Sitcom snipers

Sir Ian McKellen & Derek Jacobi only play catty gay partners on TV.

Help Alec Mapa fund his Baby Daddy documentary.

Female artists are on the rise.

Never-heard '85 Beastie Boys Q&A + Madonna chat.

Madonna was serving fish in 1992. Hook it.

Madonna "Gang Bang" footage.

Boyfriends remix RuPaul's "Cover Girl."

Pet Shop Boys U.S. tickets on sale.

The Presets/Dragonette tickets on sale for NYC gig.

Cher's mom Georgia Holt releases an album at age 86.

My Fair Wedding's David Tutera expecting divorce, twins.

The making of Behind the Candelabra.

OUT & ABOUT: Find gay-friendy tour operators abroad.

SF Pride chooses "corporate sleaze"?

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) supports gay adoption.

Out RBD singer/actor Christian Chavez & BF arrested.

James Franco's SM birthday cake.

Perfectly preserved, abandoned farmhouse.

Wallflowers has a new Bryce: Lucas Near-Verbrugghe.

Joey Lawrence pops weirdly huge bicep.

SHE'D RATHER BE IN PHILADELPHIA: Mariela Castro allowed in.

New Yorkers voice support for Jason Collins.

Collins speaks about his "mind-boggling" coming-out.

The Rubin Report asks Lance Bass & a Young Turk about Collins.

Lance Bass comes out in support of Jason Collins

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Someone told Jon Hamm how to get, how to get to Sesame Street.

GET OUT!: E.J. Johnson always dreamed of being in the spotlight.

Big Daddy Kane remembers posing nude for Madonna's Sex.

Joe Manganiello is As Good as Gold.

GIFT HORSE, MEET MOUTH: Helping Africa is hurting Africa.

Porn stars get goofy in a car.

Glee covers Gay Men's Chorus of L.A.

Face 2 Face: A documentary about reconnecting.

The immigration bills sucks for gays.

"Amanda Bynes is going to die soon."

Leave her alone? That's the opposite of what we should do.

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Above, President Obama's first speech regarding the Boston Marathon bombing.

Person of interest in bombing is 20-year-old Saudi.

Patton Oswalt's response to terror: Love.

Marriage-equality vote delayed in Ireland.

Louis C.K. conflates gays with pedophiles.

"Day of Dialog" = gays suck.

The struggle of gay seniors.

Hi Fashion's warped video for song "Eighteen."

Justin Bieber bares his breasts.

San Jose Earthquakes player Alan Gordon sorry for slur.

Gay man denied partner visitation gets defense fund.

This poop is on fire.

The source of the below Tony Ward/Sex by Madonna image is (Work Unfriendly):

He's a good (water) sport.

Twenty years ago today, Madonna released (unleashed?) her Sex book. Instantly infamous, the book sold out everywhere and is a collectible to this day—but it also hurt Madonna's record sales and alienated scores of fans for several years. It represented Madonna at her most defiant, at her brattiest, and not always at her most creative (that story about her "gash" just won't leave my mind).

From my Encyclopedia Madonnica, published two years after Sex, here are...

The 6 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Sex:

Hard (as a rock) to believe it, but Madonna's seminal album Erotica was released 20 years ago today, got spanked by many critics (though not as many as the press would soon imply) and became her lowest selling studio album to that point, thanks in part to the sexual saturation of the album, the Sex book and the following January's Body of Evidence movie.

Many fans rank it as her best album. For me, it doesn't hold a candle (nor does it drop hot wax on) the likes of Madonna, Ray of Light or Like a Prayer, but it's sure a solid piece of work thanks to its glorious singles and "Thief of Hearts".

After Sex, Madonna was dead to many former fans

My pal Piotr has launched a Facebook page in honor of the 20th anniversary of Madonna's Sex book, which more than any other thing she's done creatively is a work that separates one part of her career from another. Was it good for you? Or was it like when the trick of your dreams shows up looking nothing like his picture? Or maybe it was both from page to page? Regardless, Sex changed how people perceived Madonna.

Madonna looks hardened in late '92 and in '93, yet I always loved her garish glamour from the Gaultier show in September '92. In this fun pic (from the indispensable site over here), Ms. Sex teams up with good sex—Dr. Ruth Westheimer herself.

With thanks to John: Some are saying the above Lady GaGa outtakes from 2009 are reminiscent of Madonna's Sex book, probably because of this:

An excellent peek at Ward of the State: Tony Ward, Artists' Muse, a show currently up in L.A. that I really wish I could see.

The artists all talk about him in a way that could be boiled down to: This dude is hot...