JAY BAKKER, APRIL 2011 Gay-affirming Pastor Jay Bakker, often referred to as the
“Prodigal Son of Jim and Tammy Faye,” opened up about his thoughts on the “Holy Book” in the April 2011 issue of The Rage Monthly. “The Bible is such a strange book. Even with just sexuality period, simple basic human sexuality, it’s probably not the best place to get advice from. You have polygamy, and women are seen as property for land trade, things such as that made me realize that maybe I needed to start to read the Bible in a different way.” He also shed light on what was it like growing up as gay icon Tammy Faye’s son. “Well I definitely enjoy shopping (laughing). Seriously, when my friends just want to stop at the store, I tell them that we’re going to walk around the mall for an hour and eat and enjoy it. That’s something my mom and I used to do all the time. We’d go to the mall and have dinner. She’d have dessert before dinner a lot of the times. She was a great mother. At the same time she would restrict us when we’d done bad things and she was definitely a mom.”
PALIN 2.0... MICHELE BACHMANN GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann
LADY GAGA MAKES AN ALL-INCLUSIVE LGBT ANTHEM Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” quickly became an
anthem for LGBT rights this year and even inspired and won in a new category for the MTV Video Awards—Best Video With a Message.
spent most of the year dodging questions and trying to downplay anti-gay comments she continues to make since announcing her candidacy. Additionally, her family-owned business—a pray-away-the-gay counseling clinic—she and her husband, Marcus, oper- ate, stayed in the news and even became the subject of a hidden-camera sting. The 2012 Presidential race certainly will continue to be interesting with “Palin 2.0” in the running.
KYLIE MINOGUE, MAY 2011 “Really crappy diners (laughs), I love a good, crappy American diner! I don’t know why, really terrible coffee, or as we say, ‘water with a bean dragged through it’—just stuff I would never normally have, I’m not really a junk food consumer. I don’t know, something makes you want a stack of pancakes, so you know you’re in the States. There is truth to that. Other things I can do in the States—I can walk around without being recognized all of the time, which is refreshing.” Who knew, that this little “aphrodisiac,” Kylie Mi- nogue, enjoyed good ol’ American crappy diners—what she explains loving most about visiting the U.S.!
SANDRA BERNHARD, AUGUST 2011 “My daughter and girlfriend help me a great deal, but beyond that I’m kind of just an acceptable, cool person. I don’t play the star trip—it’s unneces- sary. I’m just like everyone else and don’t want to be treated like a star. People see me, they love me and I pose for them and I laugh. That’s it; it’s about being true to yourself and finding that center bal- ance.” Sandra Bernhard shared her perspective, on how she remains grounded in everyday life as well as in her professional career in the August 2011 issue of The Rage Monthly. The inimitable enter- tainer who brought her new show I Love Being Me, Don’t You? to Los Angeles this year, returns to Southern California at the La Jolla Playhouse in March 2012… we can’t wait!
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