PRE-view: Celebrate Pride and Marriage Equality with the Seattle Pride Cruise, Sat, June 29th!

Remember the Queen City Cruise and Van City's Cruisy-T's? We now got our own Pride Cruise!  All hands on Deck! Get down to your skivvies and soak up your share of the sun! The summer's best pride cruise is here and will set sail on June 29th! Join DonnaTella Howe as she leads an entourage of Seattle's finest queens whom will christen the ship with just the right amount of sass in a series of scandalous drag shows. It's going to be HOT! I guess it's good we have our personal suntan lotion crew jumping on board to get all of those hard to reach areas...

FASHION: Introducing the Man Dress!

It Brit design JW Anderson's latest collection is all about gender-bending.

Writes Daniel Tehrani at OUT:The inspiration for his collection, titled Mathematics of Love, was the "examination of bourgeois kinkyness and boudoir perversity" -- the result, men in strapless camel bustiers, frilled bloomer-shorts, doctors' gowns complete with what looks like dishwashing gloves, a powder blue robe and kinky leather pleated dresses. Wearable? Not quite. Commercial? Definitely not, but it is certainly conceptual......Style.Com writer Jo Ann-Furniss says "write off Anderson as a mere provocateur at your peril; his agenda is more complex than that. The effeminacy of this collection—a kind of put-together sixties jolie madame made into a twisted jolie monsieur; think Séverine in Belle de Jour crossed with some of her kinky fantasy coachmen—is intended to reconfigure both menswear and womenswear, and to give a kick up the arse to the stale state of much of men's fashion at the moment."

In fact, Anderson is a part of a bigger movement to bring originality into the men's dress-code.

PRE-view: Homo For The Holidays: Seattle's Smörgåsbord of CAMPY Fun Returns starting 12/14!

Featuring an all-star cast of burlesque, cabaret, dance, drag, and musical local luminaries:
* BenDeLaCreme * Kitten LaRue *
* The Cherdonna and Lou Show * Jinkx Monsoon* Major Scales *
* Fuchsia FoXXX * Faggedy Randy * ilvs strauss *
*and introducing our NEWEST cast member, lil' Brace!*

Building on the success of last year's sold out run of shows, DeLouRue Presents, (the trio that brought you FREEDOM FANTASIA, Homo For The Holidays, and Party Schmarty) is thrilled to be offering up twelve chances to see "the premiere event of the true gay yuletide season"(The Stranger), now in it's fifth year!

Seattle, December 14th-24th: Homo For The Holidays! is a seasonal spectacle guaranteed to make even the most stubborn yuletides gay! An unforgettable all-star cast of burlesque, cabaret, dance, drag, and musical local luminaries come together in a display of glittering grandeur.

Homo For The Holidays! is a hearty holiday fruitcake packed with rollicksome reindeer, enticing elves, ghostly guests, sexy snowstorms, agile angels, musical Maccabees, and new ways to define coming home. It's not Christmas in July, it's Pride in December! Light your menorah, stuff your stockings, and join our chosen family in celebrating our favorite wintry holiday of all, Homo For The Holidays!

SIFF 2012: SIFF 2012 Launch Welcomes T.J. Martin AND his OSCAR!

Martin with SIFF Director, Spence. (Photo by Wang)

by MK Scott

Last week I attended the Press Launch of the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival at Seattle's UPTOWN Theater. Special Guest Included Oscar Winner and Seattle-native and Western Washington University graduate, TJ Martin, who co-directed 'Undefeated', winner of Best Documentary Feature. Martin Posed for Pictures with his OSCAR and he was just as attractive in person as he was on TV. Later I ran into Martin in the washroom and he was very interested in stories of where people watched the Oscars. I mentioned I was at the Big Gay Oscar Party at the Cinerama.