A gay adult-film producer is launching a reality show about NYC drag queens.
John Rutherford describes his new docu-series as “like a Housewives show, but our cast has better wigs,”according to an official press release.
Queens of Drag: NYC, set to debut on Gay.com Sept. 8, was developed by Rutherford and co-executive producers Larry Kennar (The L Word, Barbershop, 50 First Dates) and Jack Mackenroth (Project Runway, Season 4). (more…)
The argument over a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan is generating some bizarre discussions about gay rights.
And gay people need to keep a clear head through it all, writes Atlanta weekly Creative Loafing: (more…)
Despite right-wing fanatics, religious nuts, and Tea Party kooks, has public sentiment around equal marriage rights reached a turning point?
According to an opinion piece today, The New York Times thinks it may have. (more…)
Remember those false NYC adult-bookstore arrests last year? (more…)
It’s not just gay people – or heck, anyone with a brain – who’s incensed at Target for donating to a fund that supports the re-election of a homophobic state legislator in Minnesota.
Now, big institutional investors are lashing out at Target for its boneheaded decision, the LA Times reports. (more…)
Seems like all the good news on equal rights is coming from elsewhere these days.
Take this nugget from the UK, which lifted our spirits this morning:
“A Catholic adoption advisory service that refuses to help gay couples cannot win an exemption from anti-discrimination laws, Britain’s charity regulator said Thursday”, the Associated Press reports today. (more…)
A long-vacant space at the western end of 42nd Street is about to become the gay-themed Out NYC Urban Resort, a “$30 million, 90,000-square-foot complex… to have restaurants and bars, a spa, a reception hall, retail stores and a huge seven-nights-a-week dance club, along with a 127-room Axel Hotel.”
This guy’s Mati Weiderpass, one of the partners behind it.
More in The New York Times.
