The AggreGAYtor: October 16
What happened today in gay? Here's your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
9:50PM, Tue. Oct. 15, 2013
Ann Richards takes MDNA out, Stephen Fry gets smart, and Polari gets rolling, as your AggreGAYtor turns off the cell phone and S's the F U.
The Good
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Polari film festival gets some national loving from The Advocate.
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Madonna gets kicked out of the new NYC Alamo Drafthouse, calls the manager a slaver.
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Stephen Fry meets a quack, tells him he could pass as gay.
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Log Cabin Republicans are gradually being embraced by California GOP leaders.
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Sheila Sands is back in Vegas for a while. We don’t know what that means, but the Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner name-dropping and connection to Regretsy are forcing us to believe it.
The Bad
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LGBT History Month: Alan Turing, British national hero, was gay, was chemically castrated by his government, and committed suicide by poisoned apple.
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There are more queers than people think out there, but there are more haters, too.
The Fugly
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A gay teen scientist prodigy gets shoved back in the closet for 60 Minutes.
It Came from the Tubes
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