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Friday, June 27, 2008

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Nader Is Right About Barack & 'White Guilt'

Kimora Lee Simmons Gets How Much in Child Support?
Report: UN Envoy to Darfur to Resign
Subprime Home Loan Crisis A Disaster For Blacks

Brooklyn Woman Gives Birth on Train Platform
Prosecutors Look at Baltimore Mayor's Ties to Developer
Investigation into Fire at Teddy Riley Studio
Black Male to Male HIV Cases On The Rise

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Gays And Lesbians In The Black Community: Get Use To It!!!!

California is now the second state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage after the California Supreme Court last month held that a ban on same-sex marriage violated the state's constitution.

At 5:01 p.m. on June 16, 2008, gay and lesbian couples began getting married in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities. There were some African American couples among them, especially in Oakland, with its large black population and African American mayor Ron Dellums.

In the Beaux Arts splendor of Oakland's City Hall, dozens of people packed into City Council chambers to watch Dellums perform rituals for 18 same-sex couples. U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, served as one of the witnesses to the ceremonies. Each union was greeted by whoops, cheers and prolonged applause after the words, "I proudly pronounce you married under the laws of the state of California."

At a press conferenc, Dellums also offered congratulations to gay and lesbian couples planning to get married. "Marriage is a confirmation of the importance of love and commitment in a healthy society," said Dellums. "It is a fundamental right to which all people are entitled and I am proud that I can officiate the eternal unions of these Oakland couples."

Shidiva Black-White, 44, filled out paper work with her fiancé Sherri Black-White, 53, on a computer at the Alameda County Clerk's Office in Oakland, California so the couple could get married there.

Dellums said Oakland is "one of the most diverse cities in the country and we join in the celebration of this historic day of human rights for all people." The mayor said, "This is not about protest, this is about celebration."

Dellums and Lee are part of a cadre of prominent Black elected officials who have come out in favor of marriage equality. Governor David Paterson of New York issued a ruling authorizing his state to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, and Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts stood by his daughter as she came out as a lesbian and marched with her in Boston's annual gay pride parade last week.

Massachusetts is the only other state in the nation that allows same-sex marriage.

Alice Huffman, president of the California State Conference of the NAACP, has been described as a "forceful advocate of marriage equality" and the state NAACP filed an amicus brief with the California Supreme Court along with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. NAACP chairman Julian Bond has also been a longtime supporter of marriage equality for gays and lesbians.

Much of the media coverage about Black reaction to the court decision has focused on black opposition to gay marriage, and a recent report by the National Black Justice Coalition, an organization that supports marriage equality for gays and lesbians, found that blacks were more likely than whites (65 percent versus 53 percent) to oppose same-sex marriage.

That mirrors the 3BAAS Media Group poll we took on this site, with 37% of respondents fully supporting gay marriage, 58% ranging from indifference to strongly opposing, and 16% indicating that they were more concerned about the war in Iraq.

But Jasmyne Cannick, an outspoken lesbian and blogger, complained that the opposition only tells part of the story. In a published commentary in the Los Angeles Times, Cannick criticized the paper's coverage of the issue.

"[E]ven though Los Angeles is home to a plethora of respected black clergy that is affirming of lesbians and gays -- including Agape International Spiritual Center's Rev. Michael Beckwith, Rev. Eric Lee of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles and civil rights icon Rev. James Lawson -- those voices are almost never chosen to represent the voice of reason and African Americans on gay issues," Cannick wrote.

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Friday, May 23, 2008

Does Morehouse Have Beef With Brothas On That Gay Tip?

Between White Class Valedictorian Joshua Packwood, CNN Political Anaylst Jamal Simmons, and former prison inmate Genarlow Wilson, my alma mater is getting all kinds of media attention. But this latest piece on the cover of the Los Angeles Times California section has some of my brothers extremely hot and bothered. After the jump, check it out.

Michael Brewer, a senior at Morehouse College, was strolling purposefully around this storied campus on a hot spring day, his heavy frame dripping sweat, his hands clutching a small stack of fliers.

"No more hate," the fliers read, in a stylish typeface. "No more discrimination. No more." "What's up, brother?" Brewer said in a lilting, cheerful voice as he approached a fellow student in a dark business suit. "Take one of these, if you will."

The young man gave the flier a glance. It was promoting what was perhaps the most ambitious week of gay rights events in the history of Morehouse, the only historically black all-male school in America.

"What the hell is this?" he said under his breath. He laughed and threw it in the trash.

