Political quiz: Which of the following is the GOP’s vice presidential pick? Better yet, which one would you prefer to be your veep?

The tables were turned on me recently when Mark-Brian Sonna, an actor, playwright and sometime contributor to the gay Web site EdgeDallas.com, interviewed me about my role as theater critic. I assume most of the quotations are correct, but I was pretty drunk when we did the interview — it was, after all, after 2 p.m. on a Wednesday. You can read it here. 

“The Big Bang,” Theatre Three’s hysterical mini-musical in the downstairs black box space, have been extended to Sept. 14, which leaves even more time to see the all-gay cast — Gary Floyd, Doug Miller and Terry Dobson — sing and sweat their hearts out. Don’t miss it.

My travel feature about Manchester Pride appears in today’s edition of Dallas Voice.

The first restaurant I dined at was Ithaca, which was insanely hip. So hip, that Victoria Beckham chowed down there last night, Perez Hilton reports. Today Posh launched her new smell, “Beckham Signature,” at Harvey Nichols in Manchester. (more…)

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It’s official, John McCain has chosen a pro-life, NRA member and ex-beauty queen as his running mate. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is known as the women who cleaned up Alaskan government and cut pork barrel spending. Although according to an Alaskan political blog, Palin faces an on-going ethics investigation herself for allegedly trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired.

Her record on LGBT issues seems to be pretty slim — and it’s actually in our favor.
After much political pressure, Palin used her first veto in office to nix a bill that would have kept the state from giving domestic partner benefits to employees on the grounds that it wasn’t constitutional. This made her administration the first Alaskan governor to back domestic partner benefits. But it is important to note that she consulted with the state’s AG first to make sure the bill wasn’t constitutional. (Maybe she was hoping it was)

Other than that, her record on LGBT issues is almost nonexistent. We’ll do some more digging and get back to you later with more.

In today’s edition of Dallas Voice, UnShaunte DeFox, pictured, she said she saw Grace Jones dripping in foxtails perform “Do or Die.” And her Grace obsession instantly began.

I just found the video. And it’s homolicious [Photo by Terry Thompson]

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We have a story in Friday’s print edition (link to it here) where columnist Hardy Haberman opines about the (bad) decision of NBC not to show gay Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham’s partner or even profile the upset diving victor.

Now comes this news report online: 

“NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel has apologized to Australian gold-medal winner Matthew Mitcham for not profiling the openly gay diver during the network’s coverage or showing his partner in the stands at the time of his victory. ‘We regret that we missed the opportunity to tell Matthew Mitcham’s story. We apologize for this unintentional omission,’ Zenkel said.”

 Maybe four years from now, NBC can enter the 21st century.

I was driving along Turtle Creek Boulevard around Lemmon Avenue in Uptown a few minutes ago, and the cops are out in force. Looks like they’re planted at the intersection, just itchin’ to hand out tickets, and my guess, based on the one sap I saw getting one, is that they are targeting non-seat-belters. So buckle up or pay the city!

Gay — seriously. The final two came down to lesbian Dee from Miami, above left, and gay Charlie from Denver, center. And the crown goes to… DEE! We’re all happy about that who think Charlie represented the mean, bitchy gay stereotype typical to reality shows. So finally a nice guy (or girl) wins.

But while Dee may have won the title, the fan favorite turned out to be none other than Daniel Lewis of Denton, who took home $10,000 in the online poll.