Raven-Symone Comes Out: Actress Thanks Government Now That She Can Get Married
Raven-Symone appears to have put a long-held rumors about her sexual orientation to rest when she tweeted that she can "finally get married" and thanked the government for it. This is according to sources telling HuffPost Gay Voices.
Of course, it's a safe assumption that the 27-year-old actress is referring to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn The Defense of Marriage Act back in June, which will allow same same-sex marriages to be recognized by the Federal government.
In the past, Symone has been much more private about her personal life. The last time the Internet lit up with rumors that she was gay was when she tweeted:
"My sexual orientation is mine, and the person I'm datings to know. I'm not one for a public display of my life”
This Denver Nugget has 2 Moms and Supports EQUALITY!
Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried appears in a video with his two mothers, who entered into a civil union in New Jersey in 2007, advocating the passage of a civil-unions law in Colorado.
"Nobody can ever tell me I can't have two mothers because I really do," Faried says in the YouTube clip, which was posted Friday.
Faried's two mothers, Carol and Waudda, have been together for 11 years. Waudda has lupus. In the video, they say civil-union protections have helped Carol care for her partner.
The video by One-Colorado.org is advocating for the passage of Colorado Senate Bill 11, which would allow gay couples to enter civil unions.
WATCH:
WATCH:
The bill has passed a Senate committee and is heading to appropriations.
Faried and his mothers were videotaped at One Colorado's Session Party, an event that kicked off the legislative session and celebrated the historic number of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legislators in office this year.
"I really do support civil unions because it gives people, gays and lesbians, the right to make decisions on their own," Faried says.
If passed, Colorado's civil-unions bill will provide committed gay and lesbian couples with legal protections and responsibilities, such as the ability to take family leave to care for a partner, to make medical and end-of-life decisions for a partner, to live together in a nursing home and to adopt children together.
Sessilee Lopez is RED HOT For "Dress To Kill" Magazine's LOVE Issue
Sessilee Lopez is already "dressed to kill" for Valentine's Day donning a few sexy pieces and ruby red lips for the "love" issue of online fashion magazine, Dress To Kill. And chick looks irritatingly gorgeous.
Outside of modeling, 23-year-old Sessilee's proving she more that just a pretty face on her popular food blog The Best by Sess where she recreates recipes she's discovered during her travels around the world.
We wonder who she's going to be cooking for on V Day?
Azealia Banks: “Rapping Isn’t Lady Like / I Don’t Want To Do It Anymore”
She may has risen to fame little more than a year ago, but Rapper Azealia Banks has revealed her plans to retire from….Rap????????
You read that right.
In a recent interview with ‘HYPERTRAK TV’, the ‘Runnin’ belle has opened up on why she feels the craft isn’t lady like, her thoughts on today’s batch of male MC’s and her distrust of the fashion industry- which she has billed ‘fickle’.
Watch below…
Sometimes its better to be quiet!
SERIOUSLY!?! Adam Lambert blasts Les Miserables saying it 'suffered massively' from 'pretend singers'
It is critically acclaimed, is pulling in the paying audience and is already heavily tipped for the Oscars.
But according to Adam Lambert, Les Miserables 'suffered massively' from the singing of its stars.
The 30-year-old American Idol alumni took to Twitter to give his verdict on the film, saying: 'the singing was so distracting.'
In a flurry of tweets he attacked the decision to cast the film based on acting rather than singing, and said 'with that cast, they should have studio recorded and sweetened the vocals.'
Tom Hooper’s stirring film version of the award-winning musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer features 'live performances' of all the songs, with the tracks not dubbed over.
Lambert wrote: 'Les Mis: Visually impressive w great Emotional performances. But the score suffered massively with great actors PRETENDING to be singers. It's an opera. Hollywoods movie musicals treat the singing as the last priority. (Dreamgirls was good).'
But he didn't criticise all the performances, noting: 'Anne Hathaway as Fantine and Enjolras were the exceptions for me. Helena B Carter and Sasha B Cohen were great too. Eponine's voice was cool too.'
Lambert said the singing was so bad it ruined the film for him.
'I felt like I should ignore the vocals and focus on the emotional subtext- but the singing was so distracting at times it pulled me out,' he said.
'The industry will say "these actors were so brave to attempt singing this score live"but why not cast actors who could actually sound good?'
It remains what the famously short tempered Russell Crowe, who serves as singer in his much ridiculed vanity bands 30 Odd Foot of Grunts and The Ordinary Fear of God, will make of Adam's critique.
But as his own fans lashed out, Lambert defended himself: 'Sorry for being so harsh but it's so True!
'I'm so glad we are all discussing this now! Look-I grew up w this musical and so my expectations are quite high. Didn't mean to b negative.'
And he later tweeted: 'One more clarification: DO go see it for Anne Hathaways performance. It's was breathtaking.'
Did anyone here his vocals at VH1 Divas???
That is all! THE NERVE!
The Game Spends $100K On 12 Rolexes For His Buddies
The Game's baggage handlers and weed carriers have no reason to ever be late. The Compton rapper dropped about $100K to buy Rolex watches for 12 of his buddies.