But Brewer had already moved, unfazed, into the lobby of Wheeler Hall, where he was taping up posters. The events had been his idea, and he knew they wouldn't go over well with everyone.

"Morehouse is like this enclave where Stonewall never happened," Brewer said, referring to the 1969 New York protest that galvanized the gay rights movement. "It just doesn't exist in this realm of reality."

Brewer, 22, didn't come to Morehouse with the intent of changing it. But he found that he had no choice. He had arrived here from Oklahoma City pretty comfortable with himself: outspoken, proudly smart and, at 5 foot 9 and 300 pounds, hard to miss.

Early on, he decided he wouldn't water down his gay identity.

And that, historically, has been a problematic strategy at Morehouse. The 141-year-old college has played a key role in defining black manhood in America. But with a past steeped in religion, tradition and machismo, it has struggled to determine how homosexuality fits within that definition.

The private school was founded shortly after the Civil War with the help of Baptists sympathetic to the plight of illiterate freedmen. Over the years, it became famous for turning out the vaunted "Morehouse man" -- a paragon of virtue and strength in a society that once institutionalized the destruction of the black nuclear family.

Traditionally, its students have been expected to follow a well-worn path: They were to choose ambitious wives, preferably from Spelman College next door, a historically black school for women. They were to become captains of industry, leaders of men, saviors of a race.

But now, more than ever, students like Brewer are forcing the school to confront a vexing question: Can the Morehouse man be gay? On a Thursday in late April, Brewer set up a folding table full of sign-up sheets in the Yard, the paved central square in the heart of Morehouse's compact, red-brick campus.

Down the street, the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel -- named for the school's most famous graduate -- was disgorging scores of students in suits who had been at a ceremony for top-performing seniors.

It was the kind of scene that has made generations of visiting black parents swoon with pride and possibility: a campus full of young, clean-cut black men, armed with book bags, talking about job prospects and big ideas.

Brewer was selling the idea of a day of silence for the victims of homophobia and asking his fellow students to sign up. He was wearing a T-shirt in the school's maroon and white colors. "Look, I'm sorry you're not a Morehouse man," it read. "I'm sorry you will never be a Morehouse man."

"Come on, Anderson brothers," he yelled to a couple of guys. "You're suited and booted. Look at you -- you're role models. Come sign up!"

After four years on the 3,000-student campus, Brewer seemed to know everyone who passed by -- the straight allies and the straights with hang-ups, the openly gay upperclassmen and the men on the down low, that is, straight to the world but open to gay affairs.

A trim ROTC member in a khaki uniform walked briskly by. "Renaldo, I'm looking for you to sign up, bruh!"

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

A Black Parent's Guide on What to Do and Not to Do When Your Child "Comes Out"

By Jasmyne Cannick

So after the principal in Memphis and then Tatianna, I've been giving a lot of thought to this never-ending issue of coming out as it relates specifically to Black families.

You'd think that in 2008, that parents would react differently when their son or daughter discloses information that nine times out of ten, the parents already knew, but as Tatianna's parents showed us all, that simply is not the case.

Many of us have been there and done that. Some of us are still getting dressed in the closet and have yet to come out. And behind us are generations to come of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender African-Americans that will some day find themselves where we once were, the point of no return.

I thought it might be worthwhile to hear from those of us who have been there before on the issue of "coming out" as it relates to the Black family, in an effort to catalogue our voices on the issue.

As sons and daughters, I feel that it's our voices that will make a difference with our families. Even those of us still in the closet, your voice is important too. They need to hear from us.

So with that said, I am going to leave this post open indefinitely to catalogue your input on what you'd say to Black parents who may be faced with having a son or a daughter "come out" to them. What did your parents do right when you came out? What did they do wrong? What do you wish that they would have said or done? How did your family's reaction to your coming out influence your relationship with them? How do you plan to react if your child is gay?

While coming out isn't relative to Blacks only, the purpose of this project is to hear from Black same-gender loving and transgender people on the issue. I'm not hating or diminishing the "coming out" experience for other races, but trying to keep the focus on the Black family and how being both Black and gay brings with it certain cultural nuances that deserve exploring.

Thanks!

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Friday, May 2, 2008

Black Memphis Principal Outs Gay African American Students: Was That A Bad Thing?

High School Principal Posts List Of Student Couples

Even though my high school girlfriend (now wife and mother of my two boys) use to get our smooch on back in the day on campus, I'm on the sistah's team as it relates to this!

