National Geographic’s – and World of Wonder produced – “Original Sin: Sex” starts this Sunday, July 10th at 9/8C. Nat Geo has released exclusive clips from the series including Sex On Wheels. Experts like Dr. Ruth explore how the car played an unlikely role in the sexual revolution.
Check it out:
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Call it Freaky Friday, call it American Horror Story: Drag Race, darlings! Lee Dawson created a sickening fan video reimagining RuPaul’s Drag Race as American Horror Story complete with all your season favorites cast! (Including some surprises that rhymes with Pittle Loundcake).
Check it out:
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The 90’s are alive and well in Clea DuVall’s directoral debut “The Intervention.” A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp (and hilarious – thanks to Melanie Lynskey) turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
‘Intervention’ opened this year’s Outfest to a room of 1200 LGBTQ fans and advocates alike at the historic Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles and audiences left delighted and dazzled.
Check out the TRAILER here:
Without further adou, here are the top five things we LOVED about the film.
5) TEGAN AND SARA SCORED THE SOUNDTRACK
If Clea DuVall and Natasha Lyonne reuniting isn’t enough of a lesbian dream made in heaven, Tegan and Sara scored the entire soundtrack and it’s illuminating.
4) BUT, I’M A CHEERLEADER REUNION
Yes, they reunited and they play girlfriends and it’s magic and you wish you could be the third wheel on any date between the two of them. (Let’s not forget that Lynskey was also in But I’m A Cheerleader!)
3) ALIA SHAWKAT IS THE PIXIE DREAM GIRL PERFECTION
Besides her queer turn in Broad City, and her upcoming show Search Party on TBS, (that we are obsessed with and can’t wait to see!), Shawkat plays the love-her-hate-her twenty-something that causes a lot more cabin trouble than she gives off.
2) CLEA DUVALL FOREVER
You’ve probably seen her in countless films growing up (she has acted in movies that premiered at Outfest for the last 17 years!) and playing the dual role of acting and directing, you’re gonna ask yourself, “How does she do it all?!”
1) MELANIE LYNSKEY IS BAE AND SHOULD WIN AN OSCAR
You’ve seen her in Heavenly Creatures and Sweet Home Alabama but in “Intervention,” she’s raw, funny, sweet, and intimate in a completely new and refreshing way and clearly the star of the film. I couldn’t wait til she came back onscreen every time!
Go out and support Outfest!
This post is approved by this vulnerable cherub moment:
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There are days when you want nothing more than to run away to a private island and never come back. Today is one of those days.
Listed below are my top five fantasy islands from Private Island magazine – why, I can practically feel the balmy breeze on my face and hear the gentle lapping of waves as I sit here. Look at the pictures! Marvel at the details! Gasp at the prices! It’s all there, waiting for you… Private islands in the South Pacific, Central America, the Caribbean and off the New England coast… Live like Johnny Depp or Richard Branson in unimaginable beauty and comfort… BUY YOURS TODAY! (Click on the images to enlarge)
And don’t forget, you can get your weekly private island real estate porn fix starting THIS Sunday night on an all-new season on Island Hunters. There are two new episodes at 10PM and 10:30, and again at 1AM and 1:30
1) Wavi Island, Fiji, South Pacific ($12,000,000)
2) Clapboard Island, Maine ($5,550,000)
3) Cayo Iguana, Nicaragua (ONLY $750,000 – A STEAL!)
4) Mai Island, Fiji, South Pacific ($4,000,000)
5) Crawl Cay, Belize, Central America ($4,000,000)
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CDAN (Crazy Days and Nights) – usually a very reliable source for Hollywood insider gossip – has a few choice blind items to ponder.
The first one is eeeeeeasy:
The second is a little harder:
Obviously someone from either Star Trek or Suicide Squad, but I wonder who? Commenters are mostly split between Chris Pine and Jared Leto, but I don’t know about either one of those…
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Brian Dennehey
Courtney Love
Debbie Sledge
Douglas Booth
Ed Ames
Enrique Murciano
Fred Savage
Gena Mccarthy
Jack White
Jimmy Smits
John Tesh
Katie Stam
Kelly Mantle
Kelly McGillis
Kevin Nash
Kiely Williams
Mitchel Musso
Nicole Paige Brooks
Nigel Lythgoe
O.J. Simpson
Richard Roundtree
Tom Hanks
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July 9, 1937– David Hockney has always made a big splash at my house.
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.”
