Tag Archives: gay icons

NEW YORK CITY: Madonna Honors Anderson Cooper At GLAAD Media Awards

Dressed as a Boy Scout, last night Madonna appeared at the GLAAD Media Awards to honor Anderson Cooper with the Vito Russo Award. Her speech touched on bullying, LGBT suicide, the gay men arrested at her concert in Russia, Pussy Riot, and Iran’s gay death penalty.  “I don’t know about you, but I can’t take this shit anymore.”  My loyal …

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Lady Gaga Has A Gold Wheelchair

Lady Gaga ordered a 24-carat gold wheelchair for her recovery from hip surgery.  Towleroad has more on how the chair was made.

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Madonna’s Songs: Best To Worst

Boy Culture blogger and Madge fanatic Matt Rettenmund, who almost 20 years ago authored the Encyclopedia Madonnica, has put out another one of his exhaustive rankings. This time he rates all of Madonna’s 219 officially released tracks. Topping his list is 1985’s Into The Groove.  The Erotica track Did You Do It? from 1992 is named by Matt as her …

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New Look For Madonna

Posted yesterday to her Instagram page.

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Tweet Of The Day: Bette Midler

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Suh-NAP

(Via Boy Culture)

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Ailing Lady Gaga Cancels Tour

Lady Gaga has canceled all the remaining dates on her North American tour, citing upcoming surgery to repair an injury caused by her “strenuous” performances.  From her management: Live Nation Global Touring has confirmed that the remainder of the Lady Gaga Born This Way Ball performances have been cancelled. After additional tests this morning to review the severity of the …

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NOW It’s Worth Watching

I much prefer Dame Shirley’s trademark number This Is My Life to her Bond stuff, but I’ll gladly take what I can get.  I’ve only seen her once in concert and even though I’d fallen and broken six bones in my hand and wrist that morning, I still made it to the San Francisco Opera House, where I was admonished …

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Cabaret Cast Reunites For Today Show

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Bette Midler To Return To Broadway

Bette Midler returns to Broadway this spring for the first time in over 30 years to star in a new one-woman show about casting agent Sue Mengers titled I’ll Eat You Last. Via press release: Sue Mengers was an American original. She was the first female “superagent” at a time when women talent agents of any kind were almost unheard …

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VH1 Divas: Tribute To Donna Summer

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Quote Of The Day – Cyndi Lauper

“In most cities across the country, resources to help LGBT youth are already scarce, and every night, thousands of young people are left to sleep on the street and find their own way through the dark. Cuts in federal funding for the programs that already stretch every dollar to help these kids would make this bad situation even worse. To …

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Donna Summer To Be Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Word accidentally leaked out today that Donna Summer will be announced tomorrow as one of the 2013 inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Summer died of lung cancer earlier this year at the age of 63. Via Contact Music: Due to an administrative error, the I Feel Love singer’s induction notice has been released hours before Hall …

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Gaga Thanks Russian Prime Minister

Lady Gaga is thanking him for this: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a press conference Friday that he sees no reason to limit homosexuality by law. “Not every moral issue, behavioral habit or communication issue between people should be regulated. This is why not all relationships between people are subject to a legal interpretation,” Medvedev said in response to …

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RUSSIA: Court Acquits Madonna Of Threatening National Birth Rate By Promoting Homosexuality

Today a Russian court dismissed charges against Madonna brought by a local Orthodox Church group who claimed that her violation of the ban on “promoting homosexuality” would cause the nation’s birth rate to plummet because all the boys would become lustful cockmonsters. Or something. On Thursday a court St Petersburg ruled against the plaintiffs, members of various conservative groups who …

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Cher – Woman’s World

A snippet of an unfinished version of this track leaked out last month, causing Cher to express some anguish on Twitter. Today the final version was posted to the official Warner Brothers YouTube channel.

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Kylie Minogue Goes Retro On DWTS

Last night Kylie Minogue appeared on Dancing With The Stars to perform her breakout 1987 hit, Locomotion, in a style more true to the 1962 original by Little Eva.

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Lady Gaga Gives $1M To Hurricane Relief

“Today I pledge 1 million dollars to New York & The American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy Relief. If it wasn’t for NYC: the Lower East Side, Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn, I would not be the woman or artist that I am today. New York is relentless ambition, a drive to succeed, a place where there is a natural …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize Kylie Minogue’s new release, The Abbey Road Sessions, which is now on sale worldwide. To close out 2012, the year she celebrated K25, her 25 years as a recording artist, Kylie releases The Abbey Road Sessions, featuring many of her best-known hits “I Should Be So Lucky,” “Can’t Get You Out …

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Madonna In Minnesota: Say No To Hate

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