NOUVELLE SOCIETY: WEDDINGS

MEDIA HYPE:





In today's Sunday Styles section of The New York Times, the wedding of Patrick Abner and Thomas Roberts is announced.


“I was warned, ‘[Patrick Abner] has a face that will slay you,’ ” Mr. Roberts said in a phone interview. “And it did. I remember thinking, ‘I’ve never met or seen anybody like this.’ I was very nervous around him. I didn’t know how to compose myself.” 

 As it happened, the man in question, Patrick Abner, also 27, felt the same way.

 “I thought: ‘There is no way this guy is gay. I can’t be this lucky,’ ” said Mr. Abner, who lived in Charlotte at the time. “There were sparks, but I played my cards close to the chest. I was a bit guarded.”

HERE COME THE GROOMS

Awwwww

Thomas Roberts and Patrick Abner, both 39, released their official engagement photo.

The wedding date is set for September 29, 2012.

The two have been together for 12 years.

Like most grooms, Roberts has a target weight he wants to reach before the big day:

“You have to live with wedding pictures for a lifetime.... want to look damn good. I think all people do.....I’ve definitely trimmed down. I gain weight like a tree trunk – I grow wider in all areas.”

A dream come true:

“It’s been hard to dream of a day like today. I’ve had to play catch up in my head, in a lot of ways, to realize that this is achievable.”

A South American honeymoon will follow.

Congrats to the happy couple and we wish them a life filled with happiness and prosperity!!

The dogs: Riley (black lab/border collie mix), left;

Roxie (Pitbull/lab mix), right.

Photo: Ryan Scherb

via mediabistro

SAY WHAT?

We do have a date set, but I want to keep it under wraps....We’re not going to be runaway grooms or anything like that, it’s just confirmation of that date, then we gotta send the save the date cards. It’s an inevitability that we’re going to do it, it’s just the date. The date, and then the planning. There’s a lot of work that goes into it.

--Handsome MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts can't nail down a date for his upcoming nuptials!!

THOMAS ROBERTS DISCUSSES

California Senator Mark Leno discusses the bill that he helped craft: FAIR Education Act.

The bill passed CA legislation and is now headed to Governor Brown's desk for him to sign.

The bill mandates LGBT history and the accomplishemnts of LGBT people to be taught in social studies throughout the state of California.

ABOUT DAMN TIME!!

THOMAS ROBERTS DISCUSSES

The subject is the Buffoons and that ignorant cad husband:

THOMAS ROBERTS DISCUSSES

The MSNBC anchor gives a platform to that disgusting fat fuck from nom, brian brown:

(And, why continue to give these hateful cunts any type of platform???)

TALKING PROP 8

Yesterday, we posted a whole lot of tweets of AFER's coverage in the court room of Prop 8 proponents motion to vacate Judge Walker's ruling over his sexuality.

Chad Griffin, Board President of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, talks to MSNBC's Thomas Roberts.

IT GETS BETTER: THOMAS ROBERTS

Kudos Tommy!!

We love you XOXO

PUKEY PERKINS

MSNBC gives that gross bigoted tony perkins, leader of that hate group:   family research council,  airtime to spew DADT verbal diarrhea.

perkins tries to discredit the opinions of Mullen and Gates.

Why does MSNBC continue to give this ignorant asswipe fuck a platform??

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Chris Matthews clarifies: Fuckhead perkin's pediatricians group, that the cad is always citing statistics from,  is NOT the American Academy of Pediatrics !!

THOMAS ROBERTS: IT GETS BETTER

MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts answers Dan Savage's It Gets Better pledge.

We're so hot for this hunka, hunka of burnin love!!

TIMES TWO

If MSNBC wasn't bookmarked on our favorite channel list before, it is NOW!!!

This is progress!  TV History!!  Two gay anchors at the same time talking about an LGBT issue--did we step into the Twilight Zone??  Was it LOGO/CBS circa. 2008 by mistake??

Rachel Maddow and Thomas Roberts converse Don't Ask, Don't Tell.  

WORK!!!

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

TALKING TOMMY

SoupCans chats with OUT news anchor Thomas Roberts for a quick Q&A.

It's been almost four years since you publicly acknowledged that you were gay. Looking back, how do you think being an out newsman has affected your career since?

It has allowed me to have an honesty about my life and I find that invaluable. It wasn't easy...and sometimes being a pioneer means getting some arrows in the back. Great risk can come with great reward....and I am glad to have some of this hard work behind me. 

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GOT WORK?

Yes he does!!

Thomas Roberts has a new hosting gig.

The beefcake broadcaster commentates for the television newsmagazine The Advocate On-Air.

The monthly broadcast will showcase politics, lifestyle, news and pop culture.

Some topics the first show has covered: 

 

1.  Annise Parker becoming Houston's first lesbian out mayor. 

2.  The gay appeal of the Olympics-- is it the ceremonial pageantry or the hot athletes? 

3.  The progress of gay rights in a Democratic Washington DC-- why are measures languishing in Congress?

Watch the first episode:  advocate.com/onair

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THOMAS ROBERTS STEPS OUT

H to the ELL to the O 

Eat this Bragelina!!

This is what today's gay man/power couple looks like!!!

The Heroes & History Makers Gala Saturday night drew some major celebs out for the night.

The event was to raise awareness for same-sex marriage and build forces against Proposition 8.

Roberts is shown with his tight squeeze, Patrick Abner.

Yes, Roberts used to host Headline News.  

This is how good my gaydar is:   it would ring a FIERCE alarm everytime I saw him on HN and this was WAY before he came out bitches!!

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