Interviews and Pics from the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco

David hung out with me and Bay Area style blogger Dino Ray-Ramos for a little while, and the three of us rated what everyone else was wearing. We all agreed that Quincy LeNear and Deondray Gossett, creators of the here! series The DL Chronicles, won our best-dressed men award. Eyeing their sneakers enviously, David said, "I almost wore my high tops, too." (For the curious, the women's awards went to The L-Word's Ilene Chaiken and Jennifer Beals. But you'll have to visit AfterEllen.com to read about that.)

Quincy LeNear and Deondray Gossett (Photo: KT Jorgensen)

Interviewing these two guys is a blast, although it can be a challenge to keep track of who's saying what, because they keep finishing each other's sentences and echoing what the other said. "We're working on a second season of DL Chronicles ... (and) a couple of full length features," said Quincy.

Deondray picked up the thread: "There's talk of a spin-off of the series for females, but that's in development. Everything is always in development, DL Chronicles was in development once." (Laughter from both of them.)

Deondray Gossett (Photo: KT Jorgensen)

The guys were incredibly excited to be sharing the red carpet with some of the people who have been their biggest inspirations — especially L-Word creator Irene Chaiken. There is no way I can untangle who said what here; just assume half of each sentence was one and half the other, and remember to breathe:

"The fact that she is the creator of such a hugely successful series that I watched, that kind of ushered in shows like ours to enable them to be shown on this magnitude. And then to be walking up the same carpet with these people going, am I really here? Am I really here? And to be nominated alongside the BBC? I'm such a BBC fanatic. Anything English I'm crazy about. Torwchood, of course, Hotel Babylon, The Catherine Tate Show, which is fabulous — I love the Catherine Tate Show. Which is hilarious. Just for us to be first time directors, producers, to even be nominated amongst seasoned professionals, is very inspiring and makes us want to work even harder."

They promised to keep us updated on their new projects in the future. "AfterElton has been very good to us," said Quincy. "You're the first blog that picked up our story when we were infants, when no one else had picked us up yet."

Alan Cumming, who was there to present Sharon Stone with the Vanguard Award for media professionals who, in their work, have increased visibility and understanding for the LGBT community, gave everyone a run for the glam award with his formal Tommy Hilfiger shirt made of tiny white fabric roses dusted with diamante dewdrops (and no, I'm not making that up).

Alan Cumming (Photo: KT Jorgensen)

I'd interviewed Alan once before, in Austin at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival for the premier of his film Suffering Man's Charity. He said he remembered me, which is probably not true and yet, I decided to believe him because he seemed so very sincere. I asked him about his current projects, Hatter and Shifting the Canvas.

"Shifting the Canvas is about a group of artists in Brooklyn," he said. "It's gay, but it's 'gay' with a small 'g.' It's a queer film, and most of the main characters just happen to be gay, but it's not about gay issues. It's a very interesting film."

And Hatter? That one sounds pretty interesting, too. "It's a sort of reworking of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party from the Wizard of Oz," he said, then realized his mistake and laughed. "I mean Alice in Wonderland. It's set in the world of fashion. Hatter is a designer, and it's really dirty and wicked, very wicked and kind of odd. I really like it. The first scene is me and my boyfriend jacking off to porn with a comatose twink at the bottom of our bed."

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