This is what leadership looks like. Our president is hugging Netanyahu.
Conservatives are having a mild conniption fit over Netflix’s new Alexander, The Making Of A God.
Why? Because it shows the title character kissing a guy, and I guess conservatives like their ancient warrior heroes straight. Just one problem, alpha males! Alexander has been rumored to be gay or bi since antiquity!
In fact, anal sex is widely known as “Greek” because bisexuality was common in Ancient Greece. Don’t get mad because common knowledge passed you by.
Is your masculinity so fragile that historical accuracy is a bad thing? You tuned in thinking it would be real men killing people instead of a sissy and what made it really made you bad because it’s Super Bowl weekend? Have a Bud light and chill, dudes! PS: I have some more disappointing news for you: The Village People were gay, too!
Argentinian-born NYC trans activist Cecilia Gentili has passed. She wrote “Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist.” She also played Miss Orlando in Pose, advocated for sex workers, trans rights and was recently arrested protesting a ceasefire. R.I.P.
I’ve seen Mayhem perform both in person and on video. She looks great, and delivers energetic lip-synch numbers well. She’s also fun on the mic as a host. So why on earth would she choose this talent? Or was it chosen for her?
I have no issue with kooky talent numbers—I seldom watch, but I enjoyed the queen who made ice water, and the ballerina who danced on point and then humped a photo of Ross Matthews. (These numbers were performed to cheaply cleared background or classical music.) Maybe Mayhem’s talent would’ve worked better if she hadn’t gotten the giggles or forgotten her words. Or the edit cut out the good parts—you never know what we don’t see.
The Chaka Khan line was funny, but maybe lost on many under 40 who never grooved to Ms. Khan’s Prince cover “I Feel For You.” As a performer, if someone asked me to be on a national TV show, I’d pick a tried and true crowd pleaser. Not the iffy, new number I don’t yet know. While she may, I can’t imagine Mayhem feeling differently. (I don’t know her well.) The only possible explanation I can come up with is that producers were too cheap to pay for a dynamite tune which is already in Mayhem’s repertoire and brings down the house every time. Why would you cast a queen and then put her on TV doing something that’s much less entertaining than what she performs in clubs?
Hint: It’s not because Drag Race is actually mentoring queens as it claims to, or even interested in showing them at their best.
Every performer watching is out there thinking “How did this get on TV? Would this be on a top-notch, international drag showcase?” I’m sure some viewers appreciate the train wreck vibe of Mayhem’s number—since many reality fans think mistakes are “good TV” and cat fights are ratings gold. As a drag queen, I think “good TV” is seeing a queen doing a goodperformance. Who is making these decisions? Look at Robin Fierce’s lip-synching to “Now That We’ve Found Love last season.” There’s no drag queen on earth who gets dolled up and thinks “I look c#nt tonight! I’m gonna gag them when I bust out my Heavy D & The Boyz!” To use another Chaka Khan reference, the number of queens who would choose to Heavy D? “Ain’t Nobody.”
Lol!
Last night, I saw the play Make Me Gorgeous starring Jackie Cox (aka Darius Rose.) Darius is a dynamite bundle of energy and memory in this one-person show about Kenny Marlowe, a lesser-known gay trailblazer who led a fascinating life as hooker, madame, drag queen, hairdresser to the stars, soldier, and in his last 10 years, a trans woman.
Lemme just tell ya this: I hope Jackie Cox did well in her acting challenge on Drag Race, because this bitch can act!
There are literally dozens of characters, all with dozens of different accents who have Darius holding entire conversations with himself. He excels at these, and demonstrates a terrific rapport with the audience and bang-on comic timing. He dons a variety of costumes male and female to evoke Mr. Kenneth’s many phases, delivering both a tricky song and a body-baring fan dance, which the lead character had learned from burlesque queen Sally Rand.
I’m told that Jackie/Darius took over the role from its originator with only 8 rehearsals. I was very impressed! Laughter abounds in the show, yet in some way, the show has a little bit of an identity crisis like its lead character. Is it a comedy? Mainly, yes. But Darius is so appealing as a wisecracking narrator of his own tale, that some of the more serious moments don’t hit as hard as they could. And especially for a gay character of yesteryear, Kenneth is unstoppable despite being totally out of the closet, and gets out of most jams with ease. So it’s a little hard to imagine that this jovial character is ever truly in danger. But that’s my only gripe.
Jackie/Darius appears in the role through Feb 27th. For theater-goers interested in quirky LGBT history, I recommend this show. For fans of @JackieCoxnyc , this tour de force is unmissable. At Playhouse 46 at St Luke’s in Hells Kitchen.
I couldn’t read this. What does it say?
Priyanka is part of We’re Here’s new line-up on HBO coming April 26th. I am loving a rhinestone bag worn as a free-form tiara! “I put my purse in my wig.” Innovative, yet not at all light.
Labour is UK’s version of Democrats. Like Biden, Labour head Kier Starmer isn’t really on the left. This guy is quitting the party in protest over Labour’s support for the carnage in Gaza. Genocide is a bridge too far for some. And if your morals are ok with genocide, you don’t have very many of them.
