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Who's on Top? Grindr vs Jack'd
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St. Elsewhere
Via Jeremiah:
St. Mark's Bookshop is having a "Saved By the Book" auction to help benefit the store as it prepares to move to a new location. With signed rare and first editions from authors like Patti Smith, Paul Auster, Richard Hell, John Ashbery, and many more, the auction has begun online. It will also be happening live in the store, tomorrow night from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (There will be wine.)
Keep this great bookshop at home in the East Village. Click HERE for a full list of available items up for bidding. Jeremiah asked the bookshop's co-owner Terry McCoy a few questions about the auction and the future of the store. Read it HERE.
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14 Things You Should Never Say to a Gay Man
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On the Rag, Vol. 280
A weekly look at what's making news in the free gay mags:
Get Out: Spain’s ES Collection makes most American athletic fashion look like your granddaddy’s black stretch socks. Read about it HERE.
Next: The 2013 holiday gift guide is HERE.
Edge Boston's digital edition for December catches up with Charles Busch as he prepares for the annual one-night-only staged reading of his drag Christmas classic, "Times Square Angel." Go HERE.
Metro Weekly (DC): DJ Jerry Houston has found his home with 99.5, Pride Radio, Capital Pride and a partner who keeps him grounded / Read HERE.
Echo (Phoenix) has gift ideas and a round-up of music and movies for the season HERE.
Flame (Detroit): Dallas Cole is Mr. Gigi's 2013-14 / Online edition HERE.
Rage (L.A./San Diego): Plenty of holiday gift ideas HERE.
Sensitif (Paris): Ooh la la -- Arnaud is back! Remember him in a Speedo?
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The Day John Lennon Died
On the 30th anniversary of the death of John Lennon, I wrote about how I had been a huge fan of the Beatles' music -- namely "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" -- yet couldn't really remember the exact moment I heard about his assassination. Perhaps at 13 I was just young enough not to appreciate the enormity of it all, because I can remember the attempt on President Reagan's life just three months later like it was yesterday -- and I didn't even like him. But he was the president. It wasn't until many years later when I first heard Susanna Hoffs -- nearly a decade my senior and an obvious Beatles freak -- sing about the tragedy did I finally cry about it. Something about the dread in her lyrics and her plaintive vocals on "Weak With Love" -- from her 1996 self-titled sophomore LP -- took me back to that day in December 1980, and seemed to allow me to feel exactly what every Lennon fan felt at the time. And now today on the 33rd anniversary of that fateful moment outside the Dakota, I saw this moving status update on a slightly older co-worker's Facebook page, which cut even deeper.
I was a freshman at the University of North Carolina in December 1980, watching a Monday Night Football game between the Patriots and the Dolphins, when Howard Cosell interrupted the broadcast to announce that John Lennon had been shot and killed. An impromptu vigil formed up in one of my friends' rooms, as we listened to "Sergeant Pepper's" and everyone, when not sitting in stunned silence, asked, "Why the hell did someone kill John Lennon?" Eventually I left my friend's room, but I couldn't sleep. I walked outside into the cold night and ended up a stone bench in the Paul Green Theatre, and just wept for a good 10 minutes. Those tears and that pain weren't all about John Lennon, but his death had plenty to do with it. It is a night I will always remember.
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Caption Me
Perhaps I need to reel my disdain for "football" in a little bit ...
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Page 1 Consider (12/09)
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Morning Wood
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Gonna Make You Sweat(er)
With the blizzard heading our way, it seems like as good as time as any to bust out my belted-sweater collection.
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Small-Town Chelsea
The online map shows the timing and location of crimes by month, allowing research into the patterns of crime across the five boroughs.
This should make my mommy feel good.
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Song of the Day: "(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry' by Darlene Love
An all-time favorite of mine, no question about it. Private message me if you're going to see Darlene Love at B.B. King's this week. #swoon
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It's Digestable!
As obsessed with '80s New York as I am -- I made my debut in '85! -- even I didn't know about the Crisco Disco. Lube yourself properly before clicking HERE.
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Homo for the Holidays
Best part of "A Very Brady Christmas": Fake Cindy, or Mike and Greg's matching gay mustaches? (Who am I kidding -- I totally do Greg.)
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Nighthawks Diner
Find out what happens when a devoted New Yorker goes in search of the setting for Edward Hopper's most iconic painting HERE.
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Witten It Be Nice?
Happy to see I'm not the only Jason Witten fan -- as evidenced by these boatin' photos sent in by a reader elsewhere ...
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Edie Windsor Wins My Person of the Year Award
With a list that includes Ted Cruz, Bashar Assad and Miley Cyrus, it's a pretty shallow field for Time's Person of the Year award. Tne new pope has definitely given us hope, but my vote is for Edie Windsor, who took what should have been her golden years and turned them into the busiest and most meaningful part of her life, creating a legacy that will help millions of LGBT people for centuries to come.
Via HERE:
Here are the final ten contenders for TIME’s Person of the Year (listed alphabetically):
Bashar Assad, President of Syria
Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
Ted Cruz, Texas Senator
Miley Cyrus, Singer
Pope Francis, Leader of the Catholic Church
Barack Obama, President of the United States
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Edward Snowden, N.S.A. Leaker
Edith Windsor, Gay rights activist
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Drag Me Into It
I was at an (g)A(y) List event last night when Michael Musto looked at his phone then breathlessly told me how relieved he was that he didn't have to keep it a secret any longer than Bianca del Rio was going to be on the next installment of "RuPaul's Drag Race." ("They filmed it six months ago!") I barely understood what he was talking about -- I've never seen five seconds of the show and he almost whispered the news, as if he were the person first revealing the identity of Deep Throat -- but was proud of myself for actually knowing who Bianca del Rio was as she sat at my table at this year's GLAAD Awards. (I thought that's why she was at the GLAAD Awards -- because she's from "RuPaul's Drag Race"!) Anyway. All of this is a long way of saying that it seems A LOT of people adore that show -- and especially recent winner Jinx Monsoon, whose New York holiday spectacular you can read all about HERE.
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Lip Service for Kerry Degman
My Kerry Degman fixation is well-documented, but now he's just being cruel. And what an improvement from this adolescent teaser! I'm starting to think it's not guys with mustaches that I like so much as guys I like who then grow mustaches. Is there a name for this fetish yet?
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Page 1 Consider (12/10)
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Coming Out Party
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