Since there were three performances to fit into Monday’s all-new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the runway was cut short, but you can watch the full runway from the main stage right here!
And then check out whether Raja and Raven toot or boot the looks on Fashion Photo RuView:
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If you’re as big of a Drake fan as me, you probably couldn’t imagine finding a reason to fall even further in love with the man (until his new album Views From The 6 drops next month, at least). This song might change that, though. The artist Babeo Baggins of Barf Troop released a new 3-song EP Love Songs For Tough Guys of which the standout track is a brilliant cover of Nico and Jackson Browne‘s “These Days” that she recorded with Drizzy.
Aside from being a beautiful song on its own (you can listen to Nico’s version below), Drake’s easy vocal delivery fits the melancholic introspective nature of the track perfectly. Listen here:
Sidebar… This Instagram post, tho.
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TS Madison gets thrown in the clink y’all! Watch the episode to find out why the doll went to jail, and what happened to her once she got there! New episodes of Wait a Minute on Wednesdays on WOWPresents!
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WOWlebrity/artist/author/drug expert Clancy Cavnar will be at the California Institute of Integral Studies panel discussion and book signing of her new book Peyote: History, Traditions, Politics and Conservation (co-edited by Beatriz Labate).
The book focuses on Peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus containing mescaline, which grows naturally in Mexico and southern Texas…. This collection addresses the delicate relationship between “the needs of the plant” and “the needs of man” to consume the species for spiritual purposes…. The chapters also discuss the history of peyote regulation in the US and the special “trust responsibility” relationship between the American Indians and the government…. Collectively, this book offers a unique contribution by presenting a dense anthropological description of peyote use in different context, and addressing contemporary conservation and legal issues surrounding peyote and its religious use…
Sounds trippy! Sip some peyote tea and join Clancy and her friends at Peyote Panel and Double Book Launch
California Institute of Integral Studies
March 31st, 2016 / 7:00 – 9:30 PM / Namaste Hall
East-Psycology 1453 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Join us for a special peyote panel discussion and book signing! The program for the evening includes a number of special guests. Hope to see you there!
Presenters:
Stacy B. Schaefer
Bia Labate
Jorge N. Ferrer
Diana Negrin
Kevin Feeney
Clancy Cavnar
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“Choppa In Da Trunk” is a profane and unapologetically anti-Trump rap making the internet rounds, made by a Baltimore Internet personality Dooley aka Abdel Ibrahim (with his friends Tlow and Lor Rodger). For the slang-impaired: The “choppa” they refer to is a firearm, which is presumably located in the rear of their automobile.
“Hey: What do you guys think of Donald Trump?” Dooley asks.
“Man, FUCK DONALD TRUMP!” his crew responds in unison.
“Fake-ass wig on yo head, boy,” one boy says to the camera.
“Guess what we got for him?” they ask – then the whole crew starts chanting the chorus, “We got a choppa in the trunk for Donald Trump!”
“Boy ain’t even white!… You yellow!”
“You said you’d date your own daughter; you a sicko!”
After a few more insults, they begin chanting “Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump–he a bitch-and-a-half!”
And although we can’t condone ACTUAL violence, this is a fun little ditty. Check it out below (via PAPER)
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The HBO team that created the Mapplethorpe Pop-Up Experience in Miami, New York, and San Francisco stopped by the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery last night to zshoozsh up our windows, installing ENORMOUS oversize Mapplethorpe images (not the dirty ones!) for all the passersby to gasp at in wonderment. If you’re in the LA area and want to see them – (they’re really beautiful at night when they’re all lit up) – drive by the corner of Hollywood Blvd and Cherokee. They’ll be on display through April 5th.
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures premieres on HBO Monday night, April 4th, btw. And there’s a limited theatrical release in New York starting next week at the Cinema Village 22 E 12th Street (April 8th-14th).
(Photos by Thairin Smothers and Scoty from Boardners)
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Us members of the BeyHive have been on quite an emotional roller coaster lately. It all started last week when Beyoncé‘s iTunes page showed that 13 new unlisted videos were added—presumably meaning a new album could drop at any moment. It was a serious moment of panic. However, nothing happened.
Then, on a very hyped countdown, ELLE Magazine’s Instagram page started posting picture after picture of the Queen Bey leading towards the debut of a promo video for her Ivy Park athletic fashion line. The Ivy Park website was launched as well.
