Entertainment: July 2010
Louis CK on being white
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 31, 2010 4:00 PM |What do you all think about this Louis CK sketch? Adam Serwer observed that "that fear animates a larger part of American racial politics," and Rose at Feministing argues, "C.K. can't celebrate his whiteness without him celebrating the effects his...Read More
Gay X-Men Tackle Open Relationships
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | July 31, 2010 2:00 PM |Despite a few progressive steps forward over the past few years, there still aren't that many gay superheroes running around, saving the day. DC Comics has their lipstick lesbian Batwoman, yes, and the Disney-owned Marvel has young Avengers Wiccan and...Read More
Queer music Friday - Yo Majesty
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 30, 2010 5:00 PM |I just got Yo Majesty's 2008 album Futuristically Speaking this week, and I've spent a good part of this week listening to that. They're a lesbian, Christian rap duo from Florida. Here's the video for "Don't Let Go":...Read More
I'm a Barbie girl!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 29, 2010 6:00 PM |In a Barbie world! Trapped. In a Barbie world.......Read More
Projector Michael Crawford on the Daily Show
Filed by Bil Browning | July 29, 2010 1:00 PM |Bilerico's own Michael Crawford joined former Lt. Dan Choi, Corey Johnson, Jamie McGonnigal, and David Mixner on the Daily Show last night. The piece focused on Scott Lively's claim that the Nazis were gay and used queer soldiers because they...Read More
Fellow Feeling: vintage postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 29, 2010 11:30 AM |This card is dated ca.1910 -- yes, 100 years ago -- and displays a playful frankness about gay attractions. There also seem to be some shadowy police figures in the distance, suggesting the danger of expressing those feelings openly....Read More
Ninety-nine cents per app...
Filed by Sean Martin | July 28, 2010 6:00 PM |And a 10% kickback... yeah, it adds up....Read More
Interview: The Boys of Jeffery and Cole Casserole talk Logo TV, Nancy Grace, Underwear, & More
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 28, 2010 4:00 PM |After much stalking on Twitter and Facebook, I finally got the chance to sit down with Jeffery Self and Cole Escola, the comic geniuses behind the cult youtube hit Jeffery and Cole Casserole, which is now in its second season...Read More
Interview: The Boys of Jeffery and Cole Casserole talk Logo TV, Nancy Grace, Underwear, & More
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 28, 2010 4:00 PM |After much stalking on Twitter and Facebook, I finally got the chance to sit down with Jeffery Self and Cole Escola, the comic geniuses behind the cult youtube hit Jeffery and Cole Casserole, which is now in its second season...Read More
Paddles the Clown: vintage theatre photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 28, 2010 1:30 PM |I'm assuming this was a shot of two early 20th century actors, but please correct me if you have a better idea. If it is theatrical, does anyone have an idea what play this may be from? I just love...Read More
Paddles the Clown: vintage theatre photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 28, 2010 1:30 PM |I'm assuming this was a shot of two early 20th century actors, but please correct me if you have a better idea. If it is theatrical, does anyone have an idea what play this may be from? I just love...Read More
When Your Politics Is Greek Tragedy: Genderqueer Antigone on the New York Stage This Week
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 28, 2010 12:30 PM |Our LGBT politics today resembles Greek Tragedy. There are the heros, striving to do the right thing, the villains, indulging their desire for power at the expense of others, the gods sitting above running their own little game on petty...Read More
The Kids are So-So
Filed by Kate Clinton | July 28, 2010 9:30 AM |On Sunday night, my galpal and I joined a sold-out crowd of moviegoers to see the much-anticipated The Kids Are Alright at the tiny Ptown Theater. The a.c. was a bonus. The crowd at the early show was mostly Well...Read More
It's all fun and games, until...
