Entertainment: October 2011
CONTEST: Your Boyfriend & Other Guys I've Kissed
Filed by Bil Browning | October 31, 2011 3:00 PM |Courtesy of Get Red PR, today's contest is for one of three copies of Your Boyfriend and Other Guys I've Kissed by Totally Tyler. Tell us about the person you most regret kissing to win a free book!Read More
Zachary Quinto's Halloween Costume
Filed by Bil Browning | October 30, 2011 2:00 PM |Last night newly-out actor Zachary Quinto sent out this tweet with a photo of his last minute Halloween costume. What do you think?Read More
'Gone,' But Not Forgotten
Filed by Steve Ralls | October 25, 2011 1:00 PM |The new film Gone is not a surrealist screenplay from an avant-garde director, but rather a stark and moving documentary about an American mother's journey through the bureaucracy, and behind the curtain, of Vienna, Austria.Read More
Caption This: Can You Come Out as Hispanic?!
Filed by Bil Browning | October 25, 2011 12:00 PM |Sometimes people put the stoopidist shit on social media sites. Best caption I've seen so far for this photo? "Great. Now I'm part of the taco mafia too." Read More
Certain Sapphic Addictions
Filed by Leslie Robinson | October 24, 2011 6:00 PM |My partner and I are both going through withdrawal. It ain't pretty. We're not addicted to drugs, alcohol, porn, sex, love, cigarettes, texting or gambling. I'll bet you a case of gin we're not. Our addictions have a lesbian flare.Read More
World Serious
Filed by Kate Clinton | October 24, 2011 2:00 PM |I've had a major recurrence of my Bush Tourette Syndrome.Read More
The Gay Bar: Children of the Black Cat
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | October 24, 2011 10:00 AM |Much has been written recently about the decline of LGBT bars. But we must never underestimate the impact gay pubs and clubs have in our communities.Read More
Bette Midler Auctions Memorabilia for Charity
Filed by Bil Browning | October 24, 2011 9:00 AM |Ever dreamed of owning the Bob Mackie gown Bette Midler wore during the Bette! Divine Madness tour? The chance is yours if you've got a few thousands laying around.Read More
Sneak Peek at New Book on Steve Jobs
Filed by Karen Ocamb | October 23, 2011 2:30 PM |Politico provided a sneak peek at the new book "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson. Here's a clip.Read More
Straight Southern Methodist Minister Defrocked for Marrying Same-Sex Couples
Filed by Davina Kotulski | October 22, 2011 4:00 PM |Jimmy Creech is about the nicest guy you could expect to meet. He's like John Boy all grown-up. He's sweet, gentle, and has an easy on the ears Southern drawl.Read More
Stop Fisting Censorship
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | October 21, 2011 4:00 PM |Today is International Fisting Day. Did you know that fisting is not allowed in almost all porn? Read More
Rachel Maddow on Getting Hate Mail
Filed by Bil Browning | October 21, 2011 2:00 PM |Rachel Maddow appeared on Ellen to talk about her new documentary and the topic turned to the hate mail Rachel gets regularly.Read More
God: It Getteth Better
Filed by Bil Browning | October 21, 2011 10:00 AM |Great. Now even the Lord is turning the It Gets Better Project into a commercial enterprise! *grins*Read More
Spoof: Gay Soldier Comes Out (Again)
Filed by Bil Browning | October 19, 2011 5:00 PM |Feast of Fun has made a spoof of the gay soldier stationed in the war zone who made a YouTube video of himself coming out to his dad and then a second video about coming out to his mom.Read More
Gay Kiss Prompts Students to Walk Out of School Play
Filed by Adam Polaski | October 19, 2011 1:00 PM |In Hartford, Connecticut this weekend, a student theatre group's production of Zanna Don't, which boasts a script that features a boy-on-boy kiss, prompted more than a few students to walk out.Read More
Choosing This Year's LGBT 'Game-Changers'
Filed by Adam Polaski | October 14, 2011 10:00 AM |This week The Huffington Post has been selecting its "Game-Changers" of 2011 - the most influential leaders in a variety of categories - and several members of the LGBT community are represented. Who's missing?Read More
Sunny 70s: Vintage Gay Nudist Magazine
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 13, 2011 11:00 AM |The cover is coy, but the interior pages left nothing to the imagination.Read More
Video: Gay Rugby Player Comes Out to His Team
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 13, 2011 10:00 AM |Here's a video of a college rugger coming out to his team, on MTV. The nervousness on the part of Nevin, the rugby player, is intense.Read More
