» Those are some gay jeans!

Logo and Levi's have joined forces to sell more jeans to gays. Levi's has agreed sponsor thirty weeks of Saturday night's Unbuttoned programming. Something else to tivo.
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» Marketing Math.

If half of gay people want to live near other gay people, but outside the city, and also have the same amount of straight friends as they do gay, how long can gay cable channel Logo survive? Or can it? [Gawker]

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» Internal Dispute.

A reader tells us of some drama on Logo's end: "So, the executive producer of CBS News on Logo, Court Passant, has a Facebook page. Earlier today, listed under what he was doing, was 'Hating those Logo assholes'. It went out to all his hundreds of friends. I hear people on Logo's staff saw it, and chewed him out." Well, people generally don't like being call assholes.

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Rue McClanahan's still going strong. The seventy-two year old has been working steadily since 1970, when she made a brief appearance on the soap opera Another World, then it was on to Mama's Family and Maude and, of course, The Golden Girls.

Now, seventy-two years young, McClanahan's lending her talents to the Logo-produced dysfunctional family miniseries Sordid Lives, based on Del Shores' novel of the same name. Ahead of the show's July 23rd debut, McClanahan sat down with The New York Blade and proved she's just as opinionated as ever:

Today, she can’t say enough about Barack Obama.

“This is the damnedest election I’ve ever lived through and Obama is the most amazing candidate I’ve ever bumped into,” McClanahan said. “The man has unshakable integrity. He’s the nearest thing to Lincoln we’ve seen.”

One comparison you won’t find McClanahan endorsing is The Golden Girls being hailed as the original Sex and the City.

“‘The Golden Girls’ has infinitely more substance,” McClanahan says. “I never enjoyed the characters on Sex and the City, and I could never watch it for more than a few minutes.”

Me-ow!

Meanwhile, we've seen the first two episodes of Sordid Lives and it's definitely worth a watch, even if just for McClanahan. There's a promo after that there jump…

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» Proud Partners

"Viacom’s LGBT channel Logo, a division of its MTV Networks, will launch Web tie-in “The Pride Guide” this month. The online site, sponsored by Southwest Airlines and NYC & Company, will provide gay pride-themed video, event guides, photo flipbooks and programming rosters. The site launch aligns with Logo’s weekend of pride-themed television programming, “Pride Party Weekend,” set to air June 27 to 29." [TV Week]

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Oh, it's on!

RuPaul and her team at Logo just released the trailer for the drag star's new show, RuPaul's Drag Race, which pits queens against each other in a battle to the death. Okay, not the death, but a battle to see who will be crowned America's best drag queen.

And, as in the show's announcement, RuPaul takes some jabs at Tyra Banks, declaring, "Step back girl! The queen has returned." And with the most flattering lighting possible.

Check it out, after the jump…

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The GLAAD Media Awards may be causing some residual drama.

Cable channel Bravo paid an unspecified sum to air the entire event next month, but a reader speculated that queer-centric Logo, an MTV property, decided to play a little game of "gotcha" with the awards.

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Holy homos! Logo-owned NewNowNext seems poised to explode all other awards shows!

The website just announced the nominees for its first annual eponymous awards show. And the categories are anything but straight, like "Most Guiltiest Pleasure," "The Kylie Award: Next International Crossover," the "Because You Deserve An Award" award and our personal favorite, "Totally Most Rad Sickest Blog Ever," for which we're honored to have been nominated! (You'll vote for us if you know what's good for you.)

Candis Cayne hosts the show, which airs June 7th, and Janet Jackson will make a special appearance to pick up the Always Next, Forever Now award.

Click here to see all the nominees and vote for your favorites.

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The American Family Association recently gave up on their Ford Motors boycott. Some news from Logo's PR team will certainly give their lives new anti-automotive meaning: "As part of a first-ever partnership, General Motors and Logo today at the New York Auto Show unveiled a series of interstitial advertisements featuring the stories of gay and lesbian individuals and their path to personal and professional success. Produced by Logo, the new 30 second to 1 minute 30 second spots for General Motors’ brands Cadillac and Saturn will launch exclusively this quarter on Logo’s 24/7 digital cable channel, with the final spot premiering in the third quarter of 2008."

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In the wake of Lawrence King's murder, Portia de Rossi, TR Knight, Andre 3000 and a slew of other stars joined gay station Logo to raise awareness about anti-queer hate crimes. Because, as Janet Jackson says, "None of us are safe until all of us are safe". The politics of fear being used for good? Crazy!

It's absolutely super that Logo and these celebrities have come together, but they again raise a serious question: what makes one hate crime more notable than the next? Should one central figure be used to fight a universal campaign. We suppose the pros outweigh the cons on this one, but it's still something that should be considered.

Watch the video, after the jump…

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» 'Noah's Arc' Sailing Into Theatres

Logo's popular and defunct series Noah's Arc has been given the go-ahead for the big screen. And in a showing of corporate nepotism solidarity, dreamy titular actor Darryl Stephens and series creator Patrik-Ian Polk took to Logo-owned AfterElton to announce the big news. [AfterElton]

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» No Known Straight Survivors

This is how the NewNowNext kids spend all that perfectly good Viacom money: tarting it up with the Dazzle Dancers.

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Logo's Jason Bellini sat down with Hillary Clinton last week to talk - what else? - presidential election. The duo discuss ENDA, Don't Ask, Don't Tell and what Clinton whispered to Barack Obama after last week's CNN debate.

» Hillary Up On Logo

Thanks for the notice! We just heard that Viacom-owned Logo cable network will air an exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton tonight at 10:25 pm. Said interview will also air on 365Gay.com starting at 8pm.

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The war of words continues between homo-journo Doug Ireland and CBS on Logo's Jason Bellini.

The battle began earlier this week when we published Ireland's scathing letter to Bellini in which he likened Bellini's brand of news to "show biz fluff". The accusations were specifically with regard to Logo's year-end spectacular.

Bellini was not amused, but stayed relatively amiable in his response. He explained that the stories were chosen by National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, not Logo. Bellini went on to Logo's journalistic nose.

Ireland still doesn't like what he smells. He does, however, claim to appreciate Bellini, but definitely has issue with Logo's "corporate" nature. We've reprinted his lengthy rebuttal after the jump…

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