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Taye Diggs maybe but Will Smith definity bi
Taye Diggs maybe but Will Smith definity bi
besides going by rumors, i think there's some guys are suspect and are basically tossing signs outthere primarily through standing up for lgbt causes or lgbt related things. the question is are they just showing support or interests in lgbt things because they're tolerant and not ignorant or is it because they themselves are lgbt.
with that said, whoever mentioned the actor from true blood and james franco. i THINK those two are suspect. i remember thinking it was odd for alexander skarsgard to be showing a general interests in gay rights doing a "it gets better" video and james franco, he's quite obvious. i don't know about the alex dude but i think james franco is most definitely gay or bi.
another person who i think is suspect that didn't make the list is jamie foxx.
but for the most part, until proven otherwise, i think everyone in hollywood and the whole world is suspect. you never KNOW who's who. there's the obvious ones and then there's the guys you LEAST suspect. i actually heard rumors about certain people that have NEVER came into the gay or bi rumor mill actually being gay or bi. i'd say names BUT you never know who's floating online.
one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry
You think SWS is BI? He would like you...
Downey and Tatum straight? Hardly...
John Legend, Will Smith, LL Cool J aren't straight. HENRY SIMMONS...good God, please tell me you're joking. That dude has swallowed more cum than me, Liz Taylor and Colton Haynes combined.
Tell that to Wendy Williams, and a bunch of big mouth gossips in NYC...
I don't particularly care one way or the other regarding Skarsgård, but I suspect straight men don't usually try to rim their buddies in front of a camcorder when drunk off their asses.
Haha Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah wood bi??
So my twisted LOTR/HP fantasies do have a chance!! Lol
Will Estes
Taye Diggs and Q-Tip, who I forgot to add to my original list.
Tell me more about Henry!
Again I forgot to add Q-Tip, but I also should have mentioned Diddy. He's not even a secret, everyone in NYC knows he sleeps with men, too.
Here is an "interesting" interaction between Baron Davis and Deron Williams
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I never know what to think when I read something like that. None of the people you named seem particularly surprising, but then, how can I know you are for real?
Well, anyway, how about Hunter Parrish, Trevor Donovan, and Mehcad Brooks? Are there any other names that would surprise us?
I have no idea how you can know...that's for you to deal with
Hunter is not straight, from what I've heard, and I know nothing of Trevor but I have heard things about Mehcad...to be fair, I don't know of too many names that would surprise you...most are talked out or alluded to.
I think William Moseley and Tom Daley
A list...just peruse this thread...a lot of the posters aren't wrong besides a name or three.
I've HEARD, don't know for a fact that Ryan swings both ways...now how that person knew that information, I don't know, but I was it was made clear that Gosling's bisexuality wasn't a consistent thing. Actors.
Brad Pitt is pretty straight. However, I think he's probably made out with a guy or two before. Just a hunch--why I think that is none of your concern.
Not much details, I don't think he's default gay, but he's not straight...women wise, he seems to go for white girls or wants to be seen with them. To each his own.
Jared--too many conflicting reports. Some swear he's gay as a goose, some say bi, some say straight as an arrow. I give up.
i foud this list, do you agree?
Bluntly--the confirmed gay list is mostly true. Let this list be your guide--however, I missed Brad Garrett, I thought Woody H was bi, and Edward Norton?? Must admit, I have never heard that. But a quick google search and thinking about it--it MAKES PERFECT SENSE. He's never been married, he's what? 40-ish? and he seems almost too private. That's a usually dead giveaway in Hollywood--especially given his supposed dating history--Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Salma Hayek are known for dating men who aren't straight because they're not straight themselves.
Glad to see James Van Der Beek on this list--who is this guy fooling? I don't know where he got that those kids and that wife from, but she's super nice, though.
In the "Confident" section, it's accurate too, and I like how they're honest of not knowing completely because you see and hear so many contradicting things here in Hollywood. I liked how the added Jamie Bell, Ben Barnes, Ryan Gosling and a few others to the list...very good work. Chris Evans is bugging me, though. I'm truly unsure--word is he's straight, but this site isn't buying it.
In the "We Wished" section, I'm not buying Matthew McConaughey or Channing Tatum--really? Channing Tatum is not straight. He was notorious before he made it big...however, maybe it's his ambition and willingly to do anything with anybody anywhere that's throwing me off, but I doubt it. Hayden, too. Other than that, the list holds up.
Butch queen, loves white guys, has a big ass, nice enough guy, drives a cool car and has an awesome pad in the hills. I think he sold it, though. Done.
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I don't get how it's assumed Chris Evans is straight now. Wasn't there some old article where he said he was gay or bi before he made it on some big films?
Well the two that stand out to me are Kellan Lutz, and Daniel Tosh. Kellan just pings my gaydar and though he may be just kidding Daniel does a lot of blatant home-erotic stuff on his show.
I also remember hearing that one of not all of the Gossip Guys were not straight
Ok, well here we go. Before one can even begin to answer that we have ask how we define homosexuality and bisexuality? Is someone who at one point in their life slept with men automatically gay or bi? Because there are a lot of actors who have crawled in bed with a male casting director or director to get a part *cough* Keanu Reeves *cough* If you count guys like that A LOT of Hollywood is bisexual.
There are also actors who have experimented with men because they were playing gay men. I hear that both DiCaprio and Pitt (when he was younger) have dabbled, though in their personal life they very seldom have sex with men.
