You gotta hand it to her: Phi Phi O’Hara SLAYED 2016. In a year that was disappointing for most of us, O’Hara’s ‘365 Days of Drag’ challenge was always an imaginative, creative, escape from the harsh realities of the trash fire that was this election season.
Check out this amazing one minute video of all her looks combined from last year:
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Via BuzzFeed UK: British pop superstar Robbie Williams held hands with fans in the audience during a live New Year’s Eve performance on the BBC – then walked back on stage to use a hand sanitizer, grimacing spectacularly. Of course, in his defense, it IS flu season, and people ARE rather disgusting. Still, it’s a funny video to watch, and brings to mind Cyndi Lauper‘s legendary reaction when confronted with the filth of humanity.
Watch below:
@aurosan pic.twitter.com/obxZu7Os52
— ziggy (@ziggythe) August 7, 2015
(via ONTD)
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The remaining ‘ghouls’ from Dragula take a trip to San Francisco to perform at Mother with legendary goddesses Heklina and Peaches Christ!
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We all wanted to give a very special birthday shoutout to our very own #BornThisDay chronicler, Stephen Rutledge, whose tireless dedication to LGBT history and its icons is nothing short of breathtaking.
We love you, Stephen! Never stop educating us!
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Sometimes the Amazon description is enough, and I don’t even have to offer a critique:
Titillating and tantalizing STEAMY BDSM TALES of FERTILE WILLING WOMEN GANGED up on DOMINATED and HUMILIATED in PUBLIC while playing Pokemon Go! But there’s so much more! EXHIBITIONISM! BONDAGE! AGE PLAY! PUBLIC GROPING! WATERBOARDING! CROCS! Tales of professors training nubile young students! ANAL! There’s something for everybody in this book! Fun for the whole family! (for the love of god do not actually buy this for your family, this is a parody I have zero affiliation with Nintendo Niantic, or the Pokemon company. Once again this is not for kids but adult perverts that grew up playing Pokemon.) Seriously, don’t buy this for kids and if you’re a kid don’t buy it. I don’t condone half the things portrayed in this book, follow your local laws.
Get your copy of To Be a Master: An Anthology of Erotic Pokemon Go! Stories here. Only $8.80!
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Bill and Hillary Clinton show that they are bigger than the rest of us (or just have bigger balls) when they announced their plans to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America. They will join former Presidents George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, who have also announced they will attend. George and Laura Bush said today that they would be present “to witness the peaceful transfer of power.”
Via New York Magazine:
Two well-placed sources tell New York that over the past few weeks Hillary Clinton discussed with trusted advisers and friends whether or not she should attend the inaugural. She and President Clinton, the sources said, decided to do so out of a sense of duty and respect for the American democratic process.
Prepare for loud jeers and shouts of “Lock Her Up!” from the audience.
Can’t imagine why on earth she would subject herself to this.
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Facebook temporarily banned bestselling author/ journalist/WOWLebrity Kevin Sessums after he called Trump supporters a “nasty fascistic lot” in a post.
Sessums said the comment was in reaction to a tweet by ABC political analyst Matthew Dowd, who said that he had been called by “lovely ‘christian’ Trump fans: a Jew, faggot, retard.”
In response, Sessums called Trump backers a “fascistic lot” on his Facebook page, adding: “Dowd is lucky he didn’t get death threats like Kurt Eichenwald. Or maybe he did and refuses to acknowledge them. If you voted for Trump and continue to support him and you think you are better than these bigoted virulent trolls, you’re not.”
Sessums was notified that the post violated Facebook’s “community standards” and that he would be barred from posting for 24 hours. Furthermore, he faced a permanent ban if he continued his “hate speech.”
“It’s chilling. It’s arbitrary censorship,” said Sessums, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair who has penned two bestselling memoirs. “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, do I have to be careful about what I say about Trump now?’”
Facebook was contacted by the Guardian regarding the incident and insisted that the ban had been a “mistake, lifted the ban and restored the post.”
“We’re very sorry about this mistake,” a spokesman told the newspaper. “The post was removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate. Our team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong.”
