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Happy 59th birthday to Alan Cumming!

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Morning Man Classic: Troy Donahue!

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Saturday Round-Up: “Looking” oral history; Joel Kim Booster; JoJo Siwa; Jason Gould; Mario Alcalde & more!

The Oral History of Looking, HBO’s Short-Lived, Groundbreaking Gay Series GQ

Joel Kim Booster on Limiting the Amount of Gay Best Friend Roles and ‘Derailing’ Dinner Parties With Chrissy Teigen Variety

It Gets Better Project changes name amid challenging landscape for LGBTQ+ youth Advocate

JoJo Siwa Replaces Nigel Lythgoe on ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ The Hollywood Reporter

Jason Gould on His New ‘Hybrid Dance Song’ and His Long Journey to Singing With Mother Barbra Streisand The Messenger

Lil Nas X Reacts to ‘J Christ’ Debuting at No. 69 on Hot 100, Explains Why it Doesn’t Disappoint Him Just Jared

Bullfighter Mario Alcalde Comes Out As Part of the LGBTQ+ Community Instinct

At Her Detroit Show, Madonna Reminded Me What I Once Had Trouble Believing: That Gay Boys Can Survive Pride Source

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Watch Tom Daley flip out!

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Friday Round-Up: George Takei; Andy Cohen; Colton Underwood; Paul Mescal; Sue Bird & more!

Living long & prospering: George Takei’s inspiring love story Advocate

Here’s How Andy Cohen Reacted to Joel Kim Booster’s Last Threesome Instinct

Colton Underwood Opens Up About Meeting Husband Jordan C. Brown Instinct

Paul Mescal talks intimate scenes & going down on Andrew Scott: “That’s the bit that scared me” Queerty

Basketball legend Sue Bird shares her career highlights and coming out story in Sundance doc ‘In the Clutch’ NBC

Lily Gladstone Reveals What Co-Star Leonardo DiCaprio Texted Her After Oscars Nomination Just Jared

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Morning Man Classic: Paul Newman!


Paul Newman was, quite simply, one of the best looking men to have ever walked the Earth. Born in 1925, he would have been 99 today.

In addition to his Oscar-winning role in The Color of Money, his other classic films included Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Sweet Bird of Youth and Cool Hand Luke among many others.

Newman’s last movie appearance was as a conflicted mob boss in the 2002 film Road to Perdition opposite Tom Hanks, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

His last appearance overall was in 2005 in the HBO mini-series Empire Falls for which he won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy.

At the time of his death in 2008, he had been married to Joanne Woodward for 50 years.


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Alexandra Billings grateful to Meryl Streep

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WATCH: “All of Us Strangers” stars Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott answer juicy fan questions


To celebrate the release of their film, ‘All Of Us Strangers’, Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott stopped by Capital for an interview and to answer some juicy fan questions! Paul and Andrew spill the secret behind their chemistry, what Paul really licked off Andrew’s chest in that steamy ‘All Of Us Strangers’ scene, and shared some advice on how to tell your crush you like them. Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott also confirm which of them is harder to pin down in real life

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Thursday Round-Up: Bobby Berk; NAACP Image Awards; Lil Nas X; Colman Domingo& more!

Bobby Berk Explains Why He’s Really Leaving Queer Eye Vanity Fair

Colman Domingo, Ayo Edebiri, and The Color Purple dominate 55th NAACP Image Awards EW.com

Lil Nas X’s ‘Long Live Montero’ Documentary: The Biggest Takeaways Just Jared

Colman Domingo joins new Michael Jackson biopic as Joe Jackson EW.com

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans Digs Far Below the Surface Vanity Fair

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Check out Colman Domingo’s OUT cover!

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Hillary Clinton made her Broadway debut last night with appearance in “Gutenberg! The Musical!”

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Wishing a happy birthday to the great Jenifer Lewis!

Today is the 67th birthday of Black-ish star Jenifer Lewis who sings one helluva number.

She’s been turning in powerful performances on stage, on screen and on television for decades and she’s been a staunch supporter of the LGBTQ community forever. Some of my favorite memories of events including AIDS Walk LA have been when Jenifer belts out You’ll Never Walk Alone. No one – no one – sings that song the way she does. I can’t find it on YouTube!

But I did find some other songs including I Know Where I’ve Been from the hit musical Hairspray and the Donna Summer classic Last Dance.

Happy birthday to the self-proclaimed “Mother of Black Hollywood.”

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Wednesday Round-Up: Colman Domingo; Robbie Rogers; Kristen Stewart; Richard Pryor; Madame LaQueer; Nick McCarthy

Colman Domingo: The first Black gay movie star Out.com

Robbie Rogers talks about how being a gay soccer player impacted his work on ‘Fellow Travelers’ Queerty

Kristen Stewart Praised as a ‘Generous’ Co-Star and the ‘Adult Version of Cool’ at Variety’s Sundance Cover Party Variety

Richard Pryor was queer and fans demand his biopic series prove it Into

RuPaul’s Drag Race season 4 star Madame LaQueer comes out as trans: ‘It’s never too late’ EW.com

Pro rugby player Nick McCarthy got advice on coming out as gay from NFL’s Carl Nassib Outsports

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Morning Man Classic: Michael Ontkean!