That being said there is a LARGE number of gay/bi actors who say they're straight. And with stories like this it's not surprise not hard to figure out why. That being said I think most of your usual suspects, Cruise, Jackman, Gyllenhaal, Travolta, Smith etc. are probably gay. There's truth to rumor, especially those in a town bent on sending out certain image.
As per Jared Padalecki my gut instinct is that he is straight, maybe in the has fooled around with a guy before. I don't remember hearing any chatter about Jared until he started working with Jensen. Jensen, however, has been pinging gaydars since his soap opera days. The fact he was a cheerleader in school certainly doesn't help his case. And of course there's the good old finger ratio...
Finger length is a scientific indicator of how much testosterone/estrogen a person got in utero. Some scientists have speculated that prenatal estrogen levels correlate to sexuality. Basically we know for a fact that higher prenatal estrogen levels means a longer index finger and higher prenatal testosterone levels mean a longer ring finger. So if a person has a long index finger they MIGHT be gay. For example...
If you take a look at an out gay celeb You'll notice that his index finger is about as long as the ring finger if not longer.
If you look at a celeb who is pretty clearly straight you might find their ring finger is longer than their index finger.
As for some celebs who are... questionable... Well let's just say that Hugh and Neil seem to have similar finger ratio and one can take that however they want.
Now if you look at Jared. he's got a pretty long ring finger.
Jensen not so much...
Keep in mind that this is far from an exact science and it's next to impossible to even accurately figure finger length from random pictures of people who don't have their hands flat and palms out. That being said... knock yourself out and speculate wildly here's a website with pictures of celebrity hands. http://handson.provocateuse.com/
Anyone have anything on current mlb players, Derek Jeter pings my gaydar as does Alex Rodriguez
I have always wondered about Hayden.. he pings to high heaven, and he's effeminate. I never really bought his relationship with Rachael Bilson either. It seemed to publicized and fake. Then again.. people in the know seem to insist he's straight... just an effeminate straight guy. What is your take on that? Do you think they're right, or is he gay?
I like Francisco Lachowski, Jon Kortajarena and other male models
my ring finger is longer than my index finger on both hands and both are shorter than my middle finger....and....I AM VERY GAY!!!!!
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure he's not straight. Very sure in fact--there's a spectrum and if anything, he may reside in the middle. This dude has had a boyfriend before. And looking at his rumored dating history--Sienna Miller? Eva Longoria? Rachael Bilson? All these women, for whatever reason are always linked to men who aren't straight. I just can co-sign what that site says in regards to him, even though they're accurate about mostly everything else.
Last edited by pikespeak; October 22nd, 2012 at 06:07 PM.
please let david henrie be gay
It's interesting that 95% of the guys mentioned in this thread are all at least somewhat hot/attractive. I guess there are no ugly gay/bi guys in Hollywood? Or is that just because they're not the best fantasy material?
John Cena have a bi vibe possibly a gay vibe
It's not interesting at all--Hollywood is full of attractive men who are not straight...even if they're not conventionally attractive (some whom I mentioned on my list down thread), they're not ugly.
Nevertheless, Hollywood is filled to the brim with hot gay/bi men and some of them end up famous.
Hardly wishful thinking.
mechad brooks,taylor lautner, shemar brooks
mechad brooks,tyler perry,shemar moore,eddie murphy
Well actually I have heard that John Goodman and James Avery(Uncle Phil), and Reginald VelJohnson (Carl from Family Matters) are all gay. So it isn't just the buff hot guys who are talked about as well.
I noticed that no one has mentioned(or maybe I missed it) one of the first people to come to my mind when I read this. Kellan Lutz!
I did, he really hits my gaydar big time. All of the jersey Shore guys except for Ronnie do as well, Vinnie always has
The list of men posted make sense and some are no-brainers. I have one question: any info on Ian Somerhalder?
^sadly i do believe hes bangin nina dobrev
I think that Aaron Carter might be gay, or at least bi. There was a blind item about his girlfriend, Hilary Duff, breaking up with him after she caught him sucking cock. Of course the blind item is just a guess. Aaron seems to support gay marriage.
Mario Lopez is another guy that pings my gaydar, although I think he's too much of a pussy hound to be anything more than bisexual.
How about Matt Damon and Ben Afleck. That bromance was a little close. Matt is one very nice hot man and I would certainly do anything that he asked me to do to be with him.
Do I need to spell it out, ill give you all their initials 1D. Did I make that to easy?
These are the ones I have no doubt about:
Tom Cruise
John Travolta
Taylor Lautner (110% and totally passive too)
Zac Efron
Not sure:
Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie
George Clooney
Tom Daley (I am starting to think he is straight though, see Bieber below)
I thought Justin Bieber was gay, but now I believe it is just a normal Lad with a big ego, who like pussy.
Ain't nobody mentioned on this thread gay, you'll need to keep wanking and shut the hell up. What's wrong with you fags. Everyone you fantasise about is gay.

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I keep seeing Rachel's Cottage Cheese in stores, and I was so curious about the various flavors - Roasted Red Pepper, Pomegranate Orange Cranberry - that I had to try one. I was in the mood for something savory instead of sweet, so I opted for the Roasted Red Pepper flavor, after all, Rachel's describes this as where, "The robust richness of roasted red peppers and a fresh hint of citrus come together in savory cottage cheese."
I was a bit skeptical about the red pepper and citrus combination, but I opened the container to see what I was in for. The first thing I noticed was that the cup wasn't nearly full. Sure, each serving is 5 ounces - so why do they put it in a 6-ounce cup? Second, I was greeted by a somewhat liquid-y cottage cheese flecked with red peppers. It actually smelled a lot like pizza (I think it was the combination of cheese and peppers), so I was excited. I pulled out my spoon and dug in.
