News: Joe Dallesandro, Dallas Divorce, Boy George, Oscar Chat
Police: $20 million extortion plot against John Travolta. TMZ: Not over son's photo.
Andy Warhol muse Joe Dallesandro to get "Teddy Award" at Berlin Film Festival. Committee: "Dallesandro was not only the most beautiful man in his media generation, but also put his erotic appeal out to consciously be objectified."
Chris Evans' answer to his publicist's shirtless photo ban: wear the tightest one possible.
Newsweek's Howard Fineman meets Towleroad on the DC Metro.
Texas: Gay Dallas man files state's first same-sex marriage petition.
Second NY Appeals Court rules that out-of-state marriages must be recognized: "This decision comes in the case Lewis v. Department of Civil Service and follows a landmark victory by the New York Civil Liberties Union in Martinez v. County of Monroe. Today’s decision in Lewis was issued by the Third Department and involves taxpayers who sued the state Department of Civil Service for recognizing same-sex spouses of state employees for purposes of health insurance benefits. The court affirmed that the state was following the law by granting all validly married couples eligibility for health insurance benefits."
Hey Brad, your fly is open.
Boy George settles in to prison life: "The roly poly singer scribbles on a pad during the first hours of his 15-month sentence. George, 47, is said to be terrified of attack in jail and has already angered fellow inmates by lining up a soft job in the canteen. He is set to earn £6 a week as a server, dishing out meals to lags on A Wing of HMP Pentonville in North London, where he is doing time for imprisoning and beating a rent boy."
The Obamas' first dance as first couple.
Participant in 1991 murder of Paul Broussard in Houston back behind bars.
Utah State senator Chris Buttars and gay activists break bread — literally.
Donors bail out Log Cabin Republicans.
Nathaniel at Film Experience posts a good analysis of the Oscar noms.
BBC DJ Chris Moyles insults Jews, gays with Auschwitz joke, effeminate rendition of Will Young song.
4th Circuit Court of Appeal judges rule against Alliance Defense Fund, say the city acted legally when it created a registry for same-sex couples and used the registry as a basis to provide health insurance to the partners of its gay and lesbian employees.
Britain's first openly gay judge Sir Adrian Fulford describes "bizarre and depressing" experience of applying for judicial appointment: "When he insisted that 'I would not be putting myself through this rather unpleasant process unless I really wanted to be a judge, they then directed their focus, in a somewhat dramatic way, on what may or may not happen behind my closed bedroom door'."
Proposed high school's gay-straight alliance meets resistance in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
Gay Times: Lily Allen gone wild!
The story about Joe Dallensandro says he's gay, but that's reaching. He did gay porn and modeling, but he's also been married three times and has two sons. He said he was bisexual but it usually seemed like gay for pay.
Though if his sons look anything like he did back in the day, I would very much like to meet them.
Posted by: Paul R | Jan 22, 2009 3:55:40 PM
In the early mid 70s, I couldn't stand high school. The gay-bashing wasn't that horrible--the black boys at all-boy Central were mostly middle-class brats, and the white boys didn't pay me any mind--so the gay-bashing was all verbal, no physical. But I still couldn't stand school, and so I used to play hooky at the $1.00 movie house in downtown Philly. (I guess the cashier and usher didn't give a hoot about under-age patrons at X rated features) Anyway, it was there that I saw Andy Warhol's (which were actually Paul Morrisey's) movies. Dallesandro was gorgeous trade--I didn't know anything about trade from other races, but he was FIERCE! Kinda' fair-skinned for the Italians I was used to seeing, but fierce.
He should have also dispelled the myth that white boys couldn't have anything in common with horses.
Cute butt too...but anybody with a narrow waist can have a cute butt; hence, a lot of twenty-somethings with cute butts, hardly any over forty with them...we just got big ones (sorrow).
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Jan 22, 2009 4:10:08 PM
I first saw Joe in his late 70 version, I though he was OK. Then I saw him in his Athletic Model Guild early 60’s version naked and masturbating. WOW. Highly recomended.
Posted by: ggreen | Jan 22, 2009 4:31:11 PM
Can I stand up foro Chris Moyles? He was making a fairly subtle satirical point about the genealogy show he was taking part in. Contrasting his more hum drum history with the more interesting histories they do tend to go for.
And Will Young has been a guest on the show. And Chris has an out gay producer who discusses his boyfriend and gay life in general on air.
I believe you can find the Chris Moyles show on Sirius... why not tune in. You might be surprised.
Especially you Andy. He's a DJ with plenty of gay fans. Listen first before reposting this kind of stuff
Please don't get me started on how wrong Stonewall are about him. I actually stopped contributing to Stonewall because of their behaviour over Mr Moyles
Posted by: David | Jan 22, 2009 4:45:59 PM
your coverage of the Boy George stuff has been increasingly hateful. its clear that the "rent boy" who took George to court knew exactly what was going on, and took advantage of George's celebrity and past legal issues.
George had a serious drug problem, and while that doesn't excuse his actions he certainly shouldn't have been sentenced to 15 months behind bars for this incident. i can't help but get the sense that your own personal moral "high ground" is dictating the way you report on this.
typical.
