7 Reasons To Watch (or Rewatch) “The Outs”. | BuzzFeed H/T Hunter Canning’s Facebook
Tommy Heleringer as Scruffy and Hunter Canning as Jack, two of the stars of the web series The Outs.
The “Chanukah Special” is terrific. A great cap to the series. Beautifully done on every level.
‘EastSiders,’ Gay Web Series, To Premiere On LogoTV.com.
Kit Williamson and Van Hansis star as Cal and Thom in the new web series “Eastsiders.” Watch at http://www.eastsiderstv.com
Awesome. Truly awesome. I can’t wait for this series to come to a larger platform. And I can’t wait until they finish shooting the season! Great stuff. Watch it if you haven’t already. Here’s a LINK to get you started.
Equality advocate Chris Kluwe of the Minnesota Vikings. Photo: Getty/Huffington Post.
Chris Kluwe, Minnesota Vikings Punter, Defends Gay Athletes In CNN Editorial.
Chris Kluwe is the best! He’s passionate and he just gets it. Also, he defies — utterly and completely — the stereotype of the dumb, uninformed jock. Which, in this case, I think, is perfect, since he’s all about breaking down stereotypes for others.
Like Brendon Ayanbadejo of my hometown Baltimore Ravens, Kluwe makes me want to root for the Minnesota Vikings simply because he’s on the team. Maybe I’ll pull for both teams this year!
O’Reilly Explodes At Laura Ingraham For Disagreeing With His ‘Thump The Bible’ Comments.|Huffington Post
Such a sign of the apocalypse. I’m agreeing with Bill O’Reilly.
Again.
Hunter Canning and Tommy Heleringer on the set of The Outs. Image: The Outs Facebook page.
Today is the release day of the last episode of The Outs, the fantastic Web series chronicling the lives of young folks in Brooklyn. It’s achingly well-written and acted. It’s also so nice to see terrific stories about gay people where they are just part of the fabric of the landscape and not “quota fiction.” You know: Insert funny gay friend here.
WARNING: THE OUTS WILL HOOK YOU. YOU WILL WANT TO START AT THE BEGINNING AND WATCH THEM ALL. SEVERAL TIMES.
I’m just sayin.’
I’ve been riffing lately on the emerging importance of the Web in storytelling on scales both large and small. We are just at the beginning of trying to figure out how to do it, how to sustain it, how to fund it, and how to build an audience. The Outs and creators Adam Goldman and Sasha Winters have, perhaps inadvertently, become one of the standards in this new world that we can look to and learn from. O, pioneers!
Take it good one.
P.S. — I’m on the road this week and no time to sit down and watch the final episode, “Over It,” so, don’t ruin it for me!
More:
The Outs homepage, Facebook
Me on The Outs here and here and here
HRC is encouraging everyone to wear red on Tuesday and Wednesday to show their support for marriage equality while the issue is being heard by the Supreme Court.
I’m on the road beginning Tuesday, so limited blogging for about a week and a half, unless I find something truly amazing to yack about. (Those desperate to hear from me, follow me on Twitter [look to the left] as I’m so much better at tweeting when I’m away than I am otherwise.)
Until then, please take a moment and send those anti-discrimination vibes to the Supreme Court on Tuesday and Wednesday when the justices will hear arguments in the Proposition 8 case (Tuesday) and the Defense of Marriage Act case (Wednesday).
We’re on the precipice of real and permanent change in this country. In spite of the fact that, to mangle a quote from Dan Savage, the land of the free and the home of the brave is usually the place where freedom and bravery come last, often we do get there.
Let’s make it happen.
Saw a tweet this weekend from Jian Ghomeshi of the radio program Q where he called The Housemartins “a damn fine band.” I agree.
The Housemartins were formed in 1983 and first hit big in the States in 1986 with the infectiously poppy Happy Hour. Later, frontman Paul Heaton formed the long-running band The Beautiful South and bassist Norman Cook became “Fatboy Slim.” An impressive legacy for “the fourth best band in Hull.”
In a previous incarnation, I was a Top 40 DJ, when there was such a thing as Top 40. And records. The Housemartins were a big deal during this time and I was just mad for them. I still have their first two albums on vinyl and everything they’ve ever released on CD. (What a nerd!) The cassette version of “London 0 Hull 4” was a near permanent resident in my Volkswagen Beetle’s stereo. It remains the only tape I have ever literally worn out. “Now, that’s what I call quite good.”
Archbishop Justin Welby. Photo: The Mail.
The new Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Communion, was invested in a ceremony with plenty of pomp and circumstance in Canterbury Cathedral in Kent this week, just two days after the new Pope was installed in Rome.
The Most Rev. Justin Welby made headlines in the UK by noting that many gay and lesbian couples have formed relationships of “stunning quality,” but he would not pledge to work to change the Church of England’s stance on same-sex marriage, though he did say that he thought that someday a woman would become Archbishop of Canterbury.
For all of his talk of inclusion for some, much of his rhetoric is as rooted in the dogma of the past as that of Pope Francis.
Although the governor opposes marriage rights and civil unions for lesbian and gay Ohioans, Nichols said the governor is opposed to discrimination.
“He’s opposed to discrimination against any Ohioan and, while he may have used the term ‘civil union’ loosely in this instance, he recognizes the existing rights of Ohioans to enter into private contracts to manage their personal property and health care issues.”
via Spokesman: Ohio governor misspoke when he said he supported civil unions – LGBTQ Nation.
Translation: I don’t discriminate against anyone that it’s not currently lawful to discriminate against in the state of Ohio.
Last episode of one of my favorite Web series, The Outs, will be released on April 1. The trailer is below. You should watch all of the episodes. No, seriously, watch The Outs!
Mark’s picks for other Web series worth watching:
A+ storytelling and fine acting. Proud to have contributed to their Kickstarter.
Frothy fabulousness. Super guest stars and production values.
Learn fun things with Grey. Terrific fun.
I love this series of grammar videos. Great marketing idea, this. Addictive.
One Last Word 