“It’s discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
Noël Coward
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#QueerQuote: Noël Coward
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#GetDown! The “Will & Grace” Theme Song Sung By the Cast. Watch
Ever wonder what the lyrics to the Will & Grace theme are? Well, this video clip will answer NONE of your questions.
The sitcom’s stars teased the show’s upcoming reboot on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to sing new lyrics to the original theme song.
Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Eric McCormack and Sean Hayes belt it out, (with a little help from Fallon.)
Will & Grace premieres (this week!) at 9PM on Thursday, Sept. 28 on NBC.
Watch.
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We’ve Imagined That “At Home with Amy Sedaris” Would Be Weird –But Not THIS WEIRD. Watch
We’ve been talking up the new show At Home with Amy Sedaris and showing you some short clips and behind the scenes pics from the show’s Instagram and photographer Todd Oldham. But this latest clip gives us a better idea of how twisted, in subtle and overt ways, that our cracked Martha Stewart really is.
Take for instance the segment with Cole Escola (in drag) cooking with Sedaris, where we hear Amy say,
“I hope you’re getting a good shot of this… we’re really laying it on thick.“
Cut to a quick shot overhead of Amy’s bald spot. Shades of Gerri Blank, we love it! See what other oddities that tickle your fancy in this new extended clip.
At Home with Amy Sedaris premieres on October 24th on truTV.
Watch.
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#ArtDept: Bellini’s “Portrait Of A Young Man”
Giovanni Bellini (1430 -1516) the master of the Venetian School of painting, is one of the most influential figures in Italian Renaissance Art. Born in Venice in 1430, he painted for nearly 70 years, until his death in 1516. Bellini’s career is just one part of the greatest period of Venetian art, including the revolutionary works of his friends, Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco) and Titian (Tiziano Vecelli). Bellini’s paintings occupy a special place in Art History for their beauty and for their innovation.
His work can be found in some of the world’s greatest museums, including America’s The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, The Frick in NYC, and The J. Paul Getty Museum in L.A. But for me, it was rather thrilling to come across many of his altarpieces in the perish churches in Venice, especially the large, elaborate Chiesa Santo Giovanni e Paolo in the Castello neighborhood of Venice.
Giovanni was just one of the painters in the Bellini family. His father, Jacopo was one of the leading painters of the early 15th century. Jacopo introduced the principles of the Florentine Renaissance to Venice. Giovanni’s brother Gentile was also a great Renaissance painter, as was his sister Niccolosa, but women really couldn’t have careers in the arts during that era, so Niccolosa married a painter instead.
Bellini is known for his sacred art: images for private devotion, Madonnas, and altar pieces, but also portraits of private and public figures.
The subject of this Portrait Of A Young Man, was probably a poet, but some art historians believe that the picture might be of Bellini himself. It was offered for at auction at Christie’s NYC in 2013, but it failed to sell. So, it could still be yours!
By the way, a Bellini is also a cocktail. It was invented in the 1930s by Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of Harry’s Bar in Venice. He named his drink the Bellini because its unique color reminded him a painting by Giovanni Bellini. Harry’s Bar was a favorite haunt of Ernest Hemingway, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Peggy Guggenheim and Barbara Hutton. It is mentioned in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited as a favorite spot of the characters Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte during their time in Venice.
Bellini:
3 ounces Prosecco
2 ounces fresh white peach puree
Mix and serve in a Champagne flute.
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#HurricaneMaria: JLo Pleads with Fans, “Puerto Rico Needs Our Help” Watch (& Donate)
Jennifer Lopez is asking fans to help the people of Puerto Rico after the island suffered massive destruction with Hurricane Maria. Jlo took to Instagram on to deliver a passionate plea for support for the nation’s relief efforts.
Lopez, who is currently in Las Vegas for her residency show said,
“What’s on my mind is what’s going on in Puerto Rico. The devastation is beyond belief. Me and my cousin still haven’t been able to hear from our families over there.
