“If you’re going to be a closet case then just lie and say you’re straight. It bugs me when they say “Why are you asking me if I’m gay? It doesn’t matter.” Well it matters a lot to the fifteen year-old at home who’s going through it. It’s a highly offensive statement and it makes me angry. I’d love to be a role model for gay men who feel they don’t fit in to what it means to be gay. You don’t need a perfect body and hair and love dance music and go out all night and do drugs. I’m a pretty decent guy.”
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“Pass The Bowl” is VH1’s ongoing interview series, wherein celebrities contribute questions to our bowl and fellow celebs later draw a question.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Who was your first crush? Have you Facebook stalked them yet?
Jenna Ushkowitz: My first crush was Jacob - everyone called him “Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt” - in pre-K and he got me a name plate bracelet in silver. He was a good first boyfriend. And I don’t have Facebook, so no, I don’t know how to get in touch with him. And I don’t remember his last name either.
Jenna’s Question For The Bowl: If you could be any animal what would you be and why?
Tune into Big Morning Buzz Live every weekday at 10AM EST on VH1.
[Photos: Jen Marigliano/VH1]
Most gorgeous and sweet woman. We made a really cute extra GIF I’m going to work on this weekend, and she told us who was the most excited to play their character swap counterpart (you’ll giggle.)
Kurt Hummel’s face here is basically my face after the two hours of Glee last night. For once I was thankful for word limits so I couldn’t go off on tangents about what frustrates me about the show (uneven queerness/editing problems, mishandling of gender, everything about Quinn) and let me paint with a broader brush. One of my favorite Glee critics, Todd VanDerWerff at AV Club, completely disagreed with me and said Nationals was better than Props, and that it was really good overall. I just didn’t walk away with that feeling. I’m a fan, and Props was more fan service than Nationals was for me. Nationals didn’t do enough about the queer kids (although I was happy to see more focus on a gay pairings in a competition performance setting than we’ve ever seen in 3 years) in the way that hits my receptor sites to matter. I want to love Rachel’s journey, and I strongly identify with parts of it, but it doesn’t do it for me all alone. I just don’t get a school that at the top of the hour beat up Puck for being in glee, and then celebrated a nationals win in a non-sport event with such joy. I kept waiting for the punch, that’s the Glee I expect and love.
Marketing Campaign of the Day: A new campaign called “Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry” — whose debut video will give you chills — takes aim at the Defense of Marriage Act and its impact on gay and lesbian military families. The video follows the devastating trajectory of a lesbian relationship when one of the women serves in Afghanistan.
Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry, one of the organizations behind the campaign, spells it out for us:
Many people assume that, with the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” gay men and lesbians serving our country are now being treated fairly and equally, but that’s not the case. We ended the ban on open military service for gay and lesbian Americans, but there is still federal ban on treating married service members as what they are: married.
The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.
The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.
There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.
Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:
I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.
Glee, if I had to sit through all that the very least you could have given me was a flashback to Jesse St. James auditioning with Giants In The Sky. Only forgiven if you’re saving the song to use on someone else next season. And I think you know who I’m talking about.
(Even if I have fake PTSD over this show from high school.)
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“Pass The Bowl” is VH1’s ongoing interview series, wherein celebrities contribute questions to our bowl and fellow celebs later draw a question.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Who was your first crush? Have you Facebook stalked them yet?
Jenna Ushkowitz: My first crush was Jacob - everyone called him “Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt” - in pre-K and he got me a name plate bracelet in silver. He was a good first boyfriend. And I don’t have Facebook, so no, I don’t know how to get in touch with him. And I don’t remember his last name either.
Jenna’s Question For The Bowl: If you could be any animal what would you be and why?
Tune into Big Morning Buzz Live every weekday at 10AM EST on VH1.
[Photos: Jen Marigliano/VH1]
Most gorgeous and sweet woman. We made a really cute extra GIF I’m going to work on this weekend, and she told us who was the most excited to play their character swap counterpart (you’ll giggle.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44merGl6W1qln00mo1_r1_400.gif)
