Out singer-actor Jason Dottley's new one-man show Life On The Gay List spills the tea on being the poster boy for gay marriage, gay divorce, and dating when you’re over 39. He’ll also share entertaining stories about his celebrity encounters with Lance Bass (NSYNC), Olivia Newton-John, Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls), Designing Women’s Delta Burke, and many more.

Losin' It finds out artist Brandyn Killz cranking up the electro-soulpop groove to full throttle. The new track was written for a friend who was struggling with addiction. 

Broadway Backwards is back! The not-to-miss virtual event will be bringing you the very best of Broadway starting at 8 pm Eastern on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. 

Russell Tovey lands colorfully on the cover of the Attitude May 2021 issue. The out star of Looking and Years and Years reflects on queerness as a force for creation ahead of the release of his new book Talk Art: Everything You Wanted to Know About Contemporary Art But Were Afraid to Ask.


In the new issue Tovey shares what it was like working through his feelings of having a crush on a man:

"I was doing a TV show and I was desperately in love with this much older actor and had such a crush on him, and I didn’t think anyone knew", Russell recalls of coming to terms with his own sexuality. "I thought I was hiding it very well, but I wasn’t.

 
"This older actress took me for a walk along the beach where it was filming and explained to me that I might be gay. She said, 'If you are, that’s great; if you’re not, that’s fine. But you might be.' It felt like, oh, that’s an option. That is something I can possibly be. That’s what these feelings I’m having are."

Comic singer-musician Tom McGovern's latest comedy bit, Guy Thinks Every Doctor is Dr. Seuss. Silly fun. 🤣

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The 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.

When does the ceremony air?
Thursday, April 8, 2021.

What time does it air?
The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.

Where can I watch the show?
The 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards ceremony will be virtual and stream on GLAAD’s YouTube channel. It will also stream on Hulu on April 8 at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.

Since its inception in 1990, the GLAAD Media Awards have grown to be the most visible annual LGBTQ awards show in the world, sending powerful messages of acceptance to audiences globally.

A Selected List of the Nominees:

Outstanding Comedy Series
Big Mouth (Netflix)
Dead to Me (Netflix)
Everything's Gonna Be Okay (Freeform)
Harley Quinn (HBO Max)
Love, Victor (Hulu)
Saved by the Bell (Peacock)
Schitt's Creek (Pop)
Sex Education (Netflix)
Superstore (NBC)
Twenties (BET)

Outstanding Drama Series
9-1-1: Lone Star (FOX)
Killing Eve (BBC America)
P-Valley (Starz)
Ratched (Netflix)
Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
Supergirl (The CW)
The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
Vida (Starz)
The Wilds (Amazon)
Wynonna Earp (Syfy)

Outstanding TV Movie
Alice Júnior (Netflix)
Bad Education (HBO)
The Christmas House (Hallmark Channel)
The Christmas Setup (Lifetime)
Dashing in December (Paramount Network)
La Leyenda Negra (HBO Latino/HBO Max)
The Thing About Harry (Freeform)
Uncle Frank (Amazon Studios)
Unpregnant (HBO Max)
Your Name Engraved Herein (Netflix)

Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
Dispatches from Elsewhere (AMC)
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix)
Hollywood (Netflix)
I May Destroy You (HBO)
Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)

Outstanding Reality Program
Deaf U (Netflix)
Legendary (HBO Max)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)
We're Here (HBO)

Outstanding Music Artist
Adam Lambert, Velvet (More Is More/Empire)
Brandy Clark, Your Life Is a Record (Warner Records)
Halsey, Manic (Capitol)
Kehlani, It Was Good Until It Wasn't (Atlantic)
Lady Gaga, Chromatica (Streamline/Interscope)
Miley Cyrus, Plastic Hearts (RCA)
Pabllo Vittar, 111 (BMT/Sony Music Brasil)
Peppermint, A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers (PEG Records)
Ricky Martin, Pausa (Sony Latin)
Sam Smith, Love Goes (Capitol)

Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist
Arca, KiCk i (XL)
Chika, Industry Games (Warner Records)
FLETCHER, The (S)ex Tapes (Capitol)
Keiynan Lonsdale, Rainbow Boy (Keiynan Lonsdale)
Kidd Kenn, Child’s Play (Island Records)
Orville Peck, Show Pony (Columbia/Sub Pop)
Phoebe Bridgers, Punisher (Dead Oceans)
Rina Sawayama, Sawayama (Dirty Hit/Avex Trax)
Trixie Mattel, Barbara (PEG Records)
Victoria Monét, Jaguar (Tribe Records)

Outstanding Film - Wide Release
The Craft: Legacy (Sony Pictures)
Happiest Season (Hulu/TriStar Pictures)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Netflix)
The Old Guard (Netflix)
The Prom (Netflix)