Posted by: David | Jan 22, 2009 5:47:02 PM
i first saw little joe in "andy warhol's trash" back in the mid-70s. i think it was probably the first time i ever saw full frontal male nudity in a movie and i liked it.
although joe never made it big in hollywood, i don't believe he was ever out of work and made movies continuously in europe throughout the 80s and 90s.
i recently went to a screening of serge gainsbourg's "je t'aime, moi non plus" and he was on hand for a Q&A after the movie. he's led a very interesting life to say the least.
Posted by: alguien | Jan 22, 2009 5:49:49 PM
Quite true about Joe, Paul R. He's Bi. Nice he's being feted in Germany. Hope he gets some work out of it. About 20 years ago he made a number of films in europe including Borowcsyck's "La Marge" (which was a big hit oer there) and Jacques Rivette's "Merry Go Round" (which wasn't but is really fascinating as Joe plays opposite Maria Schneider.) In the 90's he got some film and TV work but lately he's just been an apartment manager in L.A.
He's always been underrated as an actor. His turn as Lucky Luciano in Coppola's ill-starred "The Cotton Club" is the best thing in the movie.
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Jan 22, 2009 6:49:42 PM
Interesting that the "lesbian" marriage in Bexar County, Texas, as far as I know, hasn't been ruled illegal.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/marr07.shtml
"Lesbian wedding allowed in Texas by gender loophole - Same-sex union allowed because one was born a man".
Oh, and shouldn't that headline read "divorce" instead of "marriage"?
And funny you should mention Dallesandro. "Flesh for Frankenstein" was just on cable the other night. I first saw it (in 3D) in Hawaii years ago. Got to talking with a sailor in the lobby, we sat next to each other and well, nature took its course back in my hotel room later that night.
Sigh.
Posted by: Russ Weiss | Jan 22, 2009 8:00:02 PM
Oh, Little Joe! *bestill my heart*
Posted by: Alex | Jan 22, 2009 8:16:01 PM
Joe Dallesandro's full frontal scene caused a reaction in the audience I still remember after all that time. Three rows in front of me sat 2 liberal college age co-eds (as they were called then) thinking how liberated they were to be seeing this film.
Suddenly Joe in all his pale muscular hung glory in on screen and they audibly gasp, cover their eyes and go "Oh my God I can't look". Now that I think about it I was a bit awestruck myself as I had never seen a penis on a movie screen until then and certainly not one of equine nature.
What a different time that was, long before broadband, gay 4 pay porn or even Calvin Klein underwear bulges on billboards.
Posted by: Contrarian | Jan 22, 2009 8:41:35 PM
Regarding the post,
NEWS: JOE DALLESANDRO, DALLAS DIVORCE, BOY GEORGE, OSCAR CHAT, at the line item
"Texas: Gay Dallas man files state's first same-sex marriage petition"
should read DIVORCE petition. Which is very interesting indeed!
Posted by: Jack Landers | Jan 23, 2009 1:55:11 AM
Thanks to David for his comment re. Boy George.
I am not going to make excuses for George, but I will make a point about the increasingly moralistic and indeed hateful coverage. Does Towleroad have a selective memory, or is it too young to know, that Boy George was EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to many many people growing up in the 1980s. He even thanked the United States for "recognising a good drag queen when you see one" during his Grammy Award acceptance speech. This wouldn't raise an eyebrow now, but back in the eighties, when HIV was killing our community, people were rushing back into the closet in droves (remember Elton John's FIRST marriage...?) and Reagan and Thatcher were intent on sending the planet back to the Dark Ages, it was a pretty big deal. For a lot of queer kids (and a lot of straight kids who were 'different') George made life just that little bit easier.
Later, George stepped into the fray and worked hard in the campaign against Thatcher's despicable Clause 28.
The growing chorus of sneers and jeers against George is drowning out the basic fact that this a tragedy about drug addiction and a deeply troubled man. But maybe other people have never had addictions, or been troubled. Wish I could live on that planet.
Posted by: Belbeu | Jan 25, 2009 7:12:12 PM
David and Belbeu, you seem to not understand that Andy is citing another source in the post above. Moreover, George says he's sober now. I don't think Andy would be posting news on the Boy only to mock him---he's not mean-spirited. He's doing it, I presume, because the news is of interest to a broad spectrum of gay men.
And of course his punishment wasn't just. It was homophobia combined with blackmail from the escort. But George could have done himself some favors by testifying in his own defense, him claims about not wanting his mother to hear the lurid details notwithstanding.
Posted by: Paul R | Jan 25, 2009 10:56:12 PM
Holy crap. After the ruckus made while doing comunity service in NYC I was laying odds on who would stab that old queen in prison.
I waited day in and out still no, one could shiv him in the kidneys.
Oh well I will just wait until his next perversion, that rent boy must have been desperate.
Posted by: Boy Paule | May 13, 2009 9:06:42 PM
i ll coment later
Posted by: jose | Nov 5, 2012 12:08:26 PM