A Chris before dying

New trailer for Chris Colfer's Struck By Lightning.

Al Gore on Sandy: "Toldja!"

President Obama: "Streamlined"assistance to Sandy victims.

Mitt Romney not a fan of flood prep.

Romney surrogate lies: Roe v. Wade would be safe under Romney.

Bill Clinton gives out lesbian Tammy Baldwin an assist in her Senate race.

Poll guru Nate Silver mocked, called "effeminate."

Polling may be affected by Sandy; just vote in a week.

Clueless Stacey Dash still LOVES Romney/Ryan.

Britney Spears fans—sticklers for keepin' it real—hated Lucky's fakey cover.

Damiana & Barbara are a fright.

Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show canceled.

Madonna teases on Gaga.

Jeff Stryker's penis does Vaudeville (Work Unfriendly) in Florida.

Can I have its autograph?

Entertainment Weekly (June 29, 2012) has an interesting feature on the "new art of coming out" in Hollywood. In a nutshell, the magazine points out that many of the celebrities who've made if official in the years since Ellen's "Yep, I'm gay" splash have done so in low-key ways or as an afterthought. This removes the defensive argument many people make about gay public figures not having to march in pride parades—that was never the point. The point was making it official, and more and more are doing so.

Sidenote: Above is the newsstand cover, but the subscription cover needs space for a mailing address so loses two faces. The two who were considered expendable: Jane Lynch and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

With the arrival of The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell (Little, Brown; July, $16.99), Chris Colfer will be not only a TV actor, not only a movie actor and writer (Struck by Lightning) but an author. Kid never sleeps!

National Enquirer (March 12, 2012) makes the dubious claim that Chris Colfer has been overtexting co-star Ricky Martin and using flirty nicknames like "babe," causing issues with Ricky's longtime partner Carlos. Good problem to have.

Elton John's Oscar party was dripping with gay men and/or men that gay men find attractive. Above, that's Matt Morrison, Chace Crawford, JC Chasez and Colton Haynes (the latter of whom tweeted the pic). Don't know the cutie in the middle or the lovely lady.

The party also attracted Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, Ryan Kwanten, Ian Somerhalder and Chris Colfer.

Via Towleroad: Good for Chris Colfer—the movie he wrote, Struck By Lightning, looks like it could be a fresh take on the teen genre a la Mean Girls. I look forward to seeing and supporting it. Trailer after the jump...

With thanks to Boy Culture reader Ruston: Chris Colfer has a doppelganger at the beginning of Microtek's ScanWizard 5, but while I don't think it's him, I do think the person might be a boyish girl:

Next up will be "I have tons of gay friends...and they agree with me!"

Imagine what a big deal this would be if a similarly venomously anti-gay series of tweets (this is his third) were coming from somebody famous and respectable and influential?

But since Bret Easton Ellis feels the need to trash all gay people (first, it was because hearing Chris Colfer since "Le Jazz Hot" gave him the HIV-willies, now it's that telling suicidal gay kids to hang in there is "narcissism"), it needs to be pointed out that "out of fucking control" is in the eye of the beholder.

Julie Bowen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Ariel Winter of Modern Family

Modern Family and Glee both won for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which presenter Joel McHale points out is not a "tie" but a "silk cravate" in LGBT terms.

Keep watching to see the acceptances, as well as videos of Dolly Parton (weirdly played on by Madonna's "Vogue," and who describes her appearance as "comin' out..." to present an award), Sean Hayes, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Colfer and Mike O'Malley...

Darren Criss covers Out (March 2011)—I'm impressed with how quickly they pounced on him! And I'm glad he happily posed for Out, straight in real life and gay on TV or not.

Criss has an interesting take on his gay-for-pay status on Glee:

"It's more empowering to everybody if I'm articulate about identifying myself as a straight male playing a gay character. Ultimately, that's more powerful for both communities."

The article also quotes Glee creator Ryan Murphy as saying there may be a bisexual twist between Criss's character and that of Chris Colfer:

"It's my job as showrunner to keep them apart as long as possible. Blaine (Criss) will openly question whether bisexuality is real. I think that some people will love that discussion and some will not love it."

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