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Ben Brantley On The Future Of Drag

“How much longer can they continue without a fresh batch of bona fide female stars to draw inspiration from? Since the 1960s, such role models have been scarce. Sure, there have been beautiful-freak performers like Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli, with their surreally emotive song stylings (descended from the patron saint of musical drag queens, Minnelli’s mother, Judy Garland). “But …

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Project Runway Spoiler

If you’ve seen last night’s very moving episode of Project Runway, jump in and discuss. Otherwise, stay out of the comments. I’d never watched the show, but my pal Ray in Chicago emailed me to insist. Luckily, my cat-sitter Dr. Jeff has it programmed into my DVR.

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INDIANA: American Family Association Reponds To “Cupcakegate”

The American Family Association says that the sexual orientation anti-discrimination laws passed five years ago by Indianapolis were a terrible thing. Because that means being forced to sell rainbow cupcakes. Controversy arose this week after the owners of the bakery cited moral objections to a special-order request for rainbow-decorated cookies for next week’s “National Coming Out Day” observance at a …

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Christwire’s JMG Pulp Novel

Christwire’s Stephenson Billings has created a fleet of amusing pulp novel covers taking jabs at various bloggers, websites, and personalities. I am opening the door to their obsessions and predilections, their narcissism and their lust, the very things that they are too afraid to admit to themselves. If today’s so-called artists and thinkers had the energy and wherewithal to actually …

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MICHIGAN: Andrew Shirvell Suspended

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has reversed his position and suspended Assistant AG Andrew Shirvell (left) after a national media outcry about Shivrell’s cyber-harassment of openly gay University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong. The suspension came a day after Cox told CNN he didn’t intend to fire Shirvell, citing civil service rules that protect government employees from being …

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