Entertainment: June 2011
The Appropriation of Stonewall, 'Bad' Immigrants, & Sex Policing
Filed by Toshio Meronek | June 30, 2011 4:00 PM |By the end of this year, we'll have three new books covering the shamefully under-addressed issue of the targeting of queer people by the American court, policing, and prison systems.Read More
The Art of Paul Cadmus: Men, Beautiful Men [Maybe NSFW]
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 29, 2011 6:00 PM |I featured a video of the magnificent art of Paul Cadmus before but this one, by Augusto Mariante, is an exquisite tribute to this exceptional American artist.Read More
'Natural Marriage' and Monkeys
Filed by Bil Browning | June 28, 2011 7:00 PM |This short spot from Second City has more truth to it than most rightwing nutjob talking heads or the newscasters who let them spew their crap without challenge.Read More
New Pixar Movie: Brave
Filed by Bil Browning | June 28, 2011 2:30 PM |Pixar's newest animated adventure, Brave, hits movie theaters in 2012. This one features a red headed Scottish girl and a bear. Or something like that.Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 51: Green Lanterns and Guests!
Filed by Jason Tseng | June 28, 2011 11:45 AM |We're back with a special surprise! We welcome special guest commentator and Wikipedia afficionado Sarah! We say hello to all our new friends at Gay-nerds.com and reviw the latest summer superhero film, Green Lantern (AKA that movie with Ryan Reynolds' abs). Read More
My New Book Starts Its Journey
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | June 26, 2011 6:00 PM |My West is a birthday present to myself on my 75th birthday, to renew my conviction that books are what I want to do and that they're still worth doing. Read More
Take Me Out to the Ballgame: 1900 Lesbian Postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 26, 2011 1:30 PM |This hand-tinted photographic card from 1900 shows a couple of beauties enjoying nude frolics on the beach.Read More
Gay 'Archie' Character Leads New Comic Miniseries
Filed by Adam Polaski | June 24, 2011 2:00 PM |A new comic book miniseries from Archie Comics puts the spotlight on Kevin Keller, Riverdale's first openly gay teenager.Read More
Photo Memories of Nureyev
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 23, 2011 11:00 AM |Two beautiful images of the one and only Rudolph Nureyev, the purest, the most beautiful, and the most tragic ballet dancer the world has known.Read More
Evolution Debate Divides Miss USA Contestants
Filed by Adam Polaski | June 23, 2011 8:30 AM |Miss California, the night's winner, was one of only a few contestants who responded that she would teach evolution in schools. Many of the rest qualified that evolution should be given balanced weight with creationism. Read More
Boone & Bondage: 'Have Gun, Will Travel'
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 22, 2011 2:00 PM |If you like men or you like bondage, you will like this.Read More
Why Are We Still Haunted by 'The Boys in the Band'?
Filed by Mark S. King | June 21, 2011 6:30 PM |Our boys continue to live on through the film, performing their roles on that screen exactly the same way, defiant in their stereotypes, no matter how many times we revisit the movie.Read More
Let My People Kiss
Filed by Leslie Robinson | June 21, 2011 8:00 AM |Among the security guards at Target Field in Minneapolis, one stands out for his overriding moral concerns and knowledge of the 10 Commandments.Read More
Living Statues: Female Vaudeville Poster
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 20, 2011 6:00 PM |Female beauty as theatre! Wow. It must have been an awe-inspiring and erotic spectacle.Read More
Go the F**k to Sleep! [NSFW]
Filed by Terrance Heath | June 20, 2011 5:30 PM |I'm posting this here for all the parents in the world who have ever thought what the title of this book says. Go ahead, play it twice. You know you were laughing too hard to hear the whole thing.Read More
Larry Kramer's Tony Awards Blessing
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | June 19, 2011 4:00 PM |Many of us owe our very lives to the awareness Larry Kramer fostered, the movement he started, the fear he instilled. AIDS and our community's response to it pushed the gay rights movement into warp speed.Read More
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism Protest at LGBT Film Fest
Filed by Toshio Meronek | June 19, 2011 2:30 PM |The world's biggest LGBT film festival accepted funds from the Israeli Consulate, and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism was on hand to protest outside of the Castro Theater.Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 50: Scarlet Crisis! Epic Sized!
