Thursday, May 31, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
American Idol - Phillip Phillips
Phillip Phillips: Memorable Audition American Idol Season 11 2012
Elise & Phillip Phillips: Somebody That I Used to Know - Top 7 American Idol Season 11 2012
Group Song: Raise Your Glass - Top 7 Results American Idol Season 11 2012
Phillip Phillips: Time Of The Season - Top 5 American Idol Season 11 2012
Joshua & Phillip Phillips: This Love - Top 4 American Idol Season 11 2012
Phillip Phillips: Beggin' - Top 3 American Idol Season 11 2012
Phillip Phillips: Home - Top 2 American Idol Season 11 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Sugar-Baby Bridge Author Brett Edward Stout Will Give You The Shirt Off His Back
Sugar-Baby BridgeThe world is confusing and cruel when the life you know moves on and leaves you behind. Being a Marine is what has defined Brad for the last four years. With his tour of duty over he meets Ron, a wealthy older man. Things change when Ron asks Brad not to return now but instead, take a trip across California with him. On the way Brad realizes he may be crossing a bridge that could redefine his life.
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Sugar-Baby Bridge Author Brett Edward Stout Will Give You The Shirt Off His Back
The publishing world has hit hard times. So hard, apparently, that Brett Edward Stout, author of Sugar-Baby Bridge can’t afford shirts anymore.
But seriously, Stout, a former linguist with the Marines and creator of the Gay Marines Facebook page, tells Queerty he realized the best way to get the word out about the book was “to pander a little and post a shirtless picture. ” And hey, it worked. (What? Men are just more visually oriented is all.)
Below a sadly shirted Stout talks a little about Sugar-Baby Bridge and invites questions.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Brandon Morgan from the Gay Marine Homecoming Photo Interviewed by Brett Edward Stout
Gay Marines creator Brett Edward Stout sits down to talk to Brandon Morgan from the infamous Gay Marine Homecoming Photo. Brandon talks about joining the Corps, life after the photo, and his invitation to the White House.
Harvey Milk Day - May 22
Harvey Milk Day is organized by the Harvey Milk Foundation and celebrated globally each year held May 22 in memory of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist assassinated in 1978.
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk served almost 11 months in office and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back.
Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community. In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States".
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Black Silicone Pride Bracelet – Gay & Lesbian LGBT Pride Wristlet Written In Rainbow Text
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Classic Comic Strip Features Gay Teen Story
Batiuk's comic has featured story lines on other serious topics such as teen pregnancy, suicide, cancer, alcoholism and other issues, according to the Huffington Post. But Batiuk was compelled to write about gay teenagers after sitting in on classes at his old high school.
"...I see how the younger generation's attitude toward gays is more open and accepting than that of their predecessors. It shows promise that this emerging generation will one day bring this cultural war to an end," he said.
Could It Be Green Arrow? Batman?
Maybe Wonder Woman escaped "conversion therapy" or Robin is bisexual — officials at DC Comics told the media this weekend that they intend to change the orientation of one of their iconic characters.
The DC Comics representatives made the statement at a comic conference in London. They said they will soon reintroduce one of their best known characters as LGBT. The folks at DC were prompted to make a change after President Obama's historic endorsement of same-sex marriage earlier this month.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Empire Strikes Back Teaser Trailer 2
This was the second trailer for "The Empire Strikes Back" which was seen in the fall of 1979. Featuring the music of Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons.
Happy Anniversary The Empire Strikes Back
Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the release of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Release Date: 21 May 1980
"Ring Of Fire" Solar Eclipse - May 20, 2012
The sun and moon aligned over the Earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday - an annular eclipse that dimmed the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire.
This weekend, a "time traveling" solar eclipse will turn the familiar disk of the sun into a ring of fire for sky-watchers in parts of Asia and the U.S. West.
Known as an annular eclipse, the event is the first of its kind to be visible from the mainland United States since 1994. The region won't see another such eclipse until 2023.
Like a total solar eclipse, an annular eclipse happens when the moon lines up between Earth and the sun. But in this case, the dark moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the visible disk of the sun, leaving a ring—or annulus—of fiery light around the edges.
During such an eclipse, "the path of annularity, where the full eclipse will be visible, is hundreds of miles wide and thousands of miles long," said eclipse expert Jay Pasachoff, the Field Memorial Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts.
In this path, "viewers looking through special solar filters can see a ring of sunlight around the black silhouette of the moon," said Pasachoff, who is also a National Geographic Society grantee. (National Geographic News is a division of the Society.)