Today, Puerto Rico needs our help. I urge you to support and donate to the efforts of the First Lady of Puerto Rico, Beatriz Areizaga. Together we can help rebuild our island, and the Caribbean.“
Below are a list of organizations you can donate to.
Watch.
Hand In Hand
handinhand2017.com/
The Benefit for Hurricane Relief telethon raised more than 55 million so far for victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. You can also text GIVE to 80077 to donate $25.
American Red Cross
redcross.org
Mexican Red Cross
cruzrojamexicana.org.mx
The Salvation Army
salvationarmyusa.org
Puerto Rican Family Institute
https://www.facebook.com/PRFIORG/
Oxfam America
oxfamamerica.org
Oxfam Mexico
oxfammexico.org
Save The Children
savethechildren.org
(Photo, Instagram, YouTube; via aol)
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#LGBTQ: Trans Man Forced To Expose Prosthetic Penis After Being Accused of Stealing a Sausage
A transgender man was accused of shoplifting and strip searched at the Food Fair grocery store in Essex County, New Jersey last May.
Nautica Pagan was at the store to sell his phone to someone, and he entered the store close to its closing time. when a security guard thought he saw a sausage in Pagan’s pants and wanted to search him. Pagan told the security guard that what was in his pants was private. But the guard insisted on searching him and called the police for a FEMALE officer to conduct the search.
Pagan tried to leave the store but the security guard allegedly blocked his exit putting his foot down, literally, in front of Pagan.
Instead of waiting for the officer to arrive, a female cashier was sent to the restroom with Pagan so that she could see what was in his pants.
“I was asking God to please get me out of the supermarket as fast as possible.
Never I’d say I faced any discrimination in my life, until this point.”
The security officer apologized to Pagan as he was leaving.
A shoplifter can only be detained if store security has probable cause to believe that they stole something under New Jersey law. Probable cause is usually established by witnessing a shoplifter hiding something or leaving without paying while holding the store’s property. Pagan’s suit claims that the store did not have probable cause.
Rodriguez, the store manager, insists that Pagan stayed voluntarily and that the incident wasn’t that bad. Rodriguez said, misgendering Pagan.
“I felt horrible when [he] was telling me [he] was crying and everything but did we detain [him]? No. Did we force [him] to show us [his genitalia]? No. We basically told [him] we need to see what’s in your pants because [the prosthetic] was very exaggerated.”
He said that the store is in a high crime area and that lots of shoplifting happens near closing time. He said that Pagan might have drawn attention because he was leaving without buying anything. He also said that salami is one of the things shoplifters usually steal.
“It’s expensive and they sell it to little corner stores and stuff like that.”
Rodriguez said that the officer did not discriminate because he would have searched anyone under those conditions, no matter their gender.
Robyn Gigl, an attorney and a former Garden State Equality board member, said that the case rests on whether Pagan consented to staying.
“I think it’s a very fact sensitive case as to whether or not there was coercion, whether or not there was consent.”
(Image, screengrab; via LGBTQ Nation)
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Caitlyn Jenner Found Out Kylie Was Pregnant on the Internet, Just Like You!
According to The Sun, Caitlyn Jenner was apparently heartbroken after reading the news that daughter Kylie is pregnant her first child on the web rather than being told personally.
A source close to the family exclusively told The Sun Online: “Caitlyn had to find out that Kylie was pregnant just like everyone else — from the internet.
“She was heartbroken that her own daughter wouldn’t confide something so serious to her first.
“Of course Caitlyn will get over it and she will be there for her daughter and granddaughter.
“The fact is, Kylie was just worried about Caitlyn’s reaction and then the news leaked out much quicker than she expected – before she had the chance to speak to her.”
Also, Caitlyn is worried because her daughter and rapper Travis Scott are not in a long-term committed relationship.
“Caitlyn was really shocked and disappointed to learn that Kylie is pregnant,” a source close to Caitlyn told Hollywood Life.
“She thinks Kylie is way too young to have a baby, and that she should have waited until she was in a long term committed relationship.
