Some of the Out 100...

[fajrdrako]

This listing of the significant 'out' people of 2008 is worth looking at for this picture of Barrowman alone. Good work, Greg Lotus! I like the watch, though it isn't quite as snazzy as a Time Agent's wristband. The item calls Anything Goes "frank and unvarnished", which I wouldn't quite agree with: the autobiography is totally honest, but selective. I love it that they casually call Scott his 'husband' rather than his 'partner'.

Very nice picture of Ian McKellen, who seems to always photograph well. It has info about McKellen I didn't know:

The son of pacifists, and a lifelong atheist, he has been out since 1988—the year in which the British government enacted a controversial act, popularly known as Clause 28, forbidding the "promotion" of homosexuality "as a pretended family relationship" in schools. That same year McKellen met with British Secretary for the Environment Michael Howard, hoping to enlist his opposition. Howard refused, but asked for McKellen's autograph. The actor gallantly pulled out a pen, before writing: "Fuck off, I'm gay."

I want to read McKellen's autobiography. He hasn't written one, has he? I wish he would.

Most of the people here, I've never heard of. Shows my ignorance, I suppose, of sports and American culture. I find this photo of Diana Nyad interestingly androgynous. I have heard of Luke McFarlane, but did know - or remember - that he's Canadian.

Where is the rest of the list? I have no time to browse right now... maybe later.

Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

OH SIR IAN I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Isn't he wonderful?

I'd never heard of him before when I saw him in a one-man show of "Acting Shakespeare" (if I remember the title right?) in the mind 1970s. I thought he was wonderful. And he was.

[louiex.livejournal.com]

Ooh is this an old list or is it going to come out in the magazine soon? I'm so snapping it up if it's going to hit the stands in the future~

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Me too. Worth getting.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Michael Howard = evil (though that's nothing to do with him being a Welsh Transylvanian – the Dracula jokes were rather tedious, and unkind to vampires). When he was Home Secretary, the stress caused by his Criminal Justice stuff gave my Dad shingles, which forced him to take early retirement from the Probation Service.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't recall seeing him on the list, maybe because it wasn't a name I'd heard of before.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

What? He's not on the list – he's the person with whom Ian McKellen had the altercation described in the bit quoted!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh. See, didn't recall the name - haven't had time to properly read any of it yet. That's what comes when you try to read fast at work.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

The ones illustrated mostly seem to be Americans I've never heard of.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

WOT! You've never heard of John Barrowman!?! :-p

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I said mostly. He, George Takei and Ian McKellen are the only people I'd heard of among those illustrated.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I didn't see Takei. Must go back to the site this evening.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I thought that, too.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous picture of John. (May we call him John?)

Sir Ian rocks in all possible ways.

I love Diana Nyad. I'm a "Marketplace" junkie and her reports are always so interesting.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

May we call him John?

I Don't think he'd mind.

Sir Ian is magnificent.

Is "Marketplace" a news show on TV?

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

National Public Radio (http://marketplace.publicradio.org). (The US version of the BBC, I guess you could say.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Right!

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

The pic of John is gorgeous. They're releasing the list in bits, according to the blog, Popnography.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So it's worth going back there from time to time. I must keep it in mind.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

WHOA! An image of JB I have never seen before!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous, isn't it?

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Sir Ian is indeed magnificent, always.

I imagine Melissa Etheridge is on this list. She was in the news on Wednesday. She has posted on her website blog that she will no longer pay California state income taxes. Because, as she says, the state now officially no longer considers her to be a full citizen, and so why should she? It's a large step. Her taxes apparently count upward of half a million dollars a year. It took my breath away to realize what a step she is taking: "Make an example of me, you bigots," she is saying. Good luck to her!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You mean she's... defying the law? I assume you mean she lives in California. Good luck to her: I wouldn't want to fight the Tax Man.

I wouldn't want to live in a state that denied my rights, either.