What to Watch: Wednesday
January 7, 2009 by Sarah
There is one show you absolutely must watch tonight, and we’re being completely serious. The Real World: Brooklyn premieres tonight on MTV. Now in its 21st season (!), the show brings a record three LGBT housemates! JD is gay, Sarah is bi and Katelynn is The Real World’s first transgender cast member. Tune in to watch history unfold!
Related Posts:HBO is Shameless
January 6, 2009 by Sarah
HBO has just announced it is working on a US version of the British comedy hit Shameless. The series follows the Gallaghers, a working-class family with a sweet gay kid as part of the clan.
In the British version, Ian (played by Gerart Kearns) is a closeted teenager carrying on a secret relationship with Kash Karib (Chris Bisson). Obviously it is our hope that HBO will keep these gay characters, but we know from experience that all too often, the LGBT members of foreign series are lost when shows are adapted for American audiences.
Shameless has aired on BBC America and Sundance Channel, which put the show on our radar a few seasons back.
No word yet as to when the US version will roll out.
Related Posts:What to Watch: Tuesday
January 6, 2009 by Sarah
Still a bunch of repeats on the tube tonight — except with one delightful exception: A Double Shot at Love, MTV’s bisexual dating show featuring Rikki and Vikki Ikki. No joke.
> 8:00 PM House, Fox (1 hr) REPEAT
Bisexual doctor Thirteen regularly endures the wrath of House.
> 9:00 PM Food Detectives, Food Network (30 min) REPEAT
Queer Eye’s Ted Allen hosts a series looking at common food myths.
> 9:00 PM Privileged, The CW (1 hr) REPEAT
A live-in tutor deals with two spoiled twin sisters in Palm Beach. Their personal chef, Marco, is gay.
> 10:00 PM A Double Shot at Love, MTV (1 hr) NEW
Bisexual identical twins Rikki and Vikki continue to test the endurance of a group of straight guys and lesbian girls participating in ridiculous challenges to win their hearts. Seriously, people, this show is golden.
What to Watch: Monday
January 5, 2009 by Sarah
It’s an all new Gossip Girl tonight! Jenny returns to school, but immediately does her best to usurp Blair’s place as Queen Bee by adopting a bevy of mean girls. Nice try, Little J, but we know B. will never let that happen. GG airs at 8 PM on The CW.
Related Posts:What to Watch: This Weekend
January 2, 2009 by Sarah
Is 2009 going to be a good year? Well with brand new gay-tastic episodes of some of our favorite shows (Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters, anyone?) premiering this weekend, we’d say the answer is most definitely YES.
SATURDAY
> 10:00 PM The Graham Norton Show, BBC America (1 hr) NEW
Out Irish comedian Graham Norton presents his comedy chat show. Tonight, Brendan Fraser stops by for a visit.
SUNDAY
Bree wishes everyone a Happy New Year!
> 8:00 PM Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ABC (1 hr) NEW
Gay designer Eduardo Xol helps the crew make a family’s dreams come true.
> 9:00 PM Desperate Housewives, ABC (1 hr, 1 min) NEW
Andrew introduces his mom to his future mother-in-law. Something tells me this ain’t gonna be pretty.
> 10:01 PM Brothers & Sisters, ABC (59 min) NEW
Love is in the air! Saul finally introduces his secret boyfriend to the family. Turns out Roger Grant (guest star Nigel Havers) was actually Saul’s high school crush!
Tickets Now on Sale for Palm Springs Film Fest
January 1, 2009 by cineQueer
Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will premiere his new film, Pedro, at the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, alongside 17 other LGBT-inclusive films Jan 8-19. In addition, both Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant are being honored for their work in Milk during the festival’s opening gala on Tuesday, January 6.
Between Sundance and Palm Springs (and Berlin hot on their heels!) how can you possibly plan all your LGBT viewing? Here’s a snapshot of the LGBT-inclusive film schedule happening in Palm Springs. Fortunately, all movies screen twice!
