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Issue 683 Feb 15-22 | 2012

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David | Atlanta Issue 683 | Feb 15–22, 2012

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Contents 8

WTF!?!?!

Scene@ Blakes

Men Seeking Men

WTF!?!?! Tidbits

The Queen of Pop

Listen Up

Top 10 Tracks | Protect Your Monster

Brent Star

Scene@ Friends’ Chili Cookoff

La Nota Rosa

BarTab Map

Deep Inside Hollywood

Creep of the Week

Botox: The Wonder Drug

A Couple of Gays | Bitter Girl

Scene@ David Magazine’s Best of Atlanta

BarTab Calendar

Scene@ Power of Infinity @ Jungle

Classifieds

Adult Classifieds

Fairyscopes

Bitch Session

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WTF!?!?

The Case of the Missing Penis

by Lucas Witherspoon hy exactly is the male penis still considered to be so taboo?

As I was watching the Super Bowl this year, I was reminded of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s 2004 performance that cemented the term “wardrobe malfunction” in pop culture history. Janet’s half-exposed boob caused a lot of controversy and resulted in FCC fines, but what if it had been Justin Timberlake that had exposed his wang? The fines would have been astronomical and he likely would have run the risk of being labeled a sex offender, given the amount of children that were watching. This is by no means my espousal of whipping your dick out in front of children. My point, though, is that we still live in a very misogynistic society. While you’re bound to find plenty of tits in a frat-humored mainstream film, you’ll rarely find a cock shot that isn’t being used as a source of comedy (and, yes, some actors’ dicks are pretty laughable, but that’s beside the point). I have to hand it to Richard Gere, who was one of the first prevalent actors to go full-frontal in a mainstream film (American Gigolo). While his decision was noble, it’s done little to convince other A-list actors to do the same. Perhaps

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they prefer to keep their penis size a secret to add to their mystique, or maybe they’re just insecure with their genitalia. Either way, it’s a highly unfair double standard. A woman who has posed in Playboy and a man who has posed in Playgirl are vastly different. The woman who did the Playboy spread is seen as somewhat respectable for a nude model, while the guy in Playgirl is seen as kind of a joke, because Playgirl is considered cheesy, even though the same company publishes both, and both are tasteful publications (not to mention Playgirl was actually founded in response to the 70s feminist movement, but has garnered far less respect). For an organ that plays such a significant role in life for both heterosexuals and homosexuals, there seems to be a general awkwardness concerning the penis.

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Men Seeking Men

What A Drag by Tristan Timothy

o recently I’ve discovered RuPaul’s Drag Race. I know, I know, I’m like years late! I had seen it a couple times before but the new season has really drawn me in, which lead me to obsessively watch every other season online. Drag queens now show up in every one of my dreams (and sometimes nightmares, Sharon Needles! I DIE!) It’s even got me thinking…could I pull off a drag look? Ok, the answer to that question is no. I’m too much of a boy (at this point a man really…ugh age!) I’m not saying all drag queens are girly lady boys, but I just have too much leg and chest hair to pull it off. My drag name would be Halle Hairy. The more queens I meet personally I am always surprised when they dispel stereotypes that I had heard. Like I was so surprised to find out that most drag queens (that I’ve met anyways) happen to favor the top bunk, so to speak. The one time I had sexual relations with a drag queen I ran into this issue. (I say issue because it turned into one of those wrestling for top situations.) I met him as a boy months before I ever found out he did drag. We hit it off and chatted and danced the night away and kept in touch but never had more contact than that one night. He was a pretty boy but the fact that he was a drag queen never came up. I guess the fact that he was hanging out in a group of drag queens should have tipped me off but I was fresh from the West Coast and naive to the ways of the Southern gay world. Fast-forward a couple months to a quiet night at Jungle. There weren’t many people in the club and I ended up hanging out with

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Gay Dating in the City a group of queens. We danced and drank and sashayed around the club but it wasn’t until the end of the night that my new friend revealed that we actually knew each other. I had literally spent all night with this guy in his drag form and had no idea it was the same boy from months before. We decided to make our own after party and after he untucked we went for a late night stroll around the streets of Atlanta. Needless to say my preconception of drag queens being bottoms was proved wrong and our hook up didn’t go very far. (It also started pouring rain and we took shelter in a small concrete structure in an abandoned lot, so that part of it was fun.) The moral of the story is…Drag queens pack more than one surprise; don’t judge a book by its Cover girl.

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WTF!?!? Tidbits

Prior to the Super Bowl, Gisele Bündchen reportedly sent out an email

to friends and family asking them to prey for a victory for her husband, Tom Brady. Spoiler alert: it didn’t work.

When Blue Ivy Carter rolls out of her $47,000 Fantasy Posh Tots Coach Carriage Crib in her 2,200 square foot Tribeca nursery and wants to take a seat in her $15,000 Swarovski-studded high chair (so ghetto fabulous) or ride on her $600,000 handmade gold rocking horse, she now has a team of SIX nannies to assist her. Watch out Suri Cruise, there’s a new bitch on the block. In an interview with Metro, Karl Lagerfeld gave his take on Adele: “She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.” He is truly the king of backhanded compliments.