Outstanding Film - Limited Release
Ammonite (NEON)
And Then We Danced (Music Box Films)
The Boys in the Band (Netflix)
The Half of It (Netflix)
I Carry You With Me (Sony Pictures Classics)
Kajillionaire (Focus Features)
The Life Ahead (Netflix)
Lingua Franca (ARRAY/Netflix)
Monsoon (Strand Releasing)
The True Adventures of Wolfboy (Vertical Entertainment)

Outstanding Documentary
Circus of Books (Netflix)
Disclosure (Netflix)
Equal (HBO Max)
For They Know Not What They Do (First Run Features)
Howard (Disney+)
Mucho Mucho Amor (Netflix)
Scream, Queen: My Nightmare on Elm Street (Virgil FIlms/Shudder)
Visible: Out on Television (Apple TV+)
We Are The Radical Monarchs (PBS POV)
Welcome to Chechnya (HBO)

Full list of the nominees here.

RELATED: Actor Ronen Rubinstein Comes Out 

Big congrats to actor Ronen Rubinstein of the hit television series 9-1-1: Lone Star. In his new interview with GIO Ronen reveals that he's part of the LGBTQ community! 

'South Park' mocked vaccine line-cutters, as well as QAnon, in its outrageous hour-long "Vaccination Special" on Wednesday. This marked an early return for the show created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone before its usual fall run.






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Did Freddie Mercury have a secret and long forgotten gay past in New York City? Thor Arnold and Lee Nolan's new book, "Freddie Mercury in New York: Don’t Stop Us Now!" gives us a glimpse into Mercury's life during the time period 1980 - 1984 which was skipped over in the 2018 biopic, "Bohemian Rhapsody". 

International Gay Cinema: 25 LGBTQ Movies To See From Around The World American movies and TV are making major strides in LGBTQ representation, but storytellers abroad are in many ways ahead of the curve, exploring sexuality and relationships with groundbreaking technique, and in ways often coded and ahead of their time. From Fassbinder to Pasolini and Sciamma, here are some of the best gay movies from the global arthouse, often bracing in how they freely bust taboos.

I was deeply moved the first time I heard the song "He Didn't Want Me" by Kisos. I confess I was a bit surprised at my emotional reaction by the time he sings:

I forced something that wasn’t there

Ignored the signs you didn’t care

Cuz when you kissed me I believed it

Until you met me at the park

Looked in my eyes blew out the spark

Admitted that you’d never feel it

When the song ended I was in a puddle of tears. "Cuz when you kissed me I believed it" gets me every time. The power of music can make us happy, sad or both all at once.

Cosplay is like Halloween but better because you can dress up whenever you want and not have to wait for that one day a year to let your freak flag fly. Cosplayers are completely devoted to the craft and put so much time, effort and money into their costumes. I love how creative cosplayers can be. Exhibit A: the pic above is Michael Hamm as Aquaman! 

Gayming Magazine's Michael Therkelsen writes: 

Superman & Lois stars the handsome and hunky Tyler Hoechlin (Teen Wolf) and Elizabeth Tulloch (Grimm). The set-up for the drama has Clark Kent and Lois Lane returning to Smallville. They are now the parents of two sons Jonathan (played by Jordan Elsass) and Jordan (played by Alex Garfin) and we see how the couple deal with all the stress that comes with being working parents.

I've not seen the show yet and most likely would only check it out because of Tyler Hoechlin (I can be shallow like that. Ha!)

I think it's safe to say that we need more books written and more documentary films made about LGBTQ community luminaries. The question is who will be motivated and compensated to contribute to the historical record.

In recent years there have been some fine documentaries, such as David France's 2017, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.  A pioneer in the early LGBTQ rights movement, Johnson's death in 1992 was a shock. Was her death an accident, murder or suicide? With queer media in its infancy at the time, her death barely registered a blip with national mainstream news outlets. 

I would love to see a book and/or documentary about jazz performer, Gladys Bentley, who I have previously posted about. Bentley was a rarity in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's - she was openly lesbian and an early drag king. She tried to get to Broadway but her raunchy performances caused a ruffle with the law and some were shut down. Sadly, later in her life, it seems Bentley was subjected to a form of conversion therapy as a means to 'get straight'.

Need a laugh to beat your Monday blues? Check out NAILED! 

What better way to end Black History Month than a celebration (via TCM) of song and dance from Hollywood's most iconic Black performers of the 1940s-1950s. None of the great stars in this video were openly gay or lesbian back in those days almost everyone was in the closet but a few were known to be "in the life".

It's been said many times that all the great show singers were gay or bisexual:

I enjoy documentaries about talented figures lost to history. Actor-writer Clarence Muse is one such remarkable fellow. 

From Man of the Year Luke Evans to Icon Award recipient Taylor Swift, the 2020 Attitude Awards, brought together the world's biggest LGBTQ stars and allies for a virtual celebration of equality and freedom. Now, you can watch all the action from December's show at London's iconic Camden Roundhouse in less than four minutes. Enjoy!