Friday, January 09
7:00 PM Eugene
7:00 PM Patrik, Age 1.5
Saturday, January 10
10:00 AM Eugene
10:00 AM Patrik, Age 1.5
6:30 PM Suddenly, Last Winter
7:00 PM American Primitive
Sunday, January 11
12:30 PM Suddenly, Last Winter
7:30 PM Prodigal Sons
Monday, January 12
10:00 AM Of Time and the City
7:30 PM Ready? OK!
Tuesday, January 13
10:00 AM Prodigal Sons
1:30 PM American Primitive
3:30 PM Clapham Junction
4:00 PM Of Time and the City
7:30 PM Baby Love
Wednesday, January 14
9:30 AM Born in 68
1:30 PM Ready? OK!
3:30 PM Be Like Others
4:30 PM I Can’t Think Straight
7:30 PM Chef’s Special
Thursday, January 15
9:30 AM Be Like Others
1:30 PM Chef’s Special
3:30 PM For My Wife
6:30 PM Showgirls, Provincetown, MA
Friday, January 16
9:30 AM Clapham Junction
10:30 AM Baby Love
12:30 PM For My Wife
4:00 PM Valentino: The Last Emporer
6:00 PM Pedro
7:30 PM Woman’s Hearts
Saturday, January 17
9:30 AM Pedro
10:30 AM I Can’t Think Straight
12:00 PM Valentino: The Last Emporer
12:30 PM Showgirls, Provincetown, MA
2:30 PM Woman’s Hearts
Sunday, January 18
6:30 PM Born in 68
What to Watch: Thursday
January 1, 2009 by Sarah
Kick off 2009 with a magic awards show, a dramatic coming out episode and Amy Ryan! What more could you ask for in a New Year, huh?
> 8:00 PM World Magic Awards, MyNetworkTV (2 hrs) NEW
Believe it or not, Neil Patrick Harris is a huge fan of magic, so it’s only fitting he’s hosting this annual awards show, honoring the best illusionists working today.
> 9:00 PM Grey’s Anatomy, ABC (1 hr) REPEAT
“You are glasses.” Relive the magic of Erica coming out in this very special episode.
> 10:00 PM The Office, NBC (1 hr) REPEAT
Coming out scenes not your bag? How about the traumatic Season Four finale, in which Toby quits his job at Dunder Mifflin, leaving the rest of the employees to haze the new HR rep, Holly.
What to Watch: Wednesday
December 31, 2008 by Sarah
Kick off your New Year’s Eve festivities with a re-airing of the two-hour season opener of Bones, featuring Angela, a bisexual lab worker. The fun starts at 8 PM on Fox.
Related Posts:Touch of Antarctica in Israel
December 30, 2008 by Damon
Israeli filmmaker Yair Hochner is in the news as his sexy new film Antarctica breaks from the film festival circuit and moves into limited U.S. theaters. The 33-year-old gay director has made a film where the characters unabashedly have sex on their minds—an issue that may have have kept the film from finding a larger audience in Hochner’s home country.
Though embraced in metropolitan Tel Aviv where it ran late-night for four months at the Cinematheque, Hochner says Antarctica was shunned by Israeli distributors who could have increased the film’s visibilty. Compared with Israel’s best-known gay filmmaker, Eytan Fox, whose movies (Walk on Water, Yossi & Jagger) are screened throughout Israel and the West, Hochner calls himself “more underground.” There’s no talk of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Antarctica. Fox’s movies “deal with very big issues like the Palestinians and the Holocaust, and I deal with prostitutes in Tel Aviv.”
Hochner is happy with the success his “underground” films have brought him, he told the San Francisco Chronicle, but he does admit that even his own mother “wants me to do more commercial stuff.”
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What to Watch: Tuesday
December 30, 2008 by Sarah
Still lots of repeats on TV in this holiday season, but two new episodes pop up tonight — and unfortunately they happen to be on at the same time! One bright shining light, guaranteed to bring you out of any food coma you may be experiencing: MTV’s A Double Shot at Love. It is the gift that keeps on giving.
> 8:00 PM House, Fox (1 hr) REPEAT
House’s father dies, but he still has the wherewithal to lash out at everyone, including bisexual doctor Thirteen.
