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January 16, 2009
Time Out: Happy Leather Weekend
Judas Priest: Hell Bent for Leather4:21 pm Judas Priest, Leather, Time Out, video
(Be the first to comment)MAL Blowoff this Saturday
Blowoff Sat Jan 17th 2009
1:50 am 930 Club, Blowoff, Mid-Atlantic Leather
(Be the first to comment)"I have something to talk to you about. Let's watch a Sigourney Weaver movie."- Sigourney Weaver, on how gay teens can use her new movie to talk to their parentsSigourney Weaver wants gay teens to use new movie for coming out
Prayers for Bobby airs on Lifetime January 24 at 9 pm, January 25 at 8 pm and January 27 at 9 pm et/pt.
In Prayers for Bobby, Sigourney Weaver plays Mary Griffith, mother of Bobby Griffith, who committed suicide August 27, 1983, after his mother spent years trying to cure his homosexuality with religion. The movie “may be the best TV movie on gay issues ever” says Brent Hartinger at After Elton.
The movie is based on the book by Leroy (Roy) Aarons, who at 56 years old came out to his peers at a convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), and then founded the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLJGA).
From the Daily Express (UK):
Ryan Kelley plays Bobby in Lifetime’s ‘Prayers for Bobby.’
Weaver claims Leroy Aaron’s (sic) book of the same name, from which her new film was adapted, has become a tool some gay youngsters use to help their parents come to terms with their child’s sexuality – and she hopes her movie also helps.
She tells TV Guide magazine, “Prayers For Bobby is the book kids give their parents when they come out. This (film) will be another way for them to sit down with your family and say, ‘I have something to talk to you about. Let’s watch a Sigourney Weaver movie.’
“There are no aliens in it, there are no ghostbusters, but it gets them in the room.”
Daily Express | Showbiz :: Weaver hopes new movie becomes a tool for gay teens.
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(One comment - Leave yours)“Prisoner, Cell Block L”?
An L Word spinoff is in the works, but don’t look for Leisha Hailey’s Alice Pieszecki character to leave L.A. for London or New York. She’s going to prison.
Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt confirmed that a pilot starring Hailey has been shot. The Hollywood Reporter describes the show as a gritty drama set at a women’s prison that will not solely involve lesbian characters.
Leisha Hailey’s “Alice” Heading to the Slammer | Entertainment News | Advocate.com