Filed by Jason Tseng | June 18, 2011 4:30 PM |In this episode, we chat about the new Kevin Keller mini-series, Birds of Prey, The DC Relaunch aka DCnU, X-men Legacy: Age of X Aftermath, X-men First Class, and much much more!Read More
Queer Music Friday: Butch County
Filed by Paige Schilt | June 17, 2011 5:00 PM |The line-up for the main stage at SF Pride has been announced, and Austin-based genderqueer rockers Butch County will take the stage alongside headliners like Sandra Bernhard and Linda Perry.Read More
And a Fish Needs a Bicycle: Weird Nude Ad
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 17, 2011 11:45 AM |I wish I understood their point. Are they implying that to get a woman to worship your boots, a man should buy this brand? What if you want a man to worship your boots -- go Buster Brown? Read More
Remember the Gay Musical Monster Movies Of Our Youth?
Filed by Ed Kennedy | June 15, 2011 5:00 PM |You may remember beach movies and monster movies at the drive-in, but do you remember the one in which the boy got the boy? Neither did Tim Sullivan, so he made it himself with Brent Corrigan.Read More
Is Out Actress Amber Heard... Unheard?
Filed by Amy Andre | June 14, 2011 10:00 AM |Amber Heard has told the press that she has a girlfriend - but as someone who hates labels, she's never come out "as a lesbian." How did the media miss this memo?Read More
An Open Letter to Tracy Morgan
Filed by Michelle Marzullo | June 13, 2011 10:30 PM |I have found that a truism running through all advocacy around LGBT issues has been the way that face to face conversation performed with the honest intention of communication transforms hate into compassion and reflection, if not true understanding.Read More
Strange & Beautiful Moves: Vintage Wrestlers
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 13, 2011 6:00 PM |Awesome wrestling maneuver but I still think he should've given him roses first, no? A wonderful bit of vintage European wrestling memorabilia. Does anyone recognize the language?Read More
Two Spirits: The Last Thing Fred Saw
Filed by Cathy Renna | June 12, 2011 3:00 PM |It is hard to believe that a decade has passed since the brutal murder of Fred Martinez. Seeing the spot where he was killed was a gut-wrenching sight, even with experience dealing with the hallmark of hate crimes called "overkill."Read More
Voguing to Madonna ... at the Age of Nine.
Filed by Mark S. King | June 11, 2011 2:00 PM |When Robert Jeffrey and his parents visited a New Hampshire casino that featured a "make your own music video" attraction in 1991, he only paused long enough to decide which Madonna song to perform. Watch the video!Read More
Queer Music Friday: Patrick Cowley
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 10, 2011 5:00 PM |Patrick Cowley moved to San Francisco in the 70's to study music, specifically synthesizers, which were the rage back in the day. Cowley died from HIV before AIDS as his musical career was just getting started.Read More
Tracy Morgan Comes Under Fire for Homophobic Stand-Up Routine
Filed by Adam Polaski | June 10, 2011 10:45 AM |An audience member from a June 3 performance has reported that Morgan railed against the campaign to reduce anti-LGBT bullying in schools, said being gay is a choice, and announced that he would stab his son if he was gay.Read More
Flagging Red White and Blue
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 10, 2011 10:00 AM |From 1974, when free love was still free and progressives still believed that sexual liberation would cure this country of its repressive attitudes.Read More
Creepy Anti-Choice Movie Trailer
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 09, 2011 3:00 PM |In case you had any doubt where the anti-choice extremists were coming from, one of them made a movie. The trailer looks like something a radical feminist would have made ten years ago to make the anti-choicers look bad, but it's apparently legit.Read More
Batwoman #1 Confirmed for DCnU Relaunch
Filed by Jason Tseng | June 08, 2011 1:00 PM |Batwoman, the butt-kicking lesbian former marine, will be included among the relaunch of DC Comics' comic book line-up.Read More
Two Recent Entries in the Transgender Literary Renaissance
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | June 08, 2011 8:00 AM |Books by or about transgender people are experiencing a literary renaissance, and two of them - Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation and Balancing on the Mechitza - are excellent looks at diversity within the trans community. Read More
Homophile Fiction: Vintage Story
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 07, 2011 4:00 PM |I found this page from a poignant story buried in the pages of a 1980 issue of Numbers - a gay leather magazine.Read More
PBS Documentary 'Two Spirits' Interactive Map
Filed by Jake Weinraub | June 06, 2011 3:00 PM |Thoughts on the film's site, which includes an interactive map of "Gender-Diverse Cultures" pinpointing global cultures that have "recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders."Read More
Scarlet Betch: Super Soap Operas!
