Big Brother David back on TV

Big Brother runner up and real Australian cowboy David Graham, is headed back to reality TV (Dancing with the Stars) in order to save his farm in the northern territory of Queensland, which has suffered due to a prolonged drought.

David told The Daily Telegraph he thought he had been relegated to “last season’s TV trash” when he got the call asking him to participate in a new season of Dancing with the Stars. Said Graham: “Being on the farm is where I want to be it is paradise up there, but when you have starving sheep you have got to do something. I woke up a couple of days ago and looked out the window and thought ‘What the hell am I going to do?’ but by the end of the day I had got the call and things had totally turned around. It is a godsend. It is almost as good as rain…To be asked to do a show like this is nuts, but to find out you get paid for it and I am going to be able to buy some feed for my stock I still have not got over it.”

Cowboy fans can check him out at Fair Day in Sydney on Feb 18th

Written by TechStickle on January 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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Dreamgirls gets 8 Oscar Nominations

In this year’s Oscars race, “Dreamgirls” leads with eight nominations, followed by “Babel” with seven.
The nominees for best picture are “Babel,” “The Departed,” “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” and “The Queen.”

Earlier, likely contenders for the top Oscar in Tuesday’s nominations were the musical “Dreamgirls,” the mob saga “The Departed,” the multinational drama “Babel” and the British-royalty tale “The Queen.” The road-trip comedy “Little Miss Sunshine” looked like a solid bet to take the fifth best-picture slot.

David and I saw Dreamgirls on Saturday and despite getting numb bums, really loved it. The movie is so camp with great Mardi Gras like shows, great Diva numbers and that all time drag classic, “And I am telling you Im not going” (original Jennifer Holliday).

For all those who remember Regina Fong in London in the eighties, this version is much larger than Skinny Bitches’.

American Idol runner up Jennifer Hudson really steals the show and creates (for me) an absolute classic with the shows BIG number “And I am telling you Im not going”. Which gay man hasnt heard that song and empathised with the “Your gonna love me” part.

Overlooked because of her size and looks DESPITE her far superiot talent, her character Effie will certainly appeal to just about every Diva loving gay man. Jennifer is nominated for an Academy Award as Actress in a Supporting Role.

Beyonce Knowles was also really great in the role, proving that she can both act as well as sing but usurped by Jennifer Hudson (not credited as STARRING in the show).

SEE IT and good luck Jennifer!

Written by TechStickle on January 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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Marco Dapper : Sloppy Seconds

We’re booking our Queer Screen tickets and top of the list (or at least up there) is Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (only to see Marco Dapper Naked on the big screen of course.

Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
7:30pm, Academy Twin, 27 February 2007

The Sloppy Seconds 2 promotional copy from Queerscreen reads

“How far would you go to get the person of your dreams? In “Eating Out,” Kyle (Verraros) convinced his straight roommate to pretend to be gay to get the girl. Now, with the help of Gwen (Hands) and Tiffani (Kochan), Kyle pretends to be heterosexual to land Troy (Marco Dapper), the new guy — and nude model — in town, only to find himself joining the campus ex-gay support group and nabbing a girlfriend! Kyles ex boyfriend, Marc (Chukerman), is horrified at the plan and decides to pursue the confused Troy with his own tactic — being his out gay self. Who will win him first? In the boy eat boy, boy eat girl world of Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (the first American gay sequel ever), stakes get raised, sexual boundaries are obliterated, and the answer is never what you might expect!”

Written by TechStickle on January 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Mardi Gras Lashes out at Howard

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras organisers have launched a stinging attack on the Australian Prime Minister’s stance on same-sex marriage. The federal government of John Howard has rejected calls for Australian gay and lesbian couples to be allowed to have same-sex marriages or civil unions. Howard has spoken out against gay rights on many occasions.

In 2004 the government passed the Marriage Amendment Act, which stops the courts recognising the validity of same-sex relationships.

Lex Lindsay, Queer Screen’s Festival Manager commented, “Australia’s gay and lesbian community are treated like second class citizens by Australia’s Federal Government.

“John Howard would be screaming from the rooftops if his marriage wasn’t recognised by the government, yet this is just one of the many basic rights that the gay community is still denied here in Australia.

“I invite Mr Howard to try walking a mile in our shoes, come and see some these films, and then tell us why we don’t deserve to be treated equally.”

Sydney Mardi Gras is internationally famous for the parade, but is in fact a four week festival with a range of cultural and social events like Fair Day and the launch and after-parade parties.

The parade traditionally features floats with caricatures and effigies of hate figures in the gay community, which could feature Mr Howard.

Written by TechStickle on January 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Go Hilary Go

Good news for Gays! Hillary Clinton is planning to form an exploratory committee for the 2008 presidential race. She made the announcement on her website where she stated: “I’m in. And I’m in to win”. She made the announcement on her website where she stated: “I’m in. And I’m in to win”.

