Incredibly batshit anti-Halloween commercial featuring Satan aka the Celtic God of the Dead “Samhain,” ranting about sneaking into the South side of Chicago and eating the souls of church-goers there. Maybe? It’s kind of hard to decipher what his actual intentions are. Still, it’s one of the most entertaining PSAs I’ve ever seen. (via Dangerous Minds)

Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the “darker half” of the year. Traditionally, Samhain is celebrated from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November, which is about halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. 

Most stories about the origin of Halloween correctly state that Halloween had its origins among the ancient Celts and is based on their “Feast of Samhain.” However, a writer in the 18th century incorrectly stated that Samhain was named after the Celtic “God of the Dead.” 

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Last night on Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce, you saw Big Freedia at her Twerk of Art exhibit at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, and now you can OWN one of the prints that was in the show from the WOW Store or a Big Freedia T-Shirt! Head to the WOW Store to see t-shirts, prints, and other WOW goodies from RuPaul’s DragCon, “The Instagram Art of Mathu Andersen“, and “Big Freedia: Twerk of Art“.

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After wearing his hair long for many years because he felt self-conscious about his big ears, British man Ted Richards underwent a six-hour operation to have his them removed. But that’s not the only reason he got them removed. “I’ve done it because I want to look like my parrots as much as possible,” he says.

From Oddity Central:

The 56-year-old retired shoe factory worker from Hartcliffe, Bristol, is passionate about extreme body art. He sports 110 tattoos, 50 piercings, a hot iron branded peace sign on his shoulder, and even has a split tongue. The tattoos on his face are like birds’ feathers, and he’s got two magnetic horn implants on his forehead. His eyeballs are tattooed too, and with the ears removed, he feels he’s getting closer and closer to resembling his parrots – Ellie, Teaka, Timneh, Jake, and Bubi.

“I think it looks really great,” he said. “I love it. It’s the best thing that has happened to me. I’m so happy, it’s unreal, I can’t stop looking in the mirror.”

“I love the fact that I’m unique and I have always wanted to be different,” Richards says. “There’s no doubt that when they made me they broke the mould. I went to the supermarket the other day and when I went in I said ‘blimey it’s so windy out there it blew my ears off’ and everybody had a chuckle.”

To keep his glasses in place, he sensibly had small metal pins added to the side of his head.

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What a brown noser! A rancher in Travis County, Texas, stumbled across a vulture with its head stuck deep inside a hog’s rectum (which is where the tenderest bits are found – I am not making this up). No, he didn’t attempt to remove it “as vultures are prone to throw up as a defense mechanism. I didn’t want regurgitated pig ass on me. But, the bird did free itself within an hour or so.”

The trending video originally appeared on YouTube in April 2014 and shows the bird struggling to free itself from the pig’s cavity. It resurfaced October 16, when Break.com posted a copy of the video on Facebook that went viral, positioning the image as a visual metaphor for the forthcoming presidential election. (via HuffPo)

Watch the bird eating ass below.

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Daniel Radcliffe did a Q&A with Playboy about his upcoming movie Victor Frankenstein (in which he plays the hunchbacked assistant Igor), and it was all very interesting blah blah blah, but the meat of the interview (so to speak) was when the conversation veered toward masturbation and appearing nude onstage at 17. Check it out below.

You spent all your teenage years making the Harry Potter movies. For most teenage boys, their lives revolve around finding a chance to masturbate. Is there time for that on a movie set?

Yeah, I was like every other teenager in that sense. My favorite line about masturbation is Louis C.K.’s, something like “I found out about it when I was 11, and I didn’t skip a day.” I think I started very early—before my teens. But not when I was on set. I wasn’t going, When is Alan Rickman going to nail this scene so I can run back to my trailer? There’s another feeling, again perfectly described by Louis C.K.: that fear just after you’ve jerked off that everyone knows what you did. It would have been embarrassing to walk back on set and look the dignitaries of British acting royalty in the eye, knowing what I’d been doing.

When you were doing Equus on Broadway, you were naked for much of the play. Did you do any fluffing?

