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Meme: Victor Garber Has Never Seen Ben Affleck's Penis, Jennifer Lawrence Responds To Picture Hack, Whoopi Warns Conservative Christians

Darren Criss Rocks the Vote, Robert Downey, Jr. confirms Iron Man 4 negotiations, Ninth Circuit rules for marriage in Idaho and Nevada

Victor Garber Ben AffleckVictor Garber is not a terribly observant gay man, or perhaps he just has such good manners that he would never admit to having seen his dear friend Ben Affleck's penis in Gone Girl. “I’m sure it’s beautiful. Ben is one of the most striking, beautiful men on the planet. But I don’t remember. I’ve never seen his penis.”

As expected, the Ninth Circuit has struck down the bans on marriage equality in Nevada and Idaho on Equal Protection grounds, and noting the the Ninth Circuit has adopted heightened scrutiny when it comes to LGBT rights.  The rulings are stayed for now, with Idaho being an affirmation of a circuit ruling, but Nevada being remanded back to the circuit that originally upheld the ban, so it's unclear how long couples will have to wait for marriages to begin. This also clears the way for the rest of the Ninth Circuit, including Alaska (you betcha), Arizona, and Montana.

In my home state of West Virginia, the judge in the marriage equality case has lifted the stay and given the state two weeks to file their briefs in light of the Fourth Circuit becoming a marriage equality area. Then the plaintiffs will get a week to respond, and oral arguments might actually happen to waste a lot of Iron Mantaxpayer money.

Under serious pressure from Ellen DeGeneres while promoting his new film The Judge, Robert Downey, Jr. admits that Iron Man 4 negotiations are happening. By that he most likely means that he and Marvel haven't decided how many Brinks trucks have to pull up to his house before and after the movie opens. Considering the rumors circulating that The Avengers 3 will only have Tony Stark returning from the original team, to rebuild the group with newer heroes, there's a lot of pressure to keep Iron Man fresh.

We're creating monster chickens. I wonder if we could eventually create the chicken dinosaur?

New figures from the UK show that only 1.6% of the population identify as LGB. Men were twice as likely to identify as Gay/bi as women. This despite last months study that showed a whopping 26% of men reported having had same gender sexual contact in their lives. Is the UK moving beyond a gay identity?Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence has decided to speak out about her leaked nude pictures. “It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime. “Anybody who looked at those pictures, you're perpetuating a sexual offense. You should cower with shame.” But to me, the best part of her response is that she's not apologizing for the pictures existing, and nor should she. “I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he's going to look at you.”

The Human Rights Campaign has created their Hall of Shame with the 19 most anti-gay members of Congress. 18 are Republicans, with North Carolina Rep. Mike McIntyre picking up the only honor as a Democrat for sponsoring the Federal Marriage Amendment. All but one are male, with Rep. Michele Bachmann representing the female caucus. “If you want to understand why LGBT equality has hit a roadblock in Congress, you don’t need to look any further than these leaders of anti-LGBT obstruction and animus. These members go out of their way to oppose any step toward equal protection under the law or to protect LGBT Americans from violence, discrimination and harassment. They proactively work to undermine existing legal protections and promote anti-LGBT discrimination.”

Out NBC head Bob Greenblatt is also overseeing Universal Stage Productions, which has a growing slate of live action stage productions, far beyond his network's live production of Peter Pan this fall. The division has produced ten Broadway shows including Wicked and Billy Elliott.

BBC Music is preparing their launch, and to celebrate, they got every musician who has had a hit in the last 60 years to sing the Beach Boys' "God Only Know." You'll spot Brian Wilson, Sir Elton John, Lorde, Sam Smith, One Direction, Stevie Wonder and Florence Welch among many, many more, with a strange musical arrangement that seems utterly natural.

But on this side of the pond, Rock the Vote has got Whoopi Goldberg, Lil Jon, Lena Dunham, Darren Criss, EJ Johnson and more to encourage the young populace, who typically sit out the mid-term elections, to pick their cause and go to the polls and vote to support it. It's nice to hear this annoying song being used for good.

Speaking of Whoopi, on The View she brought up the denials of cert by the Supreme Court on marriage equality, and the entire panel celebrated, including conservative Nicolle Wallace. And Whoopi has a warning for conservative Christians: This is happening, whether you like it or not, and you may as well get on board.

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