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Get revved up for "RuPaul's Drag Race"


This week Logo (our doting folks, don'cha know) unveiled the full official site for the first reality show to truly give Queer Eye, Project Runway and Shear Genius a stiletto-heeled run for their gay money: RuPaul's Drag Race.

The show seeks to find America's Next Top Drag Queen, and the site is suitably stuffed, tucked and boosted with oodles of videos of the contestants and behind-the-scenes action. Check out a first look clip above and a clip of head judge Santino Rice after the jump!

Opening night of Liza's new one-woman show appropriately star-studded, bizarre


Mary-Louise Parker: "Streeetch .. and kick!"
(all photos: Getty)

Last night the unsinkable Liza Minnelli opened her new show in New York City, and from the looks of the photo coverage the event was every bit as cuckoobananas as we'd expect.

First, the photo service that we use has the title of the show — Liza's at the Palace — listed as "Liza's at the Palace?!", suggesting a sort of abject amazement at the fact they'd let the old bird in the joint in the first place.

But that's just the beginning: even the pics of the celebrity arrivals are unusually bizarre. Check out more pics of stars talking on their phones, doing calf-stretches, and making stink-faces after the jump!

Grammy-nominated Emmy winner Kathy Griffin talks Lance Bass, ANT, and her gay chatrooms on "The Tonight Show"

Last night Kathy Griffin appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and took every available opportunity to work "gay" into the conversation. In a surprisingly long interview she covered her friendship with Lance Bass ("I knew him back when he was bangin' chicks!"), how her website has become the new Gay.com, how to explain to your parents what gay people do in bed, how gay comic ANT thinks she has an eating disorder and her texting friendship with Anderson Cooper (with whom she will once again be co-hosting New Year's Eve in Times Square, which will hopefully be as much fun as it was last year).

Even better news, though: Kathy also discusses her shameless attempts to get a Grammy nomination by putting out a concert album last year. And guess what? Since the Tonight Show taping we've learned that For Your Consideration has indeed been nominated for a Best Comedy Album Grammy. Congrats, Kath!

Check out the full interview after the break!

Blood Work "True Blood" video blog 12: Fangs for the Memories

After taking a few days over the Thanksgiving break to visit our were-cat families and stuff ourselves silly, Andy and I are back for the final Blood Work vlog of the season. (Don't cry ... it will just water the seedlings of your pain.)

In this final episode, we show off our official Fangtasia t-shirts, complain about the mountain of suck that was Twilight and drop gratuitous Annie references as we chew on True Blood's big cliffhanger season finale, which left us wanting more.

Check it out after the break!

Check out the trailer for "Little Ashes"


Above, the long-awaited official trailer for the upcoming film Little Ashes, which details the friendship and love affair between Salvador Dali (Twilight's Robert Pattinson) and Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltran) ... and third wheel Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty). The trailer certainly isn't downplaying the gay angle of the story, and I'm actually genuinely interested for the first time, if only to see Pattinson in a stunning array of wigs and facepaint.

Thoughts?

Liveblogging "As the World Turns": Luke busts his Nancy Drew outfit out of cold storage

 

Yes, Luke is back in sleuthing form as he decides to lay off the sauce and start looking into the mysterious past of his handsy new grandpappy, Brian "Wheatables" Wheatley.

Will Luke get to the bottom of his new grandpaw's past? Or will he get to the past of his new grandpaw's bottom? And will I ever get a gig in the Catskills with these terrible jokes?

Click on through the jump and refresh often to find out ... as it happens! 

Dominic Cooper bares his beach bum in "Mamma Mia!" deleted scene

Here's an early Christmas present for ya: In a deleted scene from Mamma Mia!, young History Boys hottie Dominic Cooper shows off his tanned, ABBA-firmed tushie in a bedroom tousle with Amanda Seyfried. (Just squint and pretend she's Colin Firth

Making the clip even more delightful (as though that were possible!) is the fact that the opening shot is clearly supposed to suggest that Cooper is being ... um ... "buggered" ... before it's revealed that his fiancee is merely giving him a good leg-stretch.  

Enjoy all the mildly NSFW dimeslot goodness, after the jump!

Outsports Jock Talk video blog Episode 8: A-hunting we will go

Cyd Zeigler spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Maine, where deer hunting was on the tongues of all the locals. After a conversation with a hunting gay friend in Manhattan a week before, Cyd was left wondering why do so few gay people hunt ... it's got to be more than just the hideous orange jackets hunters wear so they don't shoot each other. Right?

Check it all out after the break!

Neil Patrick Harris, Jack Black, Margaret Cho and more in "Prop 8 - The Musical"


Courtesy of FunnyOrDie, gay songsmith Marc Shaiman (South Park, Hairspray) and out director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) have created a musical about Proposition 8, Jesus, and how gay marriage could save the country. Seriously. Watch closely and you might notice Maya Rudolph, Andy Richter, Sarah Chalke, Jenifer Lewis, Kathy Najimy, Allison Janney, and more in the number. These people are awesome.

AfterElton Briefs: "Milk" has Spirit (yes it do), Broadway's new coverboy, and more!

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

  • The 2009 Spirit Award nominations were announced today, and Milk is up in three categories: Best First Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black), Best Male Lead (Sean Penn), and Best Supported Supporting Male (James Franco). 
  • And by the way, the above are the former Independent Spirit Awards, not just random trophies handed out by a superhot guy in a mask and a red tie:

  • I may joke that what some gay men pay to see Madonna is downright criminal, but this story of a gay man who was arrested at her concert after a homophobia-spurred incident is no laughing matter.
  • And just in case anyone is still paying attention to the slowest-moving gay pop scandal in history, Boy George says that yes, he did handcuff the guy to the bed, but no, he wasn't going to kill him, adding, "that's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?" If only he applied that same logic to his business decisions...

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