Dude, there was no opportunity for fluffing. I was onstage for the entire show, and I ran around naked for 10 minutes in a scene that’s about sexual failure and horse blinding. But I’ve heard stories about actors putting an elastic band around their dick. If you wank and then put elastic around the base of it, it keeps the blood in there, and then you whip it off and go onstage. I would have had to do it an hour and a half in advance. I’m pretty sure I would have castrated myself. I was shit-scared and 17 when I did Equus, which is the age when you’re most self-conscious. And I was very aware that a certain percentage of that audience was coming to look at my dick every night. Looking back, that was mental. I have a lot of respect for myself for having the balls to do it, so to speak.

Read the entire interview here.

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Halloween is coming up faster than any of us expected! If you’re confused (like me) about what your gay costume could be, fear no more! Here’s a guide to some pretty awesome ideas that may be right up your alley!

These two guys show how you could be Superheroes just by wearing underwear and painting your body:

Or maybe you prefer Cyclops and just want to wear the iconic vision accessory:

Maybe you want to be a bunny rabbit by wearing some bondage gear (which, of course, you already have) and some matching big bunny ears!

It would be pretty simple to be any of these super heroes:

Spiderman is always an option, too. This one in particular is super sexy:

This guy’s simple version of Mario and Princess Peach is adorable:

It seems these two were going for some sort of ghostly zombie characters and it definitely came out pretty creepy:

You could grab a singlet and go out as a hot wrestler:

Or some claws and go as a simple yet sexy Wolverine:

This guy’s Power Ranger is a cute idea:

Hot clowns are creepy as hell:

I’m not exactly sure what to call this, but shoulder pads and jockstraps always make for a fun time!

Oh, and who doesn’t love hot cops?

You could always be a Meat Inspector:

Or maybe you want to get super creative and come up with your own amazing animal creature:

A boxer could be easy:

You might interpret Malificent for yourself:

If zombies are your thing, you could go full force like François Sagat:

Or simply get some vampire teeth and nails and call it a day:

You and your boo could be a super hot Adam and Cupid:

…or Adam and Zeus!

Let us know your Halloween ideas in the Facebook comments!

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The queen of all queens, RuPaul, has released her Christmas album, and it is AMAZING! Here’s the T: It’s full of all original songs, and features collaborations with Michelle Visage,  Todrick Hall, Markaholic, Siedah Garrett, and Big Freedia and Ellis Miah! Get your copy on iTunes!

All original songs on my new Christmas album out Friday. pic.twitter.com/IQbgcsmZ5L

— RuPaul (@RuPaul) October 21, 2015

Apparently I’m not the only one who’s super excited, as evidenced by the ever-so-talented Todrick Hall’s tweet:

So honored to be a part of this album @RuPaul: All original songs on my new Christmas album out Friday. pic.twitter.com/G5w36NElKe

— Todrick Hall (@toddyrockstar) October 21, 2015

Michelle Visage also dropped some details about her duet with Ru on Twitter:

the brand new, original Christmas song i did with @RuPaul on her new original album is called From Your Heart and it is MUY Ace of Base.

— michelle visage (@michellevisage) October 21, 2015

it comes out on friday! Gag! brand new tunes to start getting you into that festive type of mood! @RuPaul has done done it agin!

— michelle visage (@michellevisage) October 21, 2015

Mama Ru himself also posted this photo of himself with Ellis Miah and Siedah Garrett recording a track from the album!

Me, @IamEllisMiah and @SIEDAHGARRETT recording “Brand New Year” from my new Christmas album out Friday pic.twitter.com/9Ufbk8PDzm

— RuPaul (@RuPaul) October 21, 2015

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Sad news out of New York today about the passing of DJ/journalist Anita Sarko – a true original and one of shining stars of downtown club scene.

Anita first rose to prominence at the Mudd Club (an iconic ’70s/early ‘80s new wave club) and later in the VIP room of ‘80s megaclub, the Palladium, where she was always dressed to the absolute nines in elaborate ballgowns and costume jewelry. She famously co-hosted the No Entiendes cabaret at Danceteria (with her old pal Haoui Montaug)– and contributed to numerous magazines like Egg, Paper, Interview, and Playboy. 