The video (below) shows Beyoncé modeling various pieces from the collection—sports bras, leggings, shorts, swimsuits—while describing her relationship with “that park,” where she goes to mentally and physically prepare for the big moments in her life like stepping on stage and giving birth. (Yes, the video is truly doing the most. Like, it’s the literal meaning of extra. BUT, we love it—and have never felt such a strong urge to get to the gym after seeing Beyoncé doing snippets of various workouts.)
IVY PARK IS MERGING FASHION-LED DESIGN WITH TECHNICAL INNOVATION. CREATING A NEW KIND OF PERFORMANCE WEAR: MODERN ESSENTIALS FOR BOTH ON AND OFF THE FIELD.
STRONG BEYOND MEASURE
IVY PARK
So, if you didn’t blow your entire savings account on buying Formation World Tour tickets, you can shop Ivy Park at Topshop, Nordstrom, and Zalando upon its release on April 14.
Okay ladies, now let’s get in formation.
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On this episode of Oh Pit Crew – Miles, Bryce, and Jason get touched up and play with eggplants backstage before going to set!
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If you’ve already heard RuPaul‘s Butch Queen, you already know it’s fierce. And to further support this claim, this marks the fifth consecutive week the album has been sitting pretty in the Top 10 of the iTunes Dance Chart!
Mama Ru’s previous albums Glamazon, Champion, Realness, and Born Naked (Deluxe) are also still on the charts. Because they’re what? Sickening.
Get that RuPaul music on iTunes, squirrel-friends!
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The new season of Million Dollar Listing New York with Ryan Serhant, Luis D. Ortiz, and Fredrik Eklund starts April 21 on Bravo, and it’s going to be an explosive premiere! Get ready for bigger listings, bigger commissions, and bigger feuds—this is going to be the biggest season yet!
Get your first look at the premiere now.
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NYC drag icon Lady Bunny has a new show Trans-Jester coming to the landmark bar Stonewall Inn. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure (or disgust..it’s relative) of seeing Bunny perform, please understand that this is COMEDY!!! If you’re gonna be offended by jokes about current trend pc words like cisgender and heteronormative, jabs at Caitlyn Jenner, or her vulgar version of Uptown Funk– an ode to her thirst for BBC (big black c*ck), this ain’t the show for you! “We’ve become so politically correct that they just made Dick Van Dyke change his name to Penis Von Lesbian”, exclaims Lady Bunny.
Trans-Jester begins Wednesday April 13th at 7:00pm and runs Wednesday-Saturday through Saturday, ending Saturday, April 30th. Get tix HERE.
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Another day, another fabulous review for Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures! Writes the Wall Street Journal:
Flowers were a recurring subject in Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography. But so were hard-core gay sex and the male member. When the artist’s show “The Perfect Moment” went on tour in 1989, it caused a furor that extended to the floor of the U.S. Senate. “Look at the pictures,” North Carolina’s Jesse Helms urged his colleagues, as if that would settle the issue.
It doesn’t—not the way Mr. Helms intended. As directors Fenton Baileyand Randy Barbato so eloquently demonstrate in their biography/social critique of Mr. Mapplethorpe, his art transcends the controversy. One of the more important aspects of this documentary—which includes interviews with Mapplethorpe family members and various survivors of ’70s and ’80s downtown Manhattan, including Patti Smith—is the way the filmmakers make sure we really do see the pictures: their compositional mastery, their originality, their beauty.
The directors succumb to what can be an art-film trap, the urge to emulate the style of the subject. It works, though, from the way characters are introduced through the horizontal viewfinder of a medium-format Hasselblad (Mr. Mapplethorpe’s camera) to the fashion-shoot aesthetic of the interviews themselves. And there’s also the story: of Mr. Mapplethorpe’s childhood in Queens; of the link between his early Catholicism and the gothic nature of his most famous photos; and of his early death from AIDS.
“Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” coincides with the double retrospective now in Los Angeles at the Getty and LACMA, and among the many amusing/shocking things in the film are the museums’ young curators and their bashful attitude toward Mr. Mapplethorpe’s photos. The pictures still make people uncomfortable. Watching it together could make friends squirm. But it’s not a very high price to pay for an evening of art and truth.
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures premieres Monday night on HBO.
