RuPaul’s DragCon LA Is This Weekend! We’ve Got Some Tips on Getting to the Fun, Kitty Girl

By Javay Frye on May 23, 2019 11:13 am

RuPaul's DragCon LA is this weekend and we all know that LA traffic can be a pain in the rumpus, so to help you get to the convention center easier … [Read more...]

#QueerQuote: White Liberals Need to Stop Being Liberals and Become American Radicals. – Lorraine Hansberry

By Stephen Rutledge on May 19, 2019 3:43 pm

Photo from "Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart", American Masters-PBS, via YouTube Lorraine Hansberry's (1930-1965) parents fought hard and won a drawn out legal battle against Chicago's housing segregation. Her father, a successful contractor and builder, bought … [Read more...]

Just How Queer Was Kate?

By Stephen Rutledge on May 12, 2019 6:44 am

Photo via YouTube Writer Gore Vidal vouched for his buddy Scotty Bowers who claims that he set Katharine Hepburn up on dates "with over 150 different women" in his dishy, juicy book Full Service: My Adventures In Hollywood And The Secret Sex Lives Of … [Read more...]

#FlashBack’63: Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me”

By Stephen Rutledge on May 2, 2019 3:48 pm

via YouTube You Don’t Own Me is a popular song written by John Madara and David White and recorded by Lesley Gore in May 1963, when Lesley Gore was 17-years-old. Gore: There's nothing more wonderful than standing on stage and … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Writer, Alice B. Toklas

By Stephen Rutledge on April 30, 2019 3:05 am

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons April 30, 1877– Alice B. Toklas: I am a person acted upon, not a person who acts. Alice Babette Toklas left Seattle for Paris when she was 30-years-old. In Paris she met another American dyke, Gertrude Stein. The two women were … [Read more...]

Whitney Houston’s Rumored Ex-Girlfriend Robyn Crawford Is Coming Out with a Tell-All About Their Relationship

By James St. James on April 25, 2019 4:11 pm

I remember hearing whispers of Robyn and Whitney's relationship as far back as 1989, though at the time both denied any romantic entanglement. Since then, however, many friends and associates have come forward to confirm their relationship status– including[Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Photographer, Laura Gilpin

By Stephen Rutledge on April 22, 2019 2:29 am

Photo by Fred E. Mang, Jr., Laura Gilpin Taking Photographs Along Dirt Road, 1971; courtesy of Amon Carter Museum Fort Worth April 22, 1894 - Laura Gilpin The great American photographer Ansel Adams wrote:… "Laura Gilpin is one of the most important photographers of our … [Read more...]

Brunei DEFENDS Draconian Anti-Gay Law, Explaining Stonings “Were Unlikely” to Occur in Actual Practice

By James St. James on April 17, 2019 12:02 pm

Whew. Dodged a boulder there, fellow homosexuals. *Rolls eyes* In a letter to the European Parliament (EP) ahead of a debate on human rights in the EP in Strasbourg tomorrow (18 April), the oil-rich-but-back-ass country of Brunei defends its terrifying anti-gay and … [Read more...]

Lizzo and Some of Your Drag Race Faves Have the ‘Juice’ in a New Music Video

By Javay Frye on April 17, 2019 10:00 am

'Juice' is such a banger that Lizzo didn't creates just one music video for it, she also made a second video featuring some of your favorite RuPaul's Drag Race queens, A'Keria C. Davenport, Detox, Asia O'Hara, Mariah Balenciaga, Morgan McMichaels, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Soju, … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Political Pioneer, Frances Perkins

By Stephen Rutledge on April 10, 2019 3:05 am

April 10, 1880– Frances Perkins: The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible. When you think about a New Yorker addressed as Madam Secretary, someone else's name might pop in your head. History seems to have forgotten poor Frances Perkins. She was just one of the … [Read more...]