The taste was ... strange. I liked it enough at first (the taste too reminded me a little bit of pizza), but after a while it really got to me. The pepper flavor was pretty overwhelming in a strange, sweet way, and the citrus was barely detectable but definitely present. I was also disappointed by the texture - I prefer a chunkier, less liquid, cottage cheese (but not too dry either).
Each 5 ounce serving of Rachel's Roasted Red Pepper Cottage Cheese provides 120 calories from 2 grams of total fat, 1.5 grams of which is saturated fat, 15 mg of cholesterol, 440 mg of sodium (18% of the DV), 14 grams of protein and 6 grams of carbohydrates which includes 6 grams of fiber and 4 grams of sugars (this sounds quite improbable but that's what the label says). There is also 15% of the daily recommendations for vitamin A, and 20% for calcium. The ingredients are: Grade A cultured pasteurized lowfat milk, red peppers, lemon juice (from concentrate), salt, tricalcium phosphate, locust bean gum, pectin, carrageenan, citric acid, natural flavors, microbial enzyme (non-animal, rennetless), vitamin A palmitate, and carbon dioxide (to help protect flavor).
A 5-ounce container cost $1.79, which was more pricey than some other brands. Overall, I must say, despite the good nutritionals, I wasn't really impressed by this flavor, and I kind of regret spending that much money on something so unsatisfying. I may try the sweet flavors or the other savory ones (at my own discretion), but probably not for a while yet.
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FERC [Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] has issued its decision yesterday the ~21 mile gas line running north of Baltimore. The gas line is being constructed by Columbia Gas. MAC (Mid-Atlantic Council TU) is a registered intervener. That means if we object to the decision, we have standing in court to appeal the decision by FERC.
The pipeline was approved but there are a lot of restrictions. Appendix B is 7 pages and contains the restrictions imposed on Columbia Gas. It will take me some time to review the whole document. I invite others to peruse the decision. I am not clear as to how long we have to appeal, if we wish to do so. I would suspect at least 30 days and more likely 60... [email From Jay Sheppard, Resources Vice-Chair, MAC].
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In order to help local artists, as well as area folks, People Helping People is holding its first craft fair — The Chilhowee Mountain Craft Bazaar Show and Sale — on Saturday, Feb. 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, at the People Helping People and Kidz XChange Plus, both located at 184 Mull Road in Benton.
The location is large — the old Benton Manufacturing/Flea Market building next door to Burgess Feed and Hardware on Hwy. 411 — making it large enough to hold a crafts fair indoors, so no worries about the weather — hot, cold, rain, or even snow, no worries — for either the customers or the vendors.
"It's a large, old factory," Poteet said, "and it takes a lot to heat and cool it."
This crafts fair is one way the folks at People Helping People hope to raise some funds to continue to help people in the community.
But those interested in being vendors need to hustle, because the deadline for artist registration is Jan. 26 — just a week before the actual crafts fair.
"We've had a good response so far," she said, "but we have much more room."
This crafts fair also is unique in that it is being held at an unusual time of year, because most crafts fairs are held in the summer and fall.
"This one is right before Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day," Poteet said.
So far, a variety of vendors already have signed up, selling a variety of items, from homemade soap to honey and bees wax products and candles, homemade crocheted items to jellies and jams, and various other homemade and handcrafted items, such as quilts — 30 booths in all.
And, 25 percent of these booths are dedicated to home-based businesses, including the kitchen items, a jewelry-maker, a caterer, and a coffee business.
Proceeds will go to help People Helping People, which describes itself as a Polk County nonprofit assistance organization, keep up and running.
"We don't receive any funding from anyone, but our sponsors and from fundraisers," Poteet said.
People Helping People allows anyone who stops by to pick up a bag of certain needed items once a month, in addition to other possible help.
"Last year, 10,484 people were served," said Dianne Poteet, a volunteer at People Helping People. "They got monthly assistance, as well as help from the crisis room, and also the medical room."
People Helping People also now offers a small thrift store, plus a collectible corner with more vintage items.
"I do a lot of arts and crafts myself," Poteet said, "and so do a lot of people in Polk County. But there aren't a lot of venues for artists to sell their wares (in the winter)."
She takes gift boxes and fashions them into greeting cards, which is has found are very popular at the crafts fairs she's attended.
"All kinds of craft people of very talented crafts people are going to be there," Poteet said.
And if all goes well, People Helping People hope to continue holding crafts fairs later this year as well.
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After introducing myself, I asked the customary question, "What brings you here today?"
Her reply came with forceful resentment, "I don't need to be here, that's for sure."
"So, why are you here," I asked?
"Because my whole family believes I need to see a counselor. But, I don't. They're the problem, not me."
Over the course of several sessions, I became intimately acquainted with the flaws in every member of her family. With amazing detail, this little old lady recounted episode after episode of what must have been every transgression ever committed against her. Here are a few unbelievable (yet true) examples. "You would be angry, too, if your grandchildren ran into the living room with muddy shoes like mine did on Aug. 3, 1982."
"Of course, I can't stand my daughter-in-law. She criticized what I was wearing on Jan. 14, 1978, after I had prepared such a nice meal for her" (recalling in exhausting detail every word spoken).
"Wouldn't you be angry if your son sided with his father like mine did on Sept. 7, 1987? I still say the paint was the wrong color." Needless to say, I became fascinated. This woman recounted to the actual day transgressions that had occurred 20 sometimes 30 years before.