> 9:00 PM Food Detectives, Food Network (30 min) NEW
Queer Eye’s Ted Allen hosts a series looking at common food myths. Just in time for New Year’s: Are you having troubles drinking your frozen margaritas too fast? Well, tune in and learn why the dreaded brain freeze happens!
> 9:00 PM Privileged, The CW (1 hr) REPEAT
A live-in tutor deals with two spoiled twin sisters in Palm Beach. Their personal chef, Marco, is gay. Tonight, he prepares a dinner for two, to help reunite Megan and her estranged father, but the plan is thwarted when a ton of uninvited guests show up.
> 10:00 PM Eli Stone, ABC (1 hr) NEW
Eli defends a transgender minister (actor Dallas Malloy) against job discrimination after he is fired from the pulpit. Will be available for viewing online beginning Wednesday at ABC.com.
> 10:00 PM A Double Shot at Love, MTV (1 hr) NEW
Rikki and Vikki, the bisexual identical twins, continue on their journey to find true love among a bunch of drunken, camera-hogging guys and gals.
New Year’s Nuke for As the World Turns
December 30, 2008 by Damon
Noah and Luke, aka Nuke, have had quite a roller-coaster relationship on As the World Turns. Anyone who watches daytime TV knows that’s actually a good thing because a “happy” romance means the end of the line for a soap couple.
It was just one year ago that daytime’s first same-sex male couple was in the spotlight for what appeared to be producers’ or CBS’ hesitation to show simple acts of intimacy between the two men. The public outcry was deafening and brought some much-needed attention to the dying soap opera genre.
It wasn’t long before the two characters were kissing onscreen just like any of the soap’s straight couples. They now kiss and kiss often, according to Van Hansis, the Emmy-nominated actor who has brought Luke to life with sensitivity. “They have had a peck at least, if not a kiss, in any episode they were in together, unless they were fighting and hating each other,” says the actor. “When things are good, they are kissing.”
An interview with Van is featured in the new issue of IN Los Angeles Magazine, a must-read if you want a teaser to what is to come for the super couple in 2009. Van also says some pretty nice things about GLAAD (thanks Van!):
“The GLAAD Awards are fantastic! We have done it three years in a row. I remember last year, it was the first year Luke and Noah had blown up and become bigger than just soap opera characters. It’s great when you have a role that means something to people and that you are doing something for the good of what is happening in this country. I really applaud GLAAD for what they are doing, and I am very excited to help their cause on daytime.”
The fan reaction to this couple has been incredible as witnessed by the many video mashups online. My favorite part of this one may just be the montage of images after the song is over. Check it out.
Related Posts:What to Watch: Monday
December 29, 2008 by Sarah
Not much on the tube tonight, save for a genius Gossip Girl episode from October where we get to meet Eric’s cute new boyfriend, Jonathan. (Over brunch on the Upper East Side, no less.) XOXO! The show airs tonight at 8 PM on The CW.
Related Posts:PS Film Fest Features Exciting LGBT Lineup
December 29, 2008 by cineQueer
Before Sundance kicks off, the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival gets underway Jan 8-19 with a stellar lineup of fare: 209 films considered to be the best in international and American cinema. At least 18 of the films feature strong LGBT content.
The festival has become known for giving audiences access to foreign films submitted for Oscar consideration and this year they will not disappoint by showing 50 of the 67 films submitted in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
In addition, both Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant are being honored for their work in Milk during the festival’s opening night gala on Tuesday, January 6. Also being honored are Ron Howard, Clint Eastwood, Anne Hathaway, Amy Adams and Dakota Fanning.
Between Sundance and Palm Springs (and Berlin hot on their heels!) how will you ever plan all your LGBT viewing, you ask? Here’s a snapshot of the LGBT-inclusive film schedule happening in Palm Springs. Fortunately, all movies screen twice!
Friday, January 09
7:00 PM Eugene
7:00 PM Patrik, Age 1.5
Saturday, January 10
10:00 AM Eugene
10:00 AM Patrik, Age 1.5
6:30 PM Suddenly, Last Winter
7:00 PM American Primitive
Sunday, January 11
12:30 PM Suddenly, Last Winter
7:30 PM Prodigal Sons
Monday, January 12
10:00 AM Of Time and the City
7:30 PM Ready? OK!
