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Author J.K. Rowling announced at a reading of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows at Carnegie Hall in New York that Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School, is gay. Albus was born in 1881, so maybe that constitutes a Guinness book record for longest fictional headmaster who remained in the closet before being [...]

Did you require a night light as a kid? Did the dark frighten you so bad that falling asleep seemed more like an episode of the Twilight Zone instead of a Disney nursery rhyme? Since fear is hard-wired into our emotional system (don’t get all academic on me), it’s no surprise that our experience of [...]

You know, somehow it’s not shocking to learn that Marcia Brady and Jan Brady has an “incestuous” lesbian relationship during the Brady Bunch family value years. Maureen McCormick (Marcia) recently confessed to bedding Eve Plumb (Jan) while they both starred on the Brady Bunch. We’re just wondering if Peter found their vibrators and other such [...]

Legend Elizabeth Taylor was out and about with her 5-year boyfriend, Jason Winters, to celebrate Macy’s Passport program, which “helps raise awareness and funds for the HIV/AIDS community.” She has to ride in a wheelchair now, but dig that energy and persistence in pursuing her passions. Go Liz!

Newsweek serves up a column once a week where they get people to write about their everyday experiences and how they have impacted their lives. Most of the columns are poignant glimpses into key moments in a person’s life where they discovered awful truths, shameful lies, or embraced an aspect of themselves they were to [...]

Okay, fess up. Somebody participated in a study of sexually active older adults. The study was just published and reveals that 3005 U.S. adults (1550 women and 1455 men) 57 to 85 years of age were queried about how often they felt the urge and whether they had any, um, performance problems. The oddest part [...]

Merv Griffin hitched his wagon to the stars. Here’s a lovely little number that’s hard to come by these days; it’s called “Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.” Au revoir, Merv.

Hollywood loves to remake movies. It’s cheaper than taking a chance on an unknown story that has yet to find an audience. If a story played well in one country, it most likely will play well in America…usually. Comedy is the one genre that sometimes has trouble crossing the border. Screen Gems and Constantin Film [...]

After reading about how the Catholic church continues to pay out record sums for child-unfriendly priests, it was nice to read how gay parents are taking their kids to the Provincetown Family Week celebration for a summer at the beach. But it’s not all fun. The celebration also includes workshops like…
The Toughest Questions Workshop by [...]

Rev. Reggie Longcrier, pastor of Exodus Missionary Outreach Church in Hickory, N.C. has a question for the presidential candidates: “Sen. Edwards has said his opposition to gay marriage has been influenced by his Southern Baptist background. We know religion was once used to justify slavery, segregation and women not being allowed to vote, all of [...]

Kids these days come armed with video cameras and cellphone cameras. Anything you say can and will be filmed without your permission if you’re in a public space. One example: watch as a retired man sitting on the beach is suddenly subjected to a punk who wants to know if he’s cute in a wink, [...]

Being a father these days in the “modern world,” where men are men and beer is beer, means never having to say you’re sorry for your own prejudice.

Believe it or not, seniors are having sex. Coming out of the free love era, that shouldn’t be too shocking, but that strange ulcer on your lip might be. If you thought sex education was only for teenagers, then scoot yourself down to your local senior center for a refresher course. Lotharios may have a [...]

Every Sunday in the Styles section of the New York Times you can read about the latest (wealthy) New Yorkers who have gotten married. This being a Democracy (Vice President Cheney), the Times has started to include gay couples. The Times has now extended this section onto the internet by offering video clips of the [...]

You have to wonder at President Bush and Vice President Cheney’s disconnect from America. This administration seems to think the world’s a theme park that has been closed just so they can do whatever they want inside it. Somehow the rules don’t apply to them.
So when Wolf Blitzer asked Cheney how he felt about [...]

Paper Dolls
Tomer Heymann
ISRAEL, 2005, 85 minutes
After closing the border to Palestinian workers, Israeli authorities sought to fill gaps in the job market by encouraging emigrant workers from other parts of the world. Among those who answered the call were Filipinos in various stages of gender transition. These individuals who see themselves in a female [...]

The North American Premiere of director Q. Allan Brocka’s film, Boy Culture, is now showing at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The synopsis states the hero sees through the hustler’s life only after “an elderly trick tells a love story that opens his eyes.” Funny how powerful that magic wand is [...]

The front line usually connotes the battlefield, the piece of ground where the momentum of war is lost or leads to conquest. In the movies, there’s also a heroic soldier who braves his or her life in order to save a buddy or perhaps a whole battalion. One well-tossed grenade just might do the trick [...]

Ever tried to light a cigarette in the wind? It’s not easy. Maybe the wind is trying to tell you something.
Divorce is the reverse. The cigarette’s been lit, but somebody just snubbed it out, usually with a cruel twist in the ashtray. How do you pick yourself up out of the ashes and start [...]