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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #39

1955’s East Of Eden starring James Dean.

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Dinner At The Movies

Days after two NYC clothing retailers temporarily closed due to bedbug infestations, the New York Daily News quotes city exterminators who say they’ve recently been called out to treat movie theaters for the bloodsuckers. Experts warned Sunday that cushy theater seats pose a far bigger bedbug threat than racks in clothing stores – despite last week’s news of bedbug infestations …

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Man Smacks

How to hug another dude without looking like a queer. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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Tweet Of The Day – Brett Erlich

(Via – The Daily What)

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #38

1951’s The Thing!

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #37

1939’s The Private Lives Of Elizabeth and Essex, starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn.

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Pogo – Toys Noize

Pogo is the 21 year-old video artist from Perth, Australia formerly known as Fagottron. Now that he’s officially working for Pixar, he’s going by Pogo.

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TRAILER: The Politics Of Pride

The Politics Of Pride has been making the festival rounds for several months and opens at San Francisco’s Frameline Festival on Sunday. Other dates here.

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Joan Rivers On Dying

“I’ll tell you how I want to go. On stage in the middle of a set. I just want to fall off the stool in the middle of a one-hour routine. I have written instructions that I am not to be resuscitated unless I am capable of doing 60 minutes of stand up. Oh wait. I should fall off the …

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Quote Of The Day – Cameron Diaz

“If I’m going to be with a woman sexually, it doesn’t mean I’m a lesbian. We put these restraints and definitions on people, but it’s hard to define. Sexuality and love can be different things. I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn’t mean I want to be in love with a woman.” – Cameron Diaz, speaking …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #36

1955’s Picnic starring William Holden, Kim Novak, and Rosalind Russell. (Plus a nice shout-out to JMG!)

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HomoQuotable – Queen Latifah

“I don’t have to explain anything. I don’t have to confirm anything. Look, I need my time. I need my life. You know, I was looking at something the other day. A magazine with Jennifer Aniston on the cover. That’s a strong woman right there. All of these people in her business-who is she dating? Angie this. Brad that. They …

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Florent: Queen Of The Meat Market

David Sigal’s documentary Florent: Queen Of The Meat Market, premieres next Thursday, June 24th, at the NYC Food Film Festival. Get tickets here. Openly gay and openly HIV+ Florent Morellet’s namesake Meatpacking District restaurant was long the post-clubbing meeting place for a spectacular hodge-podge of NYC’s nightlife denizens, celebrities, and activists. The restaurant was forced out of business last year …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s swag booty is the special Blu-Ray + DVD 15th anniversary reissue of the camp classic, Showgirls, which goes on sale today. The show is about to begin. Sex, seduction and betrayal come together in the outrageous and unforgettable camp classic Showgirls: 15th Anniversary Sinsational Edition, hitting the strip on Blu-ray June 15 from MGM …

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Over The Waxen Rainbow

Just in time for gay pride, this week the Hollywood location of Madame Tussaud’s unveiled their wax statue of Judy Garland. The June 8 ceremony in the forecourt next to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre happened two days before what would have been Garland’s 88th birthday. MC of the event was Jack Allen, writer and historian, with an extensive background on the …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #35

1944’s Laura starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson.

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #34

Paul Newman, Orson Welles, Angela Lansbury, and Joanne Woodward in 1958’s The Long Hot Summer.

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HomoQuotable – John Waters

“I don’t even think there is bad taste anymore. American humor is bad taste — that’s what we import, that’s what television is about, reality television is based on that. I think it kind of ruined bad taste, because you’re asked to feel superior to the subject matter, which I don’t think I ever do. I think I always look …

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PhoboQuotable – Quinton Jackson

“Acting is kind of gay. It makes you soft. You got all these people combing your hair and putting a coat over your shoulders when you’re cold. I don’t want a coat over my shoulders! I’m a tough-ass [individual]! Vancouver strikes me as a San Francisco-kind of place. And I don’t want [individuals] getting ideas about me. I feel in …

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Dennis Hopper Dead At 74

Famed actor and director Dennis Hopper died at his Los Angeles home today of prostate cancer at the age of 74. Hopper had been ill with the disease since last September. In a wildly varied career spanning more than 50 years, Hopper appeared alongside his mentor James Dean in “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant” in the 1950s and played …

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