Did you know the Tony Awards were last night?! . . . You did? Oh, that's right, an awards show for musicals. That's tailor-made for us isn't it?

Anyway, if you caught the show last night, you probably saw Neil Patrick Harris kill it, Andrea Martin get the respect she rightfully deserves, and Kinky Boots WIN ALL THE THINGS! Yes, the musical based on the movie based on the shoe factory that was saved by drag queens cleaned up last night, winning six out of the 13 awards it was nominated for, including Best Musical.

While the Royal Shakespeare Company's show [Matilda The Musical], winner of a record-breaking seven Olivier awards in 2012, was nominated for 12 awards, it was Cyndi Lauper's musical adaptation of Kinky Boots, a British film about a shoe factory reinventing itself by making boots for drag queens, that took the laurels, winning six of the 13 categories in which it was nominated. 

Nonetheless, the night belonged to Kinky Boots, which also won for sound design, choreography and orchestration, and its success will further fuel speculation of an impending West End transfer next year. Accepting her award, Lauper said: "I can't say I wasn't practicing in front of the shower curtain for the past couple of days," and went on to "thank Broadway, for welcoming me". [SOURCE]

If, for some reason, you can't just drop everything and drive six hours down to New York City so that you can pay hundreds of dollars to see Kinky Boots, here's the musical number they performed at last night's Tonys. I have to give her credit: Cyndi Lauper knows how to write a killer song about fuck-me boots.

Since releasing Love Song back in 2007, Sara Bareilles has been hovering barely beneath the radar with a string of well-received songs that have gone mostly ignored by radio stations. In that respect, here's her latest video for "Brave," a great song that will probably go neglected by most radio and TV stations.

Written by Bareilles and Fun's Jack Antonoff, it was apparently inspired by Bareilles watching one of her friends struggle to come out of the closet. In all fairness, nothing will help you come out of the closet like a mainstream pop artist singing a song about it for everyone to hear. Takes a lot of the pressure off you, really.

Janelle Monáe has long been an underground queer icon, playing with androgyny, club culture and a nebulous sexual identity that found her proclaiming her love for androids. That kind of label aversion is a major part of her music and is on full display in her new single, "QUEEN."

The track, which features fellow R&B luminary Erykah Badu, name-drops plenty of terms from the drag queen dictionary and fully embraces the message of self-love and otherness that have fuelled some pretty great gay anthems. What I'm trying to say is, look forward to this playing non-stop during Toronto Pride.

Fuck this week. Fuck this week right in the soul.

Jesus lap-dancing Christ, did this week ever suck. The Boston Marathon bombing, the ensuing manhunt, the fucked-up weather . . . Nope. No more of this. The weekend's here, so let's go back to our respective corners, fix ourselves up and come back next week when everything is slightly less shitty. 

But for the time being, here's some much needed levity in the form of the latest video from Willam (of RuPaul's Drag Race) for her song "RuPaulogize." It has drag queens, guys in short-shorts getting to third base on a pinball machine, and Sharon Needles doing her best RuPaul impression. It's fun, it's weird, and after this shithole of a week, it's kinda necessary. 

You know what's weird?

If you believe the rumours (and good god, are there a lot of rumours), a pretty sizable majority of people who work in entertainment, whether it's singing or acting or theatre, are flamingly gay. And yet only a handful of actors are openly gay, and every song on the radio is about boys and girls falling in love or, in the case of Taylor Swift, girls breaking up with their boyfriends and then telling fucking everyone about it.

Well, Matt Fishel, an openly gay recording artist, decided to fuck with the system a bit here, writing a song about the stupidity of it all. So he wrote a song called "Radio-Friendly Pop Song," about some artists who are gay or bisexual or transgender or otherwise outside the norm, and you know what? It's really good. I'm not kidding -- this shit is super catchy. I'mma put it on my iPhone and stuff. For serious.