The Best of Binky's Johnny Weir Blog: Bernadette I'm still squeeing for you

Johnny in Philadelphia last night

at the first of six appearances for Macy's in June

as part of their Pride + Joy initiative for LGBT Pride Month.
Tonight he'll be at Macy's Metro Center
in Washington, DC--don't miss it!

More Philly photos available at the Wire Image gallery!

So what's it like to be a globe-trotting, glamorous, glitzy superstar of skating, film, and fashion? Well, first there's a lot of this:

I have to say as a writer that

"trying desperately to stun away under-slept eye purses"

is an amazingly articulate turn of phrase

at ohfuck o'clock in the morning. :)

Then there's some of this, which is skating on plastic ice in a ballroom partially enveloped in fake fog ...

Photo tweeted by @LeeAshley of MAC, who wrote:
"@JohnnyGWeir performing for us at TTT

with makeup by my love @joeycamasta!

Go Joey and Johnny!!!!"

... and with really awesome hair and makeup (how are there not extreme close-ups from every angle of this? Someone? Anyone? Seriously?) ...

Johnny with MAC Cosmetics executive James Gager

in a photo tweeted by MAC's Caroline D.

Another photo from MAC tweeted by Cary Neer.

Which hints at absolutely cosmic fabulousness

(WHAT. IS. THIS. COSTUME. And again: THE. HAIR. OMG.),

but I need my jeweler's loupe to really sort it out.

Which I seem to have misplaced.

Close-ups, people. WE. NEED. CLOSE-UPS.

And then sometimes there's stuff like this:

And then there's lots and lots of this: Appearances and autographing--injured thumb and all--and hugging and generally making fans happy, which yesterday happened at Macy's Center City in Philly ...

... in which there also was lots of chatting it up and posing with random people, as in these pics ...

Photo tweeted by Tara, who, although of course

she always finds Johnny completely riveting,

was pondering sidling over to the Macy's bridal registry

for just a sec ...

Johnny with Philly Street Style's Jimmy Contreras,

who tweeted this pic. Jimmy also posted a great blog entry

last Saturday highlighting Johnny's visit to Philly

as part of Macy's LGBT Pride Month events.

And a whole lot of this: Excelling at kindness, thoughtfulness, and making fans very, very happy:

The flowers in question, sent by Bernadette,

dear friend of Binky and Facebook fan Ruth Albrecht,

among many others, and known as the "Lovely Lurker-tress"

for her charming habit of lurking on the Facebook fan page.

Bernadette, it's your moment

in the sparkly sunshine of Johnny. :)

Sullivan Owen, the florist who designed the bouquet

for Bernadette, even blogged about it here!

And here is Johnny at Macy's with Bernadette's flowers. ♥

And finally: Not in any way nearly enough of this:

Johnny and Tara at the airport

waiting to catch their flight to Philly,

having already put in a full day's work

in Miami before noon.

Exclusive photo courtesy of
Super Managtress Tara Modlin--thank you!

Oh BTW Imma just leave this here ...

Johnny's everywhere in June!!

He has six appearances scheduled in conjunction with

Macy's "Pride + Joy" events to celebrate LGBT Pride Month:

Tonight he'll be in Washington DC!!
Coming up: Los Angeles,

Chicago, New York, and St. Petersburg, FL.

Check out his Events page for more info,

and don't miss your chance to meet him!!

Johnny also is Grand Marshal for the LA PRIDE Parade

this coming Sunday, June 12!

Watch live on West Hollywood Channel 10,

or via live webcast through the link

on LA PRIDE's Parade page!

Please remember to vote vote vote

for Beauty Bear Eric Alt to win "Favorite Salon"

in New Jersey Life Health + Beauty Magazine's A-List awards!

You can vote for both salons at the same time:

Eric Alt Saddle River, and Eric Alt Wood Ridge.

You also can vote over and over in this one

without even having to clear your cache--

just press F5 to refresh the page! #winning

Please help Johnny meet his goal

of raising $10,000 for breast cancer research

by visiting his donor page!

And buy tickets NOW to see Johnny

perform in Skate for Hope on

Saturday, June 18, in Columbus, OH!

(Same weekend as the Annually Awesome

Columbus Gay Pride Parade--win-win!)

UPDATE: Johnny will be performing
FOUR times at Skate for Hope!
He'll be in the Headliners' Opening and Closing numbers,
and also will skate two solos!