Amazing. Equally amazing, she had no memory of positive or happy events. When I encouraged her to think about how she might share maybe a tiny droplet of responsibility, she would physically recoil and then recall yet another atrocity.
Did I help her? No. I couldn't since she was never able to accept responsibility for herself. Everything was someone else's fault. With such a history of blaming, the reason for the permanent scowl on her face became painfully obvious.
In one of his books, C.S. Lewis illustrates the tragic consequences of living a life of blame. A group of passengers is riding on a bus to heaven, but before they arrive in heaven they are routed through hell where they are told to depart the bus. In hell, angels plead with each individual to give up whatever is keeping them in hell.
C.S. Lewis observes an angel pleading with a woman to give up her anger. (I've wondered if she was the same woman I saw in my office.) She remembers in every detail every negative thing that has ever happened to her and with precision she justifies to the angel why she has a right to be angry and to blame those who have wronged her.
The angel continues to plead with her to give up her anger. As C.S. Lewis is watching this, he observes a curious thing. The woman is wearing a tiny bracelet around her wrist. This bracelet has a small chain attached to it which leads to a tiny speck on the ground. As the woman continues to hold on to her right to be angry, the bracelet around her wrist turns into a heavy chain, So she actually becomes immobilized by the chain. Then the speck at the end of the chain begins to grow. Eventually, C.S. Lewis recognizes the speck for what it is — a small monster. The monster grows and grows as the woman clings to her right to blame until eventually the monster is bigger than the woman. The angel continues to plead but to no avail. The monster finally devours the woman.
This story is a graphic illustration of what blame can do to an individual. It consumes and destroys its victims. Why? Blame ultimately makes you the object of your own resentments. Although a blamer's favorite word may be "you," pointing the finger of blame has a way of backfiring.
That's why blamers are never happy. Sadly, blaming robs you of life. Unchecked, it's like a monster that grows within you, immobilizes you, and ultimately devours you.
Not until we stop blaming will we start enjoying life.


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Byrd-Bennett defends CPS closing plan, insulted by racism charges
BY LAUREN FITZPATRICK AND FRAN SPIELMAN Staff Reporters April 3, 2013 11:46AM
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The head of the Chicago Public Schools said Wednesday that accusations of racism about her plan to close 54 schools mostly serving black students insult her "as a woman of color."
Barbara Byrd-Bennett insists that her decision to shutter 54 schools was made after listening to the testimony of more than 20,000 people at dozens of hearings pertaining to school closings.
But parents at schools such as Courtenay Elementary and Barton Elementary that were not up for closing consideration complained Wednesday that their schools nonetheless will drastically change come August, whether by another school moving in, or the staff being fired and replaced.
At a particularly feisty CPS board meeting Wednesday, Byrd-Bennett presented her historically large closure plan that seeks to "right size" a district that she says has 100,000 more seats than children.
Most of the targeted schools are in the city's black and poorest communities on the West and South sides, but, Byrd-Bennett said, most CPS students are black or Hispanic, so naturally the closings will affect "children of color."
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, who is also African American, has called the planned closures "racist" and "classist."
"What I cannot understand and what I will not accept is that the proposals I am offering are racist," Byrd-Bennett said, prompting shouts of "They are!" from the often-raucous crowd.
"To refuse to challenge the status quo that is failing thousands of African American students, that's what I call racist."
Addressing safety concerns about children crossing gang lines to get to new schools, Byrd-Bennett said she has no patience for adults who use the "excuse of gangs to leave children trapped in failing schools."
However, CPS itself considered the gang factor when it agreed with a school closings commission's recommendation to keep high schools off the closing list out of concern for teens' safety if gang territories were disrupted.
"The continued input of parents and school communities will be critical in the next weeks and next few months ahead," Byrd-Bennett said.
Groups from schools not targeted for closing but now proposed for other major changes told the board they felt left out of any discussion. State law governing school closings doesn't include turnarounds. Each school proposed for consolidation will get three more hearings; each slated for turnaround will get a single public hearing.
Still, Courtenay Elementary parent Wendy Auffant felt "shock and dismay" to learn that children at Courtenay, a small school at 1726 W. Berteau that admits kids not by neighborhood but by lottery, will be sent to Stockton, at 4425 N. Beacon St, which will take the Courtnenay name.
With its classrooms full, Courtenay was not on a final school closure list, Auffant said, so the parents and teachers were "not provided with a community forum as promised by the CPS CEO."
"It's insulting and disrespectful," she said.
Dozens of supporters of Barton Elementary School, 7650 S. Wolcott Ave., which is slated for a turnaround — essentially a staff reboot— also protested at Wednesday's meeting they were left out of any discussions. Even worse, they said, a representative from the AUSL organization set to take their school over turned up at Barton on Wednesday, weeks before their lone scheduled May 1 public hearing and the board's May 22 vote.
"The voices of Barton were not heard," said Sarah Cohen, a professor at Illinois State University which partners with Barton to train CPS teachers. Barton was removed in February from a list of 129 possible schools to be closed, and thought they were safe, she said.
Barton's Local School Council chair Sonya Williams pointed to the progress the troubled school has made since hiring a new principal two years ago: upticks in standardized test scores and enrollment.
"The data shows that under the current leadership, a turnaround is already taking place. There is every reason to believe this trend will continue," Williams said. Besides, Barton father John F. Kennedy said, turnaround is no guarantee. Some schools AUSL already turned around are also on CPS probation.
