BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is much more than a gay cowboy movie, even though many straight folks are fond of describing it as such. And given that I was starting to feel like the only queer dude in the world that had not seen this much talked about (and admired) flick: I finally made myself watch it on DVD recently. And it was the saddest love story I’ve ever seen.

I knew one of the characters died. And I’d also heard about the quite moving scene with the shirt (I won’t say more than that–just in case there still might be another soul out there that has not seen this film yet). But all my friends failed to tell me about the gay bashing scene. I mean, the movie was

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Damn, I’m really on a roll (as far as queer flicks are concerned). I’ve actually seen both CAPOTE and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN on DVD. The special features alone–made me glad I bought both flicks.

I found the film CAPOTE — both moving and maddening. The performances were all excellent. And I agree the lead actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, deserved the Academy Award he won. But the so-called revelations about the REAL Truman Capote (why he never wrote another major book after In Cold Blood, plus his eventual self-destruction from too much

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A few years back a friend remarked to me after a particularly rough day “I feel human today.” I laughed and amusedly asked “Don’t you normally feel human?” She replied “No, usually I feel like a dragon!” I remember at the time feeling a bit confused and wondering what I normally feel like, what I would like to feel like and what it might be like if I felt different.

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High School in South Texas was not kind to Paul J. Williams.  As a “creative” teenager, he was in band, choir AND drama.  Wimp.  Nerd.  Fag.  To counter the endless teasing and name-calling, Paul learned early on to always have the last word.  Eventually, this defense mechanism developed into a very quick wit, which came in handy as he endured four repressive years of

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“Steam” is a slow, sensuous meandering journey both in its cinematic pacing and in the lead character, Francesco’s, coming out, coming home story. For a movie about hamam’s - Turkish steam baths - there’s a paucity of nudity!

Francesco (played by the GEORGEOUS Alessandro Gassman) and his wife Marta ( Francesca D’Aloja) run a successful interior design firm in Rome. But their marriage is on the rocks, with Marta, feeling neglected, secretly carrying on an affair with their mutual business

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Stand Up Comedian, Actor, Writer and Producer, Margaret Smith does it all! A Six-time Emmy Award winner, Margaret recently left her gig as a writer and producer for the Ellen Degeneres Show to work on her own projects. She is currently in negotiations on a pilot she has developed.

She also recently published her first book. A hilarious yet poignant, partial memoir about becoming a single mother. It’s titled, “What Was I Thinking”.

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The longtime partner of Raymond Burr says he has not seen the new book out on the late actor but is planning on writing his own tome about his life with Burr.

Robert Benevides, 78, told the Bay Area Reporter that he is working with a writer to tell the story of his 33-year relationship with the TV

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Unfortunately, Ta simply doesn’t have enough money leftover after buyin’ wigs and shoes to afford pay cable like the LOGO channel … even when everyone’s all giggly over the irreverant new series, Rick & Steve. Luckily for me movies and TV shows get put onto DVD so soon after they’ve been released / aired that it’s not like missin’em at all!

Seein’ as how this series is animated, Ah invited some of mah little twinkie boiz over. Ah mean, how complex can a TV series be when its made with little animated Lego people?

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Broadway Damage is coming out for a more sunny, cute-boys-in-love romanticism (Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, I Think I Do) is this sugary, determinedly optimistic love story. An, kin Ta tell you that she just cried and cried … ruined my fabulous mascara an made mah dreamy eyes all puffy. ‘Where’s those damnable cucumber slices, boy?!?!?’ uhm, sorry. Despite mah tragedy, ah loved every minute of this movie with its joyful script and oh-so-fabulous Mara Hobel. Her outfits stole the show … the glasses, the gowns, the glamour!

At times funny, and occasionally charming in its innocence, the film can be a bit much for those jaded by relationships and toughened

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Long before Ellen and Rosie, Suzanne Westenhoefer belonged to an elite club of funny ladies who dared to be gay out of the gate. Since 1990, the riotous, openly lesbian blonde comic has made audiences—on land and water—cry from laughing. And she’s never put her sexual orientation on the back burner for an audience’s comfort level.

Before she rose to her status as a recognizable comic darling for the gay and lesbian community, she tossed her spot-on ruminations of everyday life on to straight audiences. And she’s still around to tell about it!

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