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RoadMontauk is being overrun with hipsters.

RoadPastor on trial in Vermont custody case; Lisa Miller still AWOL with child.

WoolworthRoadWoolworth: Soon to be New York's most coveted residential address? "The world’s tallest building when it opened in 1913, the Woolworth Building was called the “Cathedral of Commerce,” its copper-domed tower soaring 792 feet into the skyline. Now, in a $68 million deal made final last week, the tower will be turned into about 40 luxury apartments, including a five-level penthouse in the cupola."

RoadSinger Randy Travis arrested drunk, naked.

RoadJared Polis wins House Democrats social media contest. “House Democrats acquired over 139,000 new Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and YouTube subscribers, which surpasses last year’s total by 82,000."

RoadHairy new web series: Where the Bears Are.

RoadWisconsin Sikh Temple shooter killed himself: "A white supremacist who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he was shot by a police officer, the FBI said on Wednesday."

RoadCristiano Ronaldo is looking finer than ever.

RoadJoss Whedon signs on to the Avengers sequel.

RachelRoadChick-fil-A drive-thru worker Rachel speaks out about Adam Smith: "I appreciate that he came forward, but I'm definitely interested in speaking with him...I'd really like to know if he could separate the issue from me and the company. The workers have nothing to do with the political beliefs with people in the corporation."

RoadFOX News shifting on gay issues?: "But like the Republican Party, whose leaders have begun to step away from anti-gay positions that are deeply unpopular with younger voters, Fox appears to be feeling pressure both from its younger staff and key audience segments to reflect what polls suggest is a rapidly shifting consensus."

RoadTravis Wall talks to GLAAD about his new dance reality show All The Right Moves: "I never thought I was in the public eye enough to ever make a statement that 'Oh, Travis Wall’s gay.'  I live my life the way I live it, and everyone who’s known me knows I’ve never been in.  There’s never been a moment where I have been pretending to be straight or anything like that.  I just didn’t know that I was that big of a draw or that I should have made a statement.  So, when I unconsciously was like, 'Oh, I have a boyfriend, and I’m so excited,' and I started tweeting it, everyone was like, 'Oh, Travis Wall just came out,' and I’m like, 'Oh wait, I came out? When was I in?'  I never knew that, you know, that was the situation."

RoadIt's a new preview for the upcoming X-Factor with Britney Spears.

RoadThe General Mills arsonist was fired.

RosasRoadJacques Rosas exhibit opens in New York.

RoadNOM claims that General Mills new website, Live Better America, in cooperation with America Online and Everyday Health, is a cover for the frightening homosexual agenda.

RoadLittle Britain's Matt Lucas joining Community: "Lucas will appear in multiple episodes as a history professor who used to teach at Oxford and whose commitment to academic rigor is a challenge to the community college’s learning environment."

RoadBret Easton Ellis thinks Matt Bomer's too gay to play Christian Grey.

RoadDavid Halperin: How to be Gay. “Gayness,” Mr. Halperin declares, “is not a state or condition. It’s a mode of perception, an attitude, an ethos: in short, it is a practice.” The great value of traditional gay male culture, he further posits, perhaps even more challengingly, “resides in some of its most despised and repudiated features: gay male femininity, diva worship, aestheticism, snobbery, drama, adoration of glamour, caricature of women and obsession with the figure of the mother.”

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  1. Bret is a self-loathing homosexual who obviously cannot stand to see another gay man with the looks and talent Matt has. I guess he is off the wagon again. But you don't fool around with Matt as we see that Bret has quickly been removed from consideration for the screenplay. Don't fool with the hollywood powerful Bret!

    Posted by: Karma | Aug 8, 2012 9:13:33 PM


  2. Sorry, Bobn, but I could just as easily argue that it was "old school gay culture" that encouraged highway rest stop behavior and caused society to take this long to begin affording us marriage equality. "Old school gay culture" was problematic because it responded to adversity by embracing the idea of an alternative subculture. The younger gays tend to be much more proactive about focusing on legal rights, gaining straight allies, and becoming part of the mainstream.

