Dude? Here's Khaduah Farmer, the lesbian who was ejected from a Greenwich Village restaurant because the bouncer thought she was a man using the women's bathroom. Confused in Kansas?
Maybe. In the Village -- on Gay Pride Sunday, no less? I don't think so.
Teen Convicted: A 17-year-old man who brutally beat a transsexual, 39, after discovering during sex that she had a penis was convicted of aggravated battery in Palm Beach County Juvenile Court, but not of a hate crime, the Miami Herald reported. Names of victim and perpetrator are being withheld. A police officer told the court that the teenager beat the transsexual until his hands were sore, took a break, and then returned to the beach where he had left her to punch her some more and slam her head into a lifeguard stand.
Law Firm Confidential: From the earliest stages of Aaron Charney v. Sullivan Cromwell (Charney claims sexual orientation discrimination and retaliation led to his termination from his former law-firm employer), S C has shown great concern over public exposure of its inner workings, and its firing of Charney and its countersuit against him were premised largely on the publicity campaign he waged when he filed the lawsuit, particularly his leaking of documents to The Wall Street Journal that were mentioned in an embarrassing article about morale problems at the firm. By getting Charney's agreement to and the judge's approval of the confidentiality stipulation, S C may succeed in keeping the bloggers and the press from access to the kind of materials that it successfully labored to get removed from Charney's original complaint.
(What fun is that?) Lucky Drawers: Why is Venus Williams wearing boxerbriefs at Wimbledon? Drama Queen: New York Times columnist Frank Rich discusses his new book, The Greatest Story Ever Sold with the gay press.
Diamond Life: A jewelry manufacturer in Queens, N.Y., may appeal to the state's highest court after a judge ordered him to testify whether he thinks gays are repulsive and doomed to eternal damnation.
The Parental Life: A baby for Nicole Richie and Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden? Breaking the Habit: Women interested in setting up a lesbian-only rest home in Wellington, New Zealand, will hold meetings in the city next month to gauge support When Jen met Shiloh: Are Brad and Jen secretly meeting so Jen can meet Shiloh? Probably not.
But that doesn't stop Star magazine from writing a frontpage article about it. Stay tuned for a Photoshopped pictorial next week. Divine Intervention: John Travolta wants gay rights activists to know that they needn't boycott Hairspray because there's nothing gay in it.
He does know he's in it though, right? Neverland East: Is Michael Jackson looking for a home on the Chesapeake Bay? !
Escandalo! Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo placed newscaster Mirthala Salinas on paid leave Thursday while it carries out an investigation into whether she breached journalistic ethics by having a relationship with someone she covered: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The BJ That Keeps Giving: Hugh Grant put Divine Brown's kids through college.
Science Fiction: The Star Trek episode that dares to go where no other Star Trek episode has gone before. RIP: The last living original member of the Drifters, Bill Pinkney, died Wednesday at 81. May he rest in peace knowing that he and his bandmates' legacy -- classic songs like Save the Last Dance for Me, Under the Boardwalk and Up On the Roof -- lives on forever.
Posted by Kenneth Walsh in Transgender | Permalink | Comments (11) Went to see Xanadu last night on Broadway, at the invitation of one of its producers. I don't go to a lot of theater and I'm especially not a fan of musicals per se (so this is not a review), but I have to tell you that I had the funnest time (as did my bf, Michael.) I'm as white with rage as the next guy about film, television and Broadway having no new ideas, but the reason this one works is because it's a Broadway show of a horrible movie that needed improvement -- or at least to not take itself so seriously.
(Look at the show's tagline -- they're not taking this seriously.) I couldn't tell you what the 1980 film was about, but the play tells the story of one of the nine muses of ancient Greece who comes to earth to inspire the greatest of artistic achievements -- a roller disco. Along the way she falls in love, bumps into an old acquaintance and for the first time, feels the desire to create herself.
The wonderful Kerry Butler (who played Penny Pingleton in Hairspray ) captures the spirit of Olivia Newton-John with a loving wink on the barbie (her Aussie accent had me in stitches every time she turned it up). And what do you need to know about Cheyenne Jackson -- the strapping All Shook Up star who stepped in for the recuperating James Carpinello? He's big, strong and very handsome -- and watching the guy pran ce around in denim cutoffs straight out of 1980 was hardly anything to complain about.
Oh, and he can sing and act, The show is wisely performed without an intermission (no need to drag things out or lose momentum), and features the songs I'm Alive, Magic, Evil Woman, Suddenly, Whenever You're Away From Me, Dancin', Strange Music, All Over the World, Don't Walk Away, Fool, The Fall, Suspended in Time, Have You Never Been Mellow? and Xanadu. Truth be told, Xanadu is arguably one of the best movie soundtracks to come from a horrendous film, so there's no shortage of fantastic songs here.
If there hadn't been so many great singles on this album (four of the 10 songs were Top 20 hits), Suspended in Time for ONJ and Don't Walk Away for ELO could have been a huge hits too. (These two really jump out at the show.) Xanadu is still in previews and will officially open July 10.
The limited audience -- the evil muse in the play summed it up brilliantly when she described the action onstage as children's theater for 40-year-old gay men -- has me thinking this one won't be around long. And even though the Helen Hayes Theatre (where Merv Griffin used to tape) is small and intimate, this camp-fest of a show still clearly belongs way off Broadway (they certainly didn't spend much on those sets!).
So, again, this is not a review. But if you're a 40-year-old gay man who's looking for a fun night out, go see Xanadu -- and go quickly. Dude?
Here's Khaduah Farmer, the lesbian who was ejected from a Greenwich Village restaurant because the bouncer thought she was a man using the women's bathroom.
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