Vito power
With his new HBO doc on activist Vito Russo, Jeffrey Schwarz keeps queer history in the limelight RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer In a San Francisco screening for his latest documentary Vito, a young man...
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Logo keeps its toe in gay reality programming with ‘Big House’ LOUIE SEEKS A. | The gay son’s love life is about the only interesting thing on Logo’s modern family. Despite officially becoming “No...
View ArticleSo you think you can host
Gay dancer Travis Wall leads a cast of reality hotties in predictable ‘Moves’ SHOWBOYS | Wall, seated, assembles so many sexy boys for the latest in pandering reality shows, they should have called it...
View ArticleWeir, so there!
Flamboyant Olympian Johnny Weir embarks on the second season of his reality show ICE CAPADER | Out figure skater Johnny Weir returns to his reality show on Logo, starting Monday. When we last saw...
View ArticleThe color of ‘Steel’
Lifetime’s updating of ‘Steel Magnolias’ with a black cast hits the highlights BLUSH AND BASHFUL | Pink is the signature color at the wedding of Shelby, witnessed by Clairee (Phylicia Rashad), Ouiser...
View ArticleQueer clip: ‘love free or die’
When Gene Robinson became the first openly gay, partnered bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States, he was the right man for the job. Self-described as “unashamedly gay, unashamedly...
View ArticleSilly Lily
Tomlin chats about her new series, gay repression and rumors of retirement DOPE SMOKING MA | Lily Tomlin renamed her progressive older gal after her own mother. Lily Tomlin launched her career more...
View ArticleThe gayest election night ever
Tuesday night was generally seen as a victorious one for gay and lesbian people across the nation: The reelection of Barack Obama, the first sitting president to endorse full marriage equality; the...
View ArticleREVIEW: ‘Liz & Dick’
Lohan has the look, but not the style, in Lifetime biopic The train wreck that has become Lindsay Lohan didn’t start out that way. She was handily the most gifted pop princess of her incoming class,...
View ArticleKors you’re out, Posen in on ‘Runway’
I got a press release from the Lifetime network, teasing the big change in the next cycle of Project Runway, starting Jan. 24: All the designers will compete in teams! Big news, huh? Eh. Teams is...
View ArticleThe year in entertainment: Tube
HUMOR WINS | The hilariously gay-friendly sketch comedy of ‘Key & Peele’ won us over. 10. The New Normal (NBC). Ryan Murphy is so over-taxed — in addition to this, he has three other shows on the...
View ArticleScreaming queen
Hoon Lee gives Cinemax’s new crime drama ‘Banshee’ an unexpected dose of drag DRAGSTER | Korean-American actor Hoon Lee took on an unusual role — that of a small-town cross-dressing gangster — in the...
View ArticleCooking Channel’s Beekman Boys on their amazing ‘Race’
People might know Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell through their television show The Fabulous Beekman Boys on the Cooking Channel, but with their come-from-way-behind victory on last season’s The...
View ArticleBuilt Ford Model Tough
It seems now that the only criterion for a reality cable TV show is how punny and suggestive the title can be. A show about big-breasted women working in a bra shop would be a non-starter …until you...
View ArticleTrans athlete Gumbled on ‘Real Sports’; Mike Tyson smarter than he seems
HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumble returns for a 19th season Tuesday night, and to be honest, I didn’t even know the series was still around. Certainly Gumble himself has looked better — he appears...
View ArticleOf dwarfs and dragons
‘Game of Thrones’ returns, and not a moment too soon Fans of the HBO series Game of Thrones don’t just love the show — they loooove the show. I should know; I’m one of them. (It was one of my Top 10 of...
View ArticleBack from the dead
Eden Riegel, who played lesbian icon Bianca on ‘All My Children’ for a decade, chats about the resurrection of the citizens of Pine Valley … online NO SOFT SOAP | Actress Eden Riegel, above, plays...
View ArticleREVIEW: ‘Behind the Candelabra’
Douglas, left, as Lee Liberace, and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson. That fact has been largely forgotten in the 25 years since he died — still closeted! — of complications from AIDS. By the end (hell,...
View ArticleFresh ‘Blood’
The seasons of True Blood have been as unpredictable as Star Trek movies: They seem to alternate good and bad. Season 1? Spectacular. Season 2? Eh. Season 3? Much better. Season 4? Disaster. Last...
View Article‘Project Runway’ jumps the shark?
Do you hear that slight ringing sound? That’s the death knell for Project Runway. Well, maybe not dead, but if this isn’t its last season, it’s in earshot. Last year, Lifetime buried the lead when they...
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