Harry Styles, Tom Daley, Dustin Lance Black, Gregg Araki, Luke Hudson, Flame Munroe, Xander Idris, Tracee Ellis Ross, Mary J. Blige, and More: #GAYNRD DAILY
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THIRSTY THURSDAY I mean we’re always thirsty here so that’s kind of redundant, but at any rate, welcome to #GayNrd’s round-up of news, art, bric-a-brac, and ephemera from all corners of the interwebz and social media for May 6, 2021. Art above: Dope future Batman by the legendary Walter Simonson.
CRACK IS WHACK Flame Munroe is one of the best stand-up comics out there, the transgender father of three daughters lives in Long Beach and posted this hysterical photo on Insta.
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FLAME IN FULL
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Flame Monroe | Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready Why does the airport scanner have to do her dirty like that?! Flame Monroe is one of the many amazing black female comedians featured in Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready, now streaming.
And watch the great banter between Monroe and Charlamagne tha God on the Breakfast Club last year.
DEATH of the Endless in anime style.
#TBT to Madonna’s Truth or Dare.
“Truth or Dare” is one of the most fascinating movies ever made, and this oral history by @tarantallegra does it SO much justice. https://t.co/S8bpJBUBx0
— Joe Reid (@joereid) May 6, 2021
GRATUITOUS Pretty boy Nestor.
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NEW HERO Meet Somnus, a new LGBTQ+ character debuting in Marvel’s Voices: Pride #1. Says Games Radar: Designed by artist Luciano Vecchio, the character is named Somnus – and the only other thing we know about them is that they are queer, hence their debut in the Pride anthology. Well, we know one other thing – whoever they are, they may be dead or disappeared at this point, judging by the teaser’s text, which reads “Who is Somnus?” with “is” crossed out and replaced with “was”.
Ominous.
Marvel has used the name Somnus before, for a minor character in the Inhumans limited series Silent War, though the new character does not appear to have any connection to the previous user of the name.
FIRST LOOK The Gay Times: The first photos of Harry Styles in My Policeman have emerged, and fans are going wild.
Harry Styles filming My Policeman today. pic.twitter.com/v4QaG1yCke
— . (@STYLESARCHlVE) May 4, 2021
Taken on set, the photos show the British singer-songwriter in full navy police uniform as the film’s lead character, Tom, alongside David Dawson as his love interest Patrick.
Harry Styles was spotted today filming the upcoming LGBT romantic drama “My Policeman” in Brighton, England.
More ???? #HarryStyles ???? #MyPoliceman #Brighton pic.twitter.com/2SlERjmTu3
— Getty Images Entertainment (@GettyVIP) May 5, 2021
Based on the critically-acclaimed gay novel of the same name from Bethan Roberts, My Policeman follows a schoolteacher called Marion who falls in love with Tom in 1950s Brighton.
ONE MAN SHOW James Cameron Mitchell in Shrill. “I was always afraid of being stuck in a show and not being able to get out, but this was just so easy. There were three women in charge, so now I’m spoiled, I only want to work with women in charge. @aidybryant was the star and one of the creators and executive producers, and she was able to direct me in the middle of doing a scene with me, which I don’t see a man doing. She was so relaxed and to the point, without being a dick. A lot of guys in Hollywood feel that they have to swing their dicks around, because they’re insecure and so you get a sort of Trumpy leadership. But on @shrillhulu it was just so easy for three years. They allowed us to have input with our lines at times and checked in with us on our characters’ arcs. My character originally came from Dan Savage, but they very quickly allowed me to shift him into a former rock singer and record label owner. It was just so pleasurable and it’s sad that it’s over. We didn’t know it was going be over when we shot. We couldn’t really hang out because it was during Covid, so it was a bit of a bummer socially during the shooting of the last season. But we’ve made new friends and I’m sure we’ll all work together in different ways in the future.”
Queer icon @johncameronmitchell speaks exclusively with The Queer Review’s editor @jameskleinmann about playing Gabe on @shrillhulu ahead of the final season premiere on @hulu Friday May 7th.
???? John Cameron Mitchell as Gabe in Shrill. Photo credit: @riggsforlunch / @hulu.