Tuesday, January 13
10:00 AM Prodigal Sons
1:30 PM American Primitive
3:30 PM Clapham Junction
4:00 PM Of Time and the City
7:30 PM Baby Love
Wednesday, January 14
9:30 AM Born in 68
1:30 PM Ready? OK!
3:30 PM Be Like Others
4:30 PM I Can’t Think Straight
7:30 PM Chef’s Special
Thursday, January 15
9:30 AM Be Like Others
1:30 PM Chef’s Special
3:30 PM For My Wife
6:30 PM Showgirls, Provincetown, MA
Friday, January 16
9:30 AM Clapham Junction
10:30 AM Baby Love
12:30 PM For My Wife
4:00 PM Valentino: The Last Emporer
6:00 PM Pedro
7:30 PM Woman’s Hearts
Saturday, January 17
9:30 AM Pedro
10:30 AM I Can’t Think Straight
12:00 PM Valentino: The Last Emporer
12:30 PM Showgirls, Provincetown, MA
2:30 PM Woman’s Hearts
Sunday, January 18
6:30 PM Born in 68
What to Watch: This Weekend
December 26, 2008 by Sarah
Skip the after-Christmas sales and stay home and enjoy some good old fashioned television! We’ve got reality shows, silly movies and even a musical to pick from, so there’s something for everyone this weekend.
Mr. G contemplates the true meaning of Christmas
> 8:00 PM Top Chef: New York, Bravo (1 hr) NEW
Don’t have cable? Well see what all the fuss is about when Top Chef airs on NBC tonight! Martha Stewart guest stars in this holiday-themed episode in which the cheftestants must cater a fundraiser for amfAR.
SATURDAY
> 8:15 PM Blades of Glory, Cinemax (2 hrs) REPEAT
Got the Post-Christmas Blues? Get silly with this ice skating comedy that stars Craig T. Nelson as a gay skating coach.
> 10:00 PM The Graham Norton Show, BBC America (1 hr) NEW
Out Irish comedian Graham Norton presents his comedy chat show. Actor/comedian Jack Dee is Graham’s guest tonight.
SUNDAY
> 7:00 PM American Dad!, Fox (30 min) REPEAT
Fox is giving us the Greatest Gift of All this holiday season by showing three American Dad! episodes in one night. Of course, all feature omnisexual Roger the Alien, who simply adores disguises. Episodes air at 7, 7:30 and 9:30 pm.
> 7:00 PM The Sound of Music, ABC (4 hrs) REPEAT
Yes, you’ve seen it a thousand times, so what’s one more? Just try and not sing along with “My Favorite Things.” It’s impossible!
> 10:30 PM Summer Heights High, HBO (30 min) SEASON FINALE
Mr. G’s musical about a student who overdoses on Ecstasy (inspired by true events) finally opens. Obviously the object of his affection, the married science teacher, loves it, but how will it be received by the rest of the school? And the dead girl’s parents?
What to Watch: Thursday
December 25, 2008 by Sarah
Just because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean there’s not great gay TV on! Gather up the fam and check out an ice skating special, a very funny Betty and watch two hot doctors get it on in — where else — Grey’s Anatomy. Happy holidays!
Brian Boitano skates with the Spirit of Christmas!
> 3:00 PM Hot Ice, Cool Sounds, NBC (1 hr) NEW
Celebrate Christmas with ice skating champs Brian Boitano, Sasha “Don’t Call Me Baron” Cohen and others, as they skate to the music of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra.
> 8:00 PM Ugly Betty, ABC (1 hr) REPEAT
Betty goes noir when Mark Consuelos guest stars as a detective who tries to piece together who pushed Christina down the stairs. Fashion reporter Suzuki St. Pierre (Alec Mapa) is on the scene!
> 9:00 PM Grey’s Anatomy, ABC (1 hr) REPEAT
Remember the insane “domino procedure” Bailey lead in this episode? Yeah, that was nuts, but even more attention-grabbing was the fact that Erica and Callie had sex for the first time – and Joe, the gay bartender we thought was long gone – reappeared!
