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We can't know yet how the Supreme Court will rule on same-sex marriage in June of 2015, but we already do know this: The decision won't be based on a dispassionate reading of the Constitution. The 5-4 (or perhaps 6-3) ruling will be a reflection of the political orientation, values, and visceral feelings of each justice; as their "questions" (actually pronouncements) showed during the April 28, 2015 arguements session, every justice except perhaps Anthony Kennedy came into this case with his or her mind made up.
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Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931) is an American actor, singer and author who has starred in over forty films.
Like the autobiographical tome it's based on, "Tab Hunter Confidential" provides a colorful, likable and unpretentious look at the 1950s Hollywood dreamboat who was living a closeted gay life even as he was marketed as every bobbysoxer's ideal boyfriend. Sharing his subject's good humor about himself, prolific docu and DVD-extra director Jeffrey Schwarz ("I Am Divine," "Vito") has assembled a pleasing if less-than-revelatory feature that should prove particularly popular on the gay fest circuit en route to broadcast and download sales.
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Barry Manilow and his longtime manager Garry Kief tied the knot last year in a private ceremony. "It was a surprise," a friend of the couple says of the wedding, which was held at Manilow's Palm Springs, California, home and attended by "20 to 30 guests" who had been told they were attending a "lunch." "It's a beautiful love affair that has lasted more than 30 years," a source said.
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13-year-old Tom Sosnik, wearing a tallit and holding a kiddush cup, marked a transition into manhood with a special ceremony at his Jewish day school. He wasn't celebrating receiving a first prayer book or a first Bible, or graduating from one grade to another. He wasn't really observing his bar mitzvah, either. In what was a decidedly nontraditional event, the short-haired teenager was publicly marking his gender transition from girl to boy.
Sosnik's Jewish ritualized coming out as transgender in front of classmates, teachers and family at the Tehiyah Day School in El Cerrito, California, is believed to be the first time that a Jewish day school has sanctioned and performed such a ceremony. It hasn't gone without notice.
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An Indiana law that could make it easier for religious conservatives to refuse service to gay couples touched off storms of protest from the worlds of arts, business and college athletics and opened an emotional new debate in the emerging campaign for president.
Passage of the Republican-led measure, described by advocates as protecting basic religious freedom, drew fierce denunciations from technology companies, threats of a boycott from actors and expressions of dismay from the N.C.A.A., which is based in Indianapolis and will hold its men's basketball Final Four games there beginning next weekend. "We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees," said the president of the N.C.A.A., Mark Emmert. By Friday, March 27, 2015 influential national leaders, including Hillary Rodham Clinton and Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, had weighed in against the law, calling it a disappointing invitation to discriminate.
