Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin fell in love at a time when lesbians risked being arrested, fired from their jobs and sent to electroshock treatment.
On Monday, more than a half-century after they became a couple, Lyon and Martin plan to become one of the first same-sex couples to legally exchange marriage vows in California.
“It was something you wanted to know, ‘Is it really going to happen?’ And now it’s happened, and maybe it can continue to happen,” Lyon said.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to officiate at the private ceremony in his City Hall office before 50 invited guests. He picked Martin, 87, and Lyon, 84, for the front of the line in recognition of their long relationship and their status as pioneers of the gay rights movement.
Along with six other women, they founded a San Francisco social club for lesbians in 1955 called the Daughters of Bilitis. Under their leadership, it evolved into the nation’s first lesbian advocacy organization. They have the FBI files to prove it.
Their ceremony Monday will, in fact, be a marriage do-over.
In February 2004, San Francisco’s new mayor decided to challenge California’s marriage laws by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. His advisers and gay rights activists knew right away which couple would put the most compelling human face on the issue: Martin and Lyon.
Back then, the couple planned to celebrate their 51st anniversary as live-in lovers on Valentine’s Day. Because of their work with the Daughters, they also were icons in the gay community.
“Four years ago, when they agreed to be married, it was in equal parts to support the mayor and to support the idea that lesbians and gay people formed committed relationships and should have those relationships respected,” says Kate Kendell, a close friend and executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Lyon and Martin vividly recall the excitement of being secretly swept into the clerk’s office, saying “I do” in front of a tiny group of city staff members and friends, and then being rushed out of the building. There were no corsages, no bottles of champagne. Afterward they went to lunch, just the two of them, at a restaurant run as a job training program for participants in a substance abuse program.
“Of course, nobody down there knew, so we were left to be by ourselves like we wanted to be,” said Martin, the less gregarious of the two. “Then we came home.”
“And watched TV,” adds Lyon.
The privacy was short-lived. Their wedding portrait, showing the couple cradling each other in pastel-colored pantsuits with their foreheads tenderly touching, drew worldwide attention.
Same-sex marriage would become legal in Massachusetts in another three months, but San Francisco’s calculated act of civil disobedience drove the debate.
In the month that followed, more than 4,000 other couples followed Martin and Lyon down the aisle before a judge acting on petitions brought by gay marriage opponents halted the city’s spree.
The state Supreme Court ultimately voided the unions, but the women were among the two dozen couples who served as plaintiffs in the lawsuits that led the same court last month to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage.
They were having their morning coffee when Lyon heard the news on the radio. She rushed across the house to embrace Martin. Not long after, Newsom called to offer congratulations and to ask if they would be willing to be at the forefront yet again.
“Pamela and the kids have moved in with me. It’s awesome, man. It’s definitely working. You can tell on the kids’ faces — they’re happy when we’re together.â€
This relationship seems perfectly suited for reality TV — I wish them lots of luck!
“I personally don’t like it at all or condone it, but she’s my mom, so I have to show her support.”
Brooke also said that Linda’s new boyfriend is Charley Hill (19), one of Nick Hogan’s classmates. She went on to say,
“I went to school with him. He was a grade under me…Me and Nick know him well. Me and Nick are two years apart, and he was right between us (in school).”
That’s actually pretty damn creepy — dating someone that is the same age as your children. Hulk Hogan isn’t doing much better, with his Brooke Hogan look-alike girlfriend.
Maybe all the peroxide has fried these people’s brains?
“I really enjoy having sex, and that’s offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which I think is sad.”
Green’s girlfriend and FHM’s current No. 1 HottieMegan Fox says in a new online interview with the men’s mag.
Megan agrees, in fact — she takes it to another level.
“I haven’t met a lot of men who have said, ‘You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are.’ I’m young and have a lot of hormones—I’m always in the mood! But I like sex with one person when I’m in a relationship. Sex with random people who I’ve met at clubs is not really my thing.
I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I’d rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn’t mind.â€
I’ll have to admit, I feel the same way. Let’s just keep the crotch grabbing out of public. heh!
Not even cold hard cash can lure Lindsay Lohan out of the closet. Yet.
Lohan claims she told OK! magazine no when they offered her ‘around $1 million to do the cover’. All she has to do is confirm that her lesbian relationship is factual. One source said that Lindsay really wants this to happen and she needs the money. What dear Lohan objects to is that the magazine wants her come out about her relationship with special gal pal Samantha Ronson.
Lindsay’s people deny there ever was a deal claiming that “they sent offers and we passed.†While OK! magazine isn’t talking much and merely stated, ‘we don’t comment on future editorial’.
Oh Lindsay. We all know that you and Samantha Ronson dance around in your underwear and lip synch to “Secret Lovers.†Just do the world a favor and make yourself a little more interesting by being an out of the closet frolicking lesbian already. Hell, I will admit to being a one legged lesbian who is in love with some skanky looking DJ for $1 million.
