NORTH CAROLINA – Mecklenburg County commissioner Bill James says he’s not backing down from comments earlier this week describing homosexuals as “sexual predators” – even as calls increase for county leaders to take action.
“People are entitled to their opinion, and that includes me,” James said Thursday. “I don’t expect people to (always) agree with me. It’s a political discussion and I wouldn’t have raised it on my own, but Jennifer (Roberts) decided to wade in on it.”
His controversial remark – which came in an e-mail exchange among commissioners about the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy – has drawn national headlines on blogs, the Huffington Post website, and news cable channel MSNBC. A petition calling on county commissioners to censure James had drawn more than 1,000 signatures on change.org, a national website for social change.
Michael Jones, the Boston-based editor of the gay rights section of change.org, said the organization would keep its petition up until commissioners take some sort of action against James’ remarks. He said James has a “legacy” of making dehumanizing or anti-gay comments and people want him held accountable.
But Jennifer Roberts, chair of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, said Thursday she hasn’t talked to commissioners about what action, if any, the board should take.
“The challenge is everyone recognizes that it’s inappropriate language,” Roberts said. “This is a repeat performance and I just don’t know if it helps or hurts the end goal by making any kind of formal statement.”
James said Thursday he has contacted police after receiving threats from angry critics. Also, James sent a mass e-mail further outlining his objections to the repeal of the military’s policy banning gays from serving openly in the military.
“Homosexuals are sexual predators,” James wrote in the earlier e-mail. “Allowing homosexuals to serve in the US military with the endorsement of the Mecklenburg County Commission ignores a host of serious problems related to maintaining US military readiness and effectiveness not the least of which is the current Democrat plan to allow homosexuals (male and female) to share showers with those they are attracted to.”
Roberts is sending a letter thanking members of Congress from North Carolina who supported the repeal, including U.S. Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C. Originally, Roberts had proposed a letter from multiple comissioners and had asked county staff to help her send the letter. She was told to discuss it with board members.
Republican commissioners Karen Bentley and Jim Pendergraph have said they were against repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and didn’t want to be included in Roberts’ letter. Democrat Harold Cogdell and Republican Neil Cooksey also voiced concerns about the letter of support.
But James’ remarks have overshadowed the e-mail exchange. It is not the first time his choice of words has received heated criticism. In 2004, he said urban blacks “live in a moral sewer.” In 2008, he compared illegal immigrants to drug dealers and prostitutes.
In December 2009, James drew criticism after he used a derogatory word to describe the late son of commissioner Vilma Leake. At one point, Leake said she wanted the board to censure James, but no vote occurred. During that dispute, Roberts said she did not want to politicize the matter through a censure vote, but at the board’s first meeting of 2010 she urged them to be respectful, saying “name-calling has no place in civil discourse.”
James represents the board’s District 6, which includes areas south of N.C. 51 and Matthews, Mint Hill and Pineville.
from The Charlotte Observer