Dreamy Michael Ontkean turns 78 today and that is a perfect excuse to celebrate a guy who I always had a huge crush on.

Except for a cameo in the George Clooney film The Descendents, Ontkean hasn’t been seen in a any new movies or TV shows in several years. But the actor we know best from Twin Peaks, The Rookies and the film Making Love certainly made a lasting impression on us.

A Canadian, Ontkean was such a good hockey player growing up and at the University of Vermont that he was offered a contract to play professionally with the New York Rangers.

But the child of well-known Canadian performers Leonard and Muriel Ontkean loved acting more and headed to Hollywood in 1970. He soon landed a series of TV guest spots (including The Partridge Family!) and became a star when he was cast in The Rookies. He left the hit show after just two seasons and spent a few years writing poetry before returning to acting in 1977 with the hit Paul Newman film Slap Shot which united his two loves: acting and hockey.

He went on appearing in various films such as Voices (1979 with Amy Irving), Willie and Phil (1980) and Summer (1981 with Brooke Adams) and in 1982 reunited with Rookies co-star  Kate Jackson in the film Making Love in which they played a married couple coping with the fact that Ontkean had fallen in love with another man played by Harry Hamlin.

Hamlin still talks about how this film killed his movie career while Ontkean has never made a similar claim. He went on to appear in such films as Made to Order and The Allnighter then landed another of his best-known roles: Sheriff Harry Truman in the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks.

Many other roles followed, my favorite of which was the 1994 miniseries Family Album opposite Jaclyn Smith.

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Cheyenne Jackson in … “Scandoval!”

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Swimmer Diana Nyad celebrates Oscar nods for Annette Bening and Jodie Foster for movie that tells her story

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How LGBTQ actors Colman Domingo and Jodie Foster made Academy Awards history today

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Jodie Foster gives one of her most relaxed and fun interviews ever on “The Kelly Clarkson Show”


Jodie Foster, already a two-time Oscar winner, earned her fifth Academy Award nomination earlier today for her fabulous performance in the film Nyad. I’m especially thrilled because I think she was absolutely robbed of a nod a few years ago for The Mauritanian – a performance that had won her the Golden Globe Award that year. Jodie has won for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs and was nominated as a teenager for Taxi Driver then in the 1990s for Nell.

Jodie is red-hot again with Nyad and a starring role in the latest season of the anthology series True Detective. She is handling all of the current attention with such grace and calm and it is is lovely to see.

In her appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week, she dished on playing a jerk detective that “nobody likes” in True Detective: Night Country and reflected on her pull to tell stories of isolating characters throughout her career. Jodie also goes down memory lane and hands out superlatives for some of her most iconic roles, including the character that is the most and least like her, the most quoted line she hears from fans, and the movie she rewatches the most.

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Happy 91st birthday to ageless Chita Rivera!

Chita Rivera, the forever young Broadway legend, turns 91 today!

One of my all-time favorite showbiz memories was interviewing Miss Rivera as Dick Van Dyke was standing next to her during a West Coast Tony Awards viewing event where she was being honored. She was so down-to-Earth and fun!

The original star of such Broadway shows as West Side Story, Chicago, Bye Bye Birdie, Nine, Jerry’s Girls, The Rink, Bring Back Birdie, Merlin, The Visit and Kiss of the Spider Woman is an inspiration to everyone to keep doing what you love.

She is a ten-time Tony Award nominee and a three-time Tony Award recipient, including one for Lifetime Achievement.

Chita is the first Latina and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honor and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 from President Barack Obama.




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Dustin Lance Black’s loving words to Colman Domingo, a best actor Oscar nominee for “Rustin”

Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who wrote the screenplay for Rustin, posted this to best actor nominee Colman Domingo on social media after today’s Oscar nominations were announced:

Heartfelt congratulations to Academy Award Nominee @kingofbingo!! For many a reason I wasn’t able to say much as RUSTIN met the world, but now, here are a few loving words. Bringing this story to screen was quite the solitary journey for more than a decade. Believers would come and go. Come and go. And the heartbreaks were plentiful and cut deep. BUT, one of the brightest moments in that decade came when @tomdaley and I spotted Colman and his husband walking into a CB2 in Weho. We ran after them, introduced ourselves, and I said to Colman that I knew in my heart he had to bring Rustin to screen. There was no hesitation from Colman. He was in and never lost his fire for the man and the story. Years later, when it seemed the production itself might lose its way, it was Colman who showed the courage to keep things true. I love this man. I genuinely could not be happier today. For Colman. And for the memory of Bayard Rustin and the brave work he did to bring people of all kinds together in the (ongoing) struggle and fight for equality and justice for all.

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