The Emmy nominations were announced yesterday and there’s a mix of the expected (Jessica Lange for her final season on American Horror Story), the bizarre (the much-maligned biopic Grace of Monaco as Outstanding TV Movie) and the sublime (RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s Mathu Andersen for Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special).
There are many, many things that make iconic entertainer Liza Minnelli happy. Among them are watching her parents’ movies, late fashion designer Halston…and puppies!
You can add Spongebob Squarepants birthday cakes to the Christian baker’s no-no list. As the awesome Allison Lane reminds us in her latest parody video, Leviticus 11:12 forbids the consumption of shellfish.
Don’t disrespect Caitlyn Jenner on your smart phone or Siri will set you straight.
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Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
If you consider The Golden Girls to be the gift that keep giving, you’re more right than you knew. The late, great Dorothy Zbornak Bea Arthur passed away in 2009, but bequeathed $300,000 to the Ali Forney Center, which will break ground next week on a center for homeless LGBT Youth Center that will bear her beloved name.
Rapper Scotty Dynamo informs us that he’s gay with “Show Me Yours,” his new music video set in a men’s locker room.
Sam Smith is at the forefront of stylish vocalists and will now put that good taste to good use by collaborating with high fashion house Balenciaga for a men’s line.
If pop singer entertainer Las Vegas resident Britney Spears is what she eats, the mother of two is a big pile of pizza and double icing oreos, according to her handwritten grocery lists which sold on Ebay this week.
Make room Tom of Finland, it’s now time to heap some praise on the provocative art of George Quaintance.
That time Katie Couric let her hubby know she was in the mood for a little back-door action… or maybe it was just a prank text sent by Amy Schumer.
No one knows for sure whether Julius Caesar had same-sex affairs (it seems likely he did), but an Italian graffiti artist is doing his best to turn the powerful Roman emperor into a queer icon.
Comic Mike Diamond is not only a weblebrity, he’s a “certified life coach,” or so he claims… Anyway, he’s now doling out advice to innocent people on the streets of Hollywood in the series What’s Your Problem?
Glücklich
Which “Golden Girl” are you?
I’d be Dorothy with a little Sofia thrown in for extra meanness. I’m not sultry like Blanche, and I’m not bubbly like Rose. But bitches get shit *done*!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjUGQ3UlQk
Captain Obvious
Why is it the people you can take one look at and tell are gay from jump always the ones alerting the world to the fact that they are gay?
Bauhaus
@Glücklich:
Tight video. Dorothy, with just enough Rose and a soupçon of Sophia.
Teodor Ciprian
Rapper? Bahahaha
Michael Eskridge
Good for him. Also he’s not a rapper. I’ll give him DJ but not rapper.
Casey Clark
I made it 30 seconds…. Terrible music.
Glücklich
The last time I sought out rap was ~2009 and Avenue D’s “Do I Look Like A Slut” was the soundtrack to my life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUz75nc_JRw
grero
“No one knows for sure whether Julius Caesar had same-sex affairs (it seems likely he did), but an Italian graffiti artist is doing his best to turn the powerful Roman emperor into a queer icon.”
Yes we do:
“… and being dispatched into Bithynia to bring thence a fleet he loitered so long at the court of Nicomedes as to give occasion to reports of a criminal intercourse between him and that prince; which received additional credit from his hasty return to Bithynia under the pretext of recovering a debt due to a freed man his client.
The only stain upon his chastity was his having cohabited with Nicomedes and that indeed stuck to him all the days of his life and exposed him to much bitter raillery. I will not dwell upon those well-known verses of Calvus Licinius: “Whate’er Bithynia and her lord possess’d / Her lord who Caesar in his lust caress’d.”
… [he] entrusted the command of three legions, which he left at Alexandria, to an old catamite of his, the son of his freed-man Rufinus.”
From: http://grero.com/#_Toc347564531
Glücklich
@grero:
Great research and web site, grero. I’ve bookmarked it to peruse at my leisure.
Ditamo
It was pretty well known that most teenage boys and young men in Rome had casual sex with each other. Why would Julius Caesar be any different when he was of that age, or even after that age? Although Julius wasn’t emperor himself, all but one emperor of Rome is known to not have had sexual relationship with men, which was Emperor Claudius. He did have a limp and speech impediment though, so maybe he just couldn’t get him some…
jason smeds
Rap is crap. It has totally destroyed black music. I don’t know why white people think it’s cool.
Nixter
@jason smeds: Agreed! Rap is a consequence of thug culture-mostly glorifying crime and base behaviour in black males.
Zachariah Ortiz
A little â??ï¸ would do him well.
Queer Muse on 95.7 WELT Allen County, Indiana
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtREy6nrC1k
Queer Muse on 95.7 WELT Allen County, Indiana
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REVIEWED also via Matthew Rettenmund’s Boyculture.com:
“I really find Scotty Dynamo’s new â??Show Me Yoursâ? music videoâ??in which he plays gay and with which he has chosen to come out as gayâ??adorably cheesy, and the song is an ear worm.
The video is like a twink version of Olivia Newton-John’s â??Physicalâ? …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YonniEehIc
Queer Muse on 95.7 WELT Allen County, Indiana
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/lgbt-homeless-youths-new-york_n_1659572.html
Queer Muse on 95.7 WELT Allen County, Indiana
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G Philly’s newest contributor Barry Eichner featuring model Brian Swope introduces the world to the best way to get banged ……
http://www.queerty.com/five-easy-yoga-poses-to-make-power-bottoming-more-enjoyable-20140618
Dan Steele
He almost lost me from watching. However, I really wanted to follow his story line to see where it concluded. Lyrics were so repetitive. Music was acceptable. Video editing was good. Story line can be followed for those that really watch the video. Kiss toward the end is beautiful.
Justin Westwood
Who fucking cares. Go back in the closet. We dont want you! 🙂
BlueDude
@grero: Thanks for this great link!!! Caesar was called “every woman’s man, and every man’s woman.” M2M sex was not a big deal, as long as you were the penetrator.
Clark35
It’s been well known for centuries that Julius Caesar was bisexual.
no1
It was said that Julius Caesar was husband to every Roman woman and a wife to every Roman man.
grero
@Glücklich: Thanks, if you have any questions feel free to email me at whatisgrero/at/gmail.com (or just go the homepage of the site and it’s in the middle of the menu bar).