Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl was not pleased with fellow cast mate Isaiah Washington’s comments following Monday’s Golden Globe Awards. During an interview in the press room after the show’s best drama win, Washington denied his involvement in a heated on-set incident in October during which he allegedly used a homophobic slur. ”No, I did [...]
Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn’t support the Republican’s presidential bid under any circumstances. In a radio interview with KCBI, a Dallas Christian station, Dobson argued that McCain didn’t support traditional marriage values and said he has prayed “we [...]
Even before its highly anticipated opening, the glitz-and-glam celluloid fest known as Dreamgirls was already blasting headlines. Is Dreamgirls really based on Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, and the Supremes? But with all this whirl of Motown costume and camp, let us not forget who created this project—a dancer-choreographer-director born in 1943 in Buffalo, N.Y., the [...]
A national LGBT group is showing concern over a move that would instate former congressman Harold Ford Jr. as chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. The current chairman, former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, announced he was stepping down and would be replaced by Ford. National Stonewall Democrats executive director Joanne Wyrick said Ford lacks leadership [...]
White House hopeful Mitt Romney and 400 of his backers raised more than $6.5 million on Monday in a glitzy fund-raising blitz in Boston that will force all Republican rivals to take notice. The figure dwarfed the $2 million that Sen. John McCain raised and the $1 million collected by former New York mayor Rudy [...]
The nation remembered Gerald R. Ford on Tuesday for what he didn’t have—pretensions, a scheming agenda, a great golf game—as much as for the small-town authenticity he brought to the presidency—as well as his support for gays. The service in Washington unfolded in the spirit of one of its musical selections, “Fanfare for the Common [...]
Lawmakers in Massachusetts, the only state where same-sex marriage is legal, voted Tuesday to allow a proposed constitutional amendment to move forward that could effectively ban the practice. The amendment’s backers had collected 170,000 signatures to get a question on the 2008 ballot asking voters to declare marriage to be between only a man and [...]