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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Capitoline Wolf

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The Capitoline Wolf,, a bronze statue representing Ancient Rome's most famous symbol, was probably sculpted during the Middle Ages, some 17 centuries later than what has long been thought. Researchers at the University of Salento who carried out radiocarbon and thermoluminescence tests believe the statue dates from around the 12th Century AD and not the 5th Century BC. The statue, which is kept at Rome's Capitoline Musuems, depicts a she-wolf suckling human twins. The pair represent Romulus and Remus, brothers who, according to legend, founded Rome in 753 BC.

Most experts believe the twins were added in the late 15th Century AD, probably by the sculptor Antonio Pollaiolo.

However, the she-wolf was thought to have been a much older work, possibly pillaged from the Etruscans by conquering Roman soldiers and then used as a symbol of the founding myth of their city.

Ancient Roman writers, such as Pliny the Elder and Cicero, mentioned a statue of a she-wolf suckling the twins which they said was very old and sacred to citizens of Rome. But experts have always doubted whether this was that particular statue or a much later copy, especially since it is in such relatively pristine condition.

"Now the thesis is that it is medieval copy of an original Etruscan work," Rome's municipality supervisor for culture, Umberto Broccoli, said at a news conference.

Broccoli noted that 18th Century German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann had first attributed the statue to an Etruscan maker in the 5th Century BC.

Openly homosexual Winckelmann, a SAINT OF ANTINOUS, is called the father of modern archaeology and the father of art history. Winckelmann cited the sculpting of the wolf's fur as indicating it was in the Etruscan style, not the later Roman style.

"The scientific debate has lasted for centuries, at least from Winckelmann onwards, and it is my opinion that we will never have a definitive answer," Broccoli said.

However, the latest study had brought "much more clarity," Broccoli added.

Photo: The Capitoline Wolf,, a bronze statue representing Ancient Rome's most famous symbol, was probably sculpted during the Middle Ages, some 17 centuries later than what has long been thought. Researchers at the University of Salento who carried out radiocarbon and thermoluminescence tests believe the statue dates from around the 12th Century AD and not the 5th Century BC. The statue, which is kept at Rome's Capitoline Musuems, depicts a she-wolf suckling human twins. The pair represent Romulus and Remus, brothers who, according to legend, founded Rome in 753 BC.

Most experts believe the twins were added in the late 15th Century AD, probably by the sculptor Antonio Pollaiolo.

However, the she-wolf was thought to have been a much older work, possibly pillaged from the Etruscans by conquering Roman soldiers and then used as a symbol of the founding myth of their city.

Ancient Roman writers, such as Pliny the Elder and Cicero, mentioned a statue of a she-wolf suckling the twins which they said was very old and sacred to citizens of Rome. But experts have always doubted whether this was that particular statue or a much later copy, especially since it is in such relatively pristine condition.

"Now the thesis is that it is medieval copy of an original Etruscan work," Rome's municipality supervisor for culture, Umberto Broccoli, said at a news conference.

Broccoli noted that 18th Century German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann had first attributed the statue to an Etruscan maker in the 5th Century BC.

Openly homosexual Winckelmann, a SAINT OF ANTINOUS, is called the father of modern archaeology and the father of art history. Winckelmann cited the sculpting of the wolf's fur as indicating it was in the Etruscan style, not the later Roman style.

"The scientific debate has lasted for centuries, at least from Winckelmann onwards, and it is my opinion that we will never have a definitive answer," Broccoli said.

However, the latest study had brought "much more clarity," Broccoli added.

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La Lupa Capitolina allatta Romolo e Remo
Fine del XVI secolo
Marmo rosso antico e marmo bianco con incrostazioni
H. 69 cm
Museo del Louvre, Parigi

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Monday, March 18, 2013

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NEW MUSIC: Get Your First Taste Of Beyoncé’s “Bow Down / I Been On”

via Queerty by john russell on 3/18/13

Last night, Beyoncé’s camp dropped us a little taste of what she’s been working lately. A little progress report on that new album, if you will. At this point we can’t really be sure if “Bow Down / I Been On” is meant to be a single—doesn’t seem likely to us—or even if it’s one song or a preview of two album tracks. And as the folks at Vulture point out, there’s a lot to unpack here. One thing’s for sure though, this is a harsh new sound for Bey. Throwin’ around the B-word and all, Mrs. Carter seems to have changed her tune: diva is a female version of a gangsta!