Filed by Sean Martin | July 27, 2010 6:00 PM |Until someone loses an eye, then it's selling out....Read More
The Devil is in Her Details: Vintage pulp cover
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 27, 2010 4:30 PM |I'd like to say this is the latest publication from the American Famliy Association (it would explain so much!), but, sadly, it's just a wonderfully tacky old pulp novel....Read More
The Devil is in Her Details: Vintage pulp cover
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 27, 2010 4:30 PM |I'd like to say this is the latest publication from the American Famliy Association (it would explain so much!), but, sadly, it's just a wonderfully tacky old pulp novel....Read More
New Adventure!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 26, 2010 6:00 PM |At a certain point, you gotta do what you gotta do to get readership....Read More
Remember Chris Crocker?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 26, 2010 11:00 AM |I was surfing to avoid working, and looking up random videos. I came across a beautiful young trans woman talking about the kind of hate speech that has been employed against her. Some people said they wanted to kill her....Read More
Another Classic Headline
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | July 26, 2010 10:00 AM |Giving that sumo wrestler/Snickers bar headline a run for its money, Reuters makes (intentionally?) funny use of two athletes' evocative names: The rather innocent article is here. As for the implications of this headline, I think it's pretty accurate. I...Read More
Another Classic Headline
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | July 26, 2010 10:00 AM |Giving that sumo wrestler/Snickers bar headline a run for its money, Reuters makes (intentionally?) funny use of two athletes' evocative names: The rather innocent article is here. As for the implications of this headline, I think it's pretty accurate. I...Read More
My favorite saint: Fiacre
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 26, 2010 9:30 AM |It's such a shame that the Vatican limited the number of official saints. Because this one, Saint Fiacre, the patron saint of hemorrhoids, is my hands-down favorite. Is it me, or does he look a tad constipated?...Read More
Oh no! My dog ate a bird!
Filed by Michael Buckley | July 26, 2010 8:00 AM |I am in the mood to vlog so bare with me on these! LOL How often does your dog eat a bird?...Read More
Sunday Funnies: Comic Con Counter-Protesters Show Westboro How It's Done
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 25, 2010 3:30 PM |I know I usually post videos for Sunday Funnies, but the thing that made me giggle the most this week were pictures of the counter-protesters against Westboro Baptist Church at San Diego's Comic Con. You can check out my original...Read More
Speedo Student Gets Probation: The Corbett Harper Story
Filed by Peter Monn and Alex Paredes | July 25, 2010 2:30 PM |We first discovered Corbett Harper when The Huffington Post ran an article in March discussing how his exhibitionism of taking pictures of himself in a Speedo in university classrooms was causing a "ruckus" on campus. The original comprehensive article ran...Read More
The Politicians on Cuba!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 23, 2010 6:00 PM |We really have to make sure we keep those dictatorships in line, y'know?...Read More
Queer music Friday - Gregory Douglass
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 23, 2010 5:00 PM |Here's Gregory Douglass's "Hang Around." More music by Douglass after the jump....Read More
The Taliban on women!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 22, 2010 7:00 PM |Just so we all understand who's weak (like Eve) and who's not (like Adam... I think...)...Read More
Lee Surrenders To Grant, Obama Retains Slavery
Filed by Don Davis | July 21, 2010 7:00 PM |WASHINGTON, DC, April 10, 1865 (FNS)--The Civil War ended yesterday with the surrender of General Lee's Confederate Forces to Ulysses S. Grant, the Union Commander, at Appomattox. Although most observers are generally happy with the surrender, many of President Obama's...Read More
Tea Party on the Nature of Liberty!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 21, 2010 6:00 PM |It's always good to know that their priorities are so well thought out and consistent......Read More
How Much Stuff Can You Sneak Inside Your Man Hole?