According to Michael Musto:

Five years ago, Anita was diagnosed with both ovarian and uterine cancers, but she was operated on and not only survived, she was declared in the clear earlier this year. But she suffered some lingering pains and also complained of the results of the hormone depletion caused by her hysterectomy. More of an issue, though, was the fact that she couldn’t find creatively satisfying work and worried about her career, feeling that various projects had reached an absolute dead end for her. I helped her with her resume and job possibilities, but she found that nothing clicked, since employers were looking for recent college grads, not old-timers with history and personality. Rejection turned to despair and, though Anita was doing work and paying her bills, she feared for her future and felt discarded and unappreciated.

It’s hard to imagine a New York without Auntie Anita.

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You can already tell from our previous post on Adele’s new video, “Hello,” that we’re BIG fans of her new sound and look. After watching the flawless masterpiece on repeat all morning, we noticed something remarkably similar between her and our RDR7 girls…

Getting blown for the Gods is a full time job and Adele gives face (and impeccable hairography) while literally being blown by wind machines and fans in the woods (because, why not?!) Who else gives enough creativity, uniqueness, nerve, and talent, while being (leaf) blown for days?!

These ladies:

Be sure to pre-order her new album 25, pull out your lead blowers, and peep the video on repeat all weekend long:

This post is approved by Adele’s doppleganger Ginger Minj:

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Step aside, “King Size” Snicker bar. This eight-foot-long snake snack weighs nearly 27 pounds, packs a walloping 36,720 calories (that’s 18.36 days of an adult’s recommended daily allowance), and consists of over 12 pounds of sugar. It feeds you + 305 of your closest friends, and is available in two flavor combinations: Red Cherry & Blue Raspberry and Blue Raspberry & Green Apple. Yum! Get gummy python today for just $149.99! Available at Vat19.

Boasting incredible details including intricate eyes, extensive and blended coloring, ridged coils, and thousands of individually carved scales, the Party Python will steal the show at any party. It took months of painstaking work for the designer to hand-carve the overwhelming number of intricate details on the Party Python. It’s almost a shame to eat this thing. Almost.

Frequently Asked Questions From the Gummy Python Creators at Vat19 

Question: How long will it last?

Answer: The Party Python enjoys a year-long shelf life! Our only suggestion is to keep it out of direct sunlight and extreme heat.

Question: Is it kosher, halal, or vegetarian?

Answer: No. The gelatin is from a pork source.

Question: If I ate the entire Party Python in one sitting, will I die?

Answer: Probably. Well, actually, you probably couldn’t ingest 26-pounds of candy. If you could, your stomach would probably burst. Long before that, however, you would be vomiting like a fraternity pledge during new student week. Remember, the Party Python is designed to be shared!

Question: Don’t you think this is a bit absurd for a piece of candy?

Answer: You must be new to our website. You need to check out this, this, this, this, this, and this. Oh, and this. While we’re at it, check out this. It’s not candy, but it is absurdly large.

Question: Which is a better center piece? This or the Party Bear?

Answer: I suppose that depends on what type of party you’re having. Perhaps the Party Bear is more appropriate for formal affairs as it also doubles as a serving bowl. The Party Python performs no such double duty. It’s all about the business of being ridiculously large and extremely tasty.

Question: Does it actually taste good?

Answer: The Party Python, like all of our delicious gummy, tastes amazing. It is hand made in the USA by a small candy company that prides itself on quality. I’ve personally visited their operation and it, like the taste of their gummy, is top-notch. These confectioners really care about what they do.

Question: It’s expensive. What should I do?

Answer: Think of the Party Python like a Lamborghini. Sure, a Datsun will get you from A to B, but wouldn’t you rather show up at the party in the Lambo? Exactly.

We know you can toss out a bowl of regular sized gummies at your next party, but imagine the look on your guests’ faces when you unveil the Party Python. I mean… it’s a 26-pound piece of candy! Don’t over-think it. Just buy, buy, buy! There is zero possibility of regret when it comes to the Party Python.

