Entertainment: May 2011
The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | May 31, 2011 8:00 PM |For those of you who are tired of "Sassy Gay Friend," "Randall's Wild Wild World of Animals" should keep you sufficiently occupied and laughing.Read More
(Un)heard: Transmasculine People of Color Speak
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 31, 2011 3:30 PM |Black, trans, and living in rural Ohio is not what you usually think of when you think of the LGBT movement. Read More
LGBT References Missing in 'Born This Way' Performances
Filed by Adam Polaski | May 28, 2011 10:00 PM |In Friday's Good Morning America concert and a recent episode of Glee, Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was performed with a key verse missing that specifically references the LGBT community.Read More
Inside 'Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo'
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | May 28, 2011 12:00 PM |In a new biography, Michael Schiavi pays tribute to Vito Russo, the "Celluloid Closet" lecturer, AIDS activist and founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.Read More
Queer Music Friday - Holly Elle
Filed by Adam Polaski | May 27, 2011 5:00 PM |Holly Elle, a classically trained Canadian singer, released a song called "Freak" earlier this month. It's her "be yourself" anthem, inspired by the tragic number of teenage suicides in the past year. Read More
Religious Conversion: Vintage 'Sexploitation'
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 27, 2011 10:00 AM |Now, what kind of trouble could a bunch of wholesome religious girls get into inside the walls of a convent? Oh!Read More
Queen of Mean Gives GMHC $50k
Filed by Bil Browning | May 26, 2011 12:30 PM |Lisa Lampanelli, the "Queen of Mean," gave the Gay Men's Health Crisis a check for $50,000 yesterday afternoon. The comedian was making good on her promise to give the AIDS group $1000 for each member of the Westboro Baptist Church who showed up to protest her Topeka, Kansas sRead More
Bad Grrrl Cinema: Vintage Poster
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 26, 2011 12:00 PM |I'd like to know what's going on with the two women in the upper left corner. They don't look like they're just whispering secrets, they look like they're about to share one....Read More
Lesbian Moms & NOM: What Would You Do?
Filed by Bil Browning | May 25, 2011 3:15 PM |When ABC's What Would You Do? television show puts four actors playing a gay couple with children in a Texas diner and throws in an actress playing a homophobic waitress, the patrons' reactions were unexpected. NOM responds.Read More
Hao Hot: Vintage Male Impersonator
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 25, 2011 2:00 PM |A stunning photo of vintage Chinese actress Ting Hao in perfectly tailored drag. I love the shadow. via softfilm.blogspot.com...Read More
Squeeze Play: New Peer Pressure from Out Gay Athletes
Filed by Leslie Robinson | May 24, 2011 6:00 PM |Four male sports figures have come out in the last week. What's going through the minds of other gay men in the sports world now?Read More
Mighty Man: Tony Sansone Memorabilia
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 24, 2011 4:00 PM |A beautiful vintage body-builder who knew just what his audience wanted to see. Here is the introduction to his nude series, with one of the portraits....Read More
Two SF Artists Tackle HIV/AIDS Un-Awareness
Filed by Toshio Meronek | May 24, 2011 10:00 AM |Two Bay Area artists, J. Fritz-Michael and Eric Stanley, have created a couple of socially relevant works to bring attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis. And yes, it's still a crisis, people!Read More
Cool Like Rachel: Glee's Lea Michele Inspires Child of Gay Dads
Filed by Dana Rudolph | May 23, 2011 1:00 PM |Actor Lea Michele, who plays Rachel Berry, a character with gay dads, stopped while filming in New York to speak with a 10-year-old fan who has two dads.Read More
Let's Celebrate 'Non-Judgment' Day!
