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Gay porn award show’s blow off of Kathy Griffin seemingly induced the comedian to compete for their audience with a show of her own. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/AP)
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Dish doesn’t understand all this talk about the “Oscars” coming up. Um…the GAYVNs just happened, so who gives a twink?
The GAYVN’s, everyone’s favorite gay porn awards show, were held on Feb. 16, but not without its own very special form of gay controversy. Last year the GAYVNs were held at the renowned Castro Theatre and included gay-favorite comedian as host.
According to San Francisco’s SFist, a blog about the city, a change in the awards this year set the stage for revenge.
“The main sponsors of the awards, AVN/GAYVN, decided not to spring for the Castro Theatre and not to pay Kathy Griffin’s high appearance fee this year, opting instead for the Giftcenter and a couple of ‘F-list satellite radio stars,’” a source told the blog. “So then Kathy, miffed, and knowing she has an audience here, decided to mount a competing show at the Castro the same night.”
Mount, indeed. Oh, drama on the porn seas. It certainly is true, at least, that Griffin did manage to sell out the Castro Theatre the very same night as the GAYVN awards, which were held at the Giftcenter and were reportedly not sold out. Derek and Romaine, who host a gay radio show on Sirius Radio, played host, along with drag queen Lady Bunny.
Also, according to the Bay Area Reporter, a GAYVN award nominee for Best Score had to be eliminated after it was discovered that the score’s “composer” had lifted strains from “L’elisir d’amore,” an opera by Gaetano Donizetti. Hmmm…is it possible it took that long to find the overlap in the “opera queen” and “porn fan” Venn diagram of gay men?
Dish says impossible! Must have just been a straight man picking the scores.
There are certain places where gays can expect to find supporters. At, say, a convention for men who dressed up as for their grade school talent competition, one might expect to find a friend or two of Dorothy. But one probably wouldn’t be scanning CNN’s “Situation Room” with for a gay rights supporter, especially when he’s doing an interview with a former NBA star.
 But on Feb. 15, there was, expressing support for gay marriage after calling religious conservatives phonies.
“Every time I hear the word ‘conservative,’ it makes me sick to my stomach, because they’re really just fake Christians, as I call them. That’s all they are,” Barkley said.
Blitzer asked him to clarify his point.
“Well, I think they — they want to be judge and jury,” he said. “Like, I’m for gay marriage. It’s none of my business if gay people want to get married.”
Not too shabby, Barkley. Not too shabby at all. He later added that he’s comfortable saying he’s both pro-choice and for gay marriage. “Very comfortable,” he emphasized.
 Dish knows how hard it can be for straight people to understand the nuances of gay culture. But and might have some ‘splaining to do to the trans folks and the more sensitive among the gays if they follow through with their scheduled appearances at the Human Rights Campaign’s dinner on Feb. 23 in New York.
Of course, Menzel won a Tony for her work in “Wicked” and who doesn’t love Williams’ villainess role on ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” but the two are facing pressure from trans rights organizations to cancel their appearances at the dinner because HRC supported the gay-only version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
Good luck maintaining those gay cards, ladies.
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