James Franco via Newsweek
- iPad Protesters to Return to National Portrait Gallery With Trailer—and Permits (Washington City Paper) "Blasenstein and Iacovone will park a trailer they describe as a 'Museum of Censored Art' on the 700 block of F Street NW, in two parking spaces outside the southern entrance of the museum. Starting next Thursday, Blasenstein and Iacovone (and volunteers) will man the trailer from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day until the 'Hide/Seek' exhibit closes on Feb. 13."
- James Franco on playing gay characters: 'You know what, maybe I'm just gay' (Entertainment Weekly) “'There are lots of other reasons to be interested in gay characters than wanting myself to go out and have sex with guys... I mean, I’ve played a gay man who’s living in the ’60s and ’70s, a gay man who we depicted in the ‘50s, and one being in the ‘20s. And those were all periods when to be gay, at least being gay in public, was much more difficult. Part of what I’m interested in is how these people who were living anti-normative lifestyles contended with opposition. Or, you know what, maybe I’m just gay.'”
- Why Is Television So Much Gayer Than Film? (Good Men Project) "And it’s definitely a question worth exploring: Are Hollywood creatives more likely to cast gay actors on television shows as opposed to in movies? And why would that be the case?"
- City’s Graphic Ad on the Dangers of H.I.V. Is Dividing Activists (NY Times) "The New York City Health and Mental Hygiene Department released the advertisement on YouTube and television in early December, intending to show that even though an H.I.V. diagnosis is no longer a death sentence, neither do H.I.V. drugs guarantee good health. But since then, several mainstream gay groups have organized against it, calling it stigmatizing and sensationalistic, and demanding that the city pull it from circulation. And in response, other gay activists have rushed to the health department’s defense."
- John Waters's Best Films of 2010 (ArtForum) "6 Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine) A scatological, gay, s/m, borderline snuff movie amazingly embraced by a wide, American blue-collar family audience. Isn’t Steve-O chugging down a glass of sweat collected from the ass-crack of an obese man and then vomiting at you in 3-D the purest moment of raw cinema anarchy this year?"
- Apple Rejects Anti-Gay 'Manhattan Declaration' App for Second Time (Towleroad) "'Apple rejected the second submission on the same grounds as the first, noting that the app is likely “to expose a group to harm” and “to be objectionable and potentially harmful to others.” The Manhattan Declaration website posted a statement on December 23 announcing Apple’s rejection of the app, and the makers of the content plan to take the issue to the Apple’s App Review Board after the holidays. Media coverage of this second rejection does not seem to have been picked up by many conservative outlets as of yet.'"