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Book Notes - Virginia Pye "River of Dust"

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee...

STUDY: Audiences Buy Gay Actors Playing It Straight

yesterdayLGBT / Gay : Queerty

Sticking a big fat tongue out to Bret Easton Ellis and Rupert Everett, researchers at South Carolina’s Clemson University found that audiences have no problem believing openly gay actors as straight characters. We’re also assuming that these audiences know what “acting” is. According to PinkNews, the study also revealed that being out had no measurable [...]

Jason Collins, The Magical Gay Elf Basketball Player

Kudos to openly gay writer Bret Easton Ellis who slammed the media coverage of NBA scrub Jason Collins' and his "heroic" act of coming out.... Was I the only gay man of a certain demo who experienced a flicker of annoyance in the way...Show More Summary

Bret Easton Ellis Explains How He Got The Inspiration For Those Super Gruesome Scenes In 'American Psycho'

Brett Easton Ellis, the author of "American Psycho" (the scariest book written about Wall Street) and several other must-read novels, did a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" the other day. It was a pretty good AMA and we'd recommend reading the full thing. Here's an excerpt. Show More Summary

Book Notes - Norah Labiner "Let the Dark Flower Blossom"

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee...

You had me at ‘Glee is a puddle of HIV’

Novelist Bret Easton Ellis has stirred the hornet’s nest with an editorial bashing organizations like GLAAD as “the gatekeepers of politically correct gayness.” The Out rant, titled “In the Reign of the Gay Magical Elves,” was prompted in part by the media response to the recent coming out of basketball player Jason Collins, whom Ellis writes is […]

Ellis Attacks Gay Campaign Group Over "Politically Correct Gayness"

3 days agoArts / Writing : LitReactor

Controversial author Bret Easton Ellis has done it again, upsetting activist group GLAAD in the process. News by Dean Fetzer Bret Easton Ellis seems to be making a habit of upsetting people. He’s done it again, upsetting LGBT activist...Show More Summary

Bret Easton Ellis Savages Media, GLAAD for 'Corporate PC Fascism'

Bret Easton Ellis is fed up with how the media and groups like GLAAD treat gay people in the public arena. Ellis, the gay author behind Less than Zero and American Psycho, routinely goes against conventional wisdom regarding gay issues. Show More Summary

Book Notes - Norman Lock "Love Among the Particles"

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee...

What will replace Reddit?

Also in today's Reddit Digest: Bret Easton Ellis, Doctor Who drama, and chasing Barbara Bush on segways.

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In Out magazine, Bret Easton Ellis critiques the media’s handling of the basketball player Jason Collins’s coming out, and what he dubs “The Gay Man as Magical Elf” syndrome. The Brooklyn Public Library is creating an oral-history project...Show More Summary

In "In the Reign of the Gay Magical Elves," Bret Easton Ellis — author of "American Psycho" — complains of his victimhood, as a gay man...

... at the hands of "The Culturally Correct Gay Elite," who enforce a strict stereotype of gay men as victims, to be coddled like children and who punish any gay man who — like Ellis — "makes crude jokes about other gays in the media...Show More Summary

17 Things We Learned From Bret Easton Ellis’s Reddit AMA

Yesterday afternoon, famed novelist, screenwriter, and Twitter terrorist Bret Easton Ellis graced Reddit with his presence for an … Read More

Bret Easton Ellis Addresses David Foster Wallace Comments

4 days agoMedia / Publishing : GalleyCat

Novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis hosted an Ask Me Anything interview on Reddit today, fielding questions about an American Psycho musical adaptation and talking about his work. One reader asked Ellis why he bashed the work...Show More Summary

Bret Easton Ellis complains about things, again

Remember Bret Easton Ellis? The author of “American Psycho,” the quintessential ‘80s business-world-accoutrement diatribe? Nothing? Hmm… What about the gay author with a persistent case of foot-in-mouth disease whenever the discussion (or lack thereof — Easton Ellis don’t care, he’s happy to...

Bret Easton Ellis Comments on David Foster Wallace ‘Feud’

In case you weren’t aware, Bret Easton Ellis is, at the moment of this writing, engaged in an

Bret Easton Ellis attacks 'culturally correct gay elite'

Novelist and prolix Twitterer Bret Easton Ellis is raising hackles once again by labeling such organizations as GLAAD as "the gatekeepers of politically correct gayness" in a long editorial in Out Magazine. Ellis invited further response to his argument by announcing an AMA ("ask me anything") on Reddit, to be held at noon Pacific time today.

Adam Lambert, gay Gallup, Minnesota marriage

4 days agoLGBT / Gay : Project Q Atlanta

Watch Glambert’s GLAAD acceptance speech, Gallup shows marriage majority holding, Minnesota victory party for gay marriage law, Bret Easton Ellis bashes Collins coverage, more.

"The Good Gay"

Bret Easton Ellis' quite excellent essay on gay uptightness puts him pretty firmly back in my good graces forever. --- See more posts by Choire Sicha 0 comments

Book Notes - Ben Greenman "The Slippage"

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee...

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