Madonna is once again taking aim at Gaga. When asked by The Advocate what she thinks of Gaga’s connection to her gay fans, Madonna responded, “It seems natural, and I can see why she has a young gay following. I can see that they connect to her kind of not fitting into the conventional norm. I mean, she’s not Britney Spears. She’s not built like a brick shithouse.“ Not exactly sure what being built like a brick shithouse looks like, but it’s got to be better than being built like Gollum. A former Sean Cody porn star, Jason Andrews (“Addison”), was

convicted of first-degree murder in Florida. At least he can continue his gay-for-pay career in prison… sans the “for pay” part… unless you count cigarettes and ramen noodles as currency.

Courtney Love claims that smoking crack made her better at

math, telling The Fix, “When I was on crack I could do math really, really well. I became a fucking whiz at calculus.” Isn’t this the woman who claimed that millions of dollars had been stolen from her husband’s estate? Apparently it didn’t make her that great at math if she couldn’t check the books to see that she was being robbed of millions—not $10 here or $20 there, MILLIONS of dollars. by Lucas Witherspoon

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The Queen of Pop Gay icon relates herself to ‘strong women’ in new film, talks being an outsider and the latest era of her career

by Chris Azzopardi

ith all of Madonna’s metamorphoses throughout her balls-out career, slipping in and out of cultural zeitgeists (and accents), the queen chameleon is still the master of reinvention. Just don’t tell her that. “Please don’t throw those tired, old clichés at me,” Madonna playfully insists, nodding her head at me in half-kidding agitation. (Hey, at least it wasn’t hydrangeas.) Her annoyance is marked with cheekiness – and a smile – that only the First Lady of Pop can pull off, and has for three decades. This is a new chapter in the indelible diva’s run, as she drops her hyped 12th album, MDNA, in March via a three-disc deal with Interscope; plans to launch an extensive world tour; does, perhaps, the gayest Super Bowl halftime ever; and releases her feature-length directorial debut W.E., a pet project that recently won her a Golden Globe for Best Original Song. And she – sexpot, spiritualist, Material Girl – really only has one word to define herself at the moment: “Busy.” Always unpredictable, she’s not interested in breaking down the details of what’s to come. All she cares to talk about is the film, a semi-biopic on Wallis Simpson (played by Andrea Riseborough) and King Edward VIII dovetailed with a modern-day love story centered on fictionalized damsel-in-distress

Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish). Seated with Madonna at a Waldorf-Astoria suite in New York City on a December afternoon, one writer tells her he has a question to kick off the interview. “I’m sure you do,” she quips all-knowingly, as if to acknowledge the fact that she’s aware how much gay men go gaga over her. This is, after all, the room reserved for a small group of gay press, her first stop after a tardy arrival – “It’s all too much. That’s why I’m late! I’m late for everything now.” – and the one her longtime publicist, Liz Rosenberg, insists will put her in a good mood for the rest of the day. Madonna agrees, sighing: “Let’s start with levity.” Madonna’s in her groove around us. She knows we get her even when she’s wielding snarky cracks. Ask her if she knows how to do the twist like the characters in her film and she responds: “Yes.” Hard pause. “Pretty simple.” Reminisce on when you last interviewed Madonna and she won’t care. “All right, let’s get down to business,” she insists, done with small-talk. And so we do. Looking stunningly flawless, not at all her 53 years, in a deep blue dress with her now-infamous black gloves and a bracelet of four crosses to represent each one of her children, she gives us exactly what we want: Madonna. No pretense. No filter. No warm-and-fuzzy. In the interview, she talks about the challenges of being a strong woman in a man’s world, teaching her children to be unique and how outsiders can davidatlanta | 17

relate to her new film.

What similarities do you see between Wallis and Evita? What they have in common is what many people have in common who are public figures, who become iconic and who have some kind of historical impact, especially women – strong women. People have a tendency to feel intimidated by the strength of these women, and in order to accept – actually, the word “accept” is wrong, because I don’t think they’re actually accepted. I think in order to deal with them, a lot of people who write history books, and humanity in general, have a tendency to diminish women or undermine their accomplishments or try to portray them as heretical or as someone with an evil possession of some kind of sorcery, or undermine their strength or intelligence, so I think they have those things in common. Now I’m not saying that Eva Peron is without flaws or that Wallis Simpson was this perfect holy human being, but I do think they were both dealt with in a very unfair way in the history books.

Have you felt that way? (Laughs, expecting the question) Well, yeah, sure. Yes, of course. I mean, I don’t think it’s just me. It’s strong women in general.

Why? Why? Because… (hesitates)

You’re a threat? No. It’s just the nature of the universe. It’s the nature of the world that we live in. We live in a patriarchal society and strong women have to…

Challenge that? No. They’re held under a microscope and judged and measured in a different way. That’s just the law of the universe right now.

