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[tfferg]

Shelby Carpenter's article in the Anchorage Press manages somehow to miss the point of BBM completely by inferring it was about lifestyle choice. Has he seen the film?

In spite of this, he does make the valid point that discrimination against gays and lesbians has a serious effect on our livelihoods. For Ennis in particular, it is about his livelihood and for both him and Jack, their very lives.

[kathy]

I'll bet you a million bucks he never even saw BBM; if he did he most certainly missed the point of that beautiful film. 
Lifestyle choice - what?   

kathy   

[BayCityJohn]

RE:    Guess Who's Doing Porno (Again)?

Mark Wahlberg is a coward and an idjit.

And I bet he couldn't have gotten the part even if he'd wanted it.

[kathy]

Hi!!

RE:  TDS question of the week -  August 31:

I believe Haagen-Dazs ice cream was started in the '20's or '30s in the Bronx, NY.

kathy 

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Great TDS again, loved the articles.

Jimmy does not like to place his own photocaptions in the
Photocap of the Week section, being TDS editor, but some of us
wanted him to and told him so, but he is too modest, I guess.

Here is one that many of us wanted him to feature, kudos Jimmy!

ennis: c'mon now, yer sleepin on yer feet like a kangaroo.

ang: CUT!!

[fritzkep]

Hi!!

RE:  TDS question of the week -  August 31:

I believe Haagen-Dazs ice cream was started in the '20's or '30s in the Bronx, NY.

kathy 

Yep. It's marketed as if it were a Danish product, but even the name Häagen Dazs goes against the rules of Danish orthography.

[Sason]

Yep. It's marketed as if it were a Danish product, but even the name Häagen Dazs goes against the rules of Danish orthography.

You're so right, Fritz.

The word (name?)  Häagen Dazs is nowhere near anything even remotely Danish, or any Scandinavian language for that matter.

[fritzkep]

And you know Sonja knows her stuff! If she jumped out of her window, she'd land in Denmark.      

[tfferg]

 Change.org is appealing for action to support ant- homophobic bullying in schools in Minnesota

One suicide is one too many.

But three suicides in one year, within one school district, all by students who are gay or lesbian?  That's nothing short of an epidemic, and it's the problem currently facing Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin school district.

The most recent incident occurred in July, when a 15-year-old student took his own life. A concert cello player in his school's orchestra, the student was incessantly bullied because of his sexual orientation.

"I'm not asking you to accept this as a lifestyle for you," his grieving mother recently said in testimony before the Anoka-Hennepin school board. "I'm only asking that you please make the school safe for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students still alive and in this district today."

Statistics underscore the danger to LGBT students. Nationwide, gay youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual classmates, in large part because of toxic environments where anti-gay bullying can thrive. Nearly 90% of gay students have experienced harassment in school, and almost two-thirds say they feel unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Yet in the Anoka-Hennepin school district, a "neutrality" policy has tied the hands of school administrators and teachers to combat homophobia. This policy was put in place due to the influence of anti-gay groups such as the Parents Action League, which believes homosexuality is a behavior that can be cured, and it requires teachers and school officials to remain silent about subjects pertaining to sexual orientation.

Because of this anti-gay influence, the school board turned down a request by Minnesota's largest gay rights organization to conduct a district-wide anti-bullying program. And it prevented the district from taking action against two teachers who harassed a student believed to be gay until an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights intervened and punished the teachers.

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http://sn125w.snt125.mail.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

[janjo]

I am very concerned about Focus on the Family and their attitude towards bullying of gay students in schools and colleges. Far from LGBT information being available to all pupils in schools being a way of persuading students to "turn gay," it is essential to the physical and mental well being of gay students, and just as essential to the non gay students in teaching tolerance of difference, and getting along with ones fellow man and woman.
The suicide rate amongst young gay people speaks for itself.
They say:"Public schools increasingly convey that homosexuality is normal and should be accepted," where is their evidence that this is not the case?
If homosexuality is not normal, why has it been around for as long as mammals of all kinds have been on the earth?
It is OK to hold crackpot ideas providing that they don't affect anyone else.
This does.
The idea that it is good for families to reject and bully their own gay children, or to subject them to some kind of psychological de programming system which it has been proved does not work and can often cause great harm is too appalling to even think about.
I despair of what their intolerant, bullying god must be like, if they are being instructed by faith to behave in this way to their own fellow man.
It certainly isn't any god I recognise.

