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SATC Ladies Talk Gay Marriage

The cast of Sex And The City 2 sat down with Towleroad’s Josh Helmin to talk gay marriage. In the first interview with Sarah Jessica Parker, she gets rather pensive remembering her first gay friend’s death from AIDS and worries that today’s young gays don’t take proper precautions.

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Iron Baby

Better than Robert Downey!

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What Disney Teaches Girls

Not to mention that many of Disney’s villains have been older, single, effeminate men. (Via – Boing,Boing)

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #33

Angela Lansbury, Cyd Charisse, Ray Bolger, Virginia O’Brien, Marjorie Maine and Judy Garland in 1945’s The Harvey Girls.

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BP Approves Use Of Kevin Costner’s Oil Separation Machine

As terrible at Kevin Costner’s Waterworld was, something great has actually come out of it. Costner has spent the last 15 years and $24M of his own money to develop a Waterworld-ish machine that removes oil from water. And it’s going to be put to use in the Gulf. “Kevin saw the Exxon Valdez spill, and as a fisherman and …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #32

1950’s No Way Out starring Sydney Poitier.

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Movie Gallery To Close, AFA Takes Credit

The nation’s #2 movie rental company, Movie Gallery, is going out of business and will close its remaining 1900 outlets this year. And the American Family Association is taking credit. American Family Association has worked for years to close down Movie Gallery shops, pointing out to consumers and law-enforcement authorities the company’s practice of distributing hardcore pornography out of stores’ …

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Jedi A-Holes

Things get a little awkward at the end.

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #31

Marilyn Monroe in 1953’s Niagara!

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Joy Behar Takes On Author Of “Gays Can’t Play Straight” Newsweek Article

With Dan Savage, Amanda Bearse, and the author himself.

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Alicia Keys – Rapture

JMG reader JM tips us to this Blondie cover on the upcoming soundtrack to Sex And The City 2. This clip probably won’t last long on YouTube.

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Lena Horne Dies At Age 92

If, wherever you were last night, you felt a sudden and distinct shudder in the gay universe, it’s because the legendary, the incomparable, the beyond fabulous four-time Grammy winner Lena Horne passed away in Manhattan at the age of 92. Here’s just the first couple of paragraphs of the New York Times’ obituary. Lena Horne, who was the first black …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #30

1948’s Red River starring Montgomery Clift and John Wayne!

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Actress Lynn Redgrave Dies At Age 67

Oscar-nominated actress Lynn Redgrave died of breast cancer in her Connecticut home yesterday at the age of 67. Launching upon the scene in the early ’60s, at the same time her elder (and more flamboyant) sister Vanessa made a splash, Lynn Redgrave earned an Oscar nomination for her turn as a gawky Bridgit Jones prototype in 1966’s Georgy Girl. She …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #29

Tallulah Bankhead in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat!

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #28

Charles Laughton in 1948’s The Big Clock.

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Hotel Hollywood

Danish architect Christian Bay-Jorgensen is being praised by some for his idea to turn the iconic Hollywood sign into a hotel. The iconic Hollywood sign is in danger of being obstructed by hulking mansions. There’s fear that future generations will point toward Mount Lee and ask: Mommy, why can I only see the letters “OO” on the hill? If the …

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TRAILER: I Need That Record

Here’s the trailer for the upcoming DVD release of the documentary about the demise of music retail, I Need That Record. Featuring discussion and commentary by THURSTON MOORE of Sonic Youth, IAN MACKAYE of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat, activist/author NOAM CHOMSKY, MIKE WATT of the Minutemen, LENNY KAYEguitarist of the Patti Smith Group, CHRIS FRANTZ of the Talking Heads/Tom Tom …

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TRAILER: Stonewall Uprising

Stonewall Uprising is making the festival rounds and will open early this summer around the nation. Schedule here. Synopsis: “It was the Rosa Parks moment,” says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot …

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The Oldest Living Munchkin Is Really Most Sincerely Dead At Age 94

Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Coroner of Munchkinland in The Wizard Of Oz, has died at the age of 94. He was thought to have been the oldest living Munchkin. Raabe was 23 years old when he appeared in The Wizard of Oz as Munchkinland’s coroner. During his brief speaking role, Raabe proclaimed the death of the Wicked Witch of …

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