RAVI GUILTY IN RUTGERS ANTI-GAY CRIME

The roommate of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi was convicted Friday of some bias intimidation charges as well as charges of invasion of privacy and tampering with evidence.

Because the charges are being identified as hate crimes, Dharun Ravi could face up to 10 years in prison for spying on Clementi with a webcam. After Clementi realized he had been watched during an intimate act behind the door of his dorm room, he committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge in September 2010. 

Ravi, 20, faced 15 criminal counts, including invasion of privacy and bias intimidation. After 12 hours of deliberation, the jury delivered its verdict Friday in a New Brunswick, N.J., court. 

Ravi could also face deportation to India, where he was born and raised, according to the Associated Press.  

Garden State Equality chair Steven Goldstein released a statement Friday, shortly after the verdict, calling upon Ravi to learn from his experience "by making amends and fighting for the justice and dignity of every individual, including people who are LGBT."

He added, "So are we 'happy' with the verdict? 'Happy' doesn't seem like the right word given that Ravi has been convicted and will now face the appropriate societal consequences. 'Happy' also seems too trivial a word when we remember that Tyler Clementi lost his life.  But we do believe this verdict sends the important message that a 'kids will be kids' defense is no excuse to bully another student."

Shane Windmeyer, executive director of Campus Pride, announced that his organization is issuing a call to action for all college campuses to learn from Ravi's case by immediately implementing policies, programs, and practices to keep their LGBT students safe.

“Though the trial has ended, there are no verdicts, no words and no sentiments that will ever bring Tyler Clementi back to his friends and to his family,” Windmeyer said in a statement Friday.  “Additionally, this trial’s conclusion will not end the daily torment and harassment of LGBT students on college and university campuses across the nation.” 

SCOUT LEADER ABUSED KIDS FOR DECADES - SCOUT OFFICIALS COVERED IT UP!!!

Scouting officials helped cover up more than two decades of molestation from a leader who admitted to sexually assaulting children, according to a joint investigation by the Los Angeles Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Rick Turley allegedly molested at least 15 children during his tenure as a scout leader for both the Boy Scouts of America and Canadian Scouting. Officials from an Orange County, Calif., chapter of the BSA even failed to report his actions after he admitted to molesting three boys in 1979.
After his stint in Southern California, Turley returned to Canada, where he joined Scouts Canada and continued abusing children.
Turley, 58, who now works at a truck stop motel in Alberta, Canada, said "it was easy," and that he was surprised at how he was able to get away with his actions.
A former Boy Scouts executive, A. Buford Hill, said he was simply following directions from the national organization by failing to report Turley's actions to police. "You do not want to broadcast to the entire population that these things happen," he said according to the Los Angeles Times. "You take care of it quietly and make sure it never happens again."
Turley's records have come up with 5,000 others who have been at least suspected of child molestation through the Boy Scouts, but kept under wraps. While the national organization has kept confidential files on molestation, conversely, the BSA has remained adamant about excluding openly gay people from becoming members or scout leaders because officials say allowing gays would expose children to sexuality.

HOW DOES THIS STILL HAPPEN?????

SENATOR FRANKEN DESTROYS FOCUS ON THE FAMILY's WITNESS!!!

During this morning’s Senate DOMA hearings, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) destroyed Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery’s argument that children are better off with opposite-sex parents by demonstrating how Minnery misrepresented an HHS study.
The study — which Minnery cited to oppose marriage equality — actually found that children do best in two-parent households, regardless of the parents’ gender.
Watch it:




AL FRANKEN FOR PRESIDENT!!! A Democrat with balls!!! THANK GOD!!

INTERVIEW WITH MAX ADLER, GLEE'S CLOSET CASE BULLY!!

Will it get better for Dave Karofsky, or could Glee's closeted bully still kill himself?
Max Adler reveals what might be in store for his conflicted character next season - including the possibility of a love connection with Kurt Hummel.


In the heated moment when he kissed Kurt Hummel in the McKinley High locker room, Glee's most hated slushie-tossing tormentor, became one of the most tragic and sympathetic figures on television. As his self-loathing character kept harassing Kurt throughout the second season, forcing the openly gay glee clubber to temporarily transfer to another school, Max Adler earned more admirers by wholeheartedly embracing the responsibility of representing struggling gay youth.
Now smiling for a change on his summer hiatus, the 25-year-old actor looks back at Karofsky's slow road toward self-acceptance and predicts a somewhat brighter future for the football jock when the Fox juggernaut returns for a third season this fall.

Now that we're between seasons, are you suffering from Glee withdrawal like I am?
I'm totally going through Glee withdrawal. The hectic schedule was full-speed, and then it all stopped at once. But I'm not the kind of person who enjoys downtime, so I'm always looking for what I can do next. Two days after we wrapped season 2, I went off to shoot a movie, and there have already been other auditions and meetings, so I'm keeping busy.


