(HOLIDAY HUNKS) the FASCINATING Seth MacFarlane!

Seth MacFarlane, 39, is an American actor, voice actor, animator, screenwriter, comedian, producer, director, and singer. He is the creator of Family Guy (1999–present) and as co-creator of American Dad! (2005–present) and The Cleveland Show (2009–present), for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters. On October 1, 2012, it was announced that MacFarlane will host the 85th Academy Awards on February 24, 2013.

(HOLIDAY HUNKS) Sean Faris of Hallmark Hall of Fame's 'Christmas with Holly'!

Sean Faris, 30,  is an American model and actor. He is known for his roles as Jake Tyler in Never Back Down, Kyo Kusanagi in The King of Fighters, and Rick Penning in Forever Strong. In 2008, he stripped for UK Cosmopolitan magazine for a good cause, benefiting his choice of awareness of pancreatic cancer. The same year, he produced and starred in a short film called Manifest Destiny.

(POP NEWS) Gay and Bond; Wo-man; Too Much Bond; Toxic Jovi; Santa; Hunger!

• GAY and BOND: The “Skyfall” poster we wish was real!

• A WO-MAN: Meet Casey Legler, a Woman Working as a Male Model!

• TO MUCH BOND: Blossom Actress Mayim Bialik Divorcing!

• TOXIC: Bon Jovi Opens Up About Daughter's Heroin OD!

• DINNER: Neighbor Kills Family's Pet Turkey!

• POOPER: Guy Arrested After Telling Kids Santa Doesn't Exist!

• MATCH: Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin in 'Hunger Games' Bromance!

(OUTview SPECIAL) Coming Out Day Gallery 2012!

 

Everybody is coming OUT from the world of television and Broadway, broadcast news and sports and it is thrilling to have them step up.

(BEEFCAKE) Red, White, and BULGE!

Via Untied-U

HAPPY ST. PADDY'S DAY:Luck of the Irish!

NO CLASS: MLK Would Be Ashamed (Some) of Us!

If Martin Luther King were to see today's America, would he be proud? Paul Krugman thinks not. King dreamed his children would "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Today, we've become "a nation that judges people not by the color of their skin—or at least not as much as in the past—but by the size of their paychecks," Krugman notes in the New York Times . 

And these days, your parents' paychecks look pretty similar to yours. "Goodbye Jim Crow, hello class system." And there's a racial side to this growing American class system, explains Krugman: While in the 1960s and 1970s, "the percentage of black households in the top 20% of the income distribution nearly doubled," that growth came to a halt about 1980—when income inequality started to soar. Income inequality is tied to a lack of social mobility, according to the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; by 2035, he suggests, "the economic prospects of children" will mostly mirror the class they entered at birth. Mitt Romney wants to keep this discussion "in quiet rooms." It's time to follow King's example and "refuse to stay quiet," Krugman writes. Click to read his entire column.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from OUTview Online!

FUNNY: I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus!

Gay Family Values (the Leffew family) and videographer Sean Chapin present a gay family remake of the Christmas classic.

(MY view) Home for the Holidays Means "Family"!

by William Kapfer
Via Edge NY


There’s this idea that holiday gatherings with loved ones are supposed to be joyful and stress-free. Images of happy families laughing and dining together around a festive table, as in Normal Rockwell’s famous 1943 "Freedom from Want," underscores the familial ideas for which so many of us pine. At least this is how the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah holidays are portrayed in magazine ads, television commercials and blogs that bombard us 24/7. Although today’s family units are much less cohesive than are portrayed in the media, I would argue that in my life, such happy scenes reflect my reality.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING from OUTview!

WET Soggy day for S.F.'s Veterans Day parade!

For the first time, the Gay Freedom Day Marching Band led the San Francisco Veterans parade, which also included Girl Scouts and high school ROTC students, Reports the SF Chronicle.
The parade attracted only a handful of spectators as it wound up Market Street and over to City Hall. Parade Marshal Chairman Glen Raswyck said it was the first time the parade had been held on a weekday.

Passers-by stopped to look and clap for the line of cars, high school bands and veterans.

Jeremy George, who recently moved to the United States, came to Market Street dressed in the blue uniform of the British Royal Air Force Police, in which he served for several years. "I thought I'd come down and pay my respects," he said, adding that he hoped to join the parade.

Veterans from World War II through the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan participated, and newly elected Mayor Ed Lee strolled along the route, waving to the crowds who clapped as he passed.

HAPPY SPIRIT DAY: Go PURPLE!

Show Your Spirit on October 20, 2011! How you can participate in #SpiritDay:

Where Did the Easter Bunny Come From? Germany!

Take a break from the Cadbury Cream Eggs and study up on a little Easter trivia. Namely: Why is there an Easter Bunny? And why does said bunny hide eggs? The San Jose Mercury News takes a look at the furry creature's fuzzy origins. Some say he hopped on to the scene in 13th-century Germany, where Eostre, the goddess of spring and the dawn, was celebrated—and depicted as a beautiful maiden toting a basket of eggs (dyed red) and two baby hares.


Others says the idea of giving out eggs in springtime has even more ancient origins—among the Persians—while bunnies appeared in Celtic lore. Regardless, there's a good chance the bunny's roots are cloaked in pagan fertility rituals. He likely first came on to the US scene in the 1700s, imported by German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania Dutch country. He officially reached star status in 1878, when, under the eye of Rutherford B. Hayes, the first White House Easter Egg Roll took place.

HAPPY EASTER from OUTview!

Happy St Patrick's Day from OUTview Online!

Have a 'Very' Irish/Gay Day!

Happy NEW Year from ALL of Us at OUTview Online!

MK Toasts for Prosperity!

Ryan Toasts to Good HEALTH!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from all of US at OUTview Online!

Happy Thanksgiving from OUTview Online! (Thanks to our Fans!)

CLASSIC MOMENTS: Halloween Special!

Today is Harvey Milk Day!

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Harvey Milk Day into law last October. He had vetoed a simlar bill in 2008 and there was fear that he might do so again.

But since that veto, the movie Milk was released and won Academy Awards for star Sean Penn and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Also, president Barack Obama posthumously awarded Milk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He fought hard against discrimination – including Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that would have made firing gay teachers—and any public school employees who supported gay rights—mandatory. It lost by a million votes.

As a supervisor, Milk was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city but just 11 months into his term, he and Mayor George Moscone were murdered at City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White.

Milk was just 48 years old and had been a gay rights activist for less than a decade. There was so much still ahead.

Here is the superb documentary The Life and Times of Harvey Milk: