Brett Berk

Step 1: Borrow Ferrari

Step 2: Drive to Buffalo

Step 3: Get Challenged to Street Race by New York City Traffic Cop

(Step 4: Read all about it in my big gay car column, Stick Shift, over at Vanity Fair.)

As a child development expert, early childhood educator, youth researcher, and Vanity Fair‘s marginally-official Online Fun & Faggy Editor, I examine all this recent grotesquerie around anti-gay harassment in schools to ask and answer the non-rhetorical question: Would Kids Be Such Incorrigible Bullies if the Adults Around Them Weren’t Such Intolerant Ass-Hats?

I know a little bit about a whole bunch of things–kids, cars, politics, trashy dance movies. What I don’t know about, is baseball. So my friends and I over at Vanity Fair thought it would be fun for us to talk about it, since (apparently) the World Series starts today. And guess what? They were right. I now have a new favorite team. And a new favorite turtle catcher. Check out our conversation here.

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 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]

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]

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.)