Filed by Jason Tseng | June 06, 2011 12:00 PM |We're back for another week of reviewing the latest in queer comic book news.Read More
It Doesn't Matter If You Love Hir, or Capital H-I-R
Filed by Jake Weinraub | June 05, 2011 4:00 PM |Check out this incredible Lady Gaga rewrite from YouTube user debaser9779.Read More
Eminem Revives Lady Gaga Trans Rumor
Filed by Bil Browning | June 05, 2011 2:30 PM |No matter how many times he sings with Elton John, Eminem just can't help being a horse's ass.Read More
Trailblazer Campaign Encourages Closeted Gay Actors
Filed by Adam Polaski | June 05, 2011 10:00 AM |A new video is posted for James Duke Mason's Trailblazer Campaign, which he's trying to position as the "It Gets Better" of celebrity coming-out stories. Read More
Review: PBS's Out In America
Filed by Bil Browning | June 04, 2011 4:00 PM |It's a crapshoot whether or not I actually watch the many screeners that show up in my mailbox on a weekly basis. When PBS's Out In America documentary arrived though, I'd committed to the publicist that I'd check it out & write this review.Read More
Attorney Requests Removal of Gay Colton Haynes Photos
Filed by Adam Polaski | June 03, 2011 9:15 AM |An attorney for the Teen Wolf star is trying to stamp out the actor's previous work as a model for a gay youth publication. Read More
Sensitive Nipples & Anal Cranials
Filed by Bil Browning | June 02, 2011 7:00 PM |Just when you think Daniel Tosh couldn't possibly get any gayer for a supposedly straight guy, he, uh, tops himself. Wait. Uh, you know what I mean.Read More
NSFW: Chris Mintz-Plasse & Dave Franco Play Gay Chicken
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | June 02, 2011 4:00 PM |In this delightfully vulgar game of verbal gay chicken, Superbad's McLovin' and James Franco's younger brother go head to head in a battle of wills. Not safe for work.Read More
Playful Pretties: Tinted Vintage Postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 02, 2011 12:00 PM |I'm not sure, but I think the text is in Hungarian. My best guess is that this is two actresses from the European Vaudeville stage, ca. 1900-1910, in a tender scene.Read More
Queer Latina Film Production in Full-Swing
Filed by Jake Weinraub | June 02, 2011 9:30 AM |Writer and Director Aurora Guerrero successfully achieved the needed funding for her project Mosquita y Mari, the coming of age story between two young Chicanas struggling to find a place for their love today's world.Read More
SF Giants Make History with First Pro Sports 'It Gets Better' Video
Filed by Joe Mirabella | June 02, 2011 8:00 AM |The San Francisco Giants became the first team in professional sports to produce an "It Gets Better" video taking a stand against anti-gay bullying and homophobia.Read More
The Top 5 Music Videos That 'Honor' Women's Butts
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | June 01, 2011 6:00 PM |Since I have somehow become the default blogger of posts about men's underwear, I thought I would try to regain some credibility around these parts by going in the opposite direction.Read More
Art Toward Queer Utopias
Filed by Toshio Meronek | June 01, 2011 4:00 PM |A new exhibit in San Francisco explores colorful, utopian queer art that challenges the norms of mainstream art and offers something distinct from traditional queer art. Read More
A History Mystery: W.H. Auden Photo(s)
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 01, 2011 2:00 PM |I was browsing eBay for goodies last week when I came across this beautiful photo. Naturally, I grabbed it to share here. The image nagged at me - something about the lanky man getting hugged looked so familiar.Read More
