Shel Grandy (John Stamos) is a gay party planner in Wedding Wars. His brother (Eric Dane) is a speech writer for the governor and is getting married to the governor’s daughter (Bonnie Somerville) and they ask Shel to plan the wedding. When the governor makes a campaign decision to support a ban on gay marriage, Shel goes on a one man strike but is soon followed by gays and lesbians across the country. Sean Maher plays Shel’s lover.
In Deadly Skies Antonio Sabato Jr is an ex-military guy who was in charge of builiding a honking big space laser, but was afraid the military would use if for bad stuff. He told them he was gay to get kicked out. Rae Dawn Chong recruits him and his other half, Michael Boisvert, to get the laser up and running to zap an asteriod about to hit the earth. Although Boisvert shows all (and a VERY nice show it is) Sabato plays coy on the full frontal unlike his bare all in Testosterone.
The movie was also put out in a “straight” version without the gay content.
Head On follows young Ari (Alex Demitriades), a Greek-Australian closeted gay man, as he tries to figure out his life. He doesn’t really reach a good conclusion, but its an interesting movie as we get introduced to his dysfunctional family, his boyhood friend (a transvestite), and follow his drug use and sexual hookups.
Griffith (Dan Montgomery, Jr.) is a Southern boy living with his crazy Aunt Summer (Karen Black) and romancing his female cousin in the relentlessly Southern small town of Pine Apple Mississippi in ‘Red Dirt’. One day, a handsome stranger comes to rent the cottage on the farm. Griffith finds himself attracted to the lodger, Lee (Walton Goggins) and they become friends and more, but Griffith can’t bring himself to leave the small town he’s trapped in.
Other than the stereotype of Southerner’s having sex with their cousins, not a bad movie.
In Beverly Kills, Beverly Jackson (Gary Kelley), a long in the tooth drag queen, is rejected for a part in the local Pride Playhouse theater production (any part). Angered, she vows to use her hypnotic powers to start a cult and exact her revenge. Shane (Rick Sparks), a down on his luck gay guy who lives in the theater, and Ray (Matthew Herrmann), the lighting guy, run afoul of her evil schemes.
And who would have thought you’d get any action with a pickup line like: “Do you want me to stay and protect you from the evil drag queen?”
Joe Flanigan in the Stargate Atlantis episode “38 Minutes“. In order to save the day, they have to rip off his shirt. Here’s hoping they have to resort to doing it again this season since they haven’t done it for the last couple.
In The M.O. of M.I., a gay couple, Mike and Tom, goes to see a performance artist, Jonathan, who ends up sleeping on their couch. Jonathan (David Christopher) turns out to have a history with Mike (David Stokey) and designs on Tom (Cory Schneider). Oh, and he’s a thief, hustler, and drug dealer, who happens to have a bunch of bad guys chasing him. The Modus Operandi of Male Intimacy. Everyone’s scamming someone.
Eric Johnson is the new and improved Flash Gordon on the Sci-Fi Channel. A little more humor and a slightly different twist on the action hero.
Sam J. Jones (aka Andrew Cooper, III) a former Marine & Playgirl model (here’s hoping Eric Johnson follows in those footsteps, the modeling, not so much the marines, although. . . .) turned in a performance as the star trotting action hero in Dino De Laurentiis’ 1980’s version. Complete with music by “Queen.”
And then there was the classic Buster Crabbe, fighting Ming the Merciless back in the thrilling days of yester-year.
