Acid Betty
Bobby Flay
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Fionnula Flanagan
Gloria Loring
Meg White
Nia Peeples
Raven-Symoné
Rod Blagojevich
Sir Kenneth Branagh
Summer Phoenix
Susan Dey
Xavier Samuel

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December 10, 1941– Tommy Kirk

Thomas Lee Kirk is a principal character in one of my earliest memories and I must say, I could have done much worse. I was beside myself with grief after watching the Disney flick Old Yeller (1958) when I was four years old. Inconsolable, my mother had to make me hot chocolate and give me reassurance in the form of cookies. I have never recovered. I have used the memory of this film as my method of crying on cue when I used to be an actor.

I had my first crush before I could have ever mentally formulated the concept of being a homo. I didn’t understand why I felt so dizzy and tingly, while watching The Hardy Boys serial on my favorite show, The Mickey Mouse Club. The show ran daily at 5pm, and I was there. My attention was focused on our B&W television in the den. Monday was Fun With Music Day; Tuesday was the exciting Guest Star Day; Wednesday- Anything Can Happen Day; Thursday brought Circus Day; Friday we got Talent Round-Up Day which included a The Hardy Boys installment.

Tim Considine and Kirk were The Hardy Boys and I couldn’t stop feeling all dreamy about them. Oh, I wanted to be a Hardy Boy too. I knew I could help solve mysteries along with those two boys. A few years later, I almost couldn’t make it through Swiss Family Robinson (1960) at The Fox Theatre in Downtown Spokane on a Saturday afternoon, with all the shirtless males and Kirk as close to naked as I could have ever imagined, and imagine I did.

Kirk was one of Walt Disney Studios’ leading male stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s: Babes In Toyland (1961), The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Son Of Flubber (1963). His regular Sunday night presence on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World Of Color (1954–1992) rocked my young world.

Kirk was very much an All-American Boy. I related to him and emulated him. His clean good-looks, honest face, comic timing, and wholesome roles were what I aspired to be as an actor. Little could I have known that my Tommy Kirk was a homosexual.

Young Kirk knew that his being gay would create problems with his career as well as with his strict Baptist parents. Kirk:

“I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy. I knew I was gay, but I had no outlet for my feelings. It was very hard to meet people  and at that time, there was no place to go to socialize. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that I began to hear of places where gays congregated.”

When he was 23 years old, Kirk became involved with a 16 year old boy he had picked up at a public swimming pool. The boy’s mother went to Walt Disney to personally complain. Disney decided that Kirk was becoming a liability for the studio, summoned him to his office and fired him. Kirk’s contract was dropped, but the studio did allow him to come back to film The Monkey’s Uncle (1965), which coincidentally was the wonderful Annette Funicello’s final Disney film.

Kirk:

“My early sexual experiences were desperate and miserable. Mostly brief encounters were very back-alley kind of things. When I was about 17 or 18 years old, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn’t going to change. I didn’t know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that is was going to wreck my Disney career and maybe my whole acting career. Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired. Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone… that was the end of Disney.”

In 1964, Kirk was just 23 years old and he had been a star for more than a decade. Suddenly he was “box office poison.” He found some work, but his films during this time were campy fare like Pajama Party (1964) with his pal Funicello and a slumming Elsa Lanchester. He was in Mars Needs Women (1967) where he played a sexy shirtless Martian, and Psycho à Go-Go (1967).

Kirk:

“After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got involved with a manager who said it didn’t matter what you did as long as you kept working.”

Kirk’s personal life also hit the skids:

“I wound up completely broke. I had no self-discipline and I almost died of a drug overdose a couple of times. It’s a miracle that I lived through it all.”

Kirk eventually left show business:

“Finally, I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I’m gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.”

For the past two decades, Kirk has owned his own carpet and upholstery cleaning business headquartered in the San Fernando Valley. He has stated that he wishes to be remembered for the Disney work, especially Swiss Family Robinson, his personal favorite.

Kirk helped fuel my earliest fantasies about other guys. I will always appreciate that about him.

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As James reported yesterday, former Brady Bunch actress Susan Olsen, who has a Los Angeles Radio talk show, went nuts using anti-gay slurs against a out actor Leon Acord. Well, after her homophobic rant went viral SHE GOT FIRED!

