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A former Hollywood starlet has revealed that actress Elizabeth Taylor made a bet with closeted gay actor Rock Hudson about which one of them could seduce James Dean. The much-married Ms Taylor lost out, according to Noreen Nash. Dean starred in the movie Giant with Taylor and Hudson, but he died before the film was released.

"Elizabeth and Rock took bets on who could get James Dean into bed first. I had an idea Rock would win but Elizabeth wasn't so sure. James was troubled but gorgeous," said Ms Nash, according to the Daily Express. She reports that Ms Taylor lost her bet just days into the filming of Giant in 1955. Dean was killed in a road accident on September 30th 1955. The true nature of his sexuality has been endlessly argued over in the five decades since his death. Some friends claim he only engaged in gay sex for "trade," others that he was bisexual.

-- PinkNews.co.uk

"J.K. Rowling outs Hogwarts character"
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer

NEW YORK - Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.

After reading briefly from the final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," she took questions from audience members.

She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love."

"Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause.

She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said of Dumbledore's feelings, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down."

Dumbledore's love, she observed, was his "great tragedy."

"Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

[...]

Rowling told the audience that while working on the planned sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," she spotted a reference in the script to a girl who once was of interest to Dumbledore. A note was duly passed to director David Yates, revealing the truth about her character.

Rowling, finishing a brief "Open Book Tour" of the United States, her first tour here since 2000, also said that she regarded her Potter books as a "prolonged argument for tolerance" and urged her fans to "question authority."

Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.

Everything is gay-gay-gay these days...

Entertainers Seigfried and Roy have officially come out after decades of understanding. The article is in German, but a quick trip to Altavista amusingly translates:

The late Coming Out is in one with tension expected Autobiografie of the two to stand. The book appears shortly in the USA. "national the Enquirer" already now revealed some pikante details however. A Insider to the newspaper: "Siegfried and Roy loved themselves once very much. Meanwhile the Liaison changed itself however into a vocational partnership."

The first official articles on mogul's Merv Griffin's homosexuality have also surfaced after his death:

Merv Griffin was gay.
Why should that be so uncomfortable to read? Why is it so difficult to write? Why are we still so jittery even about raising the issue in purportedly liberal-minded Hollywood in 2007? We can refer to it casually in conversation, but the mainstream media somehow remains trapped in the Dark Ages when it comes to labeling a person as gay.
Maybe that helps explain why Griffin, who died of prostate cancer Sunday at 82, stayed in the closet throughout his life. Perhaps he figured it was preferable to remain the object of gossip rather than live openly as "one of them." But how tremendously sad it is that a man of Merv's renown, of his gregarious nature and social dexterity, would feel compelled to endure such a stealthy double life even as the gay community's clout, and its levels of acceptance and equality, rose steadily from the ashes of ignorance.
I'm not at all insinuating that Griffin had a responsibility to come out. That was up to him.
But what a powerful message Griffin might have sent had he squired his male companions around town rather than Eva Gabor, his longtime good friend and platonic public pal. Imagine the amount of good Merv could have done as a well-respected, hugely successful, beloved and uncloseted gay man in embodying a positive image." -- Ray Richmond, Hollywood Reporter

Meanwhile:

More magazine: Let's talk about your ring.
Jodie Foster: This one? [Proffers left hand] It's Tiffany, an eternity ring.

You're wearing it on your wedding ring finger.
I am. I've always worn a ring. Even taking photos. Even on magazine covers. I don't take it off.

Don't you think wearing a ring like that raises questions?
Well, but that's my life. I thought about this recently: I had a nightmare the other night. Well, anyway. . .

