Host: Amy Matheny with co-host Colman Domingo

This is our Mother’s Day show! Amy and Colman share sweet memories of their mothers on this Queercast. Colman is co-hosting Logo’s NewNowNext Awards Show with Candis Cayne.

Movie Minute: Helen Hunt’s directorial debut film, Then She Found Me. Bette Midler also stars. http://thinkfilm.com/thenshefoundme/

Guest: Courtney Parks is a life coach for female professionals. She helps you define your big vision and makes it a reality. For more information go to: www.courtneyparks.com.

Colman’s recommendations if you had a full day to spend in New York.

Music Featured in This Queercast:
Patty Griffin - “Heavenly Day”
Sheryl Crow - “Detours”

Host: Amy Matheny with co-host Colman DomingoAmy and Colman start us off on this fun-filled Queercast. We have many adventures to take you on so hold onto something. Madonna gave a free 30 minute concert in NYC. OK, who has seen the sidesplitting reactions on YouTube to the infamous 2 Girls 1 Cup video? You MUST check some of them out! Tummies beware…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GOFrbDAhUU&NR=1

Next, Amy and Kelli take us on a tour of Memphis, Tennessee. Who knew Kelli was such an Elvis fan! Her enthusiasm at Graceland is truly endearing.

Mark Nadler is in town performing his comedy-in-music adventure, Russian on the Side. He has been compared to comedic legends such as Victor Borge and performers like Danny Kaye, so stop by the Royal George Theatre. For tickets call 312-988-9000 or go online to http://www.russianonthesideonline.com

Colman gives us his final comments on Mariah Carey and her marriage to Drumline’s Nick Cannon. Can someone say prenup? Oy, the crazy life of Mimi…

Music Featured in This Queercast:
Timbaland - “The Way I Are”
Paul Simon - “Graceland”
Elvis Presley - “Welcome to My World”
Marc Cohn - “Walking in Memphis”
Mark Nadler - “The Ugly Duckling” and “Tchaikovsky (And Other Russians)”

Host: Amy Matheny with co-host Alexandra Billings

Dish: It’s all about the kids today.  Is today’s technology a good thing or is it stealing our privacy? Is cybersex really cheating? Let us know your opinions!

The B-52’s are playing tonight in Chicago, but don’t fret, you can find them on their Fun Plex Tour. Check them out in your city!

Guest: PJ Paparelli, new artistic director at the American Theatre Company is on the Queercast today. He makes his directorial debut at ATC with the hilarious and critically acclaimed show, Speech and Debate. For more ticket information, call 773-409-4125 or go to atcweb.org.

Music Featured in This Queercast:
Missy Higgins - “Peachy”
Bye Bye Birdie - “Kids”
Erykah Badu - “Rimshot”

Host: Amy Matheny with co-host Alexandra Billings

Dish: This ALL TALK Queercast features Amy and Alex dishing on Joan Crawford, Barbra Streisand and several other divas of old. Who remembers when Saturday morning had the best TV around? Alex does - can you guess her favorite shows? Amy doesn’t remember the Banana Splits!  Such a shame…who forgets Danger Island and Uh Oh, Chongo!?  Alex is coming to Chicago May 18th to perform with Honey West!  And of course there is American Idol chat.

Richard Knight Jr. gives us his first Queercast Movie Minute with his review of the Tina Fey film, Baby Mama.

Music Featured in This Queercast:
Barbra Streisand - “Don’t Rain on My Parade”
Oleta Adams - “Get Here”

Host: Amy Matheny with co-host Kelli Simpkins

Dish: It is our first podcast ever from Wrigley Field and CUBS WIN! They are on a streak! Kelli is shy at first, a little self-conscious recording in the stands, but once they get home they talk about Hillary winning Pennsylvania (so it’s not over yet?!) and how she and Barack might do in Kelli’s home state of Indiana for the next primary.

Also it is the 11th Annual National Day of Silence for students across the US. If they had GSA’s when Amy was a high school student, she thinks she could have been recruited…because she was clueless. Kelli calls her practical. Must be love. But Kelli recognizes like the rest of us that a Day Of Silence would be near impossible for our Amy.

