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NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality #marriageequality #naacp

Today's big news is that the NAACP has endorsed Marriage Equality.

This announcement follows Joe Biden's Meet the Press appearance two weeks ago, President Obama's public statement three days later and various nods of support from various people including Pat Quinn Governor of Illinois and Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island Governor as well as Jesse Jackson and well, half of Hollywood.

Will this all help or hurt the President come November? Well, it depends. There's so much outpouring of support and numbers in the polls don't lie - acceptance of the gays and Marriage Equality is at an all-time high. Same-sex marriage has been legal now for years in many states and those states haven't fallen into the ocean or devoured by demonic snakes - and heterosexual marriage still has a 50% divorce rate. So when the usual suspects start harping on us getting married ruining civilization, we really need to look around and say "really? give me an example" and then watch as they point to the weird weather we've had these past few years as an indication... because remember, this bunch also doesn't want to accept that decades of smog have changed the world for the worse.

Mainly the opponents are scared - much like your 80something mother hates to use email and can't figure out why anyone would bother using Facebook: it's simply a realization that they are being left behind.

In the case of Marriage Equality, it's various people who have a set idea of how the world is supposed to be... and women, the gays, minorities are 'supposed' to act a certain way and know their place.. but sadly for those that believe this, they are simply realizing that it will never be that way again. (thank God!). We must find a new way of living - because the old way - in which our society only works when someone or other is oppressed, must end at long last. We are better than that. At least, we ought to want to be better than that.

But even for some of the gays the idea that Marriage Equality for all in America is close at hand sounds like "lollipops and rainbows" as one Facebook douche posted on my page the other day. Yes, there are 30some states where Marriage Equality has been banned by Constitutional amendment. Pish tosh. Sodomy laws were still on the books not that long ago and they were overturned and abolished.

These amendments will be overturned in time when the will of the people reaches critical mass.

And that time is really not that far off. Not tomorrow. Not next month. Not probably this year. But I'd say soon. Very soon. Sooner than we ever thought. My God, the progress we've made in my lifetime -  I never in my wildest dreams thought that I could get married to another man. Granted, since I'm not even dating anyone, a wedding date is unlikely anytime soon.... but it's nice to know that I could! :)

There is still much work to get done and no matter where you're at, please consider supporting the Marriage Equality group near you. For those of us in New York, you can click here to find out how to help the fight in our neck of the woods.

 

Marriage Equality, Homophobia and "What Makes You Beautiful" #marriageequality #anythinggoes #broadway

Good morning peeps!

It's dark and gloomy in New York City today but you don't have to be (dark and gloomy). Sure, the recent events from North Carolina and all the buzzing from Biden and Obama to Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton seem to have given every homophobe in the country reason to be openly hateful (and stupid) but hey at least the public - the ones that are somewhere in the middle on their opinion of teh gayz and same-sex marriage are seeing what we've seen all along - just how rude and ugly things are for us.

Contrary to others who are wishing them to stop - I hope every homophobe weighs in with their crazy opinion so that the world can really see what they sound like - because sometimes when it's a comment here and a comment there, I think the general American public just doesn't really get how awful they themselves sound.

Naturally this will be validation for some (ie a public figure institutionalizing homophobia) but I think, in the end, these open and virulent attacks simply underscore the need for laws in place to protect the LGBT community. And of course they wouldn't be quite so intense if this rapidly shrinking group of people didn't on some level recognize that the time of this being acceptable conversation is, at last, over. No one fights harder than when they know the end is near.

And for some, especially closet cases *coughRickSantorumcough* being anti-gay is the shield they protect themselves with against having to deal with the truth of their own selves. I'd rather think that they are simply lashing out at us out of a sense of self-presevation (not because the LGBT community will cause -what nonsense- the end of humanity, but in the fragile protection that being anti-gay gives them) than that they are just batshit crazy or downright mean.

To wash away this negativity, please take a few minutes to watch this video made by the cast of ANYTHING GOES. It's a lip-sync of "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction. I want to meet the hottie with the shaved head.. he seems like he's awesomely fun! :)

Enjoy!

 

 

Oh Kirk Cameron Why Do You Hurt Me So? #kirkcameron #homophobe #ccokc

By and large, I've been too busy dealing with sane people this past month to indulge in a rant about Kirk Cameron's crazy pants ranting about how the gays are destroying civilization - no, my friend, the other 90% of the population in charge of our country have done that all by themselves, they didn't need teh gayz help to make that happen. Maybe if there were a few more of the gays focusing on being fabulous rather than oh I don't know, VPs shooting their hunting buddies in the face with a rifle or divorcing their wives while they lay in a coma, we might all be better off.

In any event, better bloggers than I have taken him to task and while I could be bitter and wonder aloud why he hasn't been fired from the show he's on, I have to realize, oh no, Kirk Cameron isn't actually employed as an actor (at least not that I'm aware) so what he was doing on Piers Morgan in the first place is the biggest mystery of them all.