Filed by Jessica Max Stein | May 21, 2011 10:00 AM |Many anti-gay Christian fundamentalists raptly awaited the rapture today, as discussed here on Bilerico. But since it doesn't seem to have happened, how about we re-brand the Rapture as 'Non-Judgment' Day? As musician Jane Siberry recently said to Toronto's Globe...Read More
Queer Music Friday - Phranc
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 20, 2011 5:00 PM |Phranc is a folk/punk singer/songwriter who performed transparently queer music in the 80's in southern California. This is "M-A-R-T-I-N-A," and it's still hilarious. Here she is in a Dutch documentary singing about why people shouldn't wear swastikas (which was a...Read More
Lady Gaga Talks About Being Bullied as a Girl
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 19, 2011 5:00 PM |In this clip (via Mediaite) from a documentary to be aired on MTV on May 26, Lady Gaga - who just placed Number 1 on the famed Forbes Celebrity 100 list - talks about how hearing stories from her fans...Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 46: Messy X-Men Storylines
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 19, 2011 4:00 PM |Hey Betches! We continue on our marathon of coverage this week with discussions on the conclusion and fall out of the Age of X storyline, the denouement of the latest New Mutants arc (and some awesome OTP Yuri pairings!), Astonishing...Read More
Doric Wilson, Theater Great (1939-2011)
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | May 18, 2011 12:30 PM |When the curly-haired ranch kid from Washington state got off the train in New York City in 1958, nobody would have predicted what a theater great he would become - inspired for decades by that wittiest of urban playwrights, Oscar...Read More
MTV: Are You Kidding Me?
Filed by Sara Whitman | May 17, 2011 6:00 PM |Classes ended on the 6th and I took off for Downeast Maine. It was beautiful, not that cold, and very restful. While I was gone, young son Ben was busy. He applied to be on an MTV show about kids...Read More
The Magazine for Playful (Misogynistic!) Men
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 17, 2011 4:30 PM |Not that I have anything against bondage (ahem, ahem) but check out this magazine cover that's after the jump. You know, every time I hear a politician talking about returning to "traditional family values," images like this 1950s men's magazine...Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 45: Catch Up If You Can!
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 16, 2011 2:00 PM |Hey Betches! So we didn't end up finishing our podcasting last week. So we're covering so much this week: the end of Wolverine & Jubilee, the beginnings of Marvel and DC's respective annual events: Fear Itself and Flash Point and...Read More
Vintage Cheesy Men's Magazine Cover
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 16, 2011 10:30 AM |I post a lot of vintage cheesy men's magazines over on my sex blog and it's interesting to observe how routinely those pubs squeezed references to homosexuality on their covers. I have my own thoughts about it but would love...Read More
'Ambiguously Gay Duo' Goes Live Action
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 16, 2011 8:30 AM |It's been a while since I've had access to a TV, but I remember this from when I was in high school. I can't believe they're still making these. Lots of star power for the live action version of the...Read More
Charlotte Cushman: Original Photo, 1870
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 15, 2011 11:30 AM |It's always wonderful to find such shining gems from 19th century LGBT history. You can learn more about this fascinating woman on Wiki. She was America's greatest 19th century tragic and dramatic actress during the eras of Edwin Forrest and...Read More
Liberace Reimagined as AIDS Activist in New Short Film
Filed by Toshio Meronek | May 14, 2011 4:00 PM |As Alex reported in January, somewhere in Hollywood, Michael Douglas is smothering on lip gloss to prepare for a heavy make-out session with Matt Damon. Douglas is set to play Liberace (and Damon his young lover) in the gay-for-pay Oscar...Read More
Unbelievable Unapologetic Racism
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 14, 2011 2:00 PM |I have no idea what this show is nor do I care. My first concern was that if this guy is saying this racist crap out loud - how many more people might be thinking it. But then I thought...Read More
Queer Music Friday - Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 13, 2011 5:00 PM |Here's Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday's anthem to people who dare to be different (from way back before Glee existed), "AOK." As Jackson put it in an interview with After Elton: "I hope those of you out there that are...Read More
Lady Gaga Judas is Fine!
Filed by Michael Buckley | May 13, 2011 8:00 AM |Jennifer Lopez has a big crotch, and Blake Shelton homophobic? Also, how creepy I am in this video? Too creepy or just creepy enough?...Read More
Glee: Now That's a Man Sandwich
Filed by Bil Browning | May 12, 2011 5:00 PM |They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll just say that I wish I was Chris Colfer during nap time on the set of Glee. I had a stupid joke about sloppy joes all prepared, but I'll...Read More
Chaz Bono Comes Out For ENDA
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 12, 2011 12:00 PM |Chaz Bono gave an interview to New York Magazine on Tuesday, talking about his documentary, shown on the OWN Network. In the interview, he was asked "What do you think is the main issue for the trans community right now?"...Read More
Diva Fight! Babs Gets Testy With Larry Kramer
Filed by Bil Browning | May 11, 2011 5:00 PM |Apparently Larry Kramer has been telling folks that the reason The Normal Heart was never made into a movie was because Barbra Streisand wanted to change the script to make herself the star. Babs has taken issue with the charge...Read More
'The Daily Show' on New Gay vs. Old Gay
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 11, 2011 9:30 AM |The Daily Show did a segment on that cute Advocate "study" earlier this year that showed that Minneapolis was the gayest city in America, which some people took far too seriously (in 2010, the same writer at The Advocate said...Read More
Justin Bieber Gets Egged!
