or is shit like Mike Tyson and Bobby Brown doing the Monster Mash (YouTube link) evidence of the coming Armageddon? As well as the total abjection of celebrity has-beens of color that seems to define most ironically-embraced hipster pop culture that has any faces of color actually in it?

PS Madonna is going to Malawi where she plays to buy adopt a ( Read more... )

You probably heard about this story in April when it happened. I'm pretty impressed that Out and/or the journalist devoted so much energy to investigating it. As you might imagine, it's pretty complex, and there's a lot here to chew on about ugly-Americanism in general, white entitlement, and that of white gay men specifically. See also: resort ( Read more... )

Just watched the 1000M speed skating race and the inane post-race interview with Shani Davis. Are these folks for real ( Read more... )

Naturally, Esther Wu of the Asian American Journalists Association is Johnny on the spot calling out Norman Mailer for bein' an ass.
Here is Page Six's take (which has more of Wu's letter) and here is Lloyd Grove's longer one with Norman's response and a foxy Michiko pic ( Read more... )

Norman Mailer Calls "Asiatic, Feminist" NYT Critic a "Token ( Read more... )

And the exhibit is called Ghetto Fab?

Well, hm. This graf-to-gallery idea is nothing new, it's a wheel that's been being reinvented more or less the entire lifespan of hip hop culture, and I'm suspicious of any attempt to gallerize graf that doesn't even allude to Henry Chalfant. But am I jumping the gun here? Anyone know anything about this ( Read more... )

A study cosponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Black Justice Coalition demonstrates that African-Americans have most at stake in the same-sex marriage debate.

You can download the report itself here. Press release here, cross-posted from postqueer since non-lj-ers have reported not being able to access it there.
( press release )