Source: Lindsay Lohan Lesbian Coming Out [Popcrunch]
A desperately seeking attention Lindsay was spotted at the Dolce & Gabbana party on the French Riviera sporting a mahoosive ring on her finger.
Wearing a green, beaded micro-dress that barely concealed her hidden treasure, the drama queen denied her ring was paparazzi bait, insisting that it was the real McCoy.
The Mean Girls actress has told friends she’s happier with a woman and wants to arrange a partnership ceremony at Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s theme park, in July – around the same time as her 22nd birthday – though she still doesn’t have any sponsorship for the bash.
They had me going until they said Dollywood — that seems nutso even for Lindsay.
However, Lindsay’s father Michael Lohan has no doubt that the two are an item, he told US Weekly that their romance, “is evident to anyone with half a brain.”
A man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his “romantic” feelings towards vehicles.
Say what?
Edward Smith, who lives with his current “girlfriend” – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted that he was not “sick” and had no desire to change his ways.
“I appreciate beauty and I go a little bit beyond appreciating the beauty of a car only to the point of what I feel is an expression of love,” he said.
“Maybe I’m a little bit off the wall but when I see movies like Herbie and Knight Rider, where cars become loveable, huggable characters it’s just wonderful.
“I’m a romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what’s in my heart and I have no desire to change.”
He added: “I’m not sick and I don’t want to hurt anyone, cars are just my preference.”
Mr Smith, 57, first had sex with a car at the age of 15, and claims he has never been attracted to women or men.
But his wandering eye has spread beyond cars to other vehicles. He says that his most intense sexual experience was “making love” to the helicopter from 1980s TV hit Airwolf.
As well as Vanilla, he regularly spends time with his other vehicles – a 1973 Opal GT, named Cinnamon, and 1993 Ford Ranger Splash, named Ginger.
Before Vanilla, he had a five-year relationship with Victoria, a 1969 VW Beetle he bought from a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
But he confesses that many of the cars he has had sex with have belonged to strangers or car showrooms.
Mr Smith is now part of a global community of more than 500 “car lovers†brought together by internet forums.
This story is seriously disturbing… can you imagine the mentality? How many of you out there, are one of those 500 and willing to admit it? Send pictures to “newandyke@gmail.com”, heh.
source: Man admits having sex with 1,000 cars [telegraph]
Lindsay Lohan and her girlfriend, Samantha Ronson spent the night at Diddy’s exclusive yacht party hugging, kissing and holding hands.
It’s not the first time evidence of their true relationship has surfaced, Ronson was also recently seen sporting a hickey on her neck.
Dina Lohan has denied her daughters lesbian affair with Ronson, during recent interviews promoting her reality show “Living Lohan” — claiming they are only friends. Such a liar.
A witness at the party said, “They looked like proper lovebirds. And they didn’t care who saw them draped over each other. If they are together then it’s a nice vision of their love.â€
Ohh, now that is a bit of low blow on Jennifer’s part. John Mayer is her current love interest and bedmate. She is reportedly fawning all over him and thinks he is God’ gift. He even met Aniston’s BFF Courtney Cox. According to sources she is falling hard and serious for him. Jennifer Aniston has now taken to hitting below the belt.
“Jennifer is calling John the best ever lover. In fact, she can’t stop raving about his skills between the sheets – insisting the sex with him is way better than it was with Brad during their four-and-a-half-year marriage.”
Bitch please. I can’t help but think she still has a chip on her shoulder about Brad ditching her for Angelina Jolie. It was sad. Get over it. The source also states that she still isn’t over Pitt.
“It is no secret that every guy Jennifer has dated after her bust-up with Brad was merely a bit-player in her recovery process. Only now, in John’s arms, does she look even close to finally putting Pitt in the past tense.”
Knowing that Mayer is a total asshat, this relationship will be in the past tense as soon as John realizes that he is too pretty, she is too needy or she calls cheese toasties toasted cheese or something stupid. I really don’t know what she has to complain about. I doubt she has ever had to think about handbags or shoes to enjoy sex.
Source: Jennifer Aniston Sex With John Mayer Better [Entertainmentwise]
This is her?! This is what Shania Twain’s husband cheated on her with? Lange is blind, missing a limb and drools a bit right subsequently this was the best he could do correct?
Robert “Mutt†Lange cheated on the devastatingly gorgeous Shania Twain. Of course it ended their marriage. After 14 years of marital bliss, he has ditched Twain for some slutbag named Marie Anne Thiebaud who is picture above. Marie was friends with Shania and, of course, was the couple’s secretary.
“Their two families would vacation and spend holidays together,” says the source. “Shania considered Marie-Anne one of her best friends.”
Then, winning the award for douche of the day, Lange went and told People mag that his mistress wasn’t the cause of the breakup.
Riiiiiight. So you don’t agree on curtain color coordination anymore…that is why you are breaking up. Not because you were diddling your secretary. That makes total sense.