(via HuffPo)
In related news, author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaiden’s Tale) wrote in an open letter to PEN, cautioning America against dictators of any kind:
“When dictators of any kind, in any country, achieve power, they clamp down on writers and journalists first, because writers and journalists are alternative and frequently dissenting voices.
The Canadian author continued, “America has always prided itself on being a country where the freedom to write is valued. Please support and preserve that value.” She also referenced a line from The Handmaid’s Tale, connecting it with today’s environment of fake news and “cyberbullying from the corridors of our power.”
Via HuffPo:
While Atwood doesn’t name names in her plea, her implication is clear: Donald Trump’s many attempts to discredit the media are more than bad omens. They’re deliberate steps toward limiting freedom of thought.
The plot of The Handmaid’s Tale is set in 2005, after the spread of false information ― a staged terrorist attack ― leads to the speedy renunciation of the Constitution, and revocation of women’s rights. In her letter, Atwood makes it clear that she doesn’t view her story as a playful “what if” scenario, but a warning against a possible future.
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Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana welcomed the the birth of their son this morning, her rep confirms to People magazine
“Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana are thrilled to welcome their new son Eissa Al Mana into the world,” a rep for the singer, 50, says in a statement.
“She had a stress-free healthy delivery and is resting comfortably.”
The baby was reportedly five weeks late, adding to speculation that the couple was actually using a surrogate – which is neither here nor there and I’m sorry I brought it up.
From People:
Jackson married Qatari businessman Al Mana in 2012, and news of their first child’s impending arrival was reported in May. Speculation first began when the singer postponed her Unbreakable World Tour so, as she said in a video posted to Twitter in early April, she and Al Mana could focus on their family.
“We’re in the second leg of the tour, and there actually has been a sudden change,” she said in the clip. “I thought it was important that you be the first to know.”
“My husband and I are planning our family,” she continued. “So I’m going to have to delay the tour.”
In October, the singer shared a baby bump photo exclusively with PEOPLE, saying, “We thank God for our blessing.”
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Laila McQueen aka Tyler from Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race shaves his eyebrows and shows his technique for drawing on eyebrows that look real, so you can be possible, plausible, poshable and passable.
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For the first time in the United States, NYC has issued a birth certificate reading “intersex” in the gender field.
Sara Kelly Keenan, a Brooklyn native was just granted the validation for her intersex gender that had gone ignored for decades.
The original “lie” of an intersex birth had been perpetrated by the hospital and the adoption agency without her adoptive parents’ knowledge or consent. However, this second lie relied on their participation, observed Keenan. Trying to learn why she was not developing normally, they had taken their 16-year-old daughter to a succession of doctors, who ordered various tests.
The results showed Keenan to be genetically male with female genitalia and mixed internal reproductive anatomy. (Via CNN)
This is a huge win for gender identity politics, and shows we still have many improvements to make for everyone to be equal. Hopefully the United States will keep moving forward to become more progressive in these tentative times.
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The recently-released trailer for Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher is two minutes of archival footage, interviews and home movies that shows the bond that existed between mother & daughter.
“Mother and I live next door to each other.”
It’s obvious Reynolds and Fisher loved each other and were each other’s protectors. Fisher says,
“I’m my mom’s best friend. Far more than I would ever want to, I know what my mother feels and wants…”
Bright Lights premieres this weekend, January 8, on HBO.
Watch.
(via Jezebel)
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January 4, 1877– Marsden Hartley:
“I want to paint the livingness of appearances.”
He is one of my favorite artists from one of my favorite periods. Plus, Mardsen Hartley is one of the greatest and most intriguing figures in the art world.
He was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1877. As a teenager, Hartley moved to Cleveland to study Art, already seasoned by solitude and a sense that he was gay. He had survived a childhood of Dickensian proportions: The early death of his mother, an abandonment by his father, and a life of poverty that forced him to leave school at 15-years-old and go to work in a shoe factory. Hartley:
“My childhood was vast with terror and surprise.”
In true Dickensian fashion, Hartley was rescued as a young adult by sponsors attracted to his obvious talent and charisma. He enjoyed summer retreats in Maine, where he began a lifelong interest in literature and philosophical thought, including works by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, and the mother of us all, Walt Whitman. Those patrons paid for him to study at the National Academy Of Design in Manhattan. For several years, he studied in NYC and painted in Maine, where depicting landscapes was his first and last great subject. In 1909, he met famed photographer and Modern Art aficionado Alfred Stieglitz, who immediately gave him an exhibition at Stieglitz’ Gallery 291 and made him a prominent member of the special circle of American Modern Artists.
