Jesus Luz is now posing for the new ad campaign for Brazilian underwear label Mash.  Source: CuecasMash@twitpic

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Jesus Luz is now posing for the new ad campaign for Brazilian underwear label Mash.  Source: CuecasMash@twitpic

We Americans love our icons and when one of them changes, it tends to ruffle feathers.

So when the new computer-generated version of the Sun-Maid Raisin Girl hit the air in television commercials recently, the response to the new hipper, sexier, bustier version was anything but glowing.

According to YahooFinance , the Sun-Maid Raisin Girl joins Betty Crocker, Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth in giving the female face of their product a substantial makeover. In her case though, the transition went from a young early 20th-century girl into a buxom, modern young woman.

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We Americans love our icons and when one of them changes, it tends to ruffle feathers. So when the new computer-generated version of the Sun-Maid Raisin Girl hit the air in television commercials recently, the response to the new hipper, sexier, bustier version was anything but glowing. According to YahooFinance , the Sun-Maid Raisin Girl [...]

Black XS by Paco Rabanne fragrance is automatically connected in my brain to Will Chalker. But things change, and now his fellow countryman Sam Way takes over as the face of the of Black XS. The new commercial is directed by Jennifer Devoldere.

Black XS by Paco Rabanne fragrance is automatically connected in my brain to Will Chalker. But things change, and now his fellow countryman Sam Way takes over as the face of the of Black XS. The new commercial is directed by Jennifer Devoldere.

Let’s take a look at these pictures, you may be surprised about how gay the football players can be. Enjoy.

Let’s take a look at these pictures, you may be surprised about how gay the football players can be. Enjoy.

Madonna’s name helps Jesus Luz get jobs as a D.J.
By ALLEN SALKIN

D.J. Jesus Luz

THROUGH the penthouse windows, New York City, foggy and soft-looking, was spread out in every direction. Jesus Luz, best known as the 22-year-old Brazilian model who is dating Madonna, was about to step up to the D.J. station in a club atop a Lower East Side hotel.

Young models in sheer cocktail dresses shimmied near chrome buckets holding bottles of the vodka brand sponsoring the party.

A freelance reporter for Life & Style magazine prepared to sidle up for a quick interview. “I’m here because I’m supposed to ask him questions about dating Madonna,” she said.

Asked if she knew how to say Mr. Luz’s first name, she ventured, “Hay-soos? Or maybe Gee-zus?”

Life has changed so fast for Mr. Luz, it is not surprising that not everyone in his orbit knows how to pronounce Jesus in the proper Portuguese way. Matt Levine, a club owner who had organized the party and refers to Mr. Luz as a friend, was going with “Hay-soos.” Josh Holland, who has been his personal trainer for several months, after the two met through a Madonna connection, was snapping photos and calling him “J.”

A year ago, Mr. Luz was earning about $500 a day as a model in Rio de Janeiro, said Sérgio Mattos, his agent at the time. Then in December 2008 he landed a shoot with Madonna for W magazine in which the two played lovers in a Rio hotel.

“At the moment he met Madonna, I never see him after that,” said Mr. Mattos in a telephone interview. “I sent him to the job and after that he changed phone numbers and I never see him again.”

The months since have been a study in ascension. Mr. Luz signed with Ford Models in New York, escorted Madonna to the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ball in the spring and appeared on the runway for Dolce & Gabbana in Milan.

He enrolled at a D.J. school in Manhattan and in no time has landed high-profile gigs. For the 90-minute set he was spinning Nov. 12, only his second professional D.J. outing in the city, he was being paid around $15,000, said Matthew Isaacs, a promoter who had booked him, at a lower cost, to spin two nights later at Hiro in the meatpacking district.

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Madonna’s name helps Jesus Luz get jobs as a D.J. By ALLEN SALKIN THROUGH the penthouse windows, New York City, foggy and soft-looking, was spread out in every direction. Jesus Luz, best known as the 22-year-old Brazilian model who is dating Madonna, was about to step up to the D.J. station in a club atop [...]

safe sex advertising has been getting quite racy and shocking recently, from angels watching you do it, to visual orgies. However, Germany takes the shock factor up a notch with this new campaign “AIDS is a mass murderer.” The campaign promotes safe sex in anticipation of the upcoming World AIDS Day 2009. It is designed by Regenbogen e.V. in conjunction with the advertising agency das comitee. Some of the world’s most infamous tyrants such as Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Josef Stalin make a (poorly Photoshopped) cameo in the ads.

safe sex advertising has been getting quite racy and shocking recently, from angels watching you do it, to visual orgies. However, Germany takes the shock factor up a notch with this new campaign “AIDS is a mass murderer.” The campaign promotes safe sex in anticipation of the upcoming World AIDS Day 2009. It is designed [...]

Late Thursday, in the House of Commons, during question period, both the NDP and the Conservative Party strongly denounced Uganda’s pending anti-gay legislation that would make homosexuality a crime.

Bill Siksay, NDP Critic for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual and Transgender Issues during question period in the House of Commons on Thursday. (Screencap from ParlVU video footage)

Ottawa — During question period in the House of Commons on Thursday, Bill Siksay, MP (Burnaby-Douglas) and NDP Critic for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual and Transgender Issues stood up and called on the government to stand up and speak out against Uganda’s anti-gay bill.

“Mr. Speaker, The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill is reprehensible vile, and hateful. It violates human rights by imposing life imprisonment on gays and lesbians and a death sentence on those who are gay and have AIDS. It will jail anyone who fails to report anyone they know to be gay,” Mr. Siksay stated.

“At the Commonwealth meeting, will the Prime Minister meet face to face with Uganda’s prime minister to help stop this bill, and will he make gay, lesbian and trans rights essential to the development and educational work supported by Canadian foreign aid to Uganda and elsewhere?” Mr. Siksay asked in conclusion.

John Baird, the Minister of Transport spoke for Prime Minister Harper because the Prime Minister wasn’t in the House as he was preparing to depart for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting being held over the weekend.

Mr. Baird replied, “The current legislation before Parliament in Uganda is vile, it’s abhorrent, it’s offensive. It offends Canadian values. It offends decency Mr. Speaker. We strongly condemn that and the Prime Minister will make that strong condemnation as well.”

Both MP’s speeches were well received all around in the House, more so than a few of the other questions that had been posed during this question period.

Earlier in the week, Mr. Siksay had written to Prime Minister Harper on this issue; in it he wrote:

“I am writing to request that you take a strong public position in opposition to legislation now being considered in Uganda that constitutes a major affront the human rights of gay and lesbian people and a significant setback to AID/HIV policy. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is a very serious attack on the lives of sexual minorities and those living with AIDS/HIV, and it is draconian in every respect.

I would urge that you and your officials lead efforts at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting on this issue in the hope that the meeting takes a strong stand in opposition to this legislation and has in place a plan of action should it proceed. I would also request that you make Canada’s position known directly to Uganda’s representatives at the meeting.”

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, takes place from November 27 to 29 and is slated to be chaired by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.

The news from the House of Commons is an encouraging and welcome development that strengthens the previous statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office earlier in the week and indicates that perhaps it won’t be business as usual with Uganda and the Commonwealth.

Late Thursday, in the House of Commons, during question period, both the NDP and the Conservative Party strongly denounced Uganda’s pending anti-gay legislation that would make homosexuality a crime. Bill Siksay, NDP Critic for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual and Transgender Issues during question period in the House of Commons on Thursday. (Screencap from ParlVU video [...]

The three-day event was a big success and there is already another one in the works for this summer.

The three-day event was a big success and there is already another one in the works for this summer.