But whatever. I digress. If you, like me, want to see the shit kicked out of KC (verbally people, VERBALLY) then take a gander at this video made by other child stars speaking out against Cameron's unbelievably small mind. Truth to tell, this is the most buzz that Kirk Cameron has had in about oh 20 years and he should get down on his knees and... well, let's just stop at saying he should be grateful and leave it at that. This is, after all, a family blog. :)

 

CCOKC - Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron - watch more funny videos

 

TONIGHT MARCH 28TH: THE WILL CLARK SHOW'S BANNED LINEUP SHINES!

TONIGHT March 28th I've got hottie Torez and super talented singer/actress Bianca Leigh as my guests on the Will Clark Show .. this is the night that a certain gay/lesbian human rights org had agreed to benefit from but backed out because the show poster was deemed too hot for their org!

Their loss is the gain of homeless LGBT youth who benefit from our new beneficiary for the evening, Brainpower!

Come on by tonight to find out exactly what Brainpower does to help affected youth rise up out of their situation and get real professional arts training as a way to get off the street and back into the world.

Naturally I'll have the usual erotic items to give away as well as tix to Bianca's one woman show (final night, tomorrow night, Thursday March 29th).

That's starting at 8pm (sharp) with myself, our photographer AB and the newest addition to the Will Clark Show team, DJ Chauncey Dandridge! No cover, $1 bingo cards gets you playing!

"Taylor Lautner Is Gay" People Mag Is Fake #taylorlautner

Is this a case of "me thinks he doth protest too much"? (And thank you Lou Grant for using that so brilliantly in an episode of Mary Tyler Moore.. remember when TV shows used to be smart?)

As you all may know, yesterday this People cover proclaiming Taylor Lautner is gay flamed around teh internets but now Lautner's people and uhm People are saying it's a fake. He says he's not gay and People did not create this cover.

My gaydar tells me that Lautner is the gayest thing since Paul Lynde but you know I'm not inside his head and soul. 

However, if he is gay, I find it kinda sad. And if someone is that deep in the closet and that afraid of telling the world he's gay because he's that much more focused on being a movie superstar at the price of his own soul (it's certainly been done before... must I point out the obvious example of this?), then hell, who am I, who are WE to tell him otherwise?

I mean, not that it's not ragey frustrating that one can't be gay and be a movie superstar, but as long as the suits in Hollywood project their own homophobia (and even teh gayz in the power positions can be homophobic, sometimes they're the worst ones) on the American public determining that we are too stupid to know the difference between an actor and the role they're playing, movie superstars will remain 'straight' (well, straightish, but you get the point).

Naturally the activist in me pipes up and reminds me that every time a gay man or lesbian hides in the closet, the message that they are telling the world is: It's not OK to be gay.

But again: you cannot make someone feel OK with their sexuality - they have to get there on their own. Some people never do and that's not 'wrong', it's just 'sad' especially in this day and age. 

Just another day in Hollyweird!

Boxing Day -About Bingo and P*rn Stars and Hugh Jackman #willclark #pornobingo #hughjackman #antoniobiaggi

I have said it for years - some day I want to leave New York just after Thanksgiving and return just before New Years - the city gets crazier and crazier every year and while there are some GREAT parties that happen, people do the frenzy mambo a little too intensely for me.

If anyone reading this can point me in the direction of a place where I can work for five weeks during December 2012, write to me. Seriously.

Thankfully it all ended last night with a great party with new friends up in Connecticut, followed by a fabulous train ride home followed by my first sex dream in years - where I imagined I met and had a lot of fun (that would be euphemism just in case you weren't picking that up) with four different hotties who turned out to be brothers (whoops.. embarassing but kinda hot in a 'comedy of manners' kind of way. Even in my dreams I'm an English Lit major!)

Anyway, speaking of sex, my friend AB saw Alan Cumming in the men's bathroom at Julius' and given that he was with Village Person Randy Jones, he made the comment that it was like being in the middle of a sequel to "Can't Stop The Music" except that Alan was the new Valerie Perrine. I guess there are worse recasts. ;)

This holiday season I got a couple of really nice presents - one from Dale - a set of Mickey Mouse glasses (I LOVE them) and a couple of others from my best friend Matt who not only gave me a cute little Journal to write things down in for the next five years but also treated me to Hugh Jackman's one personish show on Broadway. I sat there inspired, not just by the Jackman's hotness or talent or charisma, but also by his exhilarating personality and determined upbeatness. I mean, it's easy to be upbeat when you are doing a show on Broadway but I think it comes naturally to him.. and that's pretty damn inspirational. I was especially moved by a segment he did celebating the aborigines underlined by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's "Over the Rainbow" accented by didgeridoos. It was a neat/spiritual moment and I actually had the thought - "I wish I had a show like this" and then it hit me, "uhmmm I do". And it's made me rethink some things about how I do things.

