down under

I’m not sure if it’s the rhinestones or the abundance of fab gay men, but I am looking forward to seeing behind the candelabra, the Scott Soderbergh film about Liberace, which was rejected by US studios for being “too gay” and now can be seen on HBO as opposed to our silver screens, down under.   Recently I tuned into a great show called  ‘please like me,’  created by Josh Thomas,  where stereotypes of gay men are broken and important issues are explored with colourful and relevant characters to today’s society. The show however was pushed to ABC2 and was suggested it was also too gay for TV.  But the show has now been picked up by Pivot, a new US cable channel and will début in North America in August.  US viewers have already fallen in love with the show and the network is now co-producing the second season…