of what I mean by the rise of paganism. The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they are a fundamental violation of our civilization."
Notice how Newt has quietly slipped away from calling it one man and one woman marriage. I mean, why draw any more attention to the fact that you are a serial adulterer who would fuck anything and everything just because?
And, if elected--and I giggle at that because it's a joke--he would serial fuck this country, too.
Elizabeth Warren, running against Republican Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, on lobbyists:
"The people who are sucking up the real resources in this country are the people who can hire the lobbyists, and unfortunately America's middle class doesn't have lobbyists fighting for them."
Maybe this is how we change the government.
Get a PAC going for We The People.
Get some lobbyists for WE The People.
I mean, isn't that how it's done in DC?
Brad Pitt, who has repeated numerous times since 2006 that he and Angelina Jolie would not marry until gay people can, now says he might tie the knot after all:
"We'd actually like to, and it seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren't going to do it till everyone can. But I don't think we'll be able to hold out. It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment."
I appreciate Pitt and Jolie's commitment to marriage equality, but their own relationship needs to take priority.
Call me old-fashioned, but if your kids are asking you to marry mom, maybe you should.
And you could still fight for equality.
And still be way hot. Just sayin'
Cory Booker, Newark mayor, on Governor Chris "Krispy Kreme" Christie's plan for a marriage referendum:
Maybe the eloquence of this mayor is what made that ginormous tub of butter-cream in the governor's mansion apologize for being an asshat.
Maybe Booker should be governor, and Christie could be, oh, i dunno, food taster?
Allen West, Florida congressman, telling Obama and progressive leaders to "get the hell out" of America:
"This is a battlefield, that we must stand upon. We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America...Yeah, I said 'hell'"
Um, Allen, you delusional misinformed wingnut?
Obama won Florida in '08.
And here, in America, you delusional numbnut, people are allowed to disagree and not to worry about being removed form the country.
So, take your decades old, America: Love it or leave it, rhetoric and STFU.
Stacey Campfield, Tennessee political asshat, proving his utter stupidity:
"Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community. It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall."
How does a man who is so innately, and publicly, stupid, get elected to public office?
Oh, it's Tennessee.
Roberto Miranda, "pastor", on New England, marriage equality and 9/11:
"Satan has warred mightily against this region, and has effectively neutralized it through the influence of principalities of rationalism, humanism, intellectual pride and spiritual arrogance. Massachusetts, as well as all of New England, has become a cemetery of churches, a breeding ground for heretical doctrine, and intellectual furnace energizing attitudes of godlessness, rational arrogance and secularism. It is no coincidence, of course, that something as dramatically distant from the Christian worldview as gay marriage would be originated in this region. Is it exaggerated to see prophetic significance in the fact that on September 11, 2001 Boston served as the point of departure for the deadly forces that spread so much destruction and havoc in this nation and all over the world? What took place at the material level is now being carried out at the moral and spiritual level, as the virus of homosexuality and gay marriage begins to spread dramatically all over this nation and perhaps the world."
This pastor supports Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney praises this pastor for his support.
A man who blames 9/11 on homosexuality. And New England.
Matt Heinz, openly gay Arizona state representative, on running in the special election to replace Rep. Gabrielle Giffords:
"Moving forward I believe the best thing that we can do is to honor her strength, and conviction, and her leadership, by getting somebody, quickly, because we don't have much time, into that seat who is going to carry forward in the tradition of moderate, bipartisan, common sense governance that she did so well for Southern Arizona."
I think Gabby would like this idea.
Run, Matt, run.
"My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my personal story of being gay. I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. However, to the extent that anyone wishes to interpret my words in a strictly legal context I would like to clarify: While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship."
Like homosexuality, bisexuality is not a choice.
The choice lies within bisexuality when you choose which gender to whom you are attracted. And you have the choice, as a bisexual, to switch that up.
Bisexuality isn't a choice, but what you do with it is.
"Today is my 14th birthday and it would be the best birthday present ever if you would vote NO on gay marriage. I really feel bad for the kids who have two parents of the same gender. Even though some kids think it's fine, they have no idea what kind of wonderful experiences they miss out on. I don't want more kids to get confused about what's right and okay. I really don't want to grow up in a world where marriage isn't such a special thing anymore...It's rather scary to think that when I grow up the legislature or the court can change the definition of any word they want. If they could change the definition of marriage then they could change the definition of any word. People have the choice to be gay, but I don't want to be affected by their choice. People say that they were born that way, but I've met really nice adults who did change."