    Posted by: Stefan | Aug 8, 2012 9:31:33 PM


  3. I think David Halperin and Bret Easton Ellis should move in together. They can spend the rest of their lives knitting doilies, stroking their cats, re-watching "Straight-Jacket" (with Joan Crawford) and other campy, violent women-centered melodramas from the 60's ("Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" etc.), and complaining about how unhealthy the bears are, how tech-obsessed the young are, how straight-acting the gay athletes are, how today's music is too loud, how getting married and joining the military is too "conformist," how gay people of color are so "demanding," etc. Then they'll trundle off to (twin) beds in designers PJs, air-kissing each other; both will later sneak out in the middle of the night to get on their knees for some rough trade under a bridge.

    Yes, these are the guys who think they speak for gay culture. Screw 'em both.

    Posted by: Dback | Aug 8, 2012 10:52:50 PM


  4. @DBACK

    I was thinking the same thing :)

    If Halperin's idea f gay culture were in the past tense; which only lasted for a short period of time, he might be more accurate, otherwise he sounds like an immensely out of touch dinosaur. There is a collective gay culture that is akin to a universal language like Esperanto. Its made to be quickly recognized, and consumed yet still be alien enough from heterosexual culture but very few ascribe to it to make up their whole being. Contemporary gay men have so many different cultural, economic, and racial aspects that define their identity today and growing social acceptance makes it less necessary to act like some distress beacon in a wasteland of straights.

    Posted by: Toto | Aug 9, 2012 12:31:06 AM


  5. Stephen, Matt and Rick have it right. Younger gay men are bored by former stereotypes, the fags, the fairies, the fems, the drag queens, the posers - bleh, the whole "we're different, we're another species, get used to us" crowd. God, it really IS boring, and always was.

    Posted by: UFFDA | Aug 9, 2012 2:00:33 AM


  6. @MLD

    The problem with that line of reasoning is that if everyone "chose" not to work for a company that did evil things, most people would be unemployed. We all need a paycheck.

    Posted by: Dan B | Aug 9, 2012 3:28:01 AM


  7. DBACK...that was great...I missed it earlier.

    Posted by: UFFDA | Aug 9, 2012 9:27:32 AM


  8. "Without "old school gay culture" you'd be married to a woman and sucking cock in highway rest stops for solace. "

    I think the actual evidence paints a much more complicated picture. There have been numerous articles about 'old-school' gays - who do not necessarily belong to one particular age demographic - lamenting an alleged loss of gay cultural identity in the face of rights advances and technology. Crude as DBack is, I don't think he's too far off the mark. Bathroom and public park cruising have a subversive streak similar to what Halperin advocates. I think many 'old-school' gays have been ambivalent at best in regards to rights advances, because they feel increasingly constrained by larger cultural forces.

    What they ignore of course is what's implicit in creating an alternative mode of life for gay men: it is just as constraining and exclusionary.

    If you champion a certain set of behavioural characteristics and preferences as the norm for gay men, then you alienate gays that don't have those preferences. The gays you alienate don't come out of the closet - they get married to women and they cruise bathrooms.

    If that's 'gayness', then I want no part of it. I'm fighting for the right for people to define themselves how they choose, not to reinforce a Capote-esque stereotype.

    Posted by: Nat | Aug 9, 2012 9:38:58 AM


  9. "The gays you alienate don't come out of the closet - they get married to women and they cruise bathrooms"

    Or: you get people like me and some of my friends, guys who had/have almost nothing to do with gay culture, have mostly straight male friends who share our interests and so on.

    Posted by: Henry Holland | Aug 9, 2012 10:13:17 AM


  10. Does anyone know at what moment in recent history commenters here -- and just about every other site I know of -- decided to become assholes?

    Posted by: Bryan | Aug 9, 2012 11:23:28 AM


  11. Actually, "Marty", it's the insecure gay males who refuse to stand up to be counted and lead 100% open, Out, Visible and Identifiable lives that "hold us back."

    Well, hold each other back. Nobody holds me back. I've been fully out since i was a teen. Y'all are free to follow suit....

    Posted by: LittleKiwi | Aug 9, 2012 11:53:46 AM


  12. general mills arsonist bad link.

    Posted by: Randal Oulton | Aug 9, 2012 12:15:51 PM


  13. wow that is too bad about randy hope he can get it together life can be difficult

    Posted by: Sunny James | Aug 10, 2012 10:56:21 PM


  14. Why should we try to act straight? I think straight guys put on way more act than gay guys ever do. There’s a whole lot of policing that goes into making sure nobody ever things straight guys are gay because THAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO THEM. Ugh.

    Posted by: Kári Emil | Aug 11, 2012 12:03:55 AM


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