James Patrick Herman

I cover music, movies, TV, travel, style, LGBTQ issues. Bylines: The New York Times, Variety, InStyle, ELLE, Glamour, Travel + Leisure, THR, Billboard, New York

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

Have you ever been represented by the lawyers #RichardPourgal or #JosephWeinstein or the “Beverly Hills law firm” #BDandJ? I’d love to hear how great they are.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

And thank you to everyone who took videos of me after I was hit by a car while riding my bike. I’m not a lawyer but I believe you’re supposed to provide documentation as evidence after you get hit by a car. As we all know, ambulance rides aren’t free but the EMTs insisted.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

#RichardPourgal and #JosephWeinstein of the “Beverly Hills law firm” BD&J are representing me. These two lawyers must be busy since they haven’t had time to contact any of the many witnesses, so please contact one of us if you happen to know anyone who took videos.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

If you ever read anything I wrote and thought: I hope he gets run over! Well, your wish came true. I was riding my bike around 8 AM on a sunny morning — until, that is, an irresponsible driver made a right turn without looking and hit me with his car.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

@Rockinrosh how much did you charge for this fancy #RochelleRose face cream?

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

@Rockinrosh I just found these!

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

So the significance of a three-day music festival full of LGBTQ+ talent is not lost on me. Unfortunately, the participating artists, acts, DJs and organizers have received neither the national nor the local attention afforded to groundbreaking entertainment events in Los Angeles.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

backstage, I feel like I have been writing LGBTQ+ music stories for a minute. In 1996 Out magazine flew me to LA so that I could attend Lollapalooza. An openly gay artist — gasp! — was performing at the festival, which was such a big deal that I wrote a cover story about his band

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

There’s something so meta about the lead singer of #Queen performing a Queen classic for a bunch of queens. Freddie Mercury would be so proud of @adamlambert! (That said, Freddie would’ve hated the historically inaccurate #BohemianRhapsody.) #Pride2021

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

Fact: @AdamLambert has never sounded better. Also a fact: My heart is a ghost town, too! #Pride 👻 👨‍🎤 🌈

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

And thank you to my editor @shirleyhalperin. I’m grateful I can encourage superstars like @adamlambert, @LilNasX and @sosobrat to open up about their emotions in a business magazine. For most artists, business is personal. And these days more than ever, the personal is political.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

identifies: “A weirdo." It may seem surprising but soccer moms in the Midwest were probably more accepting of @adamlambert’s androgynous look than WeHo queens. The music business isn't immune to internalized homophobia, either. "People in the industry might feel I am 'too gay,’ “

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

#JeanSmart is falling down on the job. Both jobs actually: Hacks AND Mare of Wherever. What are the odds that not one but two sadistic showrunners would ask the 69-year-old actress to take a tumble the same week? I need to start a petition for her to host @nbcsnl next season.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

Today’s birthday girl is #SiouxsieSioux, who has always appreciated the importance of SPF. I didn’t wish they all could be California girls.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

@nbcsnl skewered stereotypical perceptions that, not coincidentally, stem from a lack of lesbian visibility in the media.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

her disillusioned delivery. She made the song her own but the co-writers were Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the same guys responsible for the gay love song “Jailhouse Rock.” Frank Sinatra looks like a patronizing prick in this pic but I’d argue Lee was the superior song stylist.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

Today’s deceased birthday girl is Miss #PeggyLee, who gave love songs the side-eye with her cynical hit, “Is That All There Is?” Contrary to popular belief, Lee asserted that heartbreak can’t kill you because romance can’t possibly fulfill you — a radical idea made believeable by

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

The theme of duality in the work of @StevieNicks — light and darkness, love and hate, the “good girl” vs. the “bad girl” — has always fascinated me. Also her shawls.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

transcended a vast array of sexist bullshit as a pioneering woman in rock but she’s also kicked coke and Klonopin. So I can’t quibble with a shopping addiction to Tiffany lamps. In person, she’s just magical — and so fucking cool. Whoever said: “Never meet your heroes” was wrong.

[James Patrick Herman @TheGlamourGuy]

Today’s birthday girl, @StevieNicks, is $100 million richer after selling her song catalog. (The electric bills for her temperature controlled shawl vault add up, OK?) The impact of this goddess on music, fashion and popular culture cannot be overstated. Not only has Stevie