WATCH: Hillary Clinton Formally Endorses Marriage Equality

via Queerty by Dan Avery on 3/18/13

In a video released today by HRC, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained why she supports marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples. Most of us assumed Clinton had already spoken out on behalf of same-sex marriage—or at least that it was implicit in her famous “gay rights are human rights” speech from 2012.
Either way, it’s a nice speech. Only, why did she have to wait till she left office to make it?
Are you happy with Clinton’s statement, or should it have come sooner? Make your own statement in the comments section below!

VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Endorses Marriage Equality In Wicked Awesome Video

via WickedGayBlog.com by WickedGayBlog.com on 3/18/13

"I'm for the kind of fatty food that leads to swooning sensual satiety." This au...

via The Wall Street Journal's Facebook Wall by The Wall Street Journal on 3/18/13

"I'm for the kind of fatty food that leads to swooning sensual satiety." This author says latest research shows the benefits of healthy fats: http://on.wsj.com/YjTnZa

Let Them Eat Fat
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Listening to the doctors on cable TV, you might think that it's better to cook up a batch of meth than to cook with butter, writes Ron Rosenbaum. But eating basic, earthy fatty foods isn't just a supreme experience of the senses—it can actually be good for you.

GOP roadmap calls for immigration reform - U.S. News & World Report GOP roadmap...

via Gay Puerto Rico's Facebook Wall by Gay Puerto Rico on 3/18/13

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GOP roadmap calls for immigration reform
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee formally endorsed immigration reform on Monday and outlined …

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GOP roadmap calls for immigration reform
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A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional color lines, testing civil rights …

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican National Committee will formally endorse immigration reform on Monday and outline plans for a $10 million outreach to …

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Republican Review of Election Loss Calls for Dozens of Changes
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Republicans have become too insular, too often sound like bookkeepers and need to be …

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RNC members Zori Fonalledas of Puerto Rico and Glenn McCall of South Carolina rounded out the five-person committee that listened to …

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BFI Screens ‘First’ UK Gay TV Drama, South, At The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

via Big Gay Picture Show by Tim Isaac on 3/18/13

You wouldn’t have thought that British TV would be making gay-themed entertainment in 1959, but a recently uncovered drama found in the BFI vaults shows that they were. South, which screened over the weekend at the London Lesbian And Gay Film Festival, is being hailed as TV’s first gay drama.
According to The Guardian, ‘It involves a dashing Polish army lieutenant exiled in the US deep south as civil war approaches and the question of who he really loves: the plantation owner’s angry niece, Miss Regina, or the tall, blond, rugged officer who arrives suddenly – a handsome man called Eric MacClure.’
South, adapted by Gerald Savory from an original play by Julien Green, first screened on ITV on November 24th, 1959. It’s a surprise it was made, as while it was two years after the Wolfenden Report, gay acts weren’t decriminalised until 1967. It’s also two years before Victim, the first film to use the word homosexual and to take a somewhat sympathetic approach to gay people.
It’s amazing South survived, as at the time nearly all TV was performed live and shows weren’t routinely recorded (even the first episodes of Coronation Street were performed live and many have been lost forever). Even what’s held by the BFI isn’t always fully known, and it took a bit of detective work to rediscover South.
Archivists searching through old copies of the Radio Times noticed a reference to the lead character in south not being quite right. They also saw that the character was played by Peter Wyngarde, who they knew at the time was in a long-term relationship with Alan Bates (although this was a closely guarded secret from the public). As a result they looked South out and discovered it was implicitly about being gay.
BFI curator Simon McCallum says, “I think you have to give Wyngarde a massive pat on the back in terms of the bravery in taking this role. There were quite bad reactions from some of the press.”
This included reviews in the Daily Sketch, which read, “I do NOT see anything attractive in the agonies and ecstasies of a pervert, especially in close-up in my living room. This is not prudishness. There are some indecencies in life that are best left covered up.”
Following the LLGFF screenings, South will become available to watch at the BFI’s mediatheques in Glasgow, Newcastle, Wrexham, Cambridge, Derby and London.
BFI Screens ‘First’ UK Gay TV Drama, South, At The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival from Big Gay Picture Show

Hillary Clinton Comes Out for Marriage Equality: VIDEO

via Towleroad News #gay by Andy Towle on 3/18/13

In a new video from HRC, Hillary Clinton finally says what everyone knew she believed.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Yoko Ono's Make-Up Tips for Men: VIDEO

via Towleroad News #gay by Andy Towle on 3/18/13

Yoko Ono created a typically Onoesque video for fashion label Opening Ceremony called "Make-up Tips for Men" in which she directs you to adopt a rainbow shine and a sparkling outlook.
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YOKO ONO "Make-Up Tips For Men" from Opening Ceremony on Vimeo.