After being insulted up and down Acord called for her to be fired from the radio show job in his Facebook post. She sent him a private message calling him a “faggot” and saying her

“dick was bigger than his…”

Acord took a screenshot of the the messages and made them public. And in response, on its Facebook page, the radio station said that it had “severed ties” with Olsen but did not use her name,

“L.A. Talk Radio takes pride in its close and collaborative relationship with the LGBT community, and will continue to provide a home for those who have hopeful and positive messages of togetherness and tolerance to share with our listeners.

We will not tolerate hateful speech by anyone associated with our radio station and have severed our ties with a host that veered off the direction in which we are going.

Thank you for your loyalty and continued support. LA Talk Radio stands for love and community, and we will always support all of our friends around the world.“

So FYI, homophobes, having Emperor Cheeto as POETUS doesn’t mean you’re protected in your bigotry and hatefulness. And Cindy, we always liked Marcia better anyway. Your TV Mom, God rest her soul, would wash your mouth out and send you to bed without dinner!

(via Gay Star News)

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Phoenix
Ben Shephard
Brenda Lee
Donna Mills
Gary Dourdan
Hailee Steinfeld
Isabella Hofmann
Jermaine Jackson
John Kerry
Lisa Gastineau
Lynda Day George
Mo’Nique
Mos Def
Nikki Sixx
Rey Mysterio
Rider Strong
Rita Moreno
Teri Garr

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December 11, 1913– Jean Marais was the muse and the lover of the great artist/writer/filmmaker Jean Cocteau, and he was an actor of considerable skill and certain charisma. I used to swoon seeing his acting work in film class.

Marais was born Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais in Cherbourg to a shoplifting, sometimes violent, sometimes loving mother. He was always drawn to drama of all kinds. He was kicked out of school when, to amuse his friends, he dressed as a girl and flirted with a male teacher. As a kid, Marais worked at various jobs, including newspaper boy, photographer, and sketch artist.

An early interest in painting, which would become his lifelong avocation, led to Marais’s first opportunity in films when he was 20 years old. After purchasing one of Marais’s paintings in 1933, director Marcel L’Herbier offered Marais small roles in several of his films. Who wouldn’t?

When he was 24 year old, Marais first met the 48 year old Cocteau in 1937, when Marais auditioned for a role in a revival of Cocteau’s play Oedipe-Roi. Besides giving Marais the part, Cocteau fell instantly in love with the young actor.

Marais and Cocteau became partners in life and art. At Marais’s suggestion, Cocteau wrote a screenplay especially as a vehicle for the ambitious Marais, L’eternel Retour in 1943. The film was a commercial success and a critical triumph for both the filmmaker and its star.

Marais continued to perform in films and plays while German troops occupied France during WW II. Both Cocteau and Marais stayed in Paris during the Nazi occupation despite the very real danger of having nearly everyone know that they were a gay couple. Cocteau had some powerful connections who protected the couple, even after Marais punched a collaborationist critic for writing a bad review of one of Cocteau’s plays. Their names were posted in the French press, which was controlled by those damn Nazis, but because of Cocteau’s friends in high places, they avoided arrested and the concentration camps. Marais tried to join the Resistance, but he was rejected for being gay and his reputation for speaking candidly. Instead, he joined France’s Second Armored Division after the liberation of Paris and drove trucks carrying fuel and ammunition to the frontlines during the Allied invasion of Germany. Marais was eventually awarded the Croix de Guerre for his brave wartime service.

During the Nazi occupation, there were other gay couples in Paris, but it was unusual for anyone to be openly living together, working together, and behaving like a married couple. They were especially brave (or reckless).

After the war in 1946, L’eternel Retour, directed and written by Cocteau, introduced Marais to American film audiences. Photographs of his handsome face with his hot body became a popular pin-up for teenage girls and for gay fans slyly aware of his unpublicized relationship with Cocteau.

Marais went on to make more films with Cocteau. He also worked in films for other directors: René Clément, Marc Allégret, Jean Renoir, Luchino Visconti, and Claude Lelouch.

Although the romantic relationship between Marais and Cocteau cooled down by the late 1940s, the couple remained the closest of friends until Cocteau’s final credits rolled for good in 1963.  On his passing, Marais stated:

“I bitterly regret not having spent all of my life serving Cocteau instead of worrying about my own career.”

His acting career petered out in the 1970s and Marais retired to the French Riviera. He went back to his painting and wrote several volumes of memoirs.

