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Family Equality’s Night at the Pier Confirms Four Tony Nominees to Appear on Stage

Family Equality’s Night at the Pier has added some freshly minted Tony nominees to its program. Darren Criss (Maybe Happy Ending), Cole Escola (Oh, Mary), Megan Hilty (Death Becomes Her) and Nicole Scherzinger (Sunset Blvd.) will appear on stage at the fundraiser set for New York’s Pier Sixty on May 12. Per the nonprofit, Criss, Hilty and Scherzinger will perform while Escola will appear during a program that will also feature Demi Moore, Debbie Harry, Bill T. Jones, Jim Obergefell and Marlo Thomas.

https://www.nightatthepier.com/

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Today, like December 7, 1941, will go down in infamy. A cruel, vindictive, sexual predator, a fraud, obsessed with himself only, became US President. God help us all.

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Another review:

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A review:

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It’s a bit after 11 PM and I’ve just gotten home from a day trip with a niece to NYC to see Maybe Happy Ending. I am so impressed with this show and the entire cast.

Darren and Helen are obsolete helper bots discarded to await their eventual system failure. Oliver is a model 3, Helen a somewhat more recent model 5.

I won’t go into the details; it’s so nice to see something completely new. Suffice it to say that everyone in the audience enjoyed it. I saw no empty seats at all.

The story is sad, happy, funny and feels very real. The sets are amazing. The music is lovely and moves the story along. I highly recommend it.

I’ve seen Darren in three musicals. I wasn’t too impressed in How to Succeed, I thought his voice was not as strong as the rest of the cast and the musical felt dated. Hedwig was fantastic and Darren was astonishing in the role. Maybe Happy Ending ranks as high as Hedwig. His voice is strong and sure and his portrayal touches the heart. Helen J Shen is also marvelous. This is essentially a two person show and they carry it easily. Dez has a great voice and stage presence and Marcus Choi is also very good.

Well worth seeing.

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Here you go

Brad Fulchuk did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He was asked if he wishes he did anything differently on Glee, what lesson he learned and about a possible Glee reboot.

I don't know how to make a link to the article, but it's easy to find if you google it. I can say that a Glee reboot is unlikely in the near future.

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We are in a climate emergency. We must not allow right wing politicians to slow/stop the process of moving away from fossil fuels.

The Gulf Stream is almost certainly weakening, a new study has confirmed. The flow of warm water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades, with grave implications for the world's climate.  The ocean current starts near Florida and threads a belt of warm water along the U.S. East Coast and Canada before crossing the Atlantic to Europe. The heat it transports is essential for maintaining temperate conditions and regulating sea levels.  But this stream is slowing down, researchers wrote in a study published Sept. 25 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.  "This is the strongest, most definitive evidence we have of the weakening of this climatically-relevant ocean current," lead-author Christopher Piecuch, a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, said in a statement.

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Knowing our history is important.

Submission: Silas Soule (1838-1865). He was an abolitionist and a member of the Immortal Ten (a militant abolitionist group) with John Brown, but originally worked on the Underground Railroad. He also helped other abolitionists escape from jail, and was actually the guy who gave the Immortal Ten their name! (Cue 'fish fear me, women love me' but its confederates instead of fish and me instead of women)

Later he joined the army, and proved his bravery at the Battle of Glorieta Pass. His commander at Glorieta Pass was called John Chivington, and he was known as the 'fighting parson' due to his religious extremism (tw: discussion of genocide from now on. I try to avoid the details, but yeah. Bad shit happens). Chivington was ordered to kill Native Americans, and he did so gladly. This culminated in the Sand Creek Massacre, considered one of the worst atrocities ever committed by the US army. Silas refused to participate in the massacre, ordered his men to not fire, and even tried to rescue some of the Native Americans. Afterwards he wrote to his previous commander detailing the massacre, and Chivington left the army in disgrace. If it wasn't for Silas, nobody might have found out about Sand Creek. Silas was shot dead one night, presumably in retaliation for speaking out against injustice. His murderers escaped punishment.

So he's a personal hero of mine. Since I first learnt about the Indian Wars in school, I've always respected his moral strength and determination to tell the truth. As far as I'm concerned, he's gorgeous as well. Apparently he was super friendly too, and had a great sense of humour! What a guy! Probably one of my longest standing crushes XD. I never shut up about him, as proved by the length of this ask, which could have been summarised as 'he's cute and also not racist'.

Oh, and a plaque was installed where he died, and people still leave flowers at his grace (he's buried in Denver, and its a dream of mine to visit his grave) <3

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I saw an interview yesterday of Darren and an Australian morning show. It was lovely. He spoke about his daughter and his music. At one point he mentioned that some members of StarKid would be performing as well. I thought about the nasty (always nasty) remarks the tin hats made about them for performing with him in LA and Mexico.

I’ve never understood the hate but I’ve chalked it up to them believing he’s too good for his college friends - that and the fact they were at his wedding. But it has occurred to me that the hate has more to it than that. They cannot accept that he is loyal. Loyal to friends and colleagues, loyal to his loved ones, loyal to his fans. You see, if he is so strongly loyal then how can they explain his treatment of “the love of his life” Chris Colfer? How can he be loyal, and loving, when he has hidden this relationship for more than a decade. Truly, at this point in time, 13 years after they met, why wouldn’t he just say that he’s realized he is in love with Chris and finally come out into the open? Why is he so fiercely loyal to everyone but Chris? There are two possible answers: 1) he cares more for the money and his career than he does for Chris, or 2) the Criss/Colfer relationship does not exist.

It has never existed.

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So I haven’t been on tumblr go awhile as I’ve been recovering from surgery. Took a look at Cassie’s site and found this. Talking about spreading love rather than hate and the two posts immediately following are nasty and hateful.