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On a recent Reddit AMA, Nick Jonas was asked about those infamous purity rings that he and his brothers wore during their Disney days. His answer is surprisingly candid and insightful.
“[I’m] not a huge fan, but I still respect your career,” the Redditor began, insisting he wasn’t “being snarky” – but wanted to know if he was serious about “abstaining from gettin’ down” or if it was “part of your marketing to families and young kids.”
The user continued: “Did you just bail on it once a bunch fine women started throwing themselves at you? Or you still trying to be pure and whatnot? I’m just trying to understand because you should be able pull like Leo no problem.”
Answered Nick:
“Thanks for the question. And I don’t think you’re being snarky, I think it’s a very good question. I’d like to start by saying this: I came from an incredibly religious home, growing up my dad was a pastor, and much like The First Family or people in front of the public eye, we were highly scrutinized as a family within the church and looked at as, well I guess you would call an example of what that family image should be. So long before our career started in music, that was what we were dealing with.”
For Jonas, abstaining from sex came with the territory. “There was a person in the church who at one point demanded that all the kids in the youth group put these purity rings on and make this commitment, so without a full understanding of what we were stepping into, we all made this commitment,” he shared.
Eventually, “I started making my own choices, fell in love with somebody, made the choice to have sex with them, and from that point on it was about me being a man and being okay with my choices. And then it related to my art and people’s view of me and the public eye.”
Ultimately, Jonas focuses on the good that came out of the decision. “But I think when I’m looking back on it, although it was challenging to live with that, to be seen and have that attached to our name was very tough,” he explained. “I think it was a good thing. It gave me a really good perspective to where as now my main thing is about being okay with who I am as a man and the choices I’ve made, and I think everyone should have a good and solid conversation with either their parents or loved ones about sex and about what they want to do with their life, because it shouldn’t be taboo.”
Such grace! Such self-awareness! Isn’t he just PERFECT?
Another Reddit user asked him about that 2009 South Park episode that made fun of the JoBros sexual abstinence – and, again, he handled himself with poise and dignity.
“When it first came out I didn’t think it was funny to be honest, but probably because I was actually living all of that in real time and so it just made it harder to come and live your life as a young person and have all that going on,” wrote Jonas. “But years later and once the purity rings were no longer around, it was very funny to me and I’ve actually watched the episode a few times.”
Whattaguy. Now let’s look at those arms and have ourselves a sigh.
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Yay! My book Freak Show has a new baby sister! Actor/writer/comedian Jeffrey Self has a Young Adult book Drag Teen coming out this month about a teenage drag queen who’s trying desperately to get out of his boring backwater Florida town. The publisher, Scholastic, describes the book as:
A fantastic, fabulous, funny YA debut from Jeffery Self, one of the gay icons of the YouTube generation, that follows one high school student on a drag race to his future
The plot?
Debut YA author Jeffery Self takes us on a road trip with an insecure high school senior who has one goal: to be the first in his family to leave Clearwater, Florida, and go to college. The problem is, he has zero means of paying for school — until his friends convince him to compete in a drag teen competition for a college scholarship.
Hopefully, we can get him to the WOW studios to have a little tete-a-tete about the inspiration and writing of this soon-to-be classic!
Get your copy here.
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Get caught up on the previous four episodes of Untucked: RuPaul’s Drag Race you may have missed before an ALL-NEW Untucked is released Tuesday morning only on WOWPresents! And of course watch RuPaul’s Drag Race before on Monday night at 9PM on Logo. Make sure you subscribe to WOWPresents so you never miss a thing!
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Alaska and her crew of masked henchmen (including her brother Cory) pull off daring daylight home invasion in the music video for “Gimme All Your Money” the fourth video off her Anus album.
Once inside the house, Alaska and pals Laganja Estranja, Lola LeCroix, and Cake Moss proceed to terrorize and sexually humiliate the homeowner by tying him up and doing his makeup (it’s terrible).
Alaska is in top form here, channeling her inner Nicki Minaj in this silly, sexy, meta, and kind of serious video. Check it out below.
And here’s the “Let the Music” Play episode where Alaska talks about the song:
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Oh yes honey! The time has come for us to announce the winner of the RuPaul’s DragCon Weekend VIP Ticket Giveaway! Is it going to be you?!!
The winning qween is Christy Wasserman! Christy has won herself two fabulous Weekend VIP passes to RuPaul’s DragCon (this does not include travel or accommodations, just as a reminder.)
