An operatic "Material Girl" that's anything but a drag...

Jerry Penacoli had a convivial chat with Madonna backstage at the Billboard Music Awards for Extra in which she reacted to Elton John's claim that they'd made up and spoke at length about parenting...

Above: "Noah's Gay Wedding Cruise: MarriageEvolved Edition" goes on sale.

Mr. Pippin, Orion Griffiths, wins 7th Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant.

Virginia GOP nominee might be craziest right-winger yet.

"Gif" is pronounced "jif." Who knew, besides Dina Martina?

Giorgio Moroder, 73 plays his first DJ set.

Daft Punk bonus track "Horizon" appears.

Via Towleroad: Man, 30, underwear-dances with himself, 20:

Why Madonna has endured for 30 years.

Madonna & Li'l Wayne on Nicki Minaj's road to Billboard.

Yet another racist claims his racism wasn't racism.

Anti-gay nutjob's suicide note. See you in hell!

Jailed Pussy Riot member begins hunger strike.

New (gay) Dads on the Block share family photos.

Apparently, Lance Armstrong loooves to be gang-rimmed.

Um, I want in on a round, too, but Sheryl Crow was unavailable for comment.

He can power-lift...but can he carry a tune?

Farid Mammadov, most recent Eurovision's hottest hunk of man.

Japan's #1 gay pornstar, Koh Masaki, passes away.

Harvey Milk as bogeyman.

Spring Awakening as a high school musical.

Ivy & Jinkx do Death Becomes Her.

Kanye West burns it down "just like the theater Hitler was trapped in."

JAILBAIT: He thinks Hillary Clinton needs to "be shot in the vagina."

SAY HIS NAME: Joe.My.God. attends vigil for hate-crime murder victim Mark Carson:::

I missed the rally for the man blown away for being gay...in the West Village.

Via Sticky (Work Unfriendly): Model Sergio Carvajal & 2 other beauties.

Do you have sympathy for "The PayPal 14"?

Rob Pattinson & Kristen Stewart break up.

Soon: A "Yahoo-Tumblr mega-deal."

REMEMBER: Black masculinity & Fame.

Daft Punk "One More Time" singer Romanthony dies.

President Obama's approval rating enjoys a BOUNCE.

New (demo of) Britney song "Ooh La La" = Aqua meets Madonna's "Superstar."

David Chaloub by Cristiano Madureira for Made in Brazil.

This David shoulda been a statue.

 

Madonna slew at The Billboard Music Awards, arriving in an outfit that was giving me The Blue Angel, Sex and Dick Tracy flashes...and that was also giving me flasher flashes, considering she skipped pants.

Madonna at 35 or 36 in 1995's Four Rooms...

...and 18 years later, age 54!

Growing old "gracefully" is for people who could not wear this and look this good.

Kibitzing with Celine Dion!

Oh, and Keith at Billboard gets his Madonna moment, interviewing and posing with Madonna in one of her most memorable get-ups:

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Last week, I popped into the new show Intimate Portraits at The Impossible Project Space NYC, which is up through June 17. It's a dual show, featuring Polaroids by Maripol and Slava Mogutin.

An intimate peek at Intimate Portraits.

Maripol, the woman who gave Madonna her "Boy Toy" look, has been shooting Polaroids for over 30 years. She has a collection of some indescribably beautiful '80s shots (I am proud to own an original), but this collection was less about Downtown personae and more about sensuality, featuring models Adele, Clemence, Alessandra and Aurele. So French, so erotic, so fun.

I couldn't wait for Slava to shoot him, so I went ahead and did it myself. Want to again!

Mogutin, whose work I also own, told me his were all commissioned especially for this show. They, too, focus on the erotic; he captures flesh in a way you can smell it. Speaking of which, a ripe, absolutely eye-popping dancer walked in wearing a Tintin tee and sporting Technicolor rain-streak tattoos down his arms. I told Slava, "You have to shoot him, and I'll buy it." He joked in his Russian accent, "I would like to get him between the sheets."

Maripol told me she was jet-lagged, so I didn't see her by the time I left. Artists! But I did spot Brian Kenny and Robert Richards...and I own their stuff, too. I swear, almost every living artist whose work I have bought was in attendance. It made me feel like some crazy-important collector (which I am most certainly not).

Flex appeal.

Check out the show if you can—it's as tiny as the medium it celebrates, but packed with sexual abandon and represents a remarkable melding of styles from two artists I've always admired.

In case you haven't heard, Michael Musto, the longtime Village Voice nightlife reporter and gossip-with-a-purpose, was fired by the paper in a recent "bloodbath" of employees. What the bottom-liners at The Voice don't seem to realize is that in firing Michael Musto, they've voted to kill the paper off entirely. As the editor of a teen magazine I founded, I was often told, "You are that magazine." I always knew that wasn't entirely true, but I do think that proclamation applies to Michael Musto—he truly was the voice of The Village Voice.

This 12(!)-year-old French bitch can dance! I assure you, had I used my rented ($50 a day) VHS camera back in 1985 to film my elaborate "Into the Groove" routine, it would have been 10X smuttier, and one-tenth as technically dazzling...

Fancy a dip?

Via Sticky (Work Unfriendly): Marco Antônio Arcoverde Cals for H Magazine.

THE NEW MARLENE: Preview Madonna's MDNA Tour on Epix.

First-ever film adaptation of a David Sedaris piece to open Outfest.

Herndon Graddick resigns as GLAAD director after a year.

Will Harry Reid really go nuclear this time?

President Obama is squeaky-clean, conservatives can't get over it. 

I'LL TAX YOU FIRST: Tagged as a hate group...by Bette Midler.

Colin Egglesfield is attractive.

Sentences can end in prepositions.

Beating up on gays via court, and more literally.

New gay dads (my pals) Matt & Josh meet their new twins:

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Amen Madonna gets credit for this side-by-side

Rita Ora is apparently going to be the new face of Madonna and Lola's Material Girl line.