Gayest Video on the Internet?

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You be the judge — David Fudge presents his take on Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA”.  Party in the FIP:

Reverend Scott Rennie appointed minister of Scotland’s Queen’s Cross church

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Reverend Scott Rennie, 37, told his former congregation that he was gay and in a committed relationship with a man.   Now religious conservatives angry at Rennie’s appointment as minister of Queen’s Cross church have challenged the appointment.  Read More

Air Force Ejects $25 Million Gay Flyer

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Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach is a distinguished flight weapons systems operator for the US Air Force.  In the course of his 18-year career, he’s put in 2,180 flying hours, completing numerous missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.  He’s flown 488 combat hours on 88 missions.  On September 11, 2001,  Fehrenbach was among the top flyers assigned to patrol Washington, DC.  He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including nine air medals, one of them for heroism.  Currently a flight instructor in Idaho, he has trained more than 300 Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers.  He was getting ready to deploy overseas again, but in September 2008 he was notified that he was going to be discharged for homosexual conduct in violation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”  Apparently the US is prepared to waste the $25 million it invested to develop the career of Lt. Col. Fehrenbach.  He’s one of over 200 miliary personnel discharged since President Obama took office in January.  Read More

Queer of the Month, May 2009 | Kelly McGillis

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Kelly McGillis co-starred with Jodie Foster in The Accused and with Tom Cruise in Top Gun.  Her other films include Reuben, Reuben, Witness (Golden Globe nomination), and The Babe.  She played a closeted military lawyer in The L Word.

She’s been married twice to men, and has two children with her second husband.  They were divorced in 2002.

Long-rumored to be a lesbian, McGillis was said to have been very close to singer Whitney Houston prior to Whitney’s marriage to Bobby Brown.   In April 2009, McGillis came out during an interview with Girl Rock on SheWired.com, noting that she was “done with the man thing” and seeking “definitely a woman” for her next serious relationship.

McGillis spoke of trying to come to terms with her sexuality all her adult life, and how she long felt God was punishing her for being homosexual.  She has since realized, “God is okay with you being gay.”

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Queer of the Month, March 2009 | Lindsay Lohan

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By the age of eleven, Lindsay Lohan was a show business veteran with a career in modeling and commercials, and a regular role on a daily soap opera.  At age twelve, she starred in the Disney remake of The Parent Trap, garnering favorable reviews.  Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan called her “the soul of this film as much as Hayley Mills was of the original, and…she is more adept than her predecessor at creating two distinct personalities.”  Lohan followed that with another Disney remake, Freaky Friday, playing Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter.  In 2004, Lohan became a major star with the success of Mean Girls, a teen comedy written by Tina Fey.

Pursuing a singing career, in 2004 Lohan released her debut album Speak, produced by Emilio Estefan, Jr., which went platinum. A second album was less successful.

As Lohan became a celebrity and paparazzi began to follow her every move, personal and professional problems began to emerge.  During filming of Herbie: Fully Loaded in 2005 she was hospitalized with a kidney infection.  Overstressed, she refused to promote the film and Disney dropped her from their publicity.  A public row erupted with producers of her next movie, Georgia Rule, who wrote her a letter complaining: “You and your representatives have told us that your various late arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness; today we were told it was ‘heat exhaustion.’ We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called ‘exhaustion.”’

Lohan has had a troubled relationship with her father, a former stock broker who has been in and out of prison for fraud and probation violations. He has not hesitated to inject himself into the limelight surrounding his daughter, sagely pronouncing his advice and expressing concern for her welfare to any reporter who will listen.

In 2007, Lohan was arrested twice for DUI and underwent treatment in a rehabilitation center. Unable to obtain insurance, due to her unpredictability, Lohan became unemployable in films.  At the same time she has maintained her place in the spotlight, conducting an affair with a young British DJ, Samantha Ronson (b. 1977), complete with public shows of affection and shouting matches.  In a Harper’s Bazzar interview, Lohan summed it up when asked about Ronson: “I think it’s pretty obvious who I’m seeing…I think it’s no shock to anyone that it’s been going on for quite some time…she’s a wonderful person and I love her very much.”

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Queer of the Month | October 2008 | Clay Aiken

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Clay Aiken grew up singing in church choirs and local musical theatre productions.  He performed the national anthem at sports events in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, but a professional career in music seemed a distant dream.  Aiken enrolled at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, to pursue a degree in special education.  In 2003, he was working part-time helping an autistic boy, when the child’s mother suggested Aiken try out for “American Idol,” the phenomenally popular television talent show.

The judges thought he looked too “nerdy” to make it, but Aiken’s resonant voice blew them away.  The show’s stylists went to work on him and developed a trademark spiky-haired clean-cut look.  He earned a slot in the competition and finished the season in second place while developing an enthusiastic following of “Claymates.”  He went on to become a major star, releasing hit albums and touring the US and Canada.  He’s also appeared on Broadway in the musical “Spamalot.”  Meanwhile, he’s gone through a succession of hairstyles.

Aiken was raised in a devout Christian family, and has a deep faith which emerges in some of his songs, earning him the moniker “American Idol Christian” from “Christian Music Planet” broadcasting.  His faith is balanced by tolerance and consideration of other beliefs.  Aiken has been active in children’s causes and AIDS benefits.

From the time Aiken first appeared on “American Idol,” there was widespread speculation that he might be gay.  He denied this in a 2003 interview with “Rolling Stone” noting, “One thing I’ve found of people in the public eye, either you’re a womanizer or you’ve got to be gay.  Since I’m neither one of those, people are completely concerned about me.”  This didn’t do much to reduce concern.

In 2008, Aiken surprised fans by announcing that he was soon to be a father.  The child’s mother, Jaymes Foster (daughter of his producer David Foster), gave birth in August.  It was even bigger news, though less a surprise, when Aiken appeared on the cover of “People” magazine in September, holding his baby next to the headline, “Yes, I’m Gay.”   (Neil Patrick Harris, Lance Bass, and the fictional wizard Albus Dumbledore had preceded him on similar “People” covers—sans infants.)  During a week when the US economy was melting down, a presidential election was heating up, and the country was involved in two active wars, the number one news story was Clay Aiken coming out.

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