Happy Saturday everyone! So sorry for the lack of posts this week. I arrived in Provincetown early Monday and hit the ground running catching up with friends, seeing some shows and going to the daily Tea Dance at Boatslip. I leave Monday morning but should resume posting regularly soon! For now, let me share that I ran into John Barrowman of Torchwood, Dr. Who, and Arrow fame (not to mention Broadway and West End star) while paying a visit to Joe’s Coffee on Commercial Street. He’s as handsome, dazzling and charismatic as ever. Spotted him in the audience last night at Darrin Criss’s sensation show at Provincetown Town Hall. More on that later!
Rosie O’Donnell talks about getting welcomed in Ireland after moving there before Trump’s inauguration, what led her to write her one-woman show Common Knowledge and how she got a bigger part in A League of Their Own.
Rolling Stone writer Barry Walters, author of the music history “Mighty Real,” says the latest ballad by British singer Sam Smith is a step forward from LGBTQ love songs being marginalized.
Go behind the scenes of ‘Heartstopper Forever’ for an exclusive look at the making of the highly anticipated film. Watch as Kit Connor and Joe Locke reflect on returning to their beloved characters and offer an intimate look at the collaboration, creativity and craftsmanship behind the camera.
Adam Lambert sits down with Associated Press entertainment journalist Liam McEwan to discuss his sixth studio album, ‘ADAM,’ marking his first release as an independent artist on his own label. Lambert opens up about taking full creative control, self-funding the project after years of touring with Queen, and why betting on himself has made this album his most personal yet. He also reflects on his impact on LGBTQ+ representation in pop music and why he believes attitudes toward queer artists have changed dramatically over the past 17 years.
On a recent Morning People Interview, actor Lukas Gage sat down with Pat Kiernan to discuss working with a dream coach, why he’ll accept smaller Hollywood roles over larger parts, and how to live in New York City on an indie film stipend.
Congratulations to Mike Manning who earlier today was Emmy nominated for outstanding ing performance in a Daytime Drama. He portrays investigative reporter Bradley “Smitty” Smith on CBS’s Beyond the Gates. Smitty is married to Congressman Martin Richardson and they are the parents of teenagers Tyrell and Samantha.
Mike’s competition for the Emmy is: Sean Dominic as Nate Hastings The Young and the Restless; Timon Kyle Durrett as Bill Hamilton Beyond the Gates; Michael Graziadei as Daniel Romalotti The Young and the Restless; Roger Howarth as Matt Clark The Young and the Restless; and Lawrence Saint-Victor as Carter Walton The Bold and the Beautiful.
If Mike’s name is called as winner, it will not be his first Emmy. He won for Outstanding ing Actor in a Daytime Fiction Program for The Bay in 2021 and a year earlier, won as one of the producers of The Bay when it took the Emmy for Outstanding Digital Drama series.
Mike initially gained fame as a cast member on the MTV series The Real World: DC in 2009 and has gone on to accomplish so much more. He was an executive producer of the documentary Kidnapped for Christ which details the experiences of several teenagers who were removed from their homes and sent to a behavior modification and ex-gay School in Dominican Republic. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2014.
Mike was a cast member on the drama series Youthful Daze, recurred on the NBC series This is Us, the daytime drama Days of Our Lives, and starred in the TV movie Cloud 9, among many other screen credits.
Adam Lambert shares how his move from Los Angeles to New York City inspired his new self-titled album “ADAM,” and opens up about how the project showcases what he’s learned so far in his career. Adam also explains why he’s feeling JOMO (the joy of missing out), and shares how Elvis changed his life growing up.
Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal’s 97-Minute Action Thriller In The Grey Directed by Guy Ritchie Is Quietly Crushing the Competition on Streaming Collider
Patti LuPone performs for the Atlantis cruise barred by Turkey and Egypt: “A ship—a magnificent ship—full of gay men. And me,” Gay Cities
Hunter Doohan says he ‘can’t picture’ hiding his sexuality in Hollywood Attitude
‘CATS: The Jellicle Ball’ to End Broadway Run in August After Making History with Acclaimed Production Just Jared
Olivia Wilde’s group sex comedy The Invite is easily the summer’s best film Out.com
Lesbians and tennis icons (Martina, Billie Jean) took over Wimbledon’s Royal Box for the women’s final Outsports
Wishing a happy 58th birthday to the talented and dreamy actor Robert Gant who has been working consistently on television for more than 30 years.
