Academy Awards: Greg's red carpet snapshots...
I gotta say, this was the most fun that I've ever had at the Academy Awards. It was just one of those years that was filled with good vibes. good interviews and a lot of excitement. It's days like this that make me so grateful for what I do and to be able to have the opportunities to have a front row seat to some of these big Hollywood events. I am so not over it! I wanted to share with you some of the snapshots I took while on the red carpet. Some aren't the best because I was juggling a tape recorder, cell phone and camera kinda all at once.
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At the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Assn. convention, which ended in San Diego on Sunday, Johnny Diaz of the Boston Globe and Kenneth Walsh of The New York Times and I got to be so tight that Johnny nicknamed us "Los Tres Blogeros." In addition to our newspaper duties, we are all also bloggers with Kenneth responsible for the smart and witty 
What made the LGBT Presidential Forum so special yesterday was not only having our issues focused on for an entire evening, but watching the event at The Abbey with thousands of other people who, like me, have watched this country sink so low under our current president and his administration. We want someone who is smart in the Oval Office, has good intentions and can actually work with people to get somethng done.. No one is perfect, Hillary Clinton included. But her work as a New York senator has been widely seen as highly effective and I liked what I saw last night both at the forum and at the party afterward at The Abbey where she was embraced by a very supportive crowd. Some wonder why gays seem to be leaning toward Clinton when she hasn't even come out in full support of gay marriage. I think it's because we think she can really win AND because so many in the LGBT community have been underdogs and fought for their place in the world. We identify with her desire to break down barriers.
Now here's a trio of actors who are not only damned good looking, but also damned talented. They are Steve Callahan, Rene Alvarado and Cory Schneider - the stars of "East Side Story" written and directed by Carlos Portugal. Their movie will screen next Sunday at the festival and my interviews with them will be posted sometime next week. These three are currently on the cover of IN Los Angeles Magazine which features an interview with Portugal inside.
These are some of the talent involved in the surfing gay love story pic "Shelter" which I'm sure will end up being one of the most popular films of the festival. From left to right are leading man Trevor Wright who is astoundingly good in the film, the very talented witer-director Jonah Markowitz and the very cute Ross Thomas who co-stars in "Shelter" as the understanding best friend of Wright's gay character.
All of this ugliness involving a certain homophobic former NBA player has me in a bad mood. I need cheering up and if any of you do too, then I offer you these fun pictures that I came across the other day: actors Christopher Meloni and Lee Tergeson, who played lovers on the late, great prison drama "OZ." They appeared very close as they arrived at the 2000 GLAAD Awards then later, they seemed to be re-enacting some of their love scenes. 
Greg Hernandez has covered the entertainment industry for the Daily
News since 2001. He's considered a bit odd by some for his obsession
with box office numbers, has been known to camp out near the kitchen
at premieres for first crack at the hors d'oeurves, and Greg's never
seen a red carpet he didn't want to stroll down.