Alt-Folk Singer Michelle Shocked Goes On Homophobic Rant, Tells Audience “God Hates Fags”

via Queerty by Dan Avery on 3/18/13

Michelle Shocked, an alt-folk singer who had success in the 1980s and ’90s, shocked audience members at Yoshi’s in San Francisco Sunday night with a homophobic rant that wound up clearing out the club.
The crowd had come, presumably, to hear songs like “Come a Long Way” and “On the Greener Side,” which got airplay on MTV back in the day. (“Greener Side” was even up for a VMA against Madonna’s “Vogue.”)
Instead they were treated to a tirade that allegedly included Shocked announcing “God hates fags.”
Matt Penfield, who was live-tweeting the show from onstage called her rant, delivered during her second set, “totally sincere [and] super anti-gay and hateful.”
We’re still trying to get the full text of her speech, but apparently she told fans “you can go on twitter and say Michelle Shocked said ‘God hates fags.’”
Another Twitter user posted that Shocked “said she lives in fear that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry.”
The singer has been open about being a born-again Christian, but was still active in progressive politics. (She was arrested at an Occupy L.A. event in 2011).
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Raised Mormon, Shocked joined the West Angeles Church of God in the 1990s and has been cagey about LGBT issues in recent years, even though she had been frequently identified as a lesbian in the press. (A misidentification, Shocked claims.)
“I am a believer. I am a devout practicing Christian,” she told Edge on the Net in 2008. “I don’t like the ring of that because I know so many people who profess the faith, and I look at their social conscious, and I can’t see how they reconcile their faith with their politics.”
In that same 2008 interview she confessed to some “inconvenient truths,” like how the Bible teaches homosexuality is immoral. “But homosexuality is no more less a sin than fornication,” she said. “And I’m a fornicator with a capital F.”
That’s not the F-word we’re concerned with, Michelle.
h/t: MEOWOnline

Ten years ago this week, on March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. The...

via The New York Times's Facebook Wall by The New York Times on 3/18/13

Ten years ago this week, on March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. The war officially ended on Dec. 15, 2011 — eight years, eight months, three weeks and four days later — when the last American forces withdrew. In the days between, hundreds of thousands of lives were altered irrevocably. The Opinion Pages asked 16 veterans who served in Iraq to reflect on how their lives changed on the two dates bracketing the war. Their accounts will be published in Home Fires on consecutive days this week.

Read Part 1: http://nyti.ms/Z99jcD
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A War, Before and After
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Ten years after “shock and awe,” Iraq War veterans reflect on the first and last days of the war and what it meant to them.

The Right-Wing Intellegentsia Concedes Gay Marriage

via EDGE Publications Top News Feed on 3/17/13

The National Review, the venerable journal founded by William F. Buckley, has been moving closer & closer to accepting marriage equality as a reality.

Gay Seattle Expat Killed In Brutal Attack In Mexico

via EDGE Publications Top News Feed on 3/16/13

Gay Seattle man Ronald Bentley Main died last week after a Feb. 24 attack inside his Chapala, Mexico home. Friends remember the real-estate agent and former president of the LGBT chamber of commerce as a kind and gregarious man.

David Hasselhoff, who sung his song Looking for Freedom atop the Berlin Wall in...

via The Guardian's Facebook Wall by The Guardian on 3/18/13

David Hasselhoff, who sung his song Looking for Freedom atop the Berlin Wall in 1989, joins thousands of protesters to save one of the last remaining sections of the Wall. Singing to crowds from a bright yellow van, the former Baywatch star appeals to save the wall from developers who want to remove a section of it to allow access to luxury flats

Read the full story: http://gu.com/p/3eg24?CMP=SOCNETTXT6966

Watch the video: http://gu.com/p/3eg55?CMP=SOCNETTXT6965

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Scott Walker: Young Republicans Support Gay Marriage

via On Top Magazine Headlines on 3/18/13

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Sunday admitted that for young Republicans gay marriage is no longer an issue

Sunday, March 17, 2013

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PUERTO RICO NEWS: 3.17.13 - BRAVO, ORLANDO!

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Friday, March 15, 2013

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

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