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bluewolfvii
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 Posted: 10/27/05 10:32 pm ::: Beam me up, Scottie. Beam up Leslie Gore, too. |
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George Takei (Lt. Sulu) just came out.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/28/ap/entertainment/mainD8DGPC480.shtml
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The 68-year-old actor said he and his partner, Brad Altman, have been together for 18 years.
Takei, a Japanese-American who lived in a U.S. internment camp from age 4 to 8, said he grew up feeling ashamed of his ethnicity and sexuality. He likened prejudice against gays to racial segregation.
"It's against basic decency and what American values stand for," he said |
Also, this month's issue of Curve (or it could have been Girlfriends) has an article on Leslie Gore being out. It's her party and she'll be fly if she wants to.
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Carol Anne
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| Posted: 10/28/05 6:40 am ::: |
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Lesley Gore was profiled recently on AfterEllen.com (was that what you read, blue?)http://www.afterellen.com/Music/2005/6/lesleygore.html Don't miss the accompaying interview. http://www.afterellen.com/People/2005/6/lesleygore.html
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AE: Would you say that people knew you were gay back when you were first performing? You were pretty young, about 17, right?
LG: Well, I didn’t know until I was in my twenties, so if they knew it, they knew it before I did. [Laughs] You know, maybe someone did think that. I don’t know, but I certainly didn’t know it until I was in my twenties.
AE: Once you did know, did you have to go to lengths to conceal it in the music industry?
LG: Well, I don’t think I went to lengths. I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do. I didn’t avoid anything, I didn’t put it in anybody’s face. Times were very different then, so, you know, I just tried to live as normally as humanly possible. But as truthfully as humanly possible. |
I feel so much better about secretly liking "Sunshine, Lollipops and Roses" back in the sixties! And I'm ordering a signed copy of her new album.
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liveitup!
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| Posted: 10/28/05 11:02 am ::: |
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Wow! What a week it's turning out to be (no pun intended)!!!!
I wonder what my not-so-slightly homophobic, but HUGE Trekkie, brother will make of all this!?!?!
Come out, come out, wherever you are......!!!!!!!!
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bluewolfvii
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sambista
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| Posted: 10/28/05 12:52 pm ::: |
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| well, they say things happen in threes . . .
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Buy a latte, pick up a little light reading..