Guest: Our Movie Queen, Richard Knight Jr. fills us in on all things movies. Which DVD box sets are we buying more of? Bette Davis or Joan Crawford? Nora Jones is making her acting debut. April and May will be bringing many films to the theater. New Indiana Jones, Bette Midler and Robert Downey are just a few that made the cut on this Queercast. Check out www.knightatthemovies.com for more!

Music Featured in This Queercast:
Steve Goodman - “Go, Cubs Go!”
Duffy - “Mercy”

The Pennsylvania primary. In the heartland states, their political barometer is based on the “3 G’s” - God, Guns and Gays. However, it has been mostly about God and Guns this time around. Based on Barack’s “bitter” comments eating up airtime over the past week, political pundits are having a field day defending or attacking his fumble…since they are bitter, the people in PA cling to God and guns. Bet he wishes he said that differently. Many PA folks think he is out of touch or condescending. So Hillary is running with it. She is talking up the hobbies and “gun” protections in the state - our little Annie Oakley. And both of the candidates met on CNN to discuss Faith in America. Of course Barack is NOT an elitist, even if many of his friends and contributors might be, but this is politics and how the game is played.

But then again, Barack has been in the news with the “gays.” He has been chastised for not been meeting with local gay press in PA. The Philadelphia Gay News requested an interview with him - no response. Last week they ran a photo of the Senator on Page one with a stamp saying “1529 days since the Senator has spoken to Local Gay Press.” So late last week he did sit down for an interview with the Advocate. National Press, not local. His last regional gay press interview was with our very own Windy City Times during his run for the Senate. He talked to the Advocate about repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But PA folks want to know his stand on the anti-gay marriage state constitutional legislation before the PA senate.

But then the vote came last night. They said Hillary had to win big. By 10 points to stay viable in the race. And she did. The proverbial “they” continue to give her a bar to hit and somehow she hits exactly where they tell her ..it’s amazing to me the fight in that lady. She wins another state even when Barack outspent her 3-1. But what does that mean? Did the negative ads garner her votes? Did he simply lose votes? Is the tide turning? Is the state too old and too indebted to the Clintons? Can Barack win middle class white votes? Recent polls say that 50% of Hillary’s supporters in PA would vote for McCain over Obama. That is a scary statistic.

Kudos to both candidates on their speeches last night. For Hillary it was one of her best. For Barack it was the stellar oration we always expect. Hillary was optimistic, direct in her plea for contributions and positive about Obama. Obama was congratulatory, not convinced that his message needs to change, and he mentioned “gay and Straight” for the first time in a long time in a political speech on TV (that I can remember.) SO he is aware that he needs to be talking to us. I think Hillary needs to mention from a podium sometime soon as well.

So the race continues. On to Indiana and the Hoosiers and to the Mountains of North Carolina. Looks like we are headed on to June. Is that a bad thing for the party or good? Big questions. And it is all playing out. How exciting! Now that’s Democracy.

Host: Amy Matheny

Dish: Amy is poolside at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. She is on the Strip to help Queercast editor, Di-Lish, celebrate the big 4-0! Does Amy Win or Lose on this trip? What is there to do when you come to Vegas? Well, Amy shows off one of the most extraordinary hotels anywhere - the Bellagio Hotel and Casino. www.bellagio.com From the pools to the shows to the art and the gorgeous lobby. Watch this video to see their gorgeous Conservatory filled with Chihuly glass and botanical wonders.
www.windycityqueercast.com/?p=267

And you have never seen so much plastic surgery outside of Los Angeles as in Vegas. But a kids book about Mommy getting pretty? What is the world coming to!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/BeautySecrets/story?id=4675368&page=1

Surrounded by Canadians from Alberta at Blackjack til the wee hours of morning, Amy discovered that the money you spend in Vegas, usually stays in Vegas.

Guest: Betty Young of American Airlines (www.aa.com/rainbow) announces the launch of TravelBag, an application with Facebook that lets GLBT people share information, pictures, and tips on travel.

Music Featured in this Queercast:
Elvis Presley - “Viva Las Vegas”
Gwen Stefani - “Rich Girl”
Frank Sinatra - “Fly Me to the Moon”

Amy’s inside the conservatory gardens at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Pretty amazing place, eh?

