Entertainment: September 2011
Cartoon: A Trans Chess Joke
Filed by Bil Browning | September 30, 2011 | 1:30 PM |This made me actually laugh out loud. Thought y'all would enjoy it too.Read More
Free Flexor Makes Shake Weight Look Perfectly Innocent
Filed by Ed Kennedy | September 30, 2011 | 8:00 AM |The motion is certainly familiar, as is the need to change arms.Read More
Why I Care About the LA Dodger's 'It Gets Better' Video
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 29, 2011 | 2:00 PM |I was happy to see via Huffington Post that I wasn't the only one initially suspicious of the motives behind the LA Dodgers' contribution to the It Gets Better Project against LGBT teen bullying and suicide.Read More
Help Me Pick a Work of LGBT Graphic Nonfiction!
Filed by Adam Polaski | September 28, 2011 | 4:00 PM |By the end of the semester, we have to analyze a work of graphic nonfiction of our choice, and I want to use the opportunity to explore a book focused on an LGBT-themed story. Do you have any recommendations for LGBT-themed works of graphic nonfiction? Read More
'Glee' May Introduce Gay Love Triangle Drama (Spoilers!)
Filed by Adam Polaski | September 28, 2011 | 12:30 PM |On Glee last year, Kurt and Blaine were paraded around as the perfect couple, one untouched by the show's otherwise exaggerated penchant for dramatic teenage love affairs. It looks like this year, that may change. Read More
Bil Recommends: Gay In America
Filed by Bil Browning | September 27, 2011 | 2:30 PM |It's not often that I'll do a direct recommendation for a product. While I get shipped tons of free stuff all the time, most of them just get given away as prizes without any real review. Read More
Unreal: The Haggards on Reality TV
Filed by Leslie Robinson | September 26, 2011 | 6:00 PM |I have to think Gayle Haggard had major qualms about participating. I can just hear her praying over the subject...Read More
Gaga's Multi-Pronged Tribute to Jamey Rodermeyer
Filed by Bil Browning | September 26, 2011 | 11:45 AM |Lady Gaga's newest LGBT cause is teen bullying after Buffalo, New York teenager Jamey Rodermeyer died of suicide earlier this month after enduring months of anti-gay bullying.Read More
John Lauritsen's Shelley
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | September 26, 2011 | 8:00 AM |In 2007, John Lauritsen published The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein, in which he argued that it was Perry Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), and not his second wife Mary, who wrote that great novel.Read More
Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer Celebrate Point Foundation's 10th Anniversary
Filed by Jake Weinraub | September 25, 2011 | 1:00 PM |The Point Foundation, the nation's largest LGBT scholarship-granting organization celebrated its 10th anniversary Saturday with black ties and a very gay red carpet.Read More
Melissa Etheridge & Tammy Lynn Michaels Divorce Drama
Filed by Bil Browning | September 23, 2011 | 11:00 AM |Looks like lesbian celebrity couple Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels break-up isn't going so well.Read More
Ted Haggard on Celebrity Wife Swap
Filed by Bil Browning | September 22, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Everyone's favorite fundie isn't just willing to smoke meth and have sex with a male prostitute, now he's going to swap his wife with Gary Busey.Read More
Party in Kiel: Pansexual Indie Fest!
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 22, 2011 | 12:00 PM |From some friends in Germany, an announcement about their fabulous annual film festival. If you're planning to be traveling in Germany next month and want to try something out of the box, check out this year's kinky film festival in Kiel.Read More
Cartoon: DADT RIP
Filed by Storm Bear | September 22, 2011 | 11:30 AM |The day before DADT was repealed and the day after...Read More
Did Chaz Really Do Better Than Rob and Metta?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | September 22, 2011 | 9:00 AM |Is celebrity more important than the dance?Read More
Jane Lynch: Her 'Glee' Character Resembles Michele Bachmann
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 21, 2011 | 5:30 PM |Jane Lynch appeared on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell Tuesday night to talk about her new book, the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and how Sue Sylvester is starting to resemble real life Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. Read More
Sneak Peek: ABC's Pan Am
Filed by Bil Browning | September 21, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Courtesy of ABC, here's a sneak peek of their new series Pan Am. The show premiers on Sunday at 10 Eastern. Any of you plan on watching?Read More
Chaz Survives Vote on DWTS
Filed by Bil Browning | September 21, 2011 | 10:45 AM |For all of you who didn't flip the channel after Glee to see if Chaz Bono got booted off Dancing with the Stars, rest easy. He wasn't voted off.Read More
Today We Are Not Celebrating: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars
Filed by Yasmin Nair | September 21, 2011 | 8:00 AM |As the policy of DADT, which barred gays and lesbians from participating openly in the US military, expired yesterday we don't find ourselves celebrating.Read More
Maggie Gallagher Attends Prop 8 Play Reading
Filed by Bil Browning | September 20, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Looks like National Organization for Marriage board chair Maggie Gallagher can't get enough of herself.Read More
Video: Chaz Bono Debuts on Dancing with the Stars
Filed by Bil Browning | September 20, 2011 | 1:00 PM |Were you one of the thousands of LGBT people nationwide breathlessly anticipating Chaz Bono's debut on Dancing with the Stars? No? Well here's your chance to see the cha-cha everyone is talking about today.Read More
But Can He Dance?!