Filed by Michael Buckley | May 11, 2011 8:00 AM |Beyonce Gets Booed, Miley Cyrus and a new GLEEcap....Read More
The Normal Heart
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | May 09, 2011 12:00 PM |My boyfriend is not rich. He happens to have a good job at a fancy law firm, which means he makes a good salary, but it also means he has a lot of college loans to pay off. (I was...Read More
Lady Gaga Killed Osama!
Filed by Michael Buckley | May 09, 2011 8:00 AM |Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's new twins! The Royal Wedding and the whorish hats! Osama Bin Ladin is dead. Lady Gaga tweet timing is a little off on promoting Judas and I do a dance to RuPaul's "Superstar" dedicated...Read More
Cazwell's 'Get My Money Back'
Filed by Father Tony | May 08, 2011 5:30 PM |In the video "Get Into It", featuring his muse Amanda Lepore and directed by frequent collaborator Marco Ovando, Cazwell raps "This club scene drama I'm past it. You're a trend about to end, I'm classic." On a recent Friday, at...Read More
Dana International Representing Israel At Eurovision, Again!
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 08, 2011 1:00 PM |My Rabbi mentioned this at Friday night services this weekend. Remember when Dana International won the 1998 EuroVision competition? Well, she won the Israeli national competition again, with her self-penned song "Ding Dong," and so she's representing Israel yet again....Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 44: Shout Outs
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 07, 2011 10:00 AM |Hey Betches! So much happened in comics in the past two weeks that we were only able to fit out shout outs in this episode of Scarlet Betch! We shout out Godzilla, the end of Brightest Day, Green Lantern War,...Read More
Queer Music Friday - Boys Town Gang
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 06, 2011 5:00 PM |I can't believe I've been on this site for four years and I haven't ever mentioned Boys Town Gang. They were a group put together by DJ Bill Motley, who is credited as a leader in developing the San Francisco...Read More
Camille Paglia Says Chaz Bono 'Mutilated' his Body
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 06, 2011 9:30 AM |While I appreciate commentators who eschew popular opinion and conventional wisdom, priding oneself in being a contrarian-for-the-sake-contrarianism doesn't necessarily mean that someone is right. Which is probably why I never really got into Camille Paglia's work, although it should be...Read More
Happy Cinco De Mayo!
Filed by Bil Browning | May 05, 2011 7:00 PM |Happy Cinco de Mayo! Anyone got any big plans for tonight? Contributor Prince Gomolvilas will probably be dressing up his cat, Pork Chop, again....Read More
Tough Girl Fiction: Vintage Lesbian Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 05, 2011 11:30 AM |Great cover art on this lesbian pulp novel published in 1966, listed as lesbian pulp and Hollywood sleaze. Has anyone read this? The opening line is classic: "The reason I noticed this girl was because she was the only one...Read More
Trans Golfer Gets Golf Associations to Change Policy
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 04, 2011 3:00 PM |Lana Lawless, the trans woman who sued the LPGA and the Long Drivers of America after she was refused the ability to compete as a woman, has settled her case. Both organizations have both changed their rules on trans women...Read More
Straight Men Like Penis
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 03, 2011 9:30 AM |Salon has an interview with two researchers who studied internet sex searches and organized them into usable data. And they've found more evidence to support what the average straight pornographer already knows: There's pretty overwhelming evidence for it: Men search...Read More
A Change of Seasons
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | May 02, 2011 2:00 PM |On Thursdays, T and I have dinner together. It's so easy to fall out of touch with friends here, and I didn't want that to happen when I moved out of T's place, so we decided to have a standing...Read More