Fed up with public displays of affection in the hallways, Memphis Principal Daphne Beasley is being accused of posting a list naming the school's teenage gay couples --without their O.K. -- violating their privacy, according to one of the students involved.

"I really feel that my personal privacy was invaded," Nicholas, one of the young men who claims his sexuality was exposed without his approval by his principal, told ABC News' Memphis affiliate Eyewitness News Everywhere. "I mean, Principal Beasley called my mother and outted me to my mother!"

"It was actually frightening," Nicholas said of the incident, which occurred in Fall 2007, "to see a list with my name on it where not just other teachers could see but students as well."

Nicholas, an 11th grader at Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in Memphis, was allegedly named, along with his suspected boyfriend, 10th grader Andrew, on a list of couples posted by their principal, Daphne Beasley.

"The principal did not list any information other than students' names on her personal call list, and she certainly did not specify the sexual orientation of any student," said Van D. Turner, Jr., associate general counsel of the Memphis City Schools Board of Education, in a statement provided to ABCNEWS.com. "Additionally, the list was never posted publicly anywhere at the school."

According to the statement, this "call list" was used by Beasley to "notify the parents of those children she knew to be involved romantically" after the school received "numerous complaints" of "explicit sexual behavior in public view."

The case has been taken up by the leading civil liberties group in the United States. "I really couldn't believe that a principal would have done something like this," said Christine Sun, the American Civil Liberties Union attorney handling the case after it was brought to her attention by Nicholas' mother.

As long as she didn't say who the partners were of these kids, I think the Principal Beasley was just trying to get the focus away from sex and back on the books. Given the horrible graduation rates we're seeing with our children, she's just doing what she's gotta do. Right? [ABC NEWS]

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Gay Subculture In Black Hollywood??? NAH!

Okay, so here’s the synopsis:

Everyone wants to know the truth about their favorite celebrities’ heart’s desire. Within the masculine culture of Hip Hop and Hollywood, there is a well-known gay subculture that industry insiders are keenly aware of but choose to hide.

It gets better under the hood.

Terrance Dean worked his way up for more than ten years in the entertainment industry from intern to executive, and has lived the life of glitz and bling along with Hollywood and Hip Hop’s most glamorous. With a family full of secrets and working in an industry founded on maleness — where one’s job, friendships, and reputation all depend on remaining on the down low and in hiding — Dean writes a revealing account of the journey of coming out from hiding.

Full of startling anecdotes and incredible true stories, Hiding in Hip Hop is not a traditional tell-all. A personal and poignant memoir, it is also one of the most provocative and honest looks at stardom and sexuality."

The book drops May 13th.

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

With All The Issues Black People Are Dealing With, Does Singer Rahsaan Paterson's Homosexuality Rate On Your List?

Sisters Lament The High Numbers Of Black Gay Men, But Are You Not Going To Buy This Brotha's Music Because Of It?

R&B music is having an interesting year for more reasons than one. Of course there were the much anticipated releases from Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Eric Roberson, and now Alicia Keys. But along with the good music came the admission from R&B singer Donnie just days after the release of his sophomore album The Daily News (Soulthought Records) this year, that he was gay. Does this mean ANYTHING to you?

On October 7, 2007, just several days after the release of his latest album Wine & Spirits, in an exclusive interview with BETJ.com’s John Murph, the talented crooner followed fellow R&B singer Donnie’s lead and broke his silence about not only his sexuality but his thoughts on homophobia.

Here's an excerpt R&B Singer Rahsaan Patterson...On Being Gay

Friday, October 26, 2007

Is Barack Obama Pandering To The Black Antigay Church Choir With Sidekick Donnie McClurkin?

The biracial brother is about to tour South Carolina with gospel singer Donnie McClurkin. Is this a good move?

Sen. Barack Obama's decision to tour South Carolina with gospel entertainer Donnie McClurkin, a self-proclaimed "former homosexual" who believes it is his mission to turn gays straight, suggests that Obama can't live without the support of the homophobic contingent of the black community, and the black church in particular.

But African-American politicians have already proven that black support is not contingent on homophobia. Few people remember that in 2004, the only presidential candidate besides Dennis Kucinich to support gay marriage was Rev. Al Sharpton -- both a mainstream black leader and a minister. Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Obama have all spoken out in favor of gay rights and against black homophobia. So does including McCulkin on his "Embrace the Change" tour signal a retreat on Obama's part? Can tacking on an appearance by openly gay Rev. Andy Sidden make up for McCulkin? (And wouldn't you love to be backstage on this tour?)

