#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Eartha Kitt

By Stephen Rutledge on January 17, 2022 3:03 am

Photo via YouTube screen-grab January 17, 1927 - Eartha Kitt: "I fall in love with Myself. And I want someone to share with me." Eartha Kitt has precisely the qualities that make for a true Gay Icon: A history of anguish, abandonment and alienation, mixed with a campy … [Read more...]

#FBF: Eartha Kitt and Some Raaaaather Camp Backup Dancers Sing “I Love Men”

By James St. James on August 24, 2018 1:47 pm

How on earth have I lived as long as I have and never heard this song or seen this ABSOLUTELY batshit bananas music video? It's the indomitable Eartha Kitt, fresh off the success of her 1983 comeback gay dance hit "Where Is My Man?," singing "I Love Men" on a German variety show. … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Eartha Kitt

By Stephen Rutledge on January 17, 2017 3:05 am

January 17, 1927– Eartha Kitt: “I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.” She has precisely the qualities that make for a true Gay Icon: A history of anguish, abandonment and alienation, mixed with a campy and sexually audacious stage act along with … [Read more...]

Kylie Minogue Covers “This Wheel’s On Fire” For AbFab Soundtrack

By Paisley Dalton on July 17, 2016 3:00 am

By now, we all know the movie of the summer, [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Eartha Kitt

By Stephen Rutledge on January 17, 2016 3:05 am

January 17, 1927- Eartha Kitt had precisely the qualities that make a true Gay Icon: a history of anguish, abandonment & alienation, mixed with a campy & sexually audacious stage act with the necessary elements of artifice & aggrandizement. Plus, there is that unique, … [Read more...]

#CurrentMood: Eartha Kitt Sings “When It Ends”

By James St. James on January 9, 2015 4:57 pm

Uh. May. Zing. The incomparable Eartha Kitt let's you HAVE IT in this song from 2000 Broadway show The Wild Party. Listen to it now. I'll wait. Trust me. It's the kind of song that can change your life. … [Read more...]

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

By Tom Campbell on June 16, 2013 3:29 pm

Two versions of Cole Porter's classic. The song made Mary Martin a star in 1938. And Eartha Kitt purrrrrred her version on The Nat King Cole Show in the '50s … [Read more...]