Birthday shoutouts go to Freddie Smith (above), who was 25 ... yesterday, Holly Hunter is 55, and Dean Geyer is 27. In ratings news, The New Normal was down 22%. I fear there is no escape from the Cancellation Bear. Meanwhile, Splash is a surprise hit. What the hell is going on here? TV Line talks to Misha Collins about the return of Castiel on tonight's Supernatural. Ayanbadejo and Kluwe Join Amway BoycottBelow you can see the trailer for Hemlock Grove, which premieres on Netflix on April 19th. "Hemlock Grove?" Is it next to "Arsenic Avenue?"
CNN reports on The Rainbow House, and they have the typically classy response from the Wbc.
Below you can see Anderson talk to Matthew Rhys about being seduced on stage by Kathleen Turner.
Becoming A Man: A Gay Athlete's Journey.
Once again, Happy Birthday Freddie! I forgive you for making me forget it was yesterday.
Introducing our new feature...
CNN reports on The Rainbow House, and they have the typically classy response from the Wbc.
Below you can see Anderson talk to Matthew Rhys about being seduced on stage by Kathleen Turner.
Becoming A Man: A Gay Athlete's Journey.
Once again, Happy Birthday Freddie! I forgive you for making me forget it was yesterday.
Introducing our new feature...
- 3/20/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Back in 2007, we ran an article called Gay Sex Scenes that Made Movie History. A delightfully naughty exploration of firsts and foresk- ... er, foremosts in terms of gay male intimacy on the silver screen, it celebrated some of the films that blew the celluloid closet to bits, one modesty sock at a time.
Six years later, it's shocking just how far pop culture has come in terms of normalizing gay characters and stories, and how much bolder the gay film audience has grown in demanding films that speak truthfully to their sexual experience (though, it must be said, the films that answer the call are usually decidedly outside of the mainstream). So we've decided to bring you an update to our foundational piece that looks at what has happened since. Of course, since most of the ground breaking was done over the last four decades or so, our focus is...
Six years later, it's shocking just how far pop culture has come in terms of normalizing gay characters and stories, and how much bolder the gay film audience has grown in demanding films that speak truthfully to their sexual experience (though, it must be said, the films that answer the call are usually decidedly outside of the mainstream). So we've decided to bring you an update to our foundational piece that looks at what has happened since. Of course, since most of the ground breaking was done over the last four decades or so, our focus is...
- 1/10/2013
- by AfterElton.com Staff
- The Backlot
I invite everyone to start off the day the way I do every morning. With a Happy Ending.
There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Ed had his electricity restored last night, and will resume his magical Meme powers tomorrow. The bad news is that our leader Dennis is still without, and our thoughts go to him and the hundreds of thousands who are still trying to cope.
Please join me at 1:00 Pm Et for a Days Of Our Lives Liveblog. For technical reasons, we're trying something a little different today. Hopefully it won't blow up in our faces, but if it does, that could be fun, too!
A programming note: Tomorrow is a holiday in the U.S., and Ae will be shut down with the exception of a Meme and a Liveblog. Join us back on Thursday for a full schedule! Oh,...
There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Ed had his electricity restored last night, and will resume his magical Meme powers tomorrow. The bad news is that our leader Dennis is still without, and our thoughts go to him and the hundreds of thousands who are still trying to cope.
Please join me at 1:00 Pm Et for a Days Of Our Lives Liveblog. For technical reasons, we're trying something a little different today. Hopefully it won't blow up in our faces, but if it does, that could be fun, too!
A programming note: Tomorrow is a holiday in the U.S., and Ae will be shut down with the exception of a Meme and a Liveblog. Join us back on Thursday for a full schedule! Oh,...
- 7/3/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Last month, as the fate of ABC's Gcb hung in the balance, we were worried it would become a member of the "Gone Too Soon" club, TV shows that were snuffed out before they had a chance to flourish, or at least before we had a chance to grow tired of them.
Sadly, Gcb has gone to that big Upn in the sky, where it can run happily in the meadow with the likes of Firefly, Pushing Daisies, and Manimal.
