Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!!
Carmen Electra ... Sybil Williams
Saul Rubinek ... Martin Hirsch
Lainie Kazan ... Shirley Hirsch
Vincent Pastore ... Carmine Ferraro
Bruce Vilanch ... Max
Jai Rodriguez ... Angelo Ferraro
John Lloyd Young ... Nelson Hirsch
Karen Gordon ... Reporter (as Karen-Eileen Gordon)
Tom Fridley ... Nick
Jai Rodriguez opens up about new film
"Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!" is the story of a Jewish family living in Long Island, 
where every Friday night Shirley Hirsch (Lainie Kazan) invites another "perfect" girl for Shabbat dinner in hopes that her son, Nelson (John Lloyd Young), will marry a nice Jewish girl.
Things get interesting when she finds out that her dreams of a perfect Jewish girl are dashed by a mysterious girlfriend who is non-Jewish, and also a boy! *Gasp*
The film also features performances by Carmen Electra and Jai Rodriguez (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy).
QueerSighted caught up with Jai Rodriguez at the Montreal World Film Festival (where the film premiered) to chat about his new movie, how his own Mom reacted to his own "coming out," and what's up next...
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Reports claim South African Runner is Intersex
The Associated Press reports that gender test results for running sensation Caster Semenya are in, but the International Association of Athletics Federation will not release them until November.
Semenya underwent both blood and chromosome tests as well as a gynecological exam.
AP also reports that the IAAF has neither confirmed nor denied the claims made by the Sydney Daily Telegraph about Semenya’s biological make-up.
Pink News reported these claims:
“The report said the 18-year-old has three times the usual level of testosterone for a woman and has internal testes rather than ovaries and a uterus.
“Semenya was hailed as a heroine in her country when she won the 800m in 1min 55.45 secs but since she arrived at the Berlin Athletics contest, there have been rumors over her apparent facial hair and masculine appearance.
“The athlete is currently keeping a low profile but her mother has reacted angrily to the latest report, telling South Africa’s Star newspaper that she and Semenya’s father had not been consulted over developments.”
In addition, Semenya has also pulled out of a race amid the public controversy. She will not run in a 4,000 meters Cross Country championship on Saturday.
--by Selena Watkins
Uruguay clears way for gay adoptions Breakaway Episcopalians look to US high court
(Montevideo, Uruguay) (AP) Uruguay is clearing the way for gay couples to adopt children.
The Senate’s final approval Wednesday makes Uruguay the first country in Latin America to allow gay and lesbian couples the opportunity to adopt.
The executive branch now will decide when the law takes effect. The change is supported by socialist President Tabare Vazquez’s Broad Front coalition, while the Roman Catholic Church has voiced strong disapproval.
Under Vazquez, Uruguay already legalized gay civil unions and ended a ban on homosexuals in the military.
The law gives judges less say over adoptions and shifts decision making to the national Institute of the Children and Adolescents.
(Newport Beach, Calif.) (AP) Marcia Kear’s three daughters were married at St. James Anglican Church. Her mother’s funeral was there. She said she found the Holy Spirit there.
But she may have to give up the bayside sanctuary, where sunlight filters through watery blue stained-glass windows and glints off the flawless copper pipes of an organ purchased with parishioners’ tithes.
Kear is among theologically conservative breakaway Episcopalians fighting over parish property in a long-running rift over how churchgoers should interpret what the Bible says about gay relationships and many other issues.
St. James Anglican, in the Diocese of Los Angeles, is one of several dozen individual parishes and four dioceses nationwide that voted to split from the national church after the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire.
“It’s not just about the building, it’s about the church,” said Kear, 70, who participates in group prayers for the property even while she says the congregation could continue without it.
The congregation may have to do just that. State courts have sided with the Los Angeles diocese throughout the five-year legal case, most recently in January. St. James has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes that it might take up what has so far been a losing battle. St. James expects to know next month whether the nation’s highest court will take the case.
Two other seceding parishes - All Saints Church in Long Beach and St. David’s Church in North Hollywood - are parties in the lawsuit. A high court decision could also affect the Fresno-based Diocese of San Joaquin, one of the dioceses that voted to split off and is now involved in a complex property dispute with the national church.
Both sides make similar claims to the individual properties beyond their legal positions. Each has strong emotional and spiritual ties to the parishes, and views its interpretation of Scripture as the right one. Traditional Episcopalians believe that the Bible bars gay relationships; liberal Episcopalians emphasize social justice teachings of Scripture.
The Episcopal Church has argued that its rules bar anyone from walking away with denomination property, which often includes large endowments and land worth millions of dollars. Theological conservatives who want to separate say they have spent years, even decades, spending money to maintain and improve the buildings.
The 2-million-member denomination also includes many parishioners who disagree on the issues, but don’t see the rift as a reason to leave. Los Angeles Bishop Jon Bruno issued a letter to the diocese’s parishioners urging reconciliation.
“The Episcopal Church continues its long tradition of welcoming among its members a diversity of opinion, including loyal dissent. Our church remains a large tent expansive enough to include many views and voices while united in common prayer,” he wrote. “I ask each of us to keep working for reconciliation and renewal within this diocese.”
But reconciliation is a long shot.
Committing to leave the Episcopal Church five years ago and risking litigation was a somber decision for the St. James parish, especially because ties to the buildings run deep.
Kear remembers an expansion project about eight years ago when parishioners wrote prayers on scraps of paper and set them in the cement of the new sanctuary’s foundation.
There was “really a feeling (we were) building the new building,” Kear said.
Chad Sutton, a member of St. James’ lay leadership committee, said it’s particularly painful to hand the property to leaders with such different theological views.
“The prayers that have gone on at that altar - it almost gives you goosebumps,” Sutton said. “The saints that have gone before us and surrendered their lives, confessed their sins there - that has some significance.”
St. James has aligned with the Anglican Church of North America, a network of seceding Episcopal parishes and other congregations that was formed by theological conservatives as a rival to the Episcopal Church. At recent Sunday services in Newport Beach, parishioners voiced prayers for “our legal situation.”
Beyond awaiting word from the U.S. Supreme Court, there is no timeline for when the separationist parishes might hand over the grounds.
Sutton hopes, at least, it can wait a few months.
He and his wife are expecting a baby, and he said he knows exactly where they would like to have the child christened.
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