NPH would like his longtime partner/boyfriend/what-have-you to be called his “husband,” please:

“I`m not the biggest fan of the word `partner`. It either means that we run a business together or we`re cowboys. `Boyfriend` seems fleeting, like maybe we met two weeks ago,” said Harris.

“I`ve been saying `better half` for as long as I`ve been able to. I think it`s a little self-deprecating and clearly defines that we`re in a relationship, but it would be nice to say `my husband,” he added.

I completely agree. Part of the discrimination involved in denying gays and lesbians equal marriage rights has nothing to do with hospital visitation or estate planning. Sometimes it’s really simple little things like “how do I introduce my spouse to my coworkers?”

Personally, I’m a fan of using the word “husband” whether or not the government approves. It would be nice, though, when that time comes, to be using the word in the exact same sense as my straight friends are using it, with everything that it entails.

Look at this picture of Neil Patrick Harris’s husband David with their kiddos.  Just look at it.

Yeah, those are some traumatized babies, all right.

[OMG ADORABLE]

[via NPH's Twitter]

Oh, and the snapshots of the “ex-gays” who will be speaking at the next Love Won Out are pretty depressing too.

On the other hand, the shot of Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka with their kiddos does more for our side then anything we could say, and it’s hilariously featured in this video for Exodus’s “Love Won Out” roadshow, so that truly makes this failure in video form.

Oh, and the part where they show the pictures of Alan Chambers and Joe Dallas looks like an ad for a special fundraiser at a leather bar, or something along those lines.

Anyway.

[h/t Jeremy]

He won a People’s Choice Award, he kissed David, he went up and thanked David, and he talked about their kids.

[h/t Joe]

Everywhere you look, you see the menace of the homoseckshul agenda!  Well, if you’re Porno Pete, you do.  This is hilarious:

CHICAGO – Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) today questioned the propriety of “same-gender” TSA (Transportation Security Administration) “pat-downs” – if the TSA agents doing the “patting down” are homosexual, lesbian or bisexual.

Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano went out of her way yesterday to stress that the TSA pat-downs are “same-gender” – mostly to reassure women that men will not be groping them at airports in the name of safety.

“But what about homosexual TSA agents?” AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera responded. “Isn’t it just as inappropriate for a ‘gay’ male TSA agent to pat down male travelers as it is for a normal, heterosexual male TSA agent to pat down female travelers?

“The reality is, most traveling men would not want Barney Frank to pat them down at the airport security checkpoint,” LaBarbera said. “Neither would it be fair to assign Ellen DeGeneres to pat down female travelers. (In the same vein, the Army should no more force normal male soldiers to shower and bunk with homosexual male soldiers than it would force females soldiers to bunk and shower with their male counterparts.)”

Seriously. And honestly, I agree with him: I would not want Barney Frank patting me down at an airport security checkpoint, mostly because he’s a Congressman, and that would be entirely inappropriate. Now, because Pete is a wingnut, and wingnuts are scared of Barney Frank, I understand why he immediately suggested Barney. But Peter, how would you feel if it was Ricky Martin?

For some reason, I think he’d stand at attention and take the patdown under those circumstances.

Or what if it was Neil Patrick Harris? I mean, who in their right mind would reject a patdown from NPH?  Not me, and not you either.

In case you hadn’t heard, here’s a little human interest for you, which will probably make you go “Awwwww!”

It’s a girl and a boy for gay dads Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka.

Openly gay actor Harris tweeted the good news to his nearly 1 million followers on Friday: “Babies!! On 10/12, Gideon Scott and Harper Grace entered the Burtka-Harris fold.”

“All of us are happy, healthy, tired, and a little pukey,” he added.

YAY! Congratulations to the daddies!  And also kudos for the fantastic Southern names.

[resisting temptation to use emoticons here...]

[Photo:  FilmMagic]

There are so many, which is awesome, so here are a few that haven’t been posted here yet.

First, here’s the rapper Eve:

More after the jump.

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It’s Friday afternoon, so let’s take a break from Important News (I’m sure I’ll find some in a minute) and look at this piece in The Advocate on “The Most Popular Gays On Twitter.” Important stuff! Let’s find out if I know who any of these people are?

15. Chris Colfer [I do not know who this is.]
13. Michael Buckley, “YouTube personality.” [I do not know who this is.]
11. Adam Lambert [I know about this one! He is the one with the singing and the gayness, yes?]
10. Neil Patrick Harris! Neil Patrick Harris! Neil Patrick Harris!
9. Suze Orman [Heart her.]
6. Ricky Martin
4. Rachel Maddow! [It is nice to see a political lesbian that high on the list.]

