If you're visiting New York City or Beverly Hills before Pride, you may want to view the Museum of Television and Radio's ode to gay TV, reports NewsDay. The museum will show a 13-week series of programs on what they call the history of gay TV. Weekly programs date back to the 1960s, starting with a program called Espionage, in which a spy is threatened with outing. Programming continues through time to include programs like Seinfeld, Ellen, and Will & Grace.
For those Queer As Folk fans in the house, the sexy no holds-barred Showtime program will come back this month for a fourth season with less promiscuity and more maturity, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. The co-executive producer told the Inquirer that the program was always about boys becoming men and now it's time for the men to think about monogamy and business. Brian (played by Gale Harold) is starting his own business and one 'major' character will die this season in a 'profound death.'
Nearly two years after the incident, Natalie Young, now 15, won a settlement with the city of New York because she was removed from class for wearing a t-shirt that read 'Barbie is a Lesbian.' Young, who says she's a lesbian, was suspended for a day and threatened with further action if she wore the shirt again. Through last week's settlement, she will receive $30,000. The city now has a policy allowing students to wear political attire as long as it's not libelous, obscene or causes disorder.
Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette and David Duchovny star in Connie and Carla as two struggling Chicago dinner theater performers who witness a mafia hit. They assume new identities and find their middling talent at song and dance perfectly suited to new careers—as drag queens.