DONNIE MCCLURKIN'S GAY PAST REVEALED

It may be that the realpolitik of the black church operates more subtly than the Obama campaign has yet understood. There's always been a certain degree of 'give' between sacred and secular black culture. The overly serious demagogues are almost always cut down to size by larger-than-life fictional counterparts. For every Reverend Willie Wilson, the homophobic Washington D.C. minister who claimed that lesbianism was "about to take over" the black community, there's a Sherman Hemsley playing hothead Deacon Ernest Frye on the sitcom "Amen," with black viewers laughing along. For every Donnie McClurkin, there's a pop-culture hero like Tyler Perry's drag matriarch Madea. The media tends to use the black church as a barometer of community standards, but I think in real life, black people compartmentalize more than they get credit for, the way many Irish Catholics balance their deep faith with their deep irony.

Preachers may denounce gays on Sunday, but on Saturday night, a certain percentage of the congregation rented *Madea's Family Reunion," danced and drank all night listening to R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet." Black culture can accommodate everything from the Winans and McClurkin to Richard Pryor and Prince, who gets away with bawdy liberalism, gender-bending, and old-time religion, too.

IS BARACK NOW TRYING TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM DONNIE?

Black American churchgoers may absorb homophobic rhetoric, and preachers may promote fear and misunderstanding like Wilson, who claimed of lesbianism, "it ain't real." (As if he would know.) But the more general message of the black church seems to be that one should love the sinner and not the sin, and that Jesus can change homosexuals. These mandates may be misguided, but they are thankfully nonviolent, thanks to the legacy of Dr. King. Moreover, few black evangelicals here pounce on the issue with as much intolerance and vitriol as the religious in Nigeria or Jamaica, for example, where the church promotes violence against gays and homo homicide is even celebrated in the campaign songs of political parties. The ersatz black Jerry Falwells and Jesse Helmses, like Wilson, Chicago's Bishop Eddie Long, and L.A.'s Bishop Noel Jones, don't represent mainstream black thought the way those who touched the hem of MLK's garment, like Jesse Jackson, do.

Note that the backlash at Sidden's inclusion has not come from black church organizations so much as gay groups criticizing Obama for retaining McClurkin. McClurkin, for his part, hasn't even pulled out in response, though Obama has virtually done somersaults to justify McClurkin's inclusion. On October 25, as the tour began, Obama supporters from the African-American religious community and LGBT campaign leaders collaborated on a letter to the public which attempted to clarify their candidate's decision to keep McClurkin on board, stating, "We believe that the only way for these two sides to find common ground is to do so together."

Obama's gay advocates obviously support him regardless of this fumble. But his gay critics are right to ask why he thinks getting homosexuals to sit at the same table with anti-gay and allegedly "ex-gay" Christians represents some kind of balance. Had McClurkin been a Holocaust denier, my money says Obama would be "embracing a change" in his tour's entertainment lineup, lickety-split.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Obama is playing to both sides -- that seems to be what he's best at. He means well, but you know what they say about the highways in Hell. However, adding Sidden to the mix without giving McClurkin the shaft was enough of an afterthought to incense the gay community without fixing the problem. Did Obama overestimate the depth of the black community's homophobia and unintentionally solidify the stereotype about him -- that he's the white man's black candidate? Well, if Al Sharpton refuses to pander to the homophobic faction of the black church, why should anybody else?

By Slate Magazine's James Hannaham

Monday, October 8, 2007

The Latest On Jonathan Plummer, Black Author Terry McMillian's Gay Ex

Are We Hatin' On Plummer For Being Gay???

When Jonathan Plummer came out the closet during his marriage to Terry "Waiting To Exhale" McMillan, the fit hit the shan. Now that he's penned a pseudo-fictional novel, Balancing Act (Simon & Schuster), more drama in o7 seems to the theme between the warring former couple. And Marcus Books in Oakland, described by one customer as stocking books "by and about Black people everywhere," has allegedly jumped into the fray by refusing to stock his novel, which centers around a young man who falls in love with a wealthy older woman before revealing he's gay.