The film is driven by a contemporary woman’s view of this historical figure. Do you see anything in your story that may, or that you hope one day may, do the same for someone else? The Duchess is really Wally’s spiritual guide, so to speak, and even though she (the Duchess) came from a different era where women didn’t have the same kind of choices and opportunities, we as women still are all raised on this fairytale idea that no matter how many opportunities we have education-wise or job-wise, your knight in shining armor is going to arrive on his beautiful

white stallion and sweep you off your feet and take you off into the twilight, and you’re going to live happily ever after. This is something that we all have to deal with when we grow up. But one person isn’t going to be all of those things to us; ultimately, we have to make our own happiness, and when we can own that and take responsibility for our own happiness, then we can find a mate for ourselves, or companion or significant other or whatever you want to call it. That’s certainly what the Duchess imparts to Wally, and I hope that I can inspire other women to think that way with my own life and behavior.

What’s the thing that surprised you most about Wallis Simpson while doing your research? The discoveries that Wally makes in her journey and her investigations were essentially mine. When I heard about the story – what a magnanimous, generous romantic gesture Edward VIII made toward Wallis Simpson – I thought the same thing that Wally says when she’s looking in the mirror trying on the necklace: “What must it feel to be loved that much?” As I started to unravel the story and read the letters and go on the journey that I went on to write the script, I realized that, in fact, it wasn’t this fairytale romance as I had imagined it would be. I found that Wallis Simpson tried to avoid the actual marriage from taking place and how she saw the writing on the wall and how she tried her best to get Edward to see the writing on the wall. She was very astute in her observations, but obviously she couldn’t talk him into her point of view. He was just cunt-struck, as they say in England. (Laughs at her choice of words) Sorry!

Did you ever think of making the movie without the contrasting modern-day story of someone reflecting on a historical figure? No. I wasn’t interested in making a straightforward biopic. I don’t think it’s possible to tell the story of one person from beginning to end in two hours. I think that’s actually an unfair challenge to give oneself. And also, truth is so subjective and each of us could read the same five books about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and we would walk away with a different interpretation. It would impact us in a different way, and so it was important for me to establish that. As much research as I did, and as close as I tried to stay davidatlanta | 19

to the truth and as authentic as I wanted to be, it was important that I be clear that it is a point of view. I never intended to just tell the story of Wallis Simpson.

What’s the importance of telling this story from your point of view? Most of the perspective on the story is, “Look what he gave up for her,” and it’s told from the male point of view. I think that when Wally starts to make all these discoveries about the Duchess, she appeals to Mohamed Al Fayed (keeper of the Duke and Duchess’ letters) as an outsider, because he lives as a foreigner and as an outsider in England, not really accepted by society. Really, in my movie, each character is an outsider. Wally is living in alienation in the Upper East Side, where she doesn’t fit in; (Wally’s love interest) Evgeni is a Ukrainian immigrant working as a security guard, but he’s really an intellectual and an artist and he doesn’t fit in; the Duchess doesn’t really fit into this aristocratic world that she’s found herself in, and Edward doesn’t really fit into the Victorian world that he was raised in. So it’s how all these people who feel like outsiders try to come to terms and find their way in the world.

Is that something you draw from your own experience? Yeah, but I think a lot of people can relate to it. A lot of us feel like we don’t fit into the conventional norm or what society expects from us. More and more, people are redefining what makes a family, what makes a couple, what makes love, what romance is, what a union is, what soul mates are – all of these things we’re reinventing, because family is what you make it. It’s funny how things turn out that way. Sometimes your parents aren’t really the people who nurture you. You have other role models in your life that become your mother and your father. It’s unusual when the family you’re born into is actually the people that feel like your family.

Growing up, you rebelled against your upbringing and convention, becoming a major trailblazer. How is it different being a mother

with kids who will not have to fight the same battles that you fought? Not that this has anything to do with my film, but it’s an interesting question. I don’t think that I’m a conventional parent. I realize that, to a certain extent, my children are raised with privilege; they have housekeepers, I didn’t. There are a lot of differences. On the other hand, my parents raised me in a very conventional way and I rebelled against it, and now my children come to me and they often want to do things because everybody else does them, and I say to them, “That’s just the worst reason I’ve ever heard for doing something.” I encourage them to question things. Question their behavior, take responsibility for their behavior, think outside the box. And they will have a different set of challenges. They will be compared to me. I will be some kind of a benchmark that they have to live with and deal with, and they are going to have to find their way in the world. We are all born with, and into, our challenges, so I don’t think for a second that life is going to be so simple and easy for them.

Do you feel like all your years of research on Wallis Simpson is over with, or are you still invested in her? I’m done with my deep research, but I still feel a strong connection to her. She’s always going to be a part of me. I am still uncovering little gems about her. People come to me and say, “Oh, look at this little note that we found in this handbag that was auctioned off 20 years ago.” People are still bringing me bits and bobs and memorabilia, so I’m still discovering things about her – and I’m sure I will for the rest of my life. I was actually going through my papers in my files the other day and found an astrological reading that someone had done for me 30 years ago. I was reading it, and the woman was talking about some aspect of my personality and she quoted Wallis Simpson: “All for love and the world well lost.” I thought, “How weird, she was already a part of my life.” That was a little foreshadowing. That happened 30 years ago, so who knows what’s going to happen 30 years from now. david atlanta | 23

Listen Up

Melanie Amaro, winner of the inaugural

season of the US X Factor, was featured with Sir Elton John during the Super Bowl in the elaborate Pepsi commercial. First, nobody bought Elton John as a king – a queen maybe, after all his recent sniping at Madonna. Second, why would Melanie Amaro’s first single Respect be the song that Aretha “The Queen of Soul” Franklin popularized? If anything this is disrespectful not to mention lazy. Not sure I want to hear any original music from Amaro now.

