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May 14, 2013

Iron Man 3 actress compares herself to drag queen icon RuPaul when she says she is not the 'world's most beautiful woman'

Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has said she wears so much makeup, she is ‘literally a transvestite’.

The World’s Most Beautiful Woman (according to People magazine) compared herself to drag queen icon RuPaul.

Speaking to USA Today, she was asked how she could look so fresh after partying the night away for the punk-themed Met Gala.

May 13, 2013

NBC 'should be applauded for putting us on the air in the first place'

Justin Bartha admits he's not surprised that NBC canceled The New Normal, the ratings-challenged comedy in which he starred.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.

May 11, 2013

Show focused on gay couple having a baby with surrogate mother

NBC on Friday (10 May) cancelled its gay-themed comedy The New Normal after one season.

Ratings never really took off for the Ryan Murphy-produced show which sometimes had storylines that reflected real life with marriage equality currently a front-burner issue in the US.

May 9, 2013

British 80-year-old actor, who has starred in over a hundred films, is being given the Freedom to the City of London

British actor Sir Michael Caine says his father thought he was gay when he told him he wanted to become an actor.

Speaking to Esquire magazine, the 80-year-old actor said: ‘My dad was a Billingsgate fish market porter. When I told him that I was going to be an actor, he never said a word but I saw his face and thought, he thinks I’m gay.

‘The theater in those days was very gay. But I wasn’t.’

When he was young, he thought he was an ‘ugly bugger’ but others thought of him differently.

May 8, 2013

Three new production shots have been exposed of Cheyenne Jackson in Behind The Candelabra

New photos from Steven Soderbergh’s final film and biopic, Behind The Candelabra, have been released. The pictures reveal Cheyenne Jackson playing Billy Leatherwood the famous protégée of entertainer and eccentric Liberace. These are the first images of Jackson who was absent in the recent trailer.

The production shots are just another teaser for Liberace fans who are impatiently anticipating the Cannes listed film.

May 8, 2013

Actor also subjected to withering interview with Zach Galifianakis

James Franco marries a man (and kisses him!) in this fun new video posted Wednesday (8 May).

It's silly fun as a band called The Lonely Island performs a spring anthem about marrying a man. Among those who are seen walking down the aisle with a man are Franco, Ed Norton and Andy Samberg.

Franco also shows himself to be an awfully good sport in the video as the guest on the fictional talk show Between Two Ferns hosted by Zach Galifianakis who is anything but a gracious host.

May 4, 2013

E! Online's Twitter is hacked and erroneous Justin Bieber is gay message is sent out

The Twitter account to the entertainment news site E! Online seems to be shut down due to an erroneous Tweet  calling pop star Justin Bieber gay.

Today (April 4) E!'s social media site has been suspended (this reporter has tried multiple times). According to various Tweets, and a number of news reports, the account was closed due to note saying the teen heart throb is gay.

May 1, 2013

'He was the most wonderful, loveable ... huge generous heart and spirit'

In video released Wednesday (1 May), Jane Fonda reflects warmly on her friendship with slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

Fonda, speaking at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center's Conversations With Coco event, worked with Milk in 1978 to fight the Briggs Initiative, a ballot measure seeking to ban gay teachers in California.

'We were friends,' Fonda told drag performer Coco Peru. 'He was the most wonderful, loveable.'

She added that Milk had a 'huge generous heart (and) spirit.'

May 1, 2013

Voting is open for the fourth annual Gay & Lesbian Ridiculous and Ignorant comments Awards in Australia

Who gets your vote?

Election candidate Tess Corbett who said pedophiles would be next asking for rights after gay people? Or Bernard Gaynor who said images of Sydney Mardi Gras would be used to defend child sexual abuse in court? Or National MP John Williams who said he wouldn't support gay marriage because he doesn't believe there is 'a lot of stability in their relationships'?

April 21, 2013

Cloris Leachman also bids $8,000 to kiss Betty White during live auction

The Perks of Being a Wallflower  won best film and Raising Hope, American Horror Story and Days of Our Lives took home television prizes at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles Saturday (20 April)..

Wallflower writer-director Stephen Chbosky told the star-studded crowd, which included Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Evans, that he wanted to make a movie that would make kids who felt different feel less alone.

April 17, 2013

Likely the earliest Academy has ever hired Oscar producers

The 2014 Academy Awards are more than 10 months away, but Neil Meron and Craig Zadan have already been hired to produce them.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences confirmed Tuesday (16 April) that Meron and Zadan, who produced this year's Oscars, will return for next year's show.

It is believed to be the earliest date that producers have been chosen by the Academy.

April 14, 2013

This year’s GLAAD awards to include guests like gay icon Betty White and a performance by recording artist Kelly Rowland.

Actress Drew Barrymore is set to host the annual awards for the Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a watchdog group that promotes the image of LGBT people in the media.

Barrymore, who in 2010 was honored with GLAAD’s Vanguard Award, will host an evening to honor various branches in media for their representation of the LGBT community.

Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Rowland will perform at the awards for guests to include Leonardo DiCaprio, Betty White, Chris Evans, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Matt Bomer and Naya Rivera to name a few.

April 13, 2013

G.B.F., premiering at next week's Tribeca Film Festival, explores 'the hottest new trend sweeping schools worldwide': the gay best friend

When Tanner becomes the school’s first openly gay student, the three most popular girls, who are also running for prom queen, will stop at nothing to become his new best friend.

