The Gay Guide to Glee: Season 2, Episode 5

I watched Glee last night with a couple of my former preschool students–now super-cool NYC high schoolers, and dedicated Rocky Horror Picture Show fans. We all agreed that The Rocky Horror Glee Show was a charming tribute to the original (mostly). And were impressed that it included at least one stunning sartorial choice. (#ChordShorts) Check out my weekly Glee-cap for Vanity Fair right here.

Jon M. Chu OWNS Dancing and the Internet

Jon M. Chu is the visionary director of Step Up 2, Step Up 3 and the upcoming Justin Bieber documentary (!), and creator of Hulu hit The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers the second season of which begins on Wednesday, 10/27. I give him a call to discuss dancing, dance movies, dance tv shows, dance-offs, and whether or not Justin Bieber is a cyborg. The results of this conversation are now available for public consumption at Vanity Fair.

[Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Digital Entertainment and LXD Ventures]

Glee + GQ = Sexy Cat

There’s been all sorts of brouhaha about the GQ cover shot and photo spread (by master-perv Terry Richardson) featuring Glee‘s Lea Michele, Dianna Agron, and Cory Monteith. The reason for the uproar? The pictures are sexy. Um, aren’t young stars supposed to be sexy? Isn’t that the whole point of young stars? I answer this and other questions in an essay for Vanity Fair.

[Photo Credit: GQ/Terry Richardson]

The Gay Guide to Glee: “Duets”

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.

Are Electric Cars Gay, Is Vince Vaughn an Idiot, or Both?

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.

Stick Shift Learns to Drive (w/Video!)

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.

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