Nearly 14 years after their hit duet, The Boy is Mine, Monica and Brandy have joined forces again for another duet, It All Belongs to Me. While the song has recently leaked, it’s been reported that the track will be featured on both singers’ albums in different versions. If this is true, there’s no mention which version has leaked but when the dueling divas start listing all the s**t that belongs to them, it’s obvious that these young women have all grown up. You can keep the boy . . . the house now that’s a different story! L-U-V! If there has been one thing every gay boy has been talking about over the last two weeks, it was Y-O-U Madonna! Between the elaborate and most-watched Super Bowl halftime show ever, the pre-orders for MDNA and the announcement of a world tour, Madge proves once again that Lady Gaga may have been born that way but only because she was born in 1986 when Madonna was topping the charts with Papa Don’t Preach, Live to Tell and Open Your Heart. Sorry Gaga, Madonna will always be our mother. Adam Lambert recently dropped the video for his latest single Better

Than I Know Myself. I’ll admit I was a bit harsh on this track when it first dropped but it has grown on me. The video features the two sides of Adam Lambert. The makeup-wearing, trench-coat-wearing, I-eat-rainbow-colored-kids-for-breakfast side and the I-actually-canpolish-up-to-a-well-groomed-guy side. I’m over the whole look-at-me-I’m-Glambert, so I sure hope we see more of the latter when Trespassing drops later this spring. by Joseph Brownell

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Top 10 Tracks 1. Bad Girls — M.I.A.

2. #1 In Heaven — MNDR

3. Next To Me — Emeli Sandé 4. Big Mouth — Santigold

5. Light Up (The World) — Yasmin feat. Shy FX & Ms. Dynamite 6. Give Me All Your Luvin’ — Madonna feat. M.I.A. & Nicki Minaj 7. Alive — Adrian Lux feat. The Good Natured 8. DJ Ease My Mind — Niki & The Dove

9. Mixtape (Blonde P Remix) — Marvin-Paul Ambrosius 10. Mr. Wrong — Mary J. Blige

By Dustin Shelby. Check out more music at Dustin’s blog at www.echodust.com

Protect Your Monster

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by Richard Marshall

Love Hangover The day after with special guest, Miss Princess Charles!

o, for this past Valentines, instead of walking around with my bottom lip poked out because I’m single, I decided to celebrate the love I have for ME. Ok, what had happened was after recovering from my mistake of finding love in a hopeless place (thank you Rihanna), I realized that maybe, just maybe CUPID knows what he’s doing after all.

pepper wings up (and basically inhaling 2 bottles of champagne) as we CELEBRATED being single and appreciating what we’ve learned over the years through our own experiences or through observations of others. I figured with Valentines passing by and California kicking that Prop 8 to the curb, I think more people need to talk about what it takes to be in a relationship or what they’ve learned…in other words, when they approve gay marriage in Georgia, I want you to be READY! Here are a few chocolate pieces we like to share! A couple of red flags to look out for…

Brent: There’s a reason your so called “man” ignores a lot of your texts, or rarely comments on your Facebook page, or randomly call you just to see what you’re doing. Sure, there are times he may be genuinely “busy”, but if this is consistent, yeah boo, either there’s someone else or he’s just not that in to you! When you put it out there in the universe that you want a man, that doesn’t mean you’ll get your answer over night. I’ve learned over the years just how true the old saying is “Sometimes you gotta kiss a lot of nasty ass frogs before you can find your Prince.” At first I hated cupid for hooking me up with the wrong ones but I’ve learned so much…and so did my good girlfriend Princess Charles. We’re sitting at Joe’s tearing these lemon

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Charles: If you get to know all about him but he doesn’t even know your last name, then sis THAT just might be a red flag! Ooooh, and watch out for ‘character flaws’ like he doesn’t have any friends, doesn’t respect his mom, doesn’t like to talk to other people nor like it when YOU talk to other people, then something just ain’t right.

Brent: Is it ok to date Str8 guys who still want to be “Str8”? Charles: NEXT!

Brent: What if you already have feelings for him and you two “have a connection” and he really wants to be your friend but it just happens that he doesn’t want to date you? Charles: NEXT!

Brent: But it’s not his fault he rather ‘date’ a girl but loves your company more! Charles: Again, NEXT! Girl, unless you can HANDLE him dating someone else while you have feelings for him, then it’s not cool to try to be all nice and “just be his friend” when in the back of your mind you know damn well you want him. That’s foolishness! There’s someone better right around the corner waiting on someone just like you. Pop!

What’s really important about being in a relationship? Brent: It’s VERY important for you to be yourself around him, if you can’t then something is wrong. You must also let him be himself too (of course this doesn’t include him punching you in the face, or cursing your mom out or anything like that). Charles: It’s soooo important for you two to be honest with each other and have open communication! You should be able to talk to your man about ANYTHING!