[garyd]

Question of the week:

Well, that is the Trinity College in Dublin library.
(Is that what you meant in the clue about "one above two"?//).

Anyway, I am also pretty sure that the photograph is by the amazing Candida Hofer.

[kathy]

            Hi - just an answer to TDS re the Rudolph Valentino article from kathy:    

"The actor's sexuality -- which has been the subject of considerable discussion over the last few decades -- is examined at length in Emily Leider's 2003 biography, Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). After critiquing another book which claimed Valentino was gay, Leider presciently states, "Valentino exerted and continues to exert enormous power as an object of desire for both sexes. Lusting after him, imagining him as your lover, telling somebody that he was, isn't the same as bedding him."
'Nuf said."
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**Yes - 'Nuf said.  Emily Leider's "Dark Lover" is the definitive biography of Rudy - at last.  The above paragraph from her book says it all.  For so many many yrs. there was so much trash written about Valentino, so many lies.  During his life, the male "journalists" were merciless towards him, constantly printing insulting comments questioning his "manhood", and creating the infamous "pink powder puff" comment.  Naturally, he was extremely hurt by this; and I firmly believe his unhappy personal life caused him much sadness. 

Rudolph Valentino deserves all and more of his legend.  He was a beautifully handsome man and an excellent actor.  Noone ever equalled him.  In his films he engulfed women during a love scene.  Just his staring look at a girl and his walking towards her make me weak.  He was an object of desire by both sexes, and I don't blame them.  I admit to the same feeling.**

kathy
p.s.  I apologize for the "bolding" of this reply.  I don't know how to "un-bold" anything. 

[kathy]

**  1)  Erika's portrait of Heath & Jake in the DE scene is beautiful, capturing all the love they have for each other.
           She captures the passion wonderfully.

      2)  The post of the day is beautiful.** 

kathy 

[Lyle (Mooska)]

"Leider presciently states, "Lusting after him, imagining him as your lover, telling somebody that he was, isn't the same as bedding him."
'Nuf said."
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**Yes - 'Nuf said. 

Well, not quite enough.  Just because Ms. Leider wrote this does not also mean that Samuel Steward
and Valentino did NOT share a bed together.  S.S. said he did and has some evidence to back it up.
So I don't have to stretch my imagination too far for me to believe it.  Valentino may have been
bothered by the press's name calling of him, too, but that doesn't mean "where there's smoke, there's fire"
isn't true.  It usually is.

[kathy]

**Yes, lyle, this is true too.  Still, I wish you would read Ms. Leider's excellent biography of Rudy, "Dark Lover".  This book is excellent.  And it took almost 70 yrs. to have a definitive biography because so much trash had been published for so so long about Rudy.  And his legend as the great lover and cinematic sex god of his time has never been forgotten. 

Valentino was so gorgeous and talented, with such charisma not often seen.  He was lusted after by both sexes (I include myself in this) and honestly I don't care whether he went both ways, even though I (personally) think he was straight with an attraction to men.  During the flming of "Monsieur Beaucaire" in 1924, there was a lot of talk regarding his relationship with Andre Daven, a close friend of his in the film.  (Even though his bitch wife Rambova was keeping eagle eyes on him). 

But - as far as S. Steward goes, I put no truth in anyone who would document his 746 partners in a "stud file".  He seems to be nothing but a male tramp.  Why anyone would write a book about this sort of person amazes me.  I mean come on!!

kathy 
p.s.  I could say that I had a very long relationship with my unrequited love Peter O'Toole, but stating this doesn't make it true - no matter how badly I want it to be...**