Entertainment: November 2008
Rosie vs Ellen: The Battle of the Lesbian Variety Shows
Filed by Bil Browning | November 30, 2008 5:30 PM |What a great week for queer television. Not only did Thanksgiving week bring us the Macy's Day Parade, but as an added bonus we got the Battle of the Lesbian Variety Shows! One was spectacular. The other was a spectacular...Read More
Last Chance to Sail Along with the WND Wingers
Filed by Pam Spaulding | November 30, 2008 4:00 PM |WingNutDaily has a conservative cruise slated for after the new year, so you better sign up for your spot soon -- apparently there are berths available... Why you should join WND's pre-Obama cruise A special message - and radical offer...Read More
Learning About Trans People
Filed by Eric Marcus | November 30, 2008 10:00 AM |My post last Sunday about rules for answering GLBTQ questions generated a heated back and forth over what trans people prefer to be called (among other trans issues). The exchange just confirmed for me that when I'm asked questions about...Read More
From Mangos with Chili: "Mangos Shout Out for Help: La Migra Wants $3,000 from us"
Filed by Gina de Vries | November 29, 2008 2:30 PM |Mangos with Chili is a brilliant and beautiful touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color artists, writers, performers, dancers, radicals, rabble-rousers, perverts, sluts, and sweethearts. A few of my most beloved friends and favorite performers have done the...Read More
Review: Were the World Mine
Filed by Jason Tseng | November 28, 2008 3:30 PM |Timothy (Tanner Cohen), the lone gay boy in at an all-boy prep school (filled, evidently, with a sea of hetero, testosterone-driven, male eye candy) regularly escapes the mundane reality of his homophobic high school with fantastical gay daydreams of scantily...Read More
Review: Were the World Mine
Filed by Jason Tseng | November 28, 2008 3:30 PM |Timothy (Tanner Cohen), the lone gay boy in at an all-boy prep school (filled, evidently, with a sea of hetero, testosterone-driven, male eye candy) regularly escapes the mundane reality of his homophobic high school with fantastical gay daydreams of scantily...Read More
The Chronicles of a Guest Blogger
Filed by Guest Blogger | November 28, 2008 1:00 PM |Editors' Note: Monica Helms is a frequent guest blogger and trans activist. She shares a sense of humor with contributor Don Sherfick, but her style is all her own. I finally decided to write an exposé specifically about the inner...Read More
Dancing With the Stars Finale Spoilers! Heidi & Spencer Fake Elope!
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 28, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Comment Questions of the Day: 1. What did you think of the results of Dancing with the Stars/Top Model? Discuss any thoughts on the season! 2. What is your favorite scent? 3. Is Bronx Mowgli...Read More
The "Single Ladies" Guy is at It Again
Filed by Michael Crawford | November 27, 2008 7:30 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Remember Shane Mercado, the guy who gave Beyonce a run for her choreographic money with his homemade remake of her video Single Ladies? Well, he has taken that a step beyond with a live appearance...Read More
The "Single Ladies" Guy is at It Again
Filed by Michael Crawford | November 27, 2008 7:30 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Remember Shane Mercado, the guy who gave Beyonce a run for her choreographic money with his homemade remake of her video Single Ladies? Well, he has taken that a step beyond with a live appearance...Read More
Candace Gingrich on Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Filed by Michael Crawford | November 26, 2008 4:30 PM |A few weeks back Keith Olbermann made on of his trademark commentaries about the passage of Prop 8 and the stripping away of marriage rights from same-sex couples in California. Last night Olbermann re-visited the subject in an interview with...Read More
An Interesting Social Experiment
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 26, 2008 1:00 PM |I recently came across an interesting blog post over at Religion Dispatches. Tom Ackerman published his "Marriage Manifesto", which is a fun little social experiment and statement that I think I might try during this holiday season. Ackerman decides to...Read More
The habit of asking questions