Filed by Bil Browning | September 19, 2011 | 7:00 PM |After all this publicity, I just hope the poor bastard can dance. If not, America's children are going to want to grow up to be transgender men with two left feet, amIright?Read More
Neil Patrick Harris Is Officially a Star
Filed by Bil Browning | September 19, 2011 | 9:00 AM |I tweeted out a photo of the blank star and said it should be Neil's when we went to LA a couple of years ago, but it's that damn David Burtka that gets to pose next to my Hollywood husband.Read More
Video: Foo Fighters vs Westboro Baptist
Filed by Bil Browning | September 18, 2011 | 5:30 PM |When frontman Dave Grohl growls "I've got a hankering for something, think I'm in the mood for some hot man-muffins," I raised my hand until Jerame asked me what I was doing sitting on the couch with one arm in the air.Read More
Cheers to the Freakin' Weekend...
Filed by Sara Whitman | September 17, 2011 | 2:00 PM |I can't get that song out of my head. I've been all about songs in the last week. Asking people what song stands out to them, why it has meaning, why it makes them happy or sad. it's been a fascinating exercise.Read More
Marriage Equality comes to Archie Comics' Riverdale
Filed by Waymon Hudson | September 17, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Archie Comics were the only comics my parents let me read, since I was raised in a very strictly religious household. I snuck others with more adult themes, but I have a special love for the residents of Riverdale.Read More
Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett Sing Together
Filed by Bil Browning | September 16, 2011 | 3:00 PM |I might as well go for the lazy blogger three-peat of doing posts all day with only short sentences and videos... Besides, what can I say more than Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga singing together?Read More
The Ron Paul Drunken Fanboy
Filed by Bil Browning | September 16, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Cue the Paulites to come swarm the comment thread and remind us all that he's the anti-Christ or something like that.Read More
Help George Carlin Stick It To God
Filed by Don Davis | September 15, 2011 | 2:00 PM |A language warning: we'll be quoting George Carlin liberally, and that means there may be present today certain of the seven words with which he created one of his best known routines. You are now officially warned.Read More
Why Literary Agents Pressure Authors to 'Straighten' Gay Characters
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | September 15, 2011 | 9:00 AM |The outrage of the moment is over an unnamed literary agent won't represent a young-adult book unless a gay character is rewritten as straight. As an author, I share the outrage, but there's a bigger story that needs to be looked at.Read More
'Husbands,' New Independent Web-Series, Debuts
Filed by Adam Polaski | September 14, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Husbands, a new web-series that's being touted as a "marriage equality comedy" from executive producer Jane Espenson, a writer from Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls and Buffy, debuted yesterday.Read More
The Doctor Is Out (Of Touch)
Filed by Guest Blogger | September 13, 2011 | 6:00 PM |FOX contributor Dr. Keith Ablow apparently believes that watching a transman dance with a woman might cause somebody's confused child to become trans. I suppose some people still believe watching Will and Grace made kids gay.Read More
A Rainbow to Make You Gay: Vintage Ad
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 13, 2011 | 4:00 PM |I know it's a little tired to run the vintage ads which use "gay" in its old "merry" sense but this one is just too lovely and amusing to pass up.Read More
A Thrower, Not a Catcher: Vintage Muscle Hunk
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 12, 2011 | 6:00 PM |From the 1950s, and I'm guessing one of a series of studio shots placing handsome young bodybuilders in heroic poses.Read More
Vintage Lesbian Cartoon: Flappers Having Fun
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 10, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Looks like the God of Spanking has turned a deaf ear to the victim in this entertaining cartoon from the 1920s.Read More
Who The Bleep Did She Marry? Maybe She Already Knew
Filed by Terrance Heath | September 09, 2011 | 4:00 PM |"Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?" is a favorite in our house. And last night we watched the Dina Matos-Jim McGreevey story. The show left out something about the McGreevey marriage - the three-ways with the driver, before he became governor.Read More
Role Play: Victorian Theatre Memorabilia
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 09, 2011 | 10:00 AM |I keep finding wonderful, lightly erotic series of actresses and models who cross-dressed to create these charming Victorian tableaux.Read More
An Invitation To Sin
Filed by Father Tony | September 08, 2011 | 4:00 PM |A gay NYC DJ shows me the fine heart beneath some fine pecs.Read More
What Gets Better?