“Obviously, Kylie has more than enough money to ensure that she can pay for help but Caitlyn still thinks that having a baby will take a huge toll on Kylie’s life.”
The source added that reality star Caitlyn would have preferred for Kylie to wait until she was older to have a baby.
(Photos: Pacific Coast News)
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#ManCrushMonday: Wanna See Photos of Naked Men Doing Yoga? #NSFW
• • • #beach #yoga #naturism #sun #picoftheday #photooftheday #yogi #naked #nakedyoga #freespirit #love #happiness #laughoutloud #clouds #ciesislands #galicia #spain #yogaclass #madrid #picofday #model #malemodel #manbun #beachbums #armbalance #memories #photoofday #omshanti #namaste
Not a lot of explanation necessary, but here you go. And these all aren’t exactly #SFW (depending on where you work) You’ll definitely see some naked butts. (Does this require tucking, wonder…?)
Regardless, here are some hot, fit, naked men doing yoga. You might want to follow some of them on Instagram –to up your naked yoga game.
by @shawnmchavez
but the leaves will be beautiful soon 
and Autumn is always my favorite _ #yoga #yogadaily #yogafit #yogastrong #practicemakesprogress #yogaeverydamnday #dailypractice #yogagram #instayoga #yogi #yogainspiration #motivateyourself #yogalover #yogaforlife #yogajourney #yogachallenge #yogacommunity #yogapose #yogaaddict #yoga4growth #myyogalife #practiceandalliscoming #yogisofinstagram #yogisofig #yogaeveryday #igyoga #igyogafam #igyogacommunity #nakedyoga #ustrasana
: @justinokeithcreative
(via Pop Sugar)
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Bini the Bunny Sets World Record for Dunking Basketball (& Meet His Super-Cute Owner!)
Bini the bunny, a 5-year-old Holland Lop rabbit, was recently honored with a Guinness World Record for “Most Basketball Slam Dunks In One Minute By A Rabbit” – and HuffPo is having a ball with the bunny puns on this story (even if you don’t “carrot all” about sports it’s “hare-raising” what this silly rabbit can do!) etc etc etc). So, how many basketballscan Bini dunk? Seven. Which is impressive, I suppose, but the REAL story here is about his yummy owner, Shai Asor. That smile! That accent! MARRY ME, SHAI!
Adds HuffPo:
Bini doesn’t confine his talents to the basketball court. He can also paint, comb hair, play arcade games, and even vacuum up his own poop, according to the Metro.
Vacuum his own poop? That’s no DUMB BUNNY!
Anyway. Watch Bini hop into the Guinness Book of World’s Records below.
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#Breaking: Anthony’s Weiner Is Going To Prison…
Yes, today Federal District of Manhattan Judge Denise Cote sentenced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner to 21 months in prison. Weiner plead guilty to exchanging lewd material with a minor last May.
Weiner had asked for probation claiming that his obsession lay with exchanging lewd material with strangers, not an interest in underage girls. (Weiner cried when the verdict was announced.)
The prosecution called probation “inadequate” and asked for two years in prison (he faced up to 10 years for his guilty plea).
The result of an F.B.I. investigation into the already-resigned congressman uncovered sexually explicit text messages with a then 15-year-old girl in North Carolina, who had reached out to Weiner via Twitter in January 2016.
A previous scandal forced him to resign from congress in 2011, while even MORE sexting blew up a mayoral campaign in New York. The latter was captured in the 2016 documentary, Weiner.
Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, are also going through a divorce, which Weiner attributed to his obsession. In a letter to the judge, which The New York Times has published in full, he expressed his remorse and noted that his
“continued acting out over years crushed the aspirations”
of his wife. She worked as the vice chair of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and has been a close associate of the former secretary of state for years. (Photo, YouTube; via Vanity Fair)
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#OnThisDay: 60 Years Ago, Central High School is Integrated using U.S. Army Troops
US Department, from Wikimedia Commons
September 25, 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is Integrated using U.S. Army Troops.