Meanwhile at City Hall, the City Council's Education Committee held its own hearing on the school closings, well aware that, as chairman Latasha Thomas (17th) made clear at the outset, aldermen are virtually powerless to stop it.
Stacy Davis Gates, the political activities director for the Chicago Teachers Union, suggested "tweaking attendance boundaries" to minimize harm.
"Make no mistake: Moving and disrupting the education of 30,000 students in Chicago — a very vulnerable population of students to begin with — is an audacious task that has never been undertaken by any other city in this country ever," Davis Gates said. "And the way that we're doing it — in this condensed amount of time — is troubling," she said. "We are moving with warp speed with people who deserve our best work."
Far South Side Ald. Anthony Beale (9th), who initially had five schools on the hit list, but "worked my tail off" to get four of them eliminated, put the CTU official on the hot seat. He asked Davis Gates point-blank if there were any concessions the union was willing to make in order to keep some of the 54 schools open.
The silence was deafening. Davis Gates said nothing for so long, Beale started humming the tune that awaits contestants' answers on the game show, "Jeopardy."
She later talked about the need to declare a surplus in tax-increment-financing (TIF) districts and raise the state income tax.
When CPS officials finally testified, Beale fired at them too. He cited a "lack of trust" in the guarantee that displaced students making the longer walk to their new schools will be safe.
"No matter what you all do with this transition, Safe Passage has got to be tight. It has to be in place. We can't have any problems. We can't have any hiccups. That's the biggest concern," Beale said. "We have to assure these parents that those babies are gonna be safe."


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Souls on 'The Line' | Guatemala City sex workers turn to fútbol for a sense of who they are
Media fascination with Las Estrellas' story is evident in the trailer from Estrellas de la Línea. The ponytailed coach is Kimberly, a fashion designer for sex workers and transvestites.
Of football documentaries that favor the human element there is no shortage of late. One of the most recent is Estrellas de la Línea, screened at English-language film festivals as The Railroad All-Stars, about Guatemala City sex workers who in 2004 organized themselves as a football team.
Estrellas has made appearances at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and most recently the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York following a premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006.
Filmmakers and Las Estrellas themselves do not hide that their grab for attention began as just that. Frustrated at efforts to gain respect for their plight through the political process, the women seized on a suggestion to organize a team in a Saturday amateur women's league, the domestic Campeonato Femenino (see 30 Nov 04). Las Estrellas' first match in Sept '04 came against the girls' team from Colegio Americano, the elite American School of Guatemala, and almost immediately publicity flowed. Much of the debate afterward was framed by this one match.
Las Estrellas arrived at the event bearing a 10-point manifesto, "Vindication of the Prostitutes of La Línea." "The prostitutes of La Línea," the document begins, referring to the four-block downtown section alongside La Avenida del Ferrocarril (Railroad Avenue), "are women before prostitutes" (see Tim Kantz, " 'Prostitution Is a Job Like Any Other,' " EntreMundos, Jan–Feb 05). Akin in some way to the prototypical feminist treatise, Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792), the document tipped off Las Estrellas' opponents to the women's identity. They had not made this clear to tournament organizers.
Journalist Andrés Cepeda, who was helping the film crew, states in an Associated Press interview that the women's presence represented "an intentional, confrontational act to provoke two polar opposites within society, without violence, to experience and observe their reaction."
With film cameras rolling, the legitimacy of Las Estrellas' protest became clear. Kantz in his article in EntreMundos picks up the narrative:
The Colegio girls complained to the tournament's administrators that they feared catching contagious diseases from the team of prostitutes. The administrators, claiming that the Stars and their followers used profanity in their cheers, kicked them out of the tournament and kept the Q1,000 fee [$125] the women had paid to enter the event.
Estrellas lost 5–2 to the Colegio team, but the game propelled Las Estrellas on a cross-country journey for friendly matches against journalists, policewomen and other sex workers. Among the 11 team members that Kantz names, all are mothers, with 39 children among them. Team members come from Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, an indication of Guatemala City's long-standing lure, dating back to the 1870s, to the sex trade and to traffickers of women and girls.
Three days before their inaugural match with Colegio Americano, Estrellas players get fitted for kit at an abandoned city lot doubling as their practice field. As always, a cameraman chronicles the moment. (Rodrigo Abd | AP)
Las Estrellas desire to be seen in a new light, as women and mothers first, and to expose the structural inequities that make prostitution almost an inevitability for uneducated, often illiterate women lacking alternatives. At the same time, however, this group of some 160 women along La Línea—merely a fraction of the estimated 17,000 sex workers throughout the country—promotes its work as a legitimate occupation and advocates for a sex-workers' union to offer labor and human rights protection. "Prostitution is a job like any other," reads Las Estrellas' manifesto.
The trade is legal in Guatemala for women 18 and over, although it is against the law to "promote, facilitate or foster" prostitution. The women, therefore, have been limited in their ability to organize, given that a union could be interpreted as an illegal extension of the trade. They rent rooms along La Línea for 40 quetzales, or $5, per day, charging clients perhaps 20 quetzales for 10 minutes. Under-age girls sometimes are hidden in secret stow areas, spread among some 600 Guatemala City bars and brothels (Janine Zeitlin, "Teenage Prostitution a Way of Life in Guatemala," Naples Daily News [Fla.], 30 Jan 06).
Las Estrellas have called attention to this precarious existence in part by submitting to interviews for the documentary within their cramped, rented rooms. They also publicized the murders since 2001 of more than 2,500 women, many of them sex workers (see Amnesty International), as well as complicity of police in corruption tied to regulation of the sex industry. Two Salvadoran members of Las Estrellas, for example, say police often demand sex in exchange for not having the women jailed or deported.