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | July 21, 2010 3:00 PM |Sometimes these posts really just write themselves. So I'm just going to cut and paste this Associated Press report: Jail Officers Astonished by Inmate's Contraband WENATCHEE, Wash. - Police in Wenatchee are surprised at the amount of contraband an inmate...Read More
What It Means to Be Out In the World of Sports
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 21, 2010 9:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Alexia Krause is a lifelong fan of sports and fitness. She is a passionate writer of issues close to her, including mixed martial arts. It can be extremely difficult for anyone to announce their sexuality in...Read More
Caption This: Yes, he's from Indiana
Filed by Bil Browning | July 20, 2010 7:00 PM |Oh hell, I'm not even going to offer up a caption for this one. The picture almost speaks for itself. And, yes, someone took this picture in an Indiana Wal-Mart. Surprise. So let's hear 'em, Projectors. What's the best caption...Read More
Conspiracies!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 20, 2010 6:00 PM |You just never ever really know, do you.......Read More
Cry, Gays, Cry!: "Saving Marriage" on DVD
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | July 20, 2010 1:30 PM |Saving Marriage - a stirring, illuminating, suspenseful, and inspirational documentary by Mike Roth and John Henning - has just been released on DVD, and it's required viewing. (Well, if you were in a class I taught, I'd make you watch...Read More
Cry, Gays, Cry!: "Saving Marriage" on DVD
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | July 20, 2010 1:30 PM |Saving Marriage - a stirring, illuminating, suspenseful, and inspirational documentary by Mike Roth and John Henning - has just been released on DVD, and it's required viewing. (Well, if you were in a class I taught, I'd make you watch...Read More
Grow Up: Sharing is for babies
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 20, 2010 9:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Susan Raffo lives in Minneapolis where she writes, is a bodyworker, parents, lives in communal housing, organizes and, when the weather permits, gardens. She is working, collectively, on a book of practical approaches to sharing for...Read More
Glasses!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 19, 2010 6:00 PM |It's important to get tested to insure you're seeing properly....Read More
Caster Semenya Is Back on the Track
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | July 19, 2010 2:00 PM |Last week in Finland, the much-discussed South African runner, now 19, kicked away from the field to win her first race after a year of absence from women's competition. On Thursday, she won the 800-meter at the Lappeenranta Games. But...Read More
Physical Culture: Vintage Magazine
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 19, 2010 9:30 AM |Seems to be a 1930s era magazine, and -- refreshingly -- depicts a female athlete in loose, sensual clothes. I wish I had the whole magazine so I could find out what every blonde should know...but since I'm a brunette,...Read More
Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Moonlight Sonata
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 18, 2010 2:30 PM |I recently performed Beethoven's Sonata No. 14, the "Moonlight" Sonata, at an open mic held by the Trans Empowerment Coalition of my synagogue, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. At Bil's suggestion, I'm sharing a video. I grew up playing the piano...Read More
Sunday Funnies: Homo-Cidal Maniacs & More Bryan Safi Hilarity!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 18, 2010 1:00 PM |It's time for your weekly round-up of giggle-inducing LGBT themed videos! This Sunday Funday's post is filled with a big gay, mega-mix of videos from Bryan Safi, our favorite satirist from InfoMania's That's Gay! First up, Safi takes on the...Read More
Queer Summer Reading
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 17, 2010 2:00 PM |I've read several good books this summer, including three non-fiction books, far and away my favorite genre: My Queer War, by James Lord, My Red Blood, by Alix Dobkin, and Young Man From The Provinces, by Alan Helms. I'm fascinated...Read More
Westboro Baptist Church vs Comic Books: "God Hates Nerds"
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 17, 2010 12:00 PM |Guess who's pissing off über-hater Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church now? Besides gays, soldiers, politicians, Americans, the French, and the rest of the crazy laundry list, that is... Nerds. Specifically the nerds at the San Diego Comic-Con, the...Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 8)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 16, 2010 6:00 PM |Bargaining, denial, acceptance......Read More
Queer music Friday - Hunter Valentine
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 16, 2010 5:00 PM |Hunter Valentine, the Canadian lesbian punk trio, sent me a copy of their new album "Lessons From the Late Night." This is "The Stalker." Review's after the jump....Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 7)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 15, 2010 6:00 PM |And what do we learn from all this, if anything at all?...Read More
Oh Brother: Gay pulp cover art
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 15, 2010 11:30 AM |Does this cover -- hilarious as it is -- make a lick of sense to you? Is it an incest theme? Is "brother" code for gay? Is that Liberace dancing...for Elvis??...Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 6)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 14, 2010 6:00 PM |But we do hold these truths to be self-evident... especially the "pursuit of happiness" one......Read More
Working For More Acceptance In Hockey
Filed by Gloria Nieto | July 14, 2010 3:00 PM |I am a die-hard hockey fan. I have a T-shirt that says "Bleed Teal" for my beloved Sharks. It sports a number of autographs as does one of my Sharks jerseys. I have pictures of me with a number of...Read More
Image of 'failed masculinity' helped make comedian a laughing stock
Filed by Cassandra Keenan | July 14, 2010 12:30 PM |I absolutely love watching old flicks, and I recently caught a good portion of Buck Privates on the Turner Classic Movies cable network, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. I honestly hadn't watched this comedy duo since I was a...Read More
