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Friday, August 22
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Olympic champion and all-around hero Michael Phelps will write a book. It's about him, naturally. [Yahoo!] Permalink |
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Monday, August 18
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Link: Mombian by Dana Rudolph Full text by permission. Source retains copyright. A few weeks ago I reported on the first challenge to Uncle Bobby...
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Monday, August 11
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Back in January, Obama got some attention when he revealed how much he loved HBO's The Wire, and that his favorite character was Omar: "I gotta say Omar’s a great character. That’s not an endorsement. That is not an endorsement.... Read...
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Thursday, August 07
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When Christopher Ciccone's tell-all Life with My Sister Madonna came out, its contents were largely met with a collective shrug, considering the shocking revelations were none too shocking. Some even suggested that Madonna herself had a hand...
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Tuesday, August 05
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Link: Mombian by Dana Rudolph Ed. note: Dana wrote to point us to her post on Mombian about the challenge to Uncle Bobby's Wedding. (Full text...
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Tuesday, August 05
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A new book claims that the White House ordered the forgery of a handwritten letter between the head of Iraqi intelligence and Saddam Hussein in order to legitimize the invasion of Iraq. Politico reports: "Suskind writes in 'The Way of....
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Thursday, July 31
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Christopher Ciccone signed copies of Life with My Sister Madonna at Book Soup in West Hollywood last night. Since its release on July 14, the book has reached #2 on the New York Times Best Seller List; #16 on amazon.com's... Read more...
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Tuesday, July 29
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The Lambda Literary Awards celebrated its 20th anniversary in June, and screened a clip acknowledging the LGBT writers and literary figures who have passed in the two decades since its inception. Tony Valenzuela and Robert Ferrante produced and...
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Tuesday, July 22
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Gay author Paul Burston collected his top-ten favorite “gay” novels, including Andrew Holleran’s classic, Dancer From The Dance, Tales of The City by Armistead Maupin and Jean Genet’s Our Lady of The Flowers. Alan Hollinghurst’s...
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Wednesday, July 16
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Yesterday Good Morning America broadcast the second part (here's Part 1 if you missed it) of their interview with Christopher Ciccone on his book Life with My Sister Madonna. Ciccone claims that the mythology that Madonna arrived penniless in...
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Wednesday, July 16
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About a week. That’s how long it took before “concerned” citizens began bitching about Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, a children’s book about gay marriage:
Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, the children’s book about a young guinea pig...
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Monday, July 14
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This one puts our current president to bed. The book was published in late May. "In this pitch-perfect parody of Goodnight Moon, we see a child-like George W. Bush tucked safely away in the confines of his own room with... Read more...
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Monday, July 14
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Excerpts of Christopher Ciccone's tell-all Life with My Sister Madonna were published over the weekend in the Mail on Sunday (along with some never-before-seen photos, including the one above, right), most of which dealt with Guy Ritchie's...
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Monday, July 14
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Christopher Ciccone’s press tour has officially begun! Best known as the brother of pop star Madonna, Ciccone’s using his inside view to skewer his big sister in a new book, Life With My Sister Madonna. Riding high on the scandal over...
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Tuesday, July 08
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Thomas Disch, a poet, critic, and author of science fiction, died at his apartment in New York on Friday, July 4th, of an apparent suicide. He was 68. NYT: "His friend Alice K. Turner said Mr. Disch shot himself. She... Read more...
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Monday, July 07
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The cover for Christopher Ciccone's tell-all Life with My Sister Madonnna has been revealed. Initial reports from Brit tabloid The Sun on the contents of the book aren't all that shocking: "The Like A Virgin singer was dancing on a...
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Sunday, July 06
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It’s good to be Bob Morris. The author, who recently published Assisted Loving, a memoir of helping his widower father - and himself - find love, has been traveling to Los Angeles to discuss possibly turning the book into a movie. As if that’s...
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Thursday, July 03
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Atmosphere from the launch party for The Big Penis Book. Note: Nothing about this post is 100% SFW, nor is it porn. I came to know Dian Hanson—the glamazonian editor of the sensational new tome The Big Penis Book (Taschen,... Read more...
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Wednesday, July 02
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Tony-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell created Broadway Bares—the annual fleshfest benefit on behalf of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS—in 1992 after losing several friends to the disease. Having choreographed The Full Monty, Mitchell provides...
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Monday, June 23
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Don’t be fooled by the cover, Bob Morris’ Assisted Loving is not about a stooped old man eating roast beef in Florida. Well, it is - at times - but this memoir’s more than that. Picking up soon after his mother’s death, Assisted...
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Monday, June 23
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Stephen Watts forthcoming book, Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, weaves the unsurprising story that Hugh Hefner was a free sexual spirit, but does lay down one tale that probably more frequently goes underreported among self-described...
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Monday, June 23
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Journalism professor Craig Seymour owes his career to male strippers. The 39-year old academic wrote his master’s thesis on the cultural economics of the profession - it was called “Desire and Dollar Bills: An Ethnography of a Gay Male...
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Friday, June 20
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From The Editor: Hello, reader, you attractive young devil! (Don’t argue with me.)
A little known fact about me: I’ve always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I could pick up a pencil, I’ve been scrawling yarns and tales and the...
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Thursday, June 12
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We never understand how book lovers can object to certain books, as if there’s some sort of caste system, or something. But, of course, things get all topsy-turvy when the topic turns to sex - especially gay sex:
In the wake of a controversial...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Christopher Ciccone reportedly has a memoir coming in July from Simon & Schuster. The AP reports: "'Life With My Sister Madonna' will have a first printing of 350,000. Financial details were not disclosed. 'Ciccone's extraordinary...
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Monday, June 09
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The New York City opera has commissioned a work by Charles Wuorinen based on the 1997 Annie Proulx short story Brokeback Mountain, which, of course, became perhaps the most groundbreaking gay film of all time: "The opera is scheduled to......
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Saturday, June 07
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On the heels of his new book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, gay author David Sedaris subjected himself to reader’s questions, including whether he’s jealous of his sister, actress Amy Sedaris. The answer is no: “What Amy and...
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Tuesday, June 03
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Australian Capitol Territory holds first same-sex civil partnership ceremony. Bachelor Summit: Matt Grant towers over Andy Baldwin. Cynthia Nixon stands by her girlfriend's clothing demands. Military sociologist Charles Moskos, who helped establish...
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Tuesday, June 03
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You better start reviewing that well-worn copy of Brideshead Revisited, because the big screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel comes out on August 1st. And, can we just say, that Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw look positively smashing...
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Tuesday, May 27
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Two men charged for sodomy using "crimes against nature" law in North Carolina. Did Al Reynolds, Jr. get some new Manhunt shots? Cleveland-bound pilot sees "an object with a flaming tail and a trail of smoke" fly past cockpit...
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