Marais had his final screen role in 1996, in a film that I like a great deal, Bernardo Bertolucci’s beguiling Stealing Beauty. That same year, he was awarded the Legion Of Honor for his contribution to French Cinema.

Marais enjoyed a career lasting more than six decades. His blond, classical good-looks and skillful acting can be experienced in more than 70 films and television shows. On stage, Marais achieved great success in classical roles at Théâtre de Paris, Théâtre de l’Atelie, and Comédie Francaise.

On screen, he was as a versatile, romantic leading man in poetic dramas, light comedies, crime melodramas and swashbuckling adventure stories.

In the 1950s, Marais fell in love with the brilliant American dancer/choreographer George Reich. They were a couple for a decade. He sought to reconcile with Cocteau at the end of the great man’s life and frustrated, he relapsed into his old opium habit with Cocteau.

Marais had been legally adopted by Cocteau so that he would be his inheritor. Like Cocteau, Marais was sure to make the company of handsome younger men. For one of them, Serge Ayala, he acted as a mentor, finding him acting work and adopting him as a son. He enjoyed this life with his protégé until he took his final curtain call in 1998, gone from heart failure, just like his former, fabulous, famous lover. In 2012, Serge Marias committed suicide.

Marais published two volumes of memoirs and a biography of Cocteau, L’Inconcevable Jean Cocteau (1993). In his last decade, he lived and worked as a painter and sculptor at his home in Cannes. He claimed that life had been unfairly good to him:

“I always wanted to be happy. Perhaps that’s what pleased Cocteau, who was so anguished. I have never known stress. I was a sort of beast, a peasant type. I had no culture. I had never heard of Cocteau. I was given an unbelievable chance.”

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An old Buckley School classmate of Donald Jr. (with his own hedge fund) admitted to the NY Post,

“I wanted to throw a fund-raiser for [the elder Trump last spring], and my fiancée was like, ‘Don’t you dare! You’ll never get one ounce of business again in this town.

You can’t be a Trump supporter in the city.”

Since Agent Orange’s win in November, his family’s life in NYC been upended. With nearly 80% percent of city voting Hillary Clinton, liberal New Yorkers are waging an anti-Trump war — often aimed at his older kids, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric.

Donald Jr.’s wife, Vanessa Haydon, who grew up in an Upper East Side townhouse and lives at Sutton Place with five children ages 2 to 9, isn’t handling her newfound outcast status very well, says a close family friend,

“It’s not wonderful when you’re being trolled on Twitter, with people saying really bad things and you have five kids. It’s horrible.“

In mid-November, eight teenagers heckled a visibly irritated Eric Trump and his wife, Lara Yunaska, outside the Quality Italian restaurant on 57th Street, yelling,

“Eric, fuck your father!”

Some 150 protesters recently descended upon the Puck Building protesting Ivanka Trump. Her husband, Jared Kushner, owns the building. Artists made signs that said,

“’Dear Ivanka: your daddy is scary as hell.’ and ‘Tell Daddy no!‘”

Artist Nate Lowman, whose work is reportedly in Ivanka’scollection, and Marilyn Minter were among the protesters including filmmaker Arden Wohl, a friend of Ivanka’s, who told New York magazine

“This is a plea to Ivanka to talk some sense because she’s in this transition committee for her father, and hopefully she can be his voice of reason. She’s the smartest of the children.”

Which isn’t saying much, if you ask me…

Donald Jr.’s Facebook page is filled with hateful posts, he and brother Eric simply ignore it, according to their Buckley classmate.

Ivanka has announced that she and Kushner will move to D.C., with their children but Donald Jr. and wife Haydon won’t be ditching NYC for the Beltway.

“No way. They’re not going to be chased out of their home.”

Maybe not but we New Yorkers are NOT going to make it fun if your name is Trump in NYC. Just watch.

(T/Y Tad; via NY Post)

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Madonna was honored by Billboard magazine as Woman of the Year at on Friday night. You need to read what she had to say, some of which was read through tears.

“I stand before you as a doormat. Oh, I mean, as a female entertainer. Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant sexism and misogyny and constant bullying and relentless abuse.”

