“That’s So Gay” Public Service Announcement

The Advertising Council and the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) have teamed up to fight the phrase “That’s so gay”? The groups enlisted lesbian comedienne Wanda Sykes and heterosexual actress/singer Hilary Duff to headline their first two television commercials. Watch them below.

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

“American Photographer,” the subtitle of Catherine Opie’s midcareer survey at the Guggenheim, is both a statement of fact and a critical provocation. From her now-iconic queer portraits like Self-Portrait/Cutting, 1993, to the restrainedly elegant series “Freeway,” 1994–95, the quietly polemic “Domestic,” 1998, and, more recently, her lustrous photographs of surfers, Opie’s work has focused on […]

Linda Reigns Supreme

The recent revival of the supermodel shows no sign of waning and these raunchy pictures of Linda Evangelista are proof.
Photographed for a fashion spread in W magazine the Canadian beauty strikes a number of dominatrix-style poses in the 11 pictures entitled ‘Love/Hate’.

The photo layout by fashion photographer Steven Klein is one of many new projects […]

Buy Sony-Support Breast Cancer Research

To support breast cancer research, Sony is selling pink bundles - for example the pink VAIO notebook, the Handycam Camcorder and the Walkman –during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Two offers in support of BCRF:
$10 from the sale of each Walkman NWZ-E436FPNK, $50 from the sale of each Sony HDR-TG1 Handycam Camcorder, and $75 from the […]

Did Palin Flip-Flop or Mislead On Gay Rights?

Watching the vice presidential debate, you might have gotten the impression that Sarah Palin supports civil rights for same-sex couples. During an exchange on the topic, both she and Joe Biden said they oppose gay marriage. But Biden added that he and Barack Obama favor granting gay couples many of the same benefits—hospital visitation rights, […]

Madeline Albright Corrects Palin

At a rally on Saturday in California, Sarah Palin offered up a rather jarring argument for supporting the Republican ticket. “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” the Alaska Governor said, claiming she was quoting former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Actually, Albright didn’t say that. The accurate quote […]

Women To Watch

Two new films to see. Written by Shamim Sarif and produced by Hanan Kattan and Enlightenment Productions.
The World Unseen
In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just becoming institutionalized. Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional […]

Immigrant Women Working As Dancers Say Job Is Dangerous

As neon lights bathe the dance floor of the darkened nightclub, a group of young women from Latin America sit at tables, sipping water or soft drinks and waiting.For $2, the women will dance one song. For $10, they will dance a set. Forty dollars buys an hour of their time.
The scene plays out in […]

Gay Elders’ Distinctive Challenges Up Close

photo: Mary Altaffer
Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment.
As an 86-year-old gay man, with no family nearby and many acquaintances long since dead, he’d seem a likely prospect for isolation.
Instead, he has kindled […]