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in educational institutions was unconstitutional. Five days later, the Little Rock School Board issued a statement saying it would comply with the decision as soon as SCOTUS gave them a way and a time frame in which desegregation should be implemented.
For that era, Arkansas was among the more progressive Southern states regarding issues of race. The Little Rock Public Library allowed African-Americans in 1951. In 1955, the Little Rock School Board unanimously adopted a plan for integration to begin in 1957 at the high school level. But, The National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People (NAACP) filed suit, arguing the change was too gradual, but a federal judge dismissed the suit, saying that the school board was acting in good faith. In 1957, Little Rock’s bus system was desegregated and seven out of Arkansas’ eight state universities were integrated.
In Spring 1957, there were 517 black students who lived in the Central High School district. Eighty said that they wanted to attend Central High in September. They were interviewed by the Little Rock School Board, which accepted 17. Eight of those students later decided to remain at all-black Horace Mann High School, leaving the “Little Rock Nine” to be the first black students at Little Rock’s best high school.
In August 1957, the newly formed Mother’s League Of Central High School won a temporary injunction to block integration of the school from the local court, charging that it would lead to violence. The federal district court nullified the injunction on August 30. On September 2, Governor Orval Faubus, a staunch segregationist, called out the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School and prevent integration, claiming he wanted to prevent the bloodshed. The next day, the federal court ordered integrated classes to begin on September 4.
That morning, 100 National Guard troops with rifles encircled Central High School. A mob of 500 white citizens gathered. When the black students arrived, the crowd shouting racial slurs and threatened the teenagers. The National Guard troops refused to let the black students into the school. One of the nine, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, was surrounded by the mob, which threatened to lynch her. She was finally taken to safety by a sympathetic white woman.
Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann condemned Faubus’ decision to call out the National Guard, but the governor defended his action stating that integration would come to Little Rock when and if the majority of people chose to support it. Faubus’ defiance of the federal court order was the first major test of the ruling in Brown v. Board Of Education.
On September 20, the federal court ruled that Faubus used the troops to prevent integration, not to preserve law and order. Faubus was forced to withdraw the National Guard troops. The Little Rock Police Department was put in charge of the situation
On September 23, a mob of 1,000 white people gathered outside Central High School. The nine black students managed to enter the school through a side door. The mob became unruly learning that the black students were inside, and the police evacuated them out of fear for their safety.
That evening, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued a call for opponents of the federal court order to cease and desist. On September 24, Little Rock’s mayor sent a telegram to Eisenhower requesting troops to maintain order and complete the integration process. The president federalized the Arkansas National Guard and deployed U.S. troops to Little Rock. That evening, from the White House, Eisenhower delivered a nationally televised address explaining that he had taken the action to defend the rule of law and prevent mob rule.
Photograph from “I Am Not Your Negro”, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
On September 25, the Little Rock Nine entered the school under heavily armed guard. Troops remained at Central High School for the entire school year. Yet, the black students had to endure verbal and physical assaults from some of the white students. One of the nine, Melba Patillo, had acid thrown in her eyes. Elizabeth Eckford was pushed down a flight of stairs. The three male students were often beaten up. Minnijean Brown dumped a bowl of chili over the head of a white student who taunted her and she was suspended. Later, Brown was suspended for the rest of the year after continuing to push back.
In May 1958, Ernest Green, the only senior in the group, became the first African-American to graduate from Central High School.
In September 1958, Faubus ordered Little Rock’s three high schools closed rather than permit integration. Most Little Rock students lost a year of school while the legal fight over desegregation continued. In 1959, a federal court struck down Faubus’ school-closing law, and in September 1959, all of Little Rock’s high schools opened with black students in attendance. But, it wasn’t until 1972 that all public schools in Little Rock were finally fully integrated.