Brent: Don’t forget, FRIENDSHIP is everything. It’ll become the center of your relationship. Good sex is FABULOUS (Both of us: HELL YEA!), but friendship is what will be the glue that holds you two together during the storms, it’s the everything. When you truly realize that, then important things like: sharing, communicating, and allowing the other to be themselves will become easier and more of a natural thing

to do. Charles: Yes sis, it’s very important! Actually I think you and your man should be BEST FRIENDS since you have to sleep with his ass every night! But meanwhile, Girl, you ain’t got time for the headache, be grateful for your single life. If you do find that someone one, then that’s a blessing. But trust me, being single is a also a blessing. POP! Sorry but we ran out of space (and champagne)! Look, I know there are some who don’t mind open relationships and all of that carrying on, that’s ok if you BOTH agree to it, but for you old fashioned hopeless romantics like us, I hope this helps and good luck out there. MUAH! XOXO UNTIL next week, DON’T read the girls, instead read The Brent Star Report

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La Nota Rosa

El Matrimonio Gay en California...

¡Prop 8 Anulada!

por Luis Chiruco

caba de ocurrir hace apenas unos minutos. Con lo que es una noticia de alcance de la que entendemos debíamos hacernos eco de inmediato. La Corte de Apelaciones de San Francisco acaba de anunciar que la Proposición 8 aprobada en su día en las urnas y que negaba a los gays contraer matrimonio en el Estado de California, acaba de ser anulada por ser considerada inconstitucional.

Con esta espléndida noticia, California da portazo a una infame pesadilla que nunca tuvimos que haber vivido, y antepone los derechos de las personas a la dictadura de un conservadurismo absurdo que hace prevalecer la discriminación de las minorías para evitar remover un Status Quo que se está rompiendo por el bien de todos, incluyendo ellos mismos. ‘La Proposición 8 no sirvió a ningún objetivo y no tuvo ningún efecto más que el disminuir el estado y la dignidad humanas de gays y lesbianas en California, ha dicho la Corte. Al tratarse de una noticia que consideramos esencial para la Comunidad Gay, no sólo californiana sino internacional, entendemos que era esencial dejaros una nota de alcance. Esta noche, con más tiempo, editaré una entrada mucho más extensa, sobre los pormenores de la sentencia y la profundísima trascendencia de esta noticia que sin duda nos llena de alegría a todos. ¡Felicidades Californi a!.. got leche?

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Deep Inside Hollywood Ryan Murphy’s New Normal: song-less and horror-free It’s official: Ryan Murphy is taking over all of television as we know it. He’s already got Glee and American Horror Story on the air, and now NBC has ordered a pilot for The New Normal, a half-hour comedy project Murphy co-created with Allison Adler. It’s set to star The Book of Mormon’s Andrew Rannells and its plot concerns a blended family of a gay couple and the woman who becomes a surrogate to help the men make a baby. Its prospects are good, too: there was already a bidding war over the project. So if it goes to series, it’ll be for the TV and cultural critics to sort out what the impact will be of the kind of gay parenting show we’ll all ultimately get from Murphy. He is, after all, a man whose screenwriting approach to gay men leans heavily toward the old-school “fabulous” end of the spectrum, but at least those guys on Modern Family and Lea Michele’s invisible gay dads won’t be alone now.

Porn star James Deen recruited by Bret Easton Ellis It doesn’t get crazier than this combination: American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, alt-porn star James Deen and Taxi Driver screenwriter/Cat People director Paul Schrader. All are possibly-maybe working together. Recently, Ellis got on Twitter (where his wildest work’s been appearing lately) and talked about an “L.A. noir micro budget Paul Schrader movie” he’s got cooking that would star Deen. Apparently the role will require the adult film star, who’s built a reputation as the approachable guy-next-door porn star, to be fully naked and having sex with “girls and guys realistically,” so he’s already qualified. And as an actor, he can’t be any more monotone than fellow adult performer Sasha Grey was in Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, right? More news as this one develops.

When Kylie Minogue met the French art film director If you’re gay then it’s fairly certain you’re aware of pop diva Kylie Minogue, but how up are you on your Leos Carax? Not much? Not at all? OK, crash course: He’s one of the bad boys of French cinema and his last feature was the dark, difficult 1999 film Pola X, which starred the late Guillaume Depardieu (having real sex on camera) and Catherine Deneuve (not with her). And now, finally, Carax is back with a feature titled Holly Motors, about a man who can leap into the consciousness of other people and who becomes, over the course of the action, both men and women and at least one “monstrous creature.” It’ll star French character actor Denis Lavant (from Carax’s The Lovers Under The Bridge, with Juliette Binoche), Eva Mendes and Minogue. Now, given that Minogue’s acting output since her teenage years on the Aussie soap Neighbours hasn’t included much more than Bio-Dome, Street Fighter and a magical absinthe fairy in Moulin Rouge! it’s a little shocking – and sort of thrilling, too – to see her dive back in by working with one of cinema’s crazier cats, but it should be something to see. Can’t wait. 40 | davidatlanta