Recalling her life as a teenager when she first moved to New York:

“People were dying of AIDS everywhere. It wasn’t safe to be gay, it wasn’t cool to be associated with the gay community. It was 1979 and New York was a very scary place. In the first year I was held at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop with a knife digging into my throat and I had my apartment broken into and robbed so many times I stopped locking the door. In the years that followed, I lost almost every friend I had to AIDS or drugs or gunshots.”

In life there is no real safety except for self-belief.

I was of course inspired by Debbie Harry and Chrissie Hynde and Aretha Franklin, but my real muse was David Bowie. He embodied male and female spirit and that suited me just fine. He made me think there were no rules. But I was wrong. There are no rules –if you’re a boy. There are rules if you’re a girl.

If you’re a girl, you have to play the game. You’re allowed to be pretty and cute and sexy. But don’t act too smart. Don’t have an opinion that’s out of line with the status quo. You are allowed to be objectified by men and dress like a slut, but don’t own your sluttiness. And do not, I repeat do not, share your own sexual fantasies with the world. Be what men want you to be, but more importantly, be what women feel comfortable with you being around other men. And finally, do not age. Because to age is a sin. You will be criticized and vilified and definitely not played on the radio.

Eventually I was left alone because I married Sean Penn, and not only would he would bust a cap in your ass, but I was off the market. For a while I was not considered a threat. Years later, divorced and single — sorry Sean — I made my Erotica album and my Sex book was released. I remember being the headline of every newspaper and magazine. Everything I read about myself was damning. I was called a whore and a witch. One headline compared me to Satan. I said, ‘Wait a minute, isn’t Prince running around with fishnets and high heels and lipstick with his butt hanging out?’ Yes, he was. But he was a man.

This was the first time I truly understood women do not have the same freedom as men.

I remember wishing I had a female peer I could look to for support. Camille Paglia, the famous feminist writer, said I set women back by objectifying myself sexually. So I thought, ‘oh, if you’re a feminist, you don’t have sexuality, you deny it.’ So I said ‘fuck it. I’m a different kind of feminist. I’m a bad feminist.’

I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around. Michael is gone. Tupac is gone. Prince is gone. Whitney is gone. Amy Winehouse is gone. David Bowie is gone. But I’m still standing. I’m one of the lucky ones and every day I count my blessings.

What I would like to say to all women here today is this: Women have been so oppressed for so long they believe what men have to say about them. They believe they have to back a man to get the job done. And there are some very good men worth backing, but not because they’re men — because they’re worthy. As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by.

It’s not so much about receiving this award as it is having this opportunity to stand before you and say thank you.

Not only to the people who have loved and supported me along the way, you have no idea…you have no idea how much your support means. [tearing up for the second time] But to the doubters and naysayers and everyone who gave me hell and said I could not, that I would not or I must not –your resistance made me stronger, made me push harder, made me the fighter that I am today. It made me the woman that I am today. So thank you.“

(via Billboard)

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Premieres THIS THURSDAY! December 15 at 9/8C Logo TV. Starring Bianca Del Rio, RuPaul, Kristen Johnston, Tori Spelling, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Charo, Ross Mathews, Michelle Visage, Rightor Doyle, TS Madison, Fortune Feimster, Alec Mapa, Coco Peru, Amy Phillips, Frank DeCaro, Eric Filipkowski and Andrew Christian Underwear Models.

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Hang on to wigs, ladies. We’ve got a cavalcade of cuties today that you DON’T want to miss. Absolutely, positively THE HOTTEST MEN ON THE PLANET… Not an butterface among them! Check ’em out after the jump!

Hot daddy Ricky Martin brings his kids Matteo and Valentino Martin and yummy boyfriend Jwan Yosef to the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Premiere at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood.

Diego Luna at the world premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story held at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

Former Sons of Anarchy hunk Charlie Hunnam, spotted doing a early morning hike at Runyon Canyon in Los Angeles.

Lance Bass and his hunky husband Michael Turchin are Santa’s helpers at the ‘Not For Sale x Z Shoes Benefit: Raising awareness to help end slavery around the world’ at Estrella in West Hollywood.

Ryan Gosling attends The 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards at Barker Hanger, Santa Monica.

My fantasy husband Rami Malek, wisely wearing a seafoam green jacket (the color of his eyes) at the Critics’ Choice Awards.

Be still my heart! Jess Milo Ventimiglia at the Critics’ Choice Awards.

Tom Ford, looking dapper as always, at the Critics’ Choice Awards.

