Joss Whedon and his brothers made a 36-minute sci-fi musical during the writer’s strike called Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, starring Neil Patrick Harris in the title role. It’s coming soon (in 3 parts) to the internet.
Joss Whedon? NPH? Sci-fi musical? I feel like the prettiest princess at a Buffy convention.
Big week in gay news with California now allowing gay marriage and Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi immediately announcing their pending nuptials. This has an excitement factor of zero since Ellen’s going to wear a handsomely cut tuxedo and Portia will wear a slinky dress–just like they boringly dress at every event. Let’s hope George Takei and partner Brad (who announced their marriage plans on Howard Stern this morning) will step it up a notch.
The biggest news, however, was the announcement of RuPaul’s Drag Race, a reality show to find America’s most superstar drag queen. It’s on Logo next year and is only slated for six episodes. Which is a drag. I want a full season of this.
Visit the site and vote for your favorite potential contestant. Or, better yet, enter the contest!
Some people get Easter baskets filled with candy, that horrible plastic green grass garnish and marshmallow peeps. My peeps give me an Easter Inbox filled with bingo, promises of outlandish hats and delicious numbers like “OHHHHHH-69″ followed by a resounding chorus of “hallelujah!”
Silly, it’s the 103rd anniversary of Joan Crawford’s birth! What did you think I was going to say?
JC is one of the original Hollywood sirens, a figure only made more iconic through the lens of the movie Mommie Dearest, based on her adopted daughter’s account of her abusive life with her mother. Check last month’s Vanity Fair to get a very different viewpoint from JC’s other adopted children, twins Cathy and Cindy.
Would we still revere JC without Mommie Dearest? I’m not sure, but guessing not. Are all the drag shows really just about Faye Dunaway? Again, I don’t know–but I like Mommie Dearest a bunch. And I love JC drag. Which is what makes bingo with the CT Gay Men’s Chorus so fun.
I’m guessing you think I’m going to go all, “Don’t fuck with me fellas, this isn’t my first time at the rodeo” on you. That’s not even my favorite line. I really, really like when Faye storms into that penthouse she’s turning into a showcase for Pepsi Cola and tears a new asshole into the contractor, screaming, “Tear down that BITCH of a bearing wall and put a window where it ought to be!”
Plus, JC on YouTube sucks. So, I’m giving you a short oddity. A glamorously different glimpse of JC–on the 70’s pseudo-paranormal series, “The Sixth Sense.”
When I checked out this week’s Lush Life column in the Hartford Advocate, I couldn’t help but think of George Clooney’s smarmy response to whether or not he’s gay in this April’s issue of Esquire:
The Esquire interviewer mentions a Web site that insists that the actor is “gay, gay, gay.” Clooney responds: “No, I’m gay, gay. The third gay — that was pushing it.”
Lush Life’s “Steve and Edie” recount a recent night at a “well appointed spot in Hartford’s West End” where a fellow customer offered suggestions on how Steve could seem less gay:
Completely unsolicited, a woman sitting to our right interrupted us to volunteer suggestions on how Steve could seem less gay, from his hair to his speech to his clothing (a fabulous combination of three clashing tartans). After closing her gaping mouth and shaking off disbelief at such barefaced, insulting ignorance, Edie came close to just letting go and scratching this dizzy chick’s eyes out. Caught totally off-guard as one often is at such a familiar bar, Steve did not know what to do.
Great job, Hartford.
Any guesses on where the “well appointed spot” is? Think “Steve” is the only openly gay man there?
“Gay men, lesbians and bisexuals make up nearly 7 percent of Hartford’s population, the 10th-highest rate among U.S. cities, new government figures show. …By comparison, New York City’s gay, lesbian and bisexual population is 4.1 percent of the city’s total population, according to the survey.
The 2000 Census counted 7,386 same-sex couples in Connecticut; the new survey puts the number at 10,174. Unlike the census, which is an actual count, the survey is based on estimates drawn from a 1.4 million-household sample of the U.S. population.
According to the survey, the Hartford region’s same-sex couples are almost evenly split between male and female.”
We went out of town earlier in the month and completely missed our chance to recap the CT Pride Festival 2006, September 9-11.
We’ll leave you with one parting shot of a partygoer from City Hall’s big dance party releasing his technicolor rainbow all over a corner of the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Sorry for the pic quality. It was dark and we were stumbling too.
We just spotted these at the Shell Station on Capitol Avenue (a.k.a. “The Murder Mart”) yesterday morning, and they mentally jarred us into checking up on the CT Pride Festival 2006.
Yes, rumors are true–thank god–it’s being moved from Bushnell Park to the heart of Hartford’s Main Street, from City Hall to the Old State House.
Every city in the world seems to celebrate Pride in late June, but Hartford’s party is always held in the fall. This year it takes place on September 9.
Which is fine with us–September may be much less sweaty on the asphalt than late June was anyway.
We apologize for the lack of posts this week. With the rain and the general lack of anything interesting afoot about town, we just haven’t been inspired. We’ll be scarier next week, we promise.
Just a reminder that the Comet Club Reunion happens this weekend, as we originally noted here.
And–the Comet Lounge seems to be reopening for good. We don’t have the full schedule yet, but at least they’re going gay on nights that aren’t Tuesdays! Imagine that.
Get your gay on the first Saturday of every month at “Secret Saturdays” and weekly on Sunday nights at “Hot Chocolate Sundays,” starting at 9 p.m.
We think you have to show up to get fudge with that.
When I checked out this week’s 
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