The second-term US senator from New York is considered a frontrunner ahead of five other candidates in the Democratic White House field. The move is the first step toward a full presidential bid.

She said: “I am forming a presidential exploratory committee. I am not just staring a campaign though, I am beginning a conversation with you, with America.

“After six years of George Bush it is time to renew the promise of America.”

The wife of former President Bill Clinton made history with her bid for US Senate in New York in 2000, becoming the first former first lady to win one of the most powerful political jobs in the nation. Clinton, 59, was re-elected by a huge margin to a second Senate term last November.

Written by TechStickle on January 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Snakes invade Sydney

Australian wildlife officials warn that a serious drought is driving tens of thousands of snakes into urban areas. Many venomous reptiles are moving into residential and business areas in search of moisture. Last week a 16-year-old boy in Sydney died from a bite by an Eastern Brown, one of the world’s deadliest snakes.

As the climate changes and the Bush administration sits back and watches, many parts of Australia are being hit hard by the drought - the worst for more than 100 years. Conversely storms batter Europe!

Experts have warned that an army of snakes is on the move, looking for water. Driven by extreme thirst they have been discovered in gardens, bedrooms and even Australian shopping centres. Hospitals have reported a rising number of snakebites. Toxicologists have said there have been 60 serious cases since September.

The drought is making snakes far more active - three people have died in Australia in recent weeks after being bitten.

A 16-year-old schoolboy from Sydney had a heart attack, and died a short time later, after being attacked by an Eastern Brown snake, which injects a lethal venom and is one of the world’s most dangerous reptiles!

Written by TechStickle on January 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Sydney Summer Shots : Golden Classic AussieBums at Bondi

Sydney Summer Shots : Golden Classic AussieBums at Bondi

Sydney is basking in the summer sun at 40 degrees today. Were not going down until it cools down a bit, and the gay boys come out in their AussieBums. Check out the latest classic trunk of gold!

Written by TechStickle on January 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Sydney’s Sweltering

Sydney’s Sweltering

Wow! Its 40 degrees. Too hot for the beach!

Written by TechStickle on January 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Matthew Bournes Swan Lake in Sydney

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras event

David and I booked tickets today for Matthew Bournes Swan Lake, the first of our Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2007 events. Actually we have booked Timothy Connigraves, Holding the Man, but that was because we couldnt get tickets in December.

Heres what the advocate says about it:-

Start with an all-male corps of hunky swans. Set them in a time-warp dreamscape oozing baroque ’40s romanticism. Mix with mime, dance, and a few female principals, and you have Matthew Bourne’s extraordinary Swan Lake, which may be the most overtly gay version of the classic ballet ever seen.

Except, perhaps, himself. A Cockney who grew up “always well-adjusted, with never any confusion” about his own homosexuality, the 38-year-old choreographer jokingly wonders where he got his love of angst. “I like to make people suffer in my pieces,” he says. “But that’s not because I’ve suffered.” On the contrary, since founding his own dance company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, in 1987, Bourne has maintained his status as one of Britain’s preeminent artists.

I saw this performance in London in 1997, but cant wait to see it at home in Sydney.

Much has been made of Matthew Bourne’s decision to cast men as the swans. The original ballet is a standard in the European tradition of romanticized female–male love. The heroine, the swan princess Odette, is portrayed as powerless but lovely in accordance with conventional gender roles, and her hero is portrayed as a hunter who alone has the power to save her. Having a man in the role of lead Swan puts love between men at center stage, and the naturalistic choreography given to the swan corps discredits the archetype of the swan as a pretty, feminine bird of gentle grace. According to Bourne, “The idea of a male swan makes complete sense to me. The strength, the beauty, the enormous wingspan of these creatures suggests to the musculature of a male dancer more readily than a ballerina in her white tutu.”[4]

However, central themes carry through both works. Both are about doomed, forbidden love, and both feature a Prince who wishes to transcend the boundaries of everyday convention through that love. Both themes have strong ties to the actual life of Tchaikovsky, the ballet’s composer.

Because it was produced in the United Kingdom, where the royal family has suffered media scandals in recent decades, this ballet is also sometimes viewed as a commentary on them. The thwarted Prince is generically royal in tone, but he has been likened by some to Charles, Prince of Wales, who suffered an arranged marriage before being allowed to marry his true love, and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, who is widely believed to be primarily attracted to men, despite repeated denials. The Prince and Queen characters in the ballet are certainly royalty in the pampered and remote mould sometimes portrayed by republicans, rather than the mould of dedicated civil servants portrayed by royalists.

Written by TechStickle on January 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Wow What a Storm

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