After Republicans picked up six seats in the U.S. Senate to gain a 55–44 majority, George W. Bush was re-elected as president, and 11 gay-marriage bans in 11 states passed by wide margins, former HRC spokesman Wayne Besen declared, “Not even the fabulous RuPaul could find a shade of lipstick glamorous enough to pretty up this election pig.”
Chastity Bono told OutSmart that at 13, seeing the movie Personal Best, “all the bells and whistles went off in my head.” “It’s amazing that a movie can do that,” replied interviewer Blase DiStefano.
“The best advocate for change in this country has been MTV,” said Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins….
“Being queer is really fun because the rules are up to us!” was among the “gratitude list-starters” in A Few Tricks Along the Way: Daily Reflections for Gay Men, Queer Boys, Magnificent Queens, and the People Who Love Them, a new book by Gary J. Stern that reviewer Jeffrey C. Phillips found to be “quite [...]
Hot Fun in the Summertime” kicked off with freshly bleached blond Rob Nash portraying some 26 characters in Freshman Year Sucks!, based on his own teenage angst, at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Sharpstown.
Grand marshals Jack Valinski and Maria Gonzalez led the 2007 GLBT Pride Parade down Westheimer, along with honorary grand marshal Garnet Coleman and honorary grand marshal-organization Imperial Court of Houston-Space City Empire, including Sean Carter, Marc Cohen, Orlin Cullever, Regina Dane, and Ginger Vitis.
OutSmart looks back in time through PastOut by Donalevan Maines
OutSmart looks back in time through PastOut by Donalevan Maines
Pn March 26, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, by which they would decide whether the Texas sodomy statute violated gay citizens’ constitutional rights of privacy and equal protection under the law. In OutSmart, Mitchell Katine, attorney for petitioners John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, explained the lower-court history of the landmark civil rights case and outlined important legal issues that would be decided by the Court.
Love was in the air when OutSmart contributor Steven Foster played Cupid, counting off 15 all-time sexy gay movies, eight for women (Desert Hearts, Go Fish, Fire, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, The Hunger, Bound, Henry & June, and Wild Things) and seven for men (Maurice, The Living End, Beautiful Thing, Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, Making Love, Interview with the Vampire, and The Crying Game).
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