The Little Rock Nine went on to great accomplishments. Green was Assistant Secretary of Labor in President Jimmy Carter’s administration. Pattillo became a reporter for NBC News and wrote Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Desegregate Little Rock’s Central High School. Brown was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Department of Interiors’ Workforce Diversity in the Clinton Administration. Eckford served in the U.S. Army. Gloria Ray Karlmark, the granddaughter of a slave, graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. She immigrated to Sweden and was head of IBM’s Nordic Laboratory. Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, entering Central High School at 14-years-old, wrote A Mighty Long Way: My Journey To Justice At Little Rock Central High School. Terrence Roberts was Assistant Dean of the UCLA School of Social Welfare. He wrote Simple, Not Easy: Reflections On Community, Social Responsibility And Tolerance. Jefferson Thomas worked for the Department of Defense for 27 years. He passed away in 2010. Thelma Mothershed Wair was a high school teacher for 30 years.
Photograph courtesy of Little Rock Public Schools
In 1999, President William Jefferson Clinton awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the Little Rock Nine. A decade later, President Barack Obama invited them as special guests to his inauguration.
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Colin Kaepernick Smiles and Looks Impossibly Hot as Reporter Asks Him about Trump
Our collective fantasy husband Colin Kaepernick was spotted going to the gym this morning to get even buffer and more gorgeous. A TMZ reporter asked the former 49ers quarterback how he felt about all the NFL players who took a knee on Sunday following the national anthem protest he started last year. Colin just smiled his enigmatic Mona Lisa smile and said while he appreciates the offer but he wasn’t talking to the press today. His girlfriend Nessa (BOOOOO!) said he was just going to work out and asked that we leave him alone.
Watch the video here.
(Featured image: Pacific Coast News)
Check out some Insta images below. My GOD, he’s just a spectacular specimen of a man. COLIN KAEPERNICK FOR PRESIDENT 2020!
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#Nunsense: Randy Rainbow Asks the Musical Question –”How Do Solve a Problem Like Korea?” Watch
Randy Rainbow is at it again with a Sound of Music parody in his latest political commentary and the verbal sparring of Trump and Kim Jong Un.
Plus you get a little Rocket Man chorus too…
“And I think it’s gonna be a Jong Jong time…“
Watch.
(Image, YouTube; via Towleroad)
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September 26th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!
Anne Robinson
Ben Shenkman
Bryan Ferry
Christina Milian
Cindy Herron
Donna Douglas
Jake Paltrow
James Caviezel
Jerry Weintraub
Jillian Barberie
Linda Hamilton
Mary Beth Hurt
Melissa Sue Anderson
Nev Schulman
Nicki French
Olivia Newton-John
Philip Bosco
Serena Williams
Shawn Stockman
Sheri Moon Zombie
Tracy Thorn
Winnie Mandela
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#BornThisDay: Actor / Singer, Julie London
September 26, 1926– Julie London:
“In this business, it’s difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.”
In decades past, in the early autumn, The Husband and I would traditionally travel a bit. This year we are too broke to even travel to other Portland neighborhoods, plus The Husband works too much. But in the day, we have had major, marked, momentous, meaningful journeys in late September/Early October including to Northern Italy, NYC, Vancouver BC, San Francisco. But, even in the lean times we would pack up the dogs and rent a cabin at the Washington Coast.
Those trips to the coast were rather perfect. We would bring books, magazines, whiskey, pot and a big stack of perfect beach CDs. There was nothing as sexy, seductive and special as playing the music of Julie London on the sound system as waves crashed and the wind rattled the little WPA-era cabin that we always rented and we would get a little drunk and a little dreamy while listening to London’s singing.
Now, in the 21st century, I also hear her songs as the perfect soundtrack for my mind wrapping around the ending of the television series Mad Men (2007-2015). It could be that the phrase “bedroom community” was coined especially with London in mind.
I love the economy of London’s singing. Her phrasing is spot-on and yet surprising in its nuance. With her throaty, smoky sound, playfully seductive as any voice I have heard, London is a skilled temptress. Yet, she never played the total sex bomb. Her appeal wasn’t like that of the unattainable Rita Hayworth or Lauren Bacall. She cleverly cast herself as the not-quite-wholesome, available non-Doris Day girl. She was the chick at cocktail parties who would send every man in the room fumbling for his lighter whenever she reached for a cigarette.
