STEVE GRAND BREAKS INTO KICKSTARTER TOP 10
Gay country singer Steve Grand’s fan campaign to fund his début album has been more successful than he could ever have anticipated. The campaign has become one of the top 10 most funded music projects in Kickstarter’s history – and counting. This milestone was reached on March 6, just 9 days after launching the campaign […]
‘BEAR’ GAME OF THRONES ACTOR COMES OUT
Kristian Nairn, who plays the character of Hodor on the hit fantasy television show Game of Thrones, has revealed that he is gay. The 38-year-old Northern Irish actor and DJ from Belfast is now best known for his role as the near-giant stableboy who carries around the young Bran Stark, who is unable to walk. […]
GAY SWEDISH FOOTBALL HUNK SIGNS WITH US TEAM
Swedish football player Anton Hysén, who came out as gay in 2011, has been signed to play for an American football team. Outsports.com reported that the Myrtle Beach Mutiny team, based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, announced the news of Hysén’s signing on Thursday. “I am excited to be joining the Mutiny this season,” said […]
MARK RUFFALO & MATT BOMER KISS IN ‘THE NORMAL HEART’ TRAILER
Mark Ruffalo as a gay man and Julia Roberts as a distraught doctor feature in the teaser trailer for the highly anticipated star-studded gay and Aids themed movie The Normal Heart. The film, which explores the chaos and tragedy that unfolded during the early days of the HIV epidemic in in New York City, is based […]
GAY SLUR STAR’S RETURN TO GREY’S ANATOMY WELCOMED
America’s gay media watchdog group GLAAD has welcomed the surprise return of actor Isaiah Washington, who was fired for using an anti-gay slur, to the TV drama Grey’s Anatomy. In 2006, Washington – who played Dr. Preston Burke – referred to then closeted co-star T.R. Knight as a ‘faggot’ in an on-set altercation with Patrick Dempsey, another of […]
GAYS SHINE IN FLEUR DE CAP NOMINATIONS
Facebook was very busy with congratulatory postings from, for and among SA’s theatre fraternity when the nominees for the past year’s Fleur Du Cap Theatre Awards were recently announced. This year marks the 49th annual awards ceremony that will take place at the Baxter Theatre on Sunday, 16 March. This fabulous event is a highlight […]
FIREFIGHTERS IN TROUBLE OVER SPOOF VIDEO
A group of French firefighters are in trouble for making a fun parody video to Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen’s smash hit Call Me Maybe. The song has over the last couple of years spawned a number of spoof videos (based on a Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders clip) featuring shirtless men in uniform around the world, including […]
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY SLAMMED FOR OSCAR SPEECH
American actor Matthew McConaughey has been criticised for being self-absorbed and insensitive in his Best Actor acceptance speech at Sunday’s 86th Academy Awards. The star won the award for his role in the acclaimed film Dallas Buyers Club, which tells the true-life story of his character’s battle with HIV and Aids. Despite this, McConaughey failed […]
X-MEN MUTANTS “LIKE GAYS”
Sir Ian McKellen has revealed that he agreed to appear in the hit X-Men blockbuster films because the movies and characters resonate so much with gay people. The multiple Tony, Academy and Emmy award nominee and LGBTI activist has found global fame thanks to his villainous role as Magneto and as Gandalf in The Lord […]
CAN STRAIGHT MEN LIP SYNCH?
We’ve all been entertained by drag performers lip synching (sometimes with aplomb, often embarrassingly) to a variety of camp classics. And who can forget the vast line up of past contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race dramatically “lip synching for their lives…” But straight men rarely get the privilege to do the same in public. It […]