Should Anderson Cooper Strip for 50k?

I think it's safe to say that many of us queers have some love for Anderson Cooper. Sure, he has continuously let us gays down for his choice of not coming out about his sexuality, but it's that mystique that makes him even more sexy.

You can watch him each night on 360 and lately each Friday with Kelly Ripa on Live with Regis & Kelly. While covering the news, he keeps it real and honest. While dishing in host chat, he's funny and charming.

He gets a lot of flack for not coming out, but I think I've found a way for him to make up for it.

HE CAN DO A STRIP SHOW FOR 50 000!!!

A visit to St. Marc's spa website reveals an online petition to get Anderson Cooper to perform a full frontal 15 min. strip show and in exchange, they will give him 50 000.

He can add some rules, like no one can take pictures or videos, perhaps they can't even comment on the size of his wang. He can even choose the song list for the strip tease and what he wears (I'd like him to start in a suit and strip down to some booty shorts only to lose those and be wearing a classic stripper gold thong). Afterwards, he can even donate the 50 000 to his fav. charity (preferably one that's queer focused).

It'll give him a way to say 'Thanks' to his queer audience for supporting him all these years, boost his ratings on CNN, and give 50k to a struggling charity. All for 15 min. of prancing around and getting naked.

With this all in mind, should Anderson Cooper for 50k?

THE BEST FUCKING THING I'VE SEEN ALL DAY

Alright folks, so I regularly visit AfterEllen and if you've read the title of this post, I was wide-eyed and frozen in place because holy crap what am i seeing right now??? more than a little pleased.



That is fucking ELLEN PAGE AND DREW BARRYMORE KISSING. Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore kissing! Kissing! Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore! Ellen! Drew!

Okay I'll stop.

There have been rumours about both of them not being exactly straight and more rumours about both of them not being exactly straight with each other and so I was a little excited. This was my mental monologue, "They're together! They're together and they're coming out to Marie Claire. Note: Buy Marie Claire. Oh shit, that means they're both off the market. Dammit. Dammitdammit. Calm down OrneryCornery, like you even had a chance. Well I can dream can't I? Yea whatever now shut up and stop staring like a creeper, that guy in the corner is looking at you weird".

So that was my reaction. And then I read the interview on Marie Claire. Apparently they are just really good friends. Bummer.

But this brings up something. I love lesbian couples. I genuinely crush on two lesbians who are clearly so in love with each other. And I'm not the only one.

It's not even just celebrities. I have two friends who I'll call A and B. A and B have been together since I've known them and they are just so goddamn cute together. They hold hands and whenever I see them I just want to envelope them in my arms and squish them like little bunnies. I of course don't do this because I understand personal space but I can't help my thoughts. What? Don't look at me like that.

So anyway where does this come from? Is it a lack of representation? All day everyday I see straight couples pass the dingo to each other and I just want to see some queer action? Why do I (and many others) go all Twilight for gay girls together?


Picture of Crazy Twilight Fans from here.

We will be visible

On Monday August 24th at 8pm at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, my company 'a jay stewart project' presents Hard & Able: celebrating queer disability. It is by far my proudest artistic accomplishment project thus far. I had the idea about a year ago to put on a cabaret event featuring artists that identify as both queer and disabled. Why? Cuz I'm queer and disabled and wanted to meet other similar artists.

First, I did my research to see if anybody else was doing similar events. I really dislike creating something from scratch if somebody else was doing it. Research demonstrated that others HAD been doing similar events, but no longer. I applied for a grant from Community One and was the lucky recipient back in April.

This put into motion a call out to the community to locate artists that were queer and disabled. Which proved to not be so easy. I discovered that the word 'disabled' is a word that many of us choose not to subscribe to. It's you know...for those...that are really disabled. If you wear glasses, suffer from depression or have a heart murmur...that's shitty, but not enough to be disabled. WRONG-O in my books!!! That stuff all qualifies as a disability and I wanted individuals like this to be a part of the night. It's an evening for all those that exist on the disability spectrum to come together and say that a) we are visible and b) we're immensely talented!

As someone who suffers physical pain daily and wears hearing aids, you may or may not have ever classified me as disabled. Why?  Cuz my disabilities are not all that visible. I've been like this since birth and my Mom has always prided me on celebrating my differences. Who I am today is owed very much to having such a supportive individual in my life. I was brought up to acknowledge my disability, but to never let it stand in the way of accomplishing any of my goals.

I invite you to come out to Hard & Able: celebrating queer disability and support artists that identify as both queer and disabled. It's going to be an exciting evening filled with artists doing drag, spoken word, songs, skits with videos and photography too.

If you're not in Toronto, you can still be a part of the event by paying for access to the live feed. E-mail me at jay@ajaystewartproject.com for more information.  Check out the facebook event for those in the GTA

I hope that you will come and bare witness to a small step towards making each of these artists a visible part of the artistic community.

In an effort to make this event accessible, the venue is wheelchair accessible and there will be ASL interpretation provided.

I don't get heterosexuality!

I just had a thought and granted it's not a very well thought out one. But I figured that I'd put it out into the cyber universe and allow you to play around with it.

I just don't get the label of heterosexuality. Like I get that it's been burned into brains through religious and conservative doctrine, but besides that - it makes no sense to me that anybody would classify themselves as heterosexual.

I can understand that somebody can be homosexual. If you look in the mirror and you find yourself to be attractive. Why wouldn't you find those of the same gender to be attractive? If you can finger your pussy and stroke your cock to orgasm, why does doing it to another's freak you out? It' seems so simple. You like your cock, why wouldn't you like another? Take hetero boys who can self suck (aka auto fellatio), they dig cock enough to suck their own...what's so gross about another's?

With this, I totally get bisexuality. Of course, I'm biased. I dig both girlies and boys. I find them both to be attractive. I don't squirm at the sight of tits or become repulsed about slamming into an ass. In this instance, one is attracted to their own gender, but has also found the opposite gender to be attractive.

Which leaves us with heterosexuals. They claim that they are only attracted to the opposite gender. Which leads me to wonder, if they are really just self haters or delusional? If they were self haters and didn't find themselves to be attracted, how is it that they are able to love another? After all, if you don't love yourself first, how can you ever love another? Self love means loving every part of yourself, even if one wishes to improve it. Or is this the reason why so many marriages and relationships fail? Because there's a sea of self hatred spreading around and everybody's drowning in it.

As for being delusional, yah I can see that too. You've spent so many years believing that the world only accepts man and female without passing judgment, so you decide that you'll stick with that. When really, one can be perfectly happy with being queer. Now I'm not saying that hetero relations are wrong, I'd just simply like individuals to stop being all 'eww...I could never love the same sex.' All I hear with that statement is 'I hate myself.' ;)

What'd you think? Cuz seriously, I've always believed that nobody is straight and not in an egotistical queer way. Just that it makes no sense to me. Where are you at on this discussion?