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The Gay Wedding Industrial Complex
Massachusetts, the first state to legalize same-sex marriage for its residents, is feeling a little jealous that California is getting all the attention (and money) for allowing out-of-state residents to marry in same-sex ceremonies. So, on Tuesday, the State Senate in Massachusetts repealed a 1913 law that prevented the state from marrying out-of-state couples. Part of the motivation? Money! Times are tough and B&B owners, caterers, and florists need the extra business from out-of-state gay couples. Of course, the human rights and equality stuff played a factor in the decision too. Either way, we suggest that permanently partnered East Coast Lezebels hoof it up to the Bay State pronto. [NYT]
pot psychology
"Is It Normal For Straight Girls To Only Like Girl-On-Girl Porn?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the "advice column" in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, Rich and I got help from our pal Sasha Frere-Jones again, to tackle problems like leaky vaginas, syphilis, and boyfriends who drool during oral sex. Got a burning question? Send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)
stranger than fiction
Having A Gay Husband Is Kind Of…Queer
Last night, BBC America aired the documentary My Husband Is Gay. I thought it would be about straight women and gay men who make the choice to get married and start a family together, kinda like that Next Best Thing movie. But it was actually about women who married men who were pretending to be or believed at one time that they were straight. Anyway, most of the couples split amicably, but one couple, Sam and Dave, decided to create a marriage on their own terms, in which they raise their daughters and live as man and wife in every aspect — even still share a bed — except sexually. You know, to each his own, but I came away from it thinking that Sam was settling for a raw deal, since Dave is going out having gay weekends in Brighton, and she's at home with the kids and celibate. Clip above.
his and hers
Some Of My Best Friends Are Dudes
In an article for the Washington Post, Brett Krutzsch writes about being a bridesman. Not a groom, not a best man, not a bridesmaid; the best friend of a girl getting married. Who happens to be a dude. "I was her Will, she my Grace," Krutzsch explains. "We shared interests in theater, East Village wine bars and overpriced denim." Yeah, Krutzsch is gay. And his friend, Sara, asked him to be a bridesmaid. "I thought I would be a trailblazer as bridesman, but no fuss was made," he says. "The photographer never mistakenly put me in line with the groomsmen, and not one guest asked what it felt like to be a bridesmaid. The liberal New York crowd, however, wasn't remotely fazed by my nontraditional role. They didn't even blink when [my boyfriend] and I danced together at the reception." I don't know who this Sara person is, but I do know one thing: If I ever have a wedding, there will be a posse of guys on my side of the altar. And not because I'm a copycat. More »
leftovers
2nd-Grader Suspended For Anti-'N' Word T-Shirt • Lesbian Barred From Seeing Dying Partner
A second-grader in NY was suspended after she wore a shirt with the slogan: "N the 'N' Word" and "It's time!" because the principal felt the shirt was "overly inflammatory." • Apparently there is a disease out there called "uncombable hair syndrome" which is basically the human version of Barbie hair. • Loss of chub in cheeks makes people look older. Look for cheek injections in the December issue of Elle this year! • A lesbian woman has sued a Miami hospital after they refused to let her see her dying partner and a worker told her that she was in an "anti-gay city and state." • Liz Tuccillo, a writer from Sex and the City and co-author of He's Just Not That Into You is still single, thinks finding a boyfriend is miraculous, and refuses to date online. • Candace Parker of the LA Sparks is the second woman to dunk in a WNBA game, which is apparently a pretty big deal. (More Leftovers after the jump) More »
must see tv
Earlier: Mormon Leaders Ask California Members To Fight Gay Marriage
30 Days: Gay Adoption Doesn't Go Over Well With Mormon Mom
Morgan Spurlock is the Super-Size Me dude, you know, the one who lived solely on McDonalds until he fucked up his body. Anyway, his show 30 Days, which airs on F/X, is similar to this idea in that he has people live for 30 days in an environment alien to their own. On last night's episode, he had a Mormon woman, who is opposed to homosexuality — and gay adoptions in particular — live with a gay couple who have adopted children. They are a stable, loving family, who go to a church that is accepting of their lifestyle. The idea was to get this woman see that a family is a family is a family, but she just would not budge on her "beliefs," even by the time the 30 days were up. Clip above.Earlier: Mormon Leaders Ask California Members To Fight Gay Marriage
wwjjd
Finally, Someone Who Understands That "Um Is Not An Answer"
These two men — former boyfriends — were on Judge Judy because the plaintiff was suing for loans he made to the defendant when the two were a couple. They are both kind of ridiculous, but the plaintiff takes the cake since he's suing for a broken table, a cookie jar without a lid, and a broken cuckoo clock. The best though, is that he even made JJ stifle a laugh when he told her that he "realizes" that um is not an answer. Clip above.
