Russian Police Raid Pussy Riot Music Video Shoot for ‘Gay Propaganda’

The activist group says authorities attempted to shut down its latest production.

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Student arrested after racist & homophobic rant was caught on video

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Maria Bello Announces She’s Engaged and ‘Grown Up Enough for Marriage’

The actress announced her engagement to world-class chef Dominique Crenn at Elton John’s Oscar party. 

www.advocate.com/people/2020/2/10/maria-bello-announces-shes-engaged-and-grown-enough-marriage

That time everyone thought Renée Zellweger had married a gay man

After nabbing a Golden Globe, SAG Award, Critics Choice Award, and BAFTA, Renée Zellweger took home the Academy Award for Best Actress last night for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the film Judy. 

But along with Zellweger’s current renaissance has come a renewed interest in an old scandal: her four-month marriage to country music singer Kenny Chesney that ended with everyone thinking Chesney was maybe probably gay.

The couple eloped in May 2005, just five months after meeting. Four months later, the marriage was annulled, with the actress citing “fraud” as the reason for the breakup.

This led many to believe Chesney was gay, who neither confirmed nor denied the rumors. Two years later, he sat down with Anderson Cooper for a 60 Minutes interview to explain his side of the story.

“Maybe I should’ve come out and said that, ‘No, I’m not.’ But I didn’t want to draw any more attention to it, you know, ’cause I knew I wasn’t … it’s not true, period,” Chesney said.

The singer went on to explain that Zellweger had checked the “fraud” box on the annulment documents because the couple believed it was the “least harmful.”

Turns out, they were wrong. Checking that box ultimately sparked gay rumors that plagued Chesney for years and temporarily derailed his country music career.

“The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was going to be like, that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn’t,” he recalled.

In 2010, Chesney elaborated to Oprah, saying that his busy schedule that contributed to the breakdown of the marriage and adding “that and the fact that I panicked” and that marriage felt outside of his “box.”

“The idea of marriage made me lose my identity,” he recalled. “I just don’t know that I’ve found anybody bigger than that.”

Speaking to The Advocate in 2016, Zellweger finally explained the term “fraud” was “simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny’s character.” She added that the rumors about Kenny’s sexuality made her upset.

“It made me sad that somehow people were using that as a way to be cruel and calling someone gay as a pejorative, which has fateful consequences,” she lamented. “Of course, there’s the bigger-picture problem of why anyone had to make up a story at all.”

Neither Chesney nor Zellweger have ever remarried since their split, though both have seen their careers flourish. Zelleweger became 2020’s Best Actress. Meanwhile, Chesney has gone on to win various CMA and Billboard Music awards as well as five Grammy nominations.

Related: Billie Eilish’s facial expressions were the only memorable moments from last night’s Oscars

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Janelle Monae, Swing Voters, Snoop vs. Gayle, Gay Immigrant, Queer Eye, Coronavirus, Taylor Swift: HOT LINKS

NEW THEORY. There is no swing voter? ‘And today her model tells her the Democrats are a near lock for the presidency in 2020, and are likely to gain House seats and have a decent shot at retaking the Senate. If she’s right, we are now in a post-economy, post-incumbency, post record-while-in-office era of politics. Her analysis, as Bitecofer puts it with characteristic immodesty, amounts to nothing less than “flipping giant paradigms of electoral theory upside down.”’

BILLY PORTER. Rocked it once again.

JANELLE MONAE. Representing as a queer artist.

NO KIM. Trump says no more summits before election day: “Trump’s last meeting with the North Korean dictator took place almost exactly a year ago, and both leaders walked away empty-handed. Since then diplomacy — aimed at achieving the denuclearization of North Korea — has floundered, and as Trump focuses on his re-election campaign his appetite to engage on the issue has waned, according to the sources.”

SNOOP VS. GAYLE. Snoop Dogg clarifies his threat against Gayle King.

BIG FARCE. Gay immigrant came to U.S. from El Salvador and was then deported to Guatemala: “Pablo was still hopeful, he said, as he waited in government custody in mid-December. He had heard of others, including his cousin, who had crossed into the US earlier in the year and were eventually released and given the chance to make their asylum case in front of an immigration judge. But that hope evaporated the moment he was led to a government plane, accompanied by other asylum-seekers from El Salvador and Honduras.”

HOSTS OF THE DAY. Queer Eye hosts the Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar party.

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Thank you for everything you are & everything you contribute to our community @eltonjohn I had the honor of meeting & interviewing Sir Elton John for his lifesaving work at the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Interview on @ejaf @instagram Can’t wait for the party tonite. Good Luck & Congratulations @eltonjohn on your nomination!!

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CORONAVIRUS. Crew on quarantined cruise ship pleads for help: “Indian crew members posted a video to Facebook on Monday in which they begged the Indian government to come and rescue them. The Washington Post named one of the crew members as Binay Kumar Sarkar, 31, who said he was one of about 160 Indian crew members on the ship.”

STEPHANIE GRISHAM. White House press secretary claimed she’s getting iced out of big network appearances: ‘Appearing on Fox News’ “Hannity” on Friday, Grisham said every network but Fox Business “turned us down” when she offered them White House officials for interviews on last week’s events.’

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Friday feeling = pumped #ironparadise #getit #getit

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MALE MODEL MONDAY. Nolan Darlin, Enrique Dustin, Christian Hogue, Max Hamilton, Harry Goodwins and more.

LYRIC VIDEOS OF THE DAY. Taylor Swift “The Man”, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Let’s Be Friends”.

MONDAY MUSCLE. Michael Arafat.

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Chill (:

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