As I travel around the country for my book Hello Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand, I've been getting some surprised reactions from interviewers and readers about how many gay men helped shape Barbra's look, sound and stage presence at the beginning of her career. Isn't it ironic, they ask me, that...

When the news broke that Lindsay Lohan would play Elizabeth Taylor in a television biopic, there was a collective cry of grief and shock--at least among Hollywood insiders and gay men, which are often, but not always, the same thing: It can't be true! LiLo as Liz? All across the...

The death of Jonathan Frid last Friday -- Friday the 13th, of course -- will bring a bit of added publicity ahead of next month's opening of the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp big-screen remake of Frid's classic television series, Dark Shadows. It will also guarantee even more comparisons between Frid's beloved...

Fifty years ago tonight, a unusual-looking, unknown kid rolled out onto a Broadway stage on the casters of her secretary's chair and sailed straight into pop-culture immortality. The show was I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and the kid was Barbra Streisand. Most in the audience that night assumed...