CONDRAGULATIONS!
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Justin Bieber and I probably don’t have that much in common. But one thing we do seem to find common ground on is our love for Calvin Klein boxer briefs… specifically white ones. And of course, it’s no secret that the Biebs is a true supporter of the classic brand. But in this photo he posted on Instagram, I’m starting to wonder if his devotion is becoming borderline upon unhealthy? He captioned the picture “I’m serious about #mycalvins”…
My question, though: how tight to your Calvins have to be to imprint the logo so deep into your skin?! Like, I don’t know what this says about me but I’ve never had that issue. So, I must come to the conclusion… there’s really just no way an underwear band that tight can be comfortable. THERE’S JUST NO WAY! Of course, we still don’t know for sure if wearing tight underwear has any serious health implications. But I just want my Biebs to be safe!
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Millennial author/professional provocateur Alex Kazemi is curating “The Advisor” – a monthly digital gallery of handwritten letters by male icons dedicated to young men. His first month contributors include: Richard Kern (underground filmmaker/photographer), Bruce LaBruce (gay icon filmmaker), Rad Hourani (designer), NABIL (music video director), Marcel Castenmiller (model) and Justin Tranter (songwriter).
The letters are published without context, which allows you to read whatever you want into the relationship. It’s all very sexy and random and creepily voyeuristic – I LOVE IT.
Here’s Bruce’s:
Advice to mens:
1) Never trust anyone over thirty 2) Never trust anyone under thirty 3) Don’t listen to unsolicited advice 4) Morality is bourgeois 5) Continuity is bourgeois 6) The grass is never greener on the other side of the fence 7) Consider the possibility of vagina envy 8) Question authority 9) The best things in life are free-based 10) Prostitution is the highest form of class struggle 11) Consider the minority opinion 12) If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything nice 13) A day without a hustler is like a day without sunshine 14) Explore your bisexual potential 15) Don’t dream it, be it 16) Nationalism is the hobgoblin of small minds 17) Try to contradict yourself once a day 18) “What the Hell” is always the right decision to make 19) We are all hustlers 20) Monogamy is monotony 21) You can’t take your dough when you go-go-go 22) Marry someone who can cook 23) Take Fountain!
And here’s Richard’s:
Totally wtf, right? Fabulous. Check out the site here.
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April 1, 2001– Huwelijk tussen personen van gelijk geslacht! The Netherlands was the first country on our pretty spinning blue orb to legalize same-sex marriage.
Back in the mid-1980s, a group of gay rights activists asked the government to allow same sex couples to marry. Dutch Parliament decided in 1995 to create a special commission, which was to investigate the possibility of same-sex marriages. During this era, the Christian Democrats were not part of the ruling coalition for the first time since the introduction of full democracy in 1815. That special commission finished its work in 1997 and concluded that civil marriage should be extended to include same-sex couples. After the election of 1998, the government promised to deal the issue. In September 2000 the final legislation draft was debated in the Parliament.
The marriage bill passed their House of Representatives by 109 votes to 33. The Senate approved the bill on 19 December 2000 by 49 to 26. Only the Christian parties, of course, voted against the bill. Although the Christian parties formed the next government, they decided not repeal the law.
The new marriage law to read simply:
“Een huwelijk kan worden aangegaan door twee personen van verschillend of van gelijk geslacht. (A marriage can be entered into by two persons of opposing or the same sex).”
The law went into effect on this day in 2001, and on that day four same-sex couples were married by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, who became a registrar specifically to officiate at the weddings. 75 percent of the population supported the bill. Dolf Pasker, married his partner of six years, Gert Kasteel. One couple had been living together 36 years. Pink cake & pink Champagne were served to 150 guests.
Children did not wander the picturesque cobble stones streets crying in confusion. Straight couples did not find their own marriages crumbling. The canals did not dry up. Anne Frank’s house did not erupt in flames. Hashish could still be enjoyed in the coffeehouses & the Red Light District still provided some sort of release for heterosexual men from the USA. There were no fingers placed in any dykes. Paintings by Rembrandt & Van Gough did not crash to museum floors.
Today, 21 countries proudly allow people of the same sex to be married. I married my guy on our 25th anniversary as a couple, October 9, 2004, in Vancouver BC.
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