Entertainment: April 2011
The Gay Seventies: A Survivor's Story
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | April 30, 2011 2:00 PM |In Joseph F. Lovett's 2005 documentary, Gay Sex in the 70s, survivors of the 1970's reminisce about gay life in New York City during the hectic decade between the Stonewall Uprising and the AIDS epidemic. Listening to the likes of...Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 43
Filed by Jason Tseng | April 30, 2011 10:00 AM |Hey Betches! We're back this week talking about all that is not X that came out last week. We chat about Batgirl, the Legion of Super Heroes, Wonder Woman, Avengers: The Children's Crusade, and much much more! Also, check out...Read More
Queer Music Friday - Wendy Carlos
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 29, 2011 5:00 PM |Wendy Carlos is an analog synth artist known both for her interpretations of classical composers and her own synth compositions. You probably already know some of her work through movie soundtracks, like Clockwork Orange. This is "The Funeral of Queen...Read More
Demi Lovato is Bipolar, Lady Gaga Backlash, and Glee!
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 29, 2011 8:00 AM |Stay tuned for a special web chat in LA on Saturday!...Read More
Father Claims Atlanta Braves Coach Hurled Homophobic Slurs
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 28, 2011 2:00 PM |Justin Quinn, 33, of Fresno, California claimed Atlanta pitching coach Roger McDowell used homophobic slurs, made sexual gestures, and threatened him with a baseball bat during practice before the April 23 game against the San Francisco Giants. On Wednesday, Quinn...Read More
Simple Title, Powerful Statement: Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 28, 2011 11:30 AM |The title was so obvious at first I smiled, but then I stopped and thought about what a strong political act it is to state simply and without apology, "I Am A Lesbian." No "twilight hunger" or "perverse passions," just...Read More
Glee Open Thread
Filed by Bil Browning | April 28, 2011 10:30 AM |I'm running behind this morning, so I'm gonna throw up an open thread. The floor is yours, Projectors. Who's your favorite character on Glee? Me? Why, thanks for asking! I'd pick Brittany; she gets all the best lines. (Glee wallpaper...Read More
RuPaul's Drag Race: Alexis Mateo Was Robbed
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | April 27, 2011 4:00 PM |The reason I'm so exercised about Raja winning this season of RuPaul's Drag Race (besides the fact that she came off like a shallow bitch with the totally repulsive Heathers vs. Boogers thing because, let's be clear, drag queens make...Read More
Executives in Panties: Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 27, 2011 2:30 PM |All I can say is that if I was a business executive, I'd want this as a poster to hang on my wall (or maybe I want it anyway). Published in 1965....Read More
Love Is Never Wrong: Vintage Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 26, 2011 4:30 PM |A very sweet find. Two handsome young men, ca. 1930s, sharing a beautiful kiss. That tiny girl watching them from afar and scratching her head in confusion makes this shot even cuter! I wonder if she ever told anyone about...Read More
Budweiser's New Gay Commercial?
Filed by Bil Browning | April 26, 2011 9:30 AM |Our friend Michael Jensen has a post up at AfterElton that points out this new beer commercial and asks "Does This Budweiser Military Ad Have a Gay Vibe?" Uh, definitely ambiguously yeah! Advertising companies know that different audiences will see...Read More
NYC Subway: Family Guy Does It Again
Filed by Cathy Renna | April 25, 2011 5:00 PM |I am not sure if this is also in other cities - I am guessing so. After all the controversy around their transgender story lines this seems especially insensitive (to say the least). When I posted this on my Facebook...Read More
Lonesome Fantasies: Vintage Girlie Magazine
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 25, 2011 9:30 AM |This magazine has such a sad title, it makes me want to invite them all to a party. Was the next issue called "Depressed Gals"? On the other hand, it's nice to know at least two of the gals aren't...Read More
Queer Music Friday - Maja Ivarsson
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 22, 2011 5:00 PM |Maja Ivarsson, the frontwoman for the Sounds, is openly bisexual. What? You don't know the Sounds? The Swedish post-punk band? That topped the Swedish and Norwegian charts with "Living in America"? Well, here it is. Some newer stuff from them...Read More
Kelly McGillis Just Isn't That Into You
Filed by Bil Browning | April 22, 2011 12:00 PM |Talk about a "So what?!" interview. The Advocate had a chance to ask actress Kelly McGillis some questions about her new movie and her somewhat recent coming out, but the whole thing is more likely to produce yawns than an...Read More
Lady Gaga Is Not an Ally to Our Community
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 22, 2011 9:30 AM |Editors' Note: Featured from CNN to PBS to Cosmo for her expertise in bisexual community and LGBT rights, guest blogger Amy Andre is the co-author of Bisexual Health, published by the NGLTF. With a master's degree in sexuality studies, Amy...Read More
Awesome Vloggers!
