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The New Gay Interview: Meet the [HU Queer] Press
The origin of the zine is sometimes traced as far back as Thomas Payne’s Common Sense. While not all such publications have caused major political upheavals, groups like the riot grrrls helped to...
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Media: What Makes a Gay Icon?
Submission by Jake, TNG reader For a moment, I’d like to wax philosophical on a term that’s thrown around a lot lately, gay icon. There are many tangents I could go off on in relation to this topic,...
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Fashion: Male Androgyny – Hot, Strange, or Lucrative?
[This article, written by Topher Burns, originally appeared in BlackBook / bbook.com] Model Wiktor (courtesy Next Model Management) I’m partial to purses. They come in all sorts of fun shapes and...
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Commentary: Bret Easton Ellis Sadly Agrees with Sheen: Winning!
WINNING! Photo courtesy of graur razvan iorlut I have a great fondness for Bret Easton Ellis. The Rules of Attraction helped me glamorize my more self-destructive tendencies in college, and I...
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Media: In Support of Rebecca Black
Submission by Joshua Becker, TNG reader So this has been happening. Good ol’ Rebecca Black, one of Ark Music Factory’s upcoming singing sensations, released a music video last month extolling the...
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TNG Interview: ELLE’s Joe Zee Puts “All On The Line” For Troubled Designers
I was nervous to interview Joe Zee about his new show All On The Line. He’s an all-around cool guy, there’s no question about that, but he’s also a huge force in fashion and an official New York...
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Breaking News: Elizabeth Taylor Dead at 79
Submission by Mark S. King, My Fabulous Disease. Crossposted with permission. View the original post here. Elizabeth Taylor in 1985, c. Roland Godefroy It’s impossible to overstate the impact Elizabeth...
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Homoground: Episode 5
Rachael Cantu Submitted by Lynn Casper, TNG contributor Listen to the podcast now: listen / download Are you a band/musician from a small town with hard audience to crack? Are you an avid music lover...
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The New Gay Interview: “Johnny, Are You Queer?” Josie Cotton Says “Yes.”
It’s tempting to be offended by the above video for Josie Cotton’s “Johnny, Are You Queer.” It caused quite a stir when first released in 1981. The California pop/punk vamp says below that the gay...
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Media: My Sad and Trivial Night with Rock Hudson
Submission by Mark S. King of My Fabulous Disease. Crossposted with permission. View the original article here. Screenshot of Rock Hudson from the trailer for the film Written on the Wind Perhaps it is...
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Homoground: Episode 6
Submitted by Lynn Casper, TNG contributor Noon:30 HOMOGROUND is a new music podcast featuring bands with queer and/or female members. Are you a band/musician from a small town with hard audience to...
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Friday Staff Survey: Bored Gays, Board Games
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” - Albert Einstein c. Cat, TNG illustrator As I grow older I often think about the simplicities of...
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Media: Anti-Gay is Bad for Business
Submission by James Worsdale, TNG contributor Crossposted from Canonball Blog with permission. Photo courtesy of Thms from Amsterdam, The Netherlands Recent buzz has been made surrounding Hot 97 DJ...
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Media: DC Homo/Sonic: The Boom is Back!
Join The New Gay in DC next Friday for Homo/Sonic, a night of dancing to indie, electro, retro, disco, booty pop and beyond. Refreshed from her vacation, DJ Natty Boom is back for the April Homo/Sonic!...
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Not Your Average Prom Queen: Opining vs. Offending
A couple weeks ago, I read a post on Thought Catalog and found myself annoyed, upset and angry. The author, Chelsea Fagan, shares wisdom about how women shouldn’t dress like “sluts” if they don’t want...
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Media: Lady Gaga Didn’t End Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, We Did
Submission by David Meir Grossman, TNG contributor. Grossman writes under his full name so you don’t get confused with the actually famous David Grossman. He worked as an organizer on several political...
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Media: Is It OK for “LGBT-Friendly” Companies to Support Fox News?
I don’t usually click Facebook ads. As the guys here can attest, if you list yourself as a man interested in men, pretty much all you get are ads for laser hair removal, dubious gay dating websites,...
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Media: Dude-Mag Recognizes Model’s Hotness, Handles it Poorly
Lame-ass macho Pravda rag FHM surprised no one recently by sinking to new depths of strident homophobia and transphobia. The dude-mag named androgynous male model Andrej Pejic as number 98 on its “100...
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Homoground: Episode 13
Crossposted with permission from Lynn Casper Nervous But Excited This week’s mixtape features music by Little Victory (Brooklyn), Forgetters (Brooklyn), Karen & the Sorrows (Brooklyn), and Nervous...
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Homoground: Episode 14
Crossposted with permission from Lynn Casper This week’s mix features three Tar Heel bands: Mount Moriah (Durham), The Moaners (Chapel Hill), and Filthy Bird (Graham.) http://official.fm/tracks/233792...
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