The Hipster Rent Boys Of New York

On a recent Wednesday evening, Robert was with a client in Greenwich Village. It was a first-timer who’d called him a few days earlier to arrange a meeting at a bar on 9th Street so they could speak face-to-face before closing the deal he’d proposed earlier.

When Robert arrived, the Read More

Anna Nicole, God Rest Her Soul, Had Genuine Porno Chic

I’m totally haggard. What I’m really trying to say is, I’m totally Ted Haggard—or rather, I’m totally jealous of Ted Haggard. Last week, the former crystal-meth-snorting, hustler-hiring evangelist declared that he is now, after three weeks of counseling, “completely heterosexual.” What a huge relief this must be for the poor bloke. How much simpler and Read More

‘Radar’ Promotes Tardy, Non-Exclusive ‘Exclusive’

The misuse of exclusive—”A news item initially released to only one publication or broadcaster,” according to American Heritage dictionary—isn’t just for the daily tabloids anymore.

Today, Radar promotes what it calls “an exclusive interview” with Mike Jones, the working stiff who took down his closeted one-time john, mega-church leader Ted Haggard.

The Advocate posted Read More