Entertainment: August 2012
Gay Fiction Publisher Ken Harrison of Seventh Window [Interview]
Filed by Kergan Edwards-Stout | August 31, 2012 11:30 AM |With fewer of the big publishing houses making a concerted effort to produce new gay fiction, I'm happy to see Seventh Window Publications doing just that.Read More
Rep. Aaron Schock Wants More of Paul Ryan's Body
Filed by James Holmes | August 30, 2012 3:00 PM |Okay. Is there any straight man out there that would give this political advice? Read More
Please Come Out to the Ball Game
Filed by James Holmes | August 29, 2012 4:30 PM |In this video parody of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero," the film maker, Sean Chapin, calls for a Major League baseball player to come out in an effort to help LGBT youth. Read More
Zenker's Extraordinary TransMontana [Review]
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | August 29, 2012 1:45 PM |The book cover says it all. It portrays the author standing on a granite boulder, against a background of alpine meadow and Montana timber, with her hair blowing in the wind and her arms raised in victory. Read More
Kinsey Sicks: Vaginal Mind Control [Video]
Filed by James Holmes | August 28, 2012 1:00 PM |In response to Missouri's Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin's idiotic theories on rape, pregnancy, and abortion, the Kinsey Sicks, have put his theories to song. Read More
Lochte Pees on Joan Rivers
Filed by James Holmes | August 27, 2012 2:00 PM |Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water . . . .Read More
The New Face of Gay Gossip
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | August 26, 2012 1:00 PM |This article is not intended to condone gossip, which is frowned upon by the world's great religions. This is just a commentary about a developing social trend.Read More
Showtunes Sing-Off: 'Aquarius'
Filed by James Holmes | August 25, 2012 12:15 PM |Today's sing-off is inspired by hair. Seriously.Read More
Author Spotlight: Drake Braxton [Interview]
Filed by Kergan Edwards-Stout | August 24, 2012 1:00 PM |Drake Braxton's debut novel is a fun and sexy read, detailing what happens when a happily married man journeys to the Deep South for a 20 year high school reunion, only to find that his husband has mysteriously disappeared. Read More
He Doesn't Know Much About Naked Women
Filed by Bil Browning | August 23, 2012 12:00 PM |When it comes time to answer his $5,000 question, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire contestant Michael Emrpic is stumped by a topic he admits he doesn't know much about.Read More
It's All Greek to Me
Filed by Leslie Robinson | August 23, 2012 11:00 AM |Last night I picked up Arthur Cotterell's The Encyclopedia of Mythology. Now there's a guarantee you won't read any further.Read More
Shirtless Man Makes Heart Attack Inducing Pancakes
Filed by James Holmes | August 22, 2012 2:30 PM |Kyle Robinson of Oxygen's All The Right Moves serves up some beer battered bacon pancakes - shirtless. The recipe goes against everything vegan inside me - but God does he look good doing it. Read More
Tampa Gay Sex Workers Ready for GOP Boom [Video]
Filed by James Holmes | August 21, 2012 4:45 PM |I wrote yesterday about the GOP's effort to up its Grindr support for the Republican National Convention, but today the Onion has given us another "report" to set ourselves to giggles.Read More
The Most Awesomest Thing You'll See Today
Filed by Bil Browning | August 21, 2012 11:00 AM |This One Direction spoof by a handful of incredibly half naked handsome fellows takes the old lipdub video in a completely new direction. "Wrong Direction" has rewritten the hit song "What Makes You Beautiful" as a takedown of Romney's refusal to disclose his taxes.Read More
Phyllis Diller Dies at 95
Filed by Bil Browning | August 20, 2012 6:00 PM |Phyllis Diller has died at home at age 95. She's the first female comedian I can remember - and I loved her.Read More
Spongebob & Me: A Threat to Masculinity
Filed by Rodrigo Ugarte | August 20, 2012 3:30 PM |How can Spongebob pose a threat to masculine patriarchy and why is it that my fabulous gait undermines gender ideals? Read More
GOP Ready for Grindr at Convention [Video]
Filed by James Holmes | August 20, 2012 2:30 PM |After rumors of a Grindr crash at the Olympics, seems the GOP started prepping to prevent such a crash at its upcoming national convention - at least that's what Funny or Die has given us the joy of imagining. Read More
A New Anthology of 'Letters to My Bully' [Interview]
Filed by Kergan Edwards-Stout | August 20, 2012 1:30 PM |The editor of a new collection of "Letters to My Bully" shares her inspiration for the creation, as well as the issues she sees the LGBT and people of color communities facing.Read More
Humphrey Bogart Likes Big Butts [Video]
Filed by James Holmes | August 19, 2012 4:30 PM |In this video, clips from 295 movies are used to recreate Sir Mix-A-Lot's classic "Baby Got Back." It ranges from Casablanca to Child's Play - a true representation of American cinematic history. Read More
Happy Birthday Richard Hunt!