I currently reside in Portland, Oregon, the West Coast Brooklyn to Seattle’s Manhattan. A year ago, a special exhibit at The Portland Art Museum in partnership with Portland Opera and The David Hockney Foundation: David Hockney: A Rake’s Progress. I enjoyed a fun date with my husband to see it and we went on Hockney’s birthdate. Cool, huh? I mentioned our opera company and art museum, trying to prove to you kids that there is more to Portland than beards, beer and bicycles, although I am a fan of all that.
He was already a noted and accomplished painter in his native England, but Hockney’s style, point of view, and medium changed (from oils to acylics) when he moved to LA, a city he had fantasized about since childhood. Hockney:
“Within a week of arriving there in this strange big city, not knowing a soul, I’d passed the driving test, bought a car, driven to Las Vegas and won some money, got myself a studio, started painting, all within a week. And, I thought, it’s just how I imagined it would be.”
Portrait Of An Artist (Pool With 2 Figures) 1972
Hockney’s best work has a crazy energy and brashness. He uses color and line with moxie. The Hockney that I love best is the late 1960s-1970s painter of sunny California skies, swimming pools, palm trees and boys. His work in this period seems to me to be a modernist painterly slant on color Polaroids and snapshots from the life I was brushing up against when I attended college in LA from 1972-76. I actually attended an all-boy pool party at a famous producer’s home in the Hollywood Hills and Hockney was one of the guests. I couldn’t believe it! There he was, wearing a red baseball cap over his shaggy blonde hair, beige baggy pants, a yellow and red striped shirt with a white collar and yellow striped tie, a yellow watchband, red socks and white Jack Purcell’s. Perched on his proper English nose were his trademark round spectacles. He was holding a sketch book and a Polaroid camera. He was alone and mostly ignored by the parade of boys.
We did not speak to each other. I was at this event as the host’s special guest and I was careful not to overstep the bounds of propriety, but we did make eye contact. I like to think that if we had spoken, Hockney would have liked me and I might have become the subject of one his works, possibly the beginning of a series of “Hairy Boy” pieces.
When I asked our host if Hockney might desire some attention, he told me that the artist was not so much reticent, as always working, spending most of his time in his studio in Santa Monica, and that Hockney was always thinking and planning. He explained that Hockney balanced a hedonistic side; enjoying attending his parties, but the famous artist almost always left an event to rush back to his studio rather than to his house in Nicholas Canyon. Our host thought I would be amused to know that Hockney had a sign at the door of his studio that read:
“Thank You For Pot Smoking”
Hockney has always been openly gay and has always enjoyed a variety of relationships with men. With a series of boyfriends, he never married. Hockney describes himself as a “playboy”.
He has had a lifelong fascination with using new technology to make pictures. Hockney’s current work, mostly landscapes, are sketched and then translated onto the screen of his iPad. He uses a drawing app, giving him accessibility to draw at his leisure in any location at any time, without the need of additional materials or supplies. Hockney’s fingertips have replaced his paintbrushes. Hockney:
“It’s all drawing. It’s a new medium for drawing, the iPad, it’s like an endless sheet of paper.”
He is absolutely one of my husband’s and my favorite artists, and although I would love to own one of his paintings (they sell in the millions), as a lowly old gentleman of limited means, I remain content with my Hockney “coffee table” books, including one by the artist that features paintings of his dachshunds, David Hockney’s Dog Days, and postcards of his work. I also own and highly recommend the two volumes of biography by Christopher Simon Sykes: David Hockney: The Biography, 1937-1975 and David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012. I also have gotten a lot out of True To Life: 25 Years of Conversations With David Hockney by Lawrence Weschler.
These biographies and even his own diaries show Hockney to be exasperatingly egotistical and positively petulant. I admire that in artist. He is also fiercely pro-smoking. What a great cause in this PC age. He absolutley loathes anti-smoking laws:
“They are dreary, absolutely dreary… You get rid of smoking and they are all on anti-depressant pills. They say smoking is bad for you, but they used to say the same about wanking.”
Hockney is one of the most successful artists in history, with a personal fortune of more than 70 million. His David Hockney Foundation has holdings of his work worth at least 125 million dollars. Gay writer Christopher Isherwood owned the most important private collection of his work. In the 1990s, Isherwood’s partner of 33+ years, Don Bachardy, donated the collection to the foundation.