Host: Amy Matheny with co-host Deb Pearce

Dish: This is Deb’s second appearance on the Queercast, woohoo!  Amy and Deb are both itchy with Spring flowers.  Does Deb want to get married, cuz they CAN in CANada. What is Amy’s definition of a country girl? Does it match yours?  Do you know the new Penal Code?  These gals are so similar it will freak your freak!

Listen to Deb on ProudFM.com Monday thru Friday 10am-3pm

Music Featured on This Queercast:
Tristan Prettyman - “Madly”
The The - “This is the Day”
Annie Lennox – “Money Can’t Buy It”

So is there a double standard between men and women? Always! Except usually it’s women who get the short end of the stick. You only have to watch this election to watch that play out with Hillary day to day.

BUT with friendships between hetero men, they truly miss out — most of them. Fear creeps in. Fear of intimacy, seeming gay, maybe they are gay and closeted so then the gulf between them and other men REALLY grows. However, a new revolution of “Bromance” is brewing - George and Brad, Lance and Matthew, it’s between the covers…of the tabloids. Perhaps guys can love one another while not LOVING one another. “The close bond between guys” and wings and beer and sports that evokes outdoorsy, sweaty activity…. Watch the video on the phenomenon. It’s news! Can you believe it?

http://www.236.com/feed/2008/04/10/bromance_its_like_friendship_b_5787.php

How sweet. How profound. Come on! Give me a break. It’s a little gay. It’s a lot gay! And say it with me hetero guys, “That’s okay!”

Before bromances, these intimate female relationships were one thing that we ladies always had on you guys. These sacred friendships with our women friends. Close, tactile, intimate, revealing. And not just lesbians. Straight and gay women from young to old (Golden Girls anyone? or is Sex & the City more your thing?) are more willing to open themselves up to one another. And may I say from personal experience, that from time to time some straight women have even been willing to cross sexual boundaries. I hear it all the time. It happened with me. How fun for us willing single lesbian gals to take up the gauntlet and shepherd our straight women friends through perhaps one of their only same sex experiences. So come on straight guys! Give it a go once in your life. You’re already sweaty and doing a sporting activity together! I think Lance and Matthew could pounce any day now.By the by in that video is that Daniel Radcliffe (aka Harry Potter) by the stone wall talking in a bromance?

Speaking of Potter’s perfect pickled pecs, Daniel Radcliffe is coming to the US in the buff. That’s right! (I bet he is the object of many a bromance …or would it be “man crush” now that we know the distinction?) He will reprise his starring role in the hit production from the West End of EQUUS where he was naughty naughty and got naked naked playing a disturbed stable boy. Yummy. He even makes me have ungay thoughts in those pics with that white horse and that is just all shades of WRONG so I should just shut up now.

 He earned rave reviews, standing ovations and for sure Broadway will cling him to her bosom. This may have young girls (and boys) of all ages flocking to the theatre more than WICKED. So get your tickets. The show debuts Sept 5. Perfect trip to NYC for men having a bromance.

Host: Amy Matheny with co-host Deb Pearce of Toronto’s Proud FM

Dish: Deb’s thrilled to be the new Queerrespondent. Amy and Deb are basically the same person but with Deb the faggy butch and Amy the lipstick lezzie. Both ladies are battling allergies as Spring is in the air, but Deb is on Bush Patrol and thrilled to be able to cuss with abandon on the Queercast. She is more restrained on her day job. Listen to Deb at proudfm.com Monday - Friday 10am -3pm EST.

Amy discusses favorite moments over the past 200 shows and Di-Lish, Queercast editor, surprises us all with a Blooper Reel, that is NOT to be missed. These kids are not perfect in the least.

Guest: Ms Cleo is a favorite of the show and came on to help us celebrate. Ms Cleo gets political - she has Hillary’s numbers and says don’t count her out. And she talks about Whitney in the clubs years ago. She also still expects Prince William to tie the knot. And watch out for the economy, it’s not good guys.

Want to talk to Cleo? Email her at juscleo@yahoo.com

Music Featured on This Queercast:
George Michael - “An Easier Affair”
Sheryl Crow - “Love is Free”
Thievery Corporation - “Lebanese Blonde”

Host: Amy Matheny with guest host Stephen Rader.

Dish: Amy and Stephen have an intimate conversation in her car. Is it therapy or entertainment? You decide. Is Stephen a Top? Or a Bottom? Capturing the shocking conversation, Amy IS officially the lesbian Oprah.