C'mon! Let's hear the nightmare!
I was being interviewed by somebody, like an innocuous [press] junket thing. They were asking me questions about food I liked or whatever. Then they said, [in a high, innocent voice] "Have you ever written any homemade anti-Semitic cards?" And I was like, [horrified] "No!" Then she said, "Come with me," and I realized to myself, "You're so stupid. Haven't you ever seen that 60 Minutes thing where they ask you a banal question? You're not supposed to say yes or no. You're supposed to go, 'Well, that's interesting.' Because if they ask you the banal question, it's because they have some kind of document on you. And now you've got to go! And now the camera's going to follow you!" Then my dream was over. [Pauses and reflects before continuing]

My life is my life. I'm not going to change my life for anybody. I don't have any problems with it. I just don't talk about my health, my dad, who I voted for or what I think of the death penalty, because that would be trivializing my life, selling it for a magazine."

Michael Asks:

1 - The HoH has been taken hostage by fundamentalist Evengelicals who want to prove that gay people can be cured. Unless you have sex with a woman, they'll blow up the theater, killing everybody inside (and on the one night that nobody called out, too). Fortunately, they know that sin is tenacious and difficult to resist, so they'll let you choose the woman. Answer in two parts: A-what woman would you choose? B-are we even worth that?
What's funny is the flaw in the Evangelicals' logic. Well, that's both funny and tragic generally, but in this case it's particularly fascinating that these Evangelicals would rather I be committing a heterosexual sin (i.e. having non-marital sex with a woman) rather than me not committing a homosexual sing (i.e. not having any type of sex with a man in a location where such action is clearly verboten). That twisted, turnscrew of religious fanaticism aside, you pose a moral question.
I don't negotiate with terrorists. You're all fucked. The woman is not.

2 - You've been selected by NASA to be the first human being to set foot on Jupiter. Despite your misgivings, you accept the mission and train for months. Days before the liftoff, NASA's food scientists announce that they've invented an amazing cheese-machine that can generate theoretically endless supplies of solidified dairy products, which they expect will make the 125-week trip more bearable. Unfortunately, the machine can only store the templates for three different _kinds_ of cheese. What three kinds do you ask for?
My favorite solidified dairy products include mozzarella, mild cheddar, and those American cheese types that you get in the individual bags and are that strange shade of orange. Of the 3, I could probably eat mozzarella the longest without getting bored of it, but I can only eat so much cheddar or American before I'm done with them for a while. But they would be good for in-betweens. If I were to only eat cheese I probably would get pretty fat, unless the fact that I was not eating anything else would regulate my system. Further research is needed.

3 - OMG computer demons! They're closing in! They've already encircled the house, preventing any data from entering or leaving in any form! Within fifteen minutes they'll be inside the house, eradicating all data on all non-biological storage devices! By an incredible stroke of luck, you happen to have a sample of an experimental tofu-based CD-ROM being developed by 3M. Before they break in, what do you burn to that TD?
It may sound noble, but it's not. I would attempt to burn most work-related documents and websites to the CD-ROM. If the company goes down, so does Matt and myself, so anything else is secondary. Although while I would miss all my mp3's and CDs, hopefully in this hypothetical situation, I would also have hypothetical insurance protecting me against such consequences. If not, well, there's always the movie rights to look forward to.

4 - Your time machine works! It will reliably transport you and four other people into the past, and return you safely to the present. Unfortunately, the Heinlein Compensators that prevent temporal paradoxes run on an extraordinarily rare mineral called orichalcum, and you've gathered all that exists on this planet. After 37 hours, this fuel will be exhausted and you'll need to return or you'll destroy the present and future. It takes you and your film crew surprisingly long to track Jesus down, and you have time to ask him only one question. What do you ask?
Well, I don't think it's surprisingly long at all. Canaan's freaking big and they don't have bus service. And he probably blends in pretty well, if we're led to believe he is not the snow Caucasian, bleach-white-cloaked individual that films and television have taught us he is.
That said, I don't really have anything to ask Jesus, really. I don't find him a supreme being, so anything I ask, he is both not required to answer or answer truthfully or answer factually. I won't actually gain anything from the experience because he is not a fountain of truth; he's a human being. Even if he was the nu-witch that the Bible makes him out to be, that's not truth; it's perception and faith.
Maybe I would ask for his autograph.

