Posted 5/16/2012 5:00:00 PM
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 By Stephan Horbelt Editor
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Sometimes music speaks where words fail, and it's exactly those situations that form the basis of brand-new OWN Network show
Real Life: The Musical. On the show, reality series, individuals who are tongue-tied, amateur singers get the opportunity to surprise that special someone by staging a live 'flash musical,' à la
Glee. The show premieres Saturday, June 9, at 10 p.m. Watch the trailer below.
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Posted 5/16/2012 1:43:00 PM
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By Stephan Horbelt Editor
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Qwerty recently unveiled its
exclusive story with Dennis Mayer and John Hart, the
gay couple who was arrested in March while aboard an Atlantis cruise ship touring the Caribbean. Controversy ensued when the couple was charged with having sex on their private balcony in
plain sight of onlookers. The couple for a long time maintained they were not having sex, but in their own words to Qwerty, they finally fess up!
Read the couple's entire statement
here. I repost (and comment on) parts of the statement below.
Let’s set the record straight. We’re not addressing this to bash or tell people to boycott Atlantis Events. We’re not suing anyone nor are we looking for fifteen minutes of fame. I can think of far better ways and in a much better light if that were the case. We simply went on what ...
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Posted 5/16/2012 12:07:00 PM
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By Stephan Horbelt Editor
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Those who will be in Long Beach to celebrate Pride during this weekend, May 18-20, will be happy to hear that rainbow flags will fly aboard the Queen Mary when the iconic ocean liner hosts the very first Proud Mary Weekend. Planned to coincide with Long Beach Pride, the second largest Pride celebration in the country, the ship's festivities include Poseidon, an off-the-charts dance party on Saturday night, and a special brunch on Sunday.
Taking place in a three-story event hall that formerly housed one of the Queen Mary’s enormous boilers, Poseidon promises to be the hottest dance event of the weekend. Complete with aerial performers, go-go dancers and a few other surprises, party-goers will be treated to music by DJs Manny Lehman and Scotty K spinning the top dance beats. Poseidon will also feature a live performance by nternational pop ...
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Posted 5/16/2012 11:20:00 AM
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 By Nathaniel Grey Film/TV Correspondent
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Last fall, the usual circle of religious hypocrites blasted ABC for airing
GCB, which, per the book it was based on, represented the three words
Good Christian Bitches. The fact that the alphabet network was sensitive enough to use just the initials was lost on them. Now that the very witty comedy has been cancelled, I expect their victory dance (with snakes) will be short lived. The show taking
GCB's time slot on Sundays is a supernatural drama called 666 Park Avenue. Three cheers for Karma. The series is written and produced by
Fringe's David Wilcox and stars
Brothers and Sisters vet Dave Annabelle,
Desperate Housewives' Vanessa Williams and
Lost star Terry O'Quinn as the sinister building owner.
Among ABC's other new fall series is the comedy How To Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) starring ...
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Posted 5/16/2012 9:38:00 AM
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 By Kevin Taft Contributor
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Outfest is collaborating with the Downtown Independent Theatre to celebrate Outfest’s 30th Anniversary with a new monthly screening series called "Downtown 30." On one Wednesday each month, Outfest will feature either a new LGBT film or a film not yet released on DVD for your viewing pleasure.
In April, the series kicked off with a rare screening of Robert Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean starring gay icons Cher and Karen Black, and featuring Kathy Bates in one of her first-ever screen appearances.
This month, “Downtown 30” will present Johnny Guitar. Directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford as a butch gunslinger, Guitar is an over-the-top western that “upends any preconceived notions about gender roles of the Old West.” While not received well by U.S. critics at the time, it was beloved by French ...
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Posted 5/16/2012 9:14:00 AM
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 By Karen Ocamb News Editor
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Rachel Maddow did an excellent job deconstructing the new cry of “victimization” from the Religious Right. This time it’s longtime anti-gay Frank VanderSloot, national finance co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. This past April,
The Advocate’s Andrew Harmon posted an important story about how
Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, plaintiffs in the American Foundation for Equal Rights federal lawsuit challenging Prop. 8, “were subjected to more than a dozen anti-gay voicemails during the 2010 trial from a man who was later convicted of making threatening telephone calls to Nancy Pelosi.” That’s real victimization! The trial also exposed how cries of victimization are a common technique used by Prop. 8 proponents and Religious Right conservatives when logic doesn’t work. Here—spoiler alert—Rachel points out that VanderSloot is using his whining over being on the Obama campaign’s list of top Romney donors as ...
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Posted 5/15/2012 3:30:00 PM
Governor Jerry Brown released his budget proposal on Monday and it’s devastating for the most vulnerable people in California. This new budget plan would force poor people with HIV to pay for a substantial portion of the cost of life saving HIV medications. Currently those medications are provided at no cost through the AIDS Drug Assistance Program but the new budget would mean that if people couldn’t afford the medications they would simple have to go without.
Read the full post at Positive Frontiers.
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Posted 5/15/2012 2:00:00 PM
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 By Karen Ocamb News Editor
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LGBT Icon Harvey Milk would have been 82 years old next Tuesday—had he not been assassinated in 1978. In 2009, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed openly gay Sen. Mark Leno’s SB 572 designating every May 22 as “Harvey Milk Day.” The Harvey Milk Foundation and others are holding numerous events before and on that official day, including several in Los Angeles and West Hollywood.
Today, Sacramento holds the third annual Harvey Milk Day with the Harvey Milk Foundation, the California Legislative LGBT Caucus and Equality California with a breakthrough conversation at the California Museum on the implementation and benefits of Senate Bill (SB) 48, the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act. The FAIR Act, which has been threatened with repeal by the Religious Right since it was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, requires public schools ...
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