Darren Young Comes Out

World Wrestling Entertainment [WWE] wrestler Darren Young was walking though LAX last week when a photographer asked if he thought a gay wrestler would be successful in the WWE.

His answer came as a surprise.

"Absolutely. Look at me. I'm a WWE Superstar and, to be honest with you, I'll tell you right now, I’m gay, and I'm happy. Very happy."

The stunned cameraman told Young he had no idea, to which Young replied:

"I guess if you want to call it 'coming out,' I really don't know what to say it is. I'm just letting you know that I'm happy [with] who I am, I'm comfortable with myself, and I'm happy to be living the dream ... Some people might not like it. Some people will like it. I'm here to please myself. I'm here to be happy ... I'm hoping to make a difference. It's very important to me to make people understand that someone’s sexual preference shouldn’t really matter. It should be about the person."

Now, Darren Young is the first openly gay wrestler actively participating in the, well, sport.

A representative for the WWE said the wrestling organization is proud of Young for coming out.

"WWE is proud of Darren Young for being open about his sexuality, and we will continue to support him as a WWE Superstar. Today, in fact, Darren will be participating in one of our Be A Star anti-bullying rallies in Los Angeles to teach children how to create positive environments for everyone regardless of age, race, religion or sexual orientation."

Naturally, HOMO HQ will b sending Darren a copy of The Gay Agenda—and, Darren, please take note that begin gay isn’t a ‘preference’ but an orientation—along with the Coming Out Toaster Oven.

Welcome out, Darren, welcome out.

SIDENOTE: Look, here’s my skeptical side, and I’m hoping I’m wrong. But, wrestling, while a sport, is also a show, and every wrestler is a certain type, a certain character. So, skeptical me just hopes that Daren Young is being honest and that he is actually gay and not just show-boating a new character to draw attention to the, well, sport.

If he is, then bad on him; if he isn’t, then good on him.

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Random Musings

Wow, Valentine's Day, AKA Made-up Holiday. 
I hate when the world makes you feel like you must be in love, and you must say 'I love you,' and you must buy the card, the candy, the flowers, the dinner.....
Carlos and i do that every day, so we get to take today off.

Now, let's start with some funny, and by funny I mean that Idiot Known As Donald Trump getting smacked down .......again:

What's the deal with the beautiful Billy Brown?

Last season he became the new cop on Dexter and then he was killed off this season.

Then, I find him on The Following a couple of weeks back and a week or so ago he gets stabbed in the neck and dies.

Can't someone hire him to play a character that lives?

Is that asking too much?

Jeanne Manford, the founder of PFLAG who died last month at the age of 92 [read my post HERE] will be awarded the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation’s second-highest civilian honor, in a ceremony on February 15.

President Obama said, via press release: "It is my distinguished honor to award these individuals the 2012 Citizens Medal for their commitment to public service. Their selflessness and courage inspire us all to look for opportunities to better serve our communities and our country."

A quite deserving honor for an amazing woman.

Now, onto anoth'a moth'a ..... Cissy Houston.

She apparently was mighty pissed off that Clive Davis would throw his annual pre-Grammy party this year after her daughter Whitney died last year just before the party.
She called it the epitome of bad taste, and yet ....
She's all over TV the anniversary of Whitney's death hawking the book she 'wrote' about her daughter and her struggles with drugs and their really-not-so-good relationship.
What's good for the goose, Cissy....
Take your own advice and stop talking.

So, we all know I am an awards show whore, and one of the reasons happens to be married to The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies.

Her husband, Keith Lieberthal is one of the most beautiful men ever, and even a brief glimpse of him on the red carpet, or sitting by her side, warrants a DVR playback, stop and pause. He’s the kind of guy who's so gorgeous, that if you saw him in public, you'd stop, look back at him, while pretending to look at something else so your husband doesn't get jealous--and we all know who I mean by that--and the just stare.

Seriously. Even now I can't stop staring.

Plus, he's also a Harvard educated lawyer. Hot, smart and straight.

Two outta three ain't bad.

That FauxNews, they really know how to fact check over there.

In one of their stories about the importance of, um, opposite-sex marriage, they posted a lovely photo of a bride and groom atop the Empire State Building, but had they taken a nanosecond to check out the photo--who's to say it's even a real photo?--they might have learned that the lovely couple is Stephanie Figarelle and Lela McArthur, the first same-sex couple to get married at the Empire State Building.

So in the last  season of Desperate Housewives Max and Charles Carver played the Scavo twins, Preston and Porter. They were 'cute' but, yeah, that was about it.

Now, that's them, back in Teen Wolf and I'm thinking, had they looked like that on the DH those housewives would have had something else to be desperate about.
M'kay.

So, Marco Rubio, rising GOP star. 

You were given the plum assignment of giving to Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union message and yet all anyone remembers is how thirsty you were.

Way to represent.

No, seriously, you totally represented the GOP and their position.

On water.

Vladimir Uruimagov, coach of a London 2012 gold medal-winner, says gay rights activists with a vendetta against masculinity are behind plans to cut wrestling from the Olympic program:

“If they expel wrestling now, that means that gays will soon run the whole world.”

Um, Vlad? If The Gays are gonna run the whole world dontcha think we’d wanna watch sweaty men in tight-fitting onesies wrestle?

Just sayin’.

And now, the Tweet of the Week, in response to the Pope deciding it was 'just too hard':

Wrestlers Come Out As Allies

David Lalo, Anthony Buxton and Steven Keith [l to r] 

There are few sports with a more macho image than wrestling, and yet there are many wrestlers who are openly LGBTQ-friendly. Hudson Taylor comes to mind first and foremost, but he has some gay-ally competition coming after him in the Harvard wrestling team.

Last Tuesday, on National Coming Out Day, before their afternoon practice, members of the Harvard varsity wrestling team posed for a picture on the steps in front of the Malkin Athletic Center. But rather than wear\their wrestling uniforms in this photo, the team chose to come in gay pride attire and rainbow pins that read “Proud Ally.”

Harvard College Queer Students and Allies co-president Emma Wang said that this year her group wanted to emphasize the importance of coming out as an ally: “Sometimes it’s difficult to be very vocal as an ally. We want them to feel included because they play such an important role.”

According to Harvard wrestler David Lalo, it was a non-resident tutor Robert Joseph “RJ” Jenkins, who inspired the team to participate in National Coming Out Day: “[R.J.] has made a tremendous impact across our team...[and]...we wanted to show him we support the LGBT community.”

Jenkins, who is openly gay, said that he casually brought up the idea of wearing the pins one day while speaking with several athletes in the Lowell dining hall and was pleasantly surprised when they responded positively to his proposal: “I started to imagine it as an opportunity for them to come out as allies. To think about a day for allies to come out and say, ‘I accept these people in my life. I accept them for who they are.’”

The team decided that their close friendship with Jenkins was the guiding force in coming out as LGBTQ allies. Steven Keith wore a shirt that read, “Some Kids R Gay. That’s OK.” Others wore shirts that rad: "Some dudes marry dudes. Get over it."

Timothy P. McCarthy, director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights program at Harvard, remembers a time when LGBTQ students at Harvard faced a lot of stigma, and he sees this display of solidarity between the wrestling team and LGBTQ students as a major step forward.

RJ Jenkins believes the wrestling team, and other athletes, could become the new leaders in efforts to combat discrimination against LGBTQ-identified individuals. And it's nice to see anyone come forward as an ally to the gay community, but it's even more promising when those allies come from the world of sports, which has often been considered a very homophobic group.

Perhaps the Harvard wrestling team can help hange that.

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