• We so did not need to see Carson Kressley shirtless at the White Party. We mean, really, we did not need to see that. [HX]
• A reader did a little sleuthing and found out that Mark Bess, the man who wrote us last week’s hate mail, lives on Gay Dreisbach Road. Oh, the irony. [Queerty]
• If given the choice between Christ and Oprah, we’d probably go with Ms. W. But the thing that really gets us worked up over this letter is Alan Chambers’ photo. Look at her. She is obviously a gay. Just look at that cock-sucking smile. [Exodus International]
• Oh dear God. So many stockings to stuff. So little time. Andy has pictures of Boston’s Santa Speedo Run. [Towleroad]
• HX put us in their Homo Dish column, where all the A-Gays are name-dropped. How we got in we’ll never know being C-Gays and all. [HX]
• We got an email from the guy who manufactures the “Homophobia Is So Gay!” shirts. The best place to order those shirts are from his site directly. So go check them out. [Boy Drama]
• Andy Towle made a life poster for our mutual friend Matty not too long ago and we’ve wanted one since. Now that we realize it takes only 30 minutes and $29 to produce we’re thrilled. This is the new must-make gay gift. [The Mike Matas Blog]
• In his mini-review of The Producers, David Ansen of Newsweek refers to the film’s “fag jokes.” Which is totally fine to say if he himself is a fag. [MSNBC]
• When Googling someone yields no results try typing their name into the Megan’s Law database and you’ll find out more information than you bargained for. Yes, it’s the new Google. Thanks Johnny. [Megan’s Law]
• Finally a way to get rid of that nasty back hair without the pain of waxing or the humiliation of asking your boyfriend for some help. Thanks to Razorba you can do it all on your own. [Gizmodo]
Not all The Gays are excited to see Brokeback Mountain just so you know. For every Towleroad we encounter there is a Joe.My.God just as vocal.
Joe’s essay on Brokeback Mountain hits a lot of sore spots with the Queerty crew, but ultimately we disagree with him. In a perfect world we’d like to see more gay actors playing gay parts. But sadly there are not many gay actors we can think of to choose from. And Tom Cruise is just way too old for this film.
Actors do just that, act. We would not want gay actors to be limited to play only gay roles. So why would we want to limit straight actors to only play straight. That is not acting. It’s called playing yourself, which is easy. For an example of this see Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan.
We wish more actors had the balls to come out of the closet. But we are also stoked that a gay love story was finally handled with care and respect.
There are moments when the tides turn, the tipping point, and we believe this film just may be one of those magical times. Jake and Heath may be straight, but their performances are anything but. Love between two men on screen has never been so beautiful, tragic, and real. There was nothing fake about it Joe. Nothing at all.
Fakeback Mountain [Joe.My.God]
The Towleroad Guide to Brokeback Mountain [Towleroad]
• Butch supermodel Jenny Shimizu has issued a warning to Brad Pitt about her relationship with Angelina Jolie. “There has never been an ending to her and I. I think there never will be,” she says. [The Sun]
• Pop Bytes calls Bradford “so damn witty and in my humble opinion incredibly cute!” Awww shucks! Flattery will get you everywhere with us. [Pop Bytes]
• Today is your last chance to help choose the Hottest Brazilian of the Year. Like we could just pick one. [Made In Brazil]
• You can also still vote for The Urbs. And yes, Joe.My.God is still spanking us, Toby, Andy, and Shades of Gray. Wait, that sounded hot. [Gridskipper]
• Adrienne Barbeau, the star of classics The Fog and Escape From New York, will star as Judy Garland in an upcoming play. The cult goddess is playing a camp goddess. Sounds like magic in the making. [ABC News]
Earlier this week Andy Towle discovered Newsweek’s story on Heidi Fleiss’ Stud Farm and reported that the first hustler signed was Lester James Brandt, an actor who “never got the big break.”
Looking more carefully at Lester’s website, one can see just what he means. After appearing for one season on Another World, Lester drove his Harley to Hollywood. “Three days in LA he booked a role on The Nanny opposite Fran Drescher. He has not stopped working since.” Oh, we know Lester.
And work he did. There were the varied appearances on shows as diverse as Dharma & Greg, Just Shoot Me, and Walker Texas Ranger. Your former cast mates read like a who’s who of the C-List: Mark Hamill, Gerald McRaney, even Pam Anderson. And in your official bio you declare “Thank you, God.”
Thanks for what, Lester? The amazing career? The heart-wrenching performances? The magazine covers?
Or is it the fact that you finally found your calling? A glorified hooker playing the role of your life. Hallelujah!
So we did end up getting elected to the top six of Gridskipper's Top Gay Blog Thing. We are getting spanked by just about everyone, including the clear front-runner Joe.My.God. Those bears sure do have a community. We love Joe and all, but we don't know that he'll end up on top. We bet that distinction may go to Toby and his army of twinks or Andy and the Chelsea boy brigade. All three of those guys have a cult-like readership.
But you could be a dear and vote for us and show that the new guys(us) have some loyal followers of their own. We just don't want to be last. That's all we're hoping for. Like we said before, we're as gay as it gets. And that is worth something, right?
• The KKK rallied for the same-sex marriage ban in Bush country over the weekend. Instead of getting decked out in their trademark sparkling white hoods they dressed in black clothes carrying wooden shields and wore confederate flag bandanas. A much warmer look for them.
• It seems like Tom Cruise's sis wasn't doing a good job selling us on he and scientologist-to-be, Katie Holmes's romance. So the loving brother sacked her. The tough job now falls on a new PR guru. We wish him good luck. He'll need it.
• First hurricanes, now the war in Iraq. Apparently we gays are responsible for just about every tragic event in the world right now. We're evil, we tell you!
