Obama Pride: LGBT Americans For Obama Video Stars Zachary Quinto, Wanda Sykes, Chaz Bono And More

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Zachary Quinto, Wanda Sykes and Chaz Bono are just three of the many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) celebrities to endorse President Obama in this new video for the re-election campaign.

Not only does the clip highlight Obama's backing of same-sex marriage, but also his other LGBT-relevant achievements, including the 2011 repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

"It's amazing how each generation just keeps pushing the ball forward," notes tennis champ Billie Jean King. "President Obama has pushed it forward faster than any time in the history of our community."

Adds Quinto: "Having the president of the United States declare his belief that gay couples should be allowed to marry and to use the word marry...[it ]was incredibly inspiring to watch that all unfold." 

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One Million Moms Boycotts Jennifer Lopez’s Lesbian TV Show “The Fosters”

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"Hollywood is continuing to push an agenda that homosexuality is acceptable when scripture states clearly it is a sin.

If we remain silent then we are guilty of sin also."

We reported on The Fosters, a new ABC Family drama from Jennifer Lopez. The hourlong drama, executive-produced by J-Lo, Bradley Bredeweg and Queer as Folk‘s Peter Paige, follows two mommies—a cop and a teacher—who are raising adopted twins and a biological son together in a blended family.

No stars, scripts or episodes have surfaced yet but One Million Moms is already up in arms. A screed on the OMM website reads:

From the One Million Moms website:

ABC Continues to Produce Anti-Family Programs. Obviously, ABC has lost their minds. They haven’t let up so neither will we. ABC’s Family Channel has several anti-family programs, and they are planning on adding to that growing list. ABC Family has approved a series pilot from Jennifer Lopez’s production company, Nuyorican, about a lesbian couple and their diverse family. Many families have already discovered that ABC Family Channel is anything but family-friendly. But because of family being part of the network’s name, we thought a warning should still be sent out for anyone who continues to watch the channel. A premiere date has not been set, but One Million Moms wanted to sound the alarm about this new series. It will be airing on the network soon unless we do something about it. They are in the beginning stages.

ABC Family reported the comedy-drama pilot, working with the title “The Fosters,” is about two women raising a “21st century,” multi-ethnic mix of foster and biological kids. While foster care and adoption is a wonderful thing and the Bible does teach us to help orphans, this program is attempting to redefine marriage and family by having two moms raise these children together. One Million Moms is not sure how the explanation will be given on how the biological children were conceived. None of this material is acceptable content for a family show.

Hollywood is continuing to push an agenda that homosexuality is acceptable when scripture states clearly it is a sin. As Christians, the Bible also says that we must speak up against sin. If we remain silent then we are guilty of sin also.

Lopez will be an executive producer for the hour-long project. Casting has not been announced. It’s still in the pilot stage and hasn’t been picked up for a series yet. Let’s stop this dead in it its tracks.



No need to look at something before you condemn it, right?

For once OMM is showing it’s true colors: It’s not positive depictions of gays and lesbians that irk the reactionary group. It’s any depictions. Our very existence irritates them.

OMM is asking members to “take action” by contacting ABC Family and encouraging the network to drop the show: “Let them also know you are prepared to join thousands of other voices in urging advertisers to place it on their ‘do not advertise’ list and consider pulling all ads from the ABC network in protest.”

OMM’s boycotts have a history of backfiring, but you can email ABC Family and let it know you appreciate the inclusion of LGBT characters in network programming and you’ll be tuning in to check out The Fosters when it debuts. (Whether we keep watching, though, depends on how good it is.)

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Four Films That Tackle the Greatest Taboo

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Once homosexuality was the love that dared not speak its name, but with Ellen and Anderson on daytime and a dozen LGB (and occasionally T) characters on prime-time TV now, it's time to look at what might replace homosex in cinema's canon of taboo. Namely: consensual incest. With the recent release of the lesbian film Mary Marie, we look at four films that tackle incest and still made it to the screen.



Mary Marie (2012): With the ethereal quality of The Virgin Suicides, Mary Marie is a sweet and disarming, dreamlike film in which Mary (Alana Kearns-Green) and her sister Marie (Alexandra Roxo) live in an insular state of perpetual childhood and semi-incestuousness. After their mother dies, the two girls do everything together, including sleeping and bathing, but when a handyman enters their (now adult) lives, the twosome must confront childhood's end or deal with the possibly violent repercussions of a love triangle. The two stars wrote the film, which is lovely and hard to define but a worthy look at extreme codependence.



Sister My Sister (1994): This intense British thriller, starring a young Joely Richardson and Jodhi May is directed by Nancy Meckler and written by Wendy Kesselman (based on her play My Sister in This House) — and all that estrogen power behind and in front of the camera pays off in what is a beautifully chilling film about violence, desire, and repression. Based on a real incident in France in the 1930s (Google "the Papin murders"), the movie is the third and perhaps best film to tackle the case. In it, Christine (Richardson) and her sister Lea (May) are maids who are oppressed by their wealthy employer and have only each other to rely on, and their bond goes far beyond simple sisterhood. As the eroticism grows between them, the tension and repressed rage between them and their employer leads to murder.



From Beginning to End (2009): Unlike sapphic incestuousness, the gay version has hardly been shown outside the confines of pornography, which might explain why some viewers were shocked by this Brazilian love story. Two brothers grow up in an extremely close relationship, spooning in bed prepuberty, bathing together, and holding each other from their earliest days. Dad worries that there is something wrong while Mom tells the boys she'll love them no matter what. As very attractive grown men (played by João Gabriel Vasconcellos and Rafael Cardoso), the two reunite and decide to make their intimacy sexual. And yes, the sex scenes are very hot (and worth the rental). But aside from some longing and confusion, viewers are left wondering about the how of it all. Unlike Sister My Sister, the film makes you wonder how the men feel about all this and what created this vacuum of intimacy around them.



The House of Yes (1997): This film is the best of the lot. It also offers the best role for each of the actors who play the three siblings (Parker Posey, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Josh Hamilton are all brilliant) as well as for Tori Spelling (who plays a clueless working-class girl trapped in their web). Posey is Jacki- O, an unbalanced young woman who developed an intimate relationship with her twin brother, Marty, when two were just tweens (the younger version of Posey's character is played by Rachael Leigh Cook of Premonition). When Marty returns home with his new fiancée, Leslie (Spelling in a hilarious role), Jackie-O is determined to set things right. Meanwhile, Mom, played brilliantly by Genevieve Bujold, tells Leslie that the two siblings belong to each other, that in fact Jackie's hand was holding Marty's penis when they came out the womb. There's less sex in the film than in some of the others on this list, but the stellar cast and the real erotic tension between Posey and Hamilton make this a must-see.



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