According to TMZ, Game paid $8,300 for each watch, bestowed on the chosen friend as a Christmas gift and as a token of his appreciation for holding him down. The timepieces have additional meaning since the "Hate It Or Love It" rapper has started calling his crew The Roley Boyz.
Also, we learned the Game banks at HSBC. Check out photos of Game and company's Rolexes, and Roley Boyz apparel,.
The Game and former Aftermath Records rapper Stat Quo recently started a record label together called Rolex Records (which now appears to be called Roley Records). "He was signed to Aftermath with me in the beginning," Game told Billboard of linking with Stat on the biz side. "Now we're business partners, which is cool because he was a good friend of mine and he's just as equally music smart so we'll see how it goes."
The Game recently released his fifth album, Jesus Piece. Although the record sold 86,000 units its first week and debuted in the top 10, it was the first of his albums not to land at either No. 1 or No. 2 its first week out.
Soulja Boy VS Reality Star Lil Scrappy over Diamond?
No need for season two of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta to air, Recently we caught a real life twitter beef, involving two Atlanta natives. If you watched last year’s season of the VH1 show, you are aware that rapper-turned-reality-star, Lil Scrappy was once in a romantic relationship with ATL rapper, Diamond. Rumor has it that Diamond broke-up with Scrappy and began a relationship with rapper Soulja Boy.
Fast forward to the present day and it appears that Scrappy and Soulja Boy were took to twitter and had a bit of a heated exchange, about Diamond. We can’t tell who started it, but Scrappy tweeted:
Soulja Boy responded:
And what was Diamond’s response? Besides RT’ing both parties (Scrappy and Soulja Boy) and throwing a few subliminal emoticons, Diamond remained pretty numb.
What do WE think? We recently interviewed Diamond and all seemed to be well between Soulja and Diamond. In fact, allegedly, both will be featured on season two of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’s season two, but it appears that perhaps these two (Soulja and Diamond) may be calling it quits in the near future.
More importantly, what do YOU think?
Did Bradley Cooper & Zoe Saldana get secretly engaged a few weeks ago?
The Enquirer is running with a story that says not only are Bradley and Zoe alive and well together, but they’ve also just become newly engaged. This, to quote Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles, is getting good:
The second time’s a charm for Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana — friends say the reunited couple are back on, better than ever and planning to tie the knot!
“Bradley is telling friends he’s not going to let Zoe slip away this time,” said a close source. “Having lost her once, Bradley is readly to seal the deal on the relationship.
The couple first met on the set of the romantic drama The Words after 37-year-old Bradley’s high-profile romances with Renee Zellweger, Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Aniston fizzled. They dated for three months before parting ways in March 2012. But by September, the two had reunited, and Bradley proposed to Zoe, 34, a few weeks ago — and she said yes! Bradley’s now telling pals he’s hoping the wedding bells will ring in late spring or early summer in his hometown of Philadelphia.
Though the Enquirer reported in May 2012 that Bradley’s mom was wrecking her son’s love life with her medding, the source says she’s stopped butting in — and started helping. It turns out she’s the one who actually convinced Bradley to propose! “Gloria world overtime to make it clear to Zoe that Bradley is a changed man and ready to commit,” maintained the source.
“Gloria has been pestering Bradley that she’s desperate to be a grandmother. Zoe won major brownie points with Gloria when she promised that she’d start trying to get pregnant just as soon as Bradley proposed. That set the wheels in motion.”
Playing cupid isn’t the extent of Gloria’s involvement — Bradley’s been so busy lately he also sent her out shopping for the engagement ring, say sources.
“Now Gloria and Zoe are bonding over planning the ceremony,” added the source. “Zoe can’t wait to be Bradley’s bride.”
Of course, we are free to question the motivations at hand with Bradley’s camp allegedly leaking this engagement story. Although I do laugh at the idea of his past “romances” with Jennifer Lopez (they went on one date together ) and Jennifer Aniston (she she allegedly pursued him) being a relevant part of this tale, but whatever. Is this a genuine romance and a case of true love forever, or is Bradley merely campaigning for the Best Lead Actor Oscar in his own special way?
VIDEO VIXENS Suing Tyga For Exposing Their NIPPLES
Earlier this month, Tyga released his "Make It Nasty" video. Now, three of the scantily clad video vixens in the clip are suing the rapper for breach of contract.
In a lawsuit filed by Alissa Rae Ross, Azia Davis and Elizabeth Velasquez, the trio "agreed" to appear topless during the filming of the video after they were assured that their nipples would be covered and the video would be tastefully shot. Or as least as tasteful as a "nasty" video from a strip club anthem rapper could be.
Things were fine (the edited video was a hit)...until Tyga decided to post the unedited version on his Twitter account where the ladies' nipples were fully exposed. They are now suing the rapper for breach of contract, invasion of privacy, as well as fraud. The video is below:
What's with video chicks and strippers suing for ish in their job descriptions? You're a video chick in a NASTY video....and you're shocked and outraged it wasn't "tastefully shot"? Why not wear pasties if you were so concerned about your nipples being shown and ruining your 'classy' image? I mean, we all know that bouncing your exposed ass and coochie crack on men and other women while wearing damn near nothing is ONLY distasteful if your nipples are shown.
