Ian McKellen: Secret Gay Life Like Being a Jew in Hitler’s Europe

Sir Ian:

“It was illegal for me to do (things) as a private person. Outside London, where I lived, there was no gay pub or bar you could go to. And even if you found one, it was, ‘Knock three times and ask for Louis’. It was horrible living this secret life. You could feel a little bit what it was like to be a Jew in central Europe during a certain period. It was horrible.”

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Tags: europe, Gay, gay life, Hitler, Ian McKellen
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 8:11 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 255486157 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/30/ian-mckellen-secret-gay-life-like-being-a-jew-in-hitlers-europe/Ian+McKellen%3A+Secret+Gay+Life+Like+Being+a+Jew+in+Hitler%27s+Europe2009-10-30+15%3A11%3A27Big+Hollywood

The NEA: More Than Just A Little ‘Gay’

Last month, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman said that, in American politics, ”the arts are a little bit of a target.  The subtext is that it is elitist, left wing, maybe even a little gay.”

Well, the NEA has certainly earned that reputation these past few weeks.  Just like the LGBT community, the NEA – which purports to help struggling artists of all kinds - is following in lockstep with The One, regardless of whether it’s good for artistic expression, free speech, or real people.

Last fall, I was amazed at how many folks in the gay community let themselves believe that getting Obama elected would be the magical first step towards achieving “equality” – at least in terms of appropriating the word “marriage” - despite the fact that He had already stated clearly that He is against gay marriage.

And no one seemed to care (much less recall) that, in 2007, The One had told CNN that building a consensus for gay marriage would be “difficult and distracting” – you know, like the Iraq war?  (Or gnats.) (more…)

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Tags: 'Health Care Reform, Andres Serrano, Art, Bobby Jindal, Chris Ofili
Posted Sep 22nd 2009 at 3:33 pm in Art, Politics | 22802273 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/09/22/the-nea-more-than-just-a-little-gay/The+NEA%3A+More+Than+Just+A+Little+%27Gay%272009-09-22+22%3A33%3A06Charles+Winecoff

Adam Lambert Turns the Other Cheek (Again)

Jewish, gay Adam Lambert seems to be more Christian than some “Christians” at the Baptist Church.  Ye shall know them by their fruits.  

Adam is a singer first and foremost, and initially it was his voice that drew me to him. His range, falsetto, and his ability to hold high notes were amazing. On “American Idol,” his choices in music, clothes, lighting and sets, always made his performances entertaining.  Indeed, I liked his whole performance package. Additionally, I was intrigued by his display of emotion, including the angry snarls and the steaming sexuality. I’m a Broadway and hard rock girl, and I liked the fact that he was over-the-top. 

Some of the exact things I liked about his performances, also probably made me biased against him personally.  I can’t really say I felt the kind of attraction to him that so many others professed.  And, his Goth look — the pitch black hair, black eyeliner and nail polish, coupled with his unabashed sexuality, didn’t exactly lead me, conservative Debbie, to believe that he’s the kind of guy I’d want to be friends with or whose values I would share.  Fortunately, I’m open minded, and as in my politics, I try to form conclusions based on fact, not superficial impressions.   (more…)

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Tags: Adam Lambert, American Idol, Baptists, Gay, Jesus
Posted Sep 16th 2009 at 5:51 pm in Celebrity News, Culture, Politics, Religion | 226946254 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dweiss/2009/09/16/adam-lambert-turns-the-other-cheek-again/Adam+Lambert+Turns+the+Other+Cheek+%28Again%292009-09-17+00%3A51%3A51Deborah+Weiss

Bulls-Eye: ‘Bruno’ Hits Hollywood Hard

“It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.” –David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap (1984) 

When it comes to humor I’m super picky. I physically cringed at all but one of the multiple fart jokes in Pixar’s Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. I still don’t get The Three Stooges. Call me uptight. Slapstick without redeeming intellectual humor, toilet jokes, sexual references, and ”shock” scenarios do nothing for me.  So how is it possible that I laughed myself sick while watching Bruno? That’s easy. Because, goofy as it pretends to be, it is a pretty smart film. 

You’ve probably heard that this film is about homophobia, but the story arc is about what it takes to become a celebrity.  Frankly, both facets are hilarious. 