Hartley moved to Paris in 1912. He fell in love with the hues and physicality of oil paint and he absorbed the feelings and techniques of the Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and early Cubists. Hartley loved Europe and he joined Gertrude Stein’s circle of the young modern painters. He also understood that Pablo Picasso was the best of the best. Indeed, he became one of the first American artists to paint in the modernist style of Picasso, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky.
He also met two officers in the German Army: Arnold Rönnebeck, who was a sculptor, and Karl von Freyburg, Rönnebeck’s tall, blond cousin. They boys invited him to visit Berlin, which in pre-WW II had a thriving gay scene, despite laws against homosexuality. There was also a near constant parade of handsome German Army officers in Berlin, which Hartley loved. Berlin became his spiritual home away from home. Von Freyburg and Hartley fell in love, but tragically, von Freyburg was killed in battle in 1914. Grief stricken, Hartley created some of his greatest paintings to memorialize their love.
He returned to NYC in 1915, and in late 1916, he took a house in Provincetown with artist Charles Demuth. Demuth was one of the earliest American painters to show a gay identity through explicit, yet positive depictions of desire between men. Demuth also knew his way around NYC’s gay scene, where Hartley was introduced to the sassy lesbian writer Djuna Barnes.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship during The Great Depression which allowed him to live in Mexico in 1932, where he began a romance with gay poet Hart Crane, who was also there because of a Guggenheim grant. On a return voyage to the USA, Crane was severely beaten after making a pass at a male crew member. Humiliated and despondent, Crane jumped overboard in the Gulf Of Mexico. Hartley painted 8 Bells Folly (1933), as a tribute to Crane.
He found work in NYC as part of FDR’s Workers Progress Administration (WPA) and their Public Works Of Art Project. He became friendly with the family of Francis Mason of Nova Scotia and he lived with them in a small Canadian fishing community, finally finding some happiness and inspiration in their company. But, tragedy managed to find Hartley again; two handsome, strapping sons of the Mason family were killed at sea. Deeply saddened, Hartley stayed with the Masons through that winter, but then never returned.
Hartley went back to Maine in 1937, after declaring that he wanted to become “The Painter Of Maine”, specializing in depicting New England life at a local level. His work was part of one of many Regionalism movements at the time, groups of artists who represented distinctly American Art from different geographic points in the USA. He continued to do paintings of Maine, primarily deeply expressive scenes of life around the port towns and the fishermen who made their living there, combining thick brushstrokes and vibrant colors. He kept painting, putting down his brushes for good in 1943, taken by a heart attack at 66-years-old.
Flaming American (Swim-Champ), 1939
During his lifetime, Hartley received little recognition for his art and never made much money from his work. He never had a longtime romantic partner, and never really had any family. The young German soldier that he loved was killed in a war, and the virile, attractive and masculine sons of the fishing family he stayed with in Nova Scotia tragically drowned. It seems rather appropriate that Hartley created his most powerfully expressive works during his many bouts of depression spent alone in remote locations.
His portraits of swimmers and wrestlers that he painted in Maine in the late 1930’s are among the most powerfully sensual images of men I have ever seen. It could not have been easy to face the difficulties of being a gay artist in his era.
Hartley did seem to have an inkling that his art would live on. He wrote this near the end of his life:
“I am not a ‘book of the month’ artist, and I do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American Art.”
Hartley was an artist with a great love of great paintings who wanted to make his own and have them be viewed as great. A decade ago, Hartley’s colorful painting Lighthouse sold for $6.2 million at Christie’s.
No. 47, Berlin, 1914-1915 (Hirshhorn Museum).
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Leslie Jordan who played Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace got everyone excited when he said the ’90s hit sitcom would be returning this year. Jordan said,
“It was a huge part of my life and then I won the Emmy and it’s back. Here’s the way it works (NBC) has ordered 10. It’ll be for next season, so it’ll go on in July and then they’ll add the guest cast.”