There’s a distinct disconnect here. She seems to have no self awareness at all. She and the other tin haters should do some introspection, try to find their way back to reality.

Not likely however.

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Location, location, location. The closer you are, the higher the price. My youngest lives a 45 minute commute to where he works in DC. The same price house in DC gets you a much smaller place.

His reasoning for moving to HK is the exact opposite of a deadbeat father & husband. Sounds like they just recently moved. I’m sure AB was nerve wracking during the end of her pregnancy/newborn stage. You truly never know what could happen. Now he’s a short walk away. Also, so funny that they’re so concerned about Darren saying they’ve “downsized”, that could mean a million different things for a NYC apartment. They have a huge home in LA, and they travel a lot. I’m sure their child(ren) will be fine. 

CCers are so weird. Why comment when no one knows what is going on? They cannot seem to help themselves.

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Sorry to bother you. I know this is not your problem. I can see that Metaloma is still active because she reposted you story. But when I try to see her blog tumblr tells me it is a ghost blog that doesn't excist. And I can't ask her what changed. Maybe you know.

I honestly don’t know. She shows up on my feed. I’m sorry, at my age I’m not at all tech savvy

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Been busy with politics the last few months. Dear lord, the hate from MAGA is awful; they hate Democrats, LGBTQ people, Blacks, Jews-the list goes in. So now I’ve come from sewers of right wing politics to the smaller sewer of CCers. Same hate, just directed differently. Flowers recently posted yet again about the “handshake” at Trevor live. Per the vipers, Darren met Mia there for the first time. Strange that there are photos of them together when his hair was longer, and they’ve claimed that she was Chuck’s girlfriend before being taped to be a “beard”. How is it then that he had to be introduced? And on a red carpet, not before? What’s the deal with using his left hand to shake? Who does that? And no actual handshake is seen. I would think it more likely that she was nervous about being in public. That would also explain her staying back while he schmoozed with other celebrities after. This weekend their panties are in knots because of an article in which he mentions his wife and child. Like married folks often do. They are like Pavlov’s dogs: say Mia and they foam at the mouth. Add in Bluesy and they have seizures. Today mmack (another reptile) posted a broadside about the coffee drink that Darren likes. It said that there was only a small amount of caffeine in a Ristretto as opposed to an espresso. So I looked it up. A cup of regular coffee averages 95mg caffeine but this can vary a lot depending on size of the cup and type of coffee used. Espresso averages 68mg while ristretto averages 63mg as per yourdreamcoffee.com. Per mmack this indicates a lie, I guess, because how could he be using it when “sleep deprived by a baby”. And how is a 5mg difference translated to one being a minimal amount of caffeine? Thus the great plot is unmasked! In reality it is just another excuse to spout hate toward Mia-a woman they have never met. Review their past postings. First they hated Ryan Murphy for forcing Darren into the closet, ostensibly to sell more records. Then they added Mia because they were dating and added Ricky (because he was a friend to Darren and Mia), blaming him for a lack of roles, which, as a manager, Ricky has nothing to do with. After Glee they briefly didn’t hate Ryan because he was going to help Darren come out. When he didn’t they restarted the hate to RM. They usually hate Starkids because they’re friends. It seems that loyalty and friendship should not occur if you are going to be a big star. They hate several actually gay men like Will, Ricky Martin, Rufus Wainright because they interfere with the snakes’ fantasy world. Now I don’t believe that they will change; there is too much hatred invested in their fandom. Like trump’s MAGA mob, they refuse to see reality. I comment here to try to get through to any fan who might think there is any truth to the fecal matter the CCers post. In case you’re wondering why I don’t go directly to their tumbler sites, I was a follower only to Darren Criss posts as I am to museums and libraries. After the wedding I saw a lot of cruel posts by the reptiles. I commented that they were being nasty about someone they didn’t know. The response from them was to first note that it was my first post/comment and that I sounded like a 34 year old, intimating that I was Mia. Then they blocked me. I am not Mia. I have never met her. I am old enough to be her mother. The fact that they can’t tell a fan from Darren’s spouse indicates little intelligence. They are foul, nasty, bloviating, belligerent bags of hate. Toxic.

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It’s a shame that Elsie Fest is a no go this year. I’ve been able to attend four of them and have very much enjoyed them. I look forward to next year.

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As a cis-het woman I didn’t want to post on LGBTQ+ issues this past month. So I’m going to give a shout out to the CCers who have been honoring this month by focusing on couples in television shows. It’s a shame there are no real couples, and so very few real life LGBTQ+ to celebrate.

Sorry, I just got a phone call from US DOT Secretary Pete a Buttigieg. He suggests that I look for examples in government; maybe a couple who have both written books and are raising young families. OK, I’ll try to find someone like that.

Oops, just got emails from Sir Elton John, Neal Patrick Harris, and Lily Tomlin, they all suggested I look into entertainers who have same sex spouses while also remaining popular with fans of all orientation. Elliot Page put a note under my door that states I should learn about trans entertainers who are living their authentic lives. I do wish I could find such people.

Dr. Alan Hart’s ghost came to me in a seance and suggested I look into LGBTQ+ physicians; some may even have made vital contributions to medicine. But where would I find that information?

Sally Ride’s spirit did some skywriting above my house. I wondered what she was trying to tell me.

The more I think about all this, the more I salute CCers for showing allyship with LGBTQ+ by focusing this month on a fictional couple made up of one out and proud man and one straight-identifying man. I’m certain that any actual LGBTQ+ folk are greatful as well. For the rest of you, here’s a place to start learning about real LGBTQ+ humans. https://blog.ongig.com/diversity-and-inclusion/famous-gay-people/amp/