Downton Abbey matriarch cage match! The only thing that could possibly be better than watching Downton Abbey’s Maggie Smith, as the Dowager Countess, stop the rest of the cast dead in their tracks with withering glances and haughty comments would be watching her spar with another matriarch of her own caliber. And that’s why it was time for Julian Fellowes’s addictive smash hit upstairsdownstairs drama to cast the visiting mother of Downton’s American-born Lady Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern) with… Shirley MacLaine. MacLaine will join the cast for season three, which begins shooting next month. Obviously, no story lines have been leaked yet but it’s safe to say that, even in a grand home of more than a hundred rooms, the place isn’t going to be big enough for the both of them. And OK, maybe it won’t reach the hair-pulling heights of Joan Collins and Linda Evans duking it out in a fountain on Dynasty, but this is going to be good. So good. by Romeo San Vicente

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Creep of the Week

One Million Moms

by D’Anne Witkowski

est there be any confusion, this week’s Creep is not just a million random ladies with kids. One Million Moms is an affiliate of the American Family Association. So you can imagine how much these moms love homos. OMM loves homos so much that they won’t stop calling JC Penney to talk about them. Or, specifically, “her,” as in one particular homo: Ellen DeGeneres.

OMM is determined to bring JCPenney to its gay-loving knees I know what you’re thinking: “JC Penney still exists? And there are really people who are freaked that Ellen’s gay? I thought both of those things became non-issues in 1997.” Well, not so much. In any case, DeGeneres recently signed on to be JC Penney’s celebrity spokesperson and anti-gay folks are fuming because obviously JC Penney is obviously trying to recruit young ladies onto Team Lesbo by selling Hush Puppies, tailored suit jackets, and softball jerseys in the junior miss section. Also Ellen will most likely be giving live, in-store lesbian sex demonstrations. Otherwise, what’s there to fuss over? Plenty, if you read the One Million Moms’ poorly written alerts on their website. “Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families,” OMM muses. “DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there. The small percentage of customers they are

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attempting to satisfy will not offset their loss in sales.” I’m not sure if OMM has noticed, but Ellen DeGeneres has a wildly popular TV show and millions of people love her. So it seems a bit of a stretch to say the “majority” of JC Penney shoppers are going to go buy their $8 knit fashion tops and $4 bath towels somewhere less gay friendly. Well, I’ll give them one thing: DeGeneres really isn’t a true representation of JC Penney’s customer base. But it’s not because she’s a lesbian. It’s because she’s rich. OMM is determined to bring JC Penney to its gay-loving knees and they’ve been working the phones demanding that Ellen be fired. “Ask JC Penney to replace Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson immediately and remain neutral in the culture war,” the OMM website reads. And, of course, to groups like OMM and its parent group, the AFA, being “neutral” means pretending that LGBT people do not exist. And having a prominent lesbian representing a store where “families” shop makes that fiction ever harder to live by. Apparently the OMM call-in campaign isn’t working as JC Penney has announced it has no intention to fire Ellen. And OMM is complaining on their website that JC Penney’s corporate HQ keeps hanging up on them. Their solution? Call the managers of local stores and harass them instead. Rather than bother folks with actual work to do, why not fight fire with fabulous and go shopping? Plopping some of your hard earned dollars down on a JC Penney counter is the best way to thank them for not caving to anti-gay bigotry. And I wasn’t kidding when I said they had $4 bath towels. They even have them in totally gay colors like Purple Opulence, Garnet, and Exotic Pink. Remember, when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping!

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Botox: the Wonder Drug Botox gets rid of your wrinkles – what else do you need to know beyond that? The wonder drug has swept the world by storm as a leader in anti-aging solutions and for all of us who are starting to show signs of those unwanted wrinkles, lets look at a few of the reasons why Botox is great.

1. Non-Surgical

Surgery is one of the scariest things to go through, so why go to such extreme measures when you can simply get a little injection and have the same benefits? Easy, fast, and simple. Oh, and much cheaper.

2. Anti-Aging

Lots of people want to age gracefully, and aren’t afraid of their age, but there is no shame in taking the clock back a few years for smoother skin. Botox relaxes the muscles, which helps reduce the wrinkles on your face. You can still be proud of how old you are, and look fabulous at the same time.

3. It’s Temporary

Unlike major surgery, Botox is a temporary treatment, which is really a great thing. If you get bad plastic surgery, plan on living with that, but if you get Botox and decide that it isn’t for you, then it will wear off. No harm in giving it a shot (no pun intended) and seeing if it brings the desired effects to you that you were hoping for!

4. Affordable

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set you back thousands, Botox usually will range between $200 - $600 depending on how much you want to do.

5. Excessive Sweating

Like most drugs on the market, they find uses for things outside of their intended purpose. Even if you are not looking to “turn back time”, Botox can help if you excessively sweat from your feet, underarms, or other places. The drug will help with that nasty sweating problem up to 6 months after one treatment. Botox is more than just another drug on the market, it has become a synonymous term of looking younger and an easy way to turn back the clock. It is incredibly important to have a qualified doctor to do the procedure. As Spring is quickly approaching, now is the perfect time to book your next session today! If you are looking for a great doctor, check out The Ageless Center – www.theagelesscenter.com.

