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Meme: Boy George Is Coming To America, Ryan Gosling Gets a Text, Brad Bird Begins Work On "The Incredibles 2"

By Ed Kennedy
April 10, 2015 / 7:54 AM

Florida stops anti-gay adoption law, average guy walks runway at Fashion Week, 20 years of Lambda Legal

While it's just a budget amendment and not a law, the Senate voted along party lines to support the selling off of federal parklands via returning them to states that want to llow them to be stripped of mineral resources. That's terrifying.

No, no it wouldn't. And you have far too much faith in the public if you think it would be.

If you've got the stomach for it, you really should go read what undergoing reparative therapy does to your mind. And there are people out there that think it should be legal for parents to put their children through this.

Not wanting to look like some bleeding heart liberal after getting his Religious Freedom Restoration Act amended to mirror federal law, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson catered to the right by saying he no longer sees a need to sign an executive order prohibiting workplace discrimination for state employees, but he does see a need to sign a bill that will erect a monument to the 10 Commandments on the state capital grounds. I'd be upset, but I'm just anticipating how hard I'll laugh when the Church of Satan sues and gets to erect a statue of a naked aroused devil alongside it. Because you know they will.

While the Florida House passed a bill that would have allowed for discrimination against same-sex couples in adoption, the Senate almost as quickly killed the measure.

One Million Moms is ever so upset that ABC is developing a comedy about a young Dan Savage. My only regret is that the show probably isn't going to be all that transgressive, because I'd The Incredibleslove to see their reaction.

Brad Bird says that he's finally working on a sequel to The Incredibles. “I’m just staring to write it, so we’ll see what happens.”

In Louisiana, the business community is starting to get vocal to try and stop the License To Discriminate bill that's still being considered. The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Board has come out against it, saying it could cost the city over a billion dollars in tourism, and the local film industry says that they won't be able to attract talent to compete with Los Angeles and New York if the state becomes known as antigay. So like Indiana, it's becoming a battle of religion vs. business, two things that Republicans claim to support best. But who do they love more?

In what has to be the ballsiest ploy to fight marriage equality, South Carolina is going for a truly originalist reading of the 14th Amendment, noting that the authors originally meant it to only Boy Georgeapply to men, despite the use of the word "citizen." They point to writings where it's discussed that the amendment wouldn't give women property rights, so if they meant that, they couldn't possibly have meant for it to allow for gays to marry. Do they really thing that the women on the court will go for that? Or Kennedy? I think even Scalia would find that offensive.

Boy George is coming to America, and you can watch it Seriously, Bunim/Murray, the folks behind The Real World, are filming a docuseries about Boy George moving to the United States. The singer says you'll want to watch because “If Marge Simpson met Dolly Parton and went dancing with Ziggy Stardust, it wouldn’t come close to what you’ll see. Why now — why not? Why me — who else?”

I really thought I was over all the "Shake It Off" parodies, but, well, you know, RUGBY BUTTS! Actually, RUGBY BUTTS IN SPEEDOS. That and they changed the words and customized it to the team. And have a guy in a pink ballerina outfit. There's really a lot of selling points to this video.

You know how you're supposed to set your phone on vibrate when you go to the movies? That's probably good idea when you're doing BBC Morning, as Ryan Gosling found out. But I'm glad it happened, because "mortified" is really adorable on him.

There's a lot to love about Lambda Legal. They're not one of the splashier LGBT organizations out there. I don't get constant money begs in my email from them. But they're there where it matters, in the courtroom. And this video looks back on 20 years of their work to earn marriage equality. It's stunning how far we've come.

If you haven't watched the Last Week Tonight interview with Edward Snowden using dick pics to explain online privacy, you really should. But he also filmed this short piece with John Oliver to explain how to make better passwords. I actually used to use this technique years ago. Then I got lazy.

Tom, you're a mess

Does Colton not look like a twig in the pic with all those beefy guys? Like if this movie was set in the 80s, he'd be the tech geek on the team who never got laid.

Do you have to wear a condom if you're dating a balloon animal, or is that just weird? Maybe it counts as a threesome?

Ryan Willmer is (obviously) an incredibly hot cop who dyed his hair pink for Day of Pink to combat bullying. Then it went viral because he's the world's hottest troll. So he's taking retweets to decide how long he keeps it. 1,000 got it a week. Each 1,000 after than adds a day.

— Ryan Willmer (@RyanCP23) April 8, 2015

Biceps. That is all.

#CallOfDuty pic.twitter.com/uFCidb6cKO

— Nolan Gerard Funk (@nolanfunk) April 9, 2015

There's a lot of waiting in theater

— David Burtka (@Davidburtka) April 9, 2015

How do you sanitize after this?

What happens in Des Moines stays in Des Moines. pic.twitter.com/RAVoYiFHlz

— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) April 9, 2015

It only looks like he was invited to Hogwarts

— Matthew Mitcham (@matthew_mitcham) April 9, 2015

I tried to caption this, but my brain snapped

Just throwing signs w the Biebs @justinbieber And a great photo bomb by @FrankieJGrande pic.twitter.com/I1LNNszZOg

— Lance Bass (@LanceBass) April 9, 2015

So Barrowman married Bruce Weber's ideal A&F model?

— John Barrowman MBE (@Team_Barrowman) April 9, 2015

The fanboys seem to be going nuts for this

#AgeOfUltron #TheVision pic.twitter.com/441EeOzgTu

— Paul Bettany (@Paul_Bettany) April 9, 2015

Drag queen bingo? Sounds fun!

— Mark Salling (@MarkSalling) April 9, 2015

The End

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