You know, for some reason I sometimes forget that I have control of the content of the show - and while I know that people expect porn stars to appear at an event called "Porno Bingo" I've become less and less enchanted with those that I book - not because they are out murdering cats or burning houses or anything, but because I simply can't rely on sex workers to show up or well, be interesting. I had one star sometime in the past few months (no names!) who told me flat out that he didn't want anyone to take his picture and he didn't want to get undressed for the crowd. My actual thought was "then what the fuck are you doing here?" ... but my Midwestern/hospitality industry nature kicked in and I just smiled my host smile and I said "Okee dokie" BTW when you get the Okee Dokie from me, you know it's not really Okee Dokie with me but I've just given up fighting with you. I can fight like the best of them but at one point, one has to walk away. That guest will not be asked back. Frowny although I should add that said star did indeed allow people to take his photo and he did eventually get undressed but he rolled his eyes and told me on the mic how bored he was throughout. I wonder - how does anyone think that it's OK to say that during an appearance? Rolling my eyes on this end just thinking about it! LOL

As a side note, I was criticized (slightly) by a couple of people who questioned why I had booked Antonio Biaggi on the show some weeks back given that Antonio is now doing bareback flicks. Well, that is always a tough call for me, but I'll tell you the thing about Antonio that makes him a great guest - he lets me know in advance when he's coming to town, he shows up on time, he never complains about anything, is interesting on the mic, is prepared with a jockstrap and Raging Stallion routinely (and reliably) donates product that Biaggi made for them (and for those of you reading this that aren't consumers of porn, Raging Stallion produces movies with models wearing condoms).

I would love to really interview the stars who appear who have done the bb stuff (and there have been about three that I can think of off the top of my head just in the last year) but I think that the Bingo crowd wouldn't want something so serious so I sidestep it. And btw it wouldn't be in a judgmental 'how dare you' kind of way, it would come from a place of being genuinely interested in finding out how they decided to go that direction with their careers. Maybe when I have a radio show it's something to explore. :)

Anyway, those are a few of the thoughts that are on my mind this day after Christmas.

Write me, I know you want to! LOL ;)

In the meantime, chillax with the sounds of "Over the Rainbow", a piece that never fails to touch my heart.

 

Dear Bloomberg: From Penguin Prison: "Don't F*** With My Money #ows #occupywallstreet

I don't think that Mayor Bloomberg won himself any new supporters among the voting block today by staging a cowardly attack on the Occupy Wall Street protestors camping out at Zuccotti Park, especially when he did it in the dead of night - at 1am. I'm sure they got some resistance, but then, I'd be pissed too if armored policemen roused me out of my slumber and pushed me out of a space I'd been occupying for weeks.

You can read Mayor Bloomberg's statement about this on his Facebook group page by clicking here... and the comments are definitely worth checking out. At the time of my reading the page, there was one lone supporter of the action and about 100 outraged citizens. That's about the right ratio as they've been saying all along. Unfortunately that 1% has like 99% of the money and what is a Mayor (especially a Mayor built on the business world as Blooomberg is) without full support of 99% of the wealth? Instead of getting him removed from office (as many are calling for here in the city today) I'd be shocked if he didn't run and win a fourth term. And if you think that we New Yorkers are overreacting, you are seriously out of touch with the reality of what's going on here (and watching Fox News doesn't count as being 'in touch', which I'd be shocked if anyone reading this blog does quite frankly but hey you never know).

For those of you out there who STILL don't quite understand what the Occupy Wall Street movement is about - it's quite simple: we want jobs, we don't want handouts. We want the people on Wall Street who ruined our financial health to pay for their crimes, we don't want another Bush/Cheney where the populace is too afraid to prosecute perpetrators of a heinous crime to get away with it just because they're white and wealthy.

I've thought about going down and joining the protest and actually seeing up close and personal what it's all about - but frankly, I've been on a job hunt and while I've made some headway, it's a really tough market out there. I have felt that my time is better spent getting my work done and getting work than stomping around the streets - however, I support fully the work that the Occupy Wall Street folks are doing. It is important, necessary work. Much like the ACTUP activists marched on for years to get medicine that actually worked to save lives. I'm particularly disgusted by gay men who sneer at the protests as "complainers" and "wasting their time". If there had not been hundreds of protestors early in the 90s, many of you complaining now would not be alive (or at least many of your friends would not be).

Of course Occupy Wall Street isn't ACTUP. They are not throwing the blood of the HIV positive dead on the White House lawn and they are not invading St. Patricks and throwing communion wafers on the ground. They are actually practicing non-violence - which is probably what pisses the Mayor's office the most - because you really have to work hard to make thousands of peaceful people who are broke and just want to work look bad.