These facts tie to a prevailing culture of disregard for women in which prostitution is well-established and a shockingly low percentage of women, less than 11 percent, are employed outside the menial wage-labor sector. Even more insidious, within the "honor and shame" dynamic identified by cultural anthropologists, sex workers both threaten the reproductive order of family life yet enable a system in which men must control women's behavior and self-will. "It's a patriarchal culture," says Maria Villarreal, Latin American representative to ECPAT (End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism). "[Police] think the girls are sexually exploited because they like to be sexually exploited. They are seen as the bad girls."
Scholar David McCreery's review of police and other government records at the Archivo General de Centro América uncovers a brothel system in full function in Guatemala City by the late 19th century, with indications that the sex worker's plight has changed little in more than 125 years. The legalization of the sex trade in 1881 and subsequent changes in regulation enabled the forcing of women into houses of prostitution for indebtedness, with a near guarantee that their life situations would remain in extremis. Bordels such as La Bella Alhambra, Mansion de Venus and El Palacio de Cristal operated with state sanction. "By her degradation," McCreery writes, "the prostitute reinforces the approved social role for women of 'virgin-mother,' evident in the Catholic world in the cult of the Virgin." Restraint is not expected of men, so women's activities, and certainly those of the prostitute, are regulated to enable them to perform their social function. Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1967), imagines the 19th-century clientele in the novel El señor presidente (1946):
Some inexperienced boys would turn up during the early part of the night. … Afterwards the serious clients began to arrive in relays. A respectable businessman, ardent and pot-bellied, with an astronomical amount of flesh surrounding his thoracic cavity. A shop assistant, who embraced the girls as if measuring cloth by the yard, in contrast to the doctor who looked as if he was ausculating them. A journalist who always left something in pawn, even if only his hat. A lawyer … a countryman with milk white teeth. A round-shouldered civil servant, unattractive to women. A portly tradesman. A workman smelling of sheepskin.
This background of male control and delineation of female space makes Las Estrellas' choice of fútbol as their agent of self-expression all the more logical—and potentially volatile. Susy Sica—43, illiterate, Mayan, single mother of seven—identifies the game's potential for self-actualization when she says, "When I'm on the field practicing, even though I'm only a few blocks away from the tracks, I forget I work there. I feel like I'm someone else" (Catherine Elton, "Prostitutes Win Respect with Soccer," Miami Herald, 31 Oct 04).
A Late Classic Period (600–800 CE) carved limestone plaque, 15 inches tall, from the Usumacinta River region in Guatemala depicts a ball player in full regalia. (Jay I. Kislak Collection, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution)
Sica's Mayan background also points directly to the heritage of ur-football among the Maya in the highlands to the west of Guatemala City and throughout Mesoamerica. Sica, whether consciously or not, taps these cosmic sources of identity preserved in the ancient ball courts, artifacts and literary relics of Mayan culture. More than 1,500 ball courts have been unearthed in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras as well as other evidence of ball playing among the Olmec, Maya and Aztec civilizations.
The Mayan ball games, writes Yale art historian Mary Miller, enacted foundational tales of life and death from the Popol Vuh, the Mayan creation narrative and anthology of etiological tales incorporating the first four human beings and their contests and other interactions with gods of the underworld. The four beings, hero twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque along with forefathers Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu, play ball games with the gods. Through guile and artifice, the twins ultimately prevail and exhume their father's and uncle's bodies from the ball court of Xibalba; the corpses are placed in the sky to become sun and moon.
The fanciful tales were enacted on the ball courts of life, with the story of the life cycle of maize and the resurrection of the Maize God, who is identical to Hun Hunahpu, at the center of the ritual. The game as played by the Mayans employed hands only to put the ball in play. Otherwise, players propelled the rubber ball off surrounding walls using upper arms, hips and thighs, attempting to send the ball through elevated stone rings. Hips and knees were padded. Surviving artifacts show players wearing headdresses and long hipcloths. "[T]he balls themselves," Miller writes, "were dangerous: heavy and sometimes moving at great speed, such a ball could break a bone, if not a neck, or damage internal organs" (81). At one point in the final encounter between the twins and the Xibalban lords, Xbalanque receives the ball, "the ball was stopped by his [waist] yoke, then he hit it hard and it took off, the ball passed straight out of the court, bouncing just once, just twice, and stopping among the ball bags."
The ball court, now replaced by the fútbol field, was central to the Mesoamerican belief system and perhaps remains so. Presbyterian missionary Ellen Harris Dozier writes in correspondence of 2004 that women with whom she works in San Felipe, Guatemala, when asked to draw maps of their villages, customarily depict the soccer pitch at or near the center. Yet the ball game that "provided the physical and symbolic fulcrum of an entire continental culture" (10), in the words of David Goldblatt, has in its modern form been largely closed to women. Hence we imagine Las Estrellas boldly reclaiming this preserve in order to cast their own tales of death and renewal. Miller writes:
Life is both taken and renewed in the ballcourt. The ballcourt is the place where fortunes are reversed, and then reversed again. It is the ultimate place of transition, and the Maya seem to have found this particular characteristic of the game absorbing. (85–86)
Perhaps the driving metaphor in Estrellas de la Línea is not the game but the railroad track. Cameras linger on the track at the beginning and conclusion of the documentary, writes Alex Thurman at Contrapicado.net, an online cinema magazine ("Estrellas por un día," Jun 06). The railroad line much of the time sits moribund, a place for wandering children or for stray dogs in repose. Nevertheless, a railroad is also a "symbol of the connection between the barrio and the rest of the world," and at these two moments in the film a train rumbles through the neighborhood.
