New York, NY– Following the release of a sexy teaser trailer, and the launch of a buzz generating social media blitz, GAYS, a new half hour original series about—you guessed it—a group of gay friends in New York City, premiered Jan. 12. The first two episodes went live at gaystheseries.com, as well as on VIMEO,…
America met Neil Patrick Harris as a genius teenage doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D. Years later Harris reinvented his image from teen nerd to slick, skirt-chasing, catch-phrase king Barney Stinson on the long-running comedy How I Met Your Mother, which earned Harris multiple Emmy nominations. Not one to be typecast, Harris moves to stage starring…
After his breakout performance in Bridesmaids, Irish actor Chris O’Dowd hopes to engage more gay fans this spring with his Broadway debut as oafish simpleton Lennie in Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck’s 1937 play about Depression-era migrant workers — even if they’re mostly there to see James Franco. For its most recent issue The Advocate…
Join the San Diego Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation for their first ReadOut event of 2014! In honor of Women’s History Month, they will be celebrating queer Chicana life and literature with readings, book signings and a queer Chicana book fair. Two incredible Chicana lesbian novelists, Carla Trujillo and Felicia Luna Lemus, come together in an…
Despite signs in other parts of the world, the week of March 3 was one for celebration, acceptance and victory for the LGBT community here in the states. Three men, two in sports and one in politics, showed that changes in the American LGBT landscape are coming fast and furious. Jason Collins, the 35-year-old center…
I first discovered Elaine Stritch on the original Broadway soundtrack to Company, the classic 1970 Stephen Sondheim musical about then-modern love in New York. The plot revolves around perennially single Bobby and his married friends; Stritch played Joanne, the oldest of the group. At the end of the second act she sings “The Ladies Who…
NEW YORK, NY – A talented, ambitious, and gay African filmmaker living in NYC, N. Mabasa-Mathope is not letting being homeless and HIV+ stand in the way of making his dream movie project a reality. And with over 530,000 YouTube views of the short film version, the buzz is definitely on about future hit dramedy,…
Tonight, you’re bringing home the bacon. You got it at the grocery store on the way home from work: neat little strips adhered to a rectangle of cardboard, wrapped in plastic. Some bread, a hothouse tomato, a head of lettuce and you’re set. So where does your food come from? Go ahead. Point to the…
dvd of the week In the Coen brothers’ latest film, they focus on one of Greenwich Village’s folk musicians who failed. In the winter of 1961, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is sleeping on the couches of the friends who aren’t angry with him, reeling from the suicide of his former singing partner and a furtive…
dvr this HBO, Sunday, March 9, 9 p.m. The season finale of this television season’s inarguably great drama is this weekend, and if you haven’t been watching, now is your time to catch up either on HBOGo or through other, less legal ways. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are detectives with the Louisiana state police…