So is the plot of G.B.F., the latest film to explore the social nuances of coming out in high school, premiering next week at the New York Tribeca Film Festival.

The film is directed by Darren Stein, who directed teen flick Jawbreaker, and also casts Megan Mullaly from Will & Grace who stars as the gay teen’s accepting mother with an affinity for poppers.

April 10, 2013

'There was no discussion about being gay back then. But I knew that Tab was'

Debbie Reynolds has some juicy stories to tell in her new book Unsinkable: A Memoir about the so-called Golden Days of Hollywood when she was one of the biggest movie stars around.

The star of such films as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Singin' In the Rain and How the West Was Won dishes that one of her leading men, Tab Hunter, had tried to put the moves on her when they were teenagers.

The world may not have known it then, but Reynolds writes that even then, she knew the actor best known for the film version of Damn Yankees would rather be kissing a man.

April 5, 2013

Movie looks at how even in death, a grieving spouse can be cruelly shut out by a homophobic family

Last summer, the heart-wrenching video It Could Happen to You went viral on YouTube.

It has since been expanded into a feature film called Bridegroom and will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on 23 April.

It tells the story of Shane Bitney Crone and what happened after his partner of six years, Tom Bridegroom, was killed in an accidental fall off of a building in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.

April 5, 2013

Wilson Cruz: 'We recognize ourselves in her’

Judy Garland may have died in 1969, but her legend has endured - especially among the gay fans who continue to cherish her memory and her music.

Gay Star News recently chatted with various celebrities about the legend of Garland at opening night of the musical End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in which Tony nominee Tracie Bennett pays Garland in the final months of her life.

‘She was a great and dear friend,' said Betty White who at 91, is the same age as Garland would be if she were still alive.

April 3, 2013

Jokes that Sue Everhart thinks Adam Sandler comedy with same premise 'was a documentary'

Georgia GOP Chairwoman Sue Everhart's suggestion that gay marriage will lead to straight people teaming up to commit marriage fraud was ridiculed by comedian Jimmy Kimmel on his late night show Tuesday (2 April).

'From as straight guy's perspective, marrying another guy is a lot to go through for free dental,' Kimmel joked.

April 2, 2013

Finding Dory to focus on her friendly but forgetful blue tang fish character

Ellen DeGeneres has long had a running gag about the lack of a sequel to the 2003 animated smash Finding Nemo.

But  now it's no longer a joke.

The comedienne announced on her daytime talk show today that Disney-Pixar is making that sequel and it focuses on her character of Dory, a friendly but forgetful blue tang fish.

'I guess I've mentioned it on the show once or twice,' DeGeneres joked as she showed various past clips of her complaining about the lack of a sequel to Nemo which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

March 30, 2013

Debbie Reynolds writes in new book it 'was obvious he and Elizabeth had been intimate'

Movie icons Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift played lovers in the classic 1951 film A Place in the Sun.

The film was the beginning of a close off-screen friendship between the closeted gay man and the movie queen that may have been closer than people realized.

'Even though Monty had boyfriends as well as girlfriends, it was obvious that he and Elizabeth had been intimate,' actress Debbie Reynolds writes in her new memoir Unsinkable.

March 27, 2013

Magic Mike actor Tatum reveals his man crush on his friend, ER and Ocean’s Eleven star George Clooney

Channing Tatum has said he would have gay sex with fellow Hollywood A-list star George Clooney.

The 32-year-old Magic Mike actor was asked who he thought the sexiest man alive was, The Sun newspaper reports.

He said: ‘Well I’ve spent time with George Clooney and he’s the most interesting man on the planet.

‘He can do it all. Yep, I guess what I’m saying is I’d have sex with him.’

March 19, 2013

12-year-old Daniel Martinez-Leffew urges Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to drop Prop 8 in favor of gay marriage

A 12-year-old boy wants his two gay dads to marry so much he's made a video telling US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to change the law so they can.

Daniel Martinez-Leffew was adopted by a same-sex couple when he was five – despite a medical condition which the authorities had told him meant he was unlikely to get a family of his own.

March 18, 2013

Troubled tabloid magnent pleads guilty to lying to police about car crash

It was not a good morning for Lindsay Lohan.

She missed a cross-country flight, she got glitter bombed, then got sentenced to jail by a judge.

The bisexual actress pleaded guilty today to charges that she lied to police about a car accident she was involved with last summer in Malibu, California, during the filming of the TV movie Liz & Dick.

Lohan, whose early films included Mean Girls and Freaky Friday, told officers that she was not driving the Porsche that rear-ended a truck on Pacific Coast Highway last June.

March 13, 2013

A film about censorship of a 1980 movie set in New York's gay S&M scene will be shown instead of the Australian-Classification-Board-banned I Want Your Love

James Franco and director Travis Mathews have given their film Interior. Leather Bar to premier at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival in response to the ban of another Mathew's film.

I Want Your Love, which features six minutes of unsimulated gay sex, was banned by the Australian Classification Board, despite authorizing a film featuring sex between men and donkeys last year.

March 12, 2013

Cheyenne Jackson takes place of Sean Hayes in 6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks

In what could be a Hollywood first, an openly gay star is replacing another openly gay star in a movie.

What in the name of Rock Hudson is going on here?

It was announced Tuesday (12 March) that Sean Hayes has dropped out of the independent film 6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks and is being replaced by Cheyenne Jackson.