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June 26, 2010: Leonardo DiCaprio, Nancy Pelosi, SF Pride, Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner, Cynthia Nixon, No H8, Richard Socarides

Submitted By: Fabulous Rob on June 26, 2010 One Comment

Leo Hasn’t Had Dress Fitting for Hoover Film

Leonardo DiCaprio, who is in talks to play notorious FBI director (and rumored secret gay man and cross-dresser) J. Edgar Hoover in a film biography, hasn’t yet had his dress fitting.

Pelosi Calls S.F. Pride “40 and Fabulous”

House speaker Nancy Pelosi has recorded remarks for San Francisco’s 40th gay pride celebration and parade this weekend, calling it “40 and fabulous.”

Efron, Lautner: Dream Cast for Gay Grease Remake

Zac Efron and Taylor Lautner would be director Randal Kleiser’s choice to star in a gay remake of his blockbuster musical Grease.

Cynthia Nixon Cast in The Big C

Showtime’s upcoming show The Big C is set to welcome out actress Cynthia Nixon to the set. The new series focuses on an unlikely topic for a comedy: cancer.

Activists, Filmmakers, Pop Stars Pose for No H8

Derrick Martin, the 18-year-old Georgia high school student who fought for and won the right to take his boyfriend to his prom, has posed for the No H8 campaign.

Tying the Knot After Six Decades

After a 60-year romance, a gay couple in their 80s tied the knot in Washington, D.C., June 20.

Group Booted From Forum for its Agenda

Pro-Israel group StandWithUs was ejected from a conference on economic and ecological issues, causing the cancellation of its “LGBTQI Liberation in the Middle East” workshop scheduled for Friday in Detroit.

Rapist of Lesbian Gets Jail Term

A former child soldier and Sudanese refugee who twice raped an Australian woman has been sentenced to four years in jail.

Executives Backtrack on Letter to Lingle

The Hawaii Business Roundtable says it does not have an official stance on the pending civil unions bill despite its executive board’s June 4 letter to the governor asking her to veto the bill.

Socarides: Obama MIA on LGBT Rights

Richard Socarides takes President Obama to task for slow progress on LGBT rights in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.
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One Response to “June 26, 2010: Leonardo DiCaprio, Nancy Pelosi, SF Pride, Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner, Cynthia Nixon, No H8, Richard Socarides”

  1. Harvey Peel says on: 25 July 2011 at 9:22 am

    N Pelosi has got to wind up being one of this the majority of liberal political figures throughout the actual land. It’s laborious for us to believe exactly how people may reelect her in their own correct intellect.

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