#TBT: Selling the Male Body
The sexy male body was used to sell everything from the Olympics to chewing gum.
Sometimes it’s an athletic young man completely starkers, other times it’s a knowing wink, and sometimes it’s just plain silly. These posters seem particularly coded to our modern eyes.
Christopher Harrity
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/art/2015/05/28/tbt-selling-male-body
Why you should get Whappy to make whales happy in Iceland
Iceland’s whales launch new app to say: ‘Meet us, don’t eat us’
trisrs
www.gaystarnews.com/article/why-you-should-get-whappy-make-whales-happy-iceland280515
Bradley Cooper And Bruce Jenner Star In 10 TV Shows We Can’t Wait To Watch This Summer
If you were planning on giving your TV and DVR a break this summer, you might want to rethink that. The once-endless barrage of reruns that we endured during the hottest months of the year has now turned into a season for new television programming and returning favorites. Here are 10 shows that are definitely worth watching this summer.
Devious Maids (Lifetime, June 1)
The spicy Latinas who clean houses in Beverly Hills are back again, but these girls are getting involved in anything and everything except housekeeping. Expect more sex, secrets, murder, and lies as new cast members Naya Rivera and man candy Gilles Marini join the show for its third season, which picks up from last year’s cliffhanger of the drive-by shooting at Rosie and Spence’s wedding. Find out who survived during the season premiere on Monday, June 1 at 9:00 p.m. on Lifetime.
So You Think You Can Dance (FOX, June 1)
This show kicks off its twelfth season with a change in format that will split the competing dancers into two camps: “Stage vs. Street.” Even more exciting is the return of Paula Abdul, who will be sitting at the judges’ table along with Jason Derulo and Nigel Lythgoe.
Becoming Us (ABC, June 8)
This docuseries from Ryan Seacrest Productions chronicles the life of a Midwestern teenager named Ben, who shortly after his parents’ divorce, discovers that his father is transitioning into a woman. Ben’s girlfriend, Danielle, also has a transgender parent, which helps deepen their connection.
Skin Wars
We’re less than a week away from finding out who will be the winner of season 7 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but if you’re already going through Mama RuPaul withdrawal, he’ll be back soon enough as a judge on the second season of this body painting competition show. Rebecca Romijn hosts.
Orange Is the New Black (Netflix, June 12)
The ladies prison-set show that launched Laverne Cox onto pop culture’s radar and turned binge-watching into an art form returns for a third go-around. The entire season will be available for streaming on Netflix upon its release, which means you probably shouldn’t make any plans that weekend.
Clipped (TBS, June 16)
Max Matchnick and David Kohan, the creators of Will & Grace, are serving up a new sitcom this summer that stars Ashley Tisdale of High School Musical infamy fame. The show follows a group of former high school classmates who now work together at Buzzy’s, a local barbershop in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. It’s worth noting that Cheers alum George Wendt plays the role of Buzzy, the former owner of the barbershop, who happens to be in a long-term gay relationship.
Big Brother Season 17 (CBS, June 24)
Last summer brought us one of the most homoerotic storylines we’ve seen on Big Brother thanks to an extremely flirtatious and affectionate friendship between housemates Frankie Grande and Zach Rance. There was also the discovery of Cody Calafiore’s past as an underwear model, which made this boring contestant slightly more fascinating.
Teen Wolf (MTV, June 29)
It’s hard to believe that this homoerotic series was adapted from the 1985 Michael J. Fox film with the same name. That movie was a comedy and there was nothing remotely sexual about its plot. On the other hand, Teen Wolf, the show, has brought us shirtless werewolves, gay storylines, and Tyler Posey, and it’s back for a fifth season startingMonday, June 29 at 10:00 p.m. on MTV.
Bruce Jenner’s Docuseries (E!, July 26)
Although the eight-part series does not have an official title yet, the project will pick up from where the Diane Sawyer interview left off. The show will chronicle Jenner’s transition as he begins to live an authentic life and seek out his “new normal.”
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (July 31)
Netflix is delivering another binge-watching treat in the form of this eight-episode series that serves as a prequel to the 2001 cult comedy. Most of the cast will reprise their roles, and there will also be some new faces like hotties Chris Pine and Jon Hamm. However, the return of Bradley Cooper as the gay camp counselor is what we find most exciting. If you haven’t seen the movie, you missed one of hottest sex scenes to ever take place in a tool shed between Cooper and Michael Ian Black. Fortunately, the clip lives on in YouTube:
Jeremy Kinser
New Report Underlines Savage Inequalities Faced by LGBT Americans
Even if marriage equality becomes a nationwide reality this summer, LGBT Americans will still be subject to many inequities, the Movement Advancement Project points out.
