Partners
Browse by tags
Home » All tags » tv ( RSS)
-
Friday, May 23
|
Source: news.com.au , CBS News , New Zealand Herald Calling it "the big elephant in the room", talk show host Ellen DeGeneres went toe-to-toe with presidential hopeful John McCain on the subject of marriage equality during a polite clash on her daytime TV show. [see video clip below] Speaking of her own forthcoming marriage to Australian actress Portia de Rossi, 35, DeGeneres said, "I'm obviously excited, and I think it's only fair and only natural." The Republican candidate was politically polite but clashed with the comedienne during his appearance today on her television...
|
-
Monday, May 19
|
Source: Reuters By Ellie Tzortzi BELGRADE (Reuters) - The last time gay men and women took to the streets of Serbia's capital, they were beaten by nationalist gangs while police looked on. Seven years from their first and only Pride march, activists now see the glitz, media attention and gay tourists coming to Serbia with the Eurovision Song Contest as a big chance to come out again, louder and more confident than before. Eurovision's mix of high camp and low culture attracts millions of viewers and a loyal gay following. The 2008 event is held in Serbia after Marija Serifovic won last...
|
-
Monday, May 12
|
Source: Boston Globe , USA Today , New York Post , AfterElton.com Last night on Brothers & Sisters , ABC featured the quintessential May sweeps event, but with a critical twist. It was a big fat wedding, which, along with burials and casting stunts, is how the networks inflate ratings during those months when ad rates are set. But the Brothers & Sisters marriage is a gay marriage - technically, a domestic partnership ceremony, since the show's Walker clan is dysfunctional by way of LA and not Boston. And so some 11 million viewers watched the joining of two men in what one character...
|
-
Friday, May 02
|
Source: BBC News , InTheNews.co.uk Alan Cumming told Detour, "It's quite a good kind of thing for skinny people" when photographers want to take naked pictures of him. photo: AlanCumming.com Actor Alan Cumming told the BBC that the media's attitude to homosexuality is keeps gay actors from coming out. The 43-year-old X-Men 2 star said, "I don't think the people that go see films care that much -- the media make it more of a deal and it's made into controversy." Cumming's comments followed a complaint from Stephen Fry that he had been pigeonholed by casting...
|
-
Wednesday, April 30
|
Source: Times (London) , BBC News Quentin Crisp portrait photo via Flickr John Hurt will reprise one of his most famous roles 33 years on when he dons Quentin Crisp’s cravat once more in a sequel to The Naked Civil Servant . British TV network ITV is to produce An Englishman In New York , a new 90-minute drama, in which Hurt reprises his acclaimed role as the maverick gay icon. Hurt, 68 , won the Bafta Best Actor award for the 1975 Thames Television film, based on Crisp’s memoirs, which were first published in 1968. T he Naked Civil Servant documented Crisp’s troubles when he refused to hide his...
|
-
Sunday, April 27
|
Source: Associated Press , BBC , GLAAD press release Portia De Rossi and Ellen Degeneres at last night's GLAAD awards. Degeneres presented the group's Vanguard Award to Janet Jackson. photo via EvilBeetGossip Bravo's Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List won an award last night for outstanding reality program during the 19th annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards at the Kodak Theatre on Saturday night. Griffin accepted the award from "my gays." Earlier, Griffin opened the show by inviting her mother, Maggie Griffin, onstage to quiz her about her knowledge...
|
-
Friday, April 25
|
Source: Hollywood Reporter , Variety Asia HONG KONG – Singapore regulators have fined state TV broadcaster MediaCorp TV Channel 5 for what the regulators said was a show "promoting homosexuality". MediaCorp TV Channel 5 has been fined S$15,000 (US$11,072) by the Media Development Authority (MDA) for airing an episode of the series, "Find and Design" that it saw as "normalizing" and "promoting" a gay lifestyle. In the episode concerned, aired January 13, the host helped a gay couple to transform their game room into a new nursery for their adopted baby. "The...