Filed by Guest Blogger | November 26, 2008 12:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Brett Abrams is Historian in Residence at American University in addition to his work with the National Archives. A ravenous devourer of movies, plays and books, he focused his doctoral studies on gender, sexuality and culture...Read More
Q&A with author Brett L. Abrams
Filed by Bil Browning | November 26, 2008 10:00 AM |Author Brett Abrams was kind enough to sit through a text interview for the Bilerico Project. His new book Hollywood Bohemians: Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dream, is a fascinating glimpse into some of the LGBT history...Read More
Miley Cyrus Gets Spanked at AMA'S By Beyonce, Pink, & Lennox
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 26, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch What did you think of the American Music Awards? Let me hear your review! What was your favorite moment? Live Shows! SUN AND WED 10pm EST! Please subscribe for email updates! Come early! Stay late!...Read More
No "Milk" for Cinemark
Filed by Michael Crawford | November 25, 2008 6:00 PM |The film distribution company for the new film Milk needs to get a clue: Alan Stock and Cinemark Theaters should not profit from anti-gay hate. Alan Stock, the CEO of Cinemark, donated $9,999 to support Prop 8 and strip marriage...Read More
Twilight #1
Filed by Abigail Hannon | November 25, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Abigail begins writing her magnum opus - a tale of vampires, lust and blood. Head to www.abisteendiary.com for more!...Read More
The Obama Baby Boom
Filed by Terrance Heath | November 24, 2008 5:30 PM |Mark this day on your calendar: August 4, 2009. It may not all happen on that day, but it will mark 9 months since November 4, 2008: the day Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the presidential election. So, that...Read More
Wanda Sykes: Black, Womyn, Gay, & Proud
Filed by Bishop Mahee | November 24, 2008 1:00 PM |On the day of National protest against the passage of discriminatory measures in Florida, California, Arizona, and Arkansas, the very air was expectant at Fort Lauderdale's City Hall- and all over this country the message was that the birth of...Read More
Favorite Disney Show?! Taylor Swift Never Dated Joe Jonas!
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 24, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Comment Questions of the Day! 1. What is your favorite Disney TV show? 2. What do you think of my Hilary Duff show idea? Pitch me your idea for a show for Miss Duff! 3....Read More
Better Know a Contributor: Father Tony
Filed by Serena Freewomyn | November 23, 2008 8:00 PM |Editor's Note: You've seen Steven Colbert's "Better Know a Lobbyist," but our version is so much gayer! Each weekend, we spotlight a different TBP contributor. In case you've missed any of our previous interviews, I've got links at the end...Read More
Queer Lit: What I'm Reading (Offline)
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | November 23, 2008 5:30 PM |Earlier this year, I realized that I don't read nearly as much in print as I used to. That, and some other things (like the fact that I typically spend more than 10 hours a day at my laptop, and...Read More
Ugly Betty: Young Gay Love
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 22, 2008 5:30 PM |Everyone knows by now that I am a television junkie. One of my favorite, and probably the gayest show on TV (sorry Project Runway), is Ugly Betty. While it is based on the over the top telenovela style of shows,...Read More
Queer Music Friday- Yo Majesty
Filed by Eric Leven | November 21, 2008 5:00 PM |Let me introduce to you Yo Majesty, the all female, openly lesbian hardcore rap trio! Their rough, often raunchy-based lyrics and fierce beats will keep you raging on the dancefloor til dawn. They are hailed for both challenging the male...Read More
Mark Doty Wins 2008 National Book Award
Filed by Eric Leven | November 21, 2008 2:30 PM |Congratulations to gay writer and poet Mark Doty who took home the 2008 National Book Award last night for his poetry book entitled Fire to Fire. Doty is well known for his 2007 book Dog Years which is simultaneously both...Read More
Prince William's penis pictures
Filed by Bil Browning | November 21, 2008 1:30 PM |It's time for another of my tasteful picture posts. No, I'm not showing a naked Big Brother contestant (or two!) and this isn't Survivor: Gabon dick either. This even tops my Dick Cheney's penis post. No, I'm posting classy cock...Read More
Look Ma, No Pants! Cocaine! Fred! 69!
