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08 Sep 2010
The article is about Dublin's theatre scene, but somehow we managed to get a look in.
Another evening I scarfed a doorstop of a sandwich at a tiny bistro called Gruel before a performance, and then afterward met up with a 30-year-old Irish playwright named Philly McMahon for a theater outing of a less traditional sort.
Mr. McMahon took me to Pantibar, a popular gay pub that opened in 2007 under the ownership of a drag queen named Panti (whose real name is Rory O'Neill) who organizes drag acts and singers several nights a week. Rather than simply lip-sync songs, however, Panti and her comrades re-enact scenes from movies and television shows. That evening featured an excerpted scene from the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford movie "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" in which the tormenter Jane served a roasted rat to her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche. It was the funniest five minutes I'd seen on a stage in some time.
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27 Aug 2010
The gorgeous (and dykey, right?) Mariska Hargitay as a lollipop.
(via WOW)
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23 Aug 2010
Cute piece on Niall Sweeney's poster designs for Pantibar in the new issue of Attitude.
(thanks Manto)
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21 Aug 2010
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09 Aug 2010
This fella is living without any money.
And these misguided fellas are training to be priests. (Come in #4 your time is up!)
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31 Jul 2010
Clare Balding took offense to the tone of AA Gills remarks about her while reviewing one of her shows in his TV column in the Sunday Times, and complained to the editor. His response is a lot more offensive than Gill's original review, and she has now lodged a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission.
In his review Gill wrote:
Some time ago, I made a cheap and frankly unnecessary joke about Clare Balding looking like a big lesbian. And afterwards somebody tugged my sleeve to point out that she is a big lesbian, and I felt foolish and guilty. So I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise. Sorry.
Now back to the dyke on a bike, puffing up the nooks and crannies at the bottom end of the nation.
When Balding complained to the paper's editor, his response included:
In my view some members of the gay community need to stop regarding themselves as having a special victim status and behave like any other sensible group that is accepted by society. Not having a privileged status means, of course, one must accept occasionally being the butt of jokes . A person's sexuality should not give them a protected status. Jeremy Clarkson, perhaps the epitome of the heterosexual male, is constantly jeered at for his dress sense (lack of), adolescent mind-set and hair style. He puts up with it as a presenter's lot and in this context I hardly think that AA Gill's remarks were particularly cruel, especially as he ended by so warmly endorsing you as a presenter.
As you might imagine, this provoked an angry response from Balding:
When the day comes that people stop resigning from high office, being disowned by their families, getting beaten up and in some instances committing suicide because of their sexuality, you may have a point.
This is not about me putting up with having the piss taken out of me, something I have been quite able to withstand, it is about you legitimising name calling. ‘Dyke' is not shouted out in school playgrounds (or as I've had it at an airport) as a compliment, believe me.
It may be your job to defend your writer and your editorial team but if you really think that homophobia does not exist and was not demonstrated beyond being ‘the butt of a joke' then we have a problem.
Or as she commented elsewhere:
For God's sake, would he seriously review Stephen Fry presenting QI as a faggot or Evan Davis on Dragons Den as a queer?
Overview HERE, and the Guardian reports HERE.
(Note: Part of Balding's complaint is about Gill's use of the word "dyke" in a derogatory way. Obviously I use the word "dyke" all the time on this blog, but as with all these things, context is everything. I use it because to me, and in my usage, it's strong, and powerful, and used with warmth. In the same way that "homosexual" can often seem too clinical for casual banter amongst ourselves, so too can "lesbian". I like "dyke". It's unapologetic. However, as used by Gill, it's definitely meant to be demeaning. Taken with the tone of his prior remarks, and then following with "puffing up the nooks and crannies at the bottom end of the nation". It's a cheap shot.)
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13 Jul 2010
You can download all of my OpenFM radio shows HERE, so you can listen to them on your iPod and bring a little gay to the long dull commute from your dreary grey housing estate, to your call centre job in a dreary grey industrial estate. You're welcome.
Last Sunday's show Brendan Courtney, writer Phillip McMahon, gay history with Tonie Walsh, the World Cup, Eurovision, David Bowie audition, music that made me gay, an unruly mouse, and other random gayness.
Sunday's show was my last show - OpenFM's temporary license is up and is now off the air. I've really enjoyed doing it though, so maybe I'll see if another station wants to up their mouthy trannie quotient. And sure why wouldn't they?!
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11 Jul 2010
This is car crash radio. It's the full, completely 'out of it' interview that Paul Gasgoine gave to local radio when he turned up at the Raoul Moat siege in England with a "can of larger, a fishing rod" and some chicken. It's completely nuts.
I love the widely reported quote from Gazza'a agent: "He's doing what? I am sitting having an evening meal in Majorca. I'm speechless.''
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09 Jul 2010
Go ahead. Talk to Joe.
(thanks Tucker)
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07 Jul 2010
That Reuters sub editor can retire happy now.
(thanks Francis)
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