Endings & Beginnings, A Timely Piece All Around

We have a lot to cover so I am just gonna jump right in. Despite months of trying to "make it work"  Khloe Kardashian began divorce proceedings against Lamar Odom. The paper work had been filled out for months but Khole was holding out hope that all of Lamar's hard work would help them move forward. One reason she seemed so ready to file now verse waiting is that Boy About Towns's favorite Kardashian was photographed heading to the gym with baseball star Matt Kemp. I guess having a new one waiting in the wings makes it easier to jump ship. I truly wish I learned that lesson a few weeks ago. But of course Khloe is saying she is just to heart broken to even think about dating. Ummmm, ok!?  But anyway, on some truly amazing news, Red Carpet Refugees has officially become a small biz! Boy About Town spent the other day in LA running all over town filling out the stack of papers that made everything legit! So watch for some exciting news coming your way in regards to guest bloggers as well taking RCR on the road in the upcoming year!      While in LA you know Boy About Town had to catch up with some of the Hollywood set. And who better then actor Bruce Hart. This hottie, hey people I am not blind I am just unlucky in love, sat down with me over coffee to talk about the amazing year he has been having. Not only

Boy About Town & Bruce Hart

did Bruce get the green light on season 3 of his show "Old Dogs & New Tricks" , which btw just released seasons 1 & 2 on DVD, but is working on the series "Boystown" in which he plays a adult film producer with questionable morals...I wasn't aware there was any other kind of producer! And Bruce got to kiss Olympian Greg Louganis while filming their "wedding" scene.  But the icing on the cake has got to be his SAG Award Nomination for Best Guest Star. I am so excited that at least one of the nominees is  such a nice & yes good looking guy. Did I mention Alan Cummings is also nominated, yeah, okay. The only thing that could make it better was if Bruce were to invite Boy to the big night. Just saying....
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Boy About Town!

Back To Boy's Roots!

Well after such a preachy posting like the one I did the other day on Bauard Rustin (btw, thanks for all the re-posts & emails you sent me, you all are fabulous)!  I thought I would lighten the mood and return to my roots...That's right folks I am gonna do some good old Hollywood gossip! It's time resurrect Boy's Buzz Box...
Now as many of you may know I have had spotty relationship with the Kardashian clan. Kim has stood Boy up for 2 interviews & her "PR Man" Jonathan Cheban has been flat out rude.  Guess pretending to be straight is really taking a toll on him...Anywho, I am glad to say that the very sweet & kind Khloe Kardashian continues to reach out to her estranged husband Lamar Odom. The past few days Khloe has been using social media as away to profess her love as the equally kind Lamar struggles with his disease of addiction.  The couple has been trying to save their relationship but is also taking time to honor themselves. Lamar, who owns & operates the clothing line Rich Soil, has been doing everything he can to mend the relationships he damaged.  This includes today's pleading "no contest" to his DUI arrest as well as spending the past two weeks of strenuous workouts with renowned trainer Rob McClanaghan. Lamar is back on his A-Game and is awaiting word on the next step in his NBA comeback. So with his legal drama coming to an end (three years probation just a little bi-product of that), his NBA career back in focus, a loving, understanding wife & sometime with his wife's family (poor bastard) Lamar Odom is due to start being a shinning example of "living in the solution"...Quick shout out to my girl Kelly Rowland. 

Kelly Rowland & Boy About Town

She has been shy of late with her left hand...Could it be that the rumors of her engagement to her manager Tim Witherspoon are true?!  Well even I could not pry the deets from Ms Rowland, and you know I tired! But if anyone deserves to find happiness in love it's the hardest working girl in showbiz! Now about my invite to the wedding?!?!? In a throw back to the golden age of Hollywood  Boy About Town's personal stylist, the very special Elias Luna (blush), recently had dinner the world renowned fashion designer James Galanos. 

Boy About Town & Fashionista Elias Luna

This pioneer of America's fashion movement, that took over the world, has dressed the likes of Roslyn Russell, First Lady Nancy Regan and Heidi Klum!  How's that for a motley crew?! To read about this evening between two powerhouses of fashion visit Elias's blog at EliasLuna.com
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Boy About Town!

