News from the Los Angeles Times that “I Love You, Phillip Morris” has been put off again. The film stars funny man Jim Carey and Ewan McGregor as a pair of gay con men in love. An early version of the picture was said to have included “graphic gay sex” scenes, and even after completion, [...]
So last night was the big night on Gossip Girl, the night Chuck Bass finally came to task for his obsession with wearing prints, confronted all of those gay rumors, and finally kissed a dude. That got us in the mood to reminisce about the gay kisses of yesteryear. TV gays and lesbians have come [...]
Esquire has an interesting theory about the success of Twilight, HBO’s True Blood, and The CW’s Vampire Diaries: “Vampires have overwhelmed pop culture because young straight women want to have sex with gay men,” Stephen Marche writes. “Not all young straight women, of course, but many, if not most, of them.” Among his support statements, [...]
The number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) characters on broadcast TV is again on the rise, according to a new report from The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). The group’s 14th annual TV study found that 18 LGBT characters will account for 3% of primetime scripted series regulars in the 2009-2010 [...]
Australia – SPECULATION that a man whose body was found in a Sydney park was the victim of a gay hate crime creates unnecessary panic, a gay rights activist says. The 37-year old Redfern man’s body was found lying face down on a jogging track in Centennial Park early on Saturday morning. Detective Inspector Paul [...]
How could something like this happen in Martin Luther King’s home town? The following occurred about a mile away from my home in Atlanta, Georgia at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 10, 2009. Mark Danack was watching the football game at his favorite bar, The Eagle, when he heard somebody yell, “HIT THE GROUND!” He [...]
A Single Man, Tom Ford’s directorial debut, has won the Queer Lion award at the Venice International Film Festival. Ford competed against fourteen other films to win the third annual prize for gay-themed films screened at the festival. A Single Man was the last of 25 films to screen in competition for the festival’s top [...]
It’s not that we don’t get it. The makers of the film “Bruno,” Sacha Baron Cohen’s just-released follow-up to “Borat,” have said that they intend to satirize and expose homophobia. But even when filmmakers have the best of intentions, there can be a disconnect between the concept and the execution. In “Bruno,” the satire often [...]