The book was loosely based on his relationship with his wealthy ex-wife, Terry McMillan, 55, and Plummer, 32, divorced in 2005, eventually settling for an undisclosed amount. McMillan appeared on a 2005 episode of Oprah, and bitterly explained that her relationship with Plummer went sour after he concealed the fact that he was living on the downlow. McMillan's relationship with Plummer reportedly inspired her to write 1996's How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

When Plummer announced his book deal earlier this year, all the negative attention seemed to work in his favor. Entertainment Weekly gushed over Act, claiming it was "so juicy, it sweats." But McMillan wasn't as enthused. The literary behemoth sued her ex for $40 million for attempting to tarnish her reputation. While the brotha has to make a living, it does seem like our girl got played big time and is still getting a raw deal. Or maybe it's just me.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

White GOP Men Keep Getting Caught With Their Pants Down: Is Gay The New Black?

United States Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer in a men's public restroom.

On Aug. 8, the married, 62-year-old politician pled guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the Hennepin County District Court. He paid more than $500 in fines and fees, and a 10-day jail sentence was stayed. He also was given one year of probation.

I AM NOT GAY AND NOW, I WANT TO CHANGE MY PLEA!

No longer associated with Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations as a result of this incident, Senator Craig is now claiming that this is all a big misunderstanding and perhaps he should have not entered into a plea deal.

Sound familiar? A day after four of Sen. John McCain's top political strategists stepped down, the Arizona Republican's presidential campaign was dealt another setback when Congressman Bob Allen, co-chair of his Florida campaign, was arrested for allegedly offering an undercover male police officer $20 to engage in a sex act.

Florida State Rep. Bob Allen faces charges of solicitation for prostitution after he was arrested in a Titusville city park that had been under surveillance, police said.

Claiming that he helped build the park and he was just there looking around, Allen initially indicated that this was "a very big misunderstanding." He would later blame Black folks for his predicament. "Those strapping buck negroes made me do it out of fear!"

Earlier that same week, U.S. Senator David Vitter, the southern regional chairman for Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign, was linked to the so-called DC Madam's escort service.

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The list goes on. Young Republican National Federation Chair Glenn Murphy is under investigation for criminal deviate behavior. "It was totally consensual. The dude begged me to perform oral sex in his sleep! What about Pastor Ted Haggard: I like meth, massages, and male prostitutes, but not gay sex with male prostitutes on meth after massages!

Let's not forget Paul Barnes: I prayed to God to cure me and he never answered my prayers! Or Mark Foley: I was molested by a priest! So now I just want to be of comfort to congressional pages!

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Curbing Homophobia in Reggae Advances With A Vengeance, Just Like Hurricane Dean

By Christopher Thompson (Time Magazine)

Reggae was once associated with politically conscious lyrics, Rastafarians and the palm-fringed shores of its native Jamaica. But forget Bob Marley singing about peace and love; these days some of reggae's biggest acts are just as likely to be advocating the killing of gays in their music.

The Most Homophobic Place on Earth?

And that has advocates like Britain's leading gay rights veteran Peter Tatchell up in arms.

A few years ago, along with Jamaican groups, Tatchell launched the Stop Murder Music campaign, aimed at bringing the genre to heel. Tatchell has recently succeeded in convincing some of the most notoriously homophobic figures in reggae and dancehall music to stop singing violently anti-gay lyrics like Jamaica-based artist Capleton's hit "More Prophet": "Shoulda know seh Capleton bun battyman [burn gays]/ Dem same fire apply to di lesbian/ All boogaman [gays] and sodomites fi get killed."

Buju Banton — whose smash hit from the 1990s "Boom Bye Bye" also advocates the shooting and burning of gay men — recently signed the "reggae compassionate act" after a three-year campaign by Stop Murder Music. Banton, a Grammy-nominated artist who broke Bob Marley's record of most number one singles in a year on the Jamaican charts, pledged to "respect" the rights of gays to live without fear of violence.

(Sizzla)

He is the latest in a series of high-profile artists, including Beenie Man and Sizzla, to sign the declaration after worldwide protests from gay rights groups resulted in the cancellation of hundreds of concerts and sponsorship deals, costing the artists an estimated US$5 million.

Since "Boom Bye Bye" was released in the early 1990s there has been a corresponding rise in homophobic violence in the Caribbean, although it's difficult to tell which came first — the music or the violence. According to Jamaican gay rights group J-Flag, the rise in homophobic violence culminated in reports of crowds lynching suspected homosexuals after concerts.

"It's a big positive step forward to get four of the top reggae artist to condemn anti-gay violence," says Tatchell, whose group was initially derided as racist when they began picketing reggae concerts in the U.K. and abroad.

"In Jamaica we grew up in a homophobic society and the Bible is what we go by," explains Vincent Nap, a Britain-based reggae artist. "You can't expect us to turn around like our religion doesn't matter."