Trudy Ring
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/05/28/new-report-underlines-savage-inequalities-faced-lgbt-americans
Dan Savage Wants To Turn 'Duggar' Into The New 'Santorum'
Dan Savage wants to do to Josh Duggar what he did to Rick Santorum: redefine the man’s last name.
On Tuesday, the writer and LGBT advocate called on his Twitter followers to help coin the new term based on the “19 Kids And Counting” star who was investigated for allegedly sexually molesting five underage girls, including several of his sisters, when he was a teen.
Clearly “duggary” needs to be a word. Should it mean sexual hypocrisy? Fundy hypocrisy? Child molestation? #duggary
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 26, 2015
(NOTE: The following contains some NSFW language)
Some replies harkened back to the definition of “santorum” Savage helped conceive in 2003 after then-Sen. Rick Santorum, the Pennsylvania Republican and future GOP presidential candidate known for making anti-gay comments: “a frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.”
@fakedansavage the frothy mix of sanctimony and sexual hypocrisy
— Hank Thompson (@Hank_Thompson) May 26, 2015
@fakedansavage duggary: a frothy mix of molestation, church and bad hairdos
— hüskermould (@huskermould) May 26, 2015
Other possible definitions included:
@fakedansavage #Duggary (n): an intensely hypocritical moral lecture. Example: a mega church leader preaching about humility.
— Nate Severance (@NateSeverance) May 27, 2015
However, a number of people protested that re-defining the family’s name would also harm his victims:
@fakedansavage Why should his innocent sisters have to have their last name mean that? There are already words to describe his actions.
— Renée Laporte (@BeyondTheCrayon) May 27, 2015
@fakedansavage that seems like a terrible idea since that’s also the last name of his victims?
— Muffin MacGuffin (@MuffMacGuff) May 27, 2015
On Wednesday Savage retweeted one that he liked:
@fakedansavage Covering up child abuse. Example: The Catholic Church leadership engaged in Duggary for decades.
— Josh Kelly (@jcoltkelly) May 26, 2015
Definitions for “duggar” had been spreading online even before Savage’s suggestion. On Sunday, the word “duggary” was added to the crowdsourced Urban Dictionary, where it was defined as “the act of fondling young girls while they sleep. To be a duggar.”
Urban Dictionary lists as examples: “He was arrested for two counts of duggary. They really should put sick duggars like this on the sex offender registry.”
Shortly before Savage’s tweet, Atlanta Journal-Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich posted his own definition:
luckovich archive. www.ajc.com/gallery/news/opinion/best-luckovich-may-2015/gCSWH/
Posted by Mike Luckovich AJC on Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Savage also returned his focus to Santorum, who on Wednesday declared that he would seek the 2016 GOP presidential nomination:
“Rick” (verb) “to remove with your tongue.”
Welcome to the race, Rick Santorum.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 27, 2015
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James Franco’s Just A Gay Man Trying To Reconnect With His Father
You know that old expression: Another week, another queer-themed film starring James Franco. It’s sort of true, but don’t think we’re complaining. We love the attention almost as much as he does. The tireless multi-hyphenate entertainer’s resume already includes films centered on such iconic LGBT figures as actors James Dean and Sal Mineo, poet Hart Crane and his upcoming drama about controversial ex-gay Michael Glatze, and let’s not forget the multitude of homoerotic, nude adventures with his pal Seth Rogen and Interior. Leather Bar, his meta take on the classic thriller Cruising. And here he is again on familiar turf, but the pedigree on his latest is uncommonly staggering. Wild Horses is written and directed by Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall, who costars as the estranged father of Franco’s character. Josh Hartnett and Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza and True Blood‘s Jim Parrack round out the cast.
The film’s official synopsis read:
Texas Ranger Samantha Payne (Luciana Duvall) reopens a 15-year-old Missing Persons case, uncovering clues linking a local boy’s death to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs (Robert Duvall). Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth even if it means risking her own life.
With the unexpected return of his estranged gay son Ben (Franco), Briggs must find a way to either silence the law for good, or come to terms with the hidden relationship between Ben and the boy that he tried to end years ago.
We love a good gay mystery so here’s hoping this one satisfies. The film will hit theaters June 5 but get a preview with the trailer below.
Jeremy Kinser