5 - In 100 words or less, why is Batman better than Superman?
"Better" is subjective, but if were to equate that with morality and the hope that actions will benefit the youth of tomorrow, I will answer this. Naturally because there is not one true Batman, I reserve the right to use 100 words for different incarnations and not count the titles given to each version as part of the word count.

...eh... that sounds awfully hard and thorough. Ok, here goes:

"Batman is in control of his own destiny and a human, has less of an inclination to do good. He claimed the role, and Smallville notwithstanding, while Clark Kent found a need to give back to a world that never asked for him, his destiny seemed to be entirely mapped out. He did choose it, but he had the advantage. Bruce Wayne grew up rich and used his riches in a Robin Hoodesque way to create technology to protect them, putting his own hide on the line, with most versions not resorting to capital punishment."

That said, I would really like to see Christian Bale and Brandon Routh have sex.

Thanks for for playing!

I've been really cranky lately. Not for the longest stretches of time, but here and there. I've found myself really disinterested in others' pain or problems. I wouldn't say that I've become more self-centered, because I haven't really been obsessing myself, either. I've been pretty overwhelmed by lots of things going on though, so I have a feeling that I'm just trying to push everyone else out of it so I don't have one more thing to worry about.

Certain personality traits of others' are bugging me and I don't know if they've always been how they are and I'm just hypersensitive, if I'm finally just sick or frustrated enough by it to notice, or I'm crazy.

I've been having some good moments. Montreal was good. ( Montreal, finally )

On Thursday, Genevieve, Danielle, and I went to see Katie's directoral and acting effort You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Rutgers Camden. We met up with Liz, Rishard, and Angelo there, and Tara and Janice came soon after. Katie was Lucy, and she was very good. It was very strange to see a Lucy with a legit voice, since she's generally played up at screechy. Adults acting as children can either be really obnoxious or really amusing, and fortunately, this was the former. The show (which is essentially a bunch of short comic strip-like skits and longer scenes with centerpieced songs). It worked far better than any production of it I'd seen (I've seen it twice before), and I was really happy and proud for Katie.

I'm going to try to get myself out of the snit and funk. And also try writing in the journal more. It's the 24th and I've only written 4 times.

They legalized gay marriage in South Park... I wonder how the real Colorado feels about this.

Today in world events--

...The bill, passed by the State Assembly on Tuesday, would have made California the first state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage through its legislature. Schwarzenegger said he believed the bill conflicted with the intent of voters who approved Proposition 22 five years ago, a ballot measure that barred the state from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries, according to a report by The Associated Press.

"We cannot have a system where the people vote and the Legislature derails that vote," Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Margita Thompson, said in a statement. "Out of respect for the will of the people, the governor will veto (the bill)."

According to the language in Proposition 22, "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," while the new bill would have more broadly defined marriage as a civil contract between "two persons."

Schwarzenegger has previously said that he believes that voters or the courts should have the last word on same-sex marriage, not the legislature.

--mtv.com

I'm so behind! Kanye West was the critical darling of last year, but I completely missed him. I don't listen to a lot of hip-hop because I find most of it superficial and self-obsessed, so he just slipped by.

When Matt and I were spending the all-nighter working on the wall, we saw the video "Gold Digger" by Kanye West with Jamie Foxx doing back-up vocals. It's catchy, clever, and I like it.

Because I'm a political beast when it comes to homosexuality, I Googled "Kanye West on gays" to see if I should even bother checking anything else from him. Consider it musical genre-profiling. In August, he publicly called for an anti-hateration of gays in rap music.

Aw... In this day of 50 Cent saying he "ain't into faggots" but lesbians he could "get into," that's just refreshing for any musician (particularly in hip-hop; and it's not the beats, it's the attitude that I avoid) to make a statement at all.