Besides The Portland Art Museum, Hockney’s work can be viewed in person at great museums around the globe, including: Boston Museum Of Fine Arts, National Gallery Of Australia, Art Institute Of Chicago, National Portrait Gallery and The Tate in London, LAs’ J. Paul Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Museum Of Contemporary Art in LA (Hockney was one of the founders in 1979), Metropolitan Museum Of Art and Museum Of Modern Art in NYC, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, De Young Museum in San Francisco, and The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. You might say that Hockney is well-hung.
Be sure to check out Hockney, the new entertaining documentary by Randall Wright.
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Gore Vidal‘s novel, Myra Breckinridge, is a satire that explores gender-roles and sexual-orientation whose main character undergoes a sex-change. It skewers and roasts conventional ideas of American sexuality and was adapted into an X-rated 1970 film, which was pretty much universally panned. Vidal disowned it, saying it was,
“an awful joke.“
May be, but it’s still giving us a lot of ideas and imagery that American society is still pretty uncomfortable wrestling with. The film features Raquel Welch as Myra with director John Huston as Buck Loner, Mae West as Leticia Van Allen, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed and Tom Selleck in his film debut as one of Leticia’s “studs”. Theadora Van Runkle designed the costumes although Edith Head did Mae West’s.
There were months of speculation over who would play the title role and after Raquel Welch was cast the next was Mae West, in her first film role since 1943. Said West at the time,
“It’s a return not a comeback. I’ve never been away, just busy.“
West was allowed to rewrite her own dialogue and sing and she was paid $350,000, a LOT of money in the late 60s.
Filming was apparently a gigantic mess that started with the director, Michael Sarne who was granted complete control over the project. He very quickly went over budget for his some of his bizarre methods like spending up hours at a time “thinking” while the cast was waiting around on the set. Sarne encouraged bickering among cast members and there were reported conflicts between Welch and West.
It was controversial for its sexual explicitness, but unlike the novel, the film received almost zero praise. Herb Kelly wrote in the Miami News:
“I now nominate Myra Breckinridge as the worst movie ever made… nothing can touch it for tastelessness and boredom”.
After it flopped, Sarne was never asked to direct another American film. The story goes that upon learning that the director was now working at a pizza joint, Vidal said that it was “proof of God’s existence.”
Myra Breckinridge was one of two films with an X rating to be released by 20th Century Fox in 1970 (the other being Beyond the Valley of the Dolls). It has rarely been shown on TV, though in recent years, the film has aired on the Fox Movie Channel. In 2004 it was released on DVD with changes: to make the film’s ending (Myra never had her sex change?) clearer, the ending sequence was changed to a black-and-white format. Of course it has developed a cult following.
Oh, kids it’s just a big mess, but doesn’t this make you want to see it? Here’s the trailer along with “The Mae West Cut” which will probably be MORE than enough.
Watch.
Baby-faced Farrah
The legendary Huston & West
Baby-faced Tom Selleck
Roger Herron
The famous anal rape scene, a Hollywood first
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Artist Amy Sherald says about her work,
“These paintings originated as a creation of a fairytale illustrating an alternate existence in response to a dominant narrative of black history.”
Sherald grew up in Columbus, Georgia and from the time she started kindergarten, one of two or three black children enrolled in her private school, she was well aware of her race,
“You’re different from everybody else. You need to speak a certain way and act a certain way. That’s what my mom told me on the first day of school.
In sociology they call it ‘code switching’. I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don’t look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.”
Sherald visited the Ringling Circus museum in Sarasota, Florida, and realized a correlation. Those involved in circus life were constantly playing a role, the particularities that constrained them in their everyday lives transformed into feats of strength, wonder and beauty.
“I thought it was interesting that people made a living in this way ― their deformities or things that were wrong with them became a way out of poverty. Circuses became these little functioning cities all their own.
Why can’t I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I’m depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.”
In Pilgrimage of the Chameleon, a man in a fur-lined coat holds a bundle of multicolored balloons. In Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), a woman in a red party hat and white gloves sips from a teacup.
“We get the same stories of who we are ― stories filled with pain, oppression and struggle. But there are other sides to black lives that are not often represented. I’m painting these people.”
Her solo exhibition A Wonderful Dream is on view until August 27, 2016 at the Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago.
(via Huffington Post)
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Surprise. The Gays for Trump campaign has defended Donald’s announcement that he supports anti-trans laws in North Carolina. The Republican-backed HB2 rolled back anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people earlier this year, also introducing regulations to ban transgender women from using the female bathroom on purported ‘safety’ grounds.