As a recording artist London was entirely a product of her time. No wonder her career began in the mid-1950s, just as the USA was starting to discover sex as recreation, and it ended in 1969 when the revolution was hitting a few bumps.
The character London played on her albums was not a pushover. Songs like My Heart Belongs To Daddy, An Occasional Man, and Take Back Your Mink could reduce even a gay guy to mush. When suggested in the song that Nice Girls Don’t Stay For Breakfast, her closing line was “pass the jam”.
If you only know London for her 1955 gigantic hit Cry Me A River (despite hundreds of cover versions, London’s remains the definitive one for me), or for her role as nurse Dixie McCall on the long-running NBC series Emergency! (1972-79) you would be surprised by the depth and breadth of her recording career from 1955-1969. Cry Me A River was written by her high-school friend Arthur Hamilton. It sold more than a million records. London performed the song in the film The Girl Can’t Help It (1956), and her version was used to great effect in the films Passion Of Mind (2000) and V For Vendetta (2006). Her recording of Yummy, Yummy, Yummy was featured on the HBO series Six Feet Under (2001-05) and it is on its soundtrack album. Her final recording was My Funny Valentine for the soundtrack of Burt Reynolds’ film Sharky’s Machine (1988).
London released 29 studio albums, plus a live session and two greatest hits compilations. Among the adult Pop Music singers, she rivaled the biggest sellers of the day: Francis Albert Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, and even Barbra Streisand, in terms of output. She easily out sold the Jazz artists of the era: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Mel Tormé.
I was slightly scandalized and somewhat aroused by the covers of my parental unit’s Julie London albums. To my confused childhood self, they seemed to have some relation to my father’s Playboy magazines. There was Julie (1957), featuring a seemingly naked London reclining in a wire mesh chair and Whatever Julie Wants (1961) with London wearing only a mink coat.
London appreciated her vocal limitations and her ability to make the most of them:
“It’s a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of over-smoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.”
Billboard named her the most popular female vocalist for 1955, 1956, and 1957. She was the subject of a 1957 LIFE Magazine cover.
As a civilian, she was shy and somewhat of a recluse. It says something of her character that London always remained close friends with her ex-husband Jack Webb. In 1972, Webb hired both London and her actor husband Bobby Troup for lead roles on Emergency! where he was an executive producer.
With Robert Fuller in “Emergency!”
London began singing under her real name, Gayle Peck, in her teens. She was discovered by talent agent Sue Carol, the wife of actor Alan Ladd, while working as an elevator operator. Her early film career did not include any singing roles. Her 35-year acting career began in 1944, and included playing opposite Rock Hudson in The Fat Man (1951), Gary Cooper in Man Of The West (1958), where she is the only female in the cast, and Robert Mitchum in The Wonderful Country (1959).
London, who had been a chain smoker since 16-years-old, suffered a stroke in 1995, and left us in 2000. She was 74-years old.
I guess I don’t understand the vetting process; why is Julie London not a major Gay Icon or the basis for a drag persona?
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#QueerQuote: Harvey Milk
“Hope will never be silent.”
Harvey Milk (1930-1978)
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#WOWPresents: “The Boulet Brothers: Dragula, The Search for the World’s Next Drag Supermonster” Season 2 Cast Announced!
Let’s get SPOOK-ening!
It’s an all new season of The Boulet Brothers‘ creep-tastic smash sensation Dragula: The Search for the Next Drag Supermonster!
The series returns on Tuesday October 31 (aka Halloween night) airing, on WOW Presents and Out TV in Canada ! YAAAAS! After Halloween, the rest of the episodes (10 total!) will air every Tuesday following the premiere.
And now…. Let’s meet this season’s monsters:
Abhora
Biqtch Puddin
Dahli
Disasterina
Erika Klash
Felony Dodger
James Majesty
Kendra Onixxx
Monikkie Shame
Victoria Black
They are a disturbing lot, to say the least!
