Allan Brocka put up some great pics from the GLAAD Awards, including when we were tooling around WeHo in our town car with him:
Above: This picture is very useful for comparing head sizes between Calpernia and me.
Above: The ever-charming Mr. Brocka.
I have some pics of him at an event last year I need to dig up!
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There are a slew of good blog posts about the GLAAD Media Awards, so I’ll let you find more if you are interested. Here are two of my faves. I was delighted to see Greg Hernandez, whom I’d met just a week earlier when Kenneth from Kenneth in the 212 was in town. Greg has a couple of entries about the awards (I can’t get the permalinks to work):
• http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/
And the inimitable JD DiSalvatore was on hand as well and has plenty of dish as usual:
• The Glaad Media Awards Salutes the Gayest Films and Television
Above: JD DiSalvatore, Nicol Paone (The Big Gay Sketch Show) and yours truly without glasses on (hence the terrible redeye)
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Further evidence that I am easily entertained… someone put this in my MySpace comments.
I especially like it because it gives me a sense of what I would look like if my head were the same proportion to my body as Calpernia’s.
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Above: Calpernia and I whore ourselves out and sign a giant Absolut bottle they were auctioning off.
Calpernia and I were at the GLAAD Media Awards Saturday as guests of Logo. Got to see lots of folks doing great work in LGBT media, and plenty of trans folk there, too: Eden Lane and her charming husband, Donna Rose, Ashley Love, Foxxjazell, Candis Cayne, and several folks I’d never met before. As we were walking in, we were in line in front of three lovely women who had traveled to the event. I had a chance to speak with Garry Marshall, who is one of the most consistently funny people EVAR. I said hi to Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry and a whole slew of other people involved in work I love.
The highlight for me though was going over to the Comedy Central table and talking with a few of the writers on The Sarah Silverman Program. I even got to meet Eric, who played Gerome in 2 Girls 1 Cup: The Show. I got over there too late to say hi to Steve Agee, who has been cracking me up since the early days of Channel 101 (Yacht Rock, Kicked in the Nuts). His summary of the evening includes this hilariously captioned photo of the cocktail party:
Afterwards, we made the driver take us to West Hollywood, where we were mobbed by drunk gays and lesbians. I’m sure some unflattering photos will appear in short order on blogs and what-not. Quite an evening.
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I’m scheduled to attend the premiere of The Sensei on May 4 at 4pm at the Directors Guild of America.
Set in the 1980’s it’s about a female martial artist who comes out of retirement to teach a gay teen how to defend himself from small-town bullies. In the process she becomes a target as well.
http://www.thesenseimovie.com/
Tickets:
Tonight I went to the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles to see the premiere of a friend’s film (which kicked bootay). It’s called Sari (W)rap (see trailer) and premiered Thursday as part of the narrative shorts program. The program plays again on Saturday 26 April at 2pm at the Arclight. Several standouts for me in the program included Love Story (beautifully shot), Midnight Lost and Found (clean storytelling), and Rewind (one of the best shorts I have seen this year).
The festival continues through the 27th.
http://www.indianfilmfestival.org/
It’s at the Arclight Hollywood, which is one of the best film venues in North America (not just the Cinerama Dome in the background below, but the whole theater).
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Speaking of the GLAAD Media Awards, President Neil Giuliano has a nice piece in Variety today outlining achievement in the last year, giving a shout-out to Transamerican Love Story. Excerpt of “From Oprah to the Oscars”:
Transgender firsts: Last year, primetime series “Ugly Betty” and “Dirty Sexy Money” plus daytime drama “All My Children” introduced transgender characters. Logo’s new dating show “Transamerican Love Story” just concluded its premiere season.
With luck, TLS will be up for a GLAAD nom next year.
David Mermelstein has another Variety piece on LGBT media issues in advance of the media awards. Excerpt of “2007 shows steady progress for gay cause”:
If there was big news in TV this past year, it was that GLAAD had finally relented and embraced the work of gay nets like Here and Logo, which the org had previously resisted honoring, arguing that fare from mainstream sources could better use the encouragement.
I certainly agree with this! Onward and upward, I say!
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I’ll be at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday as a guest of Logo. Transamerican Love Story did not air in time to be considered for this year’s awards, so we’ll see what happens next year.
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If you plan to go, be sure to come up and say hi! For those who can’t attend, the show will air on Bravo later this year.
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Transamerican Love Story has borne a lot of fruit for me in terms of meeting lovely and interesting people. Back when it was first announced, I sent a note to Kenneth over at Kenneth in the 212 after he blogged about it. I ended up checking his blog regularly, which has a piquant mix of sass and erudition. Last week he was in town with his honey Michael, so I stopped by The Abbey to meet him in person. Since I can’t walk into The Abbey and do a lap without seeing about 50 people I know, especially on a Sunday, it took me a while to find them. He was as charming in person as I’d hoped, and it was an added treat to meet Michael. I got to meet an LA-based blogger named Greg and ran into my old pal Micah McCain to boot. I even posed for a couple of piccies.
• Hollywood and Pine (kenneth in the 212)
Then I zipped over to the Viva Hollywood premiere party at El Cid, thrown by our World of Wonder pals. I love to watch Spanish-language television like Sabado Gigante, A la Cama con Porcel, Xuxa, and Walter Mercado. It’s just a lot of fun to watch, even though my Spanish is terrible. If you haven’t seen it, Viva Hollywood is an elimination show where contestants compete for a spot on a telenovela. That means lots of hotties and lots of scene-chewing and backstage drama. My kind of trash television!
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Transamerican Love Story has borne a lot of fruit for me in terms of meeting lovely and interesting people. Back when it was first announced, I sent a note to Kenneth over at Kenneth in the 212 after he blogged about it. I ended up checking his blog regularly, which has a piquant mix of sass and erudition. Last week he was in town with his honey Michael, so I stopped by The Abbey to meet him in person. Since I can’t walk into The Abbey and do a lap without seeing about 50 people I know, especially on a Sunday, it took me a while to find them. He was as charming in person as I’d hoped, and it was an added treat to meet Michael. I got to meet an LA-based blogger named Greg and ran into my old pal Micah McCain to boot. I even posed for a couple of piccies.
• Hollywood and Pine (kenneth in the 212)
Then I zipped over to the Viva Hollywood premiere party at El Cid, thrown by our World of Wonder pals. I love to watch Spanish-language television like Sabado Gigante, A la Cama con Porcel, Xuxa, and Walter Mercado. It’s just a lot of fun to watch, even though my Spanish is terrible. If you haven’t seen it, Viva Hollywood is an elimination show where contestants compete for a spot on a telenovela. That means lots of hotties and lots of scene-chewing and backstage drama. My kind of trash television!
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