This satire has real teeth, and it’s also fair. I completely disagree with the reviews that claim it mocks middle America, puts “innocent” people on the spot or casts them in a bad light. If anything this film ruthlessly savages Hollywood. The scenes with stage mothers are so appalling that the audience collectively gasped and groaned. One hopes that this exposure will, at the very least, lead to interventions from Social Services and cause us to rethink some of the “entertainment” exemptions from child labor laws. Cohen introduces us to women who are willing to have their babies/toddlers strung up on crucifixes, dressed like Nazis, subjected to bees/wasps, and driven in cars at high speeds without restraints. (Personally, I hope this leads to actual arrests). One toddler’s mother adds that she’s okay with all of that, “if he’s got the job.”  (more…)

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Tags: Bill Hicks, Bruno, Film, Gay, Howard Stern
Posted Jul 16th 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 18232262 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mflynn/2009/07/16/bulls-eye-bruno-hits-hollywood-hard/Bulls-Eye%3A+%27Bruno%27+Hits+Hollywood+Hard2009-07-16+12%3A03%3A38Maura+Flynn

Review: ‘Bruno’

One of the great Hollywood con jobs of the last five years was in convincing a mostly indifferent American public that a film with fewer domestic ticket sales than “Click,” “Mission Impossible III,” “Over the Hedge” and “Superman Returns” was some sort of cultural phenomenon. Wildly profitable? Sure. But any reasonable analysis of a modest $127 million haul shouldn’t be described as anything nearing a “phenomenon.” Luckily for “Borat” (2006) the right people were on board to hype up this nonsense-machine.

The “right people,” naturally, are mostly coastal elites who loved watching the everyday folks they so loathe cynically set up and manipulated to a point where they could be edited into unappealing, buffoonish caricatures, which isn’t to say a few weren’t truly unappealing and buffoonish, or that when it wasn’t gross-out disgusting the adventures of Sacha Baron Cohen’s clueless foreigner didn’t serve up a few honestly-earned laughs. But just the thought of joining up with the superior, self-satisfied smugs imperiously chuckling from Hollywood Hills and Manhattan skyscrapers as their personal jester demeaned we peasants cast a mean-spirit over everything.   (more…)

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Tags: Borat, Bruno, celebrity, Gay, Sacha Baron Cohen
Posted Jul 8th 2009 at 6:04 pm in Featured Story, Reviews | 179590139 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/07/08/review-bruno/Review%3A+%27Bruno%272009-07-09+01%3A04%3A17John+Nolte

Why Reagan Was a Better Friend to Gays Than Obama

I really thought my Republican platform piece here at BH would have been my last for awhile. Plenty for readers of all stripes to chew on. And I got too many other things to do. The reason for my reluctant return is yet another critical issue the Obamamedia and our LibDem government are completely flat-lining on: the officially sanctioned exterminations of LGBTs in Iraq, and on our dime. Not to mention State’s cold and lame response. More on that later. Too much more, actually.

First, the one of the main points of this fact-based opinion piece. And I know I’m going to catch hell from the Streisand and Brolin crowd on this one! Ronald Reagan was a hero to gays, and Obama has not been to date. I know, I know. The Evil Ronald Reagan, who practically invented AIDS? Reagan, the Adolf Eichmann of the Gay World? Not true. Not by a country mile!

In fact, Ronald Reagan was a better friend to gays and lesbians in his age than Barack Obama has been to gays in his. But don’t even go by what I say. I’m a right wing extremist, and very biased to what I believe. I admit it. Who isn’t these days? The press? LOL! But here are some irrefutable facts on The One and The Gipper I thought I’d throw out there. A gay buffet for thought, if you will. With swimming pools. And movie stars. (more…)

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Tags: academy award, Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences, al qaeda, Ali al-Sistani, AMPAS
Posted May 8th 2009 at 6:39 am in Politics | 12720213 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/05/08/why-reagan-was-a-better-friend-to-gays-than-obama/Why+Reagan+Was+a+Better+Friend+to+Gays+Than+Obama2009-05-08+13%3A39%3A47John+T.+Simpson

Lonewolf Diaries: Appreciate My Indifference to Your Sexuality

There, I said it. I can appreciate one’s creativity, I can appreciate one’s work ethic, I can appreciate one’s mental fortitude, but I cannot (and shouldn’t be required to) appreciate someone’s sexuality. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t believe that somebody’s sexual preferences should define them. The fact that I like women, doesn’t determine who I am as a man… My principles do. Am I so wrong as to think that the same litmus test should apply across the board?

So we all know about the “Perez Hilton/Miss U.S.A” fiasco. Perez carried out a low-down, dirty trick by asking a political question (a practice from which the judges are strictly forbidden) in regards to Proposition 8. He did so in an attempt to demonize a Christian contestant knowing full well that she held the institution of marriage as being exclusive to “a man and a woman.”

