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Personally, I’m not hearing it either.

“The gay community has been incredibly supportive of me. I wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for the gay community. So I have to say something.”

Camille Paglia defends her famous (and now 20 years old) New York Times op-ed piece announcing Madonna as the future of feminism. (Via Julie Bolcer at Advocate)

“Despite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, Gaga isn’t sexy at all – she’s like a gangly marionette or plasticised android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that Gaga represents the exhausted …

Nutcase preacher Cindy Jacobs really flipped her Jeebus wig at Lou Engle’s The Call hate fest in Sacramento over the weekend. An excerpt via Right Wing Watch: I want to talk as a mother to the young women today. We know that it’s not just the men who have a problem with pornography and I want to say it like …

In Sydney’s historic Queen Victoria Building with drag star Joyce Maynge.

As longtime readers know, there are a handful of short stories from my archives that I repost annually. Today is Madonna’s 52nd birthday and this story makes its fifth appearance in memory of a departed friend. Ricky Loved MadonnaToday is August 16th. It’s Madonna’s 48th birthday. That’s not something of which I’d ordinarily make note……… Twenty years ago today, August …

(Via Queerty and Giopet’s)

At the annual Rainforest Fund event at Carnegie Hall this week, Elton John observed the night’s ’80s theme by performing Material Girl and Like A Virgin as a dozen chorus boys in Speedos cavorted around him. The event was created by Sting and his wife Trudy.

Christina Aguilera’s new video debuted last night and is already being roundly dismissed as trite and derivative. My buddy Matthew Rettenmund at Boy Culture: I realize GaGa does videos that go over the top, but I think when she does it there is a clear sense of purpose, even if the actual purpose is often difficult to sense! Christina’s video …

“Lauren, Katherine, Lana too. Will Schuster, I hate you.”

-Sexy space stud Patrick Stewart returns to Broadway next season in David Mamet’s A Life InThe Theater. Engage! -Despite many rave reviews for Little Miss Sunshine’s Abagail Breslin, the revival of The Miracle Worker closes on Sunday after only 38 performances. -Musical Everyday Rapture will replace Lips Together, Teeth Apart which was torpedoed when lead Megan Mullally walked out. Opens …

Hang on, Gleeks. The new season’s all-Madonna episode is almost here.

Madonna and her daughter are launching a line of children’s clothing at Macy’s. Madonna and her 13 year-old daughter Lourdes are lending a little star power to Macy’s. The two are designing a line called Material Girl that will appear exclusively at the retailer this back-to-school season. The line, described as a “fast-fashion, junior collection,” will hit shelves in 200 …

Nick Kamen, Each Time You Break My Heart, 1986. When Madonna got a look at British model Nick Kamen in a very hot Levi’s commercial, she went all Jesus Luz on him, co-writing and co-producing this, his first hit single – even adding her own vocals to the end of the track. The single went Top Ten in most of …

With a suitably royal entrance on the shoulders of the New York Rangers. Madge tells Letterman that her marriage coincided with “the Bush years” and “it was a good time to be out of America.” (Via – Towleroad)