The NY Times reports major Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders are banding together to stop the planned WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem this August. Well, it’s nice to know they found something to agree on. There’s lots of predictable venom from all corners, but leave it to an American to offer the […]

Not quite clear on the reason for this blast from the past from the London Times, but it’s worth a chuckle. A piece from today looks back on the distinguished 30-year career of BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell. Back in 1988, Witchell and his co-anchor Sue Lawley were disrupted on-air by three militant […]

Vice-presidential daughter and big-time lesbian Mary Cheney plans to write a memoir for Simon & Schuster’s new conservative book division, Threshold, headed by Republican strategist Mary Matalin. Among other issues, Cheney will comment on the fallout her sexual orientation had during last year’s presidential campaign, when she was mentioned by both John Kerry and […]

Rush & Molloy post some outtakes from the GLAAD awards Monday night. Among the notables: Jon Stewart’s videotaped thanks that began, “Good evening, Godless sodomites”; Cynthia Nixon getting applause for just showing up with girlfriend Christine Marinoni; and Billy Crystal explaining, “If you see a rather manly person in women’s clothes—it might not […]

Looking for singing, dancing, and comedy tomorrow night? Check out Lip Service, a bimonthly show at the Slipper Room. Doors open at 8pm, show is at 9pm, and the cover is a mere 5 bucks. New this time: “shorty short films.” So how short are we talking here?

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Spring is in the air, and Hothouse is already lamenting our first Sex and the City-less summer. We were wistful, then, to read about Sarah Jessica Parker’s 40th birthday party last Friday at the Plaza’s Grand Ballroom. Her former castmates were all there (even Kim Cattrall!), as husband Matthew Broderick sang “I Can’t […]

Earlier this month Terry Castle, a Stanford professor and author of The Apparitional Lesbian and Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, published a piece in the London Review of Books about the late Susan Sontag. The essay is fondly brutal (or is it brutally fond?) and has been making the rounds in blog-land, especially among […]

I mean, sure, Shelley (who plays Helena Peabody) dishes on Sunday night’s water-bourne sex scene with a resoundingly pregnant Laurel Holloman, but really the only thing you need to know comes near the end of the PlanetOut interview:
That’s What You Get For Asking a Guy There is a scene with Laurel where I am […]

We never thought we’d hear ourselves say this, but Thank you, dear Lord, for making Melissa Rivers. Tanya, we just know you and Joan will get along like peas and carrots. Have you thought about converting?
Sandra Bernhard, or whatever your name is in the show, what a brilliant idea for an exercise. We’ve been trying […]

How many quips can a person devise in response to Israeli queens and the evangelicals who hate them? Oh, let us count the ways. We usually like to handle the pithy sarcasm ourselves, but we’ll gladly step aside for a sardonic fellow traveler. The Nation’s Ari Berman writes in his “Daily Outrage” […]