“This is one of my first times trying one armed push ups so forgive me if the form is off, lol. I haven’t done a standard push up in as long as I can remember. I just lift weights. My quad actually isn’t touching the ground, it might look that way b/c of the loose shorts. Also, sorry for the little pause between push ups 3 and 4, I messed up a part of the solve.”
“This vid combines my 2 main hobbies. (lifting and cubing).”
National Coming Out Day was first celebrated on October 11, 1988, exactly one year after the historic March On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Today we mark the 24th National Coming Out Day, and continue to celebrate it as a day when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies proudly share who they are and encourage those who aren’t out of the closet to join them in an effort to ignite and increase discussions of and about the LGBT community.
When it comes to visibility and impact, it can be argued that celebrities have an especially large role in shaping the way mainstream society views an issue. Until recently, coming out of the closet could trigger the end of a star’s career and even now many in Hollywood remain in the closet. But more and more celebrities are opening up about being gay and, thus, changing and broadening understanding about who could potentially be LGBT.
Have a look at the stories of 41 celebrities who have come out of the closet HERE @ HUFFPOST
British artist David Hockney talks about how he came out of the closet or rather how he was forced out of the closet. He also remembers back to his art school days and painting Quentin Crisp.
Lady Bunny, female impersonator, tells her ‘coming out’ story. It sounds like is wasn’t a big surprise for anyone… until it came to the sex part.
Dan Savage offers some advice for kids coming out on National Coming Out Day (and in general) to MTV News:
“Coming out is not the solution to your problems,” he admitted. “Coming out is often the beginning of new problems. … We shouldn’t just blindly encourage kids to jump out. They need to come with a plan: who your parents are, friends are, whether you’re going to have support and then line up that support.”
Porn Star Eddie Stone tells us his coming out story. Eddie knew he was gay since having a grade school crush but it was his mom who forced him out of the closet.
On his newly revamped daytime show Anderson Live, Kristin Chenoweth discussed Anderson’s “big summer”, asking him what it was that made him decide, at this particular point, to come out of the closet.
Said Cooper:
“It just got to the point where — I’ve been torn for a long time between a desire as a reporter to just do my job and be known as a reporter — and at the same time I do think visibility is important. I do think that the tide of history only moves forward when everyone is fully visible….I didn’t want to send a message that there was anything I was ashamed about or unhappy about or not comfortable with. That was the main thing for me. I appreciate all the support I got and all the encouragement. I am the same person I always was, I do the job just the same way.”
We knew they had visual value, but now the blue swim trunks famously worn by Daniel Craig as James Bond in “Casino Royale” boast a hefty monetary value as well. At a James Bond charity auction in London on Friday, the trunks sold for nearly $72,000, according to the BBC.
Dame Judi Dench, a Bond screen staple (she will appear alongside Daniel as his boss, M, in the upcoming “Skyfall”), was on hand to introduce the sexy swimwear.
“All I’m going to tell you is they’re unwashed,” she joked.
Former Bond star Sir Roger Moore was also on hand for the auction, which celebrated the Bond franchise’s 50th anniversary, while raising money for charities including Unicef UK and Childline.
“Skyfall,” starring Daniel, Dame Judi, Ralph Fiennes and Javier Bardem, hits theaters on November 9.
