32 Shots From the Tom of Finland Photo Booth
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Willam Belli's 6 Rules for Revenge
Willam Belli's 6 Rules for Revenge
Drag star Willam Belli is living his best life, and he helps you live yours in his new book, Suck Less. Read a mean-spirited excerpt below.
Reflecting on Queer Cinema's Golden Age: The Gay '90s
Reflecting on Queer Cinema's Golden Age: The Gay '90s
A New York film festival reminds us how wide the celluloid closet busted open 20 years ago. The Advocate‘s editors look back at how these movies changed history and their own identities.
www.advocate.com/film/2016/10/07/reflecting-queer-cinemas-golden-age-gay-90s
Make me your Aphrodite
Make me your Aphrodite
Julie Bracken posted a photo:
I knew you were
You were gonna come to me
And here you are
But you better choose carefully
‘Cause I’m capable of anything
Of anything and everything
Make me your Aphrodite
Make me your one and only
But don’t make me your enemy, your enemy, your enemy
~Katy Perry video link
Photo, makeup and styling by the talented Kelayla of www.transvista.co.uk/
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Set 'em free and let 'em go
Trans Woman Murdered in Alabama in Deadliest Year on Record
Trans Woman Murdered in Alabama in Deadliest Year on Record
Her death brings the total of trans people murdered this year to 22, surpassing 2015’s count.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/10/06/trans-woman-murdered-alabama-deadliest-year-record
This Just In: Hillary Clinton Recites Maya Angelou to 11-Year-Old Girl
This Just In: Hillary Clinton Recites Maya Angelou to 11-Year-Old Girl
Marley Dias of #1000BlackGirlBooks interviews Clinton for Elle.
www.advocate.com/election/2016/10/06/just-hillary-clinton-recites-maya-angelou-11-year-old-girl
A Debilitating Hair Plug Addiction Nearly Cost Joe Buck His Broadcasting Career
A Debilitating Hair Plug Addiction Nearly Cost Joe Buck His Broadcasting Career
From the right angle, life can be seen as a steady stream of personal problems; some more soul-bending than others. Joe Buck, Fox Sports announcer, apparently developed a highly rare one: A debilitating addiction to hair plugs and elective hair replacement procedures that practically cost him his whole damned career.
As Buck tells Sports Illustrated in an exclusive interview, he took some time off back in 2011 for what was reportedly “a virus that affected the laryngeal nerve of his left vocal cord.”
Related: Yo, John Travolta, It’s Time To Come Out. Here Are Six Reasons Why.
In truth, as USA Today reports, the damage to his voice was caused expressly by his unquenchable thirst for those elective hair procedures.
Hee tells journalist Richard Deitsch that he’s had a deep-seated fear of losing his locks even since coming to the realization that the job of broadcaster hinges more on one’s physical appearance than any innate skill.
From the very first time he got replacement treatment in 1993, he was addicted and wanted more. And then more. And then some more.
Then in 2011, as he was undergoing his eighth procedure, there were some serious complications: he was unable to talk upon wakening from the anesthetic. Doctors claimed it was nerve damage. He claimed it was a virus.
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As he tells Deitsch:
“I was lying. I think people bend the truth all the time, unfortunately. It was really for self-preservation and ego for me. As I look back, I gave partial truths. Where I lied was when I said the reason why. People would ask, ‘Why is your vocal chord paralyzed?’ I said it was a virus. I didn’t say it was an elective procedure to add hair to the front of my head. It was embarrassing. There’s an embarrassing element to that. Any surgery done to improve one’s looks is not really something someone wants to talk about. So it’s very cathartic to get this out. There are a lot of people across the country, for as silly as this sounds, who obsess about hair loss. I would tell myself I needed to look younger, I needed to have thicker hair, I don’t want to look older than I am. The truth of it is that it was an ego thing, whether I was on TV or not.”
Apparently, the only reason he was let back on the air despite his voice never returning to its full force is because of his relationship with the bosses and the equity he’d built up over the years.
Check out the complete interview here.
Vodka Expert Blind Tastes Bottom-Shelf Spirits; Results May Surprise You
Vodka Expert Blind Tastes Bottom-Shelf Spirits; Results May Surprise You
When you’re looking for a good vodka, you want something that’s inoffensive. Not a lot of flavor, shouldn’t burn.
So basically, the exact opposite things you look for in a good drag queen. But then why do drag queens love vodka so much? Life is overflowing with mystery.
But similar to drag queens, price is not necessarily an indicator of quality. Some of our favorite queens operate on a shoestring budget, and according to the below video, bottom-shelf vodkas don’t all deserve to be written off.
Watch below and see how they stack:
Ted Cruz, Jeffrey Dahmer, Matthew Shepard, Loretta Sanchez, Matt Drudge, The Schuyler Sisters: HOT LINKS
Ted Cruz, Jeffrey Dahmer, Matthew Shepard, Loretta Sanchez, Matt Drudge, The Schuyler Sisters: HOT LINKS
LOW POINT. Ted Cruz phone banks in Texas for Donald Trump and “Freedom”: “Because freedom’s just another word for nothing left to loose, including your own dignity.”
LATE NIGHT. Armie Hammer enjoys NYC meat–street meat.
MUSICAL REBUTTAL. Melissa Etheridge performed a song on Watch What Happens Live! about being warned by Angelina Jolie’s Olivia Pope.
COSMOS AND MANOLOS. Sarah Jessica Parker hints that Sex and the City 3 is in the works: “I described it as being not on the table but in the warming drawer.”
NEVER FORGET. Matthew Shepard was attacked in Laramie, Wyoming 18 years ago today: “With each passing year, we honor Matt by continuing to achieve monumental steps toward true equality, and we honor you for making it possible. We remember Matt and all those who have suffered discrimination, harm and loss at the hands of bigotry and hatred, and we continue our work to prevent others from experiencing a similar fate.”
HILLARY FOR AMERICA. This woman has the best Hillary hat possibly ever.
HOMOCONS. Matt Drudge: Feds are lying about intensity of Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated claim about climate change.
JEFFREY DAHMER. Disney star Ross Lynch is the spitting image of the serial killer in new movie My Friend Dahmer.
CAKE WARS. Anti-gay Oregon bakery Sweet Cakes by Melissa shuts down: “Co-owners Aaron and Melissa Klein would not bake a cake for lesbian couple Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer “because that goes against their Christian faith,” the Oregonian reported. In April 2015 the Kleins were ordered to pay the couple $135,000 in damages. The money is being held by the state while the Kleins appeal.”
2016 PROBLEMS. CA candidate for US Senate Loretta Sanchez decided it was a good idea to dab at the end of her closing remarks in a debate against Kamala Harris.
Did Loretta Sanchez #dab at end of Senate debate with Kamala Harris? What do you think? @NBCLA pic.twitter.com/YeAb0zYWsj
— Adrian Arambulo (@AdrianNBCLA) October 6, 2016
HAMILTON. The Schuyler sisters want you to vote.
THURSDAY THIRST. Model Matthew Prince.
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