Charlie Lowden

UNITED KINGDOM – Lynn and Charles Lowden were devastated when their son Charlie died aged just 20 following routine surgery.
Yet it took the tragedy for them to learn that he had been a father for four years – as a sperm donor to the partner of his lesbian aunt.
The couple have now spoken of their shock at learning that their niece and nephew are actually their grandchildren and revealed that the news has helped them come to terms with their grief.
Charlie was only 16 when he secretly agreed to help his aunt Sarah Ashman and her partner fulfil their dream of starting a family. The pair had been devastated after suffering a miscarriage using sperm from another donor.
His donation was a success and Claire Ashman – who took her lover’s surname after they became civil partners – gave birth to a boy, Carlton, now five.
The women had wanted to call him Charles, but the secret father refused, fearing this would raise suspicions. But fear of discovery did not stop him making another donation a couple of years later, which led to the birth of Sarah, now two.
His parents were never meant to know the truth, but Miss Ashman – his mother’s sister – told them in an emotional confession following his tragic death in December last year.
But rather than feeling outraged at the subterfuge, Mrs Lowden, 52, said the news had brought her relief after her loss.
She said: ‘Not many kids of 16 would offer to help in the way he did. But Charlie was kind and thoughtful. He had an old head on young shoulders.
‘When our Charles died we were broken hearted. We thought we had nothing left of him. But there is something left of him.
‘I just wish that we had known about all of this before he died so that Charlie could know we had accepted it.’
Mrs Lowden, of Bedlington, Northumberland, had no idea her son was Carlton’s father despite their close resemblance.
‘Carlton is the spitting double of him,’ she said. ‘They are so much alike.
‘He is built like him, talks like him and even has a freckle on his ear like him. But I just didn’t click.’
Her husband had his suspicions, but even when Charlie would pick up his ‘cousin’, hold him up to the mirror and say ‘Who’s the daddy? I’m the daddy’ his mother still didn’t put two and two together.
But she said that when the truth eventually came out she was ‘absolutely delighted’.
‘It’s just like having our Charlie back,’ she said. ‘He did it for a reason and he has left a legacy.’
‘It’s just like having our Charlie back,’ she said. ‘He did it for a reason and he has left a legacy.’
Her sister explained why she and her 30-year-old beautician partner had decided to confess the truth about her children’s parentage.
‘Charles was very special to me,’ said the 40-year-old of Choppington, Northumberland. ‘When he died, it was our secret.
‘But I had to tell Lynn. I couldn’t go through life not telling her because they are her grandchildren.
‘He was such a lovely lad and I’ll never ever forget what he did for us. He gave us a family.
‘He was so special. I would give him the world if I could.’
She said the children knew Charlie had been their natural father and he had spoken about teaching Carlton to play football when he was older.
Sadly the young scaffolder died following routine hernia surgery in December 2009 at Hexham General Hospital.
His parents are taking legal action claiming he wasn’t given protection against blood clots.
Jim Mackey, chief executive of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said Charlie had died following a ‘rare complication’ and that the hospital had made changes to procedures following an investigation.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority warns that in such unofficial sperm donation arrangements, unlike through a licensed clinic, the donor is legally the child’s father, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails.
It also means the sperm has not been scanned for diseases.
from The Daily Mail
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Barack Obama

HONOLULU, HAWAII — To all those Obama fans eager for another round of pictures of the presidential pectorals, forget it.
President Obama and his Hawaiian beach party — the first lady, Michelle Obama; their daughters, Malia and Sasha, and an assortment of friends — went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve here on Tuesday. Photographers were kept at a safe distance. The White House gave the press pool traveling with the president strict instructions that there would be no long lenses or other sneaky attempts to take pictures of a shirtless leader of the free world.
The entire preserve was closed to the public, as it is every Tuesday, for maintenance and as part of the broader effort to preserve the coral reef by keeping the number of visitors down.
Preservation is a high priority here at Hanauma Bay, and there have been aggressive efforts to limit the number of visitors over the past decade, said Martha McDaniel, the assistant park manager. In 2002, a new visitors’ center was built; it features an educational video that instructs parkgoers on safety and coral preservation. All visitors — whether are snorkeling or not — are required to see the video once a year.
The Obamas, who snorkeled here 364 days ago, on Dec. 29, 2009, saw the video last year.
The subject of images of Mr. Obama sans shirt has been a touchy one during his presidency. In 2008, when he was president-elect, some pictures emerged from him body-surfing in Hawaii, and he seemed a little sheepish when they were splashed all over the tabloids and magazines. (“Buff Bam is Hawaii hunk,’’ The New York Post exclaimed.) Ever since, the White House has been determined to avoid a repeat.
When the president visited the Gulf Coast of Florida this year, his aides kept news photographers far away from him while he was on the beach. Instead, the White House photographer captured him swimming with his daughter Sasha – and released a picture showing the president in the water, but only from the neck up.
“I’m not going to let you guys take a picture of me with my shirt off,’’ the president told reporters then.
from The New York Times