The Glee audience first discovered that Karofsky was gay in "Never Been Kissed", the November episode in which he unexpectedly kisses Kurt. Similarly, you learned Karofsky's secret when you read the script for that episode. How did that new insight change the way you played the character?
Well, before the "Never Been Kissed" episode, I still looked for things within him that would make him more interesting for me to play - why does he bully, why does he torment so many people? Him being gay was actually something I tossed around as an idea, but it obviously wasn't confirmed until "Never Been Kissed", which just reiterated how I played him. I knew there was something going on underneath, but once I knew for sure what that thing was, it made it a lot more exciting for me. It's almost like playing two people at once: Karofsky has one way he speaks and shows himself to his peers at school, and then there's this whole other life beneath the surface, so with everything he says there's something else that he's thinking. To get to act that is such a joy.


Santana figured out Karofsky secret when she caught him checking out Sam in the hallway.
Yeah, Sam's a good-looking guy. That was great, because in the script it just said, "Santana spots Karofsky" - and then in all caps - "AS HE TOTALLY CHECKS SAM'S ASS OUT!" I though, oh, my God, that's going to be so much fun. I had already thought about that kind of thing. When I'm doing those locker room scenes, I think, Karofsky's probably feeling pretty uncomfortable with all these other guys, because it would be like me in a locker room with a bunch of girls changing. That was something I had been playing, but it was never shown until he checked out Sam. If your questioning your sexuality at school with a bunch of good-looking teenage guys, yeah, your eyes are going to be roaming for sure.


Because we see Karofsky sporadically, have you come up with your own details to fill his backstory?
Yes, I think about it all the time. At this point, all he's doing is trying to blend in and fly under the radar. He wants to watch everything he does - the way he walks, the way he talks, what he looks at - so I feel like when you don't see him, he's not causing trouble or getting into fights; he has school, football practise, and then goes home, so he's living his life like a drone, a robot, just trying to get through another day without anyone seeing him for who he really is. Whether he's surfing the Wed, playing video games, eating, whatever, he's in hiding. He's almost like a wanted criminal, trying to lie low.
Has Dave ever hooked up with a guy on the sly?
I don't think so. I think his kiss with Kurt was his very first encounter with a guy, which is what scared him. He's been shell-shocked since then, so I don't think he's ready to get out there and start hooking up with anybody just yet.


The poor guy must be ready to explode - figuratively and literally.
Exactly. I was curious about what was going to happen at the prom, because it would've been one heck of a time for him to come out. But I love how the writers have let it play out a little longer, because it would've been a little soon and abrupt for him to come out like that, especially in front of the whole student body. He's totally ready to explode. I imagine him as this big inflated balloon before "Never Being Kissed", but there was a small pinprick once that kiss happened, and now all the hot air is slowly escaping as he tries to close it up.


A lot of Glee fans out there would enjoy seeing Kurt and Karofsky hook up. Are you aware of the slash fan fiction category called "Kurtofsky"?
I'm aware. Chris [Colfer] and I have discussed this, and we've decided that Kurtofsky sounds like a mean, famous male Russian ballerina. In all honesty, I haven't read any of it. I know it exists, but I don't want to read it, because I don't want it to influence anything I'm doing on the show. But I am very aware, and find it amusing. It people are still thinking about the show once it ends, that's a good thing.
You teamed up with the Trevor Project to make an "It Gets Better" video, and you co-hosted the Anti-Defamation League's Concert Against Hate. At what point did you decide to get involved with the GLBT community and anti-bullying initiatives beyond your portrayal of Karofsky?
After "Never Being Kissed" aired. When I read that script, I though it could have this major impact, but I didn't know whether it would be positive or negative. I thought it was important, but it's a very risky thing to have play out on prime-time TV, so I didn't know if people would lash out against me, the character, the writers, whatever. Once it aired, the response I got was 100% positive. I had a smile on the face the whole day. That's when people started coming up to me, asking for autographs, pictures, shaking my hand, telling me, "Thank you for doing this", "You're representing me", "You're representing someone I know". I knew from that point that there are eyeballs on this story line, and it's my job to be honest with what's on the page and to represent the feelings and struggles that people are really going through. As entertaining as the show is, and as fun as the job is, there's a heavy, serious element for me in representing the gay community. It's been incredible.