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BATMAN BEYOND The return of Terry McGinnis.
you’re pretty strong for some clown who thinks he’s Batman pic.twitter.com/tI5VjeYvkl
— Kira ✨ Okamoto (@kirameks) May 5, 2021
THROWBACK THURSDAY to Brian Kenny on the cover of BUTT Magazine photographed by his longtime love Slava Mogutin. Kenny writes: Hard to believe this photo was taken almost 15 years ago!! #agingmillenial At the time, my friend and brilliant photographer @marcelokrasilcic was doing a photo story for @buttmagazine about NYC’s go-go boys (yes i was happily dancing on many a queer bar in my undies) and shot me and some other go-go beauties I used to work with. I remember at the shoot I trying to channel my inner pin-up girl with the poses. It was a total surprise when a month or so later, I discovered they used one of Marcelo’s portraits of me for the next BUTT magazine cover! Believe it or not, it wasn’t actually my first magazine cover (A portrait by @slavamogutin that he took of me the day after we met in ‘04 had soon ended up on the cover a gay magazine in Russia, and then on another a year later in Berlin), however this BUTT cover was essentially my introduction to the world as BUTT Magazine had an international circulation and enthusiastic following amongst the gays at that time. Amazingly, I still receive comments to this day about those photos and the BUTT towel I appeared on (also shot by Marcelo). It’s a testament to the talent of Marcelo and the enduring popularity of arguably the world’s most popular gay zine, which I found out celebrated their 20th anniversary yesterday AND even better, will be coming back to bring us a new issue! I can’t wait what to see BUTT’s creators @gertjonkers and @jopvanbennekom will show us next!
#Happy20th #buttmagazine #marcelokrasilcic #briankenny#gogoboy
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BOYS DON’T CRY but when they do it’s hot. “What’s your emoticon reaction ? when a loved one wishes you a happy birthday…” ????
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MJB da MVP says, “Happy Heavenly Birthday GIGI” ❤️ #PlayGigisWay
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#TBT Bruce La Bruce shares a memory of Keith Haring. “Legendary, visionary gay graffiti and pop artist Keith Haring was BOTD in 1958 and was claimed by Mrs. AIDS in 1990 at the tender age of 31. Pictured here with his lover Juan Dubose.”
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SWIRL Tracee Ellis Ross “Ok fine, I’m coming home. After this tho.” ????????
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PHOTO OF THE DAY Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg presented without comment.
REUNION The boys got half the band back together in Las Vegas this week. Luke Hudson aka Ethan Remillard and Xander Idris are 50% of the trans boy band Born Stars. Pool Boys ???????? #lasvegas #livefree #evolve #brutha #ftm #f2m #transmen #transmenofig #queer #transman
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Watch the 2019 trailer to Born Stars below.
TIKTOK OF THE DAY This guy gives us life, love, and wisdom. This right here.. is the reason I follow this guy ????????❤️
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MORE INFINTESEEKING
@infiniteseeking♬ Night Trouble – Petit Biscuit
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY It’s been four years since Olympic diver Tom Daley married screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Black wrote on Instagram: ????❤️ CHEERS TO 4 YEARS OF MARRIAGE! ❤️???? Four years seem to have flown by! So many amazing memories, adventures and dreams since! ❤️ I Love you @dlanceblack ????❤️”
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REAL LOVE looks like this. Javier and his husband’s nightly skin routine.
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LIFE CHANGING That’s what director Gregg Araki’s film The Living End was to me when I saw it 29 years ago today at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, New York.
Tagged with the line: An Irresponsible Film By Gregg Araki it was often described by critics as a “gay Thelma and Louise,” [because Thelma and Louise wasn’t gay enough] the film is an early entry in the New Queer Cinema genre. The Living End was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.
The nihilistic plot featured two main characters Luke and Jon. One is a restless and reckless drifter and the other is a relatively timid and pessimistic film critic. Both are gay and HIV positive. After an unconventional meeting, and after Luke kills a homophobic police officer, they go on a road trip with the motto “Fuck everything.”
Yet from the moment they utter fuck everything, they strangely and ironically find meaning and love (albeit the psychotic kind) and so did I.
I would go on to read such seminal AIDS novels of the time and became obsessed with James Robert Baker’s Tim and Pete. Tim and Pete were like a gay, HIV-positive Thelma and Louise, not unlike the protagonists of The Living End. Both stories are set in a dystopian Southern California in the 1990s.
The symmetry between the two works is remarkable. That’s not to suggest that either Araki or Baker cribbed each other. The odds are, given the times, they may not have been aware of each other’s existence. Yet the confluence of two similarly themed pieces of art often speaks to the powerful, cultural undercurrent a subject has at the moment.
Both works were independently labeled irresponsible by critics and activists alike.
THROWBACK THURSDAY to this Dick Giordano classic. The long time art director of DC Comics created the “look book” for the comic giant for many years.
FINE ART This is entitled ‘Tiddy hug ????❤️’ On background: The characters are from the anime movie Promare. Art source.
VAXXED Tyler Oakley got shot. “Fully vaccinated & ready to cause a ruckus! now it’s time to talk to friends & family about the misconceptions they may have about vaccinations, COVID, & public health. let’s do this, together!”????
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MODERN MEDUSA Look to long and I’ll turn you to stone. ????????
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