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calendar MONDAY BLAKES ON THE PARK

Manic Monday (retro night 70’s, 80’s, & 90’s) 10pm

THE EAGLE Comedy TV- Free Pool FRIENDS ON PONCE

Bad Boy Brian opens at 2pm

HERETIC Industry Night, No Cover!

WEDNESDAY BLAKES ON THE PARK

Feathers & Flesh Burlesque Revue 11pm

THE EAGLE 80’s Music with Travis FRIENDS ON PONCE Team Trivia 8pm HERETIC H.U.M.P. Dress Code Party w/DJ Lydia Prim. 25¢ Keystone Light Draft all night long. No Cover!

JUNGLE Stars of the Century Show 11pm

SWINGING RICHARDS 2-4-1 VIP Room

THE HIDEAWAY $2.50 Domestic Beer

THE HIDEAWAY Craps & Blackjack with

FELIX’S Free Pool THE COCKPIT Big Red Cup Mondays All Day & 1/2 Price Appetizers 5-8pm

MODEL T’S Wheel of ? with Elvis 9pm

TUESDAY BLAKES ON THE PARK I Gotta Sing!

Hosted by Jealose & Jerry (Karaoke) 11pm

THE EAGLE Tuesdays with Tony FRIENDS ON PONCE

Let’s Make a Deal 6pm

HERETIC Free Line Dance Lessons 8-9pm Country Dance 9-11pm. No Cover!

SWINGING RICHARDS

No Cover Before Midnight, $5 After

THE HIDEAWAY

Service Industry Night - Employee Prices. Trivia w/ Will 9pm - 11pm

FELIX’S Smirnoff Martini Night THE COCKPIT DUDE: 80s Party, 9pm & 1/2 Price Appetizers 5-8pm

CHAPARRAL HipHop til 4am, $5 MODEL T’S Texas Hold’em Poker 9:30pm

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Miss Lauren

THE COCKPIT

Balls Deep Karaoke, 10pm with Mikey and Wesley &1/2 Price Appetizers 5-8pm

MODEL T’S Virtually Famous Karaoke with Pat & Tina 10pm

XCESS ULTRA LOUNGE/TRAXX

Raquell Lord’s The Main Event Talent Show @ 10:30pm, Sign Up by 9:45pm. Also Sophia Mcintosh & The Fabulous 5 +1 @11:30pm, 18+

THURSDAY

SATURDAY

BLAKES ON THE PARK

Texas Hold’Em Poker 7pm, The Shawna Factor Show, 11pm

Jealose’s Daring Diva’s Show 11pm

THE EAGLE DJ Dance Party

THE EAGLE Karaoke with Mikey FRIENDS ON PONCE Where Girls Who Like Girls Meet Girls all night

HERETIC 3 Legged Cowboy Night 9pm. Free Dance Lessons 8-9pm. No Cover!

FRIENDS ON PONCE

Open @ noon with Bob Brewer

HERETIC Varies: Club Night or 3 Legged Cowboy Night - 10pm

JUNGLE Club Night, Various Guest DJ’s.

JUNGLE Cherry Pop Thursday!

SWINGING RICHARDS

LAS MARGARITAS

T-Shirt Review, $10 Cover

Crazy Bitch Bingo 7:30pm

FELIX’S Karaoke w/ Brett & Tyler 10pm

SWINGING RICHARDS

2-4-1 VIP Room & 2-4-1 Door Entry

THE HIDEAWAY Levi & Leather Night FELIX’S Karaoke w/ Brett & Tyler 10pm THE COCKPIT

Dirty Boy Bingo, 9pm w/ Ruby Redd

MODEL T’S Wheel of ? with Micheal 9pm XCESS ULTRA LOUNGE/TRAXX

THE COCKPIT Rotating VJ’s & DJ’s, (resident DJ, Diablo Rojo)

SWINGING RICHARDS

T-Shirt Review, $10 Cover

CHAPARRAL Dance Party FELIX’S Karaoke w/ Brett & Tyler 10pm THE COCKPIT Rotating VJ’s & DJ’s, (resident DJ, Diablo Rojo)

Turnt Up Thursday, No Cover, Hip Hop, Rnb & Reggae

MODEL T’S Sexy & Know it Party 9pm CHAPARRAL DJ Jay McKracken, $5 XCESS ULTRA LOUNGE/TRAXX

FRIDAY

Man 2 Man, Free 4 Men 25+ B4 12am

BLAKES ON THE PARK

SUNDAY

Kitty LeClaw’s Meow Mix Show 11pm

THE EAGLE DJ Dance Party

BLAKES ON THE PARK

FRIENDS ON PONCE

Happy Times with Bad Boy Brian & Ken

Old School Sundays with DJ Bill Berdeaux 3pm-7pm, DJ Darryl Cox 7pm-close

HERETIC FREE FRIDAYS! w/DJ Lydia Prim.

FRIENDS ON PONCE Bad Boy Brian’s

JUNGLE Club Night, Various DJ’s

LAS MARGARITAS

No Cover!