leftovers
Women With Long Nails Say No To iPhones • Heinz Pulls "Gay-Kiss" Mayo Ad
Women with long fingernails hate the design of the iPhone because it is difficult to use. • The vaccine for HPV, an STD that can sometimes lead to cervical cancer, has yet to reach India where cervical cancer is the most common type of cancer in women. • Animal rights activists in India condemned the arrest of a man who rescued a sloth bear and raised it with his family. The bear is currently in a zoo and refuses to eat. • Heinz pulled a U.K. mayo ad that showed two men kissing in a kitchen (the horror!) after critics expressed outrage. • Women who read fitness mags while working out may feel depressed after looking at the super-toned bodies of the models. • 1 in 5 homeless women in Toronto have been sexually assaulted in the past year and many are afraid to report abuse to the police. • Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman who was locked in a basement by her father, is not ready to participate in a trial against her father. The trial has been put on hold indefinitely. • Whale hunting makes surviving whales lonely and many are losing will to live, according to a French naturalist. More »
hells bells
Mormon Leaders Ask California Members To Fight Gay Marriage
The LDS Church is asking its 750,000 Californian constituents to support the California Marriage Protection Act, an election day referendum that will change the state's constitution to define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, the AP reports. In a letter leaked to several websites, Mormon Church President Thomas S. Monson said, "The church's teachings and position on this moral issue are unequivocal…Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained or God, and the formation of families is central to the creator's plan for his children." But that's not all the Mormon Church has to say about homosexuality. On the Church's official website, there is an entire section devoted to "Same-Gender Attraction," in which Church elders complain about the curtailing of freedom of speech and charges of homophobia. More »
leftovers
Norway Catches CokeHead Under Wig • Trans Woman Beaten By Cops In Memphis
A British woman was arrested in Norway after the police discovered coke under her wig. It seems the Norwegian police have learned to check hair for drugs after that whole Amy WInehouse debacle. • Conservative Virginians are nervous about the popularity of gay marriage, because if it can happen in a conservative stronghold like CA, it can happen anywhere! • Aw, Michelle Obama was "touched" by Laura Bush's defense of her reportedly "anti-American" remarks. • Wonderbra is looking for 1,000 big-breasted British babes to pose for an ad, and their "casting call" ad uses some confusing imagery for boobies. • China translates the names of popular dishes for restaurants to their "American" names during the Olympics, but what if I really wanted "Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman"? • Just throwing this out there, but, fighting a PC battle against a ubiquitous adjective like "crazy" is probably a lost cause. • A trans woman was held down and beaten by two Memphis cops after she objected to being called a "faggot" by one of the cops. One of the cops was fired and the other was suspended. • The US Post Office has released stamps honoring Charles and Ray Eames (you know, those chairs that are always drooled over at Apartment Therapy) the husband-and-wife design team. Dodai notes that Ray Eames was also a filmmaker! • A wedding-crazed couple plans on having five weddings over the space of nine months so their entire family can see them getting married! • Elda Beguinua is being tried for fraud after she pretended to have a $500 million fortune as a Philippine contessa and tried to trick people out of loaning her money. One man was tipped off when he was asked to be her "world ambassador."
