Gregg Araki’s last two movies, while wildly different from each other, were leaps and bounds better than his weird, ultra-low-budget films (like The Living End and Totally F***ed) that helped define queer cinema in the 1990s. Mysterious Skin (2004) was based on Scott Heim’s now classic novel about growing up troubled and gay in Kansas,…
Sometimes progress doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker. “Congress Repeals Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” will always be a sexier sound bite than “Attorney General Holder announces that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).” Make no mistake, though, President Obama’s decision not to defend…
TVLine reports that Kathy Griffin, who most recently called Bristol Palin “the white Precious” in a standup routine during a USO trip, is set to play a Tea Party candidate mom and regional finals judge on Glee. The casting breakdown the show put out indicated the show was in search of a “recent Tea Party…
Samantha Ronson has confirmed that her relationship with Lindsay Lohan is back on again. Two years ago, Lohan and Ronson’s relationship was one of the most famous on/off sagas in Hollywood. Their stormy relationship ended when Ronson took out a restraining order against Lohan describing her as “a very angry individual.” Lohan subsequently moved into…
Transgender model Lea T has revealed she used to wish she was gay instead of transgender. Lea T caught the fashion world’s eye in Riccardo Tisci’s Givenchy Fall/Winter 2010 ad campaign and has appeared in various editions of Vogue. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey recently she explained how she had come to accept she…
Grindr, the largest all male location-based mobile social networking tool for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and compatible BlackBerry devices is coming up for its second anniversary. At that time, the app will have been downloaded some 1.65 million times and the Grindr community is growing by 100,000 downloads a month and has more than…
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Monday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. – 9p.m., Turner Classic Movies When I was a wee gay boy just out of the closet, an avuncular man who came out in the 1950s gave me a list of movies I had to see now that I was Capital G Gay. At…
The Stieg Larsson Trilogy, a box set that includes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest If you missed these films when they were playing at the Landmark Hillcrest, they’re now packaged together in a handy-dandy box set. In all three movies,…
Diversionary’s current show may be billed as the West Coast Premiere, but the story of Fair Use is not an original tale. In fact, the theatre does not even shy away from comparing it to other famous works, because that’s what makes this romantic comedy so funny. “I like to think of it as a…
A few months ago, I met a handsome man at a bar. I recognized him as one of the better-known, more beautiful men of Hillcrest and decided to approach him. We talked for a while about his passion for music and his desire to break into the industry. We both shared big dreams, but aside…
