Jennifer Lopez producirá una serie protagonizada por una pareja de lesbianas / Jennifer Lopez to produce new lesbian-themed TV drama

Jenifer López, la polifacética actriz, estaría preparando un drama para la cadena ABC sobre una pareja de lesbianas, según ha revelado Deadline. Aún no hay un título para la serie, pero lo que sí sabemos es que el argumento se centra en el día a día de una pareja de lesbianas cuyo hogar se pondrá patas arriba con la llegada de una caprichosa niña que se mudará con ellas.

Una de las madres es una agente de policía, mientras que la otra es una profesora de un colegio privado. Juntas tienen un hijo biológico y, además, adoptarán a unos gemelos -un niño y una niña-, formando así una gran familia.

Jennifer -que planea hacer un cameo en el show como artista invitada- es una de las productoras ejecutivas del proyecto. Peter Paige y Brad Bredeweg, creador y guionista respectivamente del drama, también producirán la serie.

La actriz y cantante terminó recientemente la undécima edición del programa musical American Idol, y lanzará al mercado Dance Again...the Hits este mes de julio, con su single Dance Again, en el que colabora con el omnipresente Pitbull.

Fuente: 20minutos.es 

It looks like Jennifer Lopez is going from being on television to producing it. The Puerto Rican diva is developing a television series about a lesbian couple and their children for ABC family, reports Deadline.

Lopez –a triple threat whose acting, singing and dancing has propelled her to unparalleled success– will act as an executive producer of the new hour-long drama alongside Nuyorican Productions partner Simon Fields. If ABC Family approves the untitled project to series, the single mommy of two may make guest appearances on the show as well.

The series will feature the misadventures of a lesbian couple – a police officer and a school teacher – with one biological child and a pair of adopted twins, who in the series pilot, make room in their crowded home for a rebellious teenaged girl.

Lopez is currently on tour in South America, and will kick off her North American tour with Enrique Iglesias in Montreal on July 14.

Despite reports swirling around her rumored departure from Fox’s “American Idol”, J.Lo is keeping busy with television projects. This fall, Lopez will bring “Amigas, Inc.” to MTV Tres, an aspirational series about four Miami teenagers who create a party-planning business and throw their very own, perfect quinceañera.

Source: nbclatino.com

 

U.S. Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe: I'm Gay

Megan Rapinoe, in an interview with Out Magazine, clarified a statement she made in an earlier interview with Kick TV that seemed like she was coming out, but only if you paid close attention. 

The thing is she was not really closeted, but she wasn’t public about it either.  That has changed and it’s a great thing she is doing by coming out publicly now before the Olympics.  Megan Rapinoe is a great athlete and a very popular member of the US women’s soccer team. She decided to come out publicly in part because she understands her status as a role model for young people and wants to be part of changing the world for young LGBT people in sports.

She is comfortable with who she is. She has been out with teammates, friends and family for a while. Making the decision to be public about being gay feels like the right next step and why not? I can only hope that more women and men in sport make similar decisions about coming out publicly.  I am not in favor of outing public figures, but I love it when they decide to come out. We need their visibility to help change the sports world top to bottom.

Megan discusses some of her perceptions about the differences between coming out for female and male athletes: She believes that it is easier for women athletes to come out and be supported by their teammates than it is for gay men in sport.  I agree that it seems like women’s teams at the college, professional and Olympic levels are more accepting in general of lesbian teammates and coaches.  However, I think we also need to acknowledge that things are changing fast in men’s sports.  We cannot assume as we did a few years ago that it would be unthinkable for a gay man in a pro team sport to come out.  Cyd Zeigler’s interviews with NFL players indicate a big change among in pro football and these changes are mirrored in comments by other male pro team sport athletes as well. Change is afoot in men’s sports.

Sometimes the media greet lesbian athletes’ coming out with a big yawn, as if it only matters now when gay male athletes come out.  Witness the incredible media frenzy recently when Wade Davis, a long retired NFL player came out as compared to the coming out of WNBA Star and Olympic team member, Seimone Augustus.  Wade Davis – interviews on CNN and hundreds of articles in the mainstream media.  Seimone Augustus? Crickets chirping in the night.  Do you seriously think her coming would have the same media response if she were an NBA player?

We cannot also assume that everything is cool for lesbians in women’s sports.  That would be a dangerous assumption.  In the last two years, we can point to several instances of discrimination against lesbian athletes or coaches in high school and college sports.  Golf coach, Katie Brenny’s lawsuit against the University of Minnesota is still going through the courts.  Let’s not forget Texas high school softball player, Skye Wyatt, who was kicked off her team and outed to her mother by her coach, whose actions were backed up by the school committee.  Remember Niki Williams the high school basketball coach (also in Texas) who was dismissed before she coached her first game because school administrators realized that she is lesbian.  Oh, yeah, and soccer coach Lisa Howe at Belmont University who was dismissed when school administrators found out her partner was having a baby.

Negative recruiting based on perceived sexual orientation is still an issue in women college sports.  Sherri Murrell is still the only publicly out lesbian basketball coach in division 1 college hoops.  Only 42% of women’s college teams are coached by women these days. That makes it difficult for lesbian coaches to come out if they think it might jeopardize their jobs or their ability to recruit which will also jeopardize their jobs.

Maybe we do not see the same level of anti-gay name-calling in women’s sports that we do in men’s sports, but it is there.  Among softball players you might have noticed an increase in hair ribbons worn during games? There is a saying among women softball players, “No bow? Lesbo.”  One softball player told me about a straight teammate who freaked out when she realized that she forgot to bring her bow to an away game.  What kind of welcoming climate do you think that makes for a gay softball player?

I could go on, but I hope you see my point: Megan Rapinoe’s coming out matters.  We still have prejudice and discrimination to fight in women’s sports. Let’s not forget that it still takes courage and a willingness to be in the spotlight for something other than your athletic ability for an athlete who is actively competing to come out, female or male.  Thank you, Megan. Let’s hope your coming out empowers more LGBT athletes and coaches to do the same.

We still have work to do in women’s and men’s sports before any athlete, male or female, coming out is not a big deal.

Sources: opposingviews.com & theoriginalwinger.com

Los obispos piden al PP que cambie la actual ley de matrimonio homosexual

La Conferencia Episcopal Española (CEE) ha lanzado un llamamiento a la sociedad a expresar su disconformidad y al Gobierno y a los políticos en general a que "obren de acuerdo con su conciencia al margen de la disciplina de partido" y a cambiar la actual ley, "absoluntamente injusta", que permite el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. Los obispos españoles no ahorran descalificaciones contra los matrimonios gays, a los que consideran "un ataque al bien común" ni a su cultura, que incluyen dentro de la llamada "cultura de la muerte" en un extenso documento sobre "La verdad del amor humano", elaborado durante año y medio. Casualmente su presentación se ha hecho coincidir con la deliberación en Tribunal Constitucional del recurso contra la ley planteado por el PP y que la jerarquía católica avala.

Los obispos sostienen que "nadie puede refrendar leyes que dañan gravemente las estructuras de la sociedad". También advierten contra la "ideología de género", según la cual "cada uno puede optar en cada una de las situaciones de su vida por el género que desee, independientemente de su corporeidad", una filosofía que "deriva hacia el permisivismo más radical y en última instancia hacia el nihilismo más absoluto".

Fuente: elperiodico.com