Obama Wants To Be Our Friend

Check out his newest Advocate interview.

The Advocate: Let’s start with what’s hot, why the silence on gay issues? You’ve only done one other interview with the LGBT press. I know people wish they were hearing more from you.

Sen. Obama: I don’t think it’s fair to say silence on gay issues. The gay press may feel like I’m not giving them enough love. But basically, all press feels that way at all times. Obviously, when you’ve got limited amount of time, you’ve got so many outlets. We tend not to do a whole bunch of specialized press. We try to do general press for a general readership.

But I haven’t been silent on gay issues. What’s happened is, I speak oftentimes to gay issues to a public general audience. When I spoke at Ebenezer Church for King Day, I talked about the need to get over the homophobia in the African-American community, when I deliver my stump speeches routinely I talk about the way that antigay sentiment is used to divide the country and distract us from issues that we need to be working on, and I include gay constituencies as people that should be treated with full honor and respect as part of the American family.

So I actually have been much more vocal on gay issues to general audiences than any other presidential candidate probably in history. What I probably haven’t done as much as the press would like is to put out as many specialized interviews. But that has more to do with our focus on general press than it does on … I promise you the African-American press says the same thing.

Mary J. Blige Friend Of The Gays!

Mary J. Blige sat down for a interview with the Advocate about her new album Growing Pains and her feelings on gay issues.

"The majority of my fans are gay," she tells writer Ernest Hardy. "The majority of them are, and I have to really make sure that they know I’m paying attention to the fact that they support me, and I support them."

"The real hip-hop, the real people don’t even care about that. They’ll love you and accept you no matter what because they know who they are. There are a lot of people trying to figure out who they are and what they’re gonna be. There’s a lot of confusion in that. Confusion causes a lack of identity. I’ve heard a couple of guys say foul things, and those guys are not around me anymore because when they say things like that, I’m looking at them like, What makes you so scared? You don’t know who you are? I guess it all boils down to them not being sure about themselves and what they wanna do, whoever that is. I won’t say any names. And I don’t dislike them or anything—it just makes me wonder about them period. ’Cause if you’re not sure about that, then you ain’t sure about a lotta things!"

Senator Hillary Clinton "I Am Not A Lesbian"!

Senator Hillary Clinton "I Am Not A Lesbian"!
I just really like pant suits.

New York Magazine is reporting that in the upcoming issue of the issue of the Advocate Senator Hillary Clinton is questioned by Sean Kennedy on just about everything and she does not come out looking very good.

Some hopeful gay voters take her carefully worded objections to marriage equality and interpret them as hints that she really, deep down, believes in it. But in the Advocate story, Clinton for the first time makes it aggressively clear that this is not the case. "I would tell you [if it was]," she said to Kennedy. "This is an issue that I’ve had very few years of my life to think about when you really look at it, when you compare it to a whole life span. I am where I am right now, and it is a position that I come to authentically."

Kennedy asks the senator directly what she thinks of the long-standing lesbian rumors about her, just because nobody ever has the balls to broach the subject. “People say a lot of things about me, so I really don’t pay any attention to it,” Hillary tells him blithely. “It’s not true, but it is something that I have no control over. People will say what they want to say.”

Oh Hillary.... I was hoping you might be on our side but maybe you're just as fake as your reputation. Who will stand by us?

Beth Ditto Gossips To The Advocate

BBW proud Beth Ditto the lesbian front woman for the band Gossip gave a wonderful interview in The Advocate. Here some hits but check out the full article. She is just fantastic!

So do you know who you're voting for in the presidential election?
I don't know who I'm voting for yet, and people keep asking me a lot. I think that on the one hand, people are surprised that I don't say “Hillary” immediately, but I just don't think civil unions are the best, because “separate but equal” is unconstitutional! It's bullshit, and we've been through this already.

When you were a kid, is there a certain singer that really resonated with you?
Miss Piggy is extremely iconic. There's no one higher than Miss Piggy. It's funny, but it's true -- she definitely was a huge influence on me as a teenager. Oh, and Patty Duke!

A party being thrown by an idol of yours whom you've never met before.
So, Roseanne Barr's gonna be there?

Roseanne Barr's gonna be there.

OK, so if Roseanne is there, I'd probably wear something hilarious. Like, I'd try to find that chicken shirt she always wore [on her sitcom]. Do you know that shirt, the one with the chicken eggs on it?