|
-
Friday, April 18
|
Source: Associated Press via CNN , E! Online King shooting Lance Bass doesn't want others to stay silent as he did. He wants the youth of America to get in sync with sexual tolerance. So he's made a public service announcement for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The erstwhile 'N Syncer filmed the announcement to urge students to stop the bullying, harassment and discrimination occurring in schools. [See YouTube video of the announcement at the bottom of this post.] "Everyday, thousands of students are silenced," Bass says in the spot. "They're...
|
-
Wednesday, April 16
|
Source: Globe and Mail , AfterElton Luke Macfarlane photo via AfterElton LOS ANGELES -- Next month, in the season finale of his hit television series Brothers & Sisters , Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane will dress his best and say his vows as his character, Scotty Wandell, marries his partner, Kevin Walker. It's an episode the London, Ont.-born actor is looking forward to, on many levels: It's one of the few shows on network television to portray a gay marriage between two main characters -- a feat the 28-year-old actor is quite proud of, from a professional perspective. But the episode...
|
-
Wednesday, April 02
|
Source: Out in Hollywood , the Daily Dish (SFGate) Jay Leno apologized last night for last week's bizarre bit with Ryan Phillippe on "The Tonight Show" when Ryan was on to promote his new movie "Stop-Loss." Jay brought up Ryan's early role as a gay teen on the ABC soap "One Life to Live." He asked Phillippe, "Can you give me your gayest look? Say that camera is Billy Bob ... Billy Bob has just ridden in shirtless from Wyoming." But the joke has backfired on Leno. Ryan looked instantly uncomfortable and said: "Wow. That is so something I don't...
|
-
Friday, March 21
|
Source: Observer-Reporter Well, the miniseries "John Adams" has gotten under way on HBO and, from all indications, it won't be branded a flop. The saga of our second president has received mostly solid reviews and its premier episode drew 2.7 million viewers, numbers that make it "moderately successful," according to the journal Advertising Age. So if "John Adams" is successful enough for the TV powers that be, we could be in for copycat series, sequels and spin-offs. And when you consider that television has 42 other presidents to work with, there's plenty...
|
-
Tuesday, March 18
|
Source: Reuters , Hollywood Reporter , Advocate , Playbill NEW YORK -- Rufus Wainwright, MTV Networks president Brian Graden and the CBS soap opera "As The World Turns" were among the big winners Monday at the 19th annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards (GLAAD). Television journalist Barbara Walters was honored for her reporting on transgender children and she said the award was among the most important she had even received. "You can forget all the Emmys," Walters said in accepting the award for television newsmagazine journalism at the ceremony in...
|
-
Wednesday, March 05
|
Source: Reuters , Towleroad , Associated Press David Hernandez works the low rise in this undated photo via Towleroad LOS ANGELES -- "American Idol" producers are shrugging off the latest publicity-generating sex semi-scandal to hit the top-rated U.S. television show. They've said contestant David Hernandez can stay in the competition despite his past as a stripper. "We've had strippers on the show before," executive producer Ken Warwick was quoted on Tuesday as telling the Web site TVGuide.com. "We're never judgmental about people who do things like that. "If...
|
-
Friday, February 29
|
Source: Huffington Post , AP via San Jose Mercury News , TMZ.com King shooting Ellen Degeneres took a moment on her show Friday to remember 15-year-old Lawrence King. King was shot and killed by a fellow student, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney. King, who was gay, reportedly had asked McInerney to be his Valentine in the days before the shooting. Ellen looked into camera and talked about the murder in Oxnard, Ca. The YouTube clip of the program segment is included at the bottom of this post. Ellen was on the verge of tears as she made a plea to stop the hate "I don't want to be political...
|
-
Friday, February 22
|
Source: New York Daily News and Los Angeles Times On the Valentine's Day episode of the CBS soap "As the World Turns," all the couples kissed -- except Luke and Noah. They hugged instead. That did it for a group of the show's fans. They have launched a campaign protesting what they call discrimination against the gay pair, who got together last September and have not gone much beyond hugging since then. It all started last Christmas, when Luke and Noah were about to kiss. Though fans had seen them kiss before, this time the camera panned up to the mistletoe. Over the next few...