There was a persistent rumour near the end of last season that Karofsky might kill himself. What were your thoughts on that possibility?
Yeah, I may've even started that rumour in interviews. But that's kind of how I was playing him - I always thought that he was least contemplating the idea, getting close to suicide, which would be very real. The obvious choice would be for him to come out and live happily ever after, but I thought the more interesting choice was having him struggle, because that really hasn't been represented for so long on television, and that's what a lot of people need to see. But because of the message of positivity that Glee puts out there, a suicide could be difficult to have on the show. Once that rumour stared going around, Ryan [Murphy] and Brad [Falchuk] said that it was discussed in the writers' room, but they didn't think that's where they were going to end up taking Karofsky. So I think fans can rest easy.
When we last saw Karofsky in the "Prom Queen" episode, he breaks down and apologises to Kurt for bullying him. Later, after being crowned prom king and having the opportunity to come out to the school by slow-dancing with Kurt, he runs out of the prom near tears. Where does that leave the character for next year?
It was a huge step for him to get to that point. That was the first time that he was himself, whether he wanted to be or not. Everything he'd done up to that point was this big shield of bravado, and he was faking who he was to everybody, but at the moment he couldn't take it anymore, so he let his guard down. So there's still a lot of progress that can be made. At the prom he saw how the student body dealt in a positive way with Kurt being named prom queen - they ended up backing him and cheering him - so that might ease some of his fears a bit. The most important part of all was that you see Karofsky making steps, digging into his inner feeling for the first time.


I hope you get to smile more next season.
Thank you. It's been fun playing the bad guy, but it's fun to smile too.

Even with your snarl, you've become something of a sex symbol this year. You recently ranked 64 on AfterElton's Hot 100, which isn't too shabby. How do you feel about that kind of attention from the gay audience?
It's all in good fun, and I appreciate it. It's also scary, because I feel like when you're put in that position you can only get beat up and go down from there. But for the time being, it's very cool.
Finally. You just wrapped filming the movie Detention of the Dead. What can you tell us about it?
It's a lot of fun. It's got a very John Hughes, 80's feel to it, which is refreshing, and then you get zombies. So if you like Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and The Breakfast Club, you're going to like it. It was a blast to shoot.

SOUTHWEST PILOT LETS LOOSE A MISOGYNISTIC AND HOMOPHOBIC RANT!!!

A Southwest Airlines pilot has been suspended after he accidentally broadcast his conversation about the "fags" and "grannies" that he works with as flight attendants. This man should really never be allowed to fly a plane again. (Conversation link below - you should hear how this douche bag speaks about others!!)


Because of a stuck headset microphone, this unnamed Southwest pilot, broadcast his thoughts about the "gays," "grannies," and "grandes" (which we can only imagine to mean overweight ladies) that comprise the crew of flight attendants he works with in Chicago. (Well, at least he didn't call them stewardesses.) Instead of the conversation remaining private—he seems to be talking to a fellow pilot in the cockpit—the audio went out over the air traffic control frequency and every other plane in the Houston area. You picked the wrong day to lean on the on-button, my friend.

The guy wasn't finished though. He goes on to complain that he never gets to go out with his co-workers, and the one time he did go out with two "chicks" from work, neither of them wanted to sleep with him. The audacity! He then shares his thoughts on how ugly the women who work in Houston are. This guy should know better than to mess with Texas.

The pilots of other planes in the area quickly made it known that they weren't responsible for the broadcast. But the FAA was notified and they figured out who the culprit was, and Southwest announced that it had suspended the pilot after learning of the incident in March. He's since been allowed to return to his job, though, following some "diversity education," the airline said in a statement today. WHAT?!?!


They let this guy back on the job? I will NEVER fly Southwest again! All we can hope is that the "gays" and "grannies" he works with have come up with an awful nickname for him and are using it to his face. How about "asshole"? That seems to fit.

NEW YORK FINALLY SAYS "I DO!!!!"

In a historic vote with far-reaching implications, the New York State Senate passed the marriage equality bill Friday, making New York the sixth and most populous state in addition to Washington, D.C., to offer civil marriage for same-sex couples.



The 33-29 vote, including four Republicans, came at the end of the legislative session and capped a dramatic week in Albany, where loud protests for and against the bill, many based in religious belief, filled the hallways outside the Senate chamber and the majority conference room at the state capitol. New York became the first state with a Republican-controlled legislative body to pass a marriage equality bill, following passage multiple times in the Democratic-controlled state Assembly since 2007.


The marriage equality law will take effect 30 days after being signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Home to almost 20 million people and the nation’s largest city, New York will double the number of Americans living in a state with marriage equality and bring international attention to the latest chapter in the gay rights movement. The development appears destined to become a national turning point, with litigation pending in the federal court system and legislation under consideration in other states while public opinion trends toward majority support for marriage equality, according to recent polls.


In the immediate future, the vote in New York would seem to demand a response from President Barack Obama, who continues to evolve on his marriage equality position. In an address to gay Democratic donors at a major Pride Month fund-raiser in Manhattan Thursday, he said he supported equal rights for couples but stopped short of supporting gay marriage.


The Senate vote in New York caps an intensely coordinated, bipartisan campaign under the direction of Gov. Cuomo that raised an estimated $2 million, more than half of it from Republican-affiliated donors. The governor worked with New Yorkers United for Marriage, a bipartisan coalition of five LGBT organizations: Human Rights Campaign, Empire State Pride Agenda, Log Cabin Republicans, Marriage Equality New York, and Freedom To Marry.