In other giant food-related news: This giant green macaroon (below) was the second place prize in the recent Sumo Senshuraku tournament in Japan.The enormous dessert was prepared by acclaimed French pastry chef Pierre Hermé, and is the second time a large macaron has been awarded as a prize in the sumo tournament.

(Photo via Japan Sumo Association; via Japaaan, RocketNews24)

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If you’re in the Los Angeles area tonight, then THIS IS THE TICKET! Our good friend Carly Usdin and Cesar Hawas are producing Le Bal which will be hosted by the ONLY Candis Cayne and performances by RuPaul’s Drag Race queens Raja, Willam, Courtney Act, Delta Work, and Mariah Balenciaga! Tickets are on sale now at $20 – $40 and it will take place at The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

Le Bal will not be your typical drag show. Taking advantage of our theater’s cinematic backdrop, ​​Le Bal will recast the space with the unique opulence of the modern day drag performance, complete with international DJ Kim Anh ​​filling the air with garage and minimal wave sounds. An homage to the last 60 years of variety entertainment, Le Bal  brings the art form of drag back to the legitimate stage and seeks to introduce new audiences to counterculture entertainment. The whole production will celebrate the evolution of variety performance, from cabaret to theatre to contemporary drag.

The divas we’ve invited to the ball represent a diverse roster of top notch drag entertainers carefully curated to represent some of the best that the industry has to offer.   World-renowned showgirl and actress Candis Cayne, who performs in the show as well as serves as the evening’s host and emcee, will be joined by Raja Gemini  (winner of season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race)  Courtney Act, Willam Belli,  Mariah Balenciaga  and Delta Work.

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Drake‘s personal trainer Roxx deserves trophies upon trophies, and here’s why. He posted this photo today on Instagram to show the world Drake’s unbelievable gym progress and the fact is simple: Drake has never been so hot in his entire life as he is TODAY. IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.

I KNOW, GUYS.

He’s also responsible for this:

And this one:

AND THIS:

AND ESPECIALLY THIS:

AND:

…

AND THIS ARM:

THANK YOU, ROXX.

On second thought, you don’t look too bad AT ALL either. (OMG)

Imagine training with these two tho…

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It’s getting so spooky ‘n kooky at World of Wonder as we countdown the days to Halloween. (Eight, just in case you weren’t keeping up!) Check out some of the freaky t-shirts WOWers wore today to get into the festive spirit!

This post approved by the Head. Witch. In. Charge: Sharon Needles.

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It’s one of the biggest problems of our times: Getting a group of friends to agree on what to watch on Netflix. In this Scream parody, a killer says he will kill one friend every 15 minutes until they decide on a movie. So: Jumanji? My Best Friend’s Wedding? Expendables 3? An Anziz Ansari standup special? Yeah. Good luck with THAT. Movie night just became a death trap in “Stream.” (via Laughing Squid)

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From Dave (1993)

October 24, 1947– Kevin Kline:

“I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera… both of which I did as soon as I left Julliard & was starving.”

The van came to pick me up first & I didn’t even know that I was sharing the ride to the film set. The driver stopped in front of the hotel & in slipped a handsome man, matinée idol handsome actually, who turned to me, smiled, extended his hand, & greeted me: “Hello… my name is Kevin Kline”. My retort: “No kidding”.

Do you have any idea what it is like when you meet someone that you truly idolize? I had been crazy in love with Kevin Kline beginning in 1977 when I saw him on Broadway in the Hal Prince directed musical On The 20th Century featuring John Cullum, Madeline Kahn, & Imogene Coca.

When we worked together, Kline had just won an Academy Award for his outrageous comedic performance as Otto in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) & he had a new baby with wife Phoebe Cates. I congratulated him on both.

Kline asked me about the theatre scene in Seattle & he kept insisting that we had worked together before: “Shakespeare In The Park in 1978?” Stephen: “No, Kevin Kline… I think I would have remembered that”.