The annular eclipse starts in China at local sunrise on May 21. The path of the moon's shadow then goes over Japan around 7:35 a.m., local time, and races across the Pacific Ocean.
Due to the time zone change, the eclipse makes landfall again in North America in the late afternoon of May 20, starting at the California-Oregon border at 6:26 p.m. PT.
The annular eclipse then crosses southern Nevada, southern Utah, the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, the lower-left corner of Colorado, and most of New Mexico before ending in the area of Lubbock, Texas, around sunset at 8:36 p.m. CT.
For most viewers in the path of annularity, the eclipse will last for a just over four and half minutes.
Active Sun to Add Beauty to Eclipse
Some picturesque wilderness areas—including several U.S. national parks—will be in the 190-mile-wide (300-kilometer-wide) path of the full annular eclipse.
Viewers in a broader track stretching for thousands of miles across northeastern Asia and the western two-thirds of the U.S. and Canada will instead see a striking partial eclipse.
"Unlike a total eclipse, in which the sun is entirely covered and the sky therefore gets dark, it never gets dark during an annular eclipse like this one," Pasachoff said.
"So the only loss in view from being off to the side of the zone of totality is that you won't see a complete ring and things won't appear symmetric, but you'll still be able to see a partial eclipse of the sun."
The best chances for clear skies during the event will be in states such as Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, added Anthony Cook, an astronomer at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
"But most of the path in the Western U.S. has better than even odds of clear enough weather to observe the eclipse," he said.
Cook also predicts some added beauty with this eclipse, since it occurs close to the expected maximum of the current solar cycle in early 2013.
"We can expect interesting moments when sunspots of various sizes will be covered by the advancing limb of the moon, then later uncovered as the moon retreats from the sun's face," he said.
To view the eclipse safely, astronomers recommend using either a professionally manufactured solar filter in front of a telescope or camera, or using eclipse viewing glasses that sufficiently reduce the sun's brightness and filter out damaging ultraviolet and infrared radiation.
But probably the safest and easiest way to take in the eclipse is to use the pinhole projection method, Williams College's Pasachoff said.
"Punch a one-eighth to one-quarter-inch hole in a piece of cardboard and use it to create a projection of the partial or annular phases on a wall a few feet away," he said.
Eclipse as a Science Tool
The Griffith Observatory's Cook says scientists will probably also be making use of this weekend's annular eclipse.
"Radio telescopes close to the path of annularity will make observations as the moon passes over sunspots and other sources of radio disturbances on the sun," he said.
Sunspots are linked to eruptions of intense electromagnetic radiation called solar flares, which can cause disturbances to radio communications on Earth and also hinder radio astronomers' views of the universe. (Find out more about solar storms in National Geographic magazine.)
"Also," Cook said, "precise timing of the onset of annularity can provide data on possible changes in the diameter of the sun when compared with historical measurements."
This weekend, a "time traveling" solar eclipse will turn the familiar disk of the sun into a ring of fire for sky-watchers in parts of Asia and the U.S. West.
Known as an annular eclipse, the event is the first of its kind to be visible from the mainland United States since 1994. The region won't see another such eclipse until 2023.
Like a total solar eclipse, an annular eclipse happens when the moon lines up between Earth and the sun. But in this case, the dark moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the visible disk of the sun, leaving a ring—or annulus—of fiery light around the edges.
During such an eclipse, "the path of annularity, where the full eclipse will be visible, is hundreds of miles wide and thousands of miles long," said eclipse expert Jay Pasachoff, the Field Memorial Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts.
In this path, "viewers looking through special solar filters can see a ring of sunlight around the black silhouette of the moon," said Pasachoff, who is also a National Geographic Society grantee. (National Geographic News is a division of the Society.)
The annular eclipse starts in China at local sunrise on May 21. The path of the moon's shadow then goes over Japan around 7:35 a.m., local time, and races across the Pacific Ocean.
Due to the time zone change, the eclipse makes landfall again in North America in the late afternoon of May 20, starting at the California-Oregon border at 6:26 p.m. PT.
The annular eclipse then crosses southern Nevada, southern Utah, the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, the lower-left corner of Colorado, and most of New Mexico before ending in the area of Lubbock, Texas, around sunset at 8:36 p.m. CT.
For most viewers in the path of annularity, the eclipse will last for a just over four and half minutes.
