“I’m going to suggest something radical: We’ll never know whether Grant was or was not gay, and it does not matter. What matters was that his image, for all its perfection, also had its points of flexibility — living intimately with a man for long stretches of time, doing cute man things together — that leaves the possibility open. Grant made millions of women swoon, and millions of straight men aspire to his likeness. But he also provided thousands of queer audience members with the hope that famous, successful, high-profile performers and homosexuality were not mutually exclusive, further suggesting straight, high-class masculinity as an elaborate masquerade.” [The Hairpin]
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“I’m going to suggest something radical: We’ll never know whether Grant was or was not gay, and it does not matter. What matters was that his image, for all its perfection, also had its points of flexibility — living intimately with a man for long stretches of time, doing cute man things together — that leaves the possibility open. Grant made millions of women swoon, and millions of straight men aspire to his likeness. But he also provided thousands of queer audience members with the hope that famous, successful, high-profile performers and homosexuality were not mutually exclusive, further suggesting straight, high-class masculinity as an elaborate masquerade.” [The Hairpin]
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Following his well-publicized homophobic rant at a Tennessee standup date two weeks ago, Tracy Morgan met with LGBT advocacy group GLAAD and two teens who were kicked out of their homes simply for being gay as part of his apology tour. He’ll be heading to Tennessee next week to apologize to audience members. Is this necessary? Or rather, helpful? Feels like overkill (or a death at a funeral) if you will. Did we decide if we’re seeing The Son of No One anyway? [TMZ]
A bunch of Guns N’ Roses fans in Dublin must have not received the world memo stating that Axl Rose is just like all of our relatives: the asshole is always tardy for the party! This is why you have to write the start time on the invitation as an hour earlier than it really is. Always.
Well, when GNR finally took the stage 90 minutes late without uttering one “We’re sorry,” several audience members expressed their rage through dance. And by that I mean they threw glass bottles at Axl’s head. With that, Ireland just found their new official national sport.
Now the Irish believe that every drop of booze is made from the joyous tears of saints (as do I), so I’m sure all the bottles they threw at Axl’s face were empty. They chugged, then tossed. Oddly enough, Axl didn’t appreciate the wave of bottles coming at him so he quit that bitch.
But Axl had the last laugh, because later he came back out onstage, put all the empty bottles in a blue plastic bag and traded them in for 5 cents each. Axl laughed all the way to the recycling bank, where I’m hoping they took his bottles out of the bag and threw that shit back at his ass.
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Since Amy Wino hasn’t been launching saliva loads at her audience members during shows, someone has to do it and that someone is M.I.A.! Brooklyn Vegan has a few pictures of M.I.A. lubing up a photographer’s lens with her mouth jizz while headlining the Hard NYC Festival on Saturday night.
When Wino ejaculates a wad of spit at you, a team of people in white suits immediately drag you away to a giant tent where the last thing you see before they put you to sleep is a bunch of your fellow zombie infectees begging to be put out of their misery. That doesn’t happen when M.I.A. infects your ass with her spit. The sound of a car backfiring might suddenly sound like beautiful music to you, but that’s the worse that can happen.
And based on Brooklyn Vegan’s reviews, it sounds like some of the hos in the audience wished that M.I.A. would’ve spit in their ear holes to drown out the sound of her set. M.I.A.’s performance, which some said was god awful, was cut short after only 4 songs. M.I.A. blamed the sound dudes:
money doesnt buy u shit! i thought more money means better sound guys in america/\/\/\! i was wrong, the higher u go , they turn u lower!
about 23 hours ago via web
And here’s an example of M.I.A.’s “sound problems“:
Can these sound dudes please edit Mel Gibson’s next tape?