Israel took out an ad for tonight’s Super Bowl. It asks that the Israeli dads who are being held hostage get released. Here’s the lie by omission. As Rising’s Briahna Joy Gray points out, Israel turned down a Hamas hostage deal just days ago. So hostages aren’t the main issue here. More land theft is. And like all the western news anchors who want to shift the focus to 10/7 when Hamas attacked, this ad plays dumb as to why Israeli hostages were taken in the first place: decades of apartheid and genocide. Israel’s throwing the rock and then hiding their hands…again.
Tax time is coming up. Did Israel use our tax dollars to buy this ad? Both parties give them anything they want in terms of defense. Israelis save so much by having Americans fund their war machine that miraculously, they can afford universal healthcare which US politicians claim this country can’t. Biden Democrats want to give our tax dollars to war criminals abroad— or to us.
As Joe falters, great to know he has backup.
Here we have Israeli men and their sons walking by a bunch of Asian Christians who are carrying a cross—and spitting on them. Now, with video clips like this, much like with Drag Race’s infamous edits, we don’t see what happened with this group prior to filming. Maybe the Asians had just robbed them! Unlikely, I know, yet possible. I know I always pick up a giant cross and carry it around after I’ve robbed people. They never even suspect me cuz that cross throws them right off.
So are Israelis racist towards Asians? Are they not tolerant of other religions? Or both? I can’t say. But I would guess this vile behavior comes from the kind of Jewish faith which considers Jews to be God’s chosen people, therefore anything goes. They can steal land, implement apartheid, lie out they nose, carry out genocide and spit on people of different races and religions. The Zionist delusion is now front and center in world affairs. And while still upheld by Western institutions, much of the international community have recognized this hateful outlook for exactly what it is. Imagine a religion/mindset which tells you it’s ok to spit on people! Or that you actually should spit on certain people because you dream that you’re superior. We’re all equal, and no one is special because of the dusty old book of fairy tales which they chose to adopt. And I’ve heard plenty of Christians argue that unless you’re “saved” you’re going to hell. These religious nuts have never heard of “Do unto others”. Isn’t that a basic tenet of most religious and of civil society—don’t spit on anyone unless you’d don’t mind catching a big spit wad on your face!
Famed pollster Nate Silver from 538 is getting trolled by Democrats, even though he is one, for speaking the truth.
Biden supporters seem to hate the truth. But you can’t simultaneously claim that 2024 is the most important election in our lives to “save democracy” and then put all of democracy’s eggs into one creaky basket like Joe. Running Biden suggests that Dems don’t care about winning. He’s polling badly, losing to Trump in crucial swing states, funding a genocide which his own party is against, and is a senile serial liar. Running Biden again is begging for Trump’s 2nd term. If that makes you angry to hear, then you’re in denial. 72% of the country don’t want Biden or Trump to run again.
MSNBC anchor pretends that Palestinians forced from their homes in the 1948 nakba, when the UK gave the land to European Jews displaced by the Holocaust, is up for debate? Really? You could argue that the UK controlled Palestine in 1948, so it was theirs to give. But you can’t argue that Palestinians weren’t forced from their homes en masse to accommodate these Jewish refugees. And that’s still happening, as Israeli land theft has been happening since 1948. Imagine being a refugee from the Holocaust and seeking refuge in a country whose indigenous people you mistreat in ways in which your people were once mistreated. These Jews should’ve been grateful. Instead, they were hateful.
Hey, Blinken could be right about the amount of US aid given to Palestine. But they wouldn’t need any aid if we didn’t arm their oppressors. It’s bordering on upside down to speak this way about aid. And no, I don’t mean upside down as in the fantastic Diana Ross/Chic masterpiece. I mean as in rotted, clueless, berserk, puzzled, etc.
So a vigilante group, the Guardian Angels, assaulted a man in Times Square who they believed to be an immigrant involved in a theft. Unfortunately, the guy wasn’t an immigrant. He lived in the Bronx. He also wasn’t shoplifting, but apparently you don’t need to be guilty to have this in appointed group of thugs pull you down because you look like an immigrant.
Um, there’s a lot of people in NYC who look they could be immigrants. Do they have to fear a group of guys in red berets attacking them to earn points in a Fox News interview? So now there’s another group besides the police who innocent men of color have to fear?
When you donate to Democrats, at least some of your dough goes to morons like this to create “scandals” like Where is Melania? It has zilch to do any policy on either side.
Great example of news so slanted that it gives the opposite impression of what is true. Biden is funding the genocidal war in Israel. But The NY Times seeks to trick us into thinking Biden is putting up a fight, or that he’s had enough of Netanyahu. I think he cursed him last week as a ‘bad f#cking guy.”This is all designed to fool you into thinking there’s some sort of pushback from Democrats vs Israel as the world opens its eyes to the ugly situation there. Biden has to pretend that his Israel policy is different from Trump’s or Haley’s. It isn’t.
And all the pundits who sold Genocide Joe to you as a kindly uncle from Scranton who would give us a much-needed break from the chaos of Trump’s term were liars. If the US and Israel had a shaky relationship, we would be stopping aid, or at least conditioning it. A late Bernie Sanders has just suggested this. Too bad he waited for 3 months until tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed to speak out. And if Bernie wanted to truly exert pressure on the administration, he could unendorse Biden until changes are made. But that would require backbone, of which Bernie has none. With the exception of Rashida Tlaib, is Palestinian, and Cori Bush, the Squad is falling in line just like Bernie did.