Such coordination, let alone victory, seemed nearly unimaginable less than two years ago, when in December 2009 the marriage equality bill failed in the then Democratic-controlled Senate by a vote of 24 to 38, with no Republicans in support. Since that time, Republicans regained control of the Senate and gay donors helped unseat three senators, two Democrats and one Republican, who voted against the bill, replacing them with yes votes to bring the measure six votes of passing of passing at the start of this year.


The marriage equality push found a champion in Cuomo, a popular Democratic governor and former attorney general who took office in January. Under the supervision of his office, the New Yorkers United for Marriage coalition formed this spring, pulling together resources in a way never before seen on the state level to execute a unified communications, field and lobbying campaign targeting voters and undecided state senators.


Following months of quiet preparation, the campaign launched publicly in April and quickly coalesced its message around a poll that showed 58% of New Yorkers, a historic majority, supported the legalization of same-sex marriage. Business, labor and religious leaders spoke in support, while a range of celebrities, sports figures, everyday New Yorkers, and elected officials, including former president Bill Clinton, endorsed the effort. New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered a public speech on the topic, in addition to lobbying and fund-raising.


Powerful forces of opposition also converged in New York. The Catholic Church and the National Organization for Marriage lobbied against the marriage equality bill, and the influential Conservative Party of New York State vowed to withhold its endorsement from any Republican lawmaker who supported the proposal. In the end, their efforts failed, although concerns within the Republican Senate conference resulted in a week-long negotiation over religious protections that at times seemed to threaten the bill’s prospects.


Long in development, momentum for marriage equality seemed to take hold in the second-to-last week of the legislative session, when three undecided Democratic state senators who voted no in 2009 announced they would support the bill, bringing every member of their conference on board except the avowedly antigay Ruben Diaz Sr. Soon after, James Alesi, the first Republican state senator to support the bill, joined them, followed by his colleague Roy McDonald.


The total number of senators in support of the bill stood at 31, just one vote shy of passage until the last moment, when the Republican conference under the leadership of Sen. Dean Skelos announced it would bring the measure to the floor for a vote.


Two more Republican votes, from Stephen Saland and Mark Grisanti, remained unrevealed until the floor debate, adding to the suspense as Pride weekend began in New York City.

THE U.N. SAYS THAT GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

The United Nations' Human Rights Council has approved for the first time a resolution condemning discrimination and violence against LGBT people.


In the resolution, passed Friday in Geneva, the council “[expresses] grave concern at acts of violence and discrimination, in all regions of the world, committed against individuals because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.”

By a 23-19 vote with three abstentions, the resolution calls for the U.N.'s High Commissioner to initiate a worldwide study on "discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence" — research that would be reviewed by the Human Rights Council in a session next year. The measure was introduced by South Africa, one of 12 African nations on the council.

“The fact that South Africa broke with the rest of the Africa bloc at the UN to lead this resolution helps tremendously in dispelling the notion that LGBT rights are imposed Western constructs,” Council for Global Equality chair Mark Bromley told The Advocate via email. “This should help the debate significantly in Africa and elsewhere, where the laws and the violence have been pronounced.”

South Africa and Mauritius were the only nations of the African Group on the council to vote in favor of the resolution, however, with Nigeria the most vocal opponent (note: a previous version of this post reported that South Africa had been the sole nation in the group to vote in favor). But Zambia, where LGBT people can be imprisoned for up to 10 years for "unnatural" sexual acts, and Burkina Faso were among the abstentions — "a positive sign that the Africa bloc is not as unified in opposition as they have been in the past," Bromley said.

Bromley’s organization stressed in a Friday statement the need for “ongoing U.S. leadership at the U.N. to address the human rights of LGBT people in any meaningful way.”

“We hope the U.S. government will work in partnership with South Africa and the other co-sponsors as this dialogue unfolds so that these words can be transformed into actual human rights protections on the ground," Bromley said in the statement.

INCOGNITO????

That's his handle on Model Mayhem, and this is his avatar.

Which also appears on JustUsBoys as Shane Callanan.

Here's what he says on his MM Page:
I DONT SHOOT NUDE.


I DONT WANT TO DO PORN.


I DONT WANT TO SHOW MY DICK.


--SSTTOOPP WWIITTHH TTHHEE GGAAYY PPOORRNN OOFFFFEERRSS!!!--


...


REMINDERS:


1.I always confirm a day before the shoot.
2.For TFCD's not within my area are acceptable just least provide some transportation expenses please.
3.Cancellations should be done at most in 24hours, not at the last minute.
4.let me know what we will be doing during the shoot. (fashion, artistic, nude, advertising, etc..)
5.lets make awsome shots.


i am very professional and im always on time.


(He just said he didn't do nudes...)


Oh, well...the economy's in the shithouse. Here's Blair Adams from BuzzWest.

Oh, and Trent, from Cruiser Boys.