"Blaming musicians for homophobia is like blaming gangsta rappers for gang violence," says Dorian Lynskey on the London-based Guardian newspaper's popular music blog. "They don't help matters, but they didn't create the problem, nor do they have the power to solve it."

For Nap and other reggae purists, most of the homophobia has been generated by dancehall music — the genre's aggressive offspring — and is not considered to be a true example of the reggae ideals of peace and mutual tolerance.

For Tatchell though, the struggle is not over. Stop Murder Music have their sights on four other big reggae acts who have a big international audience and are still considered to be homophobic: Elephant Man, TOK, Vybz Kartel and Bounty Killa. "The struggle for lesbian and gay human rights," he says, "is a universal one."

Saturday, July 21, 2007

BLACK ACTOR SHEMAR MOORE HAS "NO PROBLEM" BEING BUTT-NAKED, JUST DON'T ACCUSE HIM OF THE "F" WORD

Biracial Brother Cool With His Physique, And The Ladies

Shemar Moore recently caused quite a sensation after explicit photos of him surfaced – but the former model and Criminal Minds star says he has "no problem" with the nude shots that had mouths watering.

According to People, when asked by TV Guide.com about the pics, the TV actor, 37, replied, "You mean of me frolicking on the beach? You know, the worst part of that whole thing for me was the frolicking, because, to me, it sounds like I was skipping or something like that."

But when it comes to the pictures, he says, "Look, I had no problems ... What I have a problem with is their making such an issue out of me being gay. I'll say it right now: I'm not gay. Not even a little bit. I love women. Women are god's greatest creation."

(The photos were shot on a nude beach. It was allegedly a gay beach. Shemar indicated it was unisex, although he also was wrestling with another guy in the water.)

Moore is also quick to add, "But I have no problems with people who are gay. My godfather was gay; he died of AIDS. I have dear friends that are gay. I'm very straight. The article said I got 'caught.' I didn't get caught. I willingly went to Hawaii. I willingly went to Maui, with two girlfriends of mine. I'm a single man. I had two girlfriends out there, and we wanted to go skinny-dipping."

When Moore was also asked to assess what the lens captured, he had this to say, "...Thank god the water was fairly warm. That's all I'm going to say."

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

BLACK SOLDIER CHARGED WITH SPREADING HIV THROUGH GAY SEX WITH TEENAGER... AND HE'S MARRIED!

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — An HIV-positive Fort Bragg soldier with a wife and kids has been accused of knowingly spreading the virus to a teenage boy.

This is disturbing family, on sooo many levels.

Private First Class Johnny Lamar Dalton, 25, was charged last week with assault with a deadly weapon (his "Shemar Moore") , misdemeanor assault and committing a crime against nature. He is being held under a $50,000 bond and faces the same charges from the military.

Dalton was arrested after the Fort Bragg military police and the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office conducted a five-month-long investigation, where they found that the 25-year-old was engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy he found in a gay online chatroom and then met in person, the boy's mother told WRAL.com.

Click here to read the WRAL.com report

Last November, Dalton signed a written order agreeing to not have unprotected sex and to notify a partner before he did, a spokesperson for the 82nd Airborn Division told WRAL.com.

His encounters with the boy continued despite the order and despite his having a wife and children. In February, doctors conducting routine blood tests reportedly found that the otherwise healthy teen was HIV positive.

The boy, now 18, and his mother went to Fort Bragg military police and then to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.

"My son received it [HIV] unwillingly," the teen's mother told WRAL.com. "If you willingly and knowingly ... and you purposefully do something, you should suffer the consequences."

Both the boy's mother and military investigators are worried that Dalton might have infected other people who have not come forward. The mother has said she thinks that the Army should have better control over soldiers known to be infected with HIV or AIDS.

Dalton is a member of the 22nd Aviation Support Battalion and is not allowed to deploy because of the virus.

Military and civilian prosecutors will meet to decide who will take the case to court. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for August 2.

Speaking of Shemar... scroll to the next post to get the latest!

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

SHEMAR MOORE: IS GAY THE NEW BLACK?

The National Enquirer has the story, but what is actor Shemar Franklin Moore, 37, really doing at a gay beach... NAKED??? (As Seinfeld once said, "Not that there's anything wrong with it.")

CHECK OUT WHAT SHEMAR'S SAYING ABOUT THE PICS & BEING GAY

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Want more? The Mad Professah has a Black gay perspective you definitely need to check out!

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