Initially, Trump had broken with the GOP’s official stance, saying earlier that trans people should be allowed to use the bathroom that they want. But in an interview this week he reversed his stance. Surprise.
“I’m going with the state. They know what’s going on, they’ve seen what’s happening. I’ve spoken to your Governor, I’ve spoken to a number of different people, and I’m going with the state.”
In response, the Gays for Trump has taken the same position. The group’s administrator, Joseph Murray, claimed that Trump’s stance wasn’t at odds with his group because the
“sex vs. gender fight is not the same fight of gays and lesbians for equal legal status of their same-sex relations.
What Trump said does not disqualify him from being the best candidate on gay rights that the Republican Party has ever nominated — because gay rights and trans rights are not synonymous.
Though LGBT activists are loathe to admit it, the plight of transgender Americans are starkly different from lesbian and gay Americans.
The HB2 law, also known as the privacy and security act, says everyone’s sexual privacy should be protected by requiring men and women to use the public bathrooms designated for their sex.
The law also accommodates transgender people because state law allows people to change their legal sex once they take medical procedures that clearly show which side of the sex and gender fence they’d rather stand. That state solution — although imperfect — is a better and fairer fix than a one-size-fits-all policy set by lobbyists and party hacks in Washington D.C.“
And he blabs on…
“The LGBT left wants to keep all of us sexual minorities away from the center of American life — because that’s how they get to keep control — or at least influence — over us and our voting cards. That’s why the LGBT left is quick to condemn Trump and eager to intimidate gay Trump supporters.
[Trump’s] comments on the live-and-let-live HB2 in no way undercuts the commitment he has made to gay people.”
Yeah, OK sure. And Hitler was fun at parties.
“Gays For Trump, party of one…”
(via Pink News)
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Our girl Raquel Welch had the looks goin’ on in the 60s and 70s. Check her out in Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B.C., Hannie Caulder and Mother, Jugs and Speed to name a few. This early clip is from 1970, the same year she starred in Myra Breckinridge, which some call “the worst movie ever made.” Not this “Space Girl” dance routine.
Watch.
Fantastic Voyage
One Million Years B.C.
Hannie Caulder
Mother, Jugs and Speed
Myra Breckinridge
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The Fort Green Brooklyn housing will be the largest elder LGBT residence in America
Well, some good news. The Bronx & Brooklyn will be the homes of new developments of New York City’s first senior housing benefiting the elder LGBT community. Michael Adams, CEO of SAGE said in a press statement,
“For too long, our LGBT elder pioneers in New York City have lacked access to housing where they are welcomed for who they are. Ingersoll and Crotona are a critically important step toward righting that wrong.”
The 82 unit Crotona Senior Residences will be developed by NYC Housing and Preservation, HELP USA, NY State Homes along with Community Renewal and SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders). It will have,
• 100% affordable senior housing;
• A range of supportive services designed to help tenants achieve health and wellbeing
• Apartments conducive to safe and active aging
• On-site access to SAGE Centers, which will provide LGBT culturally competent services to older adults who live in the buildings and surrounding community
• Hot meals and high quality programming daily
The Brooklyn residences will be located in Fort Greene and are expected to cost $47 million with 145 affordable units over 16 floors. It will be the largest LGBT senior housing development in the United States. It’ll feature an open lobby with street access, a garden terrace and a state-of-the-art senior center and community center.
For the Crotona Senior Residences in the Bronx, SAGE is working to provide supportive housing for high-needs residents, like veterans, survivors of domestic violence, the homeless and those with HIV/AIDS. The 82-unit residence—designed by Magnusson Architecture and Planning —is expected to cost $38.4 million.
SAGE has found through research that 48% of LGBT older people applying for senior housing as part of a national test were subjected to discrimination which makes it extremely difficult for LGBT elders to find appropriate housing.
Adams said,
“We’re not just trying to build a building. We’re trying to build a community for people to live in and be a part of.”
Rendering of the 82-unit residence in the Bronx designed by Magnusson Architecture and Planning
(via BisNow)
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Yes, the Republican Party’s official platform this year will describe marriage as a
“union between one man and one woman.”
This anti-LGBT stance ignores the fact that gay marriage is now legal everywhere in the U.S. but, believe it or not, it actually is a ratcheting down of the party’s homophobic/transphobic rhetoric. This year’s platform will NOT call for an amendment to the U.S. constitution effectively banning same-sex marriage as it has before. (So, they gave up on that one?)