Isn't it cute how little Sarah's teachers, er, parents, er, teachers, give her this special homework assignment--and the proceed to give her an 'A' grade for it?
I mean, what's the point of having children and homeschooling them if you can't use them as pawns in your own personal bigotry?
And they think same-sex parents are a bad thing.
Joey Barton, professional footballer, on homophobia in sports:
"It's a subject quite close to my heart because my dad's youngest brother, the youngest of my uncles, is gay. And I didn't know for a long, long time. He thought because of the society that we were brought up in, which was quite working class, that it would be frowned upon or that we would disown him. So for a lot of years he was in turmoil and was resenting himself for the fact he had these feelings. I was like, 'I love you for you — not for the fact that you are straight or bisexual or all different manner of things. I love you because you're you.'"
I've said it before, and will keep saying it: to change people's minds on the LGBT community, everyone needs to come out.
If some of us live our lives in secrecy and shadow, it makes us look like we live in shame.
And there is no shame in being gay.
Only fabulousness.
Newt Gingrich, still riding the one-man-three-women marriage train:
"It's pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman. This is a historic doctrine driven deep into the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and it's a perfect example of what I mean by the rise of paganism. The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they are a fundamental violation of our civilization."
Notice how Newt has quietly slipped away from calling it one man and one woman marriage. I mean, why draw any more attention to the fact that you are a serial adulterer who would fuck anything and everything just because?
And, if elected--and I giggle at that because it's a joke--he would serial fuck this country, too.
Elizabeth Warren, running against Republican Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, on lobbyists:
"The people who are sucking up the real resources in this country are the people who can hire the lobbyists, and unfortunately America's middle class doesn't have lobbyists fighting for them."
Maybe this is how we change the government.
Get a PAC going for We The People.
Get some lobbyists for WE The People.
I mean, isn't that how it's done in DC?
"We'd actually like to, and it seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren't going to do it till everyone can. But I don't think we'll be able to hold out. It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment."
I appreciate Pitt and Jolie's commitment to marriage equality, but their own relationship needs to take priority.
Call me old-fashioned, but if your kids are asking you to marry mom, maybe you should.
And you could still fight for equality.
And still be way hot. Just sayin'
Cory Booker, Newark mayor, on Governor Chris "Krispy Kreme" Christie's plan for a marriage referendum:
Maybe the eloquence of this mayor is what made that ginormous tub of butter-cream in the governor's mansion apologize for being an asshat.
Maybe Booker should be governor, and Christie could be, oh, i dunno, food taster?
Allen West, Florida congressman, telling Obama and progressive leaders to "get the hell out" of America:
"This is a battlefield, that we must stand upon. We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America...Yeah, I said 'hell'"
Um, Allen, you delusional misinformed wingnut?
Obama won Florida in '08.
And here, in America, you delusional numbnut, people are allowed to disagree and not to worry about being removed form the country.
So, take your decades old, America: Love it or leave it, rhetoric and STFU.
Stacey Campfield, Tennessee political asshat, proving his utter stupidity:
"Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community. It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall."
How does a man who is so innately, and publicly, stupid, get elected to public office?
Oh, it's Tennessee.
Roberto Miranda, "pastor", on New England, marriage equality and 9/11:
"Satan has warred mightily against this region, and has effectively neutralized it through the influence of principalities of rationalism, humanism, intellectual pride and spiritual arrogance. Massachusetts, as well as all of New England, has become a cemetery of churches, a breeding ground for heretical doctrine, and intellectual furnace energizing attitudes of godlessness, rational arrogance and secularism. It is no coincidence, of course, that something as dramatically distant from the Christian worldview as gay marriage would be originated in this region. Is it exaggerated to see prophetic significance in the fact that on September 11, 2001 Boston served as the point of departure for the deadly forces that spread so much destruction and havoc in this nation and all over the world? What took place at the material level is now being carried out at the moral and spiritual level, as the virus of homosexuality and gay marriage begins to spread dramatically all over this nation and perhaps the world."
This pastor supports Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney praises this pastor for his support.
A man who blames 9/11 on homosexuality. And New England.
Matt Heinz, openly gay Arizona state representative, on running in the special election to replace Rep. Gabrielle Giffords:
"Moving forward I believe the best thing that we can do is to honor her strength, and conviction, and her leadership, by getting somebody, quickly, because we don't have much time, into that seat who is going to carry forward in the tradition of moderate, bipartisan, common sense governance that she did so well for Southern Arizona."
I think Gabby would like this idea.
Run, Matt, run.
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