The first photo is from when I ran into Robert (who was with his fellow Queer As Folk alum Peter Paige) a few months ago at Pasadena Playhouse.
Besides his run as Professor Ben Bruckner in 55 episodes of Showtime’s Queer As Folk, Robert was also one of the cast of the British comedy series Personal Affairs and has had recurring roles on such TV shows as Popular, Caroline in the City, The Young and the Restless, Good Trouble, Supergirl and 13 Reasons Why.
In all, he has guest-starred in more than 50 different series including Friends, Ellen, NCIS, virtually all of the CSI shows and on and on. The fact that he’s based in Los Angeles must be why he’s not credited as guesting on any of the NYC-based Law & Order shows!
Two of my favorite Robert Gant performances – aside from Queer As Folk and the Friends episode as Phoebe’s hot boyfriend – are the 2007 film Save Me (he also produced) with Chad Allen and Judith Light and when he starred as a gay spy in the 2008 action-thriller Kiss Me Deadly opposite Shannon Doherty.
More recently, Robert spent more than two months last fall as one of the stars of The Inheritance in Washington D.C. It is two plays, six acts, and a combined seven hour length. It ran for 60 performances over ten weeks. He portrayed the deeply complicated Henry Wilcox and described being part of the production as a “life-changing experience.”
“Because we were the first all queer cast (plus dear Nancy Robinette!) of this show, there was something that happened in our initial read, table work, and discussion about the importance of these plays,” he wrote on Instagram after the show’s run. “It’s as if a pact was made between us to give our whole selves to this undertaking at a depth that’s not easy to explain.”
Robert earned a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding ing Performer.
BONUS VIDEO: Scene with Pheobe (Lisa Kudrow) on Friends:
Before Adam Lambert became a global superstar, Grammy-nominated artist, and one of the most electrifying voices in music, he was a 13-year-old theater kid from conservative North County San Diego, struggling to fit in at middle school and trying on his mother’s makeup after class.
Then Lynn Broyles, a voice teacher with fierce energy and impeccable taste, saw something in him that no one else had: a kid who needed a safe space to just be himself.
In this deeply personal and unguarded conversation, Lambert sits down with David Begnaud to share the story of the woman who believed in him when he was just beginning to understand who he was. He opens up about meeting Lynn at 13, a voice teacher who introduced him to Sondheim, cabaret, and the gay cultural lexicon without ever calling it what it was.
He also talks about growing up with parents who let him wear their makeup and high heels as a toddler, spending Saturdays in a theater company that taught him discipline and teamwork, and the moment he auditioned for American Idol by quitting his job in Wicked with no guarantees.
Adam opens up about fronting Queen for 10 years, performing for millions at Rock in Rio and on the steps of Buckingham Palace, and why being around Brian May and Roger Taylor taught him the gravity of iconic music through osmosis.
He reflects on moving to New York, doing six months on Broadway as the Emcee in Cabaret, and bringing Lynn to see the show as a full circle moment. He shares why he’s finally ready to stop people pleasing, why his new self-titled album Adam feels like a return to where he started, and why after 17 years in the industry, he’s done being polite about what he wants.
Colton Haynes, the beautiful actor who was a regular on the hit shows Teen Wolf and Arrow, turns 38 today.
I hope he is having a happy birthday!
The first time I ever saw him was, I believe, at a BAFTA TV event in 2010 and he was doing a press line with some of his castmates from the short-lived ABC series The Gates. He seemed kind of shy and not wanting to draw attention to himself. I was aware that he had appeared in a gay youth magazine called XY when he was younger and people seemed determined to out him or have him confirm his sexuality. So ghastly. I felt for him that day and wanted to say, ‘It’s okay. It doesn’t matter.”
But of course it mattered for a young man still trying to achieve success as an actor.
It was in May 2016 in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Colton came out publicly as a gay man. He shared that he had concealed his sexuality on the advice of entertainment industry insiders who said that being open about it would hinder his career.
He has suffered from anxiety all of his life and the public speculation caused hm to seek professional treatment.
Colton landed a role in Teen Wolf in 2011 and his celebrity grew then was cast in Arrow two years later.
But he had family troubles detailed in his deeply moving memoir Miss Memory Lane and has been sober since 2019 after completing a treatment program.
In recent years, Colton has had roles in the films Triumph, Swindler Seduction, Love …Reconsidered, and Teen Wolf: The Movie.
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