The Importance of Gay Icons admin June 9, 2018 Entertainment, Features By Charles Karel Bouley “So, what’s your grandmother doing tonight?” The 70+ year old icon Cher quipped as she darted backstage for her first of 14 costume changes over 18 songs spanning over 50 years of sho... Read More...
Vera Miao admin October 1, 2017 Entertainment, Features, Queer Cinema Vera Miao: The Horror May Be Brief But Brace For A Long Career By Charles Karel Bouley Vera Miao is fresh and new in every way, but don’t call her Gay or Lesbian. “If you need to identify Vera can you ... Read More...
Sandra Bernard Attacks (the Stage) admin September 15, 2017 Celebrity Interviews, Entertainment Sandra Monica Blvd. Pulls In to the Carpenter Center As Sandra Bernhard Attacks the Stage By Karel (Charles Karel Bouley II) I now officially can't count the times I've interviewed Sandra Berhard for va... Read More...
Hamilton WOWS Los Angeles! admin August 22, 2017 Entertainment, Features More Now Than When It Was Created: Hamilton Wows Los Angeles By Charles Karel Bouley So, is it? Did you? Was it? Since I've seen Hamilton at its premiere, the biggest West Coast Premiere of a play ... Read More...
Pendleton Feels Now is the Time to #ResistMarch admin June 1, 2017 Entertainment, Features By Charles Karel Bouley @reallykarel Be careful what you post on Social Media, because from the smallest of things… Just ask Los Angeles’ Brian Pendleton. In January he felt strongly enough about something t... Read More...
Busch: Five Women, One Man and a Great Night of Cabaret admin March 4, 2017 Celebrity Interviews, Dragged OUT, Entertainment By Karel Charles Karel Bouley Being Charles Busch is anything but a drag. While there can be no doubt he is one of the true innovators of the art form, drag performance, he's not your RuPaul Drag Race kin... Read More...
Anna, The King, and I admin January 2, 2017 Celebrity Interviews, Entertainment Anna, The King, and I By Charles Karel Bouley I've been thinking a lot about icons, iconic roles and what makes something iconic. Maybe it's because I'm aging, watching things from my youth become "classi... Read More...
Chiquis Rivera admin May 9, 2015 Celebrity Interviews, Entertainment Chiquis Rivera: When The Only One Left To Forgive Is Yourself by Charles Karel Bouley Long Beach Pride pleased tens of thousands of Latino and Latina fans when they announced Chiquis Rivera, the late Jenn... Read More...
Michael Urie admin November 6, 2014 Celebrity Interviews, Entertainment From Fashion Magazine to Streisand’s Cellar, Michael Urie is Like Butta! By Charles Karel Bouley II Ugly Betty predates Glee as one of the shows that made mainstream gay okay in TV-land. The now... Read More...
Ireland admin August 12, 2014 Travel Ireland Puts the Green in the Rainbow Flag By Charles Karel Bouley II Special to GED What’s a nice gay person like me doing in Ireland? That’s what I asked myself the first time I stepped of the airpor... Read More...