While we mourn Gcb's loss, let's take a look at more shows that were ended too quickly. They were unappreciated at the the time, but they were either too good or too ... interesting ... not to have been offered the opportunity to flourish. Or flame out. Which is just as good.
The Comeback
HBO (June 5, 2005 – September 4, 2005)
Lisa Kudrow could have played it safe with her follow-up series to Friends, but instead...
Sadly, Gcb has gone to that big Upn in the sky, where it can run happily in the meadow with the likes of Firefly, Pushing Daisies, and Manimal.
While we mourn Gcb's loss, let's take a look at more shows that were ended too quickly. They were unappreciated at the the time, but they were either too good or too ... interesting ... not to have been offered the opportunity to flourish. Or flame out. Which is just as good.
The Comeback
HBO (June 5, 2005 – September 4, 2005)
Lisa Kudrow could have played it safe with her follow-up series to Friends, but instead...
- 6/21/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
A few weeks ago we asked readers to submit up to five of their favorite movies in our third annual favorite gay film poll. We wanted to see which older gay films have timeless appeal and which recent gay films you judged important enough to register in the rankings.
After voting closed we sorted through the nearly 15,000 nominations (representing over 500 individual titles) to identify your top fifty favorite gay films.
Tabulating this data is actually a bit harder than it sounds. For instance, do you know how many different ways our readers can type/abbreviate "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?" We counted about a dozen!
But we're not complaining, because the list that resulted this year is actually rather interesting.
Nine new films made their way into the rankings, and five of these are of very recent vintage. This represents a strong showing for current queer cinema.
After voting closed we sorted through the nearly 15,000 nominations (representing over 500 individual titles) to identify your top fifty favorite gay films.
Tabulating this data is actually a bit harder than it sounds. For instance, do you know how many different ways our readers can type/abbreviate "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?" We counted about a dozen!
But we're not complaining, because the list that resulted this year is actually rather interesting.
Nine new films made their way into the rankings, and five of these are of very recent vintage. This represents a strong showing for current queer cinema.
- 9/20/2010
- by AfterElton.com Staff
- The Backlot
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Send it to aftereltonflyingmonkey@yahoo.com! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)
Q: So far my favorite scene in my favorite show, Glee, is Artie singing “Dancing With Myself.” How did that wonderful scene come about? – Marshall, Chicago, Il
Kevin McHale as Glee's Artie
A: “I think it was [creator] Ryan [Murphy’s idea],” Kevin McHale tells us of that striking scene that has him moving around the school in his wheelchair and singing, sometimes in normal motion while everyone else is in slow motion. “[Ryan] was the one who walked by me a few episodes before and he was, like, ‘Learn “Dancing With Myself.’ It was cool.”
As for the unique, wheel-popping choreography, “It was very unconventional,” Kevin admits. “Me and the choreographer, Zach [Woodlee], kind of knew what I could do in the chair. He’s amazing. It was us figuring certain types...
Q: So far my favorite scene in my favorite show, Glee, is Artie singing “Dancing With Myself.” How did that wonderful scene come about? – Marshall, Chicago, Il
Kevin McHale as Glee's Artie
A: “I think it was [creator] Ryan [Murphy’s idea],” Kevin McHale tells us of that striking scene that has him moving around the school in his wheelchair and singing, sometimes in normal motion while everyone else is in slow motion. “[Ryan] was the one who walked by me a few episodes before and he was, like, ‘Learn “Dancing With Myself.’ It was cool.”
As for the unique, wheel-popping choreography, “It was very unconventional,” Kevin admits. “Me and the choreographer, Zach [Woodlee], kind of knew what I could do in the chair. He’s amazing. It was us figuring certain types...
- 2/1/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
MattCanada here with a bit of an overview and Best-Of Gay films for the last decade.