Filed by Jessica Max Stein | August 19, 2012 11:00 AM |Richard Hunt, Muppet performer who died of AIDS in 1992, would have been 61 Friday. Here is his rare, in-person Sesame Street cameo, aired in 1981. Read More
Showtunes Sing-Off: 'Whatever Lola Wants'
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | August 18, 2012 11:30 AM |James is sick this week, so I'm stepping up to the plate to bring you this week's showtunes sing-off. I picked "Whatever Lola Wants" from Damn Yankees.Read More
Pogo Does the Wizard of Oz
Filed by Bil Browning | August 17, 2012 3:00 PM |Electronic artist Pogo has released his latest composition by taking bits and pieces of the Wizard of Oz and stringing them into a little ditty. What do you think?Read More
Gay on the Fringe: Gay Camp
Filed by Patrick J Hamilton | August 16, 2012 11:00 AM |Homophobia, suppressed feelings, and gay conversion camp. Is it okay to laugh? Can you satirize absurdity? The creators of Gay Camp hope you do, and think you can. They're willing to bet glitter farts, running Santorum, and scissoring lesbians that you will.Read More
Julia Child Remixed
Filed by James Holmes | August 15, 2012 2:00 PM |I assume this means there will soon be a Broadway musical adaptation of Julie & Julia.Read More
The World's Gayest Horse
Filed by Bil Browning | August 13, 2012 12:00 PM |I'm absolutely in love with this comic - and you will be too. Unless you're some kind of homophobe...Read More
Showtunes Sing-Off: 'The Origin of Love'
Filed by James Holmes | August 11, 2012 10:00 AM |I first encountered Hedwig and the Angry Inch in college. A friend had the DVD, and the theater department of another college in town had just performed the show on stage (I am still kicking myself for missing that). Read More
Olympic Heat 3: 10 More of the Sexiest Male Olympic Athletes of 2012
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 10, 2012 3:30 PM |Is it me, or are we learning more about the Olympic Athletes than we have before?Read More
Ryan Lochte: 'It's Okay to Pee in the Pool' [Video]
Filed by James Holmes | August 10, 2012 11:00 AM |Last week we learned that US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte likes to add his own special water treatment to the pool. Now he wants to set his critics straight and explain how we can all go for the gold. Read More
Matt Gold Is Not 'Ordinary'
Filed by Bil Browning | August 09, 2012 3:30 PM |A friend of mine once joked that I was a lesbian at heart because I'm friends with all of my exes and couldn't imagine life without them. While our romantic relationships may have ended, I've always considered them friends or I wouldn't have dated them.Read More
Matthew Mitcham to Dive Nude
Filed by James Holmes | August 09, 2012 2:30 PM |Openly gay Australian Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham has promised to dive nude if he takes home a gold medal. Is this tempting the gods? It sure as hell is tempting me. Read More
Olympic Heat 2: 10 More of the Sexiest Male Olympians
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 09, 2012 1:30 PM |Here are ten more of my personal picks for "Olympians to watch." No, not watch out for, or watch compete. Just watch.Read More
Olympic Heat: The Top 10 Sexiest Male Olympic Athletes
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 08, 2012 5:30 PM |Have you seen the artwork depicting the ancient Greek Olympians? These folks were perhaps the original "Sexy Muthfuckas," if you ask me. It's a safe bet that the Olympics were sexualized from the very beginning -- by the athletes themselves.Read More
Is That an Oar in Your Pocket or Are You Happy to Win?
Filed by Bil Browning | August 07, 2012 12:00 PM |I showed y'all the sexiest internet meme of the week, but yesterday's third place finish for American rower Henrik Rummel didn't just earn him a bronze metal. It also moved him directly to the top of the "most sexualized Olympian" category.Read More
Help Needed: Film Producer JD Disalvatore Has Breast Cancer
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 06, 2012 2:00 PM |JD Disalvatore is a ubiquitous fixture in the Los Angeles LGBT activist and filmmaking communities, hard to miss with that shock of white hair and trademark tie. Now she's battling breast cancer - and she needs your help.Read More
Olympics: Ye Shiwen Doping/Gender Brouhaha
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | August 06, 2012 1:30 PM |A shocking Olympics story first exploded on the third day of the Games, when Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen was publicly accused of doping, and her gender questioned, by an American swimming official.Read More
The Sexiest Internet Meme of the Week
Filed by Bil Browning | August 06, 2012 12:30 PM |You can have your badass Hillary Clinton sending texts meme. I'm voting in favor of the "unnecessary chyron placement" meme that's currently sweeping Facebook.Read More
America's Wilde [Comment of the Week]
Filed by Bil Browning | August 05, 2012 5:30 PM |Bill's comparison begs the question: who is your favorite writer? Oscar Wilde or Gore Vidal?Read More
Showtunes Sing-Off: 'Somewhere'
Filed by James Holmes | August 04, 2012 12:00 PM |West Side Story is by far one of my favorite musicals, and one of the greatest films ever made. But I can't say that "Somewhere," is the first song that pops to mind when I think of the show. Read More
Olympic Water Sports of a Different Color
Filed by James Holmes | August 03, 2012 5:00 PM |I had never noticed that before they dive in, the swimmers drink the water. After my crowd of friends pondered the reason why - we remembered that the internet existed and decided to put an end to the speculation. Read More
Homage to Gore Vidal
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | August 03, 2012 4:00 PM |In addition to his contributions to historical fiction and political commentary, Gore Vidal wrote some of the most important works of American literary works dealing with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. Read More
Tired of Chicken, Politicians, & Athletes? Here's Some Kittens
Filed by James Holmes | August 02, 2012 5:00 PM |After a full day of reading some great commentary on Chick-fil-a and the Olympics, I need a break. I'm sure you do too. So here is a round-up of YouTube's cutest cat videos. You know you can't stop watching. Read More
Gore Vidal Dies at Age 86
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 02, 2012 3:30 PM |There is something terribly ironic, something perhaps that speaks to our time- that Gore Vidal's death is being overshadowed in the gay press by the uproar over antigay fast food Chick-fil-A. Read More
