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1999's 25 WILDEST, WEIRDEST, AND WINNINGEST MOMENTS IN ENTERTAINMENT.


ONE ALLY DONNED A WIG; ANOTHER SMOOCHED A GIRL. FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS, THE FIN DE SIECLE Fin` de sie´cle

1. Lit., end of the century; - mostly used adjectively in English to signify: belonging to, or characteristic of, the close of the 19th century.
 WAS FILLED WITH KISSES, DISSES, AND NEAR MISSES ...

|1 After meeting her at a post-Oscar bash, Sir Ian McKellen escorts Monica Lewinsky to the London premiere of Gods and Monsters. |2 The wild urban gay soap Queer as Folk Queer as Folk may refer to:
  • Queer as Folk (UK TV series) (1999-2000), a British television series about a group of gay men
  • Queer as Folk (US TV series) (2000-2005), a North American remake of the British series
 stirs controversy in England--and plans for an American version. |3 Lesbian teen playwright Samantha Gellar becomes a hero for youth when her lesbian-themed play is nixed by a Charlotte, N.C., contest, then an all-star reading in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
. |4 Ally (Calista Flockhart) passion-kisses Ling (Lucy Liu), sending Ally McBeal to its highest rating ever. |5 Cheers! The British Museum shells out more than $2 million for a Roman-era goblet decorated with explicit homosexual love scenes. |6 Brit boy band Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, 23, yups he's gay. And in The Advocate's own out parade: Nathan Lane, Will & Grate's Megan Mullally (as bi), alternarocker Moby (bi too), and actor Alan Cumming (who tells us he's "pansexual pan·sex·u·al  
adj.
Relating to, having, or open to sexual activity of many kinds.

n.
A pansexual person.



pan
"). |7 Glen Meadmore, a gay Christian punk-country singer, releases Hot, Horny horn·y
adj.
1. Made of horn or a similar substance.

2. Tough and calloused, as of skin.
 & Born Again. |8 A postage stamp boasting the likeness of Queen's deceased lead singer Freddie Mercury--and approved by the queen--causes conservatives to go postal in the United Kingdom. |9 Writer-director Bill Condon earns an Oscar for his God and Monsters script. |10 Critics be damned, Ally Sheedy tackles the lead in the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. |11 Hot gay producing duo Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's version of Annie scores the highest TV movie ratings of the year. |12 Cocky movie mogul Bobby G. (Lee Arenberg) proudly stands nude before ultra-impressed agent Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr) on Fox's satire Action. |13 Angst-ridden teen Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith) comes out to his pals in Dawson's Creek. |14 Lesbian scribe Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955) is a British poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977. Carol Ann Duffy was awarded an OBE in 1995, and a CBE in 2002.  is bypassed as England's poet laureate, inspiring cries of homophobia around the world. |15 Unusual suspect Kevin Spacey spac·ey  
adj. Slang
Variant of spacy.

Adj. 1. spacey - stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug
spaced-out, spacy

unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"
 insists--and insists--to Playboy he isn't gay. |16 Queer filmmaker Kimberly Peirce and straight-but-not-narrow star Hilary Swank elicit tears--and Oscar buzz--with Boys Don't Cry. |17 Justin, The Real Worlds hyperintellectual gay roomie, bolts from the show halfway through ifs season. |18 Comedian Milton Berle takes a gay publication to court for running an ad that included an old photo of him in drag, The suit is later tossed out; call it the Carmen Miranda decision. |19 That dog! Rupert Everett moves from Manhattan to Los Angeles reportedly because the climate is better for Moise, his arthritic Labrador retriever Labrador retriever, breed of large sporting dog whose origins are obscure but whose immediate ancestors were developed in Newfoundland and brought to England in the early 1800s. It stands about 23 in. (58.4 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs between 60 and 75 lb (27. . |20 Mariel Hemingway comes back as a lesbian icon, swinging with women in the indie film The Sex Monster and, in First Daughter, playing a spy who's so buffed, everyone thinks she goes for women, It's the highest-rated basic cable movie ever. |21 R&B heartthrob Tevin Campbell, 22, pleads no contest to charges he solicited sex from a male undercover officer. |22 The world's first openly gay Best Actor Oscar nominee, Nigel Hawthorne, is knighted, |23 Gwyneth Paltrow signs to star in a film of Jeanette Winterson's The Passion as a, um, web-footed, cross-dressing lesbian. |24 George Michael tells a British tab he wouldn't mind shagging Shagging may refer to:
  • A term in Sexual slang
  • Shagging (baseball), a baseball term
 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. |25 The whole Ricky Martin thing.
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 18, 2000
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