Gay cinema over the last ten years has been intrinsically tied to both the political gains made by gay activists and the intense battles surrounding everything from the worldwide fight for gay marriage to nationally specific issues like America's Dadt and Doma, and Britain's repeal of Section 28. The relationship between the political and the cinematic is always most pronounced in the medium's relationship to minority groups and their texts.
The Aughts have seen gay-rights become the most visible"social values" issue in America, and this has been reflected in a number of high profile American films dealing frankly, sexually, and politically with what it means to be gay in America. Milk, Far From Heaven, and Mysterious Skin employ gay filmmaking traditions, like those of Affirmation Documentaries (Richard Dyer's term), Sirkian melodrama, and New Queer Cinema,...
Gay cinema over the last ten years has been intrinsically tied to both the political gains made by gay activists and the intense battles surrounding everything from the worldwide fight for gay marriage to nationally specific issues like America's Dadt and Doma, and Britain's repeal of Section 28. The relationship between the political and the cinematic is always most pronounced in the medium's relationship to minority groups and their texts.
The Aughts have seen gay-rights become the most visible"social values" issue in America, and this has been reflected in a number of high profile American films dealing frankly, sexually, and politically with what it means to be gay in America. Milk, Far From Heaven, and Mysterious Skin employ gay filmmaking traditions, like those of Affirmation Documentaries (Richard Dyer's term), Sirkian melodrama, and New Queer Cinema,...
- 12/22/2009
- by CanadaMatt
- FilmExperience
Why aren’t there more good gay movies? We hear this complaint at AfterElton.com a lot, and we’ve even made it a few times ourselves (although we think the results of this poll prove that there are more good movies than many of us think!).
There are surely many reasons why more “mainstream” movies don’t include gay or bisexual themes, but no doubt one of them is heterosexual discomfort – not just discomfort on the part of audiences and network executives, but also discomfort on the part of critics and others to champion these films.
This is where our poll of AfterElton.com readers on the 50 Greatest Gay Movies comes in. We can think of no better way to encourage the creation of more good gay movies than to praise and support the existence of past good gay movies!
How does this list compare to our previous poll?...
There are surely many reasons why more “mainstream” movies don’t include gay or bisexual themes, but no doubt one of them is heterosexual discomfort – not just discomfort on the part of audiences and network executives, but also discomfort on the part of critics and others to champion these films.
This is where our poll of AfterElton.com readers on the 50 Greatest Gay Movies comes in. We can think of no better way to encourage the creation of more good gay movies than to praise and support the existence of past good gay movies!
How does this list compare to our previous poll?...
- 9/14/2009
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom and Shelter tied for the Outstanding Film prize at Saturday's Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) Media Awards in New York.
A Special Recognition Award was presented to The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later - The Lasting Legacy of Matthew Shepard, a two-hour radio documentary, which aired on Sirius Xm Radio.
Tyra Banks received the Excellence in Media Award, which was presented by singer Clay Aiken, who 'came out' as a gay man last year.
Other winners included A Jihad For Love (Outstanding Documentary), U.S. TV soap As The World Turns (Outstanding Daily Drama) and kd lang (Outstanding Music Artist).
A Special Recognition Award was presented to The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later - The Lasting Legacy of Matthew Shepard, a two-hour radio documentary, which aired on Sirius Xm Radio.
Tyra Banks received the Excellence in Media Award, which was presented by singer Clay Aiken, who 'came out' as a gay man last year.
Other winners included A Jihad For Love (Outstanding Documentary), U.S. TV soap As The World Turns (Outstanding Daily Drama) and kd lang (Outstanding Music Artist).
- 3/29/2009
- WENN
Two films -- Patrik-Ian Polk's "Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom" and Jonah Markowitz's "Shelter" -- tied for the award for limited-release film at the 20th annual GLAAD Media Awards, held Saturday at New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Parvez Sharma's "A Jihad for Love" was named outstanding documentary.
At the awards ceremony, Clay Aiken presented Tyra Banks with the Excellence in Media Award, and T.R. Knight presented Suze Orman with the Vito Russo Award.