Former One Directioner Niall Horan (turning into such a MAN!) at Z100’s Jingle Ball 2016 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Seventh in line to the Monegasque throne (and bit of a douchebag) Pierre Casiraghi attending the prizes ceremony of the Monaco Sportsboat winter series at the Monaco Yacht Club.

(All photos: Pacific Coast News. Except the closeup of Diego Luna: That was Media Punch)

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SPOILER ALERT! Alyssa Edwards is back in the gig reacting to her time spent on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 2.

New episodes of Alyssa’s Secret every Monday on WOWPresents!

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Last night’s Critic Choice Awards was a star studded affair that brought together Hollywood’s A-listers in movies, TV, and music for one magical evening. Among the most fashionable was RuPaul (donning a two piece deep cerulean suit with a black top hat), Mandy Moore (did her and Ru text each other hues beforehand?! Their twinning is SO cute!), and RuPaul’s Drag Race guest judge alum, Gillian Jacobs.

Check out more stunning pictures:

All photos by Thairin Smothers.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race season 3 queen Mimi Imfurst has written a song for her friend Eddie Sotomayor – who also happens to be season one queen Jade Sotomayor‘s cousin – who lost his life in the Pulse Nightclub shooting.

Mimi posted this on her Facebook:

Six Months Ago- I lost my rock, my best friend- EDDIE SOTOMAYOR at Pulse. Since his passing his friends have marveled as his ability to be so much to so many different people. Whether you knew him as Top Hat Eddie, Simple Eddie, The Pineapple Prince or maybe you didn’t know him at all- this song is dedicated to memory of a friend who taught me every day the importance of bringing people together.

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON- I hope you can take a minute to reflect on those closest to you- and to take a moment for yourself- a quiet moment to find peace and solace inside because right now on the outside the chaos is way too loud. I know we all feel uncertain about the world today but know that your friends and your own peace/happiness is what matters most.

I wrote this song for Eddie and for myself to find a way for me to express the need I was feeling for some personal reflection after everything we’ve all been through this past year. So in many ways this song is not just for Eddie- but for all of us. I really hope you enjoy this song and that you find your very own Piece of Peace.

If you enjoy, please like comment and share.
Thank you,
In Peace-
Mimi

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Trans artists Feral Pines, Cash Askew, and Em B were among the victims of the devastating Oakland fire that killed 36 people last week. All three were well-known in the local arts scene and were role models to many trans women. Feral was a musician who was eager to start an “all trans-girl rave collective.” Cash was part of the respected goth duo band Them Are Us Too and had recently begun making music with Pines. Em B, 33, was a poet and barista who moved from southern California to Oakland where she found a more accepting community, according to her father Jack Bohlka.

Now, TAP (Trans Assistant Program) has started donations page to collect end of life costs for them.

Trans Assistance Project’s Oakland donation is going directly to fund funeral services and end of life costs for the trans women who lost their lives in the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire: Feral Pines, Cash Askew, and Em Bohlka. Once these items, plus medical care for another trans woman who survived the fire are paid, additional funds will be donated to TAP in Feral’s name. Feral had applied for TAP’s services: funding name and gender markers changes, medical costs, and legal fees for trans people in the United States, so that trans women may survive and thrive

More about TAP:

TAP has permanent fund, replenished through donations and grants, that exists to finance legal/ID changes and healthcare for trans folks in need. Because of the enduring nature of the program, we can ensure that recipients’ specific needs, which may arise at random times, are met without them having to attempt to raise the money on their own. In support of the TAP fund, we are building a vetted directory of legal experts and medical providers, saving trans folks the trouble of searching for the right doctors or the right paperwork.

You can donate to either TAP’s permanent fund or the end of life costs for the Oakland victims here. (via The Guardian)

Below: Feral Pines, Cash Askew, and Em B

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Links to the daily atrocities of Trump’s Amerikkka.

