ABOVE: I'M SORRY, but Greg Evigan was ablaze in that Speedo.
BELOW: Keep reading for one of my more sex-drenched roundups, but plenty of politics, too ...
“Do you even know what a gay bar is?” Michael Henry asks in Gay Men Love Me.
He's asking a prototypical hot straight guy who gets gobs of gay attention and a gay-positive girl who loves being the queen of gay bars.
Keep reading for the thought-provoking (and funny) sketch and more of the day's hottest links
Glop star
Miley's messy, experimental, free new album is here.
Four-times wed Kim Davis defies SCOTUS, defers to God.
Kim's “old redneck hillbilly” hubby will defend her.
Jake Gyllenhaal is butch-tastic on L'Uomo Vogue.
Outsiders trouncing GOP insiders in all polls.
BREAKING: Republicans are dumbfucks.
Jeez, HIV is, more 'n' more, becoming like diabetes.
Tyga brags about sex with underage Kylie Jenner ... via his art.
Priests can forgive abortions during a brief period. Progress?
Madonna expresses her selfie on Interview.
This dude's hairy pits are perfection.
Willam Belli has a talented mouth!
Lights dimmed at theater for Kyle Jean-Baptiste.
Official trailer for The Danish Girl.
Then-closeted Ellen Page's note to self: “Dude, just tell people you're gay.”
Jake Arrieta may be the man of your dreams.
Not-so-secret stache
Sorry, Madonna, but this might be my favorite of Interview's new selfie-driven covers.
His statements are a stretch.
He's superhot, but also the WORST motivational speaker ever on weight.
Was Popeye the first gay superhero?
Cheater-tastic Ashley Madison got hacked ... uh-oh.
OMG: Sunburn as art!
Gay youngster killed by lover. GoFundMe set up.
Breitbart's Ben Shapiro almost got beat up by a girrrrrl.
The store owner who told a screaming kid to STOP IT.
Trump rises above the R pack.
McCain rises above Trump.
LGBT Pride event bans drag queens.
We just lived through the hottest June ever recorded.
Richard Brancatisano is a hot piece of ass.
Henry Pedro Wright in Urban White.
Nick Jonas gets chained up, swoon:
Chameleon pops bubbles. (No, really, it's worth it.)
Let's make this the first LGBT national park!
SUP?: Are you ready for Grindr the Musical?
Last call to buy Encyclopedia Madonnica 20 Limited Edition.
Full Justin Bieber Steven Klein shoot.
Black cop aids white supremacist in health crisis.
Bernie Sanders learns he is not an honorary black man.
O'Malley really doesn't get it, either.
Hillary Facebooks about the Netroots racial flap.
Hillary proposes capital gains reform.
2 top Gawker editors resign because that Geithner story was pulled.
See this trick nekkid.
Savage? Love!
Had never even heard of Jai Courtney, and thought this was Tom Hardy. What a may-un. Thank you, Interview.
Annie Lennox, who's been a bit of a scold lately (what with dressing down Beyoncé for not dressing enough), has now cast aspersions on Madonna's latest topless poses, agreeing that they're for attention.
GASP! A popstar doing something for attention? (Like when Annie had Madonna perform on her song “Sing”?)
I think when Annie said we should ask why Madonna is doing this, it would have been worth answering that a little more thoughtfully. Everything public that a public figure does is for attention, either strictly for ego or, more often, to plug a product or endorse a way of thinking.
Why is it that Madonna's topless shots are so easily reduced to being only about attention, when Lennox's own use of racy clothing and even nudity were not? Why can't Madonna be—along with thinking that she'll grab lots of eyes by doing this—that there should be nothing wrong with seeing a woman's nipples (a sentiment she expressed when the Internet was broken over Kim Kardashian's naked butt, though the media deliberately misread it as shade)? Or that women past a certain age should feel free to express themselves both sexually and artistically? Or maybe it's not about age, maybe it's just about creating an interesting scene in the images. Or maybe it is a purely sexual expression—that's the least likely considering all the preparation and thought, but that's okay, too.
Madonna for Versace—no tits
As a reader pointed out, Annie gave songs to Demi Moore's movie Striptease (1996), which wasn't exactly not for attention...
Annie's smart, a great artist and welcome to her opinion. I just find her comment pointless in this case.
Madonna has co-created another memorable cover and spread for Interview, this time with her most recent photographers of choice, Mert and Marcus.
In a series of images for the venerable magazine's “Art Issue,” she is serving attitudinous trout pout, a full helping of boobs, and the kind of daring that involves snakes, crosses, and sitting too close to the TV (which can cause cancer...move back! screams everyone's mom).
Three girls three
Touches of the Like a Prayer era as well as the “Hollywood” video, but otherwise, it's a really fresh, bold shoot and look for her.
She tells the mag:
“We’re in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and be inspired.”
Her interviewer? Publicity-whisperer magician David Blaine.
Madonna also brings up her roommate Martin Burgoyne, who died of AIDS, as well as the artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat (an ex) and Andy Warhol, all of whom she has survived by many years:
“I was attracted to creative people. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, 'Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that?' And somehow we found each other in Manhattan. That's the crazy thing. We found each other and we connected to each other and we moved around the city together. They supported my shows. I supported their shows. We were a unit. And I don't even know how it happened. It just did.”
It's a fantastic interview to match the great portfolio. The magazine describes her thirteenth studio album as coming in 2015; no word yet on whether all the leaks in recent days will affect that.