Okay, that’s like half of them. Click over to see the ones I skipped, as well as the top three. If you want to skip to number one, click here. (Hint: she dances.)

This post, of course, is really just a shameless ploy to point out that I’m not on that list yet, so, if you feel so led, you may follow me right here. Also, Wayne is here, Mike is here, and Truth Wins Out, which is run as a joint venture between Wayne’s dog Doinkers and my dog Lula, is right here.

Oy, this might be cute overload…

About thirty minutes ago, Neil Patrick Harris tweeted:

So, get this: David and I are expecting twins this fall. We’re super excited/nervous/thrilled. Hoping the press can respect our privacy…

Will that be the cutest family ever?  Possibly.

Anyway, congratulations, boys!

In the future, any time one of our wingnut opponents starts spewing crap about how gays aren’t good parents, I’m viewing it as a personal attack on NPH, and you all should too.

(via Pink is the New Blog & Queerty)

Kristin Chenoweth, as we all know, is fabulous. Besides her obvious talent, she’s also an actual fierce advocate for LGBT equality, and she does it while wearing her strong Christian faith on her sleeve. So when a piece appeared in Newsweek wherein the writer, Ramin Setoodeh, expounded on his notion that openly gay actors can’t play straight characters and be believable, Kristin decided to respond. And oh, how she responded:

As a longtime fan of Newsweek and as the actress currently starring opposite the incredibly talented (and sexy!) Sean Hayes in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises, I was shocked on many levels to see Newsweek publishing Ramin Setoodeh’ horrendously homophobic “Straight Jacket,” which argues that gay actors are simply unfit to play straight. From where I stand, on stage, with Hayes, every night ‚Äî I’ve observed nothing “wooden” or “weird” in his performance, nor have I noticed the seemingly unwieldy presence of a “pink elephant” in the Broadway Theater. (The Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Tony members must have also missed that large animal when nominating Hayes’ performance for its highest honors this year.)

I’d normally keep silent on such matters and write such small-minded viewpoints off as perhaps a blip in common sense. But the offense I take to this article, and your decision to publish it, is not really even related to my profession or my work with Hayes or Jonathan Groff (also singled out in the article as too “queeny” to play “straight.”)

This article offends me because I am a human being, a woman and a Christian. For example, there was a time when Jewish actors had to change their names because anti-Semites thought no Jew could convincingly play Gentile. Setoodeh even goes so far as to justify his knee-jerk homophobic reaction to gay actors by accepting and endorsing that “as viewers, we are molded by a society obsessed with dissecting sexuality, starting with the locker room torture in junior high school.” Really? We want to maintain and proliferate the same kind of bullying that makes children cry and in some recent cases have even taken their own lives? That’ so sad, Newsweek! The examples he provides (what scientists call “selection bias”) to prove his “gays can’t play straight” hypothesis are sloppy in my opinion. Come on now!

Openly gay Groff is too “queeny” to play Lea Michele’ boyfriend in Glee, but is a “heartthrob” when he does it in Spring Awakening? Cynthia Nixon only “got away with it” ’cause she peaked before coming out? I don’t know if you’ve missed the giant Sex and the Citymovie posters, but it seems most of America is “buying it.” I could go on, but I assume these will be taken care of in your “Corrections” this week.

Similarly, thousands of people have traveled from all over the world to enjoy Hayes’ performance and don’t seem to have one single issue with his sexuality! They have no problem buying him as a love-torn heterosexual man. Audiences aren’t giving a darn about who a person is sleeping with or his personal life. Give me a break! We’re actors first, whether we’re playing prostitutes, baseball players, or the Lion King. Audiences come to theater to go on a journey. It’ a character and it’ called acting, and I’d put Hayes and his brilliance up there with some of the greatest actors period.

Lastly, as someone who’ been proudly advocating for equal rights and supporting GLBT causes for as long as I can remember, I know how much it means to young people struggling with their sexuality to see out & proud actors like Sean Hayes, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris and Cynthia Nixon succeeding in their work without having to keep their sexuality a secret. No one needs to see a bigoted, factually inaccurate article that tells people who deviate from heterosexual norms that they can’t be open about who they are and still achieve their dreams. I am told on good authority that Mr. Setoodeh is a gay man himself and I would hope, as the author of this article, he would at least understand that. I encourage Newsweek to embrace stories which promote acceptance, love, unity and singing and dancing for all! –Kristin Chenoweth

Oh, snap.

(h/t Timothy Kincaid)