I Use the C-Word For Fun Not Murder
Filed by Michael Buckley | July 14, 2010 8:00 AM |Comment Questions of the Day: 1. Do you use the C-Word? Thoughts? Fun? Offensive? How do you use it? 2. Are you a Mel Gibson fan? Do you care if he is an A-hole? Mess huh? How did they...Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 5)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 13, 2010 6:00 PM |They do what with the Constitution???...Read More
Mad Menses: Vintage advertising
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 13, 2010 4:30 PM |Monthly blackouts from your period? What? On the other hand, dammit, why didn't I think of using that as an excuse when I got periodically dysfunctional from a margarita?...Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 4)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 12, 2010 6:00 PM |And what goes on in that mysterious room?...Read More
Reading in Print, How Queer
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | July 12, 2010 4:00 PM |Although (or maybe because) it seems very much to be true that the Internet is changing how those of us who are frequently on it read and think, and although every time I mention independent bookstores or publishers someone immediately...Read More
(Not So) Little Genevieve
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 12, 2010 9:30 AM |A former trumpet player turned radio star of the 1940s, the portly (250 lb.) Ted Morse played the role of Little Genevieve, a cry-baby, on a show broadcast out of Chicago called the National Barn Dance. His is an autobiography...Read More
Lunch is between a burger and a hotdog
Filed by Bil Browning | July 11, 2010 7:00 PM |Napkins don't have the same benefits as paper plates. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. (Hat tip to Jon Easter, who I also quoted on the Huffington Post this morning in "Michael Steele trying to recruit Lady...Read More
Caster Semenya is competing internationally again
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 11, 2010 5:30 PM |Caster's back: "She is really looking forward to the competition but is not expecting anything great," her manager Jukka Harkonen said Thursday. "She's in the middle of her training right now, but needs the experience of competing again." Semenya, who...Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 3)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 09, 2010 6:00 PM |The Most Powerful Man on Earth asks the question that Larry King won't -- and he'll do so with style!...Read More
Queer music Friday - Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 09, 2010 5:00 PM |I've put up rappers, singers, various instrumentalists, song writers, composers, music industry gimmicks, and producers here on QMF, but this will be the first for conductors. Openly gay Yannick Nézet-Séguin just signed a contract with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Here he...Read More
The passion of the bigots: political cartoon
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 09, 2010 10:30 AM |Found this incredibly powerful cartoon in one of my Facebook groups. Its bitter truthfulness makes me want to laugh and weep at the same time. via Wipeout Homophobia...Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 2)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 08, 2010 7:00 PM |And when the Most Powerful Man on Earth does an in-depth investigation, you never know what he's going to find....Read More
Our Lesbian Brokeback
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 08, 2010 8:30 AM |Editors' note: Kathy Wolfe founded Wolfe, an exclusive distributor of LGBT movies, 25 years ago and is the current CEO. People often ask my perspective on which movies I think are the most significant lesbian films ever released. As the...Read More
Diseased Women: Vintage WPA anti-VD art
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 07, 2010 1:30 PM |Interesting to consider that the spread of venereal disease was, until modern times, largely blamed on women (and specifically on prostitutes). Somewhere perhaps some scholar has drawn the comparison between the misogyny that historically attached to VD and the intense...Read More
The Man That AIDS Forgot
Filed by Mark S. King | July 07, 2010 10:30 AM |The New York City of 1979 shown during the opening minutes of "Sex Positive," the documentary now available on DVD, is awash in gay sexual liberation. Male couples strut their stuff arm in arm, sporting biker jackets and cocky mustaches...Read More
Gay and (Reasonably) Athletic
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 07, 2010 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Bill Konigsberg is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Out of the Pocket and a GLAAD Media Award-winning sports writer. Bill came out on the front page of ESPN.com in 2001 with his essay "Sports World...Read More
Braw!
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 06, 2010 6:00 PM |I was in Edinburgh and Oban this weekend and I picked up a comic book of a Scottish legacy strip, The Broons, for the ride home. It's about a family of eight Scottish kids, their straight parents, and Granpaw. The...Read More
Wild Girl: The Transformation of Maria Roman
Filed by Peter Monn and Alex Paredes | July 06, 2010 5:00 PM |We fell in love with her the moment she came onto the screen in Trantasia. There was just something about her smile, her honesty, her absolute sensuality that lit up every corner of the film. And now she is starring...Read More
Another WTF moment: Vintage mystery photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 06, 2010 4:30 PM |Truly, I do love finding photos that baffle me. The only problem is I can't give you the vaguest ideas of the who/what/when of them. It's up to you erudite readers to offer ideas...but you don't need to be a...Read More
A garden of wisdom
Filed by Phil Reese | July 06, 2010 10:30 AM |This week, on my other podcast, I couldn't escape my Bilerico roots. Ace Lundon, Lance Helms and I had the pleasure of interviewing celebrated lesbian writer, trailblazer, publisher--and Bilerico contributor--Patricia Nell Warren. Patricia (whom I have it on good authority...Read More
My Husband Caught Me Filming With No Pants On!
