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We all know I have many … MANY … Husbands-In-My-Head but this is a tale about Carlos’ boyfriend.

When he and his family moved in behind us we struck up a n over the fence friendship and when Carlos asked me to describe the husband I said he was bearded and beefy and dirty, because he works with his hands. That intrigued Carlos so I began calling the new neighbor Carlos’ boyfriend and saying things like:

“Your boyfriend is outside.”

“Your boyfriend is working in his shed.”

Your boyfriend is mowing his yard.”

This week the neighbor was using a small tractor to grade his property for better water drainage and I said to Carlos:

“Your boyfriend is outside on a tractor. Maybe if you’re nice he’ll let you take a ride.”

“I don’t want to ride on a tractor.”

I smiled:

“I didn’t say anything about a tractor.”

I’m fun.

This Tuxedo Says is from July 2012 …

Can you imagine Tiffany testifying? 

I mean, she’d probably admit that Daddy kidnapped the Lindbergh baby if it saved her ass.

Actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, a film producer, were killed this past weekend by their own son, Nick, who had a history of substance abuse issues.

But this isn’t about that.

Rob Reiner starred in one of the most iconic TV shows of all time, All in the Family, and went on to produce and direct such films as This Is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally…, Misery, A Few Good Men, The American President, LBJ, and The Story of Us among others.

But this isn’t about that either.

At a time when many people in this country stood against LGBTQ+ rights and marriage equality Reiner cofounded the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which funded the legal fight against Prop 8, the California ballot measure that revoked marriage equality in that state.

When two same-sex couples—Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo—sued over Prop. 8 after they were denied marriage licenses, the American Foundation for Equal Rights hired lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies to argue the case against Prop. 8.

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in 2010 that Prop. 8 violated the U.S. Constitution while California state officials in two consecutive administrations declined to defend Prop. 8; in 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld Walker’s ruling and the following year, the U.S. Supreme Court let that decision stand.

Reiner likened the Prop. 8 case to the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that separate is not equal:

“We don’t believe in separate but equal in any other legal position except this. We feel that this is the last piece of the civil rights puzzle being put into place.”

And he continued to be an ally; at the Human Rights Campaign’s Los Angeles dinner in 2019, he spoke out for LGBTQ+ equality, saying:

“We have to move past singling out transgender, LGBTQ, Black, white, Jewish, Muslim, Latino. We have to get way past that and start accepting the idea that we’re all human beings. We’re all human beings, we all share the same planet, and we should all have the same rights, period. It’s no more complicated than that.”

At a time when the courts, the state legislatures, and our own Congress were standing against equality Rob and Michele Reiner stood up for simple equality, for all of us.

That’s what this is about.

Thank you, Rob and Michele, for taking up the fight, for standing by us, and with us, and with anyone who’s ever been considered less than in America.

RIP

I just saw the photos Vanity Fair took of Cankles staff, unretouched photos, and the right is calling it an act of sabotage. I say, Good for Vanity Fair, showing that his team is rotting right before our eyes.

Claudio Breitscheidel was born in Southern Germany to Polish immigrant parents who wanted to model after seeing an ad on television and two weeks later he was walking in Fashion Week. He moves fast, so … Would you Hit It?