Annie Dickerson is an adviser to billionaire GOP donor Paul Singer, who is a proponent of same-sex marriage and other issues championed by the LGBT community. Dickerson, who has adopted children, accused the committee of “blatant discrimination” over an amendment that would keep publicly funded adoption agencies from giving custody of children to gay couples.
“We need children to be adopted, so hooray to the gay community for trying to raise children in a happy and stable home. I object to allowing patent discrimination against gays over the right to adopt. This is blatant discrimination and should not be in our platform.”
Later, in front of the full Platform Committee, Washington, D.C., delegate Rachel Hoff, the only openly gay member on the 112-member committee, made an impassioned plea, fighting back tears, to to adopt softer language on gay marriage,
“We’re your daughters, your sons, your neighbors, colleagues and the couples you sit next to you in church. Freedom means freedom for everyone, including for gays and lesbians.“
Her proposal was shot down after almost no debate.
Ohio delegate David Johnson, who owns a small business in the state, criticized what he characterized as federal government overreach in responding to recent transgender bathroom laws.
“I hope we’re not getting this politically correct crap about transgender bathrooms. Any press person who comes to me and says, ‘Do you support that?’ My answer is no. If we’re telling employers to make provisions for 16 different people…”
“You’d have 16 different bathrooms,” another delegate said.
They also adopted a plank in support of anti-gay “conversion therapy.” Conversion therapy is based on the debunked theory that you can “pray away the gay.” (Uh, btw, you can’t.)
This notion that you can cure someone’s homosexuality is pretty old-fashioned, but hey, so are Republicans. Not only has the practice been debunked and denounced by all the credible medical groups, but it’s even been rebuked by many of the very groups that used to practice it. In 2011, the world’s top “ex-gay” confessed that he was still gay, and in 2013, the lead international “ex-gay” group, Exodus International, closed its doors and issued an apology to the gay community.
So the GOP is today, in 2016, embracing an issue that’s already, for all intents and purposes, finished. Over. Done. The amendment to the platform was offered by Tony Perkins, the head of the officially-designated hate group Family Research Council.
Fear, hate and intolerance, that’s the gist of today’s Republican party platform in three words. (via The Hill, Towleroad)
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New York artist Deborah Kass has just created a new print in support of Democratic POTUS nominee, Hillary Clinton. Her work has often co-opted Warhol’s style (and others) to make statements. This work mimics Andy’s iconic screenprint Vote McGovern from ’72. George W. Bush was the incumbent and John Kerry the Democratic challenger a dozen years ago,
“I first wanted to do a work like this in 2004. There was no way to make it happen then but sometimes the perfect opportunity comes up at another point in your life. It’s always been in the back of my mind, but anyway, it wouldn’t have been as much fun with Mitt Romney. It’s the right image for the right election.”
The print is an edition of 250 and can be purchased through the Clinton campaign. (Kass’s gallery in New York, Paul Kasmin is compiling names and you can write to them at info@paulkasmingallery.com) They sell for $1000 with 100% of the proceeds going directly to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Hey, that’s a quarter of a million bucks, Deborah! Thank you. I’m sure Donald Trump secretly thanks you too. His ego surely loves the image even though the message is little off point.
(via ArtnetNews)
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The Titanic! Jaws! The Wizard of Oz! Painted onto LIPS! It’s really something to see. Sydney-based makeup artist Jazmina Daniel is YOOOOOGE in the Instagram world, with pics of her lips featuring detailed cartoon and movie scenes dazzling the masses. Check out some of my faves, above and below. (via Bored Panda)
Plus these stunning non-movie related lips that I think we should all totally rock…
Sigh. If I only had lips big enough to paint on…
See also: The super-amazing cartoon lips of Laura Jenkins.
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Transformation Tuesday just got a whole lot QTer…New queers featured every week! Tag us, take a pic of us and follow us on Instagram at QWERRRKOUT, and you too could be the next QT! YOU BETTA QWERRRK!
Shequida
Age: Unknown
Location: New York, New York
About:
I’ve been a performer for quite a while now. I really love what I do. I enjoy entertaining people and making them smile, laugh or gag. When I started, there was no YouTube or social media or television. We was “po” haha! So, I had to learn by watching queens around me, and the celebrity divas.
Totally blessed to be a able to still be performing along side many of the new young queens. Much more to come, as long as the kids still gagging for it! You can catch me in NYC at Hardware Bar, Thursdays, 11pm, Señor Frog’s Drag Brunch, Sundays, 12pm-4pm, and Ice Palace, Fire Island, Sundays (all Summer), 10pm.