The relationship between gay man and straight women goes a lot deeper than a shared love of cock and ANTM. The brains of gay men and straight women are similar, according to a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers using brain-scanning equipment found similarities in the brain circuits that deal with language and how we process emotion. Also, they found that gay men and straight women have higher rates of depressive disorders than heterosexual men. Most interesting, perhaps, is that the areas of the brain that were studied have nothing to do with sexual behavior, which further suggests "a biological link between sexual orientation and a range of brain functions." [LA Times]
news roundup
Beaver, Trollops and Drinking, Oh My!
- Not to in any way indicate that we have anything less than the utmost horror and offense for torture, but Lt. Col. Diane Beaver who once urged our armed forces to conduct more brutal interrogations at Gitmo, testified today before the Senate Armed Services Committee about her role in torturing various people. Even when the jokes aren't appropriate, we still have to make them. [Washington Independent]
- Really, it was the fault of this video, which you should not listen to at your office without earphones, that explores in great depth why the news media didn't cover the "John McCain called his wife a cunt" story. [Erica Saves the Day, Glamocracy]
- Also, studies show you're drinking more than you think you're drinking, so tip your bartender well! [LA Times]
- Oh, what you wanted real news? Fine. Check in with me after the jump.
justice for all
Gay Marriage In California Makes Some People Happy, Others Blathering Idiots
If you've been under a rock, you might not yet know that the state of California, following a court ruling, began allowing same sex marriages yesterday. This is a picture of Robin Tyler and Diane Olson who took advantage of their new rights yesterday and don't they look exactly like what a happy couple ought to look like? It almost makes me not dislike weddings. Unfortunately, the opponents of gay marriage, those blind, blithering idiots who think that allowing people like this who obviously love and are committed to each other to marry will hurt Marriage and religion and make the Baby Jesus cry and/or God smite us or whatever people like that use to justify their blind intolerance, are out in full force today decrying the end of the world of marriage as we know it. You know, that exclusive institution based on sacred ideals that heteros have shat on for thousands of years? Yeah, apparently, letting gay people do it means that hets will no longer have a monopoly on cheating on their spouses or something. Oh, didja know it's just a cover for the gay community to get the big, bad government to make religions accept gays because that's the only non-bigoted argument that they can make. Luckily, it's also one that's easy to refute. More »
congrats
A Very Special Wedding Today In California
Robin Tyler and Diane Olsen are getting married today! The're featured in a clip from Fox 11 Los Angeles, above, and they also spoke to AFP. The ban on same-sex marriages is being overturned in California at 5pm; the wedding is set to take place at 5:01. The couple, who first met in the 1970s and have been together for 15 years, will wear matching ivory linen suits tailor-made in Singapore. The ceremony will be in front of the Beverly Hills Courthouse. "We wanted to have the wedding outside the courthouse because it was where we'd been turned down so many times," Tyler says. "It will be nice to be able to stand there and get married and say 'We won.'" They have two dogs, pugs named Mushu Pork and Wonton. "They're children with fur as far as we are concerned, and they make our hearts tick," says Tyler. "And we don't have to pay to send them to college," chimes Olson. (There is another wedding in San Francisco, and the couple have been together 55 years!) Clip of Robin and Diane, after the jump. More »
pot psychology
"I Have Genital Warts. How Do I Guiltlessly Have Sex?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the Hoda to my Kathie Lee, Rich, helps me dole out advice on stuff like death, balls, and hobos. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)
Unconditional Love Can Make A Jezebel Cry
On Saturday in Florida, PFLAG staged a small protest outside of an "ex-gay" seminar being held by a group called, completely unironically, "Love Won Out," which is naturally funded by fundie group Focus on the Family. The group encourages parents to bring their teenage and pre-teen children to be "fixed" because, as they told PFLAG participants, it's not that they think that gay people choose to be gay, any more than alcoholics or kleptomaniacs choose to be that way, but you can learn to act "normal." Anyway, rather than showing the crying children being led into a church to be taught how foul and amoral they are, click the picture to see a video of a lot of older people talking about their unconditional love and support for their children. [Bilerico Project]