• No one, not even Mr. Ciccone himself, tells Madonna what to wear. Ever.
• Jumping on the Anderson Cooper bandwagon perhaps, ABC gays up Matt Lauer. (Via Towleroad)
• Variety reviews Brokeback Mountain and evidently today's Morning Goods guy has some talent to match his rugged good looks.
• The Latin Grammys are going to be broadcast in Spanish this year. Um, why weren’t they before?
• Andy, Q Magazine, and Popbytes review the new Madonna album. We got it too and we love it, but we are too hung over to write a full review.
• The gays in Chicago are going to the movies. The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival opens this week.
• PopBitch reports “Alexis Arquette, cross-dressing brother of Patricia and Rosanna, remembers the time he broke the news that he was gay to his father. His father was very understanding, saying: ‘If it helps, son, I had to suck a lot of cock to get my first break too.’" How do you think we got the Queerty gig?
• He is the hooker/blogger that keeps on going. Jeff Gannon is writing for the Washington Blade.
• Who says you can’t be gay and kick ass on stage? Homo-fronted Judas Priest remains vital.
• In a first for the country music world, two drag queens will be performing at the Country Music Awards. Elton John and Dolly Parton are set to duet.
• Jamie Lee Curtis is no longer taking acting gigs. The roles for hermaphrodites just aren’t as common these days.
• Trent liked our costumes! And the straight girls in his comments liked Andy Towle!
Andy Towle is playing a blind item guessing game over at Towleroad. We have no clue who these queens are, though the big queen in the green wig looks very familiar. Very familiar. How many bloggers can you spot in these photos?
You know how we feel about stupid t-shirts like A&F and FCUK. Drop the chain stores and go after a new look. This season is all about blog fashion.
Gawker has finally restocked their “beat me with 10 lbs. of VOGUE” shirt that we just adore. Additionally, they are letting readers vote for the slogans on the next batch. Their shirts are printed on the hipster American Apparel brand, so don’t worry about sweatshops and all that nonsense.
If you are more of a traditionalist get a shirt from Towleroad. No witty slogans a la Gawker here. Just Andy’s tried and true logo. The Towleroad cult, kinda like Scientology, is growing. And since Andy is our friend and since he needs to eat we recommend snatching up a shirt or two. It is a great way to declare your gayness! Other gays will spot you across the room, while the straights won’t have a clue.
Unless of course you wear the shirt with pants from International Male.
• A new survey lets the cat out of the bag over homo TV habits. Gay men are all aflutter over A&E and Bravo and dykes love their HBO and ESPN.
• Matthew Shepard's mom is speaking at a college in Montana and the entire campus is all worked up. But these party poopers are celebrating with protests and bomb threats. Welcome to Unabomber country.
• Still no lessons learned from Matt's senseless murder. Another homophobic attack left a London man dead this past weekend.
• A gay editor at the Village Voice (redundant, we know) is suing the publication for sexual harassment. The man alleges lewd jokes were made involving "gay men, lesbians, a Vietnamese worker, and a pregnant employee." Wait. Now we need to know the first part of the joke. We think it might be "A Vietnamese worker, a pregnant employee, and a lesbian walk into a bar to bitch slap a completely humorless gay editor?" Hysterical.
• Andy Towle has some shots from GQ of lusty teen NHLer Sidney Crosby. We like what we see. Drool over him now before he ends the season bruised and toothless.
• Happy birthday to our celluloid-loving faggy brothers and sisters in Seattle. The city's gay and lesbian film festival is 10 years old but thanks to makeup and good lighting doesn't look a day over 5.
• New kidney recipient Steven Cojocaru apparently speaks for his mom: "I think for a mother to sit back and watch her child in pain is the worst kind of nightmare imaginable." Um, isn't that something that should be coming out of her mouth?
• For those boyfriend-less queens who also enjoy cuddling with dismembered body parts we present to you the item at the top of your gift list: the plush boyfriend arm pillow. Yeah, creepy as all shit.
• A California woman claims she was refused to be artificially inseminated by her doctors because she's a lesbian. She's suing them and the case might end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. All of this would have been easily avoided if she'd only gone to the same place as Tom and Katie.
• Warning: clicking on this link will expose you to paparazzi pics of Cynthia Nixon and her girlfriend. Don't say we didn't warn you.
• Spokane's mayor has fessed up to surfing gay sites on a city-owned computer. Pretty soon, we could all get a peak as to what kind of kinky stuff he's into.
• Andy has some hot shots of Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett rolling around on the ground together. This should appease us until Brokeback Mountain's rear entry scene.
•Dan over at Ex-Gay Watch shows us this wonderful graphic showing ex-gay testimonials from Exodus. Apparently God speaks to people in night clubs and has the power to cure AIDS. Hallelujah!
•Wed-Rock, an evening of all-star comedy and music performances to voice opposition to the Arnold's recent veto of the gay marriage bill, is set for November 7th in Los Angeles. The eclectic line-up includes Andy Bell, Margaret Cho, Nina Hagen, Alan Cumming, John Cameron Mitchell, Kelly Osbourne, Yo La Tengo, and Yoko Ono.
•Get ready. This Sunday churches across the country will discuss the "tough issue" of porn. Oh my! That is a missionary position we are down with. Thanks Brian.
•Singer Chris Cagle reenforces stereotypes about country music fans by releasing a press statement saying that he has found out his new baby was fathered by another man. A guest spot on Maury Povich and a new album dealing with his pain we bet are in the works. Thanks Johnny
•Andy gets a snapshot of the new gay on Real World Key West. Are we the only one who thinks the bartender looks a lot like Mr. Towle?