There are a lot of responses to this mess and while the actual message of Penguin Prison is a little vague, the images that their video shows are not: the people are speaking. Maybe it's time that the Mayor's office started listening - and started helping the people - the 99% who voted him in in the first place. Sure, your Wall Street friends can finance your next campaign - but we will all remember, bitterly, your actions (and inaction) during this crisis.

Catch more of Penguin Prison on iTunes by clicking here! :)

Penguin Prison - Don't F*** With My Money - Music - More Music Videos

 

 

 

 

Hook Up Site Rant and Morning Dance Break - "Naughty Naughty" by Porcelain Black

Ok so this morning I woke up super horny and since there's no one next to me in the bed (and I love sleeping with another guy) I took to my favorite online hookup site to, you know, hook up. Well, after about 20 minutes of that, I remembered why I don't have an account on this (or any other) site - hook up sites are boring and frustrating and ultimately you literally are sitting around waiting for people to make up their minds that are probably sitting in a suit in their ofice at Time Warner and have no intention of actually hooking up (although there is the semi urban legend of the TW employee that used to bring trix to his office during day hours and fuck them on his desk while his secretary covered for him - I only say 'semi' because although I have no first hand account of that, I know many people who claim to have had the pleasure, and after meeting the guy socially, I can believe it). Yes, welcome to New York. :)

Anyway, I've long let my memberships lapse and good riddance. But for many (me included) one still holds out the hope that something will happen, so rather than delete profiles, they just sort of live on and on and on. It's a little like that song from "Titanic" except that instead of the 'heart", the hard on goes on. At least Celine Dion isn't singing about guys promising to call and/or show up who never do. :)

This morning I'm taking my mind off my rocky pants problem and listening to Porcelain Black's newest single "Naughty Naughty". The video is some behind the scenes footage of the group on the road and is a little incongruous with the partied out vibe of the song, but it'll get you in the mood and your blood pumping (in an entirely different way). (and the song itself is a lot more raunchy than any hook up site!)

You can download this song on iTunes

 

 

Herman Cain And the Idiocy of "It's a Choice"

I dont have the facts to back this up, but Herman Cain is an idiot. OK I take that back, Cain IS an idiot and shows us unrefutable proof in a clip from The Piers Morgan Show (below) that he's stupider than Harold Camping will feel tomorrow morning when he wakes from his bed and finds that nope, you're wrong again (and I think that's three strikes by the way)

Cain is claiming that being gay is a choice and that we don't have 'scientific proof' to show otherwise. Uhmmmmm what about millions of gays, lesbians and transgendered people who know otherwise?

Thankfully, not only does Piers nearly laugh at him to his face, but Dan Savage is on the case demanding that Cain suck his dick to prove that one can 'choose' to be gay (see the above).

What's scariest though is that some part of the USA's population think this guy is an actual viable candidate for the job of President. The upside in this is that he makes people like Mitt Romney look reasonable. That's quite a feat. Congrats, Cain! (Thanks to the Bilerico Project for posting the clip)

 

ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE FOR THE PIECES TEAM

Everyone who reads this blog knows the drama extraordinaire that we all went through this summer with CB2, the Community Board and the landlord of the proposed new space. It was an intense time that ended in an incredibly joyful night of celebrating a hard fought victory after the Community Board's approval of the move .. but one that was quickly lost again when the landlord of the new space reneged a half hour before the signing.

Flashforward to today when word has come from Pieces management that there is a new space in midtown that the Pieces team will move to - with Community Board approval of course. So, here we go again. Again.

If I could trouble each of you reading this to click on this link http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tenth/index.html to sign a petition that will be sent to the Community Board telling them that you love the Pieces team and support the new business! AND of course if you could send off to your friends, fans, frenemies and loved ones and have them sign too, that would be awesome.

Last time we collected over 4,000 signed (paper) statements from Pieces patrons. This time, it's a million times easier (and more environment friendly!) and so naturally it would help to have as strong of support.

With your help, when Pieces closes it's doors on Christopher Street in the spring, the team will move up to mid-town and continue to bring you the same awesomeness that we do now. (I need to stress here btw that the new venue will most likely not be called "Pieces" but will be a new creation... maybe rather than the fractured image that 'Pieces' conjures, maybe it should be called Whole... which might be too much like Hole for the community to handle.... although there IS a new bar opening up in the area called ... wait for it .... yes Flaming Saddles - I kid you frakkin not)

On a personal note, it's a kind of cool, special thing that the proposed place is just an avenue over from the original space of the Will Clark Show. It would be like going home again. And wouldn't that be a nice 7th year anniversary present (the Anti-Violence Project will be the benefiary and will help us celebrate on Wednesday February 15th, join us!)

Stay tuned for updates!