IOTD …. Images of the Day …. Special Edition …. “TIME Magazine Cover …. Yep, I’m GAY …. “!!

~~April 28, 2017~~ 

TWENTY YEARS AGO

20th Anniversary of Ellen Degeneres Coming Out

I remember as if it was yesterday.

I watched Ellen’s sitcom religiously.

I followed all her antics and was waiting for that one episode.

I was with you, I’m still with you and will always be with you, Ellen.

Thank you!!

HortyRex©

YEP I’M GAY

Did you expect it to turn into all of this?,” Oprah Winfrey asked Ellen DeGeneres on an episode of her talk show that aired on the afternoon of April 30, 1997.

Two weeks earlier, a Time cover had debuted, featuring DeGeneres and the instantly famous words “Yep, I’m Gay.”

On April 25, DeGeneres spoke to Diane Sawyer on 20/20 and said, “I decided this was not going to be something that I was going to live the rest of my life being ashamed of.”

Hours after the Oprah interview aired, DeGeneres’s charismatic bookstore owner character, Ellen Morgan, followed suit, coming out as gay in a one-hour, two-part episode of her sitcom Ellen. “The Puppy Episode” was watched by an estimated 44 million people, nearly three times the show’s usual ratings.

It’s been 20 years since that April.

DeGeneres has hosted her own daytime talk show, also called Ellen, for nearly 14 years. She’s hosted the Oscars, won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, starred in two blockbuster cartoons, and all the while lived openly as a gay woman.

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Original TIME Magazine Cover April 1997

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My Version

We ALL are ONE!!

The Tonight Show …. “Wheel of Musical Impressions with Demi Lovato …. “!!

~~March 24, 2017~~ 

‘WHEEL OF MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS’

Keep finding more!

This one features one of my favorite performers:

DEMI LOVATO

Music, talent, comedy and humor!

The best remedies for today’s woes.

HortyRex©

Comedian Jimmy Fallon loves to make his celebrity guests partake in the hilarious “Wheel of Musical Impressions” segment of The Tonight Show.

It’s a fun game where a random singer is paired up with a random song title. Jimmy’s guest goes head to head with him to see who is better at doing a successful impression of the artist singing that song. The combinations that the “wheel” comes up with are pretty wild, and it almost always has everyone in stitches.

Some guests can do some pretty amazing impressions.

Here you have Demi Lovato!

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THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON — Episode 0421 — Pictured: (l-r) Singer Demi Lovato during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on February 19, 2016 — (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)

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~~Wheel of Musical Impressions with Demi Lovato~~

~~Published on Feb 19, 2016~~

Jimmy challenges Demi to a game of random musical impressions, such as Fetty Wap singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”

We ALL are ONE!! 

The Tonight Show …. “Wheel of Musical Impressions with Céline Dion …. “!!

~~March 24, 2017~~ 

‘WHEEL OF MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS’

Keep finding more!

This one features one of my favorite performers:

CELINE DION

Music, talent, comedy and humor!

The best remedies for today’s woes.

HortyRex©

Comedian Jimmy Fallon loves to make his celebrity guests partake in the hilarious “Wheel of Musical Impressions” segment of The Tonight Show.

It’s a fun game where a random singer is paired up with a random song title. Jimmy’s guest goes head to head with him to see who is better at doing a successful impression of the artist singing that song. The combinations that the “wheel” comes up with are pretty wild, and it almost always has everyone in stitches.

Some guests can do some pretty amazing impressions.

Here you have Céline Dion!

~~GRAPHICS SOURCE~~ 

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~~Wheel of Musical Impressions with Céline Dion~~

~~Published on Jul 21, 2016~~

Jimmy challenges Céline to a game of random musical impressions, such as Sia singing “Hush, Little Baby.”

We ALL are ONE!! 

To start the day …. “A New Kind of Prom Date”!!

~~May 8, 2015~~ 

This gives me hope.

There seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. There’s hope in the young generation.

Maybe there won’t be any issue with them and being gay will be as accepted as being left-handed.

Dare I hope? I wish I was there to witness it.

HortyRex©

Grab a tissue and watch this tearjerker video of Ellen hosting the two male high school students – one gay, one straight – who are going to their prom together because they’re best friends.

Anthony Martinez didn’t have a date for the prom. What his straight friend Jacob Lescenski did about that surprised everyone.

Ellen knew she had to hear their incredible story.

“You’re hella gay, I’m hella str8, but you’re like my brother so be my d8!,” Jacob wrote on a sign happily held by friends.

Those friends and many more rented a bus to join Anthony and Jacob on Wednesday on “The Ellen Show,” where Ellen DeGeneres interviewed the best friends and commended them for being great role models.

She also handed each of them a $10,000 check for their education, to help reinforce and show the world that gay or straight, nothing beats friendship.

Grab a tissue and watch this awesome video!

Ellen DeGeneres had a generous surprise in store this week for the gay-straight “couple” whose colorful proposal went viral last week in the blogosphere.

DeGeneres rewarded Jacob Lescenski and Anthony Martinez, who are juniors at the Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a check for $10,000 each for the headline-making gesture.

“I just wanted to say I know that there are some schools out there that don’t support this and wouldn’t allow this to happen and it’s really a shame because prom is very important to a lot of people,”

she gushed in the interview, video of which can be found.

~~GALLERY~~ 

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Lescenski, who is straight, revealed that he was initially apprehensive after he learned that the openly gay Martinez had a crush on him.

Still, the two struck up a seemingly unlikely friendship.

“At first I was kinda scared,” he said in the interview. “I didn’t support gay rights then, but I also wasn’t against them … [but] Anthony, actually, was the reason that I began to support gay rights. He’s such a convincing person, he can convince anyone of anything. He’s such a great speaker.”

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~~A New Kind of Prom Date~~

~~Published on Apr 30, 2015~~

Anthony Martinez didn’t have a date for the prom. What his straight friend Jacob Lescenski did about that surprised everyone. Ellen knew she had to hear their incredible story.

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We ALL are ONE!!