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Openly Fey: John Waters discusses his new book, "Role Models" -- in which he salutes everyone from Johnny Mathis and Tennessee Williams to a gay reality-porn auteur and ex-Charles Manson groupie and murderer Leslie Van Houten -- and why he hates men who wear top hats and people with hobbies. (Salon)

Follies Fire: Learn the history the 1977 fire at a gay triple-X cinema in Washington, D.C.'s once-seedy Southeast that claimed the lives of 10 men, none of whom were identified by name in The Washington Post: Then-Managing Editor Howard Simon said the paper's main motivation was "compassion for the wives and children" [since some of the victims were married] but Seib went on to ask whether this approach had the effect of "underscoring the stigma of homosexuality, of shoving it back in the closet at a time when efforts are being made to bring it out and address it as a social fact." (JDLand)

A Rush to Sell Out: What the hell is wrong with Elton John? (MSNBC)

Making a Splash? Bad news for guys like me with skinny legs: swim trunks are getting fashionable shorter. (NYT)

The Pope of Paparazzi: Can't wait for the premiere tonight of "Smash His Camera," HBO's new documentary about photographer Ron Galella, whose hounding of Jackie O made him infamous, but whose behavior seems almost quaint compared with today's paparazzi standards. (Jackie had the gall to say she didn't consider herself a "public figure" during the trial!) Hank Stuever writes: Galella's work spans from the 1960s to the present day, but really this is a movie that revels in the glorious vitality of the 1970s celebresphere, the final days of black-and-white film and chest hair and too many Harvey Wallbangers. (WaPo)

The Gay Team: Quinton Jackson gets a profile in the Arts and Leisure section of The New York Times and not a word is mentioned of his "acting is kinda gay" comment? (NYT)

Cybill Discourse: Lady Gaga, Cybill Shepherd and director Lee Daniels were honored over the weekend at the San Francisco GLAAD Media Awards. (Theater Mania)