I kept up my part of the conversation. While letting him know how much I admired his work, I kept a nonchalant, yet engaged demeanor. But, my brain was racing a million miles an hour with:

“Oh my God, oh my God, It’s Kevin Kline. I am sitting right next to him. He has freckles. He has freckles on his arms. His arms are hairy. I think I love him. Kevin Kline! He is talking to me! He thinks he knows me. Can I sneak a peek at his crotch? Will he notice? No, don’t do it! Oh…you did it, you looked at his basket! I’d like to give him an Oscar, right now.”

I finally let him have it & out I gushed about how much I admired his work, that he was a favorite actor, & how thrilled I was to work with him. I let him know that I held him in the very highest regard as an artist. Kline replied:

“I am never completely satisfied with what I’ve done as an actor. I tend to look at it all too critically. I’m trying to get better about that. I’ve got that Jewish guilt & the Irish shame & it’s a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.”

Kline was so much fun to work with. Our director, Lawrence Kasdan, didn’t know we had traveled to the set together & he introduced us all over again. We reenacted the ride to the set.

Kline had an almost Robin Williams-like manic energy on the set, joking, playing the piano & singing between takes. In contrast, his co-star Tracey Ullman, whom I worship, was shy & she stayed in character when the cameras were not rolling. But, as soon as the director said “cut”, Kline was back to his antics.

At the end of the day, he touched my shoulder, looked me right in the eye, & stated: “That was fun; we need to do it again sometime”. I smiled back & deadpanned (he had thought my deadpan was funny during the shoot): “Yes indeed, Mr. Kline, let’s do it every day. Please?”  Still, my brain was going:

 “Oh my God, oh my God, it’s Kevin Kline! & he is looking at me… It’s Kevin Kline! He is so handsome! He is actually talking to me, Stephen!”

I beamed, but tried to act like it was no big deal:

 “Oh my God, I just filmed a scene with Kevin Kline. He is like the best American Actor, he is our Laurence Olivier & I am acting with him! I think he likes me. He keeps smiling & at me. I think I am in love with him!”.

Did I mention that I really love Kline? My favorite of his film roles include musicals, dramas & comedies: The Pirates of Penzance (1983), Sophie’s Choice (1982), The Big Chill (1983), Silverado (1984), A Fish Called Wanda, Soapdish (1991), Grand Canyon (1991), The Ice Storm (1997), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), & As You Like It (2006), last year’s My Old Lady with Dame Maggie Smith, & reluctantly In & Out (1997). For me, In & Out is not really a very good film, but I watch it every time I come across it while channel hopping. With all of its lapses in logic, the film still makes me feel all gooey. I love watching Kline play gay.

Worth revisiting in these interesting times is Kline’s 2 roles in the White House comedy Dave (1993) with Sigourney Weaver as a First Lady & his spot-on fast, drunk, womanizing Douglas Fairbanks opposite Robert Downey Jr.’s Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin (1992).

In 1970, Kline was in the first class of the newly formed Drama Division at the Juilliard School in NYC. In 1972, he joined fellow Juilliard grad, Patti LuPone as members of The City Center Acting Company (now The Acting Company), formed & directed by John Houseman. Kline & LuPone worked together for 4 years performing with the company in NYC & touring the country by bus.

The 2 acting greats had a passionate & volatile affair that lasted on & off for a decade. In her terrific memoir, imaginatively titled Patti LuPone: A Memoir (2010), she writes honestly, & with humor, about a certain LuPone/Kline/Peter Weller Love Triangle. Kline was apperantly LuPone’s “first great love”. In 1977, LuPone began a romance with a pre-Robocop (1987) Peter Weller when they worked together in David Mamet’s The Woods, a drama about an intense relationship. At the closing night party, LuPone writes:

“In a drunken stupor, I declared my love for Peter to Peter with Kevin standing right next to me.” We were able to patch things up until he slept with a chorus girl in Boston while he was doing On The Twentieth Century.”

Kline can currently be seen on the screen in Ricki & The Flash, directed by Jonathan Demme with a screenplay by Diablo Cody. The comedy stars a singing, guitar slinging Meryl Streep, Kline’s costar in Sophie’s Choice & A Prairie Home Companion.