Instagram: shequidahall
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We were #blessed to have Bob the Drag Queen stop by the transformation studio last week to give me a makeover and share the pearls of her hard-earned wisdom. She replicated the look from her “neon challenge,” dripping paint onto my head, and while it felt cold and clammy, it looks absolutely STUNNING (if I do say so myself). Check it out below.
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Sophie Cox, 23, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, suffered from unexplained abdominal pain for months until she was diagnosed with both trichotillomania (a condition where sufferers have a compulsive urge to pull out their hair) and and trichophagia (where they eat it). Yes, she had been pulling out her hair and eating it to relieve stress, and apparently it congealed into a giant hairball the size of a brick, lodged in her stomach.
From HuffPo:
During her pregnancy, Cox suffered serious stomach pains and kept losing weight at a time when she should be gaining it.
Two months after her daughter was born, the pains became excruciating and left her doubled in agony.
“By October 2015, I couldn’t eat without vomiting and my stomach would swell up,” she told the news agency. “I’d lost [84 pounds] in two years and dropped six dress sizes, taking me to a size 12.”
Doctors had no clue what was wrong, but tested Cox for gallstones and stomach cancer.
It wasn’t until Cox had an endoscopy last November that they figured out what was wrong: that giant hairball.
“When they showed me the scan I was speechless. It looked like something from a horror film,” she said. “The specialist hadn’t seen anything like it in 30 years. It was too big to break down in my stomach, leaving me malnourished and dehydrated.”
The hairball, or “trichobezoar,” was removed in a six-hour operation.
“I felt instantly better when I woke up, even though I was sore and groggy,” she said. “It was disgusting. I cried with relief that it was gone.”
I would imagine. Since then, Cox has been monitored regularly to ensure no other hairballs develop.
“I’m just so thankful the hairball was found before it was too late,” she said. “Now I can get on with being a hands-on mum.”
Yep. All’s well that ends well.
Check out the hairball below, if you dare.
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It’s been two years since Jake Thompson’s Parisian lover never returned from sea. Two years of soul searching, of mending a broken heart, of finding himself again. Packing up his things and leaving the pain behind him, Jake settled his ankle high boots in The Eternal City…Rome. He has since given up carbs all together (he will enjoy the occasional baguette here and there but thats a different story entirely), and is now the lead dancer for the “Italian Gay Men’s Chorus Line”. I think he’s going to make it after all.
Today’s look is anything but ordinary. Pairing a fun blue ascot with a delicious red and white top really compliments his slender figure. Jake is channeling a mysterious gondolier gliding across the Venetian lagoon just looking for a new adventure. Meglio il lavoro!
Check out his déjà vu inspiring look below:
Where to get the look:
We are rooting for you, Jake. We are all rooting for you.
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Life in plastic…it’s fantastic! Our girl Pearl has taken her combined passions of drawing and drag and landed a major deal with Kidrobot. Introducing Vladonna, his latest creation is a doll he’s been working on this past year. We here at WOW are VERY proud of our Season 7 queen! Next Magazine profiled Matt Lent (Pearl’s boy name) and got the scoop:
“I was always drawing as a kid,” he told us at a coffee shop around the corner from his apartment in Williamsburg. “I always loved to draw. It was my outlet. It was my safe space. I never planned on doing drag. One year for Halloween, me and Kim Chi got together and did it together. It just took off and became its own beast and we started getting booked for gigs all of a sudden. Then there was no time to draw anymore.”
“Vladonna has always just been another character I have had. I was never necessarily drawing her, but I was always drawing super outrageous and extreme plastic surgery victims. Botched victims or extremists. The Pete Burns of the world. I have always wanted my own doll of that.”
Lent met Gina Garan, a famous doll photographer who reached out to Kidrobot who responded really quickly that they would like to do an exclusive toy line with them.
For those that aren’t aware,Kidrobot is acknowledged worldwide as the premier creator and dealer of limited edition art toys, signature apparel and lifestyle accessories. An innovative cross between sculpture and conceptual art, Kidrobot offers not only a powerful medium for today’s international fashion designers, illustrators and graffiti artists, but also the creative canvas for emerging street trends and pop art. Their values on their website are listed as, “We make you react,” and, “Positive or negative but never indifferent.”
We can’t wait to see more of Vladonna and get our hands on one!!!
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