|
-
Thursday, January 17
|
Source: CTV.ca and AfterElton.com Adamo Ruggiero photo: AfterElton.com Actor Adamo Ruggiero plays gay teen Marco on the CTV series "Degrassi: The Next Generation" which is in its seventh season on the Canadian television network. (The show airs in the US on cable channel, "The N" .) Until now, however, he has never publicly addressed his own sexuality. That changed Wednesday night when the star sat discussed the parallels between his own life and his on-screen character's life for the first time. The candid interview was given to a CTV Internet video site. "It was interesting...
|
-
Friday, January 11
|
Source: from report in New York magazine Project Runway 's season-two runner-up, cutie Daniel Vosovic, hesitates to say it, of course, but the current cast just isn't that impressive. He tells New York magazine, “I really want to be jealous of someone,” he said of the new season at a benefit for Charity:Water. “I really want to say, ‘Gosh, I wish I would’ve designed that!’ ” But he’s just not that into the current competitors. “I’m still waiting for that really big, wow moment,” he said. The show was better, he insisted, back in the old days. “Everyone now is so damn professional. I want...
|
-
Thursday, January 10
|
Source: Globe and Mail Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman are all about division of labour. Like a tall, handsome version of Jack Sprat and his wife, the co-hosts (and real-life romantic partners) on CBC Television's new flagship daytime chat show, operate on a system in which one partner picks up the slack where the other loses steam. “Steven's a good cook,” says Hyndman, a native Newfoundlander and the couple's decidedly chattier half. “And now he's going to learn to be a great cook. I, on the other hand, never set foot in the kitchen. I'm interested in relationships, so I'll...
|
-
Wednesday, January 09
|
Source: Hollywood Reporter via Reuters , Advocate , WorldScreen.com LOS ANGELES -- Sordid Lives: The Series , a new comedic prequel to the 1996 play and 2000 film of the same name, will begin airing this fall on Logo, network officials announced Tuesday in a press release. Produced by Scout and Once Upon A Time Productions, the half-hour series is about a dysfunctional southern family and their motley acquaintances. The series will be delivered in April 2008. The project, slated for a fall premiere on the MTV Networks outlet, is based on Del Shores' 1996 play and 2000 film. Shores ( Queer as...
|
-
Tuesday, January 08
|
Source: BBC News , ITN News Actor Stephen Fry has lashed out at the way straight actors are praised for playing gay characters. The TV star has voiced his opinion on the way male stars who are heterosexual, are lauded as "brave" when they share an intimate moment on screen with other men. "Straight actors can play gay people and they're rather congratulated on it. People say 'Ooh, how brave of you," he said. Related in Q: Actor John Barrowman, who wants to have a baby, thinks closeted actors are 'just sad' In contrast he says a gay actor playing a straight character...
|
-
Monday, January 07
|
Source: PinkNews , Daily Express , Daily Record John Barrowman photo: ContactMusic Openly gay actor John Barrowman, who plays dashing Captain Jack in the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood , pities any performers who feel they have to hide their true sexuality. He said his sexuality did not influence the kind of roles you got offered as an actor and believes it is "just sad" that someone would deny their sexuality to the world. "If it (being gay) has been a problem, no-one ever told me so. I know people who lie about being gay because they think...
|
-
Friday, January 04
|
Source: Variety [Ed. note: What happens when the reality-show concept behind 'Big Brother' -- 24 hour video surveillance of contestants -- is combined with, say, 'Project Runway' plus 'American Idol'? Variety reports on a pan-Arab satellite-TV phenomenon that seems to do just that.] BEIRUT -- From a TV studio nestled in the mountains over Beirut, soap bubbles rain down on a group of scantily clad dancers as they perform a provocative routine choreographed to "Umbrella," by R&B sensation Rihanna. Outfitted in white sailor hats, tie tops and mini skirts, the...
|
-
Wednesday, January 02
|
Source: New York Post , BGay , Defamer These are cropped pictures of Alex Castro released by Colt Studios. Fleshbot has the full NSFW versions. He'll appear as "Militia" in the new version of NBC's American Gladiators THE producers of NBC's new "American Gladiators," say they had no idea one of their spandex-clad warriors was a gay porn star. "We were aware that the guy had a good physique and did some modeling and stuff like that," a show source says of Gladiator Alex Castro -- who, on the show, goes by the more ominous moniker, "Militia." "We...
