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Upcoming film about gay dads is bothersome to some hockey fans. First time NHL and Maple Leafs allow use of team logos.

Submitted by Community Editor on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 2:54pm
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"Breakfast With Scot" is a movie about two dads and their adopted son. In the film, actor Tom Cavanagh (Ed, Scrubs) plays a gay former Toronto Maple Leaf who works as a broadcaster for a sports network. He plays his sexuality on the down-low until his more affected son draws attention to the family.

The NHL and the Maple Leafs hockey team both gave permission for their logos to be used in the movie, which is a first for a gay-themed movie.


Tammy Etheridge blogs about U.S. leadership: "war for profit". Cronies of Rupert Murdoch react.

Submitted by Community Editor on Fri, 08/31/2007 - 3:00pm
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Our favorite Popular actress, Tammy Lynn (Michaels) Etheridge got the attention of the New York Post lately with a post on her blog about George W. Bush.

On hollywood farm girl, Tammy writes:

"george bush
you are a criminal
you are raping our country of our intentions"

and

"this war is
war for profit
something i am sure
the bible does not favor

"weapons of mass destruction:
the current american government."


Everything's Rosie in Miami. O'Donnell takes-on a raging homophobe on Lincoln Mall - after dinner.

Submitted by Community Editor on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 10:38am
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Rosie O'Donnell recently stood-up (literally) to an angry homophobe after finishing dinner at a restaraunt with her partner, Kelli.

Rosie uses poems to describe her life and views on Rosie.com. This is an excerpt from the poem entitled 'motorcycle man':

tonight dinner in so beach
a very gay city
kel and i
in r pt cruiser - top down

we had just finished eating
about to head home
2 2 many people
when

along
came a bald screaming infuriated man
it’s always a man
i tell ya


Doctor Dad?

Submitted by Community Editor on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 4:51pm
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BBC One actor, John Barrowman wants to be a dad.

The star of Doctor Who and Torchwood entered into a civil partnership last year with his long-term boyfriend.


Welcome To The "Fun Home"

Submitted by Community Editor on Fri, 06/22/2007 - 6:03am
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Here's an odd memoir of growing up gay with a gay parent: Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" (Mariner,$13.95).

The Seattle Times says it's a heavy, sometimes depressing book, but it gets a glowing review.

Time Magazine named "Fun Home" its 2006 book of the year, and it's been reissued in paperback.


All In The Family

Submitted by Community Editor on Fri, 06/22/2007 - 5:26am
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The Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival has produced James Still's Iron Kisses. A play which focuses on a rich man's nuclear family with a gay twist. The son, Billy, is gay and getting married to his lover, Michael, in San Francisco.

The Philadelphia Inquirer gives the show gets a so-so review with a nod to set design.


Born To Be Gay?

Submitted by Community Editor on Thu, 06/21/2007 - 10:00am
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Boys acting like girls. Girls acting like boys. Parents challenged by their tots.

A straight father has watched for the past six months as his son clung to dolls and modeled dresses.

The Village Voice explores the possibility reality of transgendered kids.


2 Mums and a Dad

Submitted by Community Editor on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 7:00am
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How do gay men and lesbians work together to form families? Melbourne-based filmmaker, Miranda Wills, explores the issues of gay parenting in a documentary screened at the Sydney Film Festival.

2 Mums and a Dad takes place over a two-year-period. The film captures the lives of Fiona and her girlfriend, who want a baby, and Darren, who also wants to be a parent.


Rosie is Outstanding

Submitted by Community Editor on Mon, 04/02/2007 - 4:00am
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The 2007 GLAAD Media Awards were held in New York for the East Coast celebration of the group's 18th annual awards, honoring the positive portrayal of gay and lesbian issues in the media.


Celebrity Baby Blog Awards!

Submitted by Community Editor on Thu, 03/22/2007 - 4:00am
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Our friends at Celebrity Baby Blog annouced the winners of the First Celebrity Baby Blog Awards. The site, which is dedicated to celebrity babies, used electronic ballots to tally the votes. Readers picked all of the categories, nominees and winners.

Listed below are winners that may not interest Proud Parenting members:

Most stylish dad.....Brad Pitt
Most stylish mom.....Gwen Stefani
Best/cutest baby bump.....Angelina Jolie


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