Category: ‘Unabashed Queer Icon’

Unabashedly Served: The Legends Ball

July 6th, 2010

I only participate in gay pride festivities in cities where gay visibility is needed.  I look forward to the future fag functions in my new home of Iowa City, Iowa, where hate groups à la Westboro Baptist Church still line the parade route using their inbred children as pawns.  LA, New York, San Francisco: count me out; I’m not interested in the fracas.

But then there are the subsets of the major cities’ festivals.  Black gay pride festivals take place in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and this past weekend, Los Angeles Black Pride.  Among day trips to the beach in Malibu and dance parties downtown, one of the pinnacle events was The Legends Ball hosted by Mother Devine Chanel and Arnold Allure of House of Chanel and House of Allure, respectively.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, wiki it or rent Paris Is Burning, but be gone until you do so.  [Pics after the jump.]

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Unabashedly Quotable: Says Lydia Lunch

May 8th, 2010

“For the most part entertainment irritates me because I don’t find it very entertaining: I find it annoying and stupid, boring and dull.  Uninteresting.” (03:36)

Unabashed Queer Manifesto

May 5th, 2010

Unabashed Literature: Raquel Welch “Beyond the Cleavage”

April 26th, 2010

Actress, Mother, Designer of high-end wig line: What’s left to do?  Write a shitty book.

From Amazon.com: Whether refusing to change her name to Debbie–because producers considered “Raquel” too ethnic–or to lie about her age, even to the detriment of her career, she has evolved elegantly over time into a true champion for women who defy traditional aging.

Along with bringing baby boomers into her confidence–she offers essential tips for staying motivated and positive past fifty, as well as divulging her secrets for fabulous hair and makeup–she even talks to today’s younger generation of women about the importance of carrying themselves with dignity and self-respect.

Unabashed Crusader: Paul Mooney

April 23rd, 2010

I’m on another Paul Mooney kick again.  I love this man.  He is one of my comedic heroes.  Take four minutes and get familiar.

Unabashedly In Memoriam: Joo-lee-ah Shug-uh-baykuh

April 13th, 2010

DEAD

All hopes of a Designing Women reunion dashed.

Fill in your own Julia Sugarbaker Rant Madlib then read it aloud in an old money southern accent.  It feels good.

Unabashed Schooling: Sandra B. READS Kathy G.

February 25th, 2010

I came across audio from the Howard Stern Show with guest Sandra Bernhard waxing poetic on fake, phony, and one shtick pony, Kathy Griffin.

Feasting on a Kathy Salad

Feasting on a Kathy Salad

Stern: We had Kathy Griffin here yesterday.

SB: Oh God.  Jesus Christ.

Stern: Tell me your feelings.  I want to know because you are an elder statesman of comedy.

SB: Well she’s no spring chicken but listen…she came to success late in life.  She loves my ass and she’s come to see many times and she’s taken my basic premise which is to disseminate pop culture.  However, when you’re somebody of my level and intellectual ability, I take it and I layer it.  I don’t just throw a cake.  I  give you a seven-layer sacre torte.  She came and took the base elements of what I did and–who can’t put on a Kate Gosselin wig and go “Gahgaghgahgahgah!”  I mean that’s all she does, “Gahgahgahgahgah,” like a shrieking harpy freak.  Every time she has a special on Bravo it’s the same fucking special every goddamn time.  I’ve written fifteen shows in the past ten years and every one of them touches on something new and interesting that is really revealing where we’re headed as a culture.  I don’t just jump into the waters of present culture.  I’m on the precipice of what is happening.

Unabashedly Fashionly: Yours Truly

February 17th, 2010

MattIntell

Can’t a bitch get her low-fat cappuccino without flashbulbs popping?

Unabashed Believer: Says Roseanne Conner

January 26th, 2010

“There just is a God — there is!  I swear to God there’s a God.  And if there ain’t, I’ve been screwed.”

Unabashed Queer of the Week: Amanda Simpson (& Obama)

January 4th, 2010

From a distance she looks like Tori Amos, but upon closer inspection, she better resembles Kathie Lee Gifford.  s-SIMPSON-large She is neither Ms. Amos or Ms. Lee-Giff, she is Ms. Amanda Simpson: Prez Obama’s appointee to Senior Commerce Post Adviser.  Who cares about Commerce Post Advisers? Not me! But I do care about trannies and Amanda Simpson is 100% transgender woman.  Fuck yeah, Amanda, and fuck yeah, Obama.  This is better than marriage equality; this is visibility and a great hair color.Kathy_Lee_Gifford_photo_credit_Charles_Bush