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“I’d love to play a drag queen or transvestite, but not just because of the costumes. Wait, what am I saying? Yes, because of the costumes! If the script was good – I wouldn’t just do it because I got to dress up. Although I maintain that I look good with eye make-up. And I’m not going to be an …

Yesterday was the annual Fire Island Pines drag queen invasion, in which the queens of Cherry Grove right what is now a 33 year-old slight by a Pines restaurateur. Check out Wayne Anderson’s great gallery of queens and hot menz over at World Of Wonder.

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the fifth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. My apologies to those that have read it before. Have a wonderful …

NYC Drag March founder and organizer Brian Griffin explains the history of the march and the plan for this year’s event, which takes place Friday, June 26th beginning in Tompkins Square. (Video by Eric Leven)

When you are the rumored-to-be-gay Jonas brother, a very late-to-the-game, extremely badly danced Single Ladies routine should put those pesky net whispers to rest. As a bonus, you get to appear bravely gay-friendly for doing it in semi-drag. RELATED: Mother Jonas says she won’t hate her sons if they fail in their famous purity pledge.”They are men. They have desires. …

If you’ve seen the ad touting the “healthiness” of high fructose corn syrup, you’ll love these parodies starring drag legend Jackie Beat.

Here’s the latest from the National Association for Opposite Marriage.

Episode 4 of Jonny McGovern’s Three Dollar Bill series. Language NSFW. Loving Kevin’s MetroCard gown.

A secretive all-male group of dudes in embroidered dresses are angrily stomping their bejeweled slippers about Iowa’s approval of same-sex marriage. Via Catholic News Service: Iowa’s Catholic bishops vigorously disagreed with the Iowa Supreme Court’s unanimous decision April 3 that strikes down state law defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman. “This decision rejects the wisdom …

Frances Milstead, the mother of drag legend Divine, died two weeks ago in Fort Lauderdale at the age of 88. Although she was estranged from her son at the beginning of his drag fame, upon learning of his new career Frances became Divine’s biggest fan – attending his movie premieres and penning the 2001 memoir My Son Divine. Up until …

Openly gay Ocala, Florida high school student Justin Reynolds was well-received by his fellow students last week when he appeared for classes in (very casual) drag as way to highlight gender identity discrimination. But the school sent him home anyway. Inside the halls of any typical American public high school, the outfit would hardly be construed as outlandish: a V-neck …

Spoiler alert: If you didn’t watch it last night, the winner is revealed in this clip.

I haven’t blogged about it because it’s so NSFW, but there’s huge fad sweeping Japan in which videos featuring gay porn star Billy Herrington are mashed-up over racing techno beats, with little baby heads popping up over the actors’ naughty bits. Japan is weird, y’all. (Check out my pal Brian O’Brian’s way NSFW post on this phenomenon over at Fleshbot.) …

Yesterday an old friend reminded me about 1989’s Pickle Surprise, which is Wigstock:The Movie director Tom Rubnitz’ strange bit of absurdity starring Lady Bunny and RuPaul. I remember Rubnitz’ equally strange Strawberry Shortcut being a favorite at Fort Lauderdale’s Cathode Ray video bar. Rubnitz died of AIDS in the early 90’s. NOTE: For those that don’t know, here’s how Urban …

I didn’t do a recap of RuPaul’s Drag Race last week after Ongina’s very untimely departure. And while last night’s hour-long Absolut infomercial was certainly tedious in portions, there were a few highlights – most notably Charo’s terrible “Spooning leads to forking” joke. No spoilers in this clip. Y’all know who went home.

The NYT City Room blog reports that RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Ongina has hand-delivered a $25,000 donation from the MAC Cosmetics AIDS Fund to NYC’s Hetrick-Martin High school, which serves LGBT students who’ve had difficulty in regular public schools. The school is noted for being a space where students do not have to conform, where girls can declare their orientation …

Judging by buzz around the blogosphere, LOGO seems to have its first bona fide hit in RuPaul’s Drag Race. This clip, which is also an elimination spoiler, shows Ongina’s tearful revelation of her two years living with HIV, something her family did not previously know about.

Virginia’s George Mason University had a real queen for Homecoming this year. Ryan Allen, a popular host of the George Mason University’s yearly drag show, was elected its homecoming queen over the weekend in an emotional crowning ceremony at halftime of the sold-out GMU vs. Northeastern basketball game at the Patriot Center. He beat out two female finalists after a …

Since I got yelled at for doing so last week, I won’t give away who got booted on last night’s RuPaul’s Drag Race, but let’s just say it was the one I most wanted to go. Last night’s challenge was for the contestants to “channel their inner Oprah” and play talk show hostess, but what it mostly seemed to reveal …