David Goldblatt, The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football (London: Viking, 2006), 9–13; David McCreery, " 'This Life of Misery and Shame': Female Prostitution in Guatemala City, 1880–1920," Journal of Latin American Studies 18 (Nov 1986): 333–53; Mary Miller, "The Maya Ballgame: Rebirth in the Court of Life and Death," in The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame, ed. E. Michael Whittington (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001), 79–87; Dennis Tedlock, trans., Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, rev. ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
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Williams asked the Bolivar County Board of Supervisors Tuesday to consider creating a new policy for generating funds for the program, which his department institutes in county school districts outside Cleveland.
"I'm asking that a certain amount from each ticket (traffic violations) go into the crime prevention fund, which supports D.A.R.E.," said Williams.
"We are operating on limited resources and we need to do something to generate more revenue to keep D.A.R.E. updated," added Williams.
The funding is necessary to stay abreast with new curriculum, books, materials and officer training.
For those less familiar, D.A.R.E. is an acronym for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, and gives kids the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs and violence.
The international program reaches out to millions of school children around the world.
Yolanda Harris, Bolivar County Sheriff's deputy and D.A.R.E. officer, began teaching the curriculum to fifth- and sixth-graders at Hayes Cooper Center in Merigold at the beginning of the month.
"This is essential for the children, so it's extremely important we find ways to fund D.A.R.E.," Harris said. "I'm very excited about it and so are all the kids."
Harris's original plan was to operate the program at two separate districts this semester, but lack of finances made it undoable.
And this semester would have been even more limited had it not been for the support of Cleveland Police Captain Mike McCain, the D.A.R.E. program administrator for the Cleveland School District.
McCain, who has been working with D.A.R.E. in Cleveland since 1995, loaned Harris hundreds of student books, T-shirts and medals.
"It benefits the whole community when we can get all the kids in this county through the program," said McCain. "The more students we can reach the better so we can help kids make good choices."
McCain said an assessment on each paid misdemeanor crime in Cleveland helps fund the crime prevention fund for the city, thus contributing greatly to the D.A.R.E. budget.
"We let the people who pay for these fines pay for the program," he said. "Hopefully the county can adopt something similar so we can really grow this thing."
Harris is still hopeful of instituting the curriculum at two schools each semester next school year, but funding for new books will be a necessity when the loaned ones are returned to McCain this spring.
"I'm so grateful that our two departments were able to work together," said Harris. "I didn't know how we were going to afford anything before he loaned us the books, but without more funding we're going to be extremely limited."
"We were gracious enough to receive the donation of books for the school she's at now, but we're going to need something more," added Williams.
The supervisors agreed that Williams and board attorney Linda F. Coleman could research options for drafting an ordinance to distribute a certain amount of each ticket into the crime prevention fund.
To learn more about D.A.R.E. in county schools, call the Bolivar County Sheriff's Department at 662-843-5378.
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Rehoboam's accession, The people's petition, His rough answer. (1-15) Ten tribes revolt. (16-24) Jeroboam's idolatry. (25-33)
Verses 1-15 The tribes complained not to Rehoboam of his father's idolatry, and revolt from God. That which was the greatest grievance, was none to them; so careless were they in matters of religion, if they might live at case, and pay no taxes. Factious spirits will never want something to complain of. And when we see the Scripture account of Solomon's reign; the peace, wealth, and prosperity Israel then enjoyed; we cannot doubt but that their charges were false, or far beyond the truth. Rehoboam answered the people according to the counsel of the young men. Never was man more blinded by pride, and desire of arbitrary power, than which nothing is more fatal. God's counsels were hereby fulfilled. He left Rehoboam to his own folly, and hid from his eyes the things which belonged to his peace, that the kingdom might be rent from him. God serves his own wise and righteous purposes by the imprudences and sins of men. Those that lose the kingdom of heaven, throw it away, as Rehoboam, by wilfulness and folly.
Verses 16-24 The people speak unbecomingly of David. How soon are good men, and their good services to the public, forgotten ! These considerations should reconcile us to our losses and troubles, that God is the Author of them, and our brethren the instruments: let us not meditate revenge. Rehoboam and his people hearkened to the word of the Lord. When we know God's mind, we must submit, how much soever it crosses our own mind. If we secure the favour of God, not all the universe can hurt us.
Verses 25-33 Jeroboam distrusted the providence of God; he would contrive ways and means, and sinful ones too, for his own safety. A practical disbelief of God's all-sufficiency is at the bottom of all our departures from him. Though it is probable he meant his worship for Jehovah the God of Israel, it was contrary to the Divine law, and dishonourable to the Divine majesty to be thus represented. The people might be less shocked at worshipping the God of Israel under an image, than if they had at once been asked to worship Baal; but it made way for that idolatry. Blessed Lord, give us grace to reverence thy temple, thine ordinances, thine house of prayer, thy sabbaths, and never more, like Jeroboam, to set up in our hearts any idol of abomination. Be thou to us every thing precious; do thou reign and rule in our hearts, the hope of glory.