Source: Shania Twain’s Ex Hates His Penis [The Superficial]
Kelly Brook turned green with jealousy, after discovering Billy Zane had fallen for another stunning British brunette, just weeks after she ended their four-year relationship.
Pals say she couldn’t stand it when she found out he was seeing someone else, even though she was the one who broke off their engagement.
One said: “She was madly jealous and realised she wanted him back.”
Kelly split with the Titanic star, 42, in February and he moved out of their £1million farmhouse in Maidstone, Kent.
They kept the break-up secret for two months and remained friends, with Billy even telling her about his new love.
Gradually, she realised she wanted him back and set about wooing him over a series of long-distance phone calls to South Africa, where Billy has been filming new movie Surviving Evil.
Pals are shocked by her decision though. The source added: “Kelly could have any man in the world. She’s panicked but we feel she should have moved on. It’s clear he had.”
You never realize what you have until it’s gone.
What others said:
The Superficial says, “Okay, first, yes, I incorrectly reported that Billy dumped Kelly. Why I would think a man of that baldness would dump a girl of such boobness is beyond me. I blame the drink. Anyway, can you imagine being wooed by Kelly Brook? The girl thinks sex is an aerobic activity. What does she do for wooing? I bet it’s something really awesome. Like baking cookies or taking pictures of herself playing Mario Kart naked. Holy shit, hottest sentence I’ve ever written! This one’s going on the fridge.”
source: Truth behind love-split star Kelly Brook’s reunion [news of the world]
Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer were caught kissing at the wrap party for Jennifer’s new movie, Marley and Me.
Jennifer looked mesmerized as she stared into the five-time Grammy award-winning guitarist’s eyes, and then moved in to lock lips as they lounged at the party in Miami.
Guitarist Mayer has dated a string of other Hollywood beauties, including Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Jessica Simpson – and friends fear Brad Pitt’s ex may be heading for further heartache.
But the couple seem blissfully happy, and recently enjoyed a romantic break together in the city where there were also seen canoodling poolside.
A source told The Daily Mirror: “They appear to be in the honeymoon stage of their relationship. They were laughing at each other’s jokes and being very touchy-feely.”
I think Jennifer is a fool. I don’t think John is the “marrying” type — at least not right now. Jennifer is clearly desperate to have what Brad does, so it’s not a good mix.
On another note, I didn’t know Jennifer smoked cigarettes — Merit’s to boot, shameful.
source: Sealed with a kiss: Jennifer’s very public display of affection with toyboy lover John Mayer [daily mail]
There are many ways to measure talent in Hollywood. But for the authors of “Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back,” size is everything.
Borrowing the title of filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s classic scandal bible, authors Danforth Prince and Darwin Porter have dared to publish the pictures and stories too explicit and actionable for even the pulpiest supermarket tabloids.
Among those featured in full-frontal shots are Mick Jagger, Daniel Radcliffe, Ewan McGregor, John Malkovich, James Woods, Richard Gere and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. We leave it to you to decide whether all the snaps are authentic.
The authors also write about the reputed size of many other stars in the book, due June 1. Johnny Depp was known as “donkey d-”, they say. Sean Connery posed nude for art studies, and one student said:”It was the biggest I’ve ever seen. It made me drop my charcoal pencil.”
Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no one – especially not the dead, who can’t sue. Lack of sources don’t stop them from claiming:
Marilyn Monroe had an affair with Ronald Reagan. The authors also claim Monroe had a tryst with Joan Crawford but refused to make it an ongoing affair. “She had bad breath,” Monroe allegedly told roommate Shelly Winters. “Besides, she wanted to do things to me that no woman should do to another woman.”
James Dean showed a disconcerting interest in a 12-year-old boy in the early 1950s. Director Elia Kazan believed the tale: “I’ve known many actors who have been twisted up in their sex lives, but never anybody as sick and unhealthy as Dean was.”
Elvis Presley had a gay old time with Nick Adams, who played Johnny Yuma in the hit TV series “The Rebel.”
Lucille Ball launched herself into show business as a hooker, and her husband Desi Arnaz had a fling with Cesar Romero.
Cary Grant had an incestuous relationship with his stepson, Lance Reventlow.
Sir Winston Churchill got “musical” with actor and songwriter Ivor Novello.
Strange things happened to Judy Garland’s body (this in the chapter on “Fan Worship and Necrophilia”).
Police believed Bette Davis killed her second husband, Arthur Farnsworth, by hitting him on the head and causing a hemorrhage that lead to his death two weeks later. But a grand jury – six men who confessed to being ardent fans – found her innocent.
“I haven’t met a lot of men who have said, ‘You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are.’ I’m young and have a lot of hormones—I’m always in the mood! But I like sex with one person when I’m in a relationship. Sex with random people who I’ve met at clubs is not really my thing.
A desperately seeking attention Lindsay was spotted at the Dolce & Gabbana party on the French Riviera sporting a mahoosive ring on her finger.
Pals say she couldn’t stand it when she found out he was seeing someone else, even though she was the one who broke off their engagement.