WILTON MANORS, FLORIDA — A suspect in the slayings of two Wilton Manors men has been arrested, police said Wednesday.
Peter Serge Avsenew, 26, of Hollywood, was taken into custody Tuesday night in Polk County, with charges pending against him in the killings of Kevin Mark Powell, 47, and Stephen Duane Adams, 52, said Alesia Furdon, spokeswoman for Wilton Manors police.
Powell and Adams, partners for 29 years, were found murdered inside their Wilton Manors home early Sunday. The victims’ black 2003 Saturn Vue also had disappeared, officials said.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday responded to a report that a vehicle stolen from Wilton Manors was outside a home in Dundee, a small town about 30 miles south of Kissimmee, said Carrie Eleazer, a Polk sheriff’s spokeswoman.
“When we responded to question the people inside the house, we found that the suspect had two outstanding warrants out of Broward,” Eleazer said.
Avsenew, a convicted felon, was taken into custody without incident, Eleazer said.
Furdon said the victims’ Saturn was recovered. However, she said she had no information about whether the Saturn was the same vehicle found in Dundee.
Avsenew was being held without bond in the Polk County Jail on Wednesday on an unrelated violation of probation charge, jail records show. The probation violation stemmed from a grand theft case in Monroe County.
Powell and Adams were found slain in their home, in the 2500 block of Northeast Eighth Avenue, at 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Wilton Manors police went to their house after receiving an emergency call from Adams’ sister, who was worried because her brother didn’t come to her home for the holidays.
Citing the open investigation, Wilton Manors police on Wednesday did not provide additional details or say whether a motive had been determined.
Across the state, Avsenew has been taken into custody more than a dozen times since 2003, state records show.
He has been convicted of vehicle theft, robbery, grand theft and engaging in fraud through bounced checks. He also has pleaded no contest to marijuana possession, loitering, possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal mischief and resisting an officer without violence.
Avsenew also relies on about eight different aliases, including the name Peter Avsenen, according to the state Department of Corrections.
Aside from the Polk County officials, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was assisting in the Wilton Manors case.
from The Sun-Sentinel

John Travolta

John Travolta is one of America’s most beloved actors. Famous for the films “Grease” and “Saturday Night Fever,” Travolta has always been light on his feet and quick with the lyrics. John Travolta and long time spouse Kelly Preston have made a beautiful life together, and are a prime example of just how great some Hollywood marriages can seem, but no Hollywood marriage is without controversy and rumors.
Sources say that Kelly Preston, with whom John Travolta has raised two children, is speaking out about her long time love John Travolta and his sexuality. It has been reported by sources that Kelly Preston is demanding John be truthful about his sexuality, due to celebrity friends claiming that John is not as straight as he appears to be. While no hard evidence had been supplied in these rumors and accusations, there has been enough backlash to make people wonder whether or not Travolta has been faithful to his wife. No allegations have yet to be proven or disproved.
Being in the Hollywood spotlight means that your personal and professional business if left out in the open for all to read and judge. Sexuality at one time was a controversial issue, but some of the biggest stars are embraced for their talent and not for who they are attracted to. John Travolta is a very talented actor and is loved by millions, which will probably not change if he makes an announcement over his sexuality to the public. John, like most stars, may choose to ignore the comments that are being made about his personal life, but sometimes the subjects are just to much to ignore.
Online sportsbooks such as sportsbetting.com, have made John and his sexuality a highlight in the entertainment betting odds section and online bettors still have time to get in on the action by placing a wager on what they believe will happen in regards to John Travolta admitting to be gay. We are not saying that he is or isn’t, but Travolta may soon be forced to make a statement over the issue.

Thursday 12/30 – Will John Travolta officially announce that he is gay between the dates of January 1st 2011 and December 31st 2011? All decisions by sportsbetting.com are final.

