Monthly Archives: November 2009

80’s Flashback

Bucks Fizz, I Hear Talk, 1984. Named for the drink that Americans call a mimosa, the UK’s Bucks Fizz burst onto the scene in 1981 when they won the Eurovision Song Contest with the deliriously silly Making Your Mind Up. But it wasn’t until three #1’s and 12 Top 40 singles later that the band came to U.S. attention when …

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A Moment Of Light At DC’s Hate Rally

Now THIS will give you a smile. When the guy hired to provide the sound system for yesterday’s Power Rangers For Jeebus hate rally in DC found out what his customers stood for, he donated his fee back to the gay activists counter-protesting the event and even let them use the haters’ own microphone! The Washington Post cannot restrain its …

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Oklahoma Legislator Wants Exemption To Hate Crimes Law In Order To End State’s Raging Corpse-Fucking Epidemic

Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell (R) plans to submit a bill that would authorize the state to opt out of the recently passed Matthew Shepard Act. Because it discriminates against the right to hate queers and would hinder the prosecution of corpse fuckers. SRSLY. “The federal government should not be creating a special class of people, and that is just …

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Friday: Blowoff NYC At New Venue

This Friday’s installment of Blowoff in NYC will take place in a new venue, the posh-looking Canal Room at 285 W. Broadway & Canal. Bob Mould tells me that the Highline Ballroom, host to Blowoff parties since the beer-soaked bear bacchanal came to Manhattan several years ago, has launched a new Friday nights event and is unavailable. The Canal Room …

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The Almost Buyers Of Washington Blade

Cathy Renna reports that a Virginia-based company had bid on the assets of the Washington Blade and were in negotiations for takeover before yesterday’s abrupt closure of the venerable LGBT newspaper. Via email: In response to media inquiries and an apparent information blackout by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Nicholas F. Benton, owner of the Falls Church News-Press, a …

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Flash Mob On Sydney’s Bondi Beach

Summertime fun from Down Under: Local drag queen Joyce Maynge leads a flash mob of dancers on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Fab! (Tipped by JMG reader Andrej)

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Poll: 48% Would Pay For Online News

But they wouldn’t pay very much. Among regular Internet users in the United States, 48 percent said in the survey, conducted in October, that they would pay to read news online, including on mobile devices. That result tied with Britain for the lowest figure among nine countries where Boston Consulting commissioned surveys. In several Western European countries, more than 60 …

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No Signs Of Life

L Train, Monday, 9:30pm Hipster Chick 1: Yeah, so it’s pretty big and the price is OK, but it’s waaay at the end of the R train.Hipster Chick 2: Totally BFE out there.Hipster Chick 1: Right? And Kristen pointed out that we hadn’t seen a single gay man the entire time.Hipster Chick 2: Like I said, beyond civilization.Hipster Chick 1: …

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Beyonce Vs. Lady Gaga

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Liars Tell More Lying Lies

The Christian Broadcast Network devoted the first few minutes of yesterday’s broadcast to the Power Rangers For Jeebus and their rally against hate crimes laws at the Department of Justice. Event organizer Gary Cass looks into the camera of a nationally broadcast show and flatly lies that reading the Bible is now outlawed in Canada. No shame, no shame at …

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California Petition Drive Launched For 2010 Proposition 8 Repeal

Love Honor Cherish has launched an internet drive to gather one million petition signatures in California to place the repeal of Proposition 8 on the 2010 ballot. The signature-gathering drive will use social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter, organizers said in a statement. “We’re taking names,” said John Henning, who is heading the SignForEquality.com effort launched to collect …

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Orlando LGBT Center Vandalized

On Sunday homophobic slurs were painted on Orlando’s LGBT Center and a nearby gay-owned business. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Community Center of Central Florida — more commonly known as The Center — and a second nearby gay-owned business were targeted by vandals who spray painted with a swastika and the words “Gay Pawer,” “Die Fags,” “Go To Hell” and other …

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A Message To NY Sen. George Onorato

From Astoria’s Western Queens For Marriage Equality. Contact Onorato here.

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Joy Behar On Carrie Prejean

Two things. Who is this Heidi Montag chick and what is Perez Hilton wearing?

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Puerto Rico: Arrest Made In Gruesome Decapitation Murder Of Gay Teen

Puerto Rico police have made an arrest in the gruesome murder of openly gay 19 year-old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, whose decapitated and burned body was found in a wooded area on Friday. Towleroad writes: Today, the paper Primera Hora reports that a 28-year-old man has been arrested as a suspect in the murder and and two vehicles have been …

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Christian Right Holds Massively Ignored Hate Rally At Department Of Justice

Today’s fearsome and Godly demonstration of “civil disobedience” held outside the Department of Justice by the Power Rangers For Jeebus was nothing but a same-old same-old boring little press conference attended by nobody else but its speakers and a handful of placard-holding gays. Wait, can there be a “press conference” if there’s no actual press? Fizzzzzle. Where were the promised …

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Palin Tells Oprah Why She Quit

I think I’m starting to have a Mary Hart reaction just from the sound of her voice.

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Ten Year-Old Boy Won’t Say Pledge Of Allegiance Until Gays Can Marry

A hero to us, a brainwashed victim of the homo-nazi agenda to others.

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NJ Marriage Bill May Stall In Committee

The chair of the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee said late this afternoon that the marriage equality bill may not make it out of the committee for a full vote. State Sen. Paul Sarlo said he would not bring up the bill in the Judiciary Committee he chairs unless enough votes exist to pass it on to the full Senate. …

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80’s Flashback

Boy Meets Girl, Waiting On A Star To Fall, 1988. While writing chart toppers for the likes of Whitney Houston and Bette Midler, real life couple George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam released several singles of their own before this slice of pop perfection broke through, hitting #5 in the U.S. and #9 in the UK. The duo had first offered …

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