HEAPS GAY. MUCH NEWS. MANY SUMMARY.
By Samuel Leighton-Dore
Heaps Gay Golden Globes round-up
Tonys aside, there’s no award show on Earth gayer than The Golden Globes – and this year proved no exception. From Channing Tatum’s confusing new emo fringe, a herd of fabulous and frightening frocks, right through to Ricky Gervais’ hilarious stab at Caitlyn Jenner. There was loads of laughter, controversy and glitter.
True to his raucous reputation, Ricky Gervais got tongues wagging right off the bat at the expense of one Caitlyn Jener, stating: “What a year she’d had. She became a role model for trans people everywhere showing great bravery in breaking down barriers and destroying stereotypes – she didn’t do a lot for women drivers.”
Of course, Gervais was referring to Jenner’s involvement last year in a Malibu car accident which left one woman dead. Ouch.
Oh, and did we mention Lady Gaga is now an award-winning actress? The pop princess beat outstiff competition to win (at Leo DiCaprio’s clear bemusement) Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television for her role in American Horror Story: Hotel. Don’t you just love that we live in a world where that’s possible?
God bless the Hollywood Foreign Press.
Gay angst in the Anglican Church
The international leaders of the Anglican Church will tomorrow congregate in Canterbury, UK, with the goal of settling ongoing feuds and avoiding longterm animosity within the church. First on the agenda: the Church’s bitter division over the “issue” of homosexuality.
Sounds like a fucking party.
In preparation, more than 100 senior Church of England liberals today supported an open letter to Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, encouraging him to get behind reforms aimed at stopping the “vilification” of gay Christians. This comes after The Mail last week reported that conservative leaders from Africa and Asia were threatening to walk unless liberal British and American clerics abandoned their support for gay marriage and openly gay bishops.
On the subject, Dean of Ison said: “I believe that it’s imperative for us to remember that while we seek to engage honestly, lovingly and respectfully with our differences of context and scriptural interpretation, our discussions are actually about the lives of sisters and brothers who have often been rejected and victimised on the grounds of their sexuality.”
“The Church should be the first place that they feel they can come to, to find love and acceptance rather than judgment.”
Hallelujah.
Alabama proves hot and cold on same-sex marriage Despite Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore this week taking unprecedented steps to ban same-sex marriage in Alabama, officials in Alabama’s Mobile County have claimed marriage license operations resumed on Friday. Again – halle-fucking-lujah!
Mobile County Probate Court Chief Clerk Joe McEarchern Jr. (how could that possibly fit on a business card?) said the county’s marriage license window reopened Friday morning “based on further review of what the law is.”
Magda Szubanski “prayed to be straight”
Ahead of releasing her much-anticipated memoir, Reckoning, Magda Szubanksi has revealed to Marie Claire magazine that she always knew she was gay – but prayed to be straight. She described struggling with the “hostile” culture of the 70’s, when “being gay was conflated with being a paedophile.”
“It was 1972, 1973 and it was terrifying. The world was so hostile to gay people back then,” said the 53-year-old star/on-again-off-again Jenny Craig spokeswoman.
Adding that she came to terms with her sexuality after years of therapy, Szubanski says “I wouldn’t wish to be straight now.”
Onya Sharon.
