2010 SUMMER YEARBOOK: Superlatives

 
 
It was the best of times; it was the silliest of times. From oil spills to Lindsay Lohan, the time between Memorial Day and Labor Day was filled with California Gurls, soccer boys and people trying to implant ideas into our dreams. But, like all good things, summer must come to an end. It’s time to graduate to fall and all its exciting new delights. But before we move upward and onward, let’s look back on the hot, sticky days that were. After a tough winter, we found inspiration on little Fire Island and we rocked out to the summer’s hottest jam—even if it meant dancing on our own. So get nostalgic and bask in the best and the worst of the glory days of summer ’10.
 
Best use of food product as clothing:
Katy Perry’ whip-cream bra
 
Most likely to cause you to become a pack rat:
Toy Story 3
 
Best example of you-don’t-know-what-you’ve-got-till-it’s-gone:
View Bar
 
Worst example for young gay kids in pop culture:
Lindsay Lohan goes to jail
 
Best if-only-she-could-have-done-the-Pier-Dance performance:
Kylie Minogue’s surprise appearance at Splash’s The F Word.
 
Best excuse to risk getting bedbugs:
dumpster pools on Park Avenue
 
Best legitimization of an overlooked gay icon:
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
 
Best excuse that your summer wasn’t that fucked up, in comparison:
Ke$ha
 
Most likely to outlive us all:
Betty White
 
Best new way to make a cameo on reality TV:
Crash a taping of The A-List
 
Best reason to let Leonardo DiCaprio perform inception on our dreams:
He comes with Tom Hardy
 
Strangest, easiest, grossest way to help fix the world:
Donating your hair to help soak up the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
 
Most likely to start shopping at K-mart:
Former Target customers.
 
Best Oscar buzz about straight actors playing gay since Milk:
The Kids Are All Right
 
Best new special guest honoree at gay benefits: Ricky Martin
 
Most overhyped paperweight of summer: iPhone 4
 
Most likely to be smiling down on us from that great plastic beach in the sky:
Rue McClanahan
 
Best reason to send in the clowns: Bernadette Peters in A Little Night Music
 
Bar most confused about its sexual orientation: Bull Moose Saloon
(the Hell’s Kitchen spot went gay for Pride Weekend only to kick them out the following Monday)
 
Saddest end to a generation: the closing of Starlite Lounge
 
Best ticked off tranny with knives (or at least a very sharp tail):
the genetically altered Dren in Splice
 
Most likely to support marriage equality when it comes before the Supreme Court: new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
 
Best example of how New York gays are Number One:
Gotham Knights Rugby Football Club winning the Bingham Cup
 
Most likely to make hair gel, coco butter and spray tans acceptable in 2010:
Jersey Shore Scissor Sisters