Be sure to check out the terrific lead story in yesterday’s City section, entitled “Speak, Memory.” The article’s writer had discovered a long-lost diary in an old steamer trunk that was being tossed from the basement of her building. (And why we never find old steamer trunks in our building, we’ll never know.) After some […]

News came last week that LIFEbeat, a music industry organization that raises HIV awareness, had invited reggae artists T.O.K. and Beenie Man to perform at a July 18 benefit concert at Webster Hall. It was a, shall we say, curious judgment call, especially since T.O.K. and Beenie Man are notoriously anti-gay and have written songs […]

Alison Bechdel’s train just keeps rolling. She hit No. 35 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list after a string of high-profile raves. There’s a great interview/review in on the Village Voice site on the heels of the New York leg of her publicity blitz last month. And keep track of her blog for […]

Gaywheels.com, the research website devoted to cars from an LGBT perspective, just released their list of the top 10 homo cars. Clocking in at No. 1 is the very-gay Saturn Sky. Also on the list, the environmentally-friendly Prius, the sporty Mazda MX-5, and perennial fave Volkswagen Jetta. In other news, Hothouse still doesn’t have a […]

Want to see the Today show’s Al Roker flip out a little when he says hi to two Kentucky lesbians who speak proudly of the state’s “fast horses and fast women”? Of course you do. Gawker’s got the video from Good As You.

We trust you survived Pride with all your faculties intact, but if you haven’t had enough celebration of your gayness yet, check out Queerty this morning for a collection of video clips from Prides across the country, in addition to some nice shots of Kevin Aviance as he defiantly stole the show in New York […]

Alison Bechdel’s blog has up pictures from her Sunday-night signing at Cattyshack, including one with Brooke and Aja, and another one with a fan who looks a lot like Bechdel, who looks a lot like Mo, if Mo were a live person instead of a drawing. (Speaking of which, we noticed the recent release of […]

Lisa Kron didn’t win anything for her play Well at the Tonys last night, but Cynthia Nixon nabbed the award for best actress in a play for her performance in The Rabbit Hole. Better yet, she kissed her girlfriend Christine Marinoni before going up to accept.
Cynthia Nixon Wins Big at the 2006 Tony Awards […]

In honor of Pride month, Yahoo! has launched a special microsite for worldwide Gay Pride events, photos, blogs, and links to local LGBT groups. Hands down the gayest site we’ve seen in awhile, it makes it easy to be Pride-ing all month long.
Yahoo! launches gay-pride Web site [The Advocate]

The Blade has a piece up about lesbian artist Nicole Eisenman’s new exhibit at the Leo Koenig Gallery (545 W. 23rd St) in Chelsea. Her 8 x 30 foot diptych depicts a pack of Amazonian women who “…return from their successful hunt with a boulder-size testicle enmeshed in their net.” Read on…it gets better.
The Sperm […]