Tag Archives: gay artists

AUSTRIA: Conchita Wurst Meets UN Head Ban Ki-Moon During Talks On LGBT Rights

Via the Associated Press: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has joined Austrian cross-dressing pop star Conchita Wurst in calling for an end to bias based on a person’s sexual orientation. Wurst teamed up with Ban on Monday on the sidelines of a U.N. conference to deliver their message of tolerance. Ban told reporters that he will continue his fight “against …

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Michael Stipe On 20 Years Of Being Out

“In 1994, most people had a largely binary perception of sexuality – the message was complicated for them. I am thrilled to see how much this has changed in those 20 years. The 21st century has provided all of us, recent generations particularly, with a clearer idea of the breadth of fluidity with which sexuality and identity presents itself in …

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NPH On His Gone Girl Sex Scenes

Clip recap: “Gone Girl isn’t the first time that Neil’s had to act in the buff, but this time he didn’t have to do ‘the helicopter’ to get ready.”

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Bright Light Bright Light – Arms Of Another

Scruffy Welsh cutie Rod Thomas, aka Bright Light Bright Light, is currently opening on Elton John’s European concert tour, which comes to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on New Year’s Eve.

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MRF – Trying

Lovely soulful jazz. With musclebears. The bear keyboardist is Mike “MRF” Flanagan, the title artist. His current release, Mob Music, recently topped the iTunes jazz chart and is streaming in full on Spotify. Flanagan is quoted in the press materials: “This is the most personal song (and favorite) I’ve ever written, so I wanted the video to be the same. …

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Liberace On His Outfits

Slate recaps this newly-animated interview posted by PBS: Liberace explains his kitschy sartorial choices to journalist Jay Kent Hackleman in the summer of 1968. The conversation, which crackles with a kind of adversarial energy from the start, is telling: The interviewer’s initial annunciation of “garb” is soaked in knowing hostility, and Liberace immediately defends his super-gay style in terms of …

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Neil Patrick Harris To Host The Oscars

Neil Patrick Harris has been tapped to host next year’s Academy Awards. Harris, 41, best known as Barney Stinson on the long-running CBS series, has also hosted TV’s Emmy Awards. He has won three Emmys for hosting theater’s Tony Awards. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is eager to draw a greater number of younger viewers to the …

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Teasers From New Culture Club Album

Boy George has posted two teasers from the coming Culture Club reunion album, which will be supported with a US and UK tour. This will be their first album in 26 years unless you count the 1999 flop Don’t Mind If I Do, which was not sold in America. The new album is produced by Killing Joke bassist Martin Glover, …

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Tweet Of The Day – PETA

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Morrissey Reveals Cancer Diagnosis

Morrissey yesterday revealed a recent cancer diagnosis. Via BBC News: The ex-Smiths star has recently battled bouts of ill health but revealed the cancer news during an email interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo. “I have had four cancer-scrapings, but so what. If I die, I die,” he wrote. “If I don’t, then I don’t. As I sit here today …

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Kevin Spacey – That’s All

Via PBS News Hour: “While rehearsing for his one night only benefit concert to support arts education, Kevin Spacey performs That’s All, first sung by Nat King Cole in 1957.” UPDATE: PBS has pulled the clip.

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Matt Alber – Handsome Man

(Tipped by JMG reader Troy)

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Sam Smith – Restart

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Kazaky & Hardkiss –Strange Moves

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Pet Shop Boys Stand With LGBT Egypt

Following recent events in Egypt, Pet Shop Boys support #18Oct_EgyLGBT. Learn more here: http://t.co/vhn4jO98kq #StandforEgyptLgbt — Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys) September 26, 2014 Activists are planning demonstrations at Egyptian embassies around the world on October 18th. Because of all the prosecutions, discrimination, jailing, detentions, physical and verbal violence conduct, anal examinations, torture, deceptive, exposing and unethical media tools, humiliations, murders, …

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Jimmy Somerville – Back To Me

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Streaming: New Holly Johnson Album

The first new album in 15 years from former Frankie Goes To Hollywood frontman Holly Johnson is streaming in full today at the Guardian. I’m really digging it. Ordering details and tour info is here.

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Erasure – Paradise

Erasure’s new album debuts on Tuesday and today the full album is streaming on USA Today. One track jumps out from their review: “I love that Eurotrance sound,” Bell says. “It was another one of those uplifting songs.” Paradise also has that sound, perhaps something Giorgio Moroder would have imagined. “I really love all his work with Donna Summer,” Bell …

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Brolin – Swim Deep

From the press materials: Following on from his Flags Mixtape, which appeared at the start of 2014, Brolin releases a brand new track, Swim Deep. The track is the first to emerge from sessions with producer Raffertie, as the two finish work on Brolin’s debut album, expected early 2015. The video for Swim Deep, directed and produced by Phoebe Arnstein, …

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JMG Worldwide Exclusive Premiere:
Jimmy Somerville’s New Single Travesty

Via press release: The euphoric joy of disco has been one consistent thread, which has run through the diverse, illustrious thirty-year career of pop legend Jimmy Somerville. Famous for re-making disco classics as his own, “Travesty”, Jimmy’s first original disco-styled single will make its debut on JoeMyGod on Sept. 15th and will be serviced promotionally (single version and extended mix) …

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