I know a lot of people have already forgotten about the original pregnant man, aka Thomas Beatie, but guess what he is not alone because another one has just popped up.
Let me introduce you to Scott More, the second pregnant man ever in the world, he is expected to give birth to a baby boy in February.
In the photo above you see Scott with his husband Thomas , as they show off the baby bump and give their story to the media. Let me give you a bit of information on them. They were both born female but have each had surgery to turn them into males, they live in California and are legally married because on his birth certificate, Thomas is still a female.
The couple, who are calling their new child Miles, already have two children – Gregg, 12, and Logan, 10, both of whom Thomas had from a previous relationship with a woman.
As for what other people think and if Miles will be bullied as a kid they said “We know some people will criticize us but we are blissfully happy and not ashamed. We’ve been through it already, my son Logan was bullied but now he just says to teasers: “You may have a problem with my two dads but I don’t so you’re not hurting me.”
You may be wondering how they are having the kids, well Scott couldn’t afford to have his full gender surgery so he still has his original female organs in his body and he was inseminated with a male friend’s sperm back in June 2009 when he became pregnant.
They are planning on doing a natural birth, speaking of the process Scott said, “We didn’t want everyone to be shocked when a man turns up to give birth. We found it very difficult to get a doctor and midwife at first. It was hard when people didn’t want to treat me. No pregnant person should be denied healthcare just because they are a man.”
I know these people and gay/lesbian couples in general will (and do) get a lot of trouble from other people for when they have, or even mention that they want, children but I really see no problem in it at all. I’ve always said to each his own and if people have a problem with it them stick your finger up at them. It really annoys me though that people can’t have or adopt children based on their sexual preference.
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source: The world’s SECOND pregnant man is ‘blissfully happy’ as he prepares to give birth to baby boy next month [Daily Mail]
Ever wondered what rapper Warren G thinks about gay people being on television? No? Me either, because I didn’t know who he was, but he is telling Vanity Fair that he is against it….
“I ain’t against gay people. I’m just against it being promoted to kids…I know people that’s gay. My wife’s got friends that are gay. I got family that’s gay. Cousins and shit. He cool as fuck. He cool as a motherfucker. He’s my homie. I just mean that on some of these TV shows, they got dudes kissing. And kids are watching that shit. We can’t have kids growing up with that…I know it happens, but let’s keep it behind the scenes. Ain’t nothin’ wrong with it if that’s what two dudes wanna do. Cool. But that’s not bring that out into the world, where the kids can see that. We don’t want all the kids doing that. ‘Cause that ain’t how we was originally put here to do. Like I said, I ain’t got no problem with the gays.
Is any of this even considered English? Anyway, this dumb shit doesn’t even deserve a witty comment from me. So make your own up.
So here is the photo of Miss California, Carrie Prejean, posing topless from the back that has been spread all over the internet and caused a lot of scandal.
Apparently there is more, and even more revealing, photos that should be leaking over the next couple of days. The bible thumping Prejean who by now we all know is opposed to gay marriage has also released a statement about these photos:
On April 19, I chose to answer a question during the 2009 Miss USA pageant in an honest and personal manner that expressed my views of the long-established definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. That answer, and my commitment to stand by my beliefs, has since resulted in attacks on me and my integrity as a woman. We live in a great country; a nation that was built on freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Yet my comments defending traditional marriage have led to intimidation tactics that seek to undermine my reputation and somehow silence me and my beliefs, as if opinion is only a one-way street.
I am a Christian, and I am a model. Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos. Recently, photos taken of me as a teenager have been released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith. I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be. But these attacks on me and others who speak in defense of traditional marriage are intolerant and offensive. While we may not agree on every issue, we should show respect for others’ opinions and not try to silence them through vicious and mean-spirited attacks.
With that in mind, I will continue to support and defend marriage as the honorable institution it is. I will continue to stand with the overwhelming majority of the American people and the voters of my home state of California. If this whole experience has taught me anything, it is our precious right to speak freely, and how we as Americans can never allow anyone or any group to intimidate or threaten us to keep silent.”
The distaste I feel for Carrie Prejean isn’t even funny, I wonder what jesus would say about this one. I haven’t seen Fox News talk about this yet, they probably won’t because they have been so far up her ass after the Miss USA Pageant.
Melissa Etheridge appeared on The View this morning and naturally got into discussing Prop 8, she ended up calling Elisabeth Hasselbeck out on she had discussed gay marriage on a previous show.
Melissa straight up asked Elisabeth if she was for gay marriage or same sex marriage, to which Elisabeth said it is a legal issue and not a personal issue.
Before things could get really heated, Sherri Shepherd had to interupt and get Melissa to sing a Christmas song from her new album.
Proposition 8 was a a ballot in California that restricted the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Funny or Die have previously got Pars Hilton to star in some of their skits, this time they have openly gay actor Neil Patrick Harris , some other celebrities and Jack Black as Jesus Christ.
Do you think Prop 8 : The Musical is funny or desperate?
I was always under the impression Prince swung both ways, now I guess I am wrong. The singer who has a huge gay following has just told The New Yorker that god doesn’t approve of gay people.
When he was asked about his thoughts on gay marriage and abortion, he “tapped his bible” and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ ”
I wonder what that will do for his sales and love from the gay crowd.
In other news, Wanda Sykes has officially come out of the closet loud and proud.
