05/10/2006
Hotline providing psychological, legal and HIV services for gays and lesbians launched in two Chinese cities.
Modern art records shattered at Christie's sale: "Away from the Flock, Divided" (1995), by Damien Hirst, went for 3.4 million dollars. Warhol, Hockney, also go large...
British MP David Borrow is the first MP to take part in a civil partnership: "It was lovely. We really are delighted and so are the family. There comes a point in every relationship where you say 'So, are we going to get married then?' Ten years ago it would have been difficult to imagine that a marginal seat like mine could select someone who was openly gay. It was all very private, just what we wanted. I changed the original date because John had become upset that it was going to be a media circus."
David Bowie to curate inaugural High Line festival in May 2007, based around New York's newest, coolest outdoor space.
Cast of Will & Grace begins its farewell tour with a stop to see Oprah: "The most awkward moment is absolutely Oprah's question to Eric McCormack about being a straight man playing a gay character, as the crickets chirp and the camera pans to a Sean Hayes who has no intention of touching the topic with a stolen Cher wig."
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Oh, Jessica H. Christ! Doesn't that fat ass fake saint watch HER OWN SHOW? If she had, she might have seen, most recently, how stupid and dated and simply homophobic should looked asking similar questions of Heath and Jake. HATE HER! I will now turn the string over to those naive queens who always write she's just expressing what her audience is thinking. Perhaps they can finally explain why she would never ask a White actor what it was like to "have to" kiss a Black actress. Or why she has spent decades preaching to her flock about the best sheets, t-shirts, slippers, muffins, potato chips, ad nauseum, to buy but doesn't have the moral sense or motivation to say, "People! Listen: gays are just as good as any of you all. If you refuse to believe that you're not better than a racist or an anti-Semite. And I'm going to give some of my millions and my time to seeing that my friend Nate, and all of the other gay men and women in my life, can legally marry if they want to. And no political candidate or office holder will be on my show again who hasn't done the same."
Posted by: Leland | May 10, 2006 5:25:31 PM
I love Damien Hirst, but 3.5 mil? That ain't right.
Posted by: Patrick | May 10, 2006 7:43:07 PM
I just fell in love with you a little bit Leland.
As far as the W&G thing? Don't let the door hit you in your (very boring, rich) asses on the way out. Buh. Bye.
Posted by: basis4insanity | May 10, 2006 8:17:57 PM
Isn't it rich, are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air.
Send in the clowns.
Isn't it bliss, don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around
One who can't move
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.
Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours.
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines;
No one is there.
Don't you love farce?
My fault I fear,
I thought that you'd want what I want,
Sorry my dear
But where are the clowns
There ought to be clowns
Quick send in the clowns
What a surprise!
Who could foresee
I'd come to feel about you
What you felt about me?
Why only now when I see
That you've drifted away?
What a surprise...
What a cliche'...
Isn't it rich, isn't it queer
Losing my timing this late in my career
And where are the clowns
Quick send in the clowns
...don't bother, they're here.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | May 11, 2006 2:05:03 AM
Chad. Did you really need to input the Barbra forced - and redundant - rewrite of the lyric?
Posted by: Jacko | May 11, 2006 6:18:14 AM
I don't know you, Chad, so I can't be certain whether your lengthy quotation of a 20th century showtune lyric is ironic or pretentious. Do enlighten us.
P.S. If Oprah is cast as Desiree, whom shall you cast as Fredrik?
Posted by: Damon Clarke | May 11, 2006 9:39:45 AM
Oh, was that Barbaras' version? I was listening to the Judy Collins version at the time. Much better in my opinion.
Sometimes clowns wear three piece suits and complain about queens.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | May 12, 2006 12:46:35 AM
Hey, let's boycott the finale of Will & Grace for being too gay. Better yet, let's picket NBC studios. Yeah man!
Posted by: Chad Hanging | May 12, 2006 10:33:07 PM