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 22, 2011 8:00 AM |Buck Factor #4! I'm obsessed with Irish Singers!...Read More
Boy Meets Girl but Wants Boy: Classic Gay Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 21, 2011 11:30 AM |Classic novel from 1964, discussed in depth in Susan Stryker's Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback. Copies are rare and can go for upwards of $200 when they come up for sale....Read More
The Not-So-Pretty Face of Eating Disorders
Filed by Bil Browning | April 21, 2011 10:30 AM |Huffington Post blogger Galia Slayen, a Chinese and Government Major at Hamilton College, has created a life-sized replica of the iconic Barbie doll as a shocking wakeup call for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Slayen kept Barbie's proportions the same;...Read More
Alysia Harris & Aysha El Shamayleh: Hir
Filed by Bil Browning | April 20, 2011 10:00 AM |I have no idea what TV show this is from, but I'd love to know. Watch as Alysia Harris and Aysha El Shamayleh perform the poem, "Hir." I'll admit that I'm not a big poetry lover (okay, poetry usually bores...Read More
Taylor Swift Gets Naked for No One
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 20, 2011 8:00 AM |Last post for a couple days, my twin sister is having a baby!...Read More
Video: French Bulldog & Cute Boy in Boxers Dancing
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2011 2:30 PM |I knew that title would grab your attention! Watch as this cute boy sitting around the house in his boxers starts "dancing" with his French Bulldog, Pinga. Simply adorable. The dog is cute too....Read More
House of Wind, Sir
Filed by Kate Clinton | April 19, 2011 8:30 AM |The King's Speech was the royal carpet-bombing to get subjects in the mood for the big same-old-sex nuptials between the prince and a commoner. A very wealthy commoner, but common nonetheless. The movie didn't do that for me, but my...Read More
Queer Music Friday - Troy Jackson
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 15, 2011 5:00 PM |Canadian funk/punk singer Troy Jackson released this video for "The Batty Boy's Revenge" last year....Read More
Scarlet Betch 42: X-travaganza
Filed by Jason Tseng | April 15, 2011 4:00 PM |Hey Betches! Despite there being less mutants nowadays, there seems to be more X-books than ever. It looks like we're going to be designating X-clusive episodes for the X-men releases. To be fair the X-men have isolated themselves on Utopia,...Read More
Verizon Guy Comes Out: Can You Hear Him Now?
Filed by Bil Browning | April 14, 2011 7:00 PM |Remember Paul Marcarelli? He's the actor who starred in all of the Verizon commercials and kept repeating the tagline, "Can you hear me now?" Now that his contract with Verizon is winding down, the actor's contract restrictions are being lifted...Read More
I Miss 'The Love Boat' & Celebrity Reality Shows Suck: An Open Letter to Tori Spelling
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 14, 2011 1:00 PM |Editors' note: Steve Publicover is a former DC resident who lives in southwestern Virginia. Once upon a time in a galaxy right here, there was a place called the 70's, where people with really bad fashion sense and way too...Read More
Kobe Fined $100,000 for Antigay Slur During NBA Playoff Game
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 14, 2011 10:30 AM |The New York Times reports that LA Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant will be fined $100,000 for apparently hurling an antigay slur at a referee during the heated playoff game against the San Antonio Spurs, which was broadcast live. On...Read More
Dr. Phil on Those 'Confusing' Girly Toys
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 13, 2011 6:00 PM |A couple months ago an item appeared on Dr. Phil McGraw's website where he told a mother to take away girl toys from her son because they're "confusing" him. The Advocate interviewed McGraw about that advice: You know, it's interesting...Read More
Is Matthew Morrison Tiny Tim & Clay Aiken's Love Child?
