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Some New York-based bent blogs take center stage in this week's Edge NY. Here's what drag legend Lady Bunny says about the Big Apple's big gay blogosphere: "The mainstream media is so full of lies and distortions that we need the unfiltered information which comes from some of these blogs" she said. "Unfortunately too many gay men have the body of Gods and the brains of 15-year-old school girls. So I try to mix in some politics with more entertainment-oriented posts to trick them into caring about issues other than Jennifer Aniston’s new hair style." [Edge NY] |
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Trannyshack, the legendary drag party from San Francisco, is coming to New York City for one night only on Thursday June 8th. A screening of the film Filthy Gorgeous: The Trannyshack Story will be followed by a NYC Trannyshack show featuring the talents of Scissor Sister Ana Matronic, Juanita More!, Sherry Vine, and of course Trannyshack’s founder Heklina. Heckles recently caught up with our Editor-At-Large Bradford Shellhammer to discuss the New York show, the film, and who she dreams of rimming. What do you have in store for us New Yorkers at your upcoming show? Who'll be performing with you? Tell me about the movie. How did it come about? What can we expect? You're legendary in San Francisco for rimming audience members onstage. Who in the world do you most want to rim? After the jump Heklina tells us if she is flithier than Lady Bunny. |
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Your really must run out right now and get the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson Uncensored! We’d missed it when it originally aired, but since its release on DVD we’ve been unable to pull ourselves away from the television. Bea Arthur reads from Anderson’s book Star Struck and deadpans a passage on anal sex. Courtney Love is a glorious mess, slurring words and falling down. Lady Bunny, repeated jokes about Andy Dick’s sexuality and Tommy Lee’s pecker size round out what may be the funniest 80 minutes ever captured on a DVD. It’s great to see celebrities not taking themselves too seriously, dishing like real people, and being funny, not contrived. Roast Anderson [Comedy Central] |
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People have been asking why we’ve ignored the Cheney shooting story. It has something to do with the fact that every other blog in the world had already covered it and that there was no real gay angle to the news. Until now! So to appease some of our readers we’re no longer ignoring it. With a little help from Lady Bunny, we think we’ve found the best Craigslist ad ever. We just spit up our coffee and hope you do too. Big dick looking to shoot in your face [Craigslist] |
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• Strangers With Candy will finally see a proper studio release. Thank you Kanye, um we mean, Jesus. [goldenfiddle] • More Project Runway from Dan Renzi’s “brother” in case you missed this week’s show. [Dan Renzi] • Michael Lucas does Lady Bunny. Seriously. [Lady Bunny] • Sprite Boy has grown up, though he’s still little. [Little BIG Chris] • We’d so kick their asses. Just saying. [Manhattan Offender] |
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• Joe My God on gay Republicans. So on the money. [Joe My God] • Will & Grace may be over, but we’ll still have Karen. The Megan Mullally Show is coming soon. [Yahoo] • Leave it to Lady Bunny to find a video of Pete Burns and his puss squirting lips. Nasty. [Lady Bunny] • Fans of The L Word are being asked to write dialogue for upcoming scenes. We bet our words would be too dirty. [Hothouse] • Diana Ossana, one of the two screenwriters of Brokeback Mountain, shares with The Advocate “the fear” she sees all around the film. [Advocate] |
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It’s a shame that Camp 101, Queerty’s favorite line of cards, hears from many gay shops across the country that their line of cards are “tired, passé, been done.” That makes us mad. Nothing says “I Love You,” “Congratulations,” or “Happy Birthday” like the Club Kids. Camp 101 sells those goofy, gay shop cards with garish fonts and overdone drag queens. And we have newfound respect for them. We’re so done giving out overly stylized greeting cards. Tackiness and bad taste is a lost art form. Watch Female Trouble and get back to us. The best thing about Camp 101 card is their documentation of early 90s NYC nightlife. After all they sell gorgeous black and white blank note cards featuring Michael Alig, funny cards featuring Lady Bunny and Mona Foot, many, many years ago, and a few with Heatherette’s Richie Rich before he started hanging out with Paris Hilton. Order a few sets and give them to your friends who have a deep appreciation for the heyday of the NYC club world and those who embrace, and not shun, camp. Camp 101 [Camp 101] |
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• Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is into shoes and gossip according to Scarlett Johannson. That’s funny. So are we! [Left Coast Breakdown] • England’s equivalent to the Grammy awards, the Brits, were announced and two Queerty faves were nominated: the strangely beautiful Kate Bush and the beautifully strange Antony and the Johnsons. [WOW Report] • The official Wigstock site has been revamped and they’re selling really cute, really gay shirts. We want one. [Lady Bunny] • Some New Yorkers are in a tizzy because of the closing of the 2nd Avenue Deli. [Gridskipper] • We’re alright though. We’ve always been much bigger fans of Veselka, the place for Ukrainian soul food. It one block away and has killer sauerkraut. [Veselka] |
