Thursday, December 17, 2015

Five Dumbass Antigay Activists Who Unintentionally Helped Our Cause This Year

From: Queerty
Antonin Scalia

The grumpy, 79-year-old Supreme Court Justice has become so relentless in his hatred of all things gay that it’s almost laughable. In the past, he’s referred to same-sex marriage as “an overcooked meat loaf” and questioned whether LGBTQ people really exist. In his dissent of last June’s ruling on marriage equality, he channeled his inner six-year-old with an epic tantrum, calling the ruling a “social upheaval” and the Supreme Court, in general, a “threat to American democracy.” Then he accused his colleagues of being “pretentious” and “egotistic” before comparing their thoughts to the “mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.” Yet despite everything Scalia says and does, LGBTQ folks have more rights and visibility today than ever before. It would appear his polarizing antigay sentiment is having the opposite effect on people than what he intends.

Time to change your strategy, Antonin. Better yet, time to retire.

Classic Television - Prime Time

Longstreet
Original channel
ABC
Original run
September 16, 1971 – August 10, 1972
Starring
James Franciscus
Ann Doran
Peter Mark Richman
Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.
The series starred James Franciscus as insurance investigator Mike Longstreet. After a bomb (hidden in a champagne bottle) kills his wife, Ingrid, and leaves him blind, the title character pursues and captures the killers. He then continues his career as an insurance investigator despite his blindness. Longstreet's seeing eye dog was a white German Shepherd called Pax. The series was set in New Orleans, but was actually filmed in Los Angeles. Coincidentally, exactly a decade earlier, Franciscus had appeared as insurance investigator Russ Andrews in a 13-week CBS series The Investigators, with James Philbrook as his principal co-star. Both series aired at the same time, Thursday 9 PM (Eastern).
Mystery novelist Baynard Kendrick was credited in each episode as the creator of the source material for the series, although his character, Captain Duncan Maclain, had little in common with Longstreet aside from their both being blind private detectives.
Bruce Lee appeared in four episodes as Li Tsung, an antiques dealer and Jeet Kune Do expert who becomes Longstreet's martial arts instructor. Wikiquote has quotations from Li Tsung's teachings.
Twenty-three episodes of the show were aired before it was canceled in 1972.

The 100 Greatest Lost Hits of The 80’s Part 2: The New Batch

From: NewNowNext

#61 
“Miracles” 
Stacy Lattisaw

Stacy was just 13 when she scored her first top 40 hit, 1980’s “Let Me Be Your Angel,” and hit the top 40 again the next year with a remake of “Love On A Two Way Street.” Her final top 40 entry, the lovely ballad “Miracles” squeaked in at #40 in October 1983.

TRIVIA
 “Ring My Bell” was originally written for a then 11-year-old Stacy as a teen song about kids talking on the telephone, but after she signed with a different label, the song was re-written to make it more suggestive, and given to Anita Ward, who took the disco classic to #1.

Academy Award for Best Actress

2010
Natalie Portman 
as
Nina Sayers
Black Swan
Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag; Hebrew: נטע-לי הרשלג‎; June 9, 1981) is an actress, producer and director with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was in the 1994 action thriller Léon: The Professional, opposite Jean Reno, but mainstream success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005).

Born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and American mother, Portman grew up in the eastern United States from the age of three. She studied dancing and acting in New York, and starred in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace while still at high school on Long Island. In 1999, Portman enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology, alongside her work as an actress; she completed a bachelor's degree in 2003. During her studies she starred in a second Star Wars film and opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 2001.

Portman starred in the 2004 drama Closer, appeared in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith the following year, and won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance and a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the political thriller V for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and portrayed the love interest in Thor (2011) and its 2013 sequel. In 2010, Portman starred in the psychological horror film Black Swan. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim and she earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress, her second Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award, the BAFTA Award and the BFCA Award in 2011.

In May 2008, Portman served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. The same year she directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. Her first feature film as a director, A Tale of Love and Darkness, was released in 2015.

December 17th is Clean Air Day

Marking the 1967 passage of the U.S. Clean Air Act, a  set of laws enacted to protect the nation from air pollution. It was the first law to place pollution controls on the auto industry. This is a day set aside to honor our clean air  and to raise awareness of the many environmental issues that are changing our climate on earth. This is one of several official days to pay attention to your environment and the air we breathe. However, we should pay attention and do our part EVERY DAY.

December 17th is National Re-gifting Day

Did you know that the third Thursday of December is the most common date for work parties and celebrations?

Given that the gifts exchanged at these parties are generally rubbish, in an attempt to be environmentally friendly and make life a little easier, Regifting Day encourages you to save your unwanted presents and pass them off to your coworkers next year in a zen-like exchange of secondhand naff gifts. Clever, eh?

December 17th is Wright Brothers Day

Wright Brothers Day (December 17) is a United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code, and commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier than air, mechanically propelled airplane, that were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. On September 24, 1959 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared December 17th to be Wright Brothers Day.

Wright Brothers Day has recently been announced as an official commemorative day in Ohio, on October 5, 2011, celebrating 100 years of practical flight for the Wright Brothers.

Today in History...

December 17,  497 BC – 

The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.

28 Of The Queerest Christmas Songs

From: Huffington Post
Salsoul Orchestra
 "Christmas Medley"
The 1970s disco mega-mashup combines over a dozen holiday classics into one uber-retro, danceable remix.

The Most Erotic Andrew Christian Moments Of The Year

From: Queerty

 1. 
When they got competitive





We think it’s a tie. Overtime?


When these guys suited up (and quickly suited down), we immediately starting breathing a little heavier.





Let the Games Begin!