Documentary I Am Divine Is Just That
Rich Juzwiak · 04/09/14 02:20PMI can't think of a better way to recommend Jeffrey Schwarz's 2013 documentary I Am Divine, out on DVD this week, than by sharing the clip above. It draws a picture of what it was like for Harris Glenn Milstead, who'd go on to become the John Waters muse and drag icon known as Divine, to be gay in the '60s. It's affectionate, it's snappily paced, it's brimming with Baltimore-bred weirdos (including Diana Evans, whom Divine dated for about six years starting in high school, and seems like the least weird out of all the talking heads). All it's missing is commentary from Divine himself, which is something the movie has no shortage of, given the big archive of press appearances Divine left behind when he died in 1988.
Tom Scocca · 04/09/14 02:17PM
Letters From Death Row: A Texas Inmate Remembers Ray Jasper
Hamilton Nolan · 04/09/14 01:55PMCanadian Dentist Plans to Raise Cloned John Lennon as His Son
Jay Hathaway · 04/09/14 01:35PMMarine Todd Is Real, and He's Running for Congress
Adam Weinstein · 04/09/14 01:21PMMax Read · 04/09/14 01:18PM
Adam Weinstein · 04/09/14 01:12PM
Why Be a Neocon? Because You Like Being Very Wrong About Everything
Tom Scocca · 04/09/14 12:53PM
Slate columnist Reihan Salam has an important message: He still believes in neoconservatism. He concedes, more or less, that the past 13 years of United States foreign policy have been a hideous spectacle of strategic, tactical, and moral failure, all perpetrated in the name of neoconservative ideas. "Given all of this," he asks, "why am I still a neocon?"
Jim DeMint Says There's No Way the Federal Government Freed the Slaves
Adam Weinstein · 04/09/14 12:40PMMan Ordered to Pay $5,001 for Peeing in Co-Worker's Coffee Pot
Taylor Berman · 04/09/14 12:20PMTaylor Swift's Parents Are Assholes
Jordan Sargent · 04/09/14 12:10PMBaby Completely Awed by His First Time Through the Car Wash
Jay Hathaway · 04/09/14 11:55AMPeaches Geldof's Autopsy Comes Back "Inconclusive"
Jay Hathaway · 04/09/14 11:00AMSarah Hedgecock · 04/09/14 10:45AM
You Better Not Outlaw Living in Cars Unless You're Giving Out Houses
Hamilton Nolan · 04/09/14 10:31AMThis Is the Florida Woman Behind the Topless McDonald's Rampage
Jay Hathaway · 04/09/14 10:05AMUMass Basketball Player Comes Out as Gay
Taylor Berman · 04/09/14 09:42AMWisconsin Passes Anti-"Revenge Porn" Law
Michelle Dean · 04/09/14 09:00AMYesterday Wisconsin's governor Scott Walker signed an anti-revenge porn bill into law, the third state to do so this year, after Idaho and Utah. The Wisconsin laws make it a misdemeanor to distribute (without consent) an image of a "nude or partially nude person or of a person engaging in sexually explicit conduct."











