Daniel Radcliffe is in Utah for the premiere of Kill Your Darlings at the Sundance Film Festival, in which he plays gay poet Allan Ginsberg. TheImproper was at last night’s screening and managed to catch what the former Harry Potter had to say about his gay sex scenes in the film, which includes ‘oral sex, making out and getting naked for sex, all with men.’
“It was something new,” Radcliffe said. “But you know what, we shot that whole scene in maybe an hour and a half so it was incredibly fast-paced. I didn’t really have time to stop to think and worry about it.”
He also thinks getting to know his scene-mate helped. “We were able to hang out a little bit on set and get to know each other a little bit, which I think is important when you’re doing a scene so intimate. “You have to feel like you’re both in it together.”
The movie charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. Chronicle star DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston). Indeed, Ginsberg later said that “Lou was the glue” that brought the beat poets and writers together.
During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers.
Although Carr said the killing took place after he rejected Kammerer’s sexual advances and was assaulted as a result, many have suggested that Lucien wasn’t as heterosexual as he made out, and that he and Ginsberg had been lovers. The full truth of what happened may never be known. Whatever happened, it was a pivotal moment for Ginsberg, who had been exceptionally close to Carr whether they’d been lovers or not.
The film is said to look at all this, with many giving it good notices from its Sundance premiere.
Two of the busiest men in Hollywood have decided to team up for a new horror flick. Ryan Murphy currently has three show on TV – American Horror Story, The New Normal and Glee – and he’s also preparing to shoot AIDS drama The Normal Heart. Jason Blum is the prolific producer behind the likes of Paranormal Activity, Sinister and Lawless (he produced eight movies in 2012 alone).
The complete list of Dorian Award winners is below. A celebratory toast will be held Sunday, February 17the in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: 
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the nominees for its 
The exceedingly busy actor/director Matt Riddlehoover (Scenes From A Gay Marriage) has recently been shooting a new movie, as 
The Human Rights Campaign, the US’s largest LGBT, civil rights organisation has announced that Whoopi Goldberg will receive the 2013 HRC Ally for Equality Award at the annual Greater New York Gala dinner on February 2, 2012 at the Waldorf Astoria.
The 88-year-old former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, has said he’s ‘shocked’ at a claim in a new documentary, Neil Barsky’s Koch, that he is gay.
As with Jodie Foster’s speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday, we’ve got another, yes-we-kind-of-knew-that-already coming out today – this time Victor Garber. A veteran of Broadway, Canadian born Garber has become an increasingly familiar face on TV and film over the years in the likes of Titanic, Tuck Everlasting and Legally Blonde, while Alias fans will recognise him as Jennifer Garner’s spy father. He’s recently been seen in Argo and is heading back to TV for the series Deception.