OutServe Announces Print Edition Of Magazine For Active-Duty Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Service Members, Film Version Of Facing East Announced, Matt Damon Says When Kissing Michael Douglas He Is Kissing Catherine Zeta-Jones, Psychoanalyzing Pedro Almodovar, Prince Harry For British GQ, Opening Night Daniel Radcliffe

CNN reports that a magazine designed for and by gay military members may soon be displayed at military installations worldwide, an advocacy group announced Monday. "Our first objective with the magazine is to let all the gay, lesbian, bi, and trans members currently serving know that they are not alone," an active-duty officer who goes by the pseudonym JD Smith said in a statement. Smith, who along with co-director Ty Walrod lead the organization known as OutServe, describe themselves as an underground network of actively serving military members of the United States Armed Services who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. "Visibility is key," Smith said, adding that OutServe, currently available as a download via the internet, hopes to have its next version available in print at "some larger military bases." Smith says the goal of the publication is “not about highlighting our differences,” but to underline "how LGBT troops are proud soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coasties, and Marines just like everyone else." The magazine will contain features about "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal implementation and OutServe chapters, as well as other information of interest to currently-serving LGBT military members, the statement said. "We also want to communicate to all troops that there are capable gay military members serving honourably, and that accepting that and moving on will make our military stronger," said Smith. On December 22nd, President Barack Obama signed a bill repealing the 17 year old law that prohibits openly gay service personal from serving, saying at the time that the repeal "will strengthen our national security and uphold (America's) ideals. No longer will tens of thousands of Americans in uniform be asked to live a lie."

Playbill reports that Tony Award nominee and Priscilla Queen of the Desert star Will Swenson will direct the upcoming film adaptation of the Carol Lynn Pearson play Facing East, which focuses on a young Mormon man who commits suicide after struggling with his homosexuality. Emily Pearson and Duane Andersen are producing the independent film based on the play that premiered in Salt Lake City in 2006 and transferred Off-Broadway with its original cast intact in 2007 prior to a San Francisco run. Production is expected to begin this fall. Pearson, who is adapting her play, is also the author of Goodbye, I Love You, her personal account of her life with her gay husband and his ultimate death from AIDS; and No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons Around Our Gay Loved Ones, a collection of true stories about homosexuality and religion. Facing East centers on an upstanding Mormon couple coping with the death of their son after attempts to "heal" him from homosexuality has failed. On the day of his funeral, they meet his lover, who shows them a side of their son they never knew, and begin to fully understand their own role in the loss of their child. A percentage of the film's profits will be donated to the Trevor Project, which serves as suicide-prevention resource for LGBT youth. Swenson, raised Mormon, says Facing East is “certainly not an attack on the Mormon church. It's just, Let’s get this right, folks."

Matt Damon sees hidden benefits to kissing Michael Douglas in their upcoming biopic about the late pianist Liberace, telling People magazine last Tuesday “I never thought I would get to kiss Michael Douglas. I kind of think of it in algebra terms, back to my high-school days. It's like the transitive property – by kissing Michael Douglas, I am making out with Catherine. I was actually kind of upset that I never got to kiss Catherine, but now I get to kiss Michael. I thought it would have been better if I could have at least kissed them both." The just turned 40 year old Damon will portray Scott Thorsen, the assistant and boyfriend of Liberace whose 1982 palimony suit inadvertently outed the performer, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1987. The film will be directed by Steven Soderbegh and written by the openly gay Richard Lagravense.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that inspired by the success of last year's conference on the films of Charlie Kaufman, the UCLA New Center for Psychoanalysis is hosting Mirrors of the Heart: The Films of Pedro Almodovar, a symposium on farce, human relatedness and psychoanalysis. The all-day event, scheduled for April 16th, is open to the public, and there is also a Friday night Almodovar film series followed by briefer psychoanalyst talks this week and April 8th. "These films are like dreams," said NCP's Dr. Thomas Brod, coordinator of the program. "There's anxiety in small measures, and you're always in identification with the characters, no matter what they're doing. It's open to all sorts of possibilities. The visual qualities are so exciting, and there's plenty to chew on psychoanalytically. So we like to have psychoanalysts from many different kinds of theoretical perspectives discussing it." Brod adds that "Charlie Kaufman's films are so fantastical that there is an emotional distance. With Almodovar, you're emotionally gripped. He has psychological credibility, because he's not trying to therapize these situations, he's just taking us into them. It's not like The Sopranos, with a therapist trying to analyze a psychopath and you're wondering how real and effective that is. If you go through the entire canon of Almodovar, you'll see all the perversions known to us."

Prince Harry photographed by the legendary David Bailey graces the cover of the May issue of British GQ, inside Harry and his Walking Wounded team talk ahead of their unaided trek to the North Pole to raise awareness and money for the charity which retrains and rehabilitates injured British soldiers.

Daniel Radcliffe spotted Sunday post-opening night of the Broadway revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.