Gay Pride Around The Globe

June 30, 2008

We found some awesome pictures from the weekend's celebration of gayness. We knew about New York and San Francisco, but were pleasantly surprised to find pictures from huge gatherings in Colombia, Mexico City, and India. Check it out.

This one taken in Mexico City is our favorite.

[AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo]

Check out Bogota!

[AP/Photo/Fernando Vergara]

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The Onion's Gay Pride Issue

June 27, 2008

What better way to celebrate Gay Pride than to laugh at ourselves. We don't know about you, but we get a special glow inside when The Onion makes fun of us. For example, how this photo was over the headline "Lesbian Couple Enjoys Hot Lesbian Action." That is not offensive people, that is hilarious. Bravo was mentioned couple of times, once in an "infographic" about the appeal of gay TV like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The answers included things like "90 percent of Americans are latent homosexuals," and "Better than Oxygen's Lesbian Oshkosh B'Gosh Outlet Store Shopping Spree."

Other notable headlines from the print and website issues include:

Bisexual's Parents Half Understand

Gay Man, Unattractive Woman Form Tight Bond

Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance of Gays Back 50 Years
(that ones particularly funny, because there are a lot of gays that actually think that.)

Goodbye George

June 23, 2008

Sad news for irreverent humor enthusiasts: George Carlin died of heart failure yesterday at 71. Some may not remember (but we do) that he played a gay neighbor in The Prince of Tides. He said in an interview on that topic, "I've always admired gay humor. It's bittersweet, bitchy, to-the-point and honest. So that was already in me somewhere."

In honor of how many times he made us laugh, here a few more of his wittisms:

"I feel sorry for homeless gay people; they have no closet to come out of. In fact, I imagine if you were gay and homeless, you'd probably be glad just to have a closet."

"When a masochist brings someone home from the bar, does he say, "Excuse me a moment, I'm going to slip into something uncomfortable"?"

"It is now possible for a child to have five parents: sperm donor, egg donor, the surrogate mother who carries the fetus, and two adoptive parents. It renders the statement "He has his mother's eyes" rather meaningless."

"The new, modern Swiss Army Knife has an ear-piercing tool and a roach clip."

"A cemetery is a place where dead people live."

Sarah Michelle Gellar As A Dude

June 20, 2008

EW.com has a nice little tidbit up right now. It's a list of the top ten male TV characters that Sarah Michelle Gellar wishes she could play. We love it! Everyone should be forced to do an opposite gendered list like this. SMG has some pretty awesome answers as well. Our favorite being a tie between J.R. Ewing and Alex P. Keaton. With a nod for cleverness at this answer:

Samantha Jones, Sex and the City: She crosses all gender lines.

Actually her whole list is pretty great. Cartman from South Park?! Magnum PI! Ricky from Silver Spoons! Come on! You rule, Buffy.

Lara Flynn Boyle Blogs About Twin Peaks

June 19, 2008

Over at Fancast, Lara Flynn Boyle is blogging for a bit about Twin Peaks and The Practice and answering fan questions. We are jazzed about anything Twin Peaks related so we thought it was worth mentioning. It started out sort of slow but there was already a least one juicy tidbit today:

"I never knew anyone could look as sexy in saddle shoes as Sherilyn Fenn."

Plus there's a copy of the Rolling Stone cover that came out in 1990 with Lara, Sherilyn Fenn and Madchen Amick on it.

Also, this picture of Boyle at a Laker's game with Penny Marshall has nothing to do with anything, we just liked it.

NY Times Decries Gay Marriage as Only Okay, Sometimes

June 16, 2008

There's a hilarious article in the NY Times Sunday paper about gay marriage. "Gay Couples Find Marriage Is a Mixed Bag. Um, that is so illuminating. But I guess it serves a two-fold purpose. Number one: maybe a million gay couples shouldn't rush to the alter in California, starting today, without stopping to think about how it's not going to be all wine and roses. Number two: it either enforces negative stereotypes about gays being non-monogamous or it reassures straights that gays are just like them. It sort of does both. But there is this really hilarious quote in the article, that while being stereotypical, is just too funny.

Mr. Collins believes his partner is his ideal match because he “gets as excited about seeing me as I get about seeing him,” because “sometimes he’ll do my laundry and fold it the way I like it,” and because “he makes my coffee really well — one Equal with just a tablespoon of fat-free half-and-half.”

Boy George Loves Sanitation Workers

June 13, 2008

New York Sanitation workers that is. And he's going to play a private show for them. He had to perform some community service for them a couple of years ago and I guess he made some buddies. He probably won't be wearing the orange vest again...but maybe.

From the press release:
"Boy George will help celebrate New York City’s Department of Sanitation Family Day this summer! George will be playing a free concert as a big thank you for the kindness shown to him by the DSNY. On August 17th he will play all his Culture Club hits and more for a crowd of over 5,000 NYC Sanitation workers and their families at DSNY Family Day."

