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This one tweet about Pete Buttigieg gets to the heart of gay culture
Say what you will about out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (and everyone has!), but one Twitter user has boiled down one major inconsistency between Mayor Pete’s gay supporters and the straight ones.
While Buttigieg may have come out relatively late, some of us have been around a wee bit longer and know how youth-obsessed we can be. And how frequently younger guys have a thing for older men – “daddies.” (Older being relative sometimes, since actual age is frequently unimportant.)
Compared...
Listen to Kate Stewart’s upbeat new single Get Mine
Lucky for us that Kate Stewart has delivered just that with her new single Get Mine, bringing together R&B and some throwback pop for a truly addictive anthem.
Kate wrote the track with three of her best friends, including former GAY TIMES cover star MNEK, rising singer-songwriter Ryan Ashley, and Shift K3Y.
“We had never written all together before, although we all write separately a lot of the time,” Kate said of the experience.
“We wrote the song in about an hour,...
DJ Ale Maes brings 4 (DJ) Friends for Mary’s Attic dance party on August...
During his recent DJ tour of Brazil, Maes was playing at parties alongside other DJs. There were, believe it or not, 10 or 15 DJs, or more, per party."I just thought, 'Why not take this party style to Chicago?'" he said.The result: DJ Ale Maes' 4 Friends Market Days Kickoff Party on Saturday, August 3, from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. at Mary's Attic in Andersonville.Maes will be joined by fellow Chicago DJs Alex Cabot, Ethan Cole, Jesse Mercado and Andrew...
Biden debate gaffe sends viewers in digital circles
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Minutes after Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden bungled his closing statement in Wednesday’s debate by telling voters to go to a campaign website that did not exist, a college student was using the URL for a spoof election bid.
Biden misspoke by directing viewers to “go to Joe30330” rather than “text JOE to 30330,” setting off a flurry of jokes on Twitter about the 76-year-old’s ineptitude with technology and a digital race to buy...
OUT Under the Stars: Hairspray
We had a blast with Center friends at our annual OUT Under the Stars movie screening event at Hollywood Forever as we screened Hairspray!
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Electro-pop duo Futuretape release sparkly debut single Look At Me Now
The song is a glittery pop banger swirling with 80s-inspired synths and catchy hooks. Lyrically, it speaks of overcoming heartbreak and becoming the person you’re meant to be, with a message of hope for the future.
“Look At Me Now is about coming out on top after ending a bad relationship, about wanting something better for yourself and the reaction of friends and lovers who don’t understand why you want that,” explain Futuretape.
“It’s also about being proud and about how...
Gay footballer Andy Brennan says life is “so much better” since coming out
The 26-year-old former Newcastle Jets star, who now plays for National Premiere Leagues club Green Gully SC, became Australia’s first professional male footballer to come out as gay while still playing the game back in May.
In an op-ed for Professional Footballers Australia, the athlete explained that it has “taken a long time” to get to a place where he can be open about his sexuality, and that he wanted to come out to feel “comfortable” with himself.
“I couldn’t be...
Tituss Burgess calls out “messy queen” Andy Cohen after awkward interview
The Emmy-nominated star of Netflix comedy The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt appeared on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen alongside Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox on Sunday night, and things got a little awkward.
As Tituss spoke about his new movie Dolemite Is My Name, in which he stars alongside “legend” Eddie Murphy, Andy took the opportunity to quiz him over Eddie’s past homophobic comments – which he has since apologised for.
“I was just wondering if you...
Gay man dying of cancer marries his best friend in a bedside ceremony
When Alfredo Garcia III checked into Chicago’s Seasons Hospice MacNeal Inpatient Center on July 18, he was dying of stage IV liver cancer and had Hodgkin’s lymphoma spreading through his lymphatic system.
Bryan Pottow, director of the hospice, asked Garcia his dying wishes. He wished to marry his boyfriend of five years and “the love of his life,” Erwin Sigueroa. The two had been lifelong friends growing up together in the Little Village neighborhood.
So Pottow helped organize the wedding.
Although the...
On-court slur shows gay tennis player the limits of straight allies
“Faggots.”
It was mumbled just quietly enough that only I could hear it. Although it was not directed at me, it still felt like a slap to the face.
The slur was uttered by my doubles partner to demean our opponents, in response to being annoyed by them.
This summer, I am on multiple USTA teams for the tennis club where I am coaching. For a recent match, one of...
Trump billionaire friend aimed to profit from Mideast nuclear deal: Democrats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of U.S. President Donald Trump, pursued a plan to buy Westinghouse Electric Corp even as he lobbied Trump to become a special envoy to promote the building by the firm of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, said a congressional report released on Monday.
While Barrack failed in both efforts, the report provides fresh evidence of the ease with which some corporate and foreign interests have gained access to Trump and...
Let’s Stop Pretending Celebrity Dadbods Need Defending
Splash News Nick Jonas It's summertime: the season for barbecues, heading to the beach with friends, paparazzi shots of celebs frolicking on yachts in exotic locales, and, uh, male body-shaming?Earlier this month, something of a social media brouhaha erupted over paparazzi pics of famously buff Aquaman star Jason Momoa relaxing on vacation. In the pictures, published by the Daily Mail, the lusciously maned thespian...
Dark Sublime is gay geek heaven – review
Dark Sublime is a fictional TV series with a cult following, and Sirtis is here playing Marianne – a former star of that invented 70’s show. Best remembered in the real world for her role as Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation, this is a part that fits Sirtis like a well-tailored space-glove. And her lesbian best friend Kate is played by Jaqueline King who is perhaps most well-known for her appearances as Catherine Tate’s Mum in...
New EU chief von der Leyen ‘will allow Brussels and Washington to reset relationship’
Ursula von der Leyen's appointment as new European Commission chief will allow Brussels and Washington to reset their relationship.
That's the view of Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU.
Sondland made the comments in an interview with Euronews' Jack Parrock, in which he also spoke about Iran and the crisis in the Gulf.
"It gives the United States and the European Union an opportunity to reset its entire relationship," Sondland said, referring to von der Leyen's appointment. "Things have begun...