NBA legend Isiah Thomas’ Son ‘Zeke’ Comes Out as GAY!!
Zeke Thomas the gay son of NBA superstar and Basketball Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas, will be the official DJ for the NBA All-Star Game next month in New Orleans.
Zeke recently sat down with the folks over at Out for a quick chat where he dished on how the NBA has reacted to his sexuality, how his parents reacted and even his long-time boyfriend. Check out what he had to say below.
via OUT Magazine
You think there’s no gay visibility in sports ? Well, the out, proud Zeke Thomas—son of NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas—happens to be the official DJ for the annual NBA All-Star game, which will be held in New Orleans in February. THe also DJs club bashes in New York, Las Vegas , Miami, and his hometown of Detroit, plus he’s a recording artist/producer.
Musto: Hi, Zeke. Do you find that the NBA is gay friendly?
Zeke: I do. When Jason Collins came out, my father said to me, “This isn’t something uncommon.” He played with gay players.
He said, “Even in high school, I knew there were gay athletes.” It’s not as big an issue as the media like to make it out: “You’re gonna be shamed in the locker room”
Were you personally always out?
Zeke: I came out in 2008, my sophomore year at college. My parents like to say they always knew I was gay. I came out to them, and they were very accepting. I always knew they would be accepting.
Growing up, I had gay uncles, like every kid in America. I never was so scared that my parents were going to shun or disown me—the horror stories you hear. I was just nervous about, “Are my friends gonna accept me?” because I was a jock kid, so to speak, with an athlete father.
I did theater and was in the art scene, but there is a masculine connotation that comes with being an athlete’s kid. Still, I feel like those barriers of masculinity are constantly being broken down and redefined. People like to put labels on everything, and I feel stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason—most of them aren’t true.Even though I’m black and like chicken.
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Ashanti's Latest BRAVEHEART Promo Pics
Ashanti unveiled a few more promo shots from her long-awaited Braveheart cd.
While Ashanti's album has been delayed for a few months, she's certainly kept herself busy and in the public eye.
Over the Christmas holidays, she starred in the Lifetime film "Christmas In The City".
Honey Boo Boo & Family Reportedly Injured In Car Wreck
TLC's beloved reality family was reportedly injured in a car accident on Monday (January 6).
According to TMZ, the patriarch Sugar Bear was behind the wheel when he crashed the car carrying the little pageant queen, her mother Mama June, along with siblings Pumpkin and Jessica.
Another truck allegedly ran a red light and plowed into the family’s car after Sugar Bear turned left at a green light.
The publication reports that the family was rushed to a nearby hospital and that Mama June and Sugar Bear sustained back injuries, while Pumpkin has a bruised chest and Honey Boo Boo just got a headache
Ride Along Official Movie Premier With Kevin Hart, Will Packer ,Ice Cube in Atlanta!
ATL’s own Will Packer,(Producer) and his new film Ride Along had it’s Atlanta premiere. The film stars Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, as the Fast-talking security guard Ben played by Kevin Hart who joins his wanna-be cop brother-in-law James played by Ice Cube go on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order for Kevin Hart to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James’ sister
The movie premiere was held in Atlanta, at Atlantic Station, was packed.
Before the movie got started V-103 personality and TV host Big Tigger hosted a 101 panel with Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, and Will Packer. Will explain the reason he held the movie premier in Atlanta is because Atlanta has always been the number on markets for him and has supported him more than anyone …
WATCH THE TRAILER:
Check out all the photos below and please make sure yall support a Will’s new movie “Ride Along”…
It’s out Jan 17
Jeezy Arrested After Confrontation With Son
It appears that if you can't band the Snowman, you can certainly arrest him. Rapper Jeezy has been detained for a list of charges after he and his son got into a scuffle.
TMZ reports:
Rapper Young Jeezy was arrested in Atlanta for battery, false imprisonment, and making terroristic threats against his own son ... TMZ has learned.
According to the charging documents -- obtained by TMZ -- Jeezy got into a fight with his son in a bathroom and he threw his son into the glass shower door, causing the son to hit his head. Then Jeezy allegedly punched him in the face, dragged him into the bedroom, threw him on the bed and pummeled him.
According to the incident report, Jeezy's son attempted to escape but the rapper's bodyguard blocked the stairwell.