Colicchio's the Man

June 10, 2008

In the spirit of Top Chef finale fever, we read a few recent articles on top judge, Tom Colicchio that we thought were worth sharing. Salon has a nice Q&A with him discussing women in the kitchen and how disco (and its demise) led to people's current food obsession and his gravitas as a judge.

"It started, I would say, in the early to mid-'80s, when people realized they couldn't just keep going to discos and snorting coke, and they had to grow up and find another form of entertainment. And it became restaurants. I'm serious about that. I'm not joking."

He's so deadpan! He also addresses his honorary bear status.

"Yeah, I knew what it was. I'm in the restaurant business. I've got plenty of gay friends. I get a kick out of it. But I took it as someone saying, "You need to lose weight." I started running after that."

And speaking of bears, here's another little online piece dissecting not only Tom's bear persona, but all the myriad bears that have been on Top Chef thus far.

Brokeback, The Opera

June 09, 2008

The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to write an opera based on Annie Proulx's story "Brokeback Mountain." It's not going to come out until like 2013. Okay, not like 2013, actually 2013. But that's only five years away. Anyhow, it seems perfect. A western opera. A gay, western, tragic opera. Sigh.

Golden Girls Still Awesome

June 09, 2008

The biggest gift for us at the TV Land awards was Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Betty White aka The Golden Girls. Estelle Getty's not making it out and about these days, sadly. But looking at the pictures of these fabulous, vibrant ladies is a pleasure indeed. Note the colors of pant suits: Betty in teal, Rue in red and Bea in black. It just all makes so much sense. Gosh we love them.

50 Best Pun Stores

June 06, 2008

Best Week Ever compiled an amazing list of stores with pun-erific names. You have to see it to believe it. Our favorite: Curl Up & Dye at #22.

Also notable: Marquis de Salade at #9 and a little taco place in Austin we used to frequent, Juan in a Million.

Unsurprisingly, Dick Liquor made it to #6. But curiously, there were two hair places that chose strange names: Cubic Hair and Public Hair. Shiver.

Christian Moves to Williamsburg

June 05, 2008

For those of you thirsting, nay hungering, for news of Project Runway winner Christian Siriano, here’s a tidbit. He lives in a loft near McCarren Park now, in the gloriously-overpriced, famed-hipster neighborhood, Williamsburg. The New York Sun even has a slideshow. Apparently he’s turned off by the graffiti on his building, but into the park and the waterfront. But either way it’s an improvement from that closet he was living in, in the East Village. He has three beds now!

From Williamsburg, he will be fabulously busy, making a dress for Whoopi to host the Tonys in, creating costumes for a movie set in the 1920s, and working on his book about how to look “fierce and fabulous”. Now you can troll around WBurg with your Bravo Reality Star autograph book at the ready.

David Sedaris on Quitting Smoking

June 04, 2008

This clip from the Daily Show seems so timely. David Sedaris recommends going to Japan (like he did) for three months to quit smoking. The timeliness? Cigarettes in New York just went up to around $9 a pack! If David's quitting, it's probably time for the rest of us. Also he has a new book out "When You Are Engulfed in Flames." Check back for a review of that in the next couple of weeks.

Gay Trekkie Marriage

June 03, 2008

Mr. Sulu (George Takei in real life) is getting gay married! We deem this one of the coolest marriage combinations ever. Star Trek plus homos equals a marriage ceremony we'd deign to attend. Especially since Leonard Nimoy will be there. According to People the couple also plans to have other interesting combos at the wedding including Japanese-Mexican fusion cuisine and bagpipes and a Buddhist minister.

Takei is marrying his long-term partner Brad Altman, something they had wanted for a long time, but finally started planning after the recent California ruling. Takei has been an outspoken advocate for same-sex marriage since he came out publicly three years ago. Live long and prosper George and Brad.

AfterEllen's Hot 100 Ladies

June 03, 2008

Yesterday we "reported" on the hottest 100 men chosen by gay men and today we will bring you the hard-hitting news of the hottest 100 women chosen by lesbians. Same format, different gender. Similarly AfterEllen noted the presence of out gay or bisexual women as well as women who have played gay characters. We however would like to not the absence of short hair. Obviously lesbian identity does not have to include short hair anymore, but it still does for tons of them and for the record, we find it incredibly hot. Ellen Degeneres had by far the shortest hair on the list. Followed at a close second by Tegan and Sara. Other than that there were maybe five (depending on what you define as short).

We have to give props to Bravo's own Jackie Warner (who used to have short hair at least) for coming in at #56 and Padma Lakshmi at #85.

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AfterElton's Top 100 Hot Guy List

June 02, 2008

There's nothing like a good list of who's the hottest, especially when gay men are the voters. We won't tell you who's number one (although it's the same as last year if you remember), but you can click here to see the list.

And after you do that, then we can debate the pros and cons. We're stoked that our own little Ronnie (from Make Me a Supermodel) made the cut at, of all numbers, 69. Ha.

He was one of eighteen out gay men that made the list this year, with four in the top ten. So gay guys think other gay guys are hot. Which is cool.

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