Up next for Kline in spring 2017, Beauty & The Beast, a live action version of the Disney animated musical. It is directed by openly gay Bill Condon & features a first-class cast: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Emma Thompson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Josh Gad, Audra McDonald, & Stanley Tucci. In this version he plays Belle’s father & not Gaston or The Beast, but at least he will be doing some singing.

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After publicly coming out to the world, 2014 Olympic slopestyle silver medalist Gus Kenworthy is now explaining why he waited. He told the Chicago Tribune about his difficult decision to stay in the closet while competing in Russia. When Kenworthy would let his mind wander into how his perfect Olympics might play out, he imagined a fantasy scene. He’d land his best tricks on his final run, win a medal and then jump into the stands to kiss his bf.

“The idea of kissing my boyfriend at the bottom of my run would’ve been, in addition to me coming out, a silent (screw) you to the anti-gay legislature in place in Russia. That would’ve been an amazing way to come out.”

Because he wasn’t ready, the journey to Sochi was far less perfect.

“I felt like I was already being so courageous with my body and my actions and the things I was doing in order to try to win and be the best. Then, I was being such a coward in this other way, where I wouldn’t let anyone know. So they were battling each other. I’m excited where those two things can go hand in hand.”

Winning athletes always go on their post-Olympic interview tours and Gus faced all sorts of personal questions. He was asked about his celebrity crush and he lied. Miley Cyrus. But the truth was, at the time he was nothing more than a casual fan of hers. (They are now friends.)

If you remember, he was the “Dog Guy” who saved a bunch of dogs that were abandoned in Russia? Well, he couldn’t tell the real story there either but the person who did most of the hard work with the dogs was his boyfriend at the time. He stayed behind in Russia for more than a month to get them back to the States.

“He got zero credit and I was getting asked about it on every show and in every interview.”

Gus said he likes the idea of coming out while he’s at the top of his game, while people in his sport — especially kids — are paying attention. Tiger Shaw, the CEO of U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association says.

“We admire Gus for having the strength to tell the world who he is as a person, and paving the way for others to do the same.”

So, how will a gay skier be received among his fellow daredevils?

“I don’t know what the future has in store, but I’m kind of looking forward to it.”

(Photos, Instagram; via Chicago Tribune)

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Victoria Price

In her book, Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography, Victoria Price explored the many faces of her famous Dad who died in 1993. His career on both stage and screen lasted some 60 years and he remains THE preeminent horror icon of our time. (Of course, that chilling voice at the end of Michael Jackson‘s Thriller is Price.)

In an exclusive interview with Boom Magazine Victoria shed some light on the speculation.

“Everybody asks me was your dad bisexual, was he bisexual. And it was Roddy McDowall who said to me, you know, we didn’t have any idea what bisexuality meant in that sense, and if we didn’t know, then how can we know the answer to that question.”

The out designer, art consultant, author, and public speaker has been wrestling for decades with just how much of her father’s private life is public domain, as recounted in this 2012 blog post:

“I was standing at the bar in West Hollywood’s club of the moment one night in the spring of 1989, talking with a group of hip Hollywood women I hardly knew, when a blond woman with a wry expression came over to me and said,

‘You’re Vincent Price’s daughter. Your father’s gay, isn’t he?’

I don’t remember my mumbled reply– except that, sadly, it wasn’t very witty – ‘I don’t know’ or ‘He was married three times.’ But I do remember that I was shocked. Not because it was the first time someone had suggested that he might be gay or at the very least bisexual, but because, until that moment, I hadn’t really understood the degree to which my 78-year-old father’s sexuality, whatever it might be, had become public property to be discussed, analyzed, bandied about, as one might share a recipe or chat about the weather. I found it a discomforting revelation.”

Victoria is well aware of our fixation with celebrity and the news-driven, “prying eyes” culture that we now live but she also aware that as a member of the LGBT community that there’s a yearning for history and heroes and a connection to the past…

“To me, it’s interesting, because as I’ve learned more about my dad’s sexuality, and more than I knew then about different things, I’ve had the choice of what to reveal and what not to reveal. Since I didn’t hear it from his mouth, I think that everything I hear comes with a measure of hearsay, right?

