It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: California officials have officially made same-sex marriage official!
At 5:01 PM, clerks began issuing the state’s first same-sex marriage licenses. And, as a proper institution, the ladies went first. Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who have been together 55 years, inaugurated the festivities in San Francisco, while Robin Tyler and Diane Olson did it up in Los Angeles county. The latter were the original plaintiffs in the case that led to California Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the ban on gay marriage.
Gay Star Trek star George Takei is very close to boldly going where few men have gone before: into a loving marriage with another man.
With the California Supreme Court's legalization of gay marriage taking effect yesterday, Takei and his partner, Brad Altman, talked with The Early Show about being in the final stages of wedding planning, a process Takei calls "delicious anguish." Click through for the adorable video of the lovebirds.
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• Watching local news reporters lose their cool never gets old. [DListed]
• Another reason why we love New York: 53 percent of New Yorkers agree with Governor Paterson's support of same-sex marriages. [QT]
• Lindsay Lohan was spotted with a baby bump. Praise Xenu it's fake. [PS]
• More signs of the apocalypse: Britney Spears is being considered for an Emmy nomination. [INO]
• Randy Jackson thinks Clay Aiken is going to be a great father, but we all know Randy has questionable taste. (See: His obsession with David Archuleta) [ICYDK]
Tila Tequila, the STD-ridden reality show loser who does the GLBT community no favors, is clearly delusional. At last night's Hollywood premiere of The Love Guru, she announced that she played an integral part in California dropping the ban on gay marriage:
[The legalization of gay marriage] is because of me — I definitely think [my show] has helped the movement. Before it came out, everyone was still a little apprehensive about [same sex relationships]. Then they realized, 'Wow, everyone is really into this stuff, and it is fine.' The next thing you know, [gay marriage] is legal.
We're sure the Supreme Court took one look at Tila performing fellatio on a pickle and being passed around in a family hot tub orgy and thought, "You know what? This gay marriage stuff isn't so bad after all. Looks like good clean fun."
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So, those pictures of handsomepants boxer Oscar De La Hoya dressed in drag? Fakes, sports fans!
A group of experts who studied the photos has deemed that they were Photoshopped, just like De La Hoya swore they were and just like nobody believed for a second. Whoopsies.
Who knew strippers, celebrity photo agency X17 and the New York Post could be so unreliable?
David Beckham is so sexy and irresistible that, in what one newspaper calls "a new first," even his male fans can't help themselves. One such fella stormed the field when the L.A. Galaxy star was playing, hugging and high-fiving his hero. Then teammate Chris Klein knocked the guy down and pinned him until security got to the scene to escort him away. Below, see the fan get shoved to the ground! Then escorted off the field! It's all tres romantic.
Why is it that guys who use the word faggot are also the first ones to slap fight and whisper into each other's ears while bear hugging?
ARIAS WITH TWANG? "The New York City Opera has commissioned an opera based on 'Brokeback Mountain,' the Annie Proulx short story that became the basis for the 2005 Oscar-winning movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger. The critically acclaimed film caused controversy with its unabashed portrayal of a homosexual romance between two ranch hands. It won three Academy Awards. City Opera tapped Charles Wuorinen to compose the opera, which is to premiere in spring 2013."
Simply “perplexed” that he would be dishonored with an award for defaming gay folk, Bill O’Reilly recently hosted Mikayla Connell of San Francisco Pride so they could go over his anti-gay ways. Holier-than-thou O’Reilly, of course, deflects all the criticism onto other people, like his guests. What a man.
• This is Christina Aguilera's idea of "mommy-daddy" time. [DListed]
• A member of the paparazzi has been arrested for stalking Jamie Lynn Spears. Um, isn't that his job? [ICYDK]
• "ABC breaks obvious, rude news." [QT]
• The Sex and the City women have competing Marie Claire covers. We smell yet another catfight. [PS]
• Pete Wentz says he felt "content" once he heard the heartbeat of Ashlee and Joe Simpson's unborn child. [Us]
Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Lopez, Brooke Shields, Sumner Redstone, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, and Kirstie Alley were among the A-listers who attending TomKat's big Beverley Hills housewarming party. Page Six, however, also spotted "all the gays, which was hilarious because Scientology 'cures' gays."
WE HOPE THIS IS A JOKE "Clay Aiken is going to be a daddy. … Multiple sources tell us the mother is Jaymes Foster, a record producer and Clay's best friend. He lives at her home when he's in L.A. We're told Foster, who produced several Aiken CDs, is due in August. She's the sister of record mogul David Foster. We're told she's in her late 40s, though we could not confirm her exact age. Aiken is 29. We're told Foster was artificially inseminated."
• This is why we love New York: "Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada." [NYT]
• Britney Spears is being courted by Broadway. Nope, not joking. [DListed]
• The Guess Who's Eating Quiz. [PS]
• In all seriousness, someone needs to be keeping an eye on Owen Wilson in light of the Kate Hudson-Lance Armstrong romance. [ICYDK]
• "Xzibit’s newborn son, who was born prematurely on May 15th, died earlier this week when his lungs gave out." [SH]
Oh, the irony:
Which wife of a major real estate developer hired a private eye to confirm her husband is gay? Surprise! The investigator discovered the hubby was actually a regular customer of a female escort service.
We don't know by name many real estate developers, but we really, really, really hope it's the one we're thinking of.
Noted Hollywood star and heterosexual Will Smith appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’ television show on Monday to discuss – as Ellen is wont to do following some little California court ruling – marriage. Ellen, as you might have heard, plans to marry girlfriend Portia de Rossi, and so that is all she can think about, even if her writers might have put other talking points on her cue cards. So how has Smith, who is married to heavy metal singer Jada Pinkett, kept his marriage going strong for 10 years?
• Here's how not to put the gay rumors to rest: Get really drunk and take pictures with a lot of girls. [Jossip]
• The newest addition to the Spears family train wreck will be named Emma Jean. [INO]
• We always knew it would come to this: Amy Winehouse. In diapers. Don't ask us why. [DListed]
• Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson keep getting more obnoxious by the day. [PS]
• The Brangelina crazies are going to have to relocate for a few years. [Us]
• Pam Anderson says she spent Memorial Day with the love of her life. So she was alone, then? [ICYDK]
You didn't think we had forgotten about the weekly advice dished out by Spencer Pratt, did you? America's favorite d-bag is back, and this time he's advising a gay man on how to manipulate and humiliate his straight friends. Spencer dispenses a golden nugget of wisdom in which he points out that, without evidence, you have no case. So that whole thing where you and Heidi went on every talk show imaginable and declared that there really was an LC sex tape but no proof — what was that about?
It's called taking your own advice. Try it.
Those of you who can’t catch today’s Ellen, during which the lesbian funny lady grills Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on gay marriage, should dive into that there jump and watch the clip.
It’s perfect for that midday slump…
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