The docs go on -- claiming Jeezy subsequently choked his son and said, "I will kill you." According to police docs, Jeezy's son claims his dad said, "I will put a bullet in your head right now," adding, "If I could get away with it, I would kill you." The incident allegedly occurred in Sept., 2012.
We've learned Jeezy turned himself in to authorities Friday after a grand jury warrant for each charge was issued. He bonded out soon after for $45,000.
In a statement, Jeezy's attorney said, "We have no doubt this matter will resolve itself appropriately. At this moment, Mr. Jenkins is thankful for the support of his fans and the respect for his family's privacy."
There's a lot of questions with this story. First, this date is a bit sketchy. Secondly, who reported to the police. More information is forthcoming.
Robin Roberts SPEAKS About Girlfriend Amber Laign For The FIRST Time, "I Have Never Been Happier"
GMA Anchor Robin Roberts opened up about her girlfriend Amber Laign this morning revealing, "I have never been happier or healthier than I am right now."
Since revealing her same-sex relationship in a Facebook post, GMA anchor Robin Roberts spoke about her long-term girlfriend Amber Laign for the first time this morning. In a segment about their winter vacations, Robin talked about her trip to Turks and Caicos and the wedding of her neice Judith....both included Amber.
"Oh, Judith and her husband, Tony, Dorothy, Sally-Ann, the mother of the bride, next to me, my girlfriend, Amber, my sister-in-law and brother, Butch. I have never been happier or healthier than I am right now. And -- my -- my year-end post was just full of gratitude and telling everyone all that I'm grateful for, including my girlfriend, Amber, who loved me through a very difficult year. And I'm very happy for the support and it's just -- letting everybody know that -- reflect on what got you to where you are and be grateful for it."
Robin credits Amber for being very supporting through her health challenges with MDS and her bone marrow transplant.
“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” Promo Posters Feature Jamie Foxx
He’s won an Oscar and has an impressive resume and now Jamie Foxx is showcased in a pair of promotional posters for the forthcoming “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”
The “Ray” star’s character Electro looks fierce as he battles against Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man all the while swinging above New York City’s Times Square.
“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” is slated to hit theaters on May 2nd, 2014 and also stars Dane DeHaan, Chris Cooper, Emma Stone and Paul Giamatti.
Per the synopsis, “Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains against him, impacting on his life.”
Idris Elba Featured In Vogue
It looks like 2014 is going to be the year of Idris Eldba…and deservedly so. A hearthrob like Idris hasn’t hit the scene since Lorenz Tate, Taye Diggs, Morris Chesnut days in the 90′s. Most Black women swear by Idris and his British accent makes panties - and some underwear – drop all over the world. It’s so unfair!
VOGUE Magazine just did a feature chronicling the rising career of America’s latest obsession – check it out below.
On Playing Nelson Mandela:
Although Elba didn’t try to resemble Mandela physically—he’s a bigger guy, for one thing—he imbued his portrait of the leader with small mannerisms drawn from life. “I’m a real worm for detail, and Idris is the same,” Chadwick says. “He soaked up conversation with people who knew Mandela well.” Instead of hiring extras, Chadwick brought locals on set to fill out the movie’s crowd scenes. A lot of them had lived through the long, tumultuous end of apartheid and were wary of an actor—a British actor, no less—trying to perform their history. “It’s a certain kind of brave actor who actually walks out and gives speeches to that kind of raw crowd,” says Chadwick.
“I stood up and talked to these extras. I’m looking them in the eye, and I know what they’re thinking,” Elba says. “ ‘You’re not South African. You don’t look like Mandela. Show me something.’ ” By the time the film wrapped, they were calling him Madiba.
His Early Beginnings:
Idris Elba—his name is short for Idris-sa, which he understands to mean “first-born leader” in his parents’ native West Africa—grew up in Hackney, in East London. His father was Sierra Leonean. His mother hailed from Ghana, with American roots. (Her own father had been raised in Kansas City; Elba says he sometimes dreams of getting in touch with his Midwestern relatives.) As a kid, he kept a low profile, until he entered his first acting class at school. “I had a really beautiful drama teacher,” he says, no minor matter at an all-boys’ school.