Active Sun to Add Beauty to Eclipse
Some picturesque wilderness areas—including several U.S. national parks—will be in the 190-mile-wide (300-kilometer-wide) path of the full annular eclipse.
Viewers in a broader track stretching for thousands of miles across northeastern Asia and the western two-thirds of the U.S. and Canada will instead see a striking partial eclipse.
"Unlike a total eclipse, in which the sun is entirely covered and the sky therefore gets dark, it never gets dark during an annular eclipse like this one," Pasachoff said.
"So the only loss in view from being off to the side of the zone of totality is that you won't see a complete ring and things won't appear symmetric, but you'll still be able to see a partial eclipse of the sun."
The best chances for clear skies during the event will be in states such as Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, added Anthony Cook, an astronomer at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
"But most of the path in the Western U.S. has better than even odds of clear enough weather to observe the eclipse," he said.
Cook also predicts some added beauty with this eclipse, since it occurs close to the expected maximum of the current solar cycle in early 2013.
"We can expect interesting moments when sunspots of various sizes will be covered by the advancing limb of the moon, then later uncovered as the moon retreats from the sun's face," he said.
To view the eclipse safely, astronomers recommend using either a professionally manufactured solar filter in front of a telescope or camera, or using eclipse viewing glasses that sufficiently reduce the sun's brightness and filter out damaging ultraviolet and infrared radiation.
But probably the safest and easiest way to take in the eclipse is to use the pinhole projection method, Williams College's Pasachoff said.
"Punch a one-eighth to one-quarter-inch hole in a piece of cardboard and use it to create a projection of the partial or annular phases on a wall a few feet away," he said.
Eclipse as a Science Tool
The Griffith Observatory's Cook says scientists will probably also be making use of this weekend's annular eclipse.
"Radio telescopes close to the path of annularity will make observations as the moon passes over sunspots and other sources of radio disturbances on the sun," he said.
Sunspots are linked to eruptions of intense electromagnetic radiation called solar flares, which can cause disturbances to radio communications on Earth and also hinder radio astronomers' views of the universe. (Find out more about solar storms in National Geographic magazine.)
"Also," Cook said, "precise timing of the onset of annularity can provide data on possible changes in the diameter of the sun when compared with historical measurements."
"Ring Of Fire" Annular Solar Eclipse - May 20, 2012
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Born This Way – Pride LGBT Gay & Lesbian 3 x 5 Polyester Flag
This is a 3 x 5 Foot Polyester Flag. The seams are double stitched for durability.
The hang band is reinforced and contains 2 brass grommets for hanging!
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Mr. Roys Cosmetic Club Mix)
Tori Amos on filming 'Professional Widow' (Remix)
Tori's commentary on 'Professional Widow' featured on the 'Fade to Red' video collection
New Gregg Homme, Unico, & Intymen Styles In Stock
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Dogma Soundtrack - Alanis Morrisette - Still
"Still"
I am the harm which you inflict.
I am your brilliance and frustration.
I'm the nuclear bombs if they're to hit.
I am your immaturity and your indignance.
I am your misfits and your praised.
I am your doubt and your conviction.
I am your charity and your rape.
I am your grasping and expectation.
I see you averting your glances.
I see you cheering on the war.
I see you ignoring your children,
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
I am your joy and your regret.
I am your fury and your elation.
I am your yearning and your sweat.
I am your faithless and your religion.
I see you altering history.
I see you abusing the land.
I see you, your selective amnesia,
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
I see you averting your glances.
I see you cheering on the war.
I see you ignoring your children,
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
I see you altering history.
I see you abusing the land.
I see you, your selective amnesia,
I love you still.
And I love you still.
I am your tragedy and your fortune.
I am your crisis and delight.
I am your profits and your prophets.
I am your art, I am your vice.
I am your death and your decisions.
I am your passion and your plight.
I am your sickness and convalescence.
I am your weapons and your light.
I see you holding your grudges.
I see you gunning them down.
I see you silencing your sisters,
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
I see you lie to your country.
I see you forcing them out.
I see you blaming each other,
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
I see you holding your grudges.
I see you gunning them down.
I see you silencing your sisters,
I love you still.
I love you still.
I see you lie to your country.
I see you forcing them out.
I see you blaming each other.
I love you still.
I love you still.
I see you.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Spartacus
Andy Whitfield as Spartacus
17 July 1971 - 11 September 2011
17 July 1971 - 11 September 2011
Jai Courtney as Spartacus’s close friend, Varro
Sunday, May 13, 2012
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