Dec 12th, 2016

• Senate Republicans Will Reintroduce the Terrifying Federal Anti-Gay ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill Next Year Because It Has a Better Chance with Trump
• All of Donald Trump’s known conflicts of interest in one place
• Jill Stein’s Recount Bid Is Officially Over
• Harry Reid charges that the Trump camp was in on the Russian hacking
• Harry Reid also says FBI director James Comey’s letter cost Hillary the election and the Senate
• Former Acting CIA Director Calls Russian Interference In Election ‘The Political Equivalent Of 9/11’ (So why is the MSM acting so blasé?)
• Fighting back against Donald Trump’s angry white voters (an 8-point plan for the next four years)

Dec 9, 2016

• Trump’s White House Shaping Up To Be Home For Men Accused Of Domestic Abuse
• Trump Team Scrambles for A-List Inaugural Performers (NOT Kid Rock and Ted Nugent): ‘They Are Willing to Pay Anything’
• Carrier Workers at ‘Rescued’ Indiana Plant Will Be Replaced by Robots
• Republicans admit it: Okay, yes, we really are big hypocrites
• Kellyanne Conway Thinks Donald Trump Is Going to Have Plenty of ‘Spare Time’ as President, So Relax
• And By the Way, Yes, Kellyanne Conway, you did provide a platform for white supremacy
• Giuliani says he never really wanted a place in Trump’s administration, so don’t even bother (#SavingFace)
• Top House Republican Unveils Plan To Gut Social Security

Dec 8th, 2016

• Donald Trump Will Keep Executive Producing Celebrity Apprentice as President
• Donald Trump’s Choice for EPA Chief Is Skeptical of Climate Change
• Trump’s Presidency Is Shaping Up to Be an American Tragedy
• Why conservatives might be more likely to fall for fake news
• Trump’s one consistent policy: Chaos
• Trump Is Doing Exactly What He Promised To Do About Conflicts Of Interest: Almost Nothing
• Carrier Union Chief Corrected Trump on Numbers, So of Course Trump Went on the Attack
• These Are The Unsung Winners And Losers Of Donald Trump’s Boeing Tweet

Dec 7, 2016

• Oh dear god, no. Trump meets with recently defeated North Carolina governor Pat McCrory. Is a cabinet position about to open for him?
• John McCain think’s it’s ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS that reporters ask him questions about Trump. 
• How to Know What Donald Trump Really Cares About: Look at What He’s Insulting on Twitter
• The Trump family’s conflicts get even more outrageous — and Republicans pretend to not notice
• Here Are 9 Things Trump’s National Security Adviser Pick Actually Thinks About Islam
• CNN’s Van Jones Knows What We Need to Do Next
• Deplorable Corey Lewandowski A) Thinks Trump is already president B) Thinks there was some sort of law against saying “Merry Christmas” and C) Thinks Trump changed that law. REALLY GURL?

.@CLewandowski_: “You can say again, ‘Merry Christmas’, because Donald Trump is now the president.” #Hannity pic.twitter.com/XEyeCB9tfc

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 7, 2016

Dec 6, 2016

• Donald Trump’s 10 Most Anti-Queer Appointees 
• Madonna Thinks Women Voted For Trump Because They Hate Other Women
• Samantha Bee on Fake News, PizzaGate, and Conspiracy Theories
• The Post-Truth World of the Trump Administration Is Scarier Than You Think
• Trump’s Victory Tour First Of Its Kind Since Hitler’s Nuremberg Rallies
• Carrier Union Leader: “Trump Lied His Ass Off About the Deal”
• How Trump Could Wage a War on Scientific Expertise 
• Trump Spokesman Claims The President-Elect Sold All His Stocks, But Provides No Evidence (of course)

Dec 2, 2016:

• The Trans People Who Are Detransitioning To Stay Safe In Trump’s America
• Trump Surrogate Scottie Hughes Argues “There’s No Such Thing as Facts Anymore” – just “perceptions” and “they way they are interpreted.” Lord help us all.
• Don’t Take Your Eyes Off Ivanka Trump for One Fucking Second
• Starting Jan 20, Trump can send unblockable mass text messages to the entire nation
• Paul Ryan, of all people, is tutoring Trump on the Constitution (and he’s flunking)
• Trump’s paid shill at CNN suggests New York Times editors “should be in jail” for publishing pages from Trump’s 1995 tax documents earlier this year.
• Rep. Virginia Foxx, Who Called Matthew Shepard’s Murder a ‘Hoax’, Poised to Destroy Obama’s Education Legacy
• Trump’s Possible Homeland Security Pick Called Orlando Massacre a ‘Distraction’, Transgender People ‘Freakish’
• The many homophobic acts of Trump’s new Attorney General Jeff Sessions
• Trump to live in Trump Tower most of the week? Here’s an article on how that will screw with mid-town Manhattan for FOUR LONG YEARS.
• Ivanka’s terrible self-help book portrayed all her advantages as handicaps. How Donald used that as a template for his campaign. 
• Deplorable Kellyanne Conway pretends she can’t hear question FOUR TIMES when asked about Trump’s claim of voter fraud. 

