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Queerty calls this a musical take on Fassbinder’s Querelle. From the clip’s description: Featuring the best crew a captain could dream of: his Majesty the Gay Pimp himself Jonny McGovern and, as his sailor boytoy, Brad Cheyne; world-sensation and sensational Drew Droege (aka “It’s recently come to my attention” Chloë Sevigny) as the Madam; super-talented Julie Goldman as the drag-king …

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Out Of The Game, the new album by Rufus Wainwright. The release went on sale today at music sellers and online. Rufus Wainwright returns to the pop foray with his eagerly anticipated new album, Out of the Game, to be released May 1st on Decca. Produced by the celebrated Mark …

Ticket information. Three NYC dates!

This Upper East Side townhouse was built in 1966 by noted modernist Paul Rudolph. When Halston lived there, it was known as the Studio 54 after-party house. The Alexander Hirsch and Lewis Turner Residence, aka Halston House, 101 East 63rd Street, New York NY. Includes a private garage and rooftop deck. 7349 square feet. Sold in 1974 to designer Roy …

Lead vocals by A-ha frontman Morten Harket. Music and Lyrics by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Backing vocals by Neil Tennant. (Tipped by JMG reader Fritz)

Here’s the production video to last week’s audio posting.

Texting on the dance floor. Don’t do it.

You may recall Matt Alber from his stunning 2009 single and gorgeous video, End Of The World. Today he returns with a fat set of remixes worked from his cover of Fleetwood Mac’s classic, Dreams.

Clip description: “What do you get when you combine 70s porn, political sex scandals, and lots of choreography? Multiple Billboard charting indie pop artist, Matt Zarley will answer that along with the bigger question, ‘Is America really ready for a gay President?’.”

I really like this. Allure Of Sound notes: “Boy’s version was produced by Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominated composer, musician, and record producer Kevin Frost.”

Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears (left) dropped in at Blowoff NYC last night for some dancing with the bears and a chat with his pal DJ Rich Morel (right). The brand new Scissor Sisters track had only seen its global debut hours earlier on BBC 1, but luckily Jake had the single on his phone. One patch cord later and …

From the coming album Magic Hour, due May 13th.

The production video to the audio I posted last month.

With Helena Bonham Carter.

Joan Jett’s cover of the 1975 flop by British power pop band Arrows pulled her from the Runaways pack and into the hearts of baby dykes worldwide. One of those baby dykes was my clubbing pal Razor (real name: Dorothy), who emerged from Jett’s backstage to show me her hickey’d neck after I’d waited out front through a lackluster performance …

Feels like Andrew Lloyd Weber in Icelandic. Pop rocker Jónsi represented Iceland as a solo act in 2004, finishing 17th. I posted one of his solo clips here back in 2010.

Opening tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum: Keith Haring: 1978–1982 is the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Tracing the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, …