12/31/2010     Yes +114
23:45 ET         No -190
from Sports Book Gurus

Chris Brown

Chris Brown is a pro at alienating his fan base.
The troubled R&B singer — who famously assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna after in February 2009 — waged war with former B2K member Raz-B on Wednesday, calling him a “dick in da booty ass lil boy.”
Though Raz-B started the feud (he tweeted that he didn’t understand how people like Brown and Eric Benet can “disrespect women as Intelligent as Halle Berry and Rihanna”), it was Brown fanned the flames.
“Tell me this @razb2k! Why when the money was coming in you won’t complaining about getting butplugged! #homothug!” Brown wrote. “I ain’t deleting my tweet either! I was minding my damn business and Peter Pan decides to pop off!”
After Brown’s fans accused him of being homophobic, the 21-year-old “Yeah 3x” singer claimed his attacks weren’t intended to insult anyone but Raz-B.
“I’m not homophobic! He’s just disrespectful!” Brown explained. “By the way, I love all my gay fans and this immature act is not targeted at you! It’s wack as fuck that everybody can bash me, but soon as I defend myself it’s World War III. I TAKE SHIT FROM everybody… it’s cool though.”
Raz-B’s response? “I love how you resort to disrespectful, low-brow tactics when you clearly sabotaged your own career by beating women!”
Brown, who complected his court-mandated domestic violence classes December 20, then issued a final apology to his fans.
“LOVE ALL MY SUPPORTERS and people who know my heart. HOMOPHOBE? C’mon, find a better tactic,” he tweeted. “That’s pure ignorance and stupidity. I love everyone.”
from US Magazine
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Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka

It’s double diaper duty and sleepless nights for How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris and actor/chef David Burtka – but the couple wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Everyone says that it’s such a blur after it happens,” says Harris of becoming parents to fraternal twins Harper Grace and Gideon Scott, born Oct. 12 via surrogate. “I find myself constantly just trying to wrap my mind around it.”
After almost seven years together, Harris, 37, and Burtka, 35, began the surrogacy process and were “thrilled” to discover they were having fraternal twins.
“We inserted two eggs, one with my sperm, one with David’s sperm and they both took,” says Harris. Holding their children in the delivery room shortly after their birth was “just absolute joy,” says Burtka. “We had two babies that we made. With help.”
The family just moved into a “more kid-friendly” home in the Hollywood Hills and the twins have a new nursery with an old-school Disney theme park décor. “Harper has been fussy but Gideon is the easiest baby in the world,” says Burtka. “They’re just now starting to recognize us and smile.”
“I just love the way they smell. And we can use them as an excuse to get out of almost anything,” adds Harris, jokingly. “That’s cleared the calendar in a good way.”
from People Magazine
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PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA – Palm Spring police Chief David Dominguez apologized today for insensitive remarks made during sex sting in Warm Sands targeting gay men.
“An inappropriate comment made by me did not display the utmost professional conduct expected from the chief of police and I sincerely apologize to the community at large,” he said.
City Manager David Ready also offered his apology, saying a report on the sting showed police were unprofessional and made offensive comments.
The sting, which netted 19 arrests, was done in response to what police said were complaints about drug use, public sex and prostitution in Warm Sands. But some people complained that police were targeting gay men unfairly.
During a pretrial hearing, one defendant said a police officer could be heard using a gay slur on a video recording in an undercover vehicle. An attorney for some of those arrested said the chief was in that particular car.
The lawyer lodged a complaint, alleging Dominguez disparaged the arrestees to his officers.
“What a bunch of filthy mother (expletive),” he allegedly said. “You guys should get paid extra for this.”
The apology comes months after he disputed similar allegations relayed to him by City News Service.
“If someone told you I was in that car when that slur was made, that’s a lie,” he said. “And that is a total lie.”
That statement led attorney Roger Tansey, who is defending six men who were arrested, to question the chief’s integrity.
“Was the chief lying then or was he lying now, and what is the City Council going to do about it?” Tansey asked. “He was furious someone would  even imply he was in the car making obscene comments. Now, it appears that he did.”
Ready said any discipline to be meted out has been taken care of, without saying what that might have been. He said state law prohibited it.
In the city’s report, Ready said police should have reached out to hoteliers, businesses and residents to warn them about the sting operation. He suggested the sting could have been done with surveillance instead of undercover decoys.
Ready said police are revising guidelines for handling lewd-conduct complaints, requiring officers and future hires to receive sensitivity training. The city also is instituting a procedure by which complaints regarding LGBT issues, internal or external to city hall, will go through the city manager’s office
The issue will be aired again at a Jan. 20 hearing in which Tansey will seek dismissal of charges against his clients. He said police acted with discriminatory intent.
The police chief’s admission may further the cause, Tansey said.
“Certainly to the extent that you have the police chief calling them names and officers down the line calling them names, I would assume a judge would agree that is discriminatory,” Tansey said.
Tansey called Ready’s report a “whitewash,” because it did not specify that the city received specific complaints of men having sex with other men.
Ready did not return a phone call seeking to discuss the report.
Dominguez said he would learn from his mistake.
“I believe we have all learned much about perception and sensitivity,” he said. “While we are not perfect, we make every attempt to understand and embrace the diversity of our community.”
from The Valley News
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Adonis Tulum Hotel

