Politics

Hey everyone, Wednesday Hottie is going to be posted this week, just not yet.

I just finished reading one of my fave lesbo blogs, Dorothy Surrenders, and felt like her post today on Prop. 8 in California, which would overturn same-sex marriages in California (so everyone who loves Ellen and Portia will no longer have the wonderful married couple to look up to), was just amazing. I couldn't put it any better myself, so instead, I'm just linking you all to her.

Please, go read and watch the videos. Also, you should check her blog out every day.

Stop the hate, say NO to Prop. 8

Wednesday Hottie

Looks like I'll just get this one in on time. Woot!

This week's Wednesday Hottie is a little different than others. Instead of a single person, I'm celebrating a group of people ... Women with Red Hair.

I don't know what it is about a woman with red hair, but my heart always skips a beat when I see one. I think it's because red hair is so rare compared to all the other colors possible.

Dina Meyer

Hayley Williams

Kate Walsh

Emily Blunt

Drew Barrymore

Alyson Hannigan

Kate Winslet

Gillian Anderson

Marg Helgenberger

Kari Byron

Did I miss any hot redheads? Who's your favorite?

I Kissed a Girl

I've mentioned this song before. I absolutely HATE Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl. The lyrics are not gay friendly, they are actually anti-gay.

Okay, now that I am done with that, I LOVED Lance Bass's routine on Dancing with the Stars last night. The fact that they used I Kissed a Girl for a Lance routine was PERFECT and HILARIOUS! The end was the best ever. I mean, really, in the context of a gay man dancing with a woman, the song is PERFECT! Lance kissing his female dance partner than pulling out a thing of cherry chapstick. I officially love Lance.

For you losers, here's the dance:



In other gay news, apparently Miley Cyrus has decided to hold her Sweet 16 party at Disneyland on the same day as the annual Gay Day celebration. She's kicking everyone out on the one day LGBTQ people can go to Disneyland and be open about who they are with and show some PDA. I use to like Miley (at least the show Hannah Montana is funny int he little kid funny way), but this kinda pisses me of.

Don't Ever Order from This Company

Hey everyone. Today's post is a pure rant. I try to make all my posts be at least kind of interesting to everyone. I'm sorry, but I am PISSED.

So, Uh Huh Her, Leisha Hailey's new band, had a CD come out back in August. I knew that I would want to buy it, so I pre-ordered the CD back in March.

I have yet to receive my CD.

I ordered the CD from Nettwerk. I had never heard of this company before, but I followed a link provided to me by some UHH website. I will NEVER do business with them EVER again. First, they are based in Canada so I can't really call them and complain, would cost way too much money, but that's okay, I can e-mail them. At first, they were really good about responding quickly. That did not last though. I sent an e-mail earlier this month, and never got a response. So, the other day, I wrote a very angry e-mail. That got a response. Of course, what the person responding wrote, is EXACTLY what I have told them several times. They refuse to believe me or call the United States Postal Service to confirm what I am saying. I understand them not believing me. I wouldn't either if I were in their shoes, but I would try to confirm what my customer was saying.

I know I am not the only person who ordered their CD from Nettwerk and not receive it.

Anyway, I responded to the latest e-mail today. If I do not like the response I get, I will be asking for the e-mail of someone higher than the person I am currently dealing with. If that person refuses to help me, I will be filing a complaint through the Better Business Bureau.

I really wish this wasn't happening, because although I know it is not the fault of UHH or anyone involved with them, it is kind of turning me away from them. Leisha Hailey is awesome. I haven't heard many bad stories about her at all. Cam seems cool too. I know it is not their fault, but can you really blame me? A website associated with them pointed me toward Nettwerk and I've had nothing but problems.

Again, I apologize to you all for this rant, but I needed to get it out.

Wednesday Hottie

I really need to get better at posting this for you all. I apologize for skipping last week. Anyway, this week's hottie is Olivia Wilde.

Born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. by journalist parents, Olivia graduated from Phillips Academy, where she studied acting. She did everything while in school. She starred in, directed and produced over two dozen school productions. Damn, I wish I was that talented. I can barely keep a blog updated while in school. During her summers, Olivia traveled abroad to places such as Ireland, where she studied at the renowned Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin (she actually has dual citizenship between Ireland and the United States). Upon graduation from Phillips, she moved to L.A. and, while working at a casting agency, landed a small role in the feature "The Girl Next Door." Olivia decided to pursue acting full-time and was soon cast as the female lead in "Skin."

Unfortunately, "Skin" was canceled after only 3 episodes. There were 5 more episdes that never aired. I had never even heard of this show before researching for this blog. Fortunately for us fans, Olivia temporarily moved onto another, more successful, Fox show and portrayed the very sexy wild child Alex Kelly on "The O.C." for 13 episodes. She was the amazingly hot biseuxal who started out dating Seth Cohen and then dated Marissa Cooper for a couple episodes.

She also filmed three new feature films in 2005: "Alpha Dog," "Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas," and "Conversations with Other Women."

Olivia is probably now most known for her role as Remy "13" Hadley, one of Dr. House's new team members. She joined the cast during the fourth season after House's original team quit (Cameron and Foreman) or were fired (Chase). There have been several allusions to 13's sexuality. House has speculated that she is either gay or bisexual. Previews for the current season have shown scenes that allude even more to 13 not being straight.

In addition to her acting work, Olivia is also a team member of the Los Angeles Filmmaker's Cooperative. She serves as the editor in chief of LAFCO NEWS, and as a chair member of the education department. She was the project manager for the LAFCO production of The Lysistrata Project, the first-ever theatrical event for peace held in hundreds of cities world wide. Olivia is now in the midst of planning the first annual LAFCO Future Filmmakers Festival made up entirely of work produced by people between the ages of 6 and 18.

