Melissa Etheridge & Queen Latifah Sing Fleetwood Mac

Melissa Etheridge and Queen Latifah rocked Fleetwood Mac on Friday.

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Melissa Etheridge Married

Congratulations to Melissa Etheridge who married Linda Wallem this past weekend in California.  The two were best friends for years and then hooked up.  Here's hoping this one doesn't turn as ugly as Melissa's last marriage.

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Melissa Etheridge Gets Political

Melissa Etheridge's new video for Uprising of Love is very political and quite frankly I love it. The song was written by Melissa for the Uprising of Love Coalition in support of the safety & dignity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) Russians.

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Melissa Etheridge Interview

Dan Rather interviews Melissa Etheridge and they discuss her battle with breast cancer.

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Melissa Etheridge - Baby, Please Come Home

Happy Christmas Eve!

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Sara Gilbert & Allison Adler Break Up

Sara Gilbert and her girlfriend of ten years, Allison Adler have decided to call it quits. The split is suppose to be amicable and they will share custody of their son and daughter. That's what they always say at first.....may I remind you of the cluster fuck that ensued between Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels. Let's see how this one actually unfolds.

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Judge Denies Tammy Lynn

A judge has declined to order Melissa Etheridge to pay $25,000 to her ex, Tammy Lynn Michaels. Etheridges lawyer convinced the judge Melissa was already paying for everything and Tammy's claim that she can't afford to live is bogus. I wonder what Tammy Lynns next tweet rant will be after this loss...
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Melissa Says No Moola For Tammy Lynn

Melissa Etheridge filed the paperwork Friday to officially end her relationship with Tammy Lynn Michaels. Melissa is seeking joint custody and asked the courts not to award financial support to Tammy Lynn. Surprisingly enough, this doesn't make Tammy happy and she blogged once again...

i gave up my managers, agents, contacts, all that good stuff, because i stepped directly into potty training a small boy, and carrying around a small girl on my hip, the only thing i hated about it was not bringing in money- i have made my own money since i started babysitting at 10, and having a newspaper route at 11. having no steady paycheck killed me for those years with her. and now it's really killing me. the other week i had to borrow money from a friend. two weeks ago i had to scrape together $1.25 to pay for gas. i know she doesn't want to give me money. trust. i'm borrowing cash left and right from people to get through this summer, and feed my kids, with a stomach full of ulcers, thank you.

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Etheridge Divorce Getting Ugly

It looks like tammy is not happy with Melissa. Take a look at what she recently blogged....

well, no censorship? really, honey? awesome. things can be a long time coming to one and smash the hell out of another:hit and run not even staying to clean up the mess secrets, with-holding, whispering to all but the one whom holds the vows and the toddlers disappearances into the hourglass-shaped wood with strings never to finish a fight never interested in clarifying, making sense, making it right even finishing the fight more interested in making something rhyme time after time after time and later angsting that you and me, WE it didn't work out you evolved you needed to be happy-but really… you withdrew your hands from family and intimacy to pluck those strings more i'd rather hear 10,000 fans screaming my name in worship than hear my wife harp on me about my family intimacy issues too,you know? which one is going to get me harder?easy answer sideswiped and left mangled up to my eyes in toilet training toddlers and sounds of a guitar wailingletting me know you would probably leave me soon i know those heart-ache wails by now i even told you it was a break up album and you laughed at me you laughed and laughed i heard fearless and i got sick"that's your break up song with me"i said to you you got so angry with me, remember? and stomped off so thank you for telling an interviewer that you WON'T censor me on my blog (i thought i was to say nothing, my bad)i was so unhappy thinking people dare look at meand think that i considera marriage and forever to benine years or six years or whatever and i gave up on everything and just walked off never is that me… nope, never cuz i did not go anywhere, honey.and you and i both know it please stop telling the press it was mutual- my birthday rolled around, the holidays….and me and the twins sat right there waiting…we didn't go anywhere. we just sat and waited and waited and waited and waited….. "i saw you with your new friends….you wear them so well…." i think you're saying it's okay to be more open now on this blog? whew. good. cuz sitting on the fence of "speak true"and"say nothing" fucking rides a pole so far up my ass it nearly pierces my brain, and i can't take it anymore, now that i am back home where people don't live in the smoke and mirrors. oh, and don't let me forget this. i still love that damn woman so much, i'm still trying to stop. i had a dream last where honey and i were fighting and going to get a divorce, and i woke up sobbing…. then i realized. oh. it's true. and then what do you do? when the horrible feeling in the dream gets to stay even after you wake up? there. there is my truth as of today. home again. home again.feeling true. feeling honest.

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Melissa & Tammy Split

The long time couple of nine years have decided to call it quits. They were married in September 2003 and Tammy gave birth to twins in 2006. They've been through a lot, including Melissa being diagnosed with cancer in 2004 and getting through her recovery. They haven't released any reasons for the split and are asking for privacy from the media. We'll see how long that lasts.
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What Famous People Have to Say About Prop 8

I was out of internet for a few days, so this post comes a little later than I meant it. But regardless, the above is a video of Arnold Schwarzenegger on The Tonight Show talking about the idiotic Prop 8 decision. If you want to read what a whole lot of other famous people had to say, look under the cut.