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 20, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Comment questions of the day: 1. Which song do you like better? Single Ladies or If I Were A Boy? 2. Is PETA too aggressive in their efforts to fight fur? 3. Do you root...Read More
Road trip! caption this
Filed by Bil Browning | November 19, 2008 11:30 AM |I just can't stop staring at this animation from the primary and giggling. With all the rumors of Hillary as Secretary of State it seemed appropriate to give it a whirl today. What's your best caption?...Read More
Hannah Montana Hates Diabetes! Tokio Hotel are Boys! Twilight & More!
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 17, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Comment Questions of the Day: 1.Do you think Disney should have pulled the diabetes episode or did they do the right thing? 2.What do you think of the new Twilight stars? Will either become big...Read More
Better Know a Contributor: Scott Kaiser
Filed by Serena Freewomyn | November 16, 2008 7:00 PM |Editor's Note: You've seen Steven Colbert's "Better Know a Lobbyist," but our version is so much gayer! Each weekend, we spotlight a different TBP contributor. In case you've missed any of our previous interviews, I've got links at the end...Read More
Wanda Sykes Comes WAY Out
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | November 16, 2008 10:00 AM |Anyone familiar with Wanda Sykes's stand-up comedy knows that she's gay-friendly. In her 2006 HBO special, Sick and Tired, she exclaimed, "If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry someone of the same sex!" But Sykes has taken...Read More
DJ Alyson Calagna's Doctrine of the Dance Floor
Filed by Steve Ralls | November 15, 2008 2:00 PM |The author Virginia Woolf once posited that literature must surely be the most challenging of all the arts. The writer, she observed, is tasked with painting the landscape of a life - with a beginning, a middle and some form...Read More
DJ Alyson Calagna's Doctrine of the Dance Floor
Filed by Steve Ralls | November 15, 2008 2:00 PM |The author Virginia Woolf once posited that literature must surely be the most challenging of all the arts. The writer, she observed, is tasked with painting the landscape of a life - with a beginning, a middle and some form...Read More
Queer music Friday - Ariel Aparicio album review
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 14, 2008 5:00 PM |"All These Brilliant Things" Ariel Aparicio Bully Records, 2007 This review is going to be short, because this album was sent to me about three weeks ago and I still don't have much to say about it. I waited each...Read More
Hot Plate
Filed by Eric Leven | November 14, 2008 3:00 PM |Whew! Ok- let's just healthily skirt the protesting for a moment and get back to some basics: Can we just talk about the new bear meat on this season of Top Chef? Just so you know his name is Richard...Read More
Gay Superheroes and the Battle of the Bulge
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | November 13, 2008 8:00 PM |As if being gay weren't enough to get your ass kicked in high school, imagine being gay and a geek. Schoolyard bullies would beat you up not only because of your fey demeanor but also because of your instant recall...Read More
Gay Superheroes and the Battle of the Bulge
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | November 13, 2008 8:00 PM |As if being gay weren't enough to get your ass kicked in high school, imagine being gay and a geek. Schoolyard bullies would beat you up not only because of your fey demeanor but also because of your instant recall...Read More
Barack Obama's playlist
Filed by Abigail Hannon | November 13, 2008 6:00 PM |Hi Besties!!! I cud ttlly ramble on about my new fave subject - pollitics - n how Prezident Obama is the best black president since Bill Clinton, but this is all about music. So heres a list of music I...Read More
It's a small world after all
Filed by Bil Browning | November 12, 2008 3:00 PM |This is one of those six degrees of separation stories. Bilerico alumni and good friend Linda Perdue was recently quoted in The Arizona Republic reacting to Arizona's new marriage amendment. Guest contributors Evan Wolfson and Barbara McCullough-Jones are also quoted....Read More
Britney Spears Kisses Madonna Again!