And Mattox, from ChaosMen.

I wonder why he is so anti gay now?

Did he want a legit modeling career? If so, why so homophobic now?

CHEERS!!

"The Camera"

BEN COHEN QUITS RUGBY!!!

British rugby star Ben Cohen has announced his retirement from the sport in order to devote his time to fighting homophobia and bullying through his foundation.
The Independent reports on the announcement from Cohen, 32, who was player of the year for the Sale Sharks this year.

“Cohen believes he could play for another two years but has turned down offers from clubs in England and France. Instead he will focus on heading up the Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation, which tackles bullying and homophobia,” reports The Independent.
“I have reached the top in my sport,” said Cohen in a statement on his website. “It has been an incredible journey and has put me in the privileged position I am in today to be able to work on these exciting new projects through the StandUp Brand. As athletes, it is not enough just to have strong bodies. We must have strong characters and use our voices to support those who need and deserve it.”


This week, Cohen will launch his 10-day Ben Cohen Acceptance Tour of U.S. cities to include talks, training sessions, and fund-raising events.

HRC TO RICK SANTORUM: GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT AND PUT CHILDREN FIRST!!!!

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, today denounced former Pennsylvania senator and presidential hopeful Rick Santorum’s comments that adoption is a privilege that gay people are not entitled to. Despite the fact that over 100,000 children and youth across the country are in need of a loving home, and years of research that confirms sexual orientation has nothing to do with one’s ability to raise a child, Santorum continues to tell lies about LGBT families and myths about child welfare.

“If Rick Santorum wants to talk about family values, he should talk about the need to find permanent homes for every child – that is a value we all share,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “At a time when we have a child welfare crisis on our hands, Rick Santorum resorts to spreading lies about our families. The leading child welfare experts agree that adoptive parents should be judged by their character and their ability to raise a child, not their marital status or sexual orientation.”

The Child Welfare League of America, the nation’s oldest and largest child welfare organization, opposes restrictions on adoption and believes that applicants should be assessed on their ability to parent a child, not on their marital status or sexual orientation. The North American Council on Adoptable Children opposes laws and legislation that restrict the consideration of prospective foster and adoptive parents based on their sexual orientation.

“It is distressing that too many politicians are turning to their old games of discrimination and prejudice, on the backs of our children and families, to get attention,” said Ellen Kahn, Director of HRC’s Family Project and a professional social worker. “Years of research, public opinion, and the child welfare profession conclude that discrimination is not in the best interest of the children. They simply delay or deny access to stable, loving homes and force kids to languish in the foster care system.”

AG HOLDER INTERVENES IN GAY MAN'S DEPORTATION!!!!

Interesting stuff! Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) has asked the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider the case of Paul Wilson Dorman, a gay man who is in the U.S. illegally and who had been cleared for deportation.

Holder wants the panel to consider whether Dorman, who is in a civil union under New Jersey law with his U.S. partner, would be considered a spouse if the federal Defense of Marriage Act was not in place.


I'll get you more info as soon as I hear....but kudos to AG Holder!! This is a step in the right direction!!

PICTURES OF DUSTIN.....ER....I MEAN SPENCER....

DUSTIN ON MTV, SPENCER ON FRATPAD....MORE HOMOPHOBIA!!!

From DudeTube:

We're six episodes into MTV's The Real World XXV Vegas starring former Fratpad/Fratmen star Spencer. I haven't really discussed Spencer/Dustin's time on the show since I was asked to remove certain content from my site by the folks behind Fratmen. On this week's episode one of the roommates left the show and Dustin reacted badly to the idea of a potential gay male replacement roommate. He made homophobic statements about being afraid of a gay roommate smelling his underwear. He's says that over time he's apparently developed a paranoia about gay men approaching him.

Dustin also gave an interview with Ology where he misrepresented his time in the Fratpad. About the beginning of the webcam site he said:

"...I was one of the original cast members. So going into the Fratpad… nobody knew where that was gonna go. The first month there, I didn’t even take my clothes off. It was one of those things that was gradual. For the first month, you kinda just scope out the situation, chatting with the members. And then the bar gets raised. And over time, you get a comfort level of what’s going on. A lot of people think it was just one of those things where I threw all my inhibitions into the wind. It wasn’t… It was a gradual thing I grew with."
The Fratpad open in the middle of June 2006 and by the first week of July 2006 Dustin had left the site. So that's doesn't even provide him with the month of time he describes. I also have screencaps of Spencer naked from that time period which refute his non-nudity for the first month claim. He returned to the site a few months later and in the interview discusses a video with fellow model David:
"The video that I did with David, the one that’s a big deal… it was mainly because we had never done anything like that before. It was always solos; we’d never done a “duo” scene. And my boss came in and said he wanted to do one but didn’t know who would do it. And at that time, I had been there for a couple years and I was like, you know what? I’ll do it because I wanna see the company grow."