A luxury hotel catering exclusively to the male gay tourist trade will open next month near the Tulum archaeological zone on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, the facility’s general director told Efe on Tuesday.
“The hotel is uniquely for men. That is to say, only homosexual couples are accepted, it’s not for women, although among our personnel we have heterosexual men and women and all have received specialized training to avoid having our guests feel uncomfortable or discriminated against,” Patrick Lurenz said.
He said that another prohibition will be on men entering the hotel with minors. Lurenz said that the Adonis Tulum hotel, the first establishment of its kind in the state of Quintana Roo, is now in the last phase of remodeling prior to opening its doors to guests in January.
He added that the Adonis is near the Tulum hotel zone, very close to the archaeological site of the same name and it has 94 luxury suites. Lurenz commented that once it is up and running, the hotel will provide 100 direct jobs.
“It seems to me that it’s positive that in Mexico there is an opening for homosexuals. Finally we’re talking about human beings who pay taxes, who create companies. I hope that some day unions between same-sex couples will be a federal law and not just on the state level,” he said.
In December 2009, the Mexico City legislative assembly approved same-sex unions and authorized them to be allowed to adopt children on equal terms with heterosexual couples.
The modifications pertaining to same-sex couples will enter into force on March 4, although this type of initiative has not yet been undertaken by other Mexican states.
from Fox News

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA – A gay coal miner has sued a Massey Energy Co. subsidiary, alleging that co-workers in several mines have repeatedly harassed him because of his sexual orientation.
In a lawsuit filed earlier this month in Kanawha Circuit Court, Sam Hall maintains that he was subjected to verbal abuse and invective and lewd gestures by his supervisors and other miners, even after he complained to management.
“Mr. Hall is gay and, given his gender preference, has been harassed by both management and fellow miners. Due to management’s participation and provocation, most of the pervasive ongoing harassment has been caused or encouraged,” the suit states.
The suit, filed by Charleston lawyer Roger Forman, names Massey subsidiary Spartan Mining Co. and No. 2 Gas Mine foreman Randy Thomas as defendants.
Last week, Massey Energy vice president and general counsel Shane Harvey called the conduct alleged by Hall “despicable.”
“They are serious allegations, and we take them seriously. We are going to investigate it, and if any of them are true, we are going to take action swiftly to remedy the situation,” he said. “However, at this stage, they are just allegations, and we are going into the investigation with an open mind.”
Hall first went to work as a “red hat,” as underground trainees are called because of the red helmets they are required to wear, at the Winifrede Mine in November 2005, according to the suit.
After Hall went horseback riding with a co-worker, the mine’s superintendent, Scott Lansenese, allegedly said that Hall had a “Brokeback Mountain” moment, a reference to the Academy Award-winning 2005 film about the relationship between two gay cowboys.
The alleged harassment continued at Spartan’s No. 130 Mine, where Hall began working in June 2007, according to the suit. Mark Delung, a chief electrician, used homophobic slurs and wrote them on Hall’s dinner bucket and then mine’s power center, Hall alleges. When he complained, and management told Delung to stop, the harassment escalated, including vandalism of Hall’s car, where co-workers attached a sign that read, “I like little boys,” according to the suit.
When Hall went to work at No. 2 Gas Mine, he was again submitted to abuse, according to the suit. Co-workers allegedly shook their penises at Hall underground, and when they were told to stop or be fired, the situation escalated, with slurs being written on his locker.
For three months in early 2009, Hall worked at No. 5 Block Mine, where the superintendent knew him from the Winifrede mine and would laugh at the abuse directed at Hall, the suit maintains. Hall became worried when the slurs escalated to violent threats, including “I would like to see all [expletive] die.”
In April 2010, Hall returned to the No. 2 Gas Mine, where mine foreman Randy Thomas engaged in persistent harassment, according to the suit. Mine superintendent Carl Lucas did nothing to stop the abuse, the suit alleges.
Eventually, Hall met with Spartan Mining Co. president John Jones, vice president Larry Ward and human resources director Kyle Bane, according to the suit. After promising to take care of the issue, they suspended Thomas for three days and transferred Hall to the Slab Camp Mine, where he continues to face threats and harassment, the suit maintains.
Hall accuses Spartan Mining Co. and its management of creating an oppressive and hostile work environment, and making no effort to resolve physical threats based on his sexual preference.
The suit seeks unspecified damages for lost wages and emotional distress. The case has been assigned to Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom.
from The Charleston Gazette