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 12, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Comment questions of the day: 1. Where is the strangest place you have ever peed? 2. If you could get plastic surgery safely and knew it would look good- WHAT would you get done? 3....Read More
This post has nothing to do with the election or gay marriage
Filed by Bil Browning | November 11, 2008 3:30 PM |I'm putting on my citrus hat and demanding that at least one post on Bilerico today have absolutely nothing to do with the election, Prop 8 aspersions or assumptions, or marriage equality in general. Carry on....Read More
This post has nothing to do with the election or gay marriage
Filed by Bil Browning | November 11, 2008 3:30 PM |I'm putting on my citrus hat and demanding that at least one post on Bilerico today have absolutely nothing to do with the election, Prop 8 aspersions or assumptions, or marriage equality in general. Carry on....Read More
Their Own Receive Them Not
Filed by Terrance Heath | November 10, 2008 11:00 AM |Note: I plan on writing something about black voters, the passage of proposition 8 in California, and the discussion that has ensued about whether the former failed in part because of the latter. In the meantime, I thought I'd republish...Read More
Twilight! Jonas Brothers Big Balls! Potato Abortion!
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 10, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Comment Questions of the Day: 1. What did you think of Michelle Obama's dress? 2. Are you a Twilight fan? Will you see the movie? 3. What is your favorite reality show - right now!?...Read More
Better Know a Contributor: Storm Bear
Filed by Serena Freewomyn | November 09, 2008 8:00 PM |Editor's Note: You've seen Steven Colbert's "Better Know a Lobbyist," but our version is so much gayer! Each weekend, we spotlight a different TBP contributor. In case you've missed any of our previous interviews, I've got links at the end...Read More
Queer music Friday - Bikini Kill
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 07, 2008 5:00 PM |This song and video are awesome - "Rebel Girl" by Bikini Kill. iPhone users: Click to watch And Kathleen Hanna, after the jump, about how sexism hurts men....Read More
Top 10 web videos of the presidential campaign
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 06, 2008 11:30 AM |2008 saw an explosion when it came to internet usage in politics. With the technology to create, distribute, and view video content widely available, it seemed like anybody who was anybody was creating videos for the whole world to watch....Read More
Obama Wins! Miley Cyrus Sex Talk!
Filed by Bil Browning | November 05, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Comment questions of the day: 1. Who did you vote for?! (optional LOL) 2. Are you glad the election is over or will you miss the banter? 3. Is it tacky Miley's boyfriend dressed like...Read More
Election Night Drinking Games
Filed by Serena Freewomyn | November 03, 2008 6:30 PM |During the 2000 election, I made a terrible mistake. I didn't have any booze or weed in the house. And it was the worst night I have ever had! In my defense, however, it was my first time voting. How...Read More
Julie Bindel and the Trans vs. Feminism Tug-of War
Filed by Mercedes Allen | November 03, 2008 10:00 AM |Feminism and transsexuality have long pushed each others' buttons. Feminism often seeks to break gender roles and stereotypes, break gender barriers, and yet transsexuality says that "there's something inborn in me that I can't escape or deny," at which point...Read More
Hand Jobs! Beyonce is Bipolar! Lohan & Lash Blasts!
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 03, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Comment Questions: 1. Are you watching True Blood, Entourage? Real Housewives, Dancing with the Stars or any of the shows I am talking about? 2. Who is favorite singer (right now?) 3. What were you...Read More
Sunday Funnies: McCain on SNL and Colbert on Prop 8
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 02, 2008 11:30 AM |McCain took to the airwaves last night on Saturday Night Live. Here's his opening sketch with Tina Fey/Palin. Did this seem like a really harsh, weird dig on Palin to anyone else? I think it only made the McCain Campaign...Read More
We're giving away The L Word Season 5 box sets!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 02, 2008 8:30 AM |Today we're giving away 3 copies of The L Word Season 5 courtesy of Showtime Networks. To win, just leave a comment on this post. Three winners will be drawn at random, but you cannot enter more than once. Contest...Read More
