HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel turns its attention Tuesday night (10pmET/PT) to openly gay Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas. Thomas talks about the lengths he went to to look straight, from hitting on the prettiest girls in bars to starting fights; He even says how excited he was to get arrested for assault because [...]
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NY Post calls Lysacek “ice queen”
The New York Post, rag that it is, ran this headline on their website regarding the finale of “Dancing with the Stars,” in which Evan Lysacek lost to one of the Pussycat Dolls: “‘Dancing’ Doll Beats Ice King.” Yet, in their print edition, there was a slightly different headline… I’m not sure if this is [...]
Evan Lysacek looking for a “cool girl”
Evan Lysacek made it all the way to the Dancing with the Stars final two last night, only to get whipped by a Pussycat Doll. Now that DWTS is over, Evan says he’s looking for someone with whom to spend some quality time: I’m lonely. I need a girlfriend. I’m looking for funny, someone who [...]
Jesse Ferguson, gay stereotype, at Knicks game
Via Pete at WideRights comes this little Tweet exchange between the two guys who play the gay couple on Modern Family. Jesse Ferguson (right) is the real-life gay guy; Eric Stonestreet is actually straight. They went to a recent Knicks game, and they decided to post their thoughts on Twitter. Of course, Jesse had to [...]
HBO talks with transgender sportswriters
Tonight’s episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel features a segment called “The Big Switch,” about three transgender sportswriters: Christina Kahrl of Baseball Prospectus; Bobbie Dittmeier of MLB.com; and the late Christine Daniels of the Los Angeles Times. When they came out as transgender, they formed an unlikely sisterhood. And, as Gumbel says in the [...]
Chad Ochocinco, Evan Lysacek on DWTS
ABC has announced the celebrity lineup for the new season of Dancing With The Stars. As usual, it includes people with connections to the world of sports. I have no idea how this will play out on the dance floor (and don’t really care) but I have a couple of observations: It makes perfect sense [...]
NCAA gives blessing to Focus on the Family ads
As if watching Focus on the Family pimp their perspective on life during the Super Bowl wasn’t bad enough, word has it that NCAA.com is running banners for the group, and that CBS plans to run their commercials during the NCAA basketball tournament with the NCAA’s blessing. Pat Griffin writes: Ok, we endured the Focus [...]
Tebow/Focus Super Bowl ad: least-watched
I had no idea that the Nielsen Company was this detailed. They actually provide individual ratings for the TV commercials shown during the Super Bowl. The most-watched commercial was the Doritos “Snack Attack Samurai” ad, followed by the “Green Police” Audi ad. The least-watched? The Focus on the Family anti-abortion ad starring Tim Tebow and [...]
CBS: No gays. But violence, sex, drugs OK.
I’ve rarely been as pissed at the Super Bowl ads as I was yesterday. CBS rejected two gay-themed ads (albeit the production value of one was so low that I would have rejected it) because of their “standards,” yet the commercials they allowed unleashed a barrage of violence, alcohol and nudity. They rejected a fun, [...]
Watch the bizarre Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad
What were they thinking? The Focus on the Family ad that aired during the Super Bowl aimed at fighting abortion instead promoted domestic violence with Tim Tebow tackling his mother. When it aired, everyone at the party looked at each other with a “what in hell did I just see” look. You can see it [...]
Donny Deutsch: Not enough gays watch football
Outspoken advertising maven Donny Deutsch has weighed in on the rejected Mancrunch ad for the Super Bowl saying not enough gays watch football to warrant the ad buy. He told Larry King: It’s hard to argue that it makes sense to reach a very targeted audience of gay males in America by advertising to this [...]
CBS helped write Focus on the Family script
Not only has CBS agreed to break its policy against political advocacy ads, but they helped the anti-gay Focus on the Family craft their anti-abortion commercial starring Tim Tebow! Gary Schneeberger, spokesperson for Focus on the Family, told the Daily Beast: We’ve worked with [CBS] almost since the beginning. Our senior vice presidents talked to [...]
Mancrunch Super Bowl ad is really bad. Hoax?
For everyone (including myself) who wanted to say CBS’s potential rejection of the Mancrunch ad featuring two men kissing implied some homophobia, I present you evidence to another possibility: This is a terrible ad. It’s clear the site owners had absolutely no intention of this ever making it to the air; It wouldn’t pass the [...]
CBS hasn’t approved Mancrunch, GoDaddy ads
The excuses are running out for CBS regarding their decision to air an advocacy ad against abortion, created by the hate group Focus on the Family and starring Tim Tebow, during the Super Bowl. The latest is news they rejected a gay-themed ad from GoDaddy.com that showed a former pro football player who had become [...]
Gay sports storyline Thursday on Fox’s ‘Bones’
Many months ago my friend Josh Berman, consulting producer on Fox’s hit show Bones, started asking me questions about gay football players for a storyline he was working on. That story hits the airwaves Thursday (Jan. 28) in the Bones episode, “The Dentist in the Ditch.” The story centers on the investigation of the murder [...]
Tim Tebow’s really bad day on- and off-field
Yesterday was not a good day for Tim Tebow. On top of a bad day of practice for the Senior Bowl, the former Florida quarterback who has cut a commercial for Focus on the Family is the target of a protest by a coalition of women’s organizations unhappy with the anti-abortion-rights message of Tebow’s commercial. [...]
Tim Tebow: I’m not preachy, deserve respect
Tim Tebow has obviously been catching some heat for his taped Super Bowl ad for the anti-gay Focus on the Family, in which he talks (yet again) about how his mother was told she should abort him and didn’t. Tebow spoke out about it: “I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think [...]
Johnny Weir show starts tonight
Sundance Channel’s new series Be Good Johnny Weir premieres tonight with the airing of the documentary, Pop Star on Ice. It airs every Monday at 10:30pm, and the show’s new episodes start in earnest next week with a trip to Europe. Oh, and if there’s still anyone in America who doubts that Johnny is openly [...]
Patriots put Keifer Sutherland in a dress
Keifer Sutherland appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman last night in a dress (and an ugly one at that; looked more like window curtains). When Letterman asked him “wassup with the dress?” Sutherland admitted he put a little too much faith in Tom Brady: I lost a bet. Over the weekend, I was [...]
Ellen shows (gay) footballers dancing
I was so happy to see the Boston gay football league‘s dance video did finally end up on Ellen. It’s great exposure for gay athletes to be shown having fun on one of daytime’s most popular shows. On the flip side, it’s pretty disappointing that Ellen didn’t mention it’s a GAY flag football league! She [...]