I'm not sure if he's referring to his Fratmen video with David where he performed oral sex in Australia or his private Fratpad pay-per-view duo where he both topped and bottomed. The later happened in September 2006, not quite the "couple years" that he describes. The Australia video was also filmed in Fall 2006. None of these are huge issues, but they contribute to a narrative that Dustin is selling downplaying his porn past. He even goes on to say "I’m not trying to cover anything up" but that is in direct contradiction to Fratmen demanding the removal of all hardcore content from multiple websites.
Andy Dehnart from Reality Blurred interviewed Real World producer and creator John Murray for an upcoming feaure in Playboy who said:
“I think he’s talked with the site and his former employer, and I think he may have been working with them to try to get some of it taken down. But I’m not really involved in that, and I don’t know specifically if that’s the case, but that’s sort of generally what I’ve heard.”

It looks like Dustin wants it both ways. While he's actively working to get all of his hardcore past erased, Dustin is still associating with the porn company that started his career. Many industry folks saw Dustin a few weeks ago at the Phoenix Forum. Dustin was there attending the gay porn convention with Fratmen. I'm suprised that this self-confessed panty-sniffer could deal with the anxiety of being around all those gay people. Maybe's he's looking to turn his new reality stardom into a bigger porn career while attempting to brush his hardcore porn past under the rug. Either way his apparent hypocrisy and homophobia are worth discussing. Here's more of Dustin unclothed from those first few weeks of the Fratpad in 2006.

BLAKE SHELTON TWEETS HOMOPHOBIA!!

Country music star and The Voice judge Blake Shelton, who suggested that Jake Gyllenhaal is gay over the weekend, went a step further on Wednesday and advocated homophobic violence in a tweet that parodied a Shania Twain song.

La Figa repots on Shelton, who said he was “Re-writing my fav Shania Twain song” when he tweeted,
“Any man that tries
Touching my behind
He’s gonna be a beaten, bleedin’, heaving kind of guy…”Over the weekend, Shelton, a popular judge on the NBC singing program, cracked an antigay joke when he hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards with Reba McEntire. He suggested that Jake Gyllenhaal had left Taylor Swift because the actor “was in Brokeback Mountain,” which prompted laughter from the audience in Las Vegas.
The homophobic tweet already has prompted an outcry, leading Shelton to call his critics "dumb asses" on Twitter, where he also suggested their concerns represent "antigay hate tweets." GLAAD called on the singer to apologize Thursday morning and said it had contacted producers at The Voice, known for being a gay-friendly show.

Are you fucking kidding me? Is this dickhead really that fucking stupid? Doesnt he realize that EVERYONE follows Twitter and will report the littlest item?? And to call a world famous actor gay and think that there wont be backlash??
What a douche! I will NEVER watch this show again until he is gone!
It's 2011 people! Hate speak will not stand in our society!!
BAN "THE VOICE"!!!!

JOSH PETERS, THE MODEL WHO DOESNT LIKE GAY GUYS LOOKING AT HIM, IS NOW ON A GAY SITE!!!

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PORN WIKI LEAKS IS RUN BY A CRAZY SELF-IMPORTANT HOMOPHOBIC RACIST!!! PLEASE READ!!

I know, it's a long title for a post...but......

As most of you know, I dont ever vehemently promote or discount anything. Everything I say is always tongue in cheek.
HOWEVER....
This is so upsetting. I have too many friends in the industry and this story from The Daily Beast really made me bloody pissed!

From The Daily Beast:
Like many of the women who perform in porn for a couple of years, Monica Foster knew that people might find out her real name. She even self-published a book warning others considering getting into the industry about the impossibility of total anonymity.

What she didn't expect was Porn Wikileaks, a website that became infamous on Wednesday after Gawker.com ran a story about the renegade website's attempts to expose the identities of thousands of porn performers. (Gawker also implied that Porn Wikileaks has revealed the performers' STD statuses, which, so far, isn't true.) Revealing porn actors' real names is significant because, for every Jenna Jameson and Sasha Grey working today, there are thousands of other people who have worked in porn who are now teachers, lawyers, doctors, housewives—people with a vested interest in keeping their past concealed by a pseudonym.


"They posted pictures of my dad, my mom, my sister," says Foster. "They put pictures of their residence and their actual addresses and private phone numbers. They posted a photo of my apartment." Despite years in adult entertainment, this exposure of her private life was unprecedented and unanticipated, says Foster. She has been driven nearly "psychotic" by it. "My mom is a school teacher and people have emailed and called the elementary school," she says. "No other website has done anything like that unless they were stalkers, and that is what I think about the people who run that website. I have been living in fear."


This fear has engulfed much of the porn world, as Porn Wikileaks has threatened to destroy one of the central pillars of the adult-film industry: anonymity. But who is the man behind the website? For all the power Porn Wikileaks wields, most porn stars suspect that the man in charge of it is someone they think very little of. His name, they say, is Donald Carlos Seoane, a.k.a. Donny Long, a washed-up former porn actor and director who, according to a separate website dedicated to exposing him, has had multiple run-ins with the law.