Sounds just like the chick (who may or may not be a stripper) suing Trey Songz because he threw money at her in a strip club. But we digress
‘Channel Orange’: Frank Ocean Named LGBT Hero Of The Year
Back in July, before the release of his ‘Channel Orange‘, Frank Ocean set the world alight when he opened up on a romantic experience he had shared with another man, and the heartbreak it had caused him.
Sharing the story in an open letter penned months before the album’s arrival, he soon found himself belabored with ‘labels’, despite the fact he did not ‘label’ himself.
Now, in honor of his bravery and the impact his honesty has had on Pop culture, he has now been named ‘LGBT Hero Of The Year’, alongside US President Barack Obama.
The Examiner explains:
“Today, CNN called Barack Obama and Frank Ocean the LGBT heroes of 2012.
Overall, it was a year when civil rights for gays and lesbians took on many new strides. With gay marriage being legalized everywhere and even our own president changing his position on gay rights, 2012 will be a year to remember. Let’s take a look at the three most important figures in LGBT rights this year.
Barack Obama
In 2011, many gay people were against Barack Obama. He seemed to be defending every type of minority, except gays and lesbians. However, last May, Obama finally conceded to the Land of Dorothy and proclaimed he was for gay marriage. Conservatives knocked him and said this move would cost him the election in November. Not only did Obama win the election, but he won it by an electoral landslide.
Frank Ocean
Traditionally, hip-hop music has been homophobic. Ten years ago, nobody thought that hip-hop’s hottest act, Frank Ocean, would openly admit that he is gay. Some people condemned Ocean’s decision to come out of the closet, but most people embraced his decision. To make matters better, Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange is up for 6 Grammy awards.”
Royce Reed Comes for Evelyn and Shaunie
Former Basketball Wives Miami star Royce Reed has had it up to here with Evelyn Lozada bringing her up in interviews and says Shaunie O'Neal did NOT create the Basketball Wives franchise. READ BELOW
Well we’re awaiting Shaunie’s response!
Trina Braxton Files for Separation
Last year Trina Braxton's husband Gabe got caught having cyber sex and spilling Braxton family secrets to an online jump-off and Trina has just gotten around to filing for a separation...
From TMZ
Trina recently filed for legal separation and in the docs, she's asking a judge to order Gabe to pony up an unspecified amount of money.
Interestingly, Trina says there is currently no plan for the couple to divorce and she'd actually like to work things out.
Gabe has yet to respond to the petition.
AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
‘PUT ON A HAPPY FACE’
Literally the only smile the back of your head will ever see.
Same-sex couples in Maryland were greeted with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year's Eve parties, as gay marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line on New Year's Day.
James Scales, 68, was married to William Tasker, 60, on Tuesday shortly after midnight by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake inside City Hall.
"It's just so hard to believe it's happening," Scales said shortly before marrying his partner of 35 years.
Six other same-sex couples also were being married at City Hall. Ceremonies were taking place in other parts of the state as well.
The ceremonies follow a legislative fight that pitted Gov. Martin O'Malley against leaders of his Catholic faith. Voters in the state, founded by Catholics in the 17th century, sealed the change by approving a November ballot question.
"There is no human institution more sacred than that of the one that you are about to form," Rawlings-Blake said during the brief ceremony. "True marriage, true marriage, is the dearest of all earthly relationships."
Brigitte Ronnett, who also was married, said she hopes one day to see full federal recognition of same-sex marriage. Maryland, Maine and Washington state were the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, in November, a development Ronnett said was significant.
"I think it's a great sign when you see that popular opinion is now in favor of this," said Ronnett, 51, who married Lisa Walther, 51, at City Hall.
Same-sex couples in Maryland have been able to get marriage licenses since Dec. 6, but they did not take effect until Tuesday.
In 2011, same-sex marriage legislation passed in the state Senate but stalled in the House of Delegates. O'Malley hadn't made the issue a key part of his 2011 legislative agenda, but indicated that summer that he was considering backing a measure similar to New York's law, which includes exemptions for religious organizations.
Shortly after, Archbishop Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore wrote to O'Malley that same-sex marriage went against the governor's faith.
"As advocates for the truths we are compelled to uphold, we speak with equal intensity and urgency in opposition to your promoting a goal that so deeply conflicts with your faith, not to mention the best interests of our society," wrote O'Brien, who served as archbishop of the nation's first diocese from October 2007 to August 2011.
The governor was not persuaded. He held a news conference in July 2011 to announce that he would make same-sex marriage a priority in the 2012 legislative session. He wrote back to the archbishop that "when shortcomings in our laws bring about a result that is unjust, I have a public obligation to try to change that injustice."
The measure, with exemptions for religious organizations that choose not to marry gay couples, passed the House of Delegates in February in a close vote. O'Malley signed it in March. Opponents then gathered enough signatures to put the bill to a statewide vote, and it passed with 52 percent in favor.
In total, nine states and the District of Columbia have approved same-sex marriage. The other states are Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont.
GO MARYLANDERS….AND WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
