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Xtra YouTube channel reaches 1,000,000 views

Celebrity, movies and protests round out top five videos

By Xtra Staff • November 27, 2011 7:00 pm EDT

Xtra has surpassed 1,000,000 uploaded views on its YouTube channel.

The one millionth viewer logged on over the weekend after the addition of a video report on reality star Prince Poppycock and an interview with Gerald Hannon on the occasion of his retirement from sex trade work.

The top five videos since the creation of the channel in July 2007 are an interview with Adam Lambert, a report on the movieThe World Unseen, an interview with Tilda Swinton, coverage of a Fred Phelps counter-protest in Toronto and a report on gay wrestling from the World Outgames in Copenhagen.

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