Filed by Michael Buckley | July 06, 2010 8:00 AM |Oops! My husband caught me filming with no pants on! It's a rare hubby sighting! Hope you had a happy 4th!...Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 1)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 05, 2010 6:00 PM |In times of extreme emergency, there's only one person to call!...Read More
Lit and Flicks Sustain the Newly Out
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 05, 2010 4:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Leslie Robinson hails from New England, lives in Seattle and is shacked up with a Southerner. Check out more of Leslie's humor columns at generalgayety.com After we finished working out and I had breath again to...Read More
On Music Appreciation, Part Two, Or, Records Only Have One Groove
Filed by Don Davis | July 03, 2010 10:00 AM |It was just yesterday that we decided to take a day off from politics and talk about music, both familiar and not so much; the conversation ran a bit long, and when we got halfway through we decided to get...Read More
World Cup Hotness: Benny Feilhaber
Filed by Michael Crawford | July 02, 2010 7:00 PM |I was thinking about writing a deep and meaningful post about race, the LGBT movement, and political strategy. Then, I remembered it was Friday of the July 4th weekend. Instead of "deep and meaningful" how about something beautiful? U.S Soccer...Read More
So cool!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 02, 2010 6:00 PM |If only all the world's problems could be solved for a mere twenty bucks......Read More
Queer music Friday - Angelo Garcia
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 02, 2010 5:00 PM |Angelo Garcia was another member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, and he's also out. While I just found out recently, he claims to have been out before Ricky Martin. Andrés Duque asks: "Was everyone in Menudo gay?" I...Read More
Tyler Perry Pissed at 'The Boondocks' Cartoon Dis
Filed by Karen Ocamb | July 02, 2010 3:00 PM |The LA Times business-entertainment blog Company Town reports that Black actor/producer/mogul Tyler Perry is so angry about a June 20 episode of "The Boondocks" sharply lampooning his popular character Madea, he may re-think his relationship with Turner Broadcasting, which owns...Read More
Music Review: Scissor Sister's "Night Work"- A Queer & Sexy Mindtrip
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 02, 2010 2:00 PM |I have a confession. I am now, and have always been, hopeless obsessed with the quirky, queer band Scissor Sisters. They have put out some of the best music around in recent years and many of their songs find their...Read More
Music Review: Scissor Sister's "Night Work"- A Queer & Sexy Mindtrip
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 02, 2010 2:00 PM |I have a confession. I am now, and have always been, hopeless obsessed with the quirky, queer band Scissor Sisters. They have put out some of the best music around in recent years and many of their songs find their...Read More
Undiscovered Lives: Vivian Maier
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 02, 2010 10:30 AM |As regular readers know, I have an abiding passion for uncovering bits and pieces of sexual history that would otherwise be buried in time, in my never-ending quest to honor the people who've come before us and to revive memories...Read More
On Music Appreciation, Or, I'm Taking The Day Off
Filed by Don Davis | July 02, 2010 8:30 AM |It is a huge news week, what with death and confirmation on everyone's mind...and I'm not going to do anything about it--well, not today, anyway. Instead, I'm taking the day off to bring you something more compelling: a music appreciation...Read More
Canada Day!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 01, 2010 6:00 PM |Wishing one and all a happy Canada Day, along with a discrete reminder of the work in the US still to be done......Read More
Pulp Power!
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 01, 2010 11:30 AM |An all-new addition to my Erotographica Collection on Youtube this video has fun with some of the kinkier pulp covers I run here and on my blog. Make sure you turn on the volume; best viewed at 720 HD. Feel...Read More
Pulp Power!
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 01, 2010 11:30 AM |An all-new addition to my Erotographica Collection on Youtube this video has fun with some of the kinkier pulp covers I run here and on my blog. Make sure you turn on the volume; best viewed at 720 HD. Feel...Read More
Pulp Power!
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 01, 2010 11:30 AM |An all-new addition to my Erotographica Collection on Youtube this video has fun with some of the kinkier pulp covers I run here and on my blog. Make sure you turn on the volume; best viewed at 720 HD. Feel...Read More