Filed by Bil Browning | September 08, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Disappointing Gay Best Friend skewers the It Gets Better campaign with a deft twist of the knife.Read More
Allred & Tyler Announce Support Plans for Chaz Bono
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 08, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Longtime LGBT activist Robin Tyler and attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference to announce their support for Chaz Bono who has been the subject of controversy for appearing on ABC's Dancing With the Stars.Read More
And Three Times As Mysterious: Vintage Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 08, 2011 | 12:00 PM |I have no idea what that means but I bet it would make for a really awesome bar contest. "I bet I'm twice as gay as you!" Read More
Copenhagen Classical Flash Mob
Filed by Bil Browning | September 08, 2011 | 11:00 AM |It's not often you see a flash mob by a symphony orchestra.Read More
Aussie Transgender Singer Wows 'X Factor' Judges
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 07, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Check out transgender singer Paige Elliot Phoenix, 35, who auditioned for Australia's X Factor reality show recently and wowed the three judgesRead More
The World of the Homosexual: Vintage Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 07, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Although this book purports to be a serious study, the back cover reads more like an anti-gay propaganda tract, laden with some nasty myths and misconceptions.Read More
EM Forster's 'Maurice,' Ex-Gay Therapy & Immortal Love
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | September 06, 2011 | 7:00 PM |Written in 1913, EM Forster's Maurice echoes through the ages and reminds us of the dangers of Marcus Bachmann's ex-gay clinic.Read More
Vintage Adult Scandal: Pagans! Lesbians Too!
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 06, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Possibly my favorite title and pulp book cover of all times. Remember, you pagan goddesses: never leave home without your sparkly pasties!Read More
31 Days: The Krustyest Place on Earth
Filed by Bil Browning | September 03, 2011 | 2:00 PM |I buy or am given all sorts of Simpson's related trinkets and doodads. For the first ten years of our relationship, Jerame's mom gave me something Simpsons-related even if it was just a small token. I'll admit sometimes I go a little far.Read More
'Heavy Metal Dance Fag' Opens At Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Filed by Kyle Bella | September 03, 2011 | 10:00 AM |The play 'Heavy Metal Dance Fag' offers a brave and heartfelt examination of the masculinity, and a commonly used gay slur, as part of Philadelphia's Live Arts and Fringe Festival.Read More
Why I'll Be Watching Dancing With The Stars This Year
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | September 03, 2011 | 8:00 AM |I don't even own a television, but I'm going to find one on Monday, September 19 at 8pm ET. Read More
Kermit: Bert & Ernie Are Straight
Filed by Bil Browning | September 02, 2011 | 1:00 PM |TMZ caught up with Kermit the Frog outside of a marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles to ask him about the rumors about Bert and Ernie.Read More
A Witch of a Man: Pulp Biography
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 02, 2011 | 10:00 AM |The cover is hilariously peculiar but I'm a little intrigued by the subject of this book.Read More
We Write Our History in the Present
Filed by Kyle Bella | September 01, 2011 | 3:30 PM |How can a single film inspire a series of community events targeted specifically toward empowering LGBTQ youth of color by encouraging them to write history?Read More
K-Y to Launch National Lesbian Commercial
Filed by Bil Browning | September 01, 2011 | 8:00 AM |They also offered to send me a free sample for "any female friends or colleagues." Any takers? We're all amongst friends here, right? Read More