This really makes me sad. I thought we were more forward thinking than this, and I'm disappointed in the Supreme Court for being so closed minded. Everyone.. gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered, EVERYONE should have equal rights to marry who they want to. I have many gay friends and all I want is for them to be happy, yet this is just another obstacle in their way. Now they must continue fighting to be granted a basic civil right that many people take for granted. Shame on you, California! We must all continue to fight the h8!

- Kim Kardashian on her blog.

They decided to be indecisive. It was a ruling that doesn't resolve anything because there is still inequality. It's like [George Orwell's Animal Farm] -- some pigs are more equal than other pigs. We're more equal than some of the other gays and lesbians.

- George Takei to TV Guide on the decision to honor the pre-existing marriages.

That's just awful. I mean, when you see places like Iowa saying yes and there's now five states in America ... and California is supposed to be a progressive state. It just defies logic to me and I'm very disappointed with that.

- Sir Elton John to Access Hollywood. (For the record, there are only four states that allow gay marriage at present.)

This just should invigorate people to get it back on the ballot in 2010 and 2012 and every two years until all people are allowed a basic civil right.

- George Clooney to E!

No comment.

- Miss California, Carrie Prejean

So, will anyone be sleeping better tonight? Those full of hate and fear will surely be disappointed that 18,000 same sex couples will be living in wedded bliss, kissing their spouses goodnight, checking off those little ' married ' boxes on all those forms we fill out nowadays. That’s really going to drive them crazy. Then there are those of us like me who still dangle in ' domestic partnership. ' We can adopt our own children, but we can’t bring our partners who might be citizens from out of the country, here. We can’t file joint tax returns

. I could go on. Who will be happy tonight? How do I explain this to my children? Well, you know Ellen? She is married but Mommy and I are not. That is liberty and justice for all? I am hopeful as I see more and more states turn to the inevitable future of equality, California will get there. Change takes time.

- Melissa Ethridge to Radar Online.

The decision to uphold Prop 8 is deeply disappointing. I can only hope to one day live in a country that grants equal rights, opportunity, and freedom to all citizens.

- Lance Bass (from Radar Online).

This is yet another sad day for our state and our country, on which we’ll look back in shame, forever. I held some hope that today’s CA Supreme Court ruling would NOT uphold the discriminatory amendment known as Proposition 8, denying equal marriage rights to the LGBT community of our great state. I believe that Proposition 8 was born from misinformation, mis-education, and, ultimately, fear. My hope was that we would at least maintain our current 18,000 California LGBT marriages of love and commitment, which we did. I fear this ruling will delay the positive political momentum shown nationally in recent months, toward the non-discrimination of our LGBT citizens. However, overall we continue to make steady progress, which I find reassuring. I believe in the good nature of Californians and Americans, in general, to find it unacceptable to recognize two classes of citizens. I know that, eventually, everyone will see the light, understand that this issue is about equality for all, and that we will do the right thing to accept, love, and support each other in all forms of equal rights.

- Reichen Lehmkuhl (Season four winner of The Amazing Race with his then-partner Chip Arndt) to Radar Online.

We're grateful this court did not overturn the civil rights of all Californians to amend our own constitution. The 7 million Californians who worked hard to protect marriage as the union of husband and wife are breathing easier today.

- Brian Brown, executive director of NOM (National Organization for Marriage).

Marriage is worth protecting because it is the way we teach the next generation: children need mothers and fathers. This victory for Prop 8 is a victory for children, for civil rights, and for the common good.

- Maggie Gallagher, president of NOM.

It may not be while I'm alive, but eventually it will work out that if two people want to get married, they can get married and it won't matter to whom. We went through this before with people of color. It will be OK.

Phyllis Lyon (the surviving partner in the first legal same sex marriage in California) to LA Times.
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Melissa Etheridge Shouldn't have to Pay Taxes - and Neither Should You (If You're a Queer American...)

Etheridge's reaction to the Prop 8 bull shit from The Daily Beast.

Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.

Okay, cool I don’t mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We’re gay! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that’s not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS workers and gym teachers and such, they won’t have to pay their taxes either.

Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.

…Really?

When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation “eliminates the right” and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, “Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today” and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say “I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me”? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California?

I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

I know when I grew up gay was a bad word. Homo, lezzie, faggot, dyke. Ignorance and fear ruled the day. There were so many “thems” back then. The blacks, the poor … you know, “them”. Then there was the immigrants. “Them.” Now the them is me.

I tell myself to take a breath, okay take another one, one of the thems made it to the top. Obama has been elected president. This crazy fearful insanity will end soon. This great state and this great country of ours will finally come to the understanding that there is no “them”. We are one. We are united. What you do to someone else you do to yourself. That “judge not, lest ye yourself be judged” are truthful words and not Christian rhetoric.

Today the gay citizenry of this state will pick themselves up and dust themselves off and do what we have been doing for years. We will get back into it. We love this state, we love this country and we are not going to leave it. Even though we could be married in Mass. or Conn, Canada, Holland, Spain and a handful of other countries, this is our home. This is where we work and play and raise our families. We will not rest until we have the full rights of any other citizen. It is that simple, no fearful vote will ever stop us, that is not the American way.

Come to think of it, I should get a federal tax break too…

Sounds good to me.

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Melissa Etheridge to Marry (Legally)

Melissa Etheridge is engaged to marry her partner Tammy Lynn Michaels legally. They already had a commitment ceremony in Malibu in 2003, but now that same sex marriage is legal in California the couple has decided to make it legal.

Yay to more queer weddings! I hope we see a few more pictures than we did of Ellen and Portia.

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