Elba’s father worked at a nearby Ford factory for decades; for a while, Elba—despite his drama-class dreams and some training at the National Youth Music Theatre—worked there too, trying out for theater roles but getting nowhere. He worried that he, too, was destined for a life on the assembly line. So one night he quit. The next day, he flew to New York, took a room at the YMCA, and started to audition.
For years, Elba struggled to scrape together a living as an actor in New York and back in London, taking bit parts and DJing for the nightly paychecks. (Elba had a DJ uncle in London at whose feet he learned the trade: “If we were good boys, we were allowed to play on the double turntables.”) In 1997, in the course of bouncing back and forth between America and the U.K., he married the Liberian actress Dormowa Sherman, whom he’d been seeing in London. Before long, though, the peripatetic lifestyle wore at his marriage, and so did all the unrealized dreams. In 2001—shortly before his daughter was born—they divorced. He auditioned for a new show called The Wire and got a part as a drug dealer who takes economics classes in the hope of making something of himself. (By then, Elba had perfected his American accent.) The role of Stringer Bell harnessed all of Elba’s charm and striving warmth. When the character got killed off in 2004, it seemed that an entire cable-watching nation mourned his death.
Finally,Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner tie the knot after 42 years together
Writer Jane Wagner quietly married her longtime actress paramour, Lily Tomlin on New Year's Eve it has emerged.
Liz Smith, a good friend of the Los Angeles-based couple and a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, let the news slip in one of her recent write-ups.
'My wish is that their happiness will be as great as their combined talents.'
Ms Tomlin, who has been with Ms Wagner for 42 years, hinted to E! Online last summer that they were gearing up to become an official legally binding couple after the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling.
The 74-year-old former Desperate Housewives star and her 78-year-old partner never thought they would see such an event occur in their lifetime.
'You didn't think that would happen,' Ms Tomlin mused. 'It's pretty remarkable.'
She continued: 'You don't really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice.
'Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very very happy about it.'
A spokesperson for the actress confirmed that she and Ms Wagner tied the knot in a 'private ceremony' close to their home in California.
As of yet, same-sex marriage is still not legal in either of their home states.
Ms Tomlin was born in Michigan while Ms Wagner grew up in Tennessee.
When asked what type of wedding she envisaged, Ms Tomlin previously replied that she would not be planning a traditional affair.
'No rings, no bridal dresses, maybe we'll be dressed like chickens,' she joked.
She first met Ms Wagner in March 1971, when they collaborated on a comedy album.
The two women have enjoyed a both a great romantic and working relationship over the past four decades.
Ms Wagner went on to pen numerous screenplays starring Ms Tomlin including the movies Moment by Moment and The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
Nike Air Foamposite Pro "Yeezy" [PHOTOS]
Nike may not be releasing the Yeezy 2 "Red October" any time soon, but they will, however, drop a sneaker inspired by its predecessor. Photos of a Nike Air Foamposite Pro coined the "Yeezy" are circulating the Internets, and they don't look too shabby.
The familiar silhouette dons a colorway that mirrors the Air Yeezy "Solar Red." The upper dons a faux-carbon fiber look that almost has a matte finish. This, of course, is set off by a grey sole that glows in the dark and some solar red accents along the tongue and inside lining.
The Nike Air Foamposite Pro "Yeezy" will bring just as many sneakerheads out when it hits stores as it will raise eyebrows, since the "Red October" shoe release is currently in limbo.
Porsha Williams RESPONDS To "Railroad Gate", Says "My Brain Was Just Going....Faster Than I Was Speaking"
Porsha Williams dropped by Bravo's "WWHL" where she chatted with Andy Cohen about the Underground Railroad and the collective gasp heard around the country when she asked about the train's conductor and underground entrances.
Porsha explained to viewers that she had a "Porsha moment.....a little brain lapse". She added that "My brain was just going so fast that it was going faster than I was speaking."
Since the episode aired, Porsha says she has done her "research" and is ready to represent that part of her legacy. Ummm.....Did you buy that?
AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
‘GIRL, YOU GOT A LUMPY BUTT’
C’mon ladies, just because Santa brought you lumps of coal for Christmas doesn’t mean you need to smuggle them in your panties. Those aren’t the lovely lady lumps people refer to anyway.
HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
EFREM