But I would like to say something here because I might as well. I am as close to certain as I can be that my dad had physically intimate relationships with men. I know for 100 percent fact that my dad was completely loving and supportive of LGBT people.

Now, we lived across the street from Rock Hudson and we had a lot of gay friends growing up. I mean, ‘Uncle Rupert and Uncle Frank’ came to every dinner party and it was very clear that they were together. And while the word [gay] was never mentioned, it was very much the norm.

I remember at nine-years-old going to drop something off at Rock Hudson’s house – of course, I was super excited because I was a huge Rock Hudson fan. So this absolutely beautiful man came to the door and in my nine-year-old mind, I thought, oh, that’s – I don’t know if I had a word for it – but that’s his ‘Uncle Frank or Uncle Rupert’, right?”

In 1977 Price played the openly gay Oscar Wilde to great acclaim and rebuffed the anti-gay Anita Bryant efforts of the day in television interviews saying Wilde had already written a play about Ms. Bryant: A Woman of No Importance. (Good one, Vinnie!) He was an early advocate who joined PFLAG as an honorary board member and was one of the first celebrities to do public service announcements quelling public fears of AIDS.

“He married a bisexual woman [British actress Coral Browne] and everybody assumed their marriage was a fraud. It wasn’t a fraud. It was a totally sexual relationship but they were two people with very open minded approaches as to what life should look like. And that to me – people who lived this truth in all aspects of their lives – they should be heroes to every community.

The interesting thing for me is that when I came out to him and he said to me, ‘you know, I know just how you feel because I have had these deep, loving relationships with men in my life and all my wives were jealous.'”

In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then. Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”

Great of her to talk so openly about her father. I would imagine an unenlightened straight person would think such talk would “tarnish” their parent’s image, implying some sort of shame. There is no shame. The only shame is that Vincent Price didn’t live in a world where he was able to truly be himself, but he raised a daughter who can.

(via Boom LGBT)

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On this #AfterShow, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 7 fan fav Trixie Mattel sits down with Edward Hansen to break down what happened on Wednesday’s episode 3 of the fantastic American Horror Story Hotel!

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Jeffery Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman

Varla Jean Merman has been keeping a BIG secret. The drag icon is actually a very sexy Daddy. He turns out to be one super-hot man underneath all the pearls, pancake, and chiffon. Legendary for riotous one-person shows like Varla Jean Merman Loves A Foreign Tongue, I’m Not Paying For This! and Holiday Ham!, the actor, writer, and performer goes by the name Jeffrey Roberson when he’s not in high drag. As you may know, Varla’s Hollywood royalty. Her (fictitious) pedigree boasts that Ernest Borgnine is her father and Ethel Merman is her mother! And yes, when the lights come up, and the wig gets put on its stand, Jeffery look like THIS. Is your basement flooded yet…?

(via Queerty)

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Caitlyn Jenner, the 65-year-old Olympian-turned-LGBT activist, will return to the small screen in a second season of I Am Cait. Jenner said in a statement.

“I’m looking forward to continuing the conversation.”

Jeff Olde, EVP of Programming and Development at E! said

“Caitlyn’s story has ignited a global conversation on the transgender community on a scale that has never been seen before. We are honored Caitlyn has chosen to continue to share her ongoing story with our viewers around the world.”

In the first season, Cait befriended a powerful group of trans women who helped open Cait’s eyes to the struggles and hardships they face all around the world and the second season will focus more on transgender acceptance.

And Glamour Magazine will crown Caitlyn among their Women of the Year for 2015. They haven’t made the official announcement with regard to its December cover story but Jenner, of course, deserves the title as she started an important conversation. She has shown extreme bravery in going forward on her new journey as a woman but of course, the internet exploded at the thought. If you read these awful comments you’ll see that many people still don’t accept transgendered women as women, and it seems no amount of ernest effort on the part of Caitlyn will cure these anti-trans sentiments and general assholism on Twitter. That’s on these jerks.

(via E!)

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