Speaking at a gay rights rally in Las Vegas over the weekend she said, “you know, I don’t really talk about my sexual orientation. I didn’t feel like I had to. I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life.
Everybody that knows me personally they know I’m gay. But that’s the way people should be able to live their lives”
She then went on to speak about California’s Proposition 8 saying, “now, I gotta get in their face. I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay.”
The celebrity reactions for Proposition 8 continue to come in.
Following blogs from both Ellen de Generes and Melissa Etheridge, it is now time for the ever educated Courtney Love to share her feelings.
In a friends only blog entry, Courtney writes one of her most confusing posts to date:
That prop 8 passsed! motherfuckers! who voted against it!
it was confusing language in malibu there were kids reminding us to vote yes thatthe language was conbfusing and people were votingno when they meant yes or soemthin
This confused me, I don’t have a clue what she is trying to say. Here is a screenshot of the blog.
Christina Aguilera is also speaking out against Prop 8, she tells MTV “I think [Prop. 8] is discrimination and I don’t understand how people can be so closed-minded and so judgmental. We chose an African-American president, and it means so much … [it's] a time in history of great change and open-mindedness. Why is this any different? It just doesn’t make sense to me. Why you would put so much money behind something [aimed at] stopping from people loving each other and bonding together? I just don’t understand it. It’s hard for me to grasp. But I would’ve been out there with my rally sign as well. Mormons aren’t gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?”
source: Nothing New: Courtney Love Is Confused [d listed]
Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.
Okay, cool I don’t mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We’re gay! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that’s not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS workers and gym teachers and such, they won’t have to pay their taxes either.
Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.
…Really?
When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation “eliminates the right” and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, “Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today” and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say “I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me”? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California?
I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
I know when I grew up gay was a bad word. Homo, lezzie, faggot, dyke. Ignorance and fear ruled the day. There were so many “thems” back then. The blacks, the poor … you know, “them”. Then there was the immigrants. “Them.” Now the them is me.
I tell myself to take a breath, okay take another one, one of the thems made it to the top. Obama has been elected president. This crazy fearful insanity will end soon. This great state and this great country of ours will finally come to the understanding that there is no “them”. We are one. We are united. What you do to someone else you do to yourself. That “judge not, lest ye yourself be judged” are truthful words and not Christian rhetoric.
Today the gay citizenry of this state will pick themselves up and dust themselves off and do what we have been doing for years. We will get back into it. We love this state, we love this country and we are not going to leave it. Even though we could be married in Mass. or Conn, Canada, Holland, Spain and a handful of other countries, this is our home. This is where we work and play and raise our families. We will not rest until we have the full rights of any other citizen. It is that simple, no fearful vote will ever stop us, that is not the American way.
Come to think of it, I should get a federal tax break too…
She says, “this morning, when it was clear that Proposition 8 had passed in California, I can’t explain the feeling I had. I was saddened beyond belief. Here we just had a giant step toward equality [with the election of Barack Obama] and then on the very next day, we took a giant step away. I believe one day a “ban on gay marriage” will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.”
I feel the same way, the country makes a step forward with Obama but then takes another step backwards.
A measure to once again ban gay marriage in California led Tuesday, throwing into doubt the unions of an estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who wed during the last 4 1/2 months.
“I think the voters were thinking, well, if it makes them happy, why shouldn’t we let gay couples get married. And I think we made them realize that there are broader implications to society and particularly the children when you make that fundamental change that’s at the core of how society is organized, which is marriage.”
Elsewhere in the country, two other gay marriage bans, in Florida and Arizona, were well ahead. In both states, laws already defined marriage as a heterosexual institution. But backers pushed to amend the state constitutions, saying that doing so would protect the institution from legal challenges.
Proposition 8 was the most expensive proposition on any ballot in the nation this year, with more than $74 million spent by both sides.
I say, let them marry and use that $74 million to feed the homeless.
Project Runway’s Tim Gunn has recorded a video to tell California voters to vote no on proposition 8, a November ballot initiative that would eliminate same-sex couples’ right to marry.
Gunn follows in the footsteps of Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt who have each donated $100,000 to fight prop 8.
If you’re in California, what are you voting for prop 8?
Steven Spielberg is the latest high-profile donor giving money to fight California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that would ban gay marriage in the state.
The director and his wife, Kate Capshaw, donated $100,000 to the No-on-8 campaign, the couple announced Tuesday.
“By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation. Such discrimination has NO place in California’s constitution, or any other,” the couple said in a statement.
Brad Pitt gave the same amount last week to Californians Against Eliminating Basic Rights. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. Barack Obama are also on record against Proposition 8.
source: Steven Spielberg Donates $100,000 to Support Gay Marriage [people]
And if the couple were to wed, Lohan’s dad Michael Lohan probably wouldn’t play the proud father giving away the bride.
“I haven’t heard anything (about an upcoming wedding) from Lindsay, but if she was marrying Sam, I don’t think she’d ask me to walk her down the aisle. She knows about my (Christian) faith … she just wouldn’t ask.”
That’s not to say that he doesn’t support Lindsay and a possible relationship with Ronson, he just supports her in more indirect ways.
“I want her to be happy and healthy and stay on the right path. If I discuss (her relationship), I say that I want her to be happy.”
source: Lohan’s dad not ready for a gay wedding [msnbc]