Billy Richards: 1930s Female Impersonator
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 12, 2011 3:00 PM |The seductively sweet female impersonator, Billy Richards, popular in the 1930s.Read More
Danny LaRue: Comic Performer & Impersonator
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 11, 2011 4:00 PM |I ran a piece a couple of days ago on drag history, featuring photos of female impersonators from the 1880s to the 1950s. I believe LaRue worked in the 60s. Do any of you remember him or know if he's still working?Read More
Betty White on her LGBT Fans and Being 'Hot'
Filed by Karen Ocamb | October 11, 2011 2:00 PM |The world-premiere of Luciana and Betty White's "I'm Still Hot" will take place tonight online at 7PM Pacific (4PM Eastern) - the same time it debuts at The Abbey in West Hollywood.Read More
A.W. Peters: Vintage Female Impersonator
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 10, 2011 6:00 PM |Just a guess that this is from the 1930s, so am hoping that a reader may be able to pinpoint the date by clothes and hair. Read More
'We Were Here': How AIDS Changed San Francisco
Filed by Toshio Meronek | October 08, 2011 6:00 PM |We Were Here revolves around the stories of five people who lived in San Francisco during the first-wave AIDS epidemic. For them and many other people, few friends from that time are alive today.Read More
The Great Impersonators: New YouTube Video
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 08, 2011 12:00 PM |New in my erotic history collection on YouTube is The Great Impersonators: Vintage Drag Divas, a compilation video of vintage images of famous female impersonators from the 1890s to the 1970s.Read More
Southern Comfort: The Musical
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | October 07, 2011 5:00 PM |"Southern Comfort" is a new musical being presented in NYC based on the award-winning documentary by Kate Davis. Read More
Dallas Rides Into Town with a Cute Cowboy in the Saddle
Filed by Father Tony | October 07, 2011 4:00 PM |At the world premier of Logo TV's new gay reality series The A-List: Dallas, a Manhattan audience of screaming twinks squealed with delight at the size of their hair or their Stetson and at the repeated allusions to the size of their penises.Read More
American Original: Karyl Norman Sheet Music
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 07, 2011 10:00 AM |Found some good background on this amazing composer, song stylist, and stage actor. Did you know that 1920s New Yorkers had a love affair with gay and transgender performers?Read More
Bert & Ernie Should Be Friends with Benefits
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | October 05, 2011 11:00 AM |Others have already pointed out how extremely close the two are and wondered how many platonic friends they know of who share a bedroom? Sure, I can buy the "close friends" part, but is the "platonic" all that likely?Read More
Paris Scandals: Cabaret Memorabilia
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 04, 2011 4:00 PM |A playbill advertising the theatrical and nude charms of a 1920s Parisian performer.Read More
P Diddy Apologizes for Anti-Gay Slur
Filed by Bil Browning | October 04, 2011 11:00 AM |Singer P Diddy recently had an explosive confrontation in an Atlanta nightclub this weekend. The star took to Twitter to issue his apology to fans (what celebrity doesn't apologize in 140 characters or less anymore?) and it seems pretty darn sincere.Read More
Your Morning Feel-Good Moment
Filed by Bil Browning | October 04, 2011 9:30 AM |Need a pick-me-up this morning? I've got just the thing to turn that frown upside down.Read More
What a Yo-Yo
Filed by Bil Browning | October 03, 2011 10:00 AM |My God, if I'd known I could win contests by turning a yo-yo into a cat's cradle, I might have practiced more. As it is, I couldn't even get the damn thing to come back up the string.Read More
Photos & Video: HRC Dinner Entertainment & Speakers
Filed by Bil Browning | October 02, 2011 7:15 PM |While Karen Ocamb wrote an excellent post earlier today about President Obama's speech to the Human Rights Campaign's national dinner crowd, I thought I'd throw in these photos and videos of the parts you couldn't see livestreamed on the HRC website.Read More
Paging Dr. Caligari
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | October 02, 2011 11:30 AM |A Cold War spy novel, an old horror movie and dancing the gopak keep me up at night. Read More
RES3T 2 BLUE: Boys, Briefs and Booty [Maybe NSFW]
Filed by Ed Kennedy | October 01, 2011 10:00 AM |This may be just another Saturday night if you're this hot.Read More