Now Perez could have chosen from a multitude of more appropriate questions to ask, yet (as always), it comes back to some sort of question about sexuality. (more…)

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Tags: Gay, gay marriage, Miss USA, Perez Hilton, prop 8
Posted Apr 21st 2009 at 9:32 am in Lone Wolf Diaries | 1116464 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/04/21/lonewolf-diaries-i-dont-appreciate-your-gayness/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Appreciate+My+Indifference+to+Your+Sexuality2009-04-21+16%3A32%3A40Steven+Crowder

Is Hollywood’s Hard Left Lost in Victory?

Politically speaking, it’s quiet in Hollywood. Too quiet.

It’s not a foreboding kind of stillness like the sunrise on a battlefield before the ranks are formed. It’s not an anticipatory breed of shush as “jocund day stands tiptoe” before a big game or the opening of Christmas gifts. (more…)

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Tags: bush, Gay, hollywood, Left, liberals
Posted Mar 4th 2009 at 6:33 am in Media Criticism, News, Politics | 7210246 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jslewinski/2009/03/04/is-hollywoods-hard-left-lost-in-victory/Is+Hollywood%27s+Hard+Left+Lost+in+Victory%3F2009-03-04+14%3A33%3A35John+Scott+Lewinski

My Real Time with Brigitte Gabriel

It seems obvious to me that national security is an everybody issue. And apparently, all kinds of people sign up for Act For America’s training seminars – Christians, Jews Hindus Atheists, lesbians, gays, people of all colors and creeds – not just trailer park stereotypes that the ill-informed automatically presume. Brigitte Gabriel is unabashedly gay friendly, feminist friendly, progress friendly, and more socially liberal friendly than her detractors would ever dare to admit – because, as she says herself, “that’s what Western civilization is all about.”

It’s not about calling women second class citizens and feeling supreme above all others. We’ve had enough trouble fighting supremacist movements here in the US already – and now we have a black President to prove the battle is almost over. So why are the Chris Roddas out there trying to malign and marginalize someone who is fighting to prevent another supremacist group – radical Islamists – from asserting their macho supremacy anew? (more…)

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Tags: actforamerica.org, beheading, Bridges TV, Brigitte Gabriel, Chris Rodda
Posted Mar 2nd 2009 at 11:20 am in Uncategorized | 6917446 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/03/02/my-real-time-with-brigitte-gabriel/My+Real+Time+with+Brigitte+Gabriel2009-03-02+19%3A20%3A22Charles+Winecoff

Eat Yer Peas, Drink Yer Milk

Surely many gay Americans have seen Gus Van Sant’s Milk through tears of joy because it marks a long-hoped-for arrival. For the first time in mainstream entertainment (at least, this is the picture that got all the fanfare), the history of the gay rights movement is presented as an elemental and welcome part of the story of the U.S., and not as a sidebar or novel supplement to the Great Historical Narrative.

Gays deserve equal rights. As a human being, that’s the only position I can possibly hold. However, you can be in complete solidarity with the cause of gay rights and not care much for Milk. (Whether you will be allowed to claim that distinction sincerely is yet another question. During the last election, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg wrote that the only reason you might oppose Obama is that you are a bigot. Is that the only reason one might dislike the similarly politically correct Milk?) (more…)

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Tags: dustin lance black, Gay, gay rights, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk
Posted Feb 19th 2009 at 5:19 pm in Reviews | 55370177 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mlong/2009/02/19/eat-yer-peas-drink-yer-milk/Eat+Yer+Peas%2C+Drink+Yer+Milk2009-02-20+01%3A19%3A47Mike+Long

Getting Louder With Steven Crowder: Hamas, Prop. 8 and Sarah Palin

As a follow up to my “GO TEAM ISRAEL” video, I dissect the moronic arguments commonly made by young Liberals involved with the “Pro-Palestinian” aka  “Pro-Hell-bent-on-the-destruction-of-Israel-Hamas-bastards” movement.  If the arguments addressed seem too paper thin to even give credence…  Trust me, I’m right there with you.  However, someone has to pestle these points into their astonishingly hard noggins… And I’m just the man to do it.

The unfairly attractive “Sarah Palin” is covered.  I also touch upon what are commonly referred to as “liberal elitists” and their gay marriage antics.  Oh leftists… What will they do next?

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Tags: Gay, Hamas, Israel, Obama, Palestine
Posted Jan 17th 2009 at 8:25 am in Politics, Video | 1679740 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/01/17/hamas-children-the-gays-and-sarah-palin/Getting+Louder+With+Steven+Crowder%3A+Hamas%2C+Prop.+8+and+Sarah+Palin2009-01-17+16%3A25%3A36Steven+Crowder