You've probably seen photographs of celebrities with mouth taped and the lettering "No H8" scrawled on their cheek. The silent protest created by co-founder and photographer Adam Bouska has gained nationwide attention which recently featured a shoot with Cindy McCain, former Presidential candidate John McCain's wife. Though the shoot is not exclusively for celebrities, anyone in support of homosexual union and against the Proposition 8 (which is against homosexual union) can be a part of the campaign shoot.
We heard the California based shoot will be coming to New York on February 1st at the Empire Hotel. All are invited to participate in the NO H8 campaign.
Cindy McCain
Tila Tequila
Adam Bouska (Co-Founder of NO H8)
Kardashian Sisters
Glenn Twins
Rosie O'Donnell dished the dirt to the queen of talk show, (Aunty) Oprah Winfrey in an interview set to air on Monday (1/25) about her divorce from her 12 year relationship and new life with girlfriend Tracy Kachtick Anders.
Rosie's new love Tracy is a single lesbian mother and an artist from Texas who has a lot in common with the comedian including the fact that they both have a vested interest in adoption and foster care. Tracy launched the Open Arms Campaign with the goal of finding foster adoptive families within the LGBT Community
In her interview with Oprah, Rosie opens up about what it's like sharing parenting responsibilities with ex, Kelli Carpenter. "Although we co-parent," O'Donnell tells Oprah, "we share equal time but are never really without them. Some are here. And that's the way we did it. It's free-flowing and we do nights together too."
Carpenter and O'Donnell have four children together, Parker 14; Chelsea, 12; Blake 10; and Vivienne Rose. O'Donnell also says that she's looking to move in with her new love , Kachtick-Anders who has six children of her own.
O'Donnells appearance on the show comes just in time for her jan. 31 HBO Special, "A Family is a Family is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration,"which challenges traditional notion of a family.
Gladys Bentley was born on August 12, 1907. She was the eldest of 4 children born to a Trinidad born mother , Mary Mote(Bentley) and an American born father , George L. Bentley. Gladys left home at 16 years old. Like many African Americans of her generation she ended up in New York Citys' Harlem , the capital of "The New Negro ". For Gladys , her lesbianism made her need to strike out on her own all the more urgent. As she would recall many years later in an Ebony Magazine Article , "It seems I was born different. At least,I always thought so....From the time I can remember anything ,even as I was toddling , I never wanted a man to touch me...Soon I began to feel more comfortable in boys clothes than in dresses".
She
began singing at rent parties and buffet flats and moved on to
speakeasies and nightclubs. later she would headline the popular
speakeasy the Clam House as well as the Ubangi Club. She
would transform popular tunes of the day with raunchy naughty playful
lyrics. Dressed in signature tux and top hat , she openly and riotously
flirted with women in the audience. Her popularity and salary was ever
increasing , as she was frequently mentioned in many of the
entertainment columns of the day.
She wowed audiences with her powerful voice and obscene parodies of
blues standards and show tunes and was famous for her glamorous
girlfriends. Very open about her sexuality, Bentley also performed at
lesbian bars and once told a gossip columnist she had married a white
woman while in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Characters based on her appeared in novels (Carl Van Vechtens' "Parties", Clement Woods "Deep River", Blair Niles "Strange Brother"). Starting in 1928 ( at age 21) she began a recording career that spanned 2 decades. 8 recordings for the OKeh recording company were followed by a side with the Washboard Serenader's on the Victor label. Although on her recordings she did not dare have lesbian lyrics , she certainly played up this image in the clubs and in public.
In 1945 she recorded 5 discs for the Excelsior label (still not daring to use lesbian lyrics in recordings) including "Thrill Me Till I get My Fill," "Find Out What He Likes", and "Notoriety Papa". However in the 1950s the limited tolerance that had been eroding since the Great Depression, finally collapsed disastrously. The McCarthy "witch hunts" were particularly vicious towards homosexuals. In light of recent revelations about J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohen and possibly McCarthy himself this movement was all the more hypocritical. Although gay and lesbian organizations like The Daughters Of Bilitis and The Mattachine Society were formed at this time, the lives of many homosexuals were ruined. Bentley, who for so long had been one of THE most open as regards her homosexuality, was of course a sitting duck for persecution. Out of desperate fear for her own survival (particularly with an aging mother to support) Gladys Bentley started wearing dresses, and sanitizing her act. In 1950, Bentley wrote a desperate, largely fabricated article for Ebony entitled "I am Woman Again" in which she claimed to have cured her lesbianism via female hormone treatments and was finally at peace after a "hell as terrible as dope addiction".
She claimed to have married a newspaper columnist named J. T. Gibson (a man who soon after publicly denied that the two had ever wed). In 1952 she does seem to have married a man named Charles Roberts. He was a cook and 16 years younger than Bentley, who lied on the marriage certificate, stating her age as 36 rather than 45. The two eventually divorced. Bentley did manage to still perform, usually at the Rose Room in Hollywood.
She recorded a single on the Flame label and appeared twice on Groucho Marx's' television show. At this stage, Bentley became an active and (truly) devoted member of "The Temple of Love in Christ, Inc.". She was about to become an ordained minister in the church when she died of a flu epidemic in 1960 at the age of 52. These desperate attempts to survive do not diminish her previous accomplishments.
SOURCE: Celebrity Page by Laurence Frommer
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The family of Mitrice Richardson, a 24 year-old African-American woman who went missing after being released from Malibu Police department has filed a million dollar claim against the Los Angeles Police Department. Mitrice was arrested on September 17th 2009 for not paying an $89 bill at Geoffrey's Restaurant in Malibu and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told the L.A. Times. The marijuana was allegedly found in her 1990 Honda Civic, which was impounded.
Richardson was released at about 1:25 A.M. on Friday, September 18th because "she exhibited no signs of mental illness or intoxication. She was fine. She's an adult," Whitmore said. After Los Angeles police detectives learned that Richardson was probably suffering form severe mental disorder at the time of her Sept 17 disappearance, the department requested a mass search on January 9th, taking in 18-square inch mile area of ridges, canyons and trails. The search drew 300 voluteers to Malibu, but still no sign of Mitrice Richardson.
Mitrice Richardson is a Cal State Fullerton graduate with a 4.0 GPA and is set to begin a doctorate program.
Help find her. If you have any information please call or email:
Dr. Ronda Hampton- (951) 660-8031 ; drrondahampton@yahoo.com
LAPD - Detective Steven Eguchi: (213) 485-2531
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