Her dog, Paco, was the mascot for Old Navy in 2006. Olivia is an avid supporter of Barack Obama, and campaigned for him during early primaries with House co-star Kal Penn. She is also a supporter of the youth voter organization, 18 in '08. She serves on their Advisory Council and appeared in a PSA that debuted June 30, 2008.

Sorry for the small amount of information. There doesn't seem to be much information on Miss Olivia Wilde. She seems as mysterious as her character 13.

Dancing Gays

So last night a new season of Dancing with the Stars commenced. I have to say, while I don't rush to the tv when this comes on, if I remember its on, I watch it. I've always liked watching DwtS since Drew Lachey (the Thriller dance? AWESOME) won with Cheryl Burke (who use to be really hot, but now not so much). I watched when Joey Fatone of NSync fame made it all the way to the top two to lose to some short ice skating (yes I know he's a speedy skater which is a little more manly than just ice skating, but I'm making fun of him here). I wish I had watched Mel B, I would have loved to see the rest of the Spice Girls cheering her on. I unfortunately had a night class when Marlee Matlin was on, but I voted for her every night, even if I didn't get to watch the show.

This season, there's a couple reasons why I am watching:

Lance Bass (NSync): Another former boy bander on the cast? Another NSyncer on the cast? I probably would have preferred JC to Lance, but at least this season has a true gay cast member (Marlee was awesome cause she was on the L Word). I was not expecting much from Lance. I always thought he was the worse dancer, worse than Joey (who was not all that great back in the day). Anyway, Lance actually looked pretty good, better than he ever did with NSync. Best Part: Lance actually had two awesome parts, first, when his dance partner mentioned she use to think her and him would marry, "Guess not anymore." and secondly, Lance's "I learned to never listen to Joey." (I may have gotten those quotations a little wrong, but I will try to find the true quotations as soon as possible).


Misty May (whatever her married name is): Misty May's costume is probably the most clothes a lot of her fans have seen her in, and thats saying something considering how skimpy all the women's costumes are (except the old lady, but I'll get back to her). Misty's dance partner is the returning Maksim. I have to say, Maks is the only guy on the professional dancer side that I think is even slightly attractive.


Cloris Leachman: Cloris is the oldest member of the cast. And she's pretty awesome. She sat in the female judge's lap AFTER putting one leg up on the table and having the flamboyant judge kiss it.

Other Gay News:
Clay Aiken is GAY ... um, nah really?

Clueless People

So, I'm in a LGBT Families class. What we discuss is pretty obvious from the title. I think it should be a class that requires at least one other LGBT class as a prerequsite. There are some people (most people) in there, that have no clue about current LGBTQ issues (and for those who don't know, the Q stands for Queer).

"Homosexual"
I really don't like this word. There are so many things wrong with it. For one, its totally old school. No one in the LGBT community uses the word anymore. It has such a bad history. Homosexuality use to be a disease and thats when the term homosexuality first came about, when it was actually put in the big book of diseases. Homosexuality signifies there is something to cure. Whenever you read an article about gay rights, you can always tell what way the publication leans by whether they say gay rights or homosexual rights.

A group of my classmates were giving a presentation today. There were four people, three of them used homosexual every time they were talking about someone who was gay. I couldn't help but cringe every single time I heard them utter that word.

"Sexual Orientation" vs "Sexual Preference"
I don't think that even my professor realizes the differences between these two phrases. She mentioned them today, but did not explain. The biggest difference is kind of like the example I mentioned about with homosexuality. People who use orientation, usually believe that being gay is NOT a choice, that you are born gay. People who use preference, are the ones who believe being gay is a choice.

There was one girl who tried to say if a person was transexual, they were attracted to people who are transgendered. Really? Are you that dense? Transexual means kind of the same thing as transgendered, just it usually refers to epople who have or are planning to have SRS (Sex reassignment surgery).

Politically Correct
There are a lot of people in my class who don't understand that the terminology has changed over the years. It is no longer correct to call someone a hermaphrodite, they are intersexed. I actually had someone ask me what intersex meant. You learn this in Introduction to LGBT Studies. That class should definitely be a prereq to this class.

Some Good Notes
So, a few good things did happen in class. Obviously the above bad things were corrected, so people were educated. Also, some new terms were brought up that I know none of these people had heard before, but aren't commonly used anyway. Pansexual was mentioned (being attracted to any and all people), as well androgynous. Both terms needed to be explained, but at least these poeple who are completely clueless, learned something new. Also, because of the reading, people learned why there is sch a stigma on AIDS/HIV. There were a couple people who freely admitted that they had not known AIDS use to be called GRIDS (gay-related immune deficiency syndrome).

I would like to say, that not knowing any of these things is not a totally bad thing. What I am saying is, if you are going to take a LGBT studies class, especially an advanced class that is a 400 level, than you should do a little research and get some background information on the subject. You know, maybe just learn a few key phrases, especially things that you should NOT say.

The Horribleness

First, I purposely did not post anything until after the SIDS walk because I wanted my post about SIDS to be the very first thing you saw.

After that though, well, was just me being lazy and a bad blogger, but I had some personal stuff that I had to take care of this week, but I just got back from the last thing and so I now have a little more time, and am not stressing out over anything other than homework.

I'll try to get a bunch of posts up this weekend. Then hopefully I will be able to get into the swing of updating on a regular basis.