(Image via Conleth Kane)

Conleth Kane is speaking out about retreating into a self-crafted Spice World in order to fend off homophobic bullying when he was a kid.

I never had outrageous bullying (Dennis Donnay was a jerk to me more than once in gym class, and once in typing class) to deal with, but I think I used Madonna, as a teen, to express that I was different, unafraid of social expectations and disagreed with conservatism.

My high school-era room. I still have most of it, though not the Cybill Shepherd Us.

Vintage usher's jacket; celluloid tie; 10 cents a dance (Images via Matthew Rettenmund)

But, yeah, the pics are pretty similar! (I was in college by this point, and having kitschy walls at the University of Chicago was another sort of statement.)

My poster collection here.

Travis Wall is not having it. (Image via Instagram)

UPDATE: Spencer unreservedly apologized for her comments:

My sincere apologies for an insensitive comment I made in pop news yesterday. From ballet to anything one wants to explore in life, I say GO FOR IT. I fully believe we should all be free to pursue our passions. Go climb your mountain-and love every minute of it.

Dance Magazine reports on Good Morning America's unfortunate (and more thoughtless than malicious) laughter over Prince George's packed curriculum, including ballet classes.

Host Lara Spencer seems to imply that George will stop liking ballet because he'll get bullied, and laughs over it:

Emmy-winning So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Travis Wall (not to mention living legend Mitzi Gaynor!) has a thoughtful and measured response to Lara Spencer's laughter:

Uh-oh ... (Image via video still)

Taylor Swift's lyric video for her new single “You Need to Calm Down” makes it clear the song is a boost to bullied LGBTQ people — particularly the part where she sings, “Why are you mad/when you can be GLAAD?”

Cue GLAAD employees creaming.

Also, “Shade never made/Anybody less gay.”

Then, Friday night, she showed up at the Stonewall for an unannounced performance — videos after the jump ...

ABOVE: He likes this pic of himself. I say he has good taste.

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ABOVE: I wish I'd never gotten so many gold stars in Aqua Tots.

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Dmitry, a schoolteacher stripped of everything — played by John DiMino(All images by Ashley Garrett via LuredThePlay.com)

If you are a member of the LGBTQ community, chances are you've heard of the unimaginable persecution of gay men in Russia in recent years. Most shockingly, several years ago, neo-Nazi groups began attracting men with promises of sex via hookup apps, only to brutalize them on video to destroy their lives and teach them the lesson that homosexuality is a diabolical western plague.

In Frank J. Avella's revelatory play Lured, playing now through November 25 at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave., NYC), this grotesque violation of humanity is dramatized in an ingenius way that contextualizes the trend while never flinching from portraying the depravity.

Great Scott! (Images via Gay Times)

Adam Rippon did the honors as interview for fashion bigshot Jeremy Scott inside the November 2018 issue of Gay Times — the cover of which Scott nabs! (Garrett Clayton also has a cover.)

The harness seen 'round the world!

The kinds of guys who would love to model for Jeremy used to bully him in school. He tells Adam:

ABOVE: Save it for a rainy gay.

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