American Idol heartthrob Adam Lambert’s scheduled appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America has been cancelled following his controversial number on Sunday’s VMA Awards show. Reportedly some 1500 complaints flooded ABC after Adam locked lips with one of his male bandmates, live on east coast TV. The west coast feed was censored.
Actress/Singer Lindsay Lohan has replied to speculation that she was “all over” actor/singer/trustfundbaby Baltahzar Getty during a recent encounter at Hollywood club Voyeur. Gossip Cop caught up with Lohan in New York and elicited the denial from Lohan, who said the rumor is “not true” though she did talk to Getty that night when they “met for the first time.”
In conclusion, Lohan pointed out the obvious: “You think I would do that to Sam [DJ Samantha Ronson]? I love her.”
Shannon Hames of Atlanta writes of her disturbing experience at a recent concert by Joan Jett, reporting that she was slapped by a fellow concert-goer after she and her girlfriend kissed.
“Shortly before Joan Jett came on stage, my girlfriend leaned over to kiss me. A 50-something woman behind me then began screaming at all of us (the others were heterosexual) that Destin “don’t like queers here” and began literally shouting obscenities at us and telling us how much fags are hated here. We tried to reason with her that Joan Jett, in fact, is a lesbian and that we weren’t doing anything to bother anyone. She continued to scream at us and told us this was a Christian place.” Read More
A documentary on the Topp Twins, New Zealand’s duo of lesbian country/folk singers, has won the award for best documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film, directed by Leanne Pooley, tells the story of sisters Jools and Lynda Topp, who grew up on a dairy farm, began touring as comedians/singers, became active in politics and the gay rights movement, and starred in their own award-winning TV show. They were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame after more than 25 years of performing.
The doco includes interviews with the twins in some of their better-known characters such as Ken and Ken, the Bowling Ladies, Camp Mother and Camp Leader. The film also documents Jools’s chemotherapy and mastectomy after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. Interviews with their family are also included.
The film has been a box-office successs in New Zealand, taking in over NZ$1 million in the first four weeks of shows.
Beth Ditto, the lead singer of US group Gossip, which has become a UK phenomenon, is interviewed in today’s Sunday Mail. She talks about her upbringing in Arkansas, where she felt compelled to keep her real feelings secret and was on her way to a life of suburban housewifery. Then Kathy Mendoca offered to fly her to Olympia, Washington. They formed The Gossip there and started recording and touring in 1999. Four albums later, Gossip’s single “Standing In The Way Of Control” took off. Ditto no longer keeps her feelings secret. She’s known for her outspoken views, open lesbianism, plus size, and punk attitude, and is having a huge impact on the music, fashion, and social scene as a major celebrity. Read More.
In an interview with Australia’s Woman’s Day magazine, a medical worker claims he enjoyed a love affair with Michael Jackson during the weeks before the pop star’s death. Jason Pfeiffer, 35, works for Dr. Arnold Klein, Jackson’s dermatologist, long-time gay friend, and possible biological father to some of Jackson’s children.
Pfeiffer claims he and Jackson began their affair after he was asked to drive Jackson home. They then met “many times” at Jackson’s rented home or Klein’s office.
“I’ve lost my soul mate, it’s very hard to describe the loss I feel but there is something that is empty in my heart.”
Autsin Musician of the Year Patrice Pike will perform at The Mark Bar, 1025 Manhattan Avenue at Green Street, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with Jason Blum and Tiffany Shea, Sunday August 16 at 9pm
Described by Rolling Stone as “Tina Turner, Bessie Smith, Janis Joplin and Robert Plant all wrapped up in a tiny but explosive package,” Pike is the former lead singer of Sister 7, and has appeared on international programs like Rockstar:Supernova. She is the youngest person ever to be inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame. Songwriters Monthly calls her music “wild rock for educated trend setters.”
Pike is out and proud, actively involved in gay rights and women’s rights movements, as well as grassroots community relations. She co-founded The Grace Foundation of Texas, which supports young adult survivors of childhood homelessness.
Patrice Pike, Photo by Mary Bruton
In an interview for Out, Lady Gaga talks about the influence gay people have had on her, and the influence she wants to have on the world. “I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It’s not an underground tool for me. It’s my whole life. So I always sort of joke the real motivation is to just turn the world gay.” Read More
Radical art-pop eccentric Patrick Wolf will peform an icon-i-coustic show at the National Portrait Gallery, London, August 27 in conjunction with the ongoing Gay Icons exhibit. Details here.
Ten prominent gays and lesbians including Ian McKellen, Elton, John, and Billie Jean King, were asked to name six people each who inspired them. Photos of their choices make up the exhibit which runs through October 18. A program of music and film performances accompany the exhibit.
Wolf’s latest album The Bachelor, is causing a worldwide stir. The Los Angeles Times wrote “Wolf covers a staggering amount of creative ground.”
Wolf, 26, began his career at age 14 with the queer art collective Minty. The Bachelor is his fourth studio album.
Patrick Wolf
The occasionally-reliable New York Post is reporting that actress/singer Queen Latifah has been spending Wednesday nights at the lesbian party Eden at the Country Club in New York, in the company of several girlfriends. Latifah’s always been coy about her personal life, inviting people to speculate about her sexuality. As she said in a New York Times interview last year, “I don’t care if people think I’m gay or not.”
Queer of the Month | December 2009
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