LGBTQ news and entertainment
Some news items you might have missed: • Gay Times: Former NSYNC boy bander Lance Bass has opened up about the industry pushback he faced after coming out as gay in 2006 including losing a sitcom at the CW. Continue reading “How Coming Out Cost Lance Bass + More News”
Some news items I thought worth your time: • New Music: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande deliver big time in WICKED (just saw it today – review coming). Erivo more than makes the spectacular “Defying Gravity” her own. I loved it all but if you’re looking for the “money moment” jump to the 4:20 mark. Continue reading “Cynthia Erivo ‘Defying Gravity’ + Khalid Comes Out + More News”
Super Bowl watchers got the first look at the new trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway blockbuster WICKED arriving in movie theaters on Thanksgiving 2024. The highly-anticipated movie musical stars Cynthia Erivo (Broadway’s The Color Purple) as “Elphaba” and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording star Ariana Grande as “Glinda.” Continue reading “First Look: Teaser For Upcoming Film Adaptation Of ‘WICKED’”
Some news items I thought are worth your time: • Gay Times: Barry Keoghan (above) spills the tea on that erotic graveyard scene in Amazon Video’s acclaimed film Saltburn, sharing that he improvised in the moment as the cameras rolled. Continue reading “Barry Keoghan On Improvising That ‘Saltburn’ Scene + Ariana Grande + More News”
Some news items you might have missed: • The Advocate: A group organized by the LGBTQ+ travel company Vacaya sheltered in place with others during a shootout in Cancun (above), which was apparently between rival drug gangs. Continue reading “News Round-Up: November 4, 2021”
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• New York Times: The W Hotel in Barcelona, Spain, currently has just one occupant among its hundreds of luxury guest rooms. Maintenance engineer Daniel Ordoñez has lived alone in the hotel since March handling tasks that must be done on a regular basis like opening the 1,400 water taps every five days. • Washington Post: A study of 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents found that those who received an antimalarial drug promoted by President Trump as a “game-changer” in the fight against the virus had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not. People treated with hydroxychloroquine were also more likely to develop a type of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia, that can lead to sudden cardiac death. • Entertainment Weekly: I found this look back at the “mad, sad, totally fab life of Paul Lynde” by EW a great read. Click the play button below to relive some of the comedian’s funniest one-liners on the iconic game show, Hollywood Squares.
Deaf activist and model Nyle DiMarco has dropped his own special version of Ariana Grande’s latest music video, “7 Rings.”
An outspoken advocate for the Deaf community, the dashing DiMarco tweeted Grande back in November when she released her “Thank U Next” video asking her to “add captions for 466 million people with hearing loss (deaf here and we do enjoy your music).”
Could you ask @Vevo to add captions for 466 million people with hearing loss(Deaf here and we do enjoy your music) https://t.co/e0YSC0lBJg
— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) November 30, 2018
When la grand Grande released her “7 Rings” video, the former America’s Next Top Model champ tweeted the good news: “@ArianaGrande dropped WITH CAPTIONS!”
.@ArianaGrande dropped WITH CAPTIONS!— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) January 18, 2019
Even so, DiMarco decided to take things a little bit further and shoot his own version of the video with director Jake Wilson.
DiMarco’s take on “7 Rings” uses Ariana’s as a guide, but shifts the color scheme from pink to cool blue, and features American Sign Language by the sexually fluid hunk. Along the way, he’s joined by some fine looking dancers who drop some ASL alongside him.
Through it all, DiMarco stalks the camera making eyes at me the viewing audience.
“Captioning enhances the viewing experience,” DiMarco recently told Out. “It should be a standard part of any filmed media, and not as an afterthought, but as a part of the ultimate golden standard of universal design.”
On the official website for his foundation, DiMarco shares, “Two percent (2%) of the world’s Deaf population has access to education in sign language.”
Additionally, only 25% of parents use sign language to communicate with their Deaf child.
Imagine living in a world where language was not available to you.
Check out Nyle DiMarco’s ASL version of “7 Rings” below.
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| Jim Newman (via Instagram) |
Some news items you might have missed:
• Broadway hunk & ‘Daddyhunt’ star Jim Newman (above) demonstrates that even Santa’s elves have to do laundry some time…
• San Diego Pride is so successful, the organization has announced that it will be donating more than $170,000 to 59 different LGBTQ-serving charities and organizations around the world.
• Ann Coulter offered her description of the Democratic Party on Laura Ingraham’s show Tuesday night: “The Muslims and the Jews and the various exotic sexual groups and the black church ladies with the college queers”
On Ingraham’s Fox News show, Ann Coulter describes her version of the Dem party“I mean you have the Muslims and the Jews and the various exotic sexual groups and the black church ladies with the college queers … you must hate white men. It’s the one thing they have in common” pic.twitter.com/xGWe0wH2uP
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) December 12, 2018
• Sexual abuse settlements could force the Boy Scouts of America into bankruptcy.
• A new poll by the Washington Post Fact Checker shows 70% of Americans don’t believe Trump’s lies.
• Frankie Grande teams up with his sis, Ariana, for this take on the Act Two opener from RENT, “Seasons of Love,” as part of the #RentSingALong initiative celebrating the upcoming live presentation of the hit musical
RENT will air live on January 27 at 8/7c on FOX. Hit play below.
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| Ariana Grande & James Corden |
Ariana Grande dropped by The Late Late Show with James Corden earlier this week to promote her new album, Sweetener, set to drop August 17.
But the highlight of the appearance was Grande and Corden bringing the story of Titanic to life in a short mini-musical utilizing 13 songs and 9 different sets in one non-stop take.
Using songs from artists like Styx (“Come Sail Away”), Hall & Oates (“Rich Girl”), Lady Gaga (“Just Dance”), Vanilla Ice (“Ice Ice Baby”) and NSYNC (“Bye Bye Bye”), the duo manages to tell the story of the 1997 blockbuster movie in just five minutes.
And, of course, the only way to close out the mega-mix was for Grande to deliver a soaring Celine Dion tribute with “My Heart Will Go On.”
The LGBTQ ally also made an appearance on Corden’s Carpool Karaoke on Wednesday where she sang some of her hits, shared that the theme of her second birthday party was the movie Jaws, gave Corden some coaching on riffing, and pulled out some of her fantastic Celine Dion impersonation with a bit of “All Coming Back To Me Now.”
Dang, this girl is fierce. Watch the fun below and check out her new album here on iTunes.
Some news items you might have missed:
• It’s the weekend! Who wants to go for a ride with InstaHunk Joel Green?
• Scarlett Johansson has withdrawn from the upcoming film, Rub & Tug, after a backlash about the actress playing a transgender role in the movie. “I have great admiration and love for the trans community and am grateful that the conversation regarding inclusivity in Hollywood continues,” she said.
• There’s going to be a Downton Abbey movie! Squeee! According to the BBC, the “original principal cast” will begin production later this summer, the film’s producers said.
Welcome back to Downton! We’re thrilled to announce that #DowntonAbbey is coming to the big screen. Film production begins this summer. pic.twitter.com/3scMUmosic— Downton Abbey (@DowntonAbbey) July 13, 2018
• Republican Illinois Gov. Rauner is getting flack from conservatives for having the nerve to officiate the same-sex wedding of longtime friends. #srsly
• 80s super group ABBA just finished recording their first new tracks since 1982 and says ‘it was a fantastic experience.’
• From her upcoming album, Sweetener, Ariana Grande releases the female empowered music video for “God Is A Woman”, directed by Grammy Award®-winning director Dave Meyers.
The one-and-only Madonna offers a spoken-word cameo as ‘God’ along the way.
#divine.