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After months of toiling behind the scenes, our intern, young Raymond, finally spreads his wings and files his first interview. And, appropriately, it's with a man who's no doubt helped shape the contemporary gay landscape, Peter Paige. While most of you may recognize Paige from his role as Emmett on the seminal Queer As Folk, this actor's far more than a character. Well, he is a character, but not in a one-dimensional, televisual way. After the jump, see what Paige has to say about being out in Hollywood, why he's a bit sore with Barack Obama and how lesbian tennis players made him the man he is today. |
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Not Yet, At Least
That’s just on paper. Yes, there will be [a gay drama] one day, but it’s years off. I know, it just keeps on getting reported. You know what it’s like, it gets reported once, and then every clipping reports that, and … and then it’s practically written. I haven’t started [writing it], but someone’s done it for me! You can't rush lavender, we suppose. |
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• NYU's Stern Business School just got its first gay group. How did they not buy into gay rights sooner? • Lesbian love quarrel flames: "A lovers' quarrel between two women got out of hand, police said, and one found herself nearly set on fire." Ow! • John Travolta at notoriously gay spa? • Anti-Gay marriage radio ad plagues New Jersey. |
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Forty-Something Homos Get Screen Time
"It's going to be about fortysomething gay men and how jealous they are of gay teenagers…I've been longing to write something for adults." A bunch of bitchy older queens fighting over younger men? Sounds like a reality show. |
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A reader sent us a link to this article which questions Fox's packaging of actor Gale Harold - best known to you as Brian Kinney from Queer as Folk. Starring on this season's television graveyard, Vanished, Kinney's online bio apparently glosses over his tenure as cocksucker extraordinaire. The lack of faggotry, however, can be attributed to Harold himself.
Some people may take this as nothing more than the work of a publicist spin doctor, but we'd like to believe it. Look at him: does he look like someone who would try to escape his homo-acting past just for a few new fans? Nyet. He knows his fan base. He just doesn't want to exploit us. A gentleman, indeed. Gale Harold Hasn't Vanished Yet [After Elton] |
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British-born actor Charlie Hunnam starred in the original English version of Queer as Folk. He progressed from the box office poison of Nicholas Nickleby to star alongside Jude Law in Cold Mountain. More recently, he and Elijah Wood roughed it up with each other in Green Street Hooligans.
Queerty readers will recall that Elijah Wood thinks the web site “outing” him is hilarious. What of this Charlie Hunnam, though? Is she, or isn’t she? Does her hairdresser know for sure? Charlie met Katherine Towne during an audition for Dawson’s Creek. They married and divorced. He is said to live in L.A. with his two cats Mavis and George. Here is what Charlie says about having posed for Attitude: “Oh it’s horrific. I can’t even believe it. And you know what the one thing is that’s going to haunt me for the rest of my life? When Queer as Folk first came out they asked me to do a photo-shoot for Attitude magazine, and I thought it’d be really ironic to do these really camp poses where I’m like pouting and stuff. And now I look back and in retrospect it wasn’t so funny. I’m haunted by those fucking images.” |