Yahoo! news quotation: "[S]peaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people." He adds that in slang, gay is "the opposite, the exact opposite word of hip-hop [...] Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates. And I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it.'"

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The Troublemaker gets more shit then he deserves. He's actually more sensitive than he appears.

Covers are interesting.

My latest quizlet:



Find out which Moulin Rouge song you are.

People can surprise you.

Rob: well im glad we talked george
Liquid Datura: Yes, I am all aglow.
Rob: and i hope we become more tolerant of each other
Liquid Datura: We'll see what we can do.
Liquid Datura: Good luck on your becoming one with your inner bisexual.
Rob: lol
Liquid Datura: Hey, those that can do it, more power to them. I mean, I'm not bisexual.
Liquid Datura: But then again, I'm really not all that interested in females in any form, so I think I have plenty to go on, anyway.
Rob: so ur basically asexual?
Liquid Datura: No, Rob, I'm gay.
Rob: ok
[insert uncomfortable silence]
Liquid Datura: ::shrug::
Rob: bad joke went bad
Liquid Datura: Heh
Liquid Datura: Trust me, it's really alright. I'm pretty secure with my sexuality.
Rob: i didnt know if you were sensitive about it
Rob: i have no problem with it

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He's already telling me I should talk to his gay Tori Amos-lovin' cousin. From Georgia.
Heh. Just what I need.

What George needs is some domestic boys!

Still. People are funny.

Thanks Rob.

I just found this tremendously entertaining:
http://gay.com/news/article.html?2002/02/22/2
The Gay Penguins Are Out There.

I got a most disturbing e-mail from Tori'spiano22, a most unstable individual at the atforumz (www.atforumz.com) that I frequent. I got lambasted like most everyone else there (especially the boys) for reasons I've never understood. However, this is the first time she's ever e-mailed me. I present her letter and my responses I sent to her. I am mostly appaled, slightly amused, ultimately sympathetic. She is just bizarre.

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Hey okay you are a fan of female artists, but since you are obsessed and spend all your money on buying their stuff and going to see them, you are nothing but a loser...
Ok, let me know when you stop spending cash to seeing them live and buying CDs from them. For the record, I've only seen Tori twice and never have I seen Madonna.

... and yes I'm sure you want to sleep with Tori Amos, also you are a loser cause you bought everything Tori and Madonna ever made...
Actually, I never plan on sleeping with any women, regardless of their celebrity staus. I don't have everything ever made, but my collection is sturdy. I consider buying only what I want and never what I find unneeded, such as import singles with tracks already on domestic releases. I'm a discriminating buyer. I don't whore myself for the music industry.

... The stuff will be worth nothing in the end. You will pay for your obsession with Tori and Madonna, and they will not love you more than other fans...
That sounds like a threat. And an empty one at that. I am not asking for anyone's love, especially Tori or Madonna's. How pretentious it would be to ask.

...I don't care that Tori told you she loves you at every show you ever went to...
She never has.

...You are just a pimple on the elephant no matter what...
What elephant are you referring to?

...Also she does tell fans who meet her that she loves them, and I know you want to believe that Tori loves you the most cause you are a guy, and guys who are in love with female artists are known as sissies by the way...
Known as sissies by whom? I don't know if I really understand your aggression to me. Why are you threatened by male fans?

... Also do you love Tori cause people hate her?...
Why on earth would anyone love someone for everyone else hating them? And what people hate her? I understand a few do, but are realizing how hypocritical you are sounding?

...And you will pay for your obsession with Tori 1 day, cause no one gets away with obsession...
Again with the threats.

...I'm not saying that I will make you pay, but you will go down the tubes for loving Tori Amos, cause all your money has been going to see her and getting her stuff ever since 88-91 when you fell in love with Tori...
Funny... I didn't become acquainted with Tori until 1999. And not all my money has gone towards her, anyhow.