All You Can Eat Brunch 11am-3pm

SWINGING RICHARDS

THE HIDEAWAY

T-Shirt Review, $10 Cover

CHAPARRAL Got Leche? til 4am, $10 THE HIDEAWAY

PBR Beer Bust -- Open & Pouring

THE COCKPIT Rotating VJ’s & DJ’s,

Bagels / Texas Hold’em Poker 9:30pm

FELIX’S

THE COCKPIT

FELIX’S Bartenders Serve It Up!

MODEL T’S Morning

Make Your Own Bloody Mary Bar 12:30pm

Bloody Mary & Mimosa Wallet Pleasers

After Work Martini Madness

(resident DJ, Diablo Rojo)

Smirnoff B Mary Bar 12:30pm

MODEL T’S Sunday Dinner with Ron 3:30pm CHAPARRAL Hip Hop w DJ Truz, no cover

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FairyScopes

ARIES (March 20 – April 19): There’s nothing wrong with ambition _per se_, but trying too hard, especially when you’re not thinking ahead very clearly, is only a sure route to disaster. Don’t be scared of guidance and limits – or the people who suggest them.

TAURUS (April 20 – May 20): This should be your lucky year, but luck serves the well-prepared. Take time out to think carefully of what work is necessary to nurture the projects that may bring you fortune. GEMINI (May 21- June 20): The wit and logic that have been so dazzling lately are leaving you, but don’t fret. Just be ready to shift gears to whimsy and sensitivity. Your sympathetic support can prove helpful. Often it’s best just to be a good listener. CANCER (June 21- July 22): Your gifts of erotic seduction are more evident than usual. Put them to good use and draw in the one you desire. Trying to be cleverer than you feel will undermine your efforts, personally and professionally. Just be yourself! LEO (July 23 – August 22): If you share your darkest secret fantasy with one person, you’re probably sharing it with at least a few more. Don’t talk; do. Confidantes can’t always be trusted, but partners in crime usually can. VIRGO (August 23 – September 22): Worries that you don’t measure up will exacerbate relationship problems. Relax. Have confidence in yourself and your ability to solve problems. Your brain and your mouth probably got you into this fix. Let your ears and your heart find the way out. LIBRA (September 23 – October 22): Fights at home can get pretty fierce. Is it worth it? You may need to make a deep change and sacrifice something to make your relationship work. Some time out can help, but don’t use that as an excuse to avoid the problems. SCORPIO (October 23 – November 21): No matter who is causing problems at work, you can only be responsible for yourself. If your own recent brainstorms and innovations are a part of it, own up and learn from whatever mistakes were made, especially your own.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 20): Pushing too hard to get ahead can ruffle the feathers of your superiors. Make sure the rung you want to step up to isn’t already occupied. Put down the horn and let your best work speak for itself. CAPRICORN (December 21 – January 19): The confusion won’t go away soon, but its purpose can become clearer. Never mind logic and facts. They’re just not making sense. Open yourself up to mystery, myth, magic and music. Look at life as art, not science. AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 18): Economic uncertainty brings opportunities for those with vision and intuition. Yours are especially sharp right now. Discuss your inspirations with a bright, innovative friend. A recent spontaneous tryst could bring recriminations or insights. Focus on insights. PISCES (February 19 – March 19): Meditation and spiritual discipline will be more important than ever in the next 14 years. Unusual clarity now can show you how best to proceed. Talking about your craziest dreams can lead you from inspiration to practical application.

Bitch! Session

Gotta Bitch? I think a HUGE group of gays, black and white, should get on a bus and go track down those guys who beat up that gay dude recently and take care of business! This is the last time I ever watch the Superbowl with a group of gays because all they can do is squeal and talk about how much they don’t care about the game. Doing one thing right doesn’t make up for you doing 100 things wrong.

I am too pretty to work. I don’t give a fuck for some heteronormative / monogamous marriage construct. Human rights should start with the right to equal employment, the right to healthcare, and the right to be free to live your full humanity. When did my couch become a shelter for alcoholic, slutty lesbians? Go home!

Why the fuck do you rent a cabin and then sit in it all weekend on your phone and laptop? That is not a vacation dude.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people have sharpies in public restroom stalls. I find it strange we give flowers to people to show love… because it’s like giving them something and saying, “now watch these die”. Hardly romantic!

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bitch@davidatlanta.com I could spend my time and energy hating you, but then I remind myself all of Atlanta already hates you, so I don’t need to worry. Maybe you will be chased out of town like you were before. It sounds to me like there are One Million Moms who need to get laid and find something better to do with their time. Buy a toy, bitch. People act like seeing MIA’s middle finger on TV is the end of the world, so they are gonna flip the fuck out when they see what’s happening in the rest of the world. #OnlyinAmerica

YAY PROP 8 & WASHINGTON STATE VICTORY!!!!!! GO GAYS!!!!! For a city with so many damn restaurants, why is it always so hard to find a good place to eat?

So, does this mean we actually have to shop at JCPENNY now?? Coming from San Francisco, it makes me SO HAPPY that the Radical Faeries and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are doing so much here! It makes Atlanta feel a little bit like home!

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