Mickey Rourke & Gareth Thomas

He perfected the aging professional wrestler who battled ill health to recapture his years past glory days, now Mickey Rourke is preparing to tackle another role in a man-to-man, aggressive, contact sport.
The sport is professional rugby where Rourke is to portray Welsh player Gareth Thomas who you may remember hit the headlines 12 months ago when he announced he was gay, a rare and brave thing to do for an athlete in such a sport. Sports Illustrated would later call him ‘the only openly gay male athlete’ and it’s hard to argue with that… can you name any openly gay players in football, rugby or any other team sport?
Rourke (58) met with Thomas (36) earlier this summer and a movie package is currently being put together.
There is of course a two decade and change age gap between them and Rourke is an All-American and clearly not Welsh and they look nothing alike but still, Rourke seems confident he can pull this off.
The actor reiterated his commitment to the movie on UK Talk Show Alan Carr Chatty Man this past Sunday…
I read the story. it’s one of the toughest, hardest sports in the world to play. They play with no pads. They play… it’s a really brutal sport. To be a man who plays rugby who is gay and to live with that secret for the amount of years that Gareth had, to perform at the high level that he performed at, it takes a lot of courage.
Sounds like an interesting role for Rourke and something of a passion project for him, and it’s very much a movie in the same mould as The Wrestler, a movie he was unlucky not to win the Best Actor Oscar for a few years ago. If he had been challenging in a year that didn’t include a stunning Sean Penn performance in Milk, he might have won it. And hey, as Penn showed in the year he beat him, playing a homosexual goes down well with the Academy…
Personally, given Rourke’s age difference with Thomas, perhaps he should be playing a fictional character ‘inspired’ by the Welsh player rather than an out-and-out biopic? That seems a little less complicated to get onto the big screen but either way, I hope this film gets made.
from Obsessed With Film

Elton John & David Furnish

Sir Elton John and David Furnish have become parents to son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, the couple tells UsMagazine.com exclusively.
The baby boy, who was born Dec. 25 in California via a surrogate, weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces.
“We are overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment,” John and Furnish tell Us in a joint statement. “Zachary is healthy and doing really well, and we are very proud and happy parents.”
This is the first child for John, 62, and Furnish, 48. The couple married in 2005 after 12 years together.
A rep for the couple has stated that they intend to protect and respect the privacy of their surrogate, and will not be discussing any details relating to the surrogacy arrangements.
from US Magazine

Richard Chamberlain

Richard Chamberlain, star of the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds, officially came out in his 2003 memoir but recently warned other actors from following suit.
“It’s complicated. There’s still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It’s regrettable, it’s stupid, it’s heartless, and it’s immoral, but there it is,” he told The Advocate. “For an actor to be working is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren’t, so it’s just silly for a working actor to say, ‘Oh, I don’t care if anybody knows I’m gay’ — especially if you’re a leading man.”
At 76, Chamberlain continues to enjoy a thriving career: though he currently plays an HIV-positive love interest for Ron Rifkin’s character on Brothers & Sisters, he has also had a slew of straight roles on Will & Grace and his new film We Are The Hartmans.
Despite it all, he believes it is still dangerous for a lead actor to reveal his homosexuality.
“Personally, I wouldn’t advise a gay leading man–type actor to come out.”
Chamberlain points to California’s Proposition 8 (which sought to define marriage as being between opposite-sex couples only and was eventually overturned though new same-sex marriages in the state are stopped pending appeal) as a sign that the gay community still has a long way to go in terms of acceptance,
“I have no idea [when a leading man can come out]. Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it’s still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8,” he added.
“Please, don’t pretend that we’re suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.”
from The Hollywood Reporter
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