...Did you pay 500.00 to be with Tori?...
No, actually.

...I was never lucky enough to be with Tori, but next tour I will meet her even if I have to pay...
Tori is not your whore either.

...Please don't make fun of me or brag that you have Tori Amos either...
She's not a doll that fits in my pocket.

I have tried to meet her, but couldn't, I will though.
Well, that was a concluding sentence if I ever heard one.
You're erratic and unstable. Seek help. I don't mean to offend you, but you certainly set out to offend me, but you ended up doing was sounding obsessed, childish, and potentially dangerous to yourself and others. If you are so convinced my life is in ruins for enjoying the music of a particular songwriter, exactly how is your life doing if all you can do is yell at others for exactly what you are doing?

All my best,
George

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People are weird.

Other news, Kristen finally saw "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"... Yay! Seeing it again was great as was watching the deleted scenes again (hey! I found an Easter egg in the deleted scenes section, yay!) and the documentary for the first time. Sorry Linz couldn't make it, but good stuff. Danielle and I concluding the evening by going over her Magenta blocking and watching RHPS special features. Patricia Quinn rules.

Currently sending Brandon "Wicked Little Town" (the Trask version). We're at 80-90 percent. My sickly little 56k and his prized cable modem... We've only ever sent one other mp3 over AIM (NIN's "All that could have been" from him to me) and it was slow as hell then as well. He is a patient one.
So, today in Christian Life we were talking about homosexuals adopting children. We were unfortunately cut short by the bell but the class seemed pretty okay with it. And then! The teacher brings up another issue, What if it was your parents? Okay, so some of the students falter vocally. They go from ultra-supportive of others to as-long-as-it's-not-me. Hrm. Okay, and then! She asks "Well, what would you do if your roommate in college happens to be gay?"
Wow, the egotism in that class. All the guys must consider themselves some hot shit (and they do) to be so protective of themselves from "predatory gays". And how insecure of their masculinity they must be to be convinced they could be so easily swayed to homosexuality or hit upon. Y'know... I could easily speak up on this and I was in the middle of it, but I don't think I was willing to out myself for everyone just yet.
Thing is, most of them don't know me. Although I know if I were to say I'm gay, they go from indifferent to threatened. Clearly I never tried anything with them but once out there I am staring at them in lust. What the fuck? Really couldn't care less about most of them. However, it just shows that you go from caring nothing about someone to hating them so fast.
People suck. Fuck them. Fuck them all.
But only in heterosexual ways.

Um... yeah, nothing groundbreaking but saw "Real World"... Yay! No real development with anyone I care about... Aneesa and Chris were very barely-in-the-show (as was Theo, not that I am complaining about that). It's like watchings Sims on free will mode. Also saw the making of Shakira's "Underneath your clothes" music video. I was impressed, actually. The song made me want to wretch the first time I heard it, but the visuals make it work.
Got my new issue of the Advocate (gay newsmag; not porn); and coinciding with Christian Life's topic of what makes a family, new statements about adoption and gay parents were released saying there's nothing wrong with that... Imagine... How liberal the system is getting... Maybe we'll get black people to stop picking cotton, too.
::note the sarcasm::
Just wanted to give a little shout-hey for tonight... Oh, I registered with MTV Online today... Was working on my profile list but got annoyed because the options of "Favourite Bands" and "Favourite Albums" are picked through you choosing from their database. So, yeah... No Little Plastic Castle... No The Way We Are... Bothersome! So I may not end up ever using it (I only registered to see a few seconds of Bif Naked's "Twitch" vid) but it was a cool concept for a member page. More in-depth than friggin' atforumz.com.
I'm speaking to Brandon at the moment; I'll have to say goodbye soon enough because there's this whole sleep thing I have to do... But I wanted to at least say hi to him.
I'm glad to have someone like that again; someone to say hi to briefly and regret saying goodbye to. Whatever that means.
I like it.