Lady Gaga has hit back at claims that she uses the LGBT community to further her record sales. Speaking to the Advocate, she called criticism against her “ridiculous.” Gaga said, “To say that I would use the gay community to sell records is probably one of the most ridiculous statements anyone can make about me…
Comedienne Wendy Liebman didn’t always want to have a career in comedy. While attending Wellesley College, she majored in psychology with plans of being a therapist. But once she enrolled in a night class, How to Be a Stand-Up Comedian, at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, she shifted her career focus. “In the end,…
San Diego’s LGBT Pride weekend is upon us, so brace yourself for floats and fun and rainbows and paintings. Yes, paintings! In its mission to reach and involve all segments of the local LGBT community, San Diego Pride recognizes the creativity that has defined our community, well … forever. For many years now, our local…
It’s funny, or rather it’s queer, that the summer TV season is always derided for lacking the same punch as its fall through spring counterparts. While that may be the case, it’s the season that brings us the shudder-inducing Toddlers and Tiaras, there is actually a plethora of pink-themed shows, which are the equivalent of…
MOVIE REVIEW: Last week, gay Newsweek senior writer Ramin Setoodeh tried to rustle up some controversy around Horrible Bosses by writing an article about how Jennifer Aniston’s sociopathic sexual harasser character calls Charlie Day’s character “a little faggot” when he tries to explain all of the ways she’s inappropriate. Setoodeh became infamous after writing in…
Thursday, July 14 Rent sing-along Kick off Pride in Bohemian style with the San Diego Women’s Chorus as they host their third annual Pride movie sing-along with the added bonus of a musical theater karaoke party afterwards. From 7 to 9 p.m. laugh and cry as you watch Rent, the film based on the class…
There are few gay movies that are so joyful that I’d want to watch while getting ready for a Pride parade. So many are just too depressing. Or bad. But Priscilla is all glitter, glee and gowns, and – bonus! – a fine screenplay is met with stellar acting. Two drag queens (Hugo Weaving and…
Mervyn LeRoy’s 1956 thriller about a blonde grade-school psychopath is taut, terrifying and more than a little bit campy. Patty McCormack plays Rhoda, the titular character, with a cold, devilish calm that influenced every child playing evil ever since, from The Omen to The Good Son. The battle of wits between Rhoda and her mother…
To say Michael Feinstein is busy is an understatement. The out singer is currently working on his 30th album, creating a score for a Broadway musical, designing a new piano, owns his own nightclub, serves as artistic director of the Palladium Center for the Performing Arts, runs his own record label and still finds…
MOVIE REVIEW: I’m not sure why anyone needs to watch, let along make, 157 minutes of a third movie based on Hasbro’s popular toys known as Transformers. But Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the latest in the series of action movies about morphing robots from outer space, is more than two and a half hours…
