Author: Brett

This week’s winning episode, “Duets”, paired everything that right with Glee (meaningful story-lines, a contextualized musical theme, a focus on the kids, boy’s locker room scenes) with the absence of everything that’s wrong with it (the adults) for a double rim shot hit. Check out my weekly re-cap at Vanity Fair for a full explication.

We’ve seen a recent uptick in grotesque anti-gay bias incidents in the New York area. In a second post in my double-gay, double-whammy over at Vanity Fair today, I attempt to seek out some explanations for this horrifying trend. Click here to read the four reasons why I think this is occurring.

The trailer for the upcoming Vince Vaughn movie The Dilemma contained the use of the word “gay” in a pejorative manner, meant to be a synonym for lame/stupid/uncool/moronic. This is lame, stupid, uncool, and moronic. So as Vanity Fair‘s unofficial online Fun & Faggy editor, I had to take it down. Click here to read how this critique also incorporated the First Amendment, the internal combustion engine, bromantic comedies, and gay cars in general.

I recently had a chance to drive a new Porsche Panamera, taking the Grand Tourer on a greasy Grande Tour around the Gulf Coast, hitting a pig roast, a couple museums, and a few New Orleans temples to delicious seafood (and pork.) Then I wrote it all up for my online car column over at Vanity Fair. (No babies were harmed in the writing of this piece.)

Glee returned to fine form this week, praise Cheesus, with an episode that dealt with questions of illness, death, and faith in a surprisingly mature–though appropriately adolescent–fashion. Of course, I covered it for my weekly Glee-cap over at Vanity Fair. Click on the word God to head over there.

There was another special Glee single-artist episode last night, this one focused on the works of the Britney Spears. Unfortunately, just like the Madonna special episode, it sucked. Fortunately, I was still able to write about it for Vanity Fair.

The folks at BMW were foolish nice enough to invite me down to South Carolina to learn how to really drive a car–on a track, at their Performance Driving School. They were also uncaring enough about their possessions kind enough to let me borrow one of their zipy Z4 s35i Roadsters to drive down there from New York. I was smart enough to learn something from the experience. But don’t think that doesn’t mean I didn’t spin around in circles a million times on a wet skid-pad, because I did. Read all about it in my big gay car column over at Vanity Fair.

I have a pair of inter-related pieces out in Time Out New York today about my favorite of favorite New York neighborhoods (and my home of fifteen years.) One is on The East Village and the other is on The Lower East Side, and both contain suggestions and recommendations from long-term residents, fixtures, and characters on the moods, communities, and places that make their neighborhood unique. Click the neighborhood names above to read.

The second season of Glee premiered last night. Which means, of course, that my…unique perspective on the show will now resume haunting the virtual halls of Vanity Fair every Wednesday. The fall’s first Gay Guide to Glee is now officially up. So click on over to VF.com and read about how the show got its groove back.

The New York Public Library’s flagship branch (the one with the big lions outside of it) on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street will be hosting a special one-day only event on Wednesday, September 22. Celebrating the opening of their recently acquired (and cataloged!) archives of the health and social service organization Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), the show will consist of six vitrines full of ephemera–pamphlets, comics, posters, videos–from GMHC’s early years combating the AIDS crisis. The show is open all day, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) will give a keynote speech in the evening. For details, and indelible images from the collection, check out my piece over at Vanity Fair.