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Lady Bunny is a drag legend, a NYC nightlife fixture, and one funny comedian. Recently Bunny caught up with Bradford Shellhammer to discuss her new DVD, Star Jones, and the perfect boyfriend. FYI, It's not that safe for work. Hi Bunny. What made you decide to blog? Before I had a blog, I forwarded sick shit to friends constantly. Now I just post it. Luckily, now fans of the blog send sick shit to me! And the launching of my website coincided with George Bush's reign of terror. Actually seeing the second World Trade Center (don't ask me what I was doing up at that hour!) shook me up, but instead of asking, "What do we do?" I thought, "What have we done to deserve this?". Bush's decision to retaliate against Iraq, a country with no WMDs and no connections with the perpetrators of 9/11, sparked my interest in politics–which mainly consists of slamming this administration. There's a lot of humor crap on my blog, too, but I've gotten a great response for the political rants. Which is fairly surprising, since most gays aren't very political these days. Face it, the ACT UP days, when getting involved was even seen as trendy/hot, are long gone. I wish there were more gays interested in things like rising HIV infections, but the tone of most gay rags is very shallow and hunk-oriented. Enjoy the hunks! Masturbate over them. But balance the hunks with issues, especially if they're issues like AIDS, which are killing us! Name you favorite drag queen and why? The Pam Anderson Roast. What was that night like? After the jump Bunny tells us her nastiest joke. |
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You’ve read Andy Towle’s site religiously. You’ve seen Brokeback, what, three or four times? You’ve started wearing cowboy hats. Yes, you queens are bit obsessed with this film and rightfully so. You’ve been excited to hear of all the award nominations. And we know you’ve read the reviews. They all glow and heap praise on this wonderful little film. But none have been written like this:
Forget Gen Shalit and his hate. Lady Bunny has reviewed Brokeback Mountain. Gene Shalit Offers Defamatory Brokeback Review on NBC's Today [GLAAD] |
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Andrew Georgiou is the the mastermind behind the world's #1 gay comic strip: Mr. Gisby's Totally Gay Pet Shop. The Australian artist recently caught up with Bradford Shellhammer and answered some of Queerty's totally gay questions. Who is Mr. Gisby and where did he come from? Tell us about the strip. Can I be in the comic? I make a very gay and very cute cartoon. Where can we catch the strip in the US? After the jump Andrew talks about bedding models, his dream cast, and his favorite Pet Shop Boys album. |
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Lady Bunny finally got back to us to comment on this not so safe for work post last week about Titan Media’s Cirque Noir, the circus porn with a little something special. We know it’s late, but we figured it was too funny to lose to the wasteland of our Inbox.
We don’t know what you’d call it either. We had the same trouble describing David Guest and Liza Minnelli’s relationship. Ouchy In The News [Ouchy The Clown] |
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You know we love The Straights as we illustrated in yesterday’s So Gay! list. You know whom we love more than straights? Drag queens and transgender folks. And they were everywhere this year. The top five moments in drag and trannies from 2005 is below. 5. Heatherette/Zaldy. Drag chic was all the rage in 2005 thanks to Richie Rich, Traver Raines, and Zaldy. Zaldy, a onetime runway model in drag, helped Gwen Stefani launch the LAMB line at Fashion Week. Heatherette and tranny-muse Amanda Lepore, brought club-kid fashion to the pages of People and the local Nordstrom making it OK to show your inner freak in the Midwest. 4. RuPaul. Thanks to Jonno, RuPaul started blogging way before blogging was cool. This year Ru continued that project but also got her hands in the dirty porn business, directing for Michael Lucas. But it was her doll line that really caught our eye. Finally, a doll for little gay boys! Perfect for teaching Barbie how to walk the runway. 3. Paris is Burning. More than a decade and a half since its theatrical release Jennie Livingston's classic film finally saw the light of day on DVD in 2005. Giving a face to the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s, the film has kept its power intact. Heartbreaking and empowering, it remains a must see for any gay person, fabulous or not. 2. Transamerica. Desperate Housewife Felicity Huffman plays a transsexual and receives a Golden Globe nod. The gays are all hailing Brokeback Mountain as the must-see gay film of the year. However, this little film deserves just as much attention. And Oscar may just take notice. Our #1 drag queen of 2005 after the break! |
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The week before her classic Christmas show comes back to NYC, drag legend Jackie Beat caught up with Bradford Shellhammer to talk about this year’s show, the drag queens she loves, and the one she absolutely hates. So Jackie, what is in store for us this Christmas? What is the theme of the show? Hmmm, I guess if there's any theme, other than "Gee, I sure would like to make TONS of money right about now!" it would have to be the usual warm and fuzzy stuff that seems to always come up around this time of year: binge drinking, illegal drug use, overeating, domestic violence. I'd like to think my annual holiday show is like a really hot but abusive bisexual Eastern European boyfriend. He's got that naturally beefy, moderately hairy body and works some super sexy blue-collar job like lifting things. He's gorgeous and the best sex you've ever had, but he slaps you around. You keep promising yourself you're not going back, but it's just too good so you put up with the abuse. Yeah, I think that describes my holiday show. How is Hollywood treating you? Great. I mean, what's not to love? The weather is beautiful, the boys are beautiful, and I’m beautiful! Well, if you stand back and squint. Now, turn your head a little. I'm just going to dim the lights a bit, okay? There! See? I'm beautiful! Seriously, having grown up in Arizona I feel more at home on the west coast. I have a huge 2 bedroom place with a big backyard and my two precious dogs and my Pontiac Grand Am and a closet that's bigger than my old New York apartment. Don't get me wrong, I adore NYC. But it's like heroin: It used to be my whole life, but now I've kicked my addiction to it and I only indulge occasionally and in moderation. You know, on special occasions like the American Idol finale or Columbus Day. |