A Hero Amongst Us....Bauard Rustin

King At The March Which Mr Rustin Put Together

For a while now I have wanted to write about people that I feel have effected the world in which we live but have failed to grab the attention of the mass media.  So every now & then I will be posting under the title "A Hero Amongst Us".  You folks have never been shy about emailing me your thoughts, both good & bad, so if you know of someone that might fit this mold please let me know RCRNewsBlog@gmail.com
We live in a world where people are still judged by the color of their skin, who they love, or where the worship. But for the most part the world today is a lot more tolerant place then it was years ago. Our President is half Black, TV shows like Will & Grace or Modern Family with characters that are openly Gay have been widely embraced by the American people, and our former Anglo Saxon dominated culture now reflex's the growing number of non Christians amongst us. Now image being a Gay, Black man in the middle of one largest civil rights movements the world has ever seen. Now image all this happening in America during the 1940’s, 50’s and the turbulate 60’s. This is the world that Bayard Rustin braved as he helped set in motion events that are still changing today's landscape of civil rights in America.

Bauard Rustin

Born in 1912 in Pennsylvania into a family heavily involved with the beginnings of the Black civil rights movement. At the age of 24 a young, hopeful Bayard moved to the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. If you were a Black man in the 30’s Harlem was the place to be. Mr. Rustin earned a living in nightclubs in this mecca of the Black community while also remaining active in the movement which was beginning to take on a more defined shape. Working in the nightclub biz to help pay the bills also allowed Mr. Rustin to travel around America and helped form a network of people that would prove very helpful in the years to come. During a trip to California Mr. Rustin was arrested on a vague “sex charge”…think George Michael. This term was used freely at the time to hunt down Gays. What no one knew at the time was that this arrest would later come back to haunt both Bauard as well as the civil rights movement as a whole.
In the 50’s Mr Rustin became more active in the movement and went to Alabama to help with the Montgomery bus boycott. This is when two strong, smart, determined, Black men crossed paths & formed a partnership that would redirect the course of American thinking on the terms of equal rights. Mr. Rustin meet Dr Martin Luther King Jr & became one of his trusted aides & advisers. Between 1956 -1960 Mr. Rustin worked tirelessly to raise Dr Kings national profile. Clearly his years of hard work paid off because not only are we still talking about Dr King today but even the closed mined, racist fools of yesteryear sat up and took notice. The Black civil rights movement had arrived in the hearts & minds of the American people and Bauard Rustin had played a key role in getting it there! But Mr. Rustin’s sexuality opened King and other leaders in the movement to criticism from people such as Senator Strom Thurmond. This ELECTED OFFICIAL (sorry for the caps but this upsets me) represented South Carolina from 1954 until 2003. First as a Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican. He switched because of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act. And as is the case with most crazy right wing nut jobs he jumped up and down calling Mr Rustin a sexually pervert and applied untold pressure to Dr King to get rid of this hard working, smart man. Bauard offered to resign from Dr Kings inner circle and to his shock Dr King accepted! This started 3 years of estrangement that ended with one of the greatest moments in American history.

2 Great Men Changing The World Together

In June of 1963 planning for “ March On Washington” had started. The plan was to bring the largest protest in American history to the nations Capitol demanding that legal discrimination in America come to an end..This clearly would entail a massive effort from many different sources and would require the leadership of someone of great inner strenght as well as a great deal of patience. That man was Bauard Rustin. After being asked back into the fold by leaders of the Black community Mr Rustin had just 2 months to pull off the moving, housing, feeding & organizing over 250,000 people! Well, we all know what happened next don’t we? Please tell me you do.... People came, King made his now famous “I Have A Dream Speech” and the tide began to change. Slowly at first, then in a tidal wave. But for some reason Bauard Rustin & his life’s work seems to have been lost to the sands of time. Sure President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor to Bauard Rustin on November 20, 2013. But by then Bauard had been dead for 16 years!  Shame on the Black community for failing to look past it's homophobia. Shame on the Gay community for failing to look back and remembering those that fought to get us where we are today. And shame on all of us for failing to see….A Hero Amongst Us!

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“The Gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight…..” Bauard Rustin