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). Read the rest of this entry »
This kind of feels like a headline from 1998, but we’ll take what we can get:
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: Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember those false NYC adult-bookstore arrests last year? Read the rest of this entry »
We just found this great NYMag.com Q & A with one of our heroes: Lesbian/rock/punk icon JD Samson.
Sample: Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
We can all add Germany to the list of anywhere-but-here places to move for equal rights.
Germany’s highest court yesterday ruled a law which makes same-sex couples in civil partnerships pay higher inheritance tax is unconstitutional, Reuters reports. Read the rest of this entry »