Follow the @bouletbrothers and @bouletbrothersdragula now for exclusive content and behind the scenes footage. Watch the new season of Dragula every Tuesday night on World of Wonder’s Youtube channel starting Tuesday October 31, Halloween night. Watch the show in Canada on cable channel @outtv with info on stations for Australia, South African and Europe TBA soon!
The Boulet Brothers Dragula is produced by Boulet Brothers Productions in association with Out TV.
The Boulet Brothers Dragula is sponsored by Drag Queen Merch, Arda Wigs, Scruff, Dirt Squirrel, and Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics.
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#TransformationTuesday: QWERRRKOUT feat. Lavender Mist
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! (Mx Qwerrrk pic by Santiago Felipe)
Lavender Mist
Age: 28
Location: Savannah, Georgia
About:
“I started drag for the love of the art form, and I thought I could do it justice. My greatest inspirations come from the pop art movement in the late 50s, particularly Jackson Pollock– from whom I’ve taken my name from. I’m also heavily influenced by my good friend Raja. I’m a founding member of my drag house, House of Gunt, and I’m excited for the shows we have in the works!”
Instagram: thelavendermist
QwerrrkOut is where LGBTQQIA kiddies and their friends can have photos of themselves featured on the QwerrkOut page on IG, by tagging or taking a photo of QwerrrkOut on their pages. The pics should capture them queering out and being their authentic selves on the street, in the club, in the boudoir; wherever and however they feel cutest! QwerrrkOut offers gays, lesbians and other queer identified individuals a unique platform to make the world GASP by boldly displaying Gay Anarchy and Sex Positivity (Thanks, Kate Bornstein!!!).
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B.o.B. Starts GoFundMe Page to Prove the Earth Is Flat
“Nothin’ on You” star B.o.B. has started a GoFundMe campaign to send a satellite into space to prove his theory that the Earth is just a flat disc hanging in space.
Hi Flat-Earther B.o.B here. I started this GoFundMe because I’d like to send one, if not multiple satellites as far into space as I can, or into orbit, to find the curve. I’m looking’ for the curve.
To that end, he says he needs is a small investment of $200,000 dollars (and launch approval, of course). So far he’s received $1,771.
Via HuffPo:
B.o.B. has expressed skepticism about the Earth being truly round since 2015.
“No matter how high in elevation you are … the horizon is always eye level …sorry cadets … I didn’t wanna believe it either,” he claimed, according to the paper. ”Don’t believe what I say, research what I say. I’m going up against the greatest liars in history … you’ve been tremendously deceived.”
In January 2016, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson attempted to calmly respond to the rapper’s “evidence” on Twitter, before finally getting frustrated.
@bobatl Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016
Tyson dropped the mic on B.o.B.’s flat Earth beliefs a few days later on The Nightly Show.
“Isaac Newton, my man, said, ‘If I have seen farther than others, it’s by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ Can I get an amen? So that’s right B.o.B. When you stand on the shoulders of those who came before, you might just see far enough to realize the Earth isn’t fucking flat!”
He added, “And, by the way, this is called gravity!”
One GoFundMe commenter had a bright idea:
Bro. I am totally with you on this. But we cannot trust anything but our senses. The technology you’re using will make it appear that the earth is round because of the curvature of the lenses mounted on your satellite. The only way to find out if the earth is flat is by going to outer soace yourself and ejecting yourself from the spacecraft, because the window glass would also have a slight curvature making the earth look round. Then you have to get out of your space suit, becayse the glass on your space suit will curve the appearance of the earth. So only then you will see that the earth is in fact, flat.
(Top photo: Pacific Coast News)
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Watch Alyssa Edwards TURN IT OUT at Bushwig 2017
We all know, nobody puts on a show like our girl Alyssa. Literally, she would exhaust Tina Turner if they ever went head to head (can you imagine?). Here she is at this year’s Bushwig working the crowd, doing high kicks and splits, and generally just causing a commotion in her sparkly blue minidress and hot pink go-go boots. You absolutely must stop what you’re doing and give the goddess your full attention.
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