humorless queens alert

Piss off an activist — go see “Bruno”

After an exhaustive and controversial production proccess, Sacha Baron Cohen and UNIVERSAL are finally set to unleash BRUNO onto the multiplex — and gay groups are reacting with “deeply mixed” emotions!

“Some people in our community may like this movie, but many are not going to be OK with it,” Rashad Robinson, senior director for the GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINST DEFAMATION, tells the NEW YORK TIMES in a planned Sunday expose.

“Sacha Baron Cohen’s well-meaning attempt at satire is problematic in many places and outright offensive in others.”

Brad Luna, a spokesman for HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, warns the movie should come with disclaimer:

“We strongly feel that Sacha Baron Cohen and UNIVERSAL PICTURES have a responsibility to remind the viewing public right there in the theater that this is intended to expose homophobia.”

So this is what the Human Rights Campaign does with its time.

Boycott the HRC!

pathetic and proud

“Newsweek? Not in this house.” – Hank Hill

My seemingly well-adjusted posse, myself included, morphed into archetypal Adam Lambert fangirls. We became Glamberts, besotted with the leather and rhinestones, the perfectly smudgy guyliner, the emo coal-colored coif and, oh, yeah, the preternatural vocal range. When we got together, we no longer talked about good books, North Korea or the recession. We talked about all things Lambert. We became the thing that we normally despise: a cougar court that fell into a gentle loin lust with a man young enough to be our son. And a gay one, to boot.

But not to worry, cougars. Your adolescent cravings are excused by science.

The good news is that people who know about these things think that our little Lambert love-fest is downright mentally healthy. “I think more women would be happier if they channeled their inner 14-year-old girls once in a while,” says sex therapist Laura Berman, director of the Berman Center in Chicago. She’s always been fascinated with the Clay Aiken phenomenon, that of girls going crazy for a seemingly sweet, innocent-looking boy-man (Aiken is now, like Lambert, out and proud).

While Aiken may be the ultimate “safe zone,” Lambert, she believes, somehow managed to be “hardcore, crazy, humble, adorable, charismatic, sweet and mind-blowingly talented,” all in one package. “He’s a study in contrasts, and the gay thing doesn’t matter,” she says. “Anyone who can get women to talk, giggle and get their mojo back is fine by me. Enjoy the ride.”

Now that’s just sad.

where hummers go to die

I’m on assignment in Destin, aka Alpharetta South, listening to the waves crash while relaxing on a king size. Maybe I’ll be up by noon.