Singer and Oscar winning actress Jennifer Hudson hopped across the pond this week to promote her new album and single, “I Remember Me.” Looking fresh and relaxed, the newly transformed singer and Weight Watchers spokeswoman made several appearances on TV and changed outfits faster and more often than Superman and Diana Ross combined. “I […]
Playboy empire founder and cool octogenarian Hugh Hefner‘s legacy was nearly tarnished when guests of the aging polyamorist started complaining about illnesses after leaving his storied mansion in Los Angeles. Turns out the the mystery illness was bacteria related. According to Los Angeles County health officials, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease was found in […]
(via Josh Healey) For most of the last decade, I lived in the crazy, cold, contradictory state that is Wisconsin. I wrote research papers in Madison, performed poems in Milwaukee, walked picket lines in Jefferson, organized student conferences in Eau Claire, led artistic workshops in Green Bay, spoke at my roommate’s wedding in Merrill, and […]
Meat is Murder by Elaine Carter In this past weeks episode of Running Russell Simmons his Executive Assistant, Simone Reyes who is an animal activist, joined a PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals) protest. She packaged herself in blood to represent how animal flesh is displayed in trays in […]
President Obama joined the It Gets better Project in support of gay teenagers on Thursday initiative launched by writer Dan Savage. Obama says that he was ‘shocked and saddened’ by a string of gay teenagers who have committed suicide in recent weeks. ‘We’ve got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of […]
Lt. Dan Choi, the openly gay Iraq War veteran booted from the New York Army National Guard after he came out enlisted in the regular Army yesterday, taking advantage of the overturning of the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy. Dan Choi, 29, a 2003 West Point grad formally discharged from the National Guard in July, walked […]
President Obama and his administration was ordered to stop DADT discharges immediately. On the side of progress we are sure President Obama will comply with the Judges orders and not pander to the right. President Obama said in his Rolling Stone interview that he plans on ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’. This is one the monumental moments […]
New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino spoke on gay rights to a group of orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn today, promising to veto marriage equality legislation and touting the fact that he didn’t march in this year’s gay pride parade. Palidino told the group; I didn’t march in the gay parade parade this year […]
Members of a street gang who discovered one of their teenage recruits was gay brutally beat and tortured him and two other people in gruesome assaults, police said. The attack came amid heightened attention nationwide to anti-gay bullying after a string of suicides attributed to it last month. Seven of the suspects in the attacks […]
Lt. Colonel Mayele, rebel commander of the Mai Mai “Cheka” militia was arrested by Congolese forces and the UN for the alleged mass rape of over 300 villagers in Waikale, eastern Congo. The rape is said to have happened in three parts which were carefully orchestrated leaving innocent villagers tortured by such bestiality. Mayele is […]
The recent tragic death ofTyler Clementi touches upon many unresolved issues today. The Rutgers student, a victim of anti-gay bullying committed suicide surprising the public despite the cry for help that he had posted on his Facebook which most of his classmates overlooked. In light of the Tyler Clementi’s death, many public figures have […]
Hello GlobalGrind: It’s @Lala I’m deeply saddened by the news of the three suicides that happened – just this week! So far, there has been three young men – who have ended their lives, and felt that they didn’t have the will to live on. Why? Because they felt like they could not be […]