1 Kings 12:1-5 . REFUSING THE OLD MEN'S COUNSEL.
1. Rehoboam went to Shechem--He was the oldest, and perhaps the only son of Solomon, and had been, doubtless, designated by his father heir to the throne, as Solomon had been by David. The incident here related took place after the funeral obsequies of the late king and the period for public mourning had past. When all Israel came to make him king, it was not to exercise their old right of election ( 1 Samuel 10:19-21 ), for, after God's promise of the perpetual sovereignty to David's posterity, their duty was submission to the authority of the rightful heir; but their object was, when making him king, to renew the conditions and stipulations to which their constitutional kings were subject ( 1 Samuel 10:25 ). To the omission of such rehearsing which, under the peculiar circumstances in which Solomon was made king, they were disposed to ascribe the absolutism of his government.
Shechem--This ancient, venerable, and central town was the place of convocation; and it is evident, if not from the appointment of that place, at least from the tenor of their language, and the concerted presence of Jeroboam [ 1 Kings 12:3 ], that the people were determined on revolt.
4. Thy father made our yoke grievous--The splendor of Solomon's court and the magnitude of his undertakings being such, that neither the tribute of dependent states, nor the presents of foreign princes, nor the profits of his commercial enterprises, were adequate to carry them on, he had been obliged, for obtaining the necessary revenue, to begin a system of heavy taxation. The people looked only to the burdens, not to the benefits they derived from Solomon's peaceful and prosperous reign--and the evils from which they demanded deliverance were civil oppressions, not idolatry, to which they appear to have been indifferent or approving.
5-8. he said . . . Depart yet for three days--It was prudent to take the people's demand into calm and deliberate consideration. Whether, had the advice of the sage and experienced counsellors been followed, any good result would have followed, it is impossible to say. It would at least have removed all pretext for the separation. But he preferred the counsel of his young companions (not in age, for they were all about forty-one, but inexperienced), who recommended prompt and decisive measures to quell the malcontents.
11. whips . . . scorpions--The latter [instruments], as contrasted with the former, are supposed to mean thongs thickly set with sharp iron points, used in the castigation of slaves.
15-18. the king hearkened not unto the people, for the cause was from the Lord--That was the overruling cause. Rehoboam's weakness ( Ecclesiastes 2:18 Ecclesiastes 2:19 ) and inexperience in public affairs has given rise to the probable conjecture, that, like many other princes in the East, he had been kept secluded in the harem till the period of his accession ( Ecclesiastes 4:14 ), his father being either afraid of his aspiring to the sovereignty, like the two sons of David, or, which is more probable, afraid of prematurely exposing his imbecility. The king's haughty and violent answer to a people already filled with a spirit of discontent and exasperation, indicated so great an incapacity to appreciate the gravity of the crisis, so utter a want of common sense, as to create a belief that he was struck with judicial blindness. It was received with mingled scorn and derision. The revolt was accomplished, and yet so quietly, that Rehoboam remained in Shechem, fancying himself the sovereign of a united kingdom, until his chief tax gatherer, who had been most imprudently sent to treat with the people, had been stoned to death. This opened his eyes, and he fled for security to Jerusalem.
1 Kings 12:20-33 . JEROBOAM MADE KING OVER THEM.
20-24. when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again--This verse closes the parenthetical narrative begun at 1 Kings 12:2 , and 1 Kings 12:21-24 resume the history from 1 Kings 12:1 . Rehoboam determined to assert his authority by leading a large force into the disaffected provinces. But the revolt of the ten tribes was completed when the prophet Shemaiah ordered, in the Lord's name, an abandonment of any hostile measures against the revolutionists. The army, overawed by the divine prohibition, dispersed, and the king was obliged to submit.
25. Jeroboam built Shechem--destroyed by Abimelech ( Judges 9:1-49 ). It was rebuilt, and perhaps fortified, by Jeroboam, as a royal residence.
built Penuel--a ruined city with a tower ( Judges 8:9 ), east of Jordan, on the north bank of the Jabbok. It was an object of importance to restore this fortress (as it lay on the caravan road from Gilead to Damascus and Palmyra) and to secure his frontier on that quarter.
26-32. Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David--Having received the kingdom from God, he should have relied on the divine protection. But he did not. With a view to withdraw the people from the temple and destroy the sacred associations connected with Jerusalem, he made serious and unwarranted innovations on the religious observances of the country, on pretext of saving the people the trouble and expense of a distant journey. First, he erected two golden calves--the young bulls, Apis and Mnevis, as symbols (in the Egyptian fashion) of the true God, and the nearest, according to his fancy, to the figures of the cherubim. The one was placed at Dan, in the northern part of his kingdom; the other at Beth-el, the southern extremity, in sight of Jerusalem, and in which place he probably thought God was as likely to manifest Himself as at Jerusalem ( Genesis 32:1-32 , 2 Kings 2:2 ). The latter place was the most frequented--for the words ( 1 Kings 12:30 ) should be rendered, "the people even to Dan went to worship before the one" ( Jeremiah 48:13 , Amos 4:4 Amos 4:5 , 5:5 , Hosea 5:8 , 10:8 ). The innovation was a sin because it was setting up the worship of God by symbols and images and departing from the place where He had chosen to put His name. Secondly, he changed the feast of tabernacles from the fifteenth of the seventh to the fifteenth of the eighth month. The ostensible reason might be, that the ingathering or harvest was later in the northern parts of the kingdom; but the real reason was to eradicate the old association with this, the most welcome and joyous festival of the year.
31. made priests of the lowest of the people--literally, "out of all the people," the Levites refusing to act. He himself assumed to himself the functions of the high priest, at least, at the great festival, probably from seeing the king of Egypt conjoin the royal and sacred offices, and deeming the office of the high priest too great to be vested in a subject.


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