Cher: My People

Metro.

'My people'!

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

God, she's mad.

Or, thank god she's mad.

Tweet Of The Day: Cher

I Don't Get It..Why r There GAY Republicans? They Think u r An Abomination Against Their Religion,Wont Go 2 ur Marriage,Or Christenings.WHY?

— Cher (@cher) May 27, 2015

Thank U CHER! AlwaYS Luv reeding yr TWEETS! x

Cher: Moral Agent

Cher was not asked to play Sochi - -the Olympic committee have confirmed.
She was however asked to play at the apartheidtastic Sun City - and did.
A true moral agent, I'm sure you'll agree.

Russia: None More Gay

Odd that at the Opening Ceremony Cher said she'd refused to perform at, it was all people from the host country - as usually happens at these Olympic ceremony things, like in London 2012.
Not that I'm calling the mad cow a liar for saying she was asked to play.

Cher: Not Especially For You

Cher shares the gayest video ever made for one of her songs

Cher knows her gay fan base exceptionally well.

On Wednesday (20 November), the ageless star tweeted out some fresh meat for those fans - make that fresh beefcake.

'Some friends made me a present for Take it Like a Man,' the icon wrote on Twitter along with a link to a YouTube video.

The video, titled Take it Like a Man 7th Heaven Remix, features an endless array of perfectly buff and handsome dudes wearing very little doing things like washing a car with each other's bodies and frolicking on a beach....

Gay Star News.

This is not a Cher video.

The clue's in the obvious fact that Cher's not in it.

It's some old footage for promos for Andrew Christian's revolting overpriced underwear.

Like this stupid one made in September.

But someone's now put a crappy remix of a new Cher track under it.

Gay Star Newsflash!!!
Are we meant to be grateful?

Wow! Cher must really love us gayz!

Almost as much as the pants manufacturer loves us.

Do you not think these people are laughing all the way to the big pink bank while fools like GSN regurgitate this crap and think their readers will fall for it?
Why worry if the gay media are just whoring themselves, when fools like this just give it away for free?

PS Don't forget, Cher loves The Gayz so much she refused to perform at the Sochi Olympics opening ceremony!

Which is good of her - except that the Olympic organising committee said she was never asked to play in the first place.

No matter, Cher will always refuse to take the money and sing for oppressive regimes.

That's why she played South Africa's Sun City during the apartheid years. 

You "go", "girl"! etc.

PS At last... a shameless shitty PR campaign for expensive pants brings freedom to North Korea.
No, sadly this is not a satire!

Alan Turing: Cryptanalyst With Attitude

One of six Attitude Awards edition covers.
Shame they couldn't find a shirtless pic.
And as David Jørgensen has pointed out, it seems odd Alan Turing is an "icon", while Cher is a "legend".

There's a habit to fetishise and mythologise Turing as the great gay martyr (he may not have committed suicide, and if he did there's no clear link between it and his arrest and treatment, and he was just one of over 16,000 British men convicted for now legal homosexual acts), who broke the Enigma Code (he didn't), single-handedly won the Second World War, and invented the computer (he didn't), but I must confess I like this cover and - oh dear - actually find it rather moving in its understatement. 

I'm sure Alan would have found it all a bit embarrassing though.

PS "First look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game'!

Update: Hilariously, The Sun covered the Attitude Awards by running photos of some of the famous sexy ladies who turned up.

Daniel Radcliffe: Media Gaga

 

Daniel Radcliffe aims for a new kind of magic in Freddie Mercury biopic

Harry Potter star is sought to replace Sacha Baron Cohen after the Borat actor bit the dust over alleged creative differences Harry Potter star is sought to replace Sacha Baron Cohen after the Borat actor bit the dust over alleged creative differences

The Guardian.

This story has "gone viral" - just like dysentery did.
There are now over 75 (and counting) news stories internationally on Google News.
Like The Guardian, their source is "an unnamed source" in Sunday's Daily Star - I Wand To Break Free! Daniel Radcliffe To Play Freddie Mercury.
Eh? An unnamed source in the Star??!
No need to check that, then!
Precious few expressed any doubt - I've yet to see any hack that's tried to check it - the gay media in particular have taken it as gospel.
Fagburn has offered a simple challenge...

Dear journalists of the world, Here's the number for Daniel Radcliffe's agent - 020 7436 6400 - why not call them and check the story?
— Read Fagburn.com  (@Fagburn) September 24, 2013

I wonder if anyone will?
Bit hopeful asking journalists to maintain basic journalistic standards, I know. 

I wouldn't hold your breath - how many media have reported the statement from the Olympics organising committee; "There have never been any negotiations with Cher about her possible participation in the ceremonies."
Mind you, that was about the Great Satan Russia so you can lie as much as you want.