Filed by Bil Browning | April 13, 2011 4:00 PM |Jerame and I cracked up laughing during the episode of Glee where Mr. Schuester whips out a ukelele to accompany the teen singers in a rollicking song. Nothing says high school glee club teacher like a ukelele, right? I mean,...Read More
Gays Win 'Most Frequently Challenged Book' List Again
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 12, 2011 2:30 PM |The American Library Association has its list of most frequently challenged books of 2010 out, and And Tango Makes Three topped the list. Tango topped the list from 2006 to 2008, dropping to number two in 2009 (knocked off by...Read More
Black Father Love: A New Type of Celebrity
Filed by Anthony Carter | April 11, 2011 2:00 PM |In a world that gives so much credence and attention to Brangelina, Sandra Bullock, and every celebrity that takes in a baby of color, where is all the glory and paparazzi for black dads who are raising their children? During...Read More
Selena Gomez Cries At Kids Choice Awards
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 11, 2011 8:00 AM |Slime Tears! And the Jonas Brothers were robbed?...Read More
Provincetown Icon Ellie Castillo Passes Away
Filed by Drew Cordes | April 10, 2011 11:30 AM |Anyone who has ever been to Provincetown has seen and heard Ellie Castillo on the streets and in the clubs. Sadly, Ellie passed away from cancer April 7. The Provincetown Magazine obituary is here. A site called Lady Bunny Blog...Read More
Queer Music Friday - Juha 'Stomach' EP Review
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 08, 2011 5:00 PM |"Gothic hip-hop" artist Juha's new EP, Stomach, opens with a poppy, light guitar riff, moving into his more distinctive sound that I described two years ago as sounding like a combination Prince and Eminem. Today it's hard for me to...Read More
Slick It Up
Filed by Bil Browning | April 08, 2011 2:00 PM |Yes, this is a real website that sells fetish gear and whatnot. The video might not be safe for work if you've got a prudish workplace although there's no nudity; but the advertisement is one of the funniest, cutest fetish...Read More
Justin Bieber Works Out!
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 08, 2011 8:00 AM |And Black Lady Gaga?...Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 42: Wonder Woman (W)Rants
Filed by Jason Tseng | April 06, 2011 9:30 AM |Hey Betches! We're back with part 3 of our podcast triad we recorded last week. With all the hubbub that has been drummed up recently regarding Wonder Stripper Woman and her revamped, less cheap outfit for the Titanic-reminiscent NBC series,...Read More
Britney Spears Can't Dance!
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 06, 2011 8:00 AM |And Jenna Rose O.M.G (Oh My Gross), she's 12!!...Read More
Gauguin Painting Attacked for 'Homosexual' Theme
Filed by Bil Browning | April 05, 2011 7:00 PM |Last Friday, a visitor attacked a Paul Gauguin painting at the National Museum of Art. The artwork, "Two Tahitian Women," shows two women with breasts exposed. The attacker cited the nudity as her reason for going unhinged and said the...Read More
What Are Your Lips For?: Vintage Album Cover
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 05, 2011 4:30 PM |Svetlana answers the musical question in this unfortunately hilarious vintage album-cover....Read More
VIDEO: Sean Chapin's 'Go Go Get It' Will Rock You!
Filed by Phil Reese | April 04, 2011 1:00 PM |Quickly becoming the "LGBT Equality Movement's" official minstrel, Sean Chapin, has rocked us with his adorable and poignant videos spoofing Lady Gaga songs, Rebecca Black, and other stars, his pop-life parodies, and some moving original pieces. Sean became a sort...Read More
Vote for The Old Guys in the Muppet Balcony
Filed by Jessica Max Stein | April 04, 2011 12:00 PM |One of gay Muppeteer Richard Hunt's most popular characters is struggling to secure victory in the final hours of a Muppet fan contest that's a little too close for comfort. Statler and Waldorf, everyone's favorite balcony hecklers, are up against...Read More
Twin Baby Boys Have a Fun Conversation
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 02, 2011 4:00 PM |Can't help but chuckle at myself trying to understand what they're saying. All I got was a baby version of "talk to the hand." (Crossposted at LGBT POV)...Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 40: I'm a Stupid Betch
Filed by Jason Tseng | April 02, 2011 10:00 AM |Hey Betches! We're back with part 2 of our podcast triad we recorded last week. We talk about our fake sponsors, e-stalking Marvel/DC employees, Adventure Comics (and Chemical Kid's weird costume), Birds of Prey (and its terrible artwork), Avengers: Children's...Read More
Queer Music Friday - Dimitri Mitropoulos
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 01, 2011 5:00 PM |Dimitri Mitropoulos was a Greek-born composer, pianist, and conductor who led the New York Philharmonic in the 1950's. He was known not just for his rigorous interpretations of classical music, but also for conducting without a baton or a score....Read More
Site News: Bilerico Project Has Been Sold
Filed by Bil Browning | April 01, 2011 11:00 AM |Today I'm pleased to announce that Bilerico Project will be joining the AOL family of blogs. The media giant, which recently purchased the Huffington Post and some other properties, wants to expand it's reach into the LGBT market. The purchase...Read More