|
-
Friday, December 28
|
Source: Washington Blade THERE WASN’T MUCH new on the tube in 2007, but many of the events continued to solidify and reinforce the trends we’ve been seeing in the industry over the last several years, like the proliferation of gays on cable shows and reality programs and the lack of inclusion on scripted network dramas. But if the criteria for the big gay television story of the year entails screaming matches, media grudges, cat fights and spectacular flame outs, then 2007 belonged to Rosie O’Donnell, who got serious ink due to her self-imposed ouster from ABC’s “The View” in May. O’Donnell joined...
|
-
Tuesday, December 18
|
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Jack Mackenroth publicity photo The "Project Runway's" audience's collective heart broke when a staph infection ended Jack Mackenroth's campaign to rule Bryant Park. But there's absolutely no reason to feel sorry for the guy. Mackenroth may be off "Runway," but he has a cameo coming up in the "Sex and the City" movie. Recently he made the tabloid for being in Bravo's first cross-show romance -- he's dating "Top Chef's" Dale Levitski. But his first brush with gossip hounds came in October. A New...
|
-
Thursday, November 22
|
Source: MSN UK Samantha Janus has accepted "substantial" undisclosed damages over a claim that she took part in a drug-fuelled lesbian sex orgy. The 35-year-old actress, who plays Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders, was "deeply hurt and embarrassed" by the story in the Sunday Sport in July. "She was not prepared to allow it to remain unchallenged and therefore brought this claim for libel and misuse of private information," her solicitor-advocate, David Price, told Mr Justice Eady at London's High Court The article alleged that Sam engaged in a three-hour drug-fuelled...
|
-
Wednesday, November 21
|
Source: Deutsche Welle The recent announcement by nationally known TV host and former news anchor Anne Will that she is a lesbian has not damaged her image, a new survey showed. On the contrary, some respondents said they liked her more. In a survey commissioned this week by the newsmagazine Stern , 16 percent of Germans questioned said they liked television talk show host Anne Will even more since she announced over the weekend she was in a lesbian relationship. Only seven percent said she appealed to them less. Will had appeared at a public event over the weekend with Miriam Meckel, a media professor...
|
-
Tuesday, November 13
|
Source: Associated Press via Google NEW YORK (AP) — Slow and steady did not win "The Amazing Race" for Kate Lewis and Pat Hendrickson. The reality series' first-ever lesbian couple was eliminated in Amsterdam during Sunday's episode after losing precious time during a challenge scouring through thousands of bicycles for a color-coded tag. During the race's first Detour challenge, Lewis and Hendrickson opted to search through a parking garage full of bikes. Looking back, Lewis and Hendrickson wished they would've chosen to hoist furniture up the side of the building. "We...
|
-
Sunday, November 11
|
Source: Seattle Times Project Runway," aka crack for the creative set, returns for a fourth season Wednesday. Mackenroth is a competitive swimmer , seen here with fellow contestant Lisa Gilson after the 2006 Park to Park Swim in New York. photo Contestants this time include a twerp named Christian, with Flock of Seagulls hair, and Elisa, a veritable kook living la vida loca . (See for yourself in Episode One.) Then there's Jack Mackenroth: hunky, gay, seemingly talented and representing Seattle and its environs quite well. He's a Bellevue native, a U.C.-Berkeley and Parsons School...
|
-
Friday, November 09
|
Source: seaQwa's Qnews According to The Politico , Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), will discuss ENDA, the House-passed bill to bar workplace discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals this Sunday on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” talk show. The show airs at 7 am (PT) and repeats at 3 pm (PT). The only openly lesbian House member, Baldwin faces questions from Lou Chibbaro Jr. of The Washington Blade and The Hill’s Jonathan E. Kaplan. Baldwin sponsored an amendment that would have added job protections for "gender identity" back into the House bill. At the urging of House leaders, however...
|
1 2 Next >
Drill down
Items above also use the following tags. Click to filter further.
|