Selena Gomez: Gay Rights Hero And Brave Martyr To The Cause!

Pop star Selena Gomez was forced to cancel two concerts in Russia today after government officials denied her visa, reportedly related to stricter transit laws for foreign artists linked to the country's controversial anti-gay legislation.
The singer had been slated to perform at St. Petersburg's Ice Palace on Sept. 23 and Moscow's Olimpiisky Stadium on Sept. 25.
Prior to the cancellation of these two shows, Gomez was facing pressure to take a stand on LGBT rights in the former Soviet Union as the subject of a Change.org petition. The petition called on Gomez to speak out and "let LGBT folks in Russia know that we stand with them, and that they are not alone." It reached over 1,000 signatures before the news of Gomez's denied visa became public.
John Becker, petition author and LGBT blogger at Bilerico, said in a statement to The Huffington Post: 

Huffpost Gay Voices.

BZZT!!!
There is no evidence that Selena was denied a visa because of her support for gay rights.
This would be more than a little odd as her vocal support of gay rights is somewhere between hardly-anything and fuck-all.
Yet, Elton John's playing in December.
Okay, that figures...
Maybe it's true - Russia certainly has its fair share of nutty politicos and bureaucrats - but Fagburn somehow doubts the Russian visa office or security services closely monitor and taks notice of online petitions - even one with a whopping 1,000 signatures.
John Becker's argument is circular and nonsensical; he claims this shows Russia is now on the defensive after criticism of its "anti-gay crackdown" - which by his bizarro logic is proven as they've "banned" an American singer who might (but probably wouldn't) say something pro-gay.
Wouldn't the reverse be true?
Hilariously, Becker recently slagged off Johnny Weir for saying he'd compete in Sochi in a disgusting article for Bilerico - yet here he doesn't mention that #sobrave Selena was gagging to go and play.
Vaingloriously, Becker says this is all due to his e-petition.
Just as he claims that the boycotts are working whenever the Russian government don't do something they weren't planning on doing anyway.

It seems as likely that Selena Gomez's people filed for a visa too late.
I have no idea if she hadn't actually sold many tickets, and to suggest this could be the reason for the no-show would be pure speculation.
The billion-dollar Sochi Olympics spectacle shows that Russia is desperate to normalise its cultural relations with other countries - to seethe that they'd ban former Disney kid Selena Gomez cause she might paint her toenails in all the colours of the rainbow or something sounds just plain dumb.

  
'Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and human rights and freedoms," Vladimir Putin once declared. He didn't literally add "NOT EVEN CHER" – but as opposition to Russian's anti-gay legislation grows, it becomes increasingly clear that he was thinking it.
And so to the burgeoning of a cultural boycott of sorts. Sooner or later, every last celebrity will be required to show their hand on this one – get researching, Helen Flanagan! – but in the interests of keeping you up to date, Lost in Showbiz is pleased to offer a rundown of who has declared thus far...

Marina Hyde in Friday's Guardian cruelly mocks the latest craze amongst Team Celebrity. 
Contains all your favourites; Stephen Fry, Cher, Lady Gaga, George Takei, Elton John, and Heather Mills!

PS The Sochi organising committee have issued a statement saying; “There have never been negotiations with Cher about her possible participation in the ceremonies." Surprise!

Sochi Olympics: Cher Speaks Out!

I can’t name names but my friend called who is a big oligarch over there, and asked me if I’d like to be an ambassador for the Olympics and open the show. I immediately said no. I want to know why all of this gay hate just exploded over there. He said the Russian people don’t feel the way the government does.

Via Queerty et al. 

A few thoughts...

1. “I immediately said no” – might have been an idea for Cher to stop and think about it for a bit, no?
It could have been such a wonderful and positive thing if she was there.

2. Why didn't Cher consider what LGBT campaigners in Russia think would be best?
Are there any who support a boycott, or think it would help gay people there?
I asked this rather mundane question in the comments section below the Queerty story, as so many of their well-informed American readers supported a boycott and Cher's apparent no-show ("HOORAY for Cher! The Russia Olympics should be boycotted by the entire WORLD!!!!!" etc).
A typical considered reply; "Die you you crazy a hole and Jonny wier is a self serving just like your self".

3. Erm, this oligarch friend of yours, Cher, who is apparently booking acts for the Sochi Olympics opening ceremony, do you not name his name because - perchance - you haven't really been asked?

• To read more of Cher's sober and informed reflections on political issues of the day please follow her on Twitter.

Update: The Sochi organising committee later issued a statement saying; “There have never been negotiations with Cher about her possible participation in the ceremonies." Surprise!
  Surprise!