Windy City Gay Idol: Amy’s back in the Closet with Creagh, honorary fairy and Karaoke guy (www.myspace.com/creaoke), as they work Windy City Gay Idol (70 events and still going!)

Guest: The extraordinarily talented and funny actor, Colman Domingo, lives a dual life. His comedy skills can be found on Logo’s Big Gay Sketch Show and his dramatic musical chops in the critically acclaimed Broadway rock musical, Passing Strange: For more visit: www.colmandomingo.com

Don’t miss his fantastically wrong portrayal of Maya Angelou here at logoonline.com!

Music Featured on this Queercast:
Kylie Minogue - “Like A Drug”
Smokey Robinson - “I Second That Emotion”

I am feeling a bit under the weather today (I was around a plethora of folks this weekend so many of you could have done this to me…or maybe I just ran myself into the ground…that’s probably the truth of it all). Kelli headed to NYC for the week. My brother and father are visiting later this week so I am gearing up to have them here - very excited! My brother has never seen my house. Nilla is getting groomed for her grandpa and uncle tomorrow, which probably means it will rain. Always rains when she gets groomed.

I keep getting emails from the Hillary camp and I want to make another donation, but I have been hesitating. Waiting for what? I don’t know…for the good people of Pennsylvania to start having a voice in our democracy. Maybe I don’t feel the urgency since neither Barack or Hillary can ultimately win the nomination now since they are in such a dead heat. Hillary came on Ellen on Monday. I missed it but am lucky that Di-lish sent me a link. Once again Hillary proves that she doesn’t have to cry to be human. She has a connection, a real human connection with our community. Hillary and Bill both embraced our community - he made mistakes but I think Hillary will make amends for it all. It may take a Hillary to clean up after a Bush and after a Clinton. I do think that the truth of it is that she will do big things for our community if elected. And we need her. Check out this clip from her appearance if you missed it. Think I may have to make another donation now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnT8q5S4NFY

This week I have been way into basketball, college ball, that is. Because all of my Tennessee teams have been trying to go all the way. Kansas beat Memphis men last night. Exciting game and there will be more opportunities for the Freshman Derrick Rose of Memphis. (and boy, what a shot into overtime for Kansas! Legendary. ) Lady Vols play tonight. Some Candace on Candace action. Should be HOT! Not that kind of hot -but HOT!

Lastly, our lady Madge released her new video with Justin T. With the vaselined lens she doesn’t look a day over 30+ and her body is still killer. She and JT make a sexy pair. I like the vibe of the song (should be fun on the dance floor) but I miss the long ago days of singing along with her tunes. “Cherish, Cherish” anyone? Ahhh… I miss the cheesy Madonna so much. La Isla Bonita, Dear Jessie, Lucky Star…you know what I am talking about. But here it is. I kind of felt squeamish wanting them to makeout, kiss, grind - the usual music video fare - and then feeling like I might need a bath afterward if they did too much (little too Mary Kay Letourneau for me, maybe). So I guess they struck a balance. It’s called 4 Minutes and the song is….you guys are SO SMART!!!! Anyone say Anatomy 101?

http://www.236.com/feed/2008/04/04/new_madonna_video_featuring_jt_5653.php

Host: Amy Matheny with guest host Stephen Rader.

Dish: Amy and Stephen talk to us from the show NINE on this Queercast. Stephen has hailed this as the best Porchlight show ever! Amy has been living at the theater. The best and the worst of talk shows for the GLBT community: why Oprah rocked it and how Leno blew it. And, of course, Dolly on Idol.

Music Featured on this Queercast:
Cher - “Believe”
Dolly Parton - “I Will Always Love You”

Host: Amy Matheny with guest host Kelli Simpkins

Dish: It’s all chit-chat this time around. Amy is back from Tennessee. You can say it -you missed her, we all did. The girls settle in for a fun-filled Queercast. When nature attacks (well, not really), fashion faux pas, candy wrappers (Amy should really eat quieter foods on-air), camel-toe cups? (eek!) and other delightful tidbits coming your way.

Music Featured on this Queercast:
Arrested Development - “Tennessee”
Rhett Miller - “I’m with Her”
Rusted Root - “Send Me on My Way”