Reached by The Daily Beast via email, a person who admits to creating the website—but who denies that he's Donny Long—offered, in a rant characteristic of all his responses, a quixotic and nonsensical motive for the creation of Porn Wikileaks: "To get the gays out of straight porn and illegal gay pimps that have ruined porn and shut it down making condoms mandatory by the government now. The fag loving has got to stop. California is full of gay Mexicans and now they can even marry which is so wrong." As for the potential safety risk of giving out information like the home addresses of porn stars, the creator of Porn Wikileaks offers: "Do you consider it a safety risk to make other people in the real worlds [sic] addresses and information public like Abortion doctors, government workers, or attention whores working at Starbucks with their cleavage hanging out?"



These sorts of wildly racist and homophobic rants reflect the tone of Porn Wikileaks itself. For instance, a single generic sentence in the entry for porn star James Jamesson reads:
James Jamesson Real Name ********* is an HIV+ pornographic whore, and Hooker. Find out more about this persons life before porn by looking at the porn stars real name page ******* Born: *****
Contact email: *****
Twitter: http://twitter.com/*****
It is also known that James is the one that gave HIV to Cameron Reid and that's why James refuses to post a current blood test and claims to not do bareback now.
Topped and anally creampied HIV+ Derek Chambers aka Cameron Reed aka Derrick Burts and bragged afterwards. The video has since been removed from Youtube at Jamesson's request.
On twitter he threw a big fit tweeting everyone that he was going to have this site shut down and went on for days about how he got a lawyer and all this other junk. In the end he couldnt do anything but take his HIV meds.
(I will not leak his personal information!! - The Camera)

All of the porn stars on Porn Wikileaks are referred to as whores and Hookers.



It's worth noting that Donny Long's entry on Porn Wikileaks is more self-serving: "Donny Long is the last hetero man willing to stand up [sic] the Gay Mafia destroying porn. He is retired in the porn business in California because he sold his business but still tells the truth about the fag crossovers destroying straight porn as we know it."



The website has been known for months among a small group of adult-industry insiders and bloggers who choose not to give it attention or links. Among those who held off writing about the site was porn blogger Mike South, who earlier this week stepped forward and alleged that Porn Wikileaks got the names of the porn stars from a breach of the AIM database, the database used by the industry to track the HIV-test status of performers. (Performers in straight porn are required to be HIV tested every 28 days, and most of them are tested through AIM.)
According to South: "I've known about PornWikileaks for quite awhile. And I have had a lot of people pushing me to expose it. People have been exposing performer names forever. But when I had proof that the information came from AIM that got my attention." The number of names is also attention grabbing—AIM told NBC Los Angeles they are investigating the possible leak of 12,000 names from their database.



The person claiming to be behind Porn Wikileaks responded via email with some ambiguity to questions about whether the website had obtained the porn stars' information from the AIM database: "No medical records have been leaked yet that we have seen but people post anonymously on our site everyday." Meanwhile, a great deal more information may be landing on the website soon. "We have some even bigger leaks coming soon including 2257's and models releases of thousands of movies." 2257s are documents required by the government from anyone distributing a pornographic film to prove each performer is of legal age. Such releases would contain not only home addresses, but photocopies of two forms of identification—among those commonly used are a driver's license, social security card, or birth certificate.


Such sensitive information in the hands of a loose cannon is understandably unnerving to those it might affect. Whoever is posting it—whether that be Donny Long, as most in the porn world believe, or an anonymous hacker—has set the industry on edge.


But it's worth noting that in today's Internet age, the private information about adult performers is far more available than it used to be. Porn Wikileaks may be a new scourge of the industry, but it's really just a website aggregating much of what's already been made public by Google. Because of this, people like Monica Foster aren't sure they ever would have done porn had they known what the future would hold.


"I did not think any of this could happen when I entered porn," she says. "I have always been a supporter of the industry...But what some people are doing here with this site is really sick."

This Donny Long guy is a sick twisted fuck. To reveal the real names of anyone in the industry could potentially put them at risk of homophobic attacks and danger. Why would anyone do this?
Probably someone who has this kind of a record:
http://www.donnylongisaconvictedfelon.com/

CLEMENTI'S ROOMMATE INDICTED!!!

Dharun Ravi, who posted a video of Tyler Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man before Clementi jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge, has been indicted on 15 counts by the Middlesex County, N.J., prosecutor, including invasion of privacy and bias intimidation.

Ravi, 19, was Clementi's roommate at New Jersey's Rutgers University. Ravi is accused of spying on Clementi through a hidden webcam — he allegedly taped Clementi and the other man in September and then viewed it online. Clementi ended his life on September 21.

