Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The producers and cast of The Big Voice: God Or Merman? invite the readers of JMG to a special free gypsy performance (a dress rehearsal for the Broadway community) this Friday, Nov. 24th, at 10:30 PM, at The Actor’s Temple at 339 W.47th Street (btwn 8th & 9th Avenues). The show officially opens November 30th. Reviews here and here. The …

Lifetime has announced a new dating show called Gay, Straight, Or Taken? , in which women will go on a series of solo and group outings with three men and try to determine which one is gay, which one is straight and single, and which one is straight and in a relationship. If she picks “right” one, namely the single …

Brian Kent, a former Mr. NYC Eagle, has released a pretty ripping music video, I’m Not Crazy. Check out the video and his MySpace page. It’s nice to see a music video with some hot man-on-man, girl-on-girl dance action. Well done, Brian!

Last night David and I went to see Evil Dead: The Musical. Three words, people: See. This. Show. Hands downs, Evil Dead is the best thing I’ve seen on or off-Broadway since I got to NYC. A wacky combination of Rocky Horror, Grease, and splatter-film, I don’t know when I’ve been so thoroughly delighted to see decapitations and limb amputations …

If I Did Rape Her, The Bitch Screamed Real Loud – by Kobe Bryant. Steroids I’d Take, If I Took Them -Vol.1– by Barry Bonds. McCauley Caulkin : Totally Not The Sweetest Piece Of Ass– by Michael Jackson.

Last week’s Veteran’s Day Blowoff was a special fundraiser for Service Members Legal Defense Network, the advocacy and legal advice organization for LGBT members of the armed forces. Mould & Morel’s monthly party saw its biggest crowd ever, including a couple of hundred GI’s, who had their admissions comped. I took tons of pictures of the crowd, but obviously I …

Legendary r&b and blues singer Ruth Brown died this weekend at age 78. A Grammy winner, a Tony winner, and a 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Brown is probably best known to gay audiences as Hairspray’s Motormouth Maybelle. “Tidely papa, I am a whopper!” I was and remain a huge fan of Ruth Brown. In 1997, I …

It was definitely a little late in my career, but I finally popped my Sondheim cherry yesterday. Aaron, the Farmboyz and I attended the matinee performance of A Little Night Music, starring our own Little David. David is a long-time member of the St. Bart’s Players, a 79-year old community theatre group that performs at St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park …

Karl Rove, quoted above, (special JMG translation) continues to deny his responsibility in steering his party right up the pointy bedsheets of racists and dominionists and out of its plurality in Congress. More literally quoted, Darth Voldermort includes Mike Jones among his short list of ills that undid God’s Own Party, telling Time Magazine, “The profile of corruption in the …

It was at this time last week that the last bell finally rang on the 2006 election, delivering the House, the Senate, and the majority of state governships into the hands of the Democrats. The map is blue again. And so is the sky. My face is sore from smiling and my feets are aching from all this happy dancing. …