Gayer Than Gaga
Picture this; you're riding on a pride parade float custom designed by Johnny Weir that exhausts fairy dust while the radio blasts a soundtrack built for a dance floor. As the float cruises, you rock a diamond encrusted tiara while getting a pedicure from a naked Chord Overstreet and back rub from a nude Chris Meloni. If you're able to visualize all of this then it's a pretty safe assumption to think that what you're imagining sounds like the gayest thing imaginable. Guess again. Australian pop star Kylie Minogue brought a scaled down version of her epic “Aphrodite Les Folies” tour to Orlando's Hard Rock Live May 8. Along with it, a legion of inventively costumed dancers, including scantily clad Spartans and Romans that”for more than two hours”writhed and sang in exquisite choreography. Minogue concocted a splashy, glittering and utterly stylish alternative reality that literally brought fans to tears. “You've been about to cry since I first saw you,” Minogue told fan and local actor, T.J. Parman, who was situated near the stage. She even invited him to join her for a brief moment on stage. “You've already cried?” she asked. “Three times? My work is done.”
Headdress Goes Over the Top
Grab your top hat and whip. Hope and Help is planning a three ring circus. The non-profit organization announced that the theme for the 22nd annual Headdress Ball will be “One Night Under The Big Top.” This year's spectacle will take place Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Hilton Orlando. Headdress Ball is Hope and Help's largest event with more than 900 attendees each year and has raised over $3 million for HIV/AIDS prevention and care over the past 22 years.
Fleet Week
So, what do you do with over 9,000 enemas? “Actually, the total is 10,068,” says The Center's director Randy Stephens. “[The Center] is in charge of preparing the welcome bags for GayDays®. They were delivered to us to, shall we say, stuff in the welcome bags with other materials.” Think we may have taken this whole “City
Beautiful” thing a tad too far? As Margaret Cho once said, “say what you will about colonic irrigation, but it is the sh#t.”