Well, it seems that Debra Messing pooped on Jordan’s (and OUR) parade when she tweeted,
“Sadly, Leslie was wrong. Nothing beyond talks…“
But to further confuse the issue, Megan Mullally also posted the photo below with the cryptic caption,
“self-explan”
A possible series reboot was fueled by rumors in September when the cast appeared in a get out the vote video for HRC. And back in October, sources confirmed reports that NBC was in early talks, although none of the four stars had yet signed on. According to creators and producers Max Mutchnick and David Kohan everyone is still fully behind it, as well as the cast.
Mullally said she felt “great” about the possibility. So hopefully, it’s only a matter of when then.
(via EW)
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Late last night a gay couple’s home in Van Nuys, California was vandalized. Authorities are looking into the incident as it appears to be an anti-gay hate crime.
Suspects ransacked the home and spray painted anti-gay slurs throughout the house, according to LAPD. They also dumped gallons of paint and bleach throughout the house.
“We found that there was anti-gay graffiti that had been spray painted inside the residence,” Sgt. Jerald Case with the LAPD confirmed to Eyewitness News.
Case said the victims were not home during the crime. (via ABC7)
The LA Times have reported that Los Angeles County is beginning to see a influx of targeted violence such as this. This spike comes after a seven year decline of reported hate crimes. It seems that Trump’s fervent to manufacture an anti-gay Cabinet is starting to take effect.
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A new short video from National Geographic tells the story of a trans teenager going through her gender confirmation surgery so that she can live the genuine life she deserves. Emmie Smith revealed her story congruent to NatGeo’s January “Gender Revolution” issue.
In the specific article titled “Rethinking Gender” Smith, who has a cisgender identical twin, told National Geographic that she hopes the film will help with a growing public understanding about the nuances of gender confirmation surgery.
“It’s not science fiction or mythology,” Smith said. “It’s what happens to women just trying to be at peace with themselves and their bodies.” (via Huffington Post)
Watch the short emotional video here, and get ready for GENDER REVOLUTION: A JOURNEY WITH KATIE COURIC, premiering Monday, Feb. 6, at 9/8c. Produced by Katie Couric Media with National Geographic Studios and World of Wonder Productions!
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Holy Moley! Pretty-boy Mixed Martial Arts fighter James Gallagher put on quite a show at his weigh-in the other day, wearing a pair of cornflower blue shorts that left VERY LITTLE to the imagination. Check out the GIFs below, and gasp in delight as he swangs that thang from side to side. Now THAT’s a bulge! (Thank you Instinct Magazine for pointing it out to us!)
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John Oliver may very well care about gays, but it turns out gay men don’t that much about about John Oliver.
The host of HBO‘s Last Week Tonight joined up with Billy Eichner for Billy on the Street to ask what gay people think of him. One man asks,
“Who’s John Oliver?”
Ouch.
But when Eichner asks about their opinion of TV host Wendy Williams, the answers are a LOT more definitive.
Oliver tries his best to sell his show in a couple of awkward little pleas, but all of them seem to be more interested in Wendy Williams and Taraji P. Henson’s character Cookie Empire.
Toward the end of the segment, one guy says,
“He talks about all the people that are involved in non-traditional relationships, so he does a good job of helping everyone start to think about it a little bit better.”
Thank you! This gay LOVES JO. (That’s John Oliver, geez!)
Watch.
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A fascinating snippet from the 1995 WOW/AMC series Hollywood Fashion Machine, detailing the “garage sale” MGM had in the late ’70s when it found itself in dire financial straits and had to sell off much of its legendary costumes and props. It was Hollywood royalty Debbie Reynolds who really stepped up, spending $180,000 of her own money, buying up priceless articles like Judy Garland‘s dress from The Wizard of Oz and Marilyn Monroe‘s white dress from The Seven Year Itch. Watch below.
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Raja and Raven of RuPaul’s Drag Race TOOT and BOOT social media photos of Drag Race alumni Pearl, Nicole Paige Brooks, Jade Jolie, April Carrion, Delta Work and Robbie Turner.
Plus a the game, “Mopped or Flopped!” where Raja & Raven determine if the queen cosplay fan submissions are worthy.
New episodes of Fashion Photo RuView every Wednesday on WOWPresents!
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