Surreal. As a faggot, as a little gay boy, anytime my name is mentioned with hers, it is surreal. Winning Drag Race was amazing, but sitting in bed with this lady who I respected, admired, and loved, and getting a moment to film an episode of In Bed With Joan, was surreal for me. I don’t get nervous. I don’t get excited. I do what I do, and I think over the years you just do it. I have a good time. But that was different. I questioned, ‘Should be I over-friendly? Should I be aloof?’ I didn’t want to be any of that. I didn’t know where to go. But once I was in a room with her, she made me feel totally comfortable. When that little inner boy realized that I was sitting in bed with Joan Rivers and she was laughing at something that I said, it was incredible. She was the sweetest, kindest, and most genuine individual I had ever met. As a comedienne, there are times when people are like, ‘It is my show.’ I never felt that with her. … I don’t know what it seemed like to everyone else, because, shockingly, I haven’t watched it. I can’t even go there, because what I felt, it doesn’t matter what anybody else felt. I had that moment. I remember going into the car leaving Melissa Rivers’ house (because that all happens in her basement). I was third of the four people filming that day, and I had a gig in some other city that day. My manager told me that I had a gig and would have to shift it. I don’t back out of anything, but it was Joan Rivers! I was like, ‘Bitch, no question!’ They said it was the only day she could do it, so we said, ‘Let’s do it.’ Luckily that other gig reworked itself out. It was effortless to have a conversation with her. My heart was like, ‘How do you beat that?’ It’s just like talking with Ru. Surreal.”

UK’s Mirror is reporting Elton John and David Furnish are set to finally tie the knot in a “small and intimate” ceremony next week.

Via The Sydney Morning Herald:

The couple is said to have invited just 50 of their closest friends and family to their home in Windsor, England to watch them exchange vows.

They will tie the knot on December 21st: a celebration of their 21 years together, and the anniversary of their 2005 civil partnership. 

The move comes after Britain passed legislation on Wednesday to allow couples to convert their civil partnerships to marriages.

The rumoured guest list includes Victoria and David Beckham, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and Elizabeth Hurley. 

John, 67, and Furnish, 52, met in 1993. The singer told Parade magazine they “fell in love very quickly” and work hard to keep their relationship strong.

Their young sons Zachary and Elijah will be the ring bearers.

Last September, Elton chatted with Ellen about his wedding plans (and his desire to have a slice of Liam Hemsworth on the side). Check out the interview, AFTER THE JUMP…

Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies has a new gay drama set to air on Channel 4 next year that is reportedly so risqué it “wouldn’t get past an American network.” And now a teaser for the show has been released online that is sure to get all the stateside prudes sweating.

Towleroad’s Jim Redmond wrote back in August about Cucumber and its tie-in shows:

Set to be aired next year, Cucumber looks at gay life across different generations and stars Vincent Franklin as a 46-year old man going through a relationship break-up, and Freddie Fox as a young object of his desires.

Cucumber will be broadcast alongside a sister show, Banana and a related web series called Tofu. According to Davies, the titles for the three shows came from a scientific study on the erection:

“It divided the hard-on into four categories, from soft to hard. One, tofu. Two, peeled banana. Three, banana. And four, cucumber. Right there and then, I knew I had my drama,” said Davies.

Watch the phallic-filled teaser, AFTER THE JUMP…

In 2011 Chick-Fil-A sent a cease and desist order to Bo Muller Moore claiming that the Vermont artist’s “Eat More Kale” t-shirts, created to promote local agriculture, infringed upon Chick-Fil-A’s slogan “Eat Mor Chikin”.

During the David-and-Goliath-esque battle that ensued, Chick-Fil-A’s lawyers barraged Muller-Moore with 30 examples of other companies which had faced similar claims against the anti-gay chicken giant, and had turned tail and ran, according to the AP.

Muller-Moore persisted and with the help of social media was soon joined by a number of volunteer lawyers who helped with the litigation. State officials also stood by the artist.

On Friday, outside the Vermont statehouse, Muller-Moore announced that the U.S. Patent Office had granted his application, though he had no idea of the specifics on the decision.

“I’d like to think that maybe some persistence and polite defiance, you know, and proving to them that we were in it for the long haul,” he said. “If it took us a decade, we’re going to fight for a decade.”

Watch a recent documentary clip on Muller-Moore and his battle from Stuck in Vermont,
AFTER THE JUMP…

And buy an ‘Eat More Kale’ t-shirt here.

Tide’s latest commerical airing in Canada is an advertising ode to one of the more mundane aspects of gay life – laundry habits. The ad features a gay couple playfully bickering about household laundry etiquette before ending with each guy poking fun at a past “mistake” of the other – one unfortunate “ex” included.

Watch the ad, AFTER THE JUMP…

Last month, Procter & Gamble, the Cincinnati-based consumer products group that makes Tide, came out in support of marriage equaltiy.