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In this all-new episode of UNHhhh,  Katya Zamolodchikova and Trixie Mattel discuss ALL things Hollywood!

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If you happen to be in New York City this Thursday, December 15 (remember to set your DVR to record Not Today Bianca!) WOWlebrity John Polly has just clued us in on these two hot parties!

First up is “Art After Trump” a reading and art show at the Housing Works Bookstore!

What the fuck do we do now? That’s more-or-less the question posed to 150 artists, organizers, and performers, who will be reading their responses on Thursday. There’s a meet-and-mingle at 6 p.m., followed by continuous readings/performances half an hour later. This is a good opportunity for meeting potential collaborators/group therapy for those of us still in mourning.

Organizers: Molly Rose Quinn, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe; Brandon Stosuy, The Creative Independent, a project of Kickstarter; Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl; Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic; Ben Sisto, Ace Hotel New York

Next is the opening of “XXXmASS” at the Kate Werble Gallery!

The holidays are often thought of as a wholesome time of the year, one where you spend time with your family and exchange gifts, but “XXXmASS” proposes that Christmas is also an occasion to show R-rated art. A press release promises “extraterrestrial moon pies, nutcracker orgies, satanic reindeer, pagan circus trees, intersexed elves, beastly textiles, glistening vessels, metal mistletoe and a riot grrrl window diorama.” Among the 20 artists who will have work in this show are Paul Rizzo, Polly Apfelbaum, Marc Swanson, and Brandi Twiley.
Kate Werble Gallery, 83 Vandam Street, 6–8 p.m.

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It’s Christmas time, but to see the frownie faces on the street you’d never know it. We, as a nation, are STRESSED OUT. Thankfully, the Dutch drag community is still feeling festive, and have made this wonderful video, lip dubbing your favorite Christmas carols as they traipse around the grounds of a Netherlands estate in all their bedazzled, bewigged, and bejeweled glory. FABULOUS!

Drag Queens United describes itself as a Dutch group formed to promote, support, and nourish a positive and loving drag scene, learn from each other, and obviously have a blast while doing it. (via Towleroad)

RuPaul’s Drag Race Internationale, anyone?

Drag Queens United – Lipdub (Christmas Edition) from Lady Galore on Vimeo.

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In the latest issue of New York Magazine, HBO’s delightful “Every Brilliant Thing” made the “to do” list amongst other must-see components in the art/fashion/performance/film world such as Alvin Ailey, Kurt Vile, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (dissected), Diane Simpson: Samurai and more.

Check it out:

Theater on TV
11. See Every Brilliant Thing
No. 572: This film.
A solo play about a 7-year-old boy’s obsessive list-making of “brilliant things” in response to his mother’s depression and attempted suicide does not sound like very much fun. But in Duncan MacMillan’s telling and Jonny Donahoe’s interpretation, it was a highlight of the 2014–15 Off Broadway season. Luckily, one of the final performances was captured on film; surprisingly, it retains all the live show’s humor, poignance, and theatrical spontaneity. —J.G.
HBO, December 26.

Check out the full list here.

EBT premieres on HBO December 26th at 8PM ET.

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Katie Couric and World of Wonder’s Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey, and Jeremy Simmons executive produce Gender Revolution – a look at how genetics, culture, and brain chemistry shape gender – airing February 6 at 8PM on the National Geographic channel.

You can read more about the revolution of gender in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine as well.

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Like many of us, RuPaul is having sleepless nights, worrying about Donald Trump‘s impending presidency,

“Last night I woke up at 1:30 in the morning,” he told a New York magazine reporter at the Critics’ Choice Awards, “and I remembered what happened and I couldn’t get back to sleep,”

The staunch Hillary supporter says he feels grief-stricken by the tragic turn of events.

“It’s sad. I’m still so heartbroken over it. It feels like the death of America,” RuPaul said. “The America that we have all fought so hard for, the narrative of love and peace and liberty and equality, it feels like it is dead.”

I hear ya, hon.

(Photo: Pacific Coast News)

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