In the 1980s and 1990s, you weren’t a star unless you’d been photographed by Herb Ritts. As portrait photographers go, few artists — maybe Diane Arbus, possibly Alfred Stieglitz — have been able to capture personalities in 1/100th of a second as well as Ritts did. [...]

It’s that time again: time to say “so long” to another wearisome work week and dust off our list of household chores, which we will totally take care of this weekend. Unlike last weekend. Promise. [...]

It’s Friday, which means (a) we’re heading out for a three-margarita lunch, and (b) before we do that, we need to unload the handful auto-related links we’ve been hoarding. See you at the bar! [...]

According to Bilerico, the Indiana Youth Group granted a few low-number plates to its major donors, which violated the contract that the group signed with the BMV. The BMV’s former communications director, Graig Lubsen, says that “traditionally, the BMV has allowed group to give out low-numbered plates as thank-you gifts to donor”. However, such activity is technically illegal and was grounds to cancel the contract, thus ending the sale of the group’s plate. [...]

It’s been a quiet week here at Gaywheels, with many of our automotive acquaintances stuck at the 2012 Geneva Auto Show. (Life’s rough sometimes.) Still, we found a couple of tasty news nuggets for car nuts. Savor them as you count down the minutes until Miller Time — or cosmo time, if that’s your thing: [...]

Remember when we told you that Indiana was adding an LGBT-friendly license plate to its roster of specialty plates? Well, that didn’t sit to well with conservative lawmakers in Indianapolis. In fact, Republican Ed Soliday of Valparaiso was so sickened by the idea of tolerance and harmony that he introduced a bill to nix specialty plates altogether. [...]

If you’ve got a little time to kill this Thursday, and you’ve already slogged through the endless array of “Sh*it People Say” videos and Angelina Jolie legbombing pics, maybe you should pay a visit to FirstCarStory.com. [...]

The past couple of weeks have been slow on the car news front but great for LGBT Americans. We scored marriage-equality victories in Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington, and when Chris Christie vetoed that New Jersey bill, he was roundly, soundly booed for being on the wrong side of history (as we now say). What’s more, if the recent Prop 8 verdict stands, it would seem that once couples begin marrying in Maryland and Washington, there’ll be no going back. [...]