In all, 29 awards were handed out. Additional GLAAD honors will be announced April 18 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles and on May 9 at the Hilton San Francisco.
A complete list of winners can be found on the next page.
GLAAD Media Awards winners
Excellence in Media
Tyra Banks
Vito Russo Award
Suze Orman
Outstanding Film -- Limited Release (tie)
"Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom"
"Shelter"
Outstanding Documentary
"A Jihad For Love...
Parvez Sharma's "A Jihad for Love" was named outstanding documentary.
At the awards ceremony, Clay Aiken presented Tyra Banks with the Excellence in Media Award, and T.R. Knight presented Suze Orman with the Vito Russo Award.
In all, 29 awards were handed out. Additional GLAAD honors will be announced April 18 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles and on May 9 at the Hilton San Francisco.
A complete list of winners can be found on the next page.
GLAAD Media Awards winners
Excellence in Media
Tyra Banks
Vito Russo Award
Suze Orman
Outstanding Film -- Limited Release (tie)
"Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom"
"Shelter"
Outstanding Documentary
"A Jihad For Love...
- 3/29/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spike Lee and Tyler Perry are among the directors nominated at the upcoming NAACP Image Awards. The civil rights organisation announced the nominations in three directing categories on Tuesday, with Lee and Tyler leading the pack.
Lee received a nod for best motion picture director with Miracle of St. Anna and will compete against Perry (The Family That Preys), Darnell Martin (Cadillac Records), Gina Prince Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees) and Patrik Ian Polk (Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom).
In the TV comedy category, Kevin Sullivan was nominated for his work on hit series 30 Rock, and will go up against Ali LeRoi (Everybody Hates Chris), Ken Whittingham (Entourage), Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends) and Victor Nelli, Jr. (Ugly Betty).
While Heroes director Anthony Hemingway leads the TV drama shortlist. He will battle it out with Eriq Lasalle (Law & Order: Svu), Ernest Dickerson, (Lincoln Heights), Paris Barclay (In Treatment) and Seth Mann (The Wire).
The winner will be announced at the 40th NAACP Image Awards, which celebrates diversity in the arts, in Los Angeles on 12 February.
Lee received a nod for best motion picture director with Miracle of St. Anna and will compete against Perry (The Family That Preys), Darnell Martin (Cadillac Records), Gina Prince Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees) and Patrik Ian Polk (Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom).
In the TV comedy category, Kevin Sullivan was nominated for his work on hit series 30 Rock, and will go up against Ali LeRoi (Everybody Hates Chris), Ken Whittingham (Entourage), Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends) and Victor Nelli, Jr. (Ugly Betty).
While Heroes director Anthony Hemingway leads the TV drama shortlist. He will battle it out with Eriq Lasalle (Law & Order: Svu), Ernest Dickerson, (Lincoln Heights), Paris Barclay (In Treatment) and Seth Mann (The Wire).
The winner will be announced at the 40th NAACP Image Awards, which celebrates diversity in the arts, in Los Angeles on 12 February.
- 1/28/2009
- WENN
Logo on Thursday greenlighted a feature film based on the channel's popular series Noah's Arc.
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom will revolve around four black gay friends living in Los Angeles and pick up where the series' second-season cliffhanger left off.
Series creator Patrik-Ian Polk will direct from a script he wrote with John R. Gordon. Darryl Stephens, Doug Spearman, Rodney Chester and Christian Vincent will star. Polk will produce with Carol Ann Shine.
Distribution plans for the film, which begins filming in March in Canada, have not been announced.
MTV Networks' Logo targets gay and lesbian viewers.
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom will revolve around four black gay friends living in Los Angeles and pick up where the series' second-season cliffhanger left off.
Series creator Patrik-Ian Polk will direct from a script he wrote with John R. Gordon. Darryl Stephens, Doug Spearman, Rodney Chester and Christian Vincent will star. Polk will produce with Carol Ann Shine.
Distribution plans for the film, which begins filming in March in Canada, have not been announced.
MTV Networks' Logo targets gay and lesbian viewers.
- 2/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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