"The indictment against Dharun Ravi includes four bias intimidation charges, two of them second-degree charges that can bring up to 10 years in prison each. Other charges include tampering with evidence, attempted invasion of privacy, hindering apprehension and witness tampering," reports the Asbury Park Press.
Ravi was allegedly aided in the taping by Molly Wei, another 19-year-old former student at Rutgers — both she and Ravi withdrew after they were hit with charges involving Clementi's death. A case is advancing against Wei, the prosecutor's office told the Park Press.
Clementi's parents released a statement on Ravi's indictment: ''The indictment spells out cold and calculated acts against our son Tyler by his former college roommate. If these facts are true, as they appear to be, then it is important for our criminal justice system to establish clear accountability under the law. We are eager to have the process move forward for justice in this case and to reinforce the standards of acceptable conduct in our society.''

ARKANSAS STRIKES DOWN ADOPTION BAN!!!

The Arkansas supreme court ruled Thursday that a 2008 ballot initiative that barred gay and lesbian couples from adopting children was unconstitutional.
The court ruled that such a policy, while never enforced, would violate an adult's right to privacy in their bedroom, according to the Associated Press.
"Act 1 directly and substantially burdens the privacy rights of 'opposite-sex and same-sex individuals' who engage in private, consensual sexual conduct in the bedroom by foreclosing their eligibility to foster or adopt children," Associate Justice Robert L. Brown wrote. The court also wrote that imposing a categorical ban on anyone who was not in a heterosexual marriage from adopting or fostering children, would keep many children away from suitable, responsible homes.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the state over the ballot initiative, known as Act 1, on behalf of several parents, couples, and children who would be affected by the policy if it were enforced.
Rita Sklar, executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas, called the ruling a "relief for the over 1,600 children in the state of Arkansas who need a permanent family." She added, "This ban wouldn’t even allow a relative — gay or straight— to foster or adopt a child with whom they had a close relationship, so long as that relative was unmarried and living with a partner. The court clearly saw that this ban violated the constitutional rights of our clients and thousands of other Arkansans."
Wendy Rickman and her partner of 11 years, Stephanie Huffman, welcomed the news, as they had adopted a special needs foster child.
"We feel that the court thoroughly reviewed the facts of the case and ruled accordingly," Rickman said in a statement. "We look forward to the opportunity to go through the adoption process once more and to welcome another child into our family."
The ruling leaves Mississippi and Utah as the only two states that enforce adoption bans on unmarried couples, according to the Human Rights Campaign. The Virginia State Board of Social Services is also expected to decide whether to approve former governor Tim Kaine's proposed policy to prevent discrimination based on family status by child welfare agencies in the adoption process. Gov. Bob McDonnell has until April 16 to present his own suggestions to the board, but he has indicated that he opposes such regulations.

GEORGIA HOMELESS SHELTER BANS GAYS!!!

The director of a homeless shelter in Columbus, Ga., refuses to budge on his opposition to serving gay and lesbian people.

WRBL-TV reports that House of Mercy director Bobby Harris kicked out two women earlier this month for breaking curfew and smoking a cigarette, claiming that one of the women broke curfew to have a rendezvous with the other.

"That act is not tolerated here at all," Harris said. "Let me tell you one of the reasons why, because of the bible of course, and then we have little children that we won't have tolerate that kind of act here."
Following a media uproar, Harris tried to claim that he kicked the women out solely because of the curfew rule. Later, in another interview with WRBL-TV, he talked about his opposition to homosexuality.


According to The Bilerico Project, it appears that the House of Mercy receives government funding.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!

MINISTERS UPSET WITH BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN

A few ministers and local leaders are highly displeased with an ad campaign to fight homophobia in the black community. The billboards appear in the Schenectady-Albany, New York area and their simple message has caused an uproar. Daycare provider Pamela Spicer argues the posters overflow with “inappropriate sexual expression.”

Spicer’s day care clients range from ages 2 to 8; she’s convinced her charges will read the message, and force her to have conversations she would prefer not to.
“When I’m driving them to the Schenectady Public Library and they say, ‘What does gay mean?’ how do I answer that question,” Spicer asked her City Council.


Four people, with no kissing or a hand straying near any pleasure spot, is now sexual expression? Spicer needs to find another profession because she can’t connect words with their meaning.

Then there are a few men of God who want to protect their flocks from the gay stain.
“A thirteen-year-old looks at these billboards and says, ‘That must be it, I must be gay,’” said Rev. Alfred Thompkins of Calvary Tabernacle. “That goes directly against God’s purpose. As a resident of Schenectady, a pastor who works with young people, with families, frankly I’m really bothered by the message these send.”
For good measure Rev. Thompkins added that gays, thieves, and liars are one in the same.


The billboards are part of an HIV/AIDS prevention program sponsored by the New York State Department of Health and In Our Own Voices, a local advocacy organization.

It says much about the sexual immaturity of the community if these ads are a problem.