All posts by Doug Rule
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Bear Necessity
Johnny Scruff was frustrated. Smartphone apps weren't helping him find the kind of guys he liked -- scruffy guys. They were not, as he puts...
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Courting Controversy
Gino Tassara has learned the hard way: A gay play can be a tough sell. ''I was thinking it would be very easy to produce...
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Video Flashback
''I'm loving seeing the mix in the crowd we get,'' says Nikolas Groshans. ''The people are from all different backgrounds, they're different sexes, they're different...
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Role Model
By day, Sajdah Golde is a field organizer with the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Vote for Equality initiative, canvassing neighborhoods that voted for California's...
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Art and Artifice
Could it be time for a Candy Darling revival? It's been 37 years since her death due to leukemia -- and the Andy Warhol-associated starlet's...
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Bird Watching
Right now, a play about gay penguins -- and more broadly, gay marriage -- is playing at a small, relatively new theater in Fairfax County....
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Oklahomo
''I think being in the Midwest, people don't expect it to be quite like that, but in Tulsa there's just a lot of support,'' says...
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Team Work
As general manager for the past 14 years, Joey Oldaker, known as Joey-O, helped shape many memories of the club originally known as Badlands. But...
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Thanks for the Memories
What do you remember about Badlands and Apex? ''When I started at Badlands in 1993 there were two walled-in alcoves where the main bars [off...
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Rock Out
I know what you're thinking. A jukebox musical with cheesy rock and noisy hair metal from the '80s? Starring Constantine Maroulis, an American Idol also-ran...
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Sizzlin' Good Stuff
The theater world is on notice: In a few weeks, a past season's worth of understudies at Signature Theatre will take the stage in a...
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Koz Celebre
A random shirtless guy ran right through a video shoot for smooth jazz artist Dave Koz's new single, ''This Guy's In Love With You.'' ''He...
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Wedding Singer
''I put together this program before ,'' says Steven Blier, ''but now that it has, the program has a different meaning...
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Queer as Folk
Guitarist Anne McCue's first live performance was at a pool party in her native Sydney, Australia. ''We were so shy,'' she says of her first...
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Hiding the Bacon
''We have very loyal football fans, and there was just about a rumble,'' says Doug Schantz, owner of Nellie's Sports Bar. Schantz is referring to...
