Monthly Archives: March 2010

Ex-Gay Reparative Therapy Doctor Filmed Sexually Assaulting Male Patient

Canadian “ex-gay” reparative therapy Dr. Aubrey Levin has been charged with sexually assaulting a male patient. Since that charge became known a few days ago, almost 30 other patients have come forward with accusations. Dr Aubrey Levin, who in South Africa was known as Dr Shock for his use of electricity to “cure” gay military conscripts, was arrested after a …

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Father Of Dead Marine Forced To Pay Westboro’s Court Costs

The father of the dead Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church has been ordered to pay Fred Phelps’ court costs for defending the church from the father’s lawsuit. On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted …

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Gen. John Sheehan Apologizes To Dutch

Retired Gen. John Sheehan has apologized to former Dutch Chief of Staff Van den Breemen for his U.S. Senate testimony that openly gay Dutch soldiers caused the Bosnian genocide. The ANP news agency reported that Sheehan apologized in an e-mail to Van den Breemen, saying his memory of discussions they had fifteen years ago about some social issues were ‘inaccurate.’ …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the promoters, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to Trippin’ On The Moon 4, the fourth installment of the reunion of the members and performers of NYC’s legendary Saint disco. The party takes place Saturday, April 10th at Santos Party House in Manhattan’s Tribeca. (This is the very first Saturday night event for Trippin’!) Original Saint …

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TONIGHT: Unsung – Sylvester

Tonight TV One’s Unsung series spotlights the late gay disco diva Sylvester. The below clip covers several of the series’ subjects including Sylvester. Go here for recap clip about tonight’s episode. The show airs at 9pm on Time-Warner channel 90 in NYC and repeats at midnight. Find TV One’s location in your area here. (And set your DVR, this is …

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Gay Man Arrested For Making Death Threats Against Rep. Eric Cantor

After Rep. Eric Cantor went on the cable shows over the weekend to claim it wasn’t just Democratic members of Congress receiving death threats over health care reform, most of us rolled our eyes. But today a man has been arrested for making death threats against Cantor. And it looks like he’s gay and frequents LGBT blogs. Chris Geidner at …

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HomoQuotable – Ricky Martin

“If someone asked me today, ‘Ricky, what are you afraid of?’ I would answer ‘the blood that runs through the streets of countries at war, child slavery, terrorism, the cynicism of some people in positions of power, the misinterpretation of faith.’ But fear of my truth? Not at all! On the contrary, it fills me with strength and courage. This …

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Ladyfingers USA Sued For Never Paying Her Christian PR Firm

Miss Ladyfingers USA is being sued by the Christian publicity firm that guided her to wingnut stardom. Carrie not only hates the gays, she hates paying her bills. The group — A. Larry Ross Communications — claims Prejean contacted them back in April, 2009 and logged “hundreds of hours” helping Prejean spread her “biblically correct” message. But according to the …

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Anti-Gay Florida Church Targeted For Tax-Exempt Status Violations

Americans United for Separation of Church and State have called on the IRS to investigate Gainesville, Florida’s Dove World Outreach Center for violating their tax-exempt status. Earlier today I posted the latest video from Dove World’s Pastor Luke Jones in which he calls for homosexuals to be put to death. Dove World Outreach Center erected a sign on its property …

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Daily Grumble

All morning I’ve been smelling what I thought was baking bread, but it turns out it’s just my neighbors burning their Passover chametz in a metal garbage can on their fire escape. Gothamist reports that the FDNY is getting buried with calls about “rubbish fires” all over Williamsburg and Borough Park. Welcome to NYC, noobs! In other Holy Week news, …

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Albert Camus Lives

This should tickle the absurdists among us: Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann. At a lectern. In a boxing ring. Talking to teabaggers. FOR AN HOUR. This is performance art of the highest order, people.

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Advocate To Partner With NBC News

The parent company of The Advocate announced today that they have inked a partnership deal with NBC News. Via press release: Here Media and The Advocate, the world’s leading gay news source, announced today their new affiliate deal with NBC News Channel, an NBC News unit that provides content services to NBC television affiliates and other selected news outlets around …

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Court Yard Hounds – Ain’t No Son

Two of the Dixie Chicks have created the sub-group Court Yard Hounds for this song about a son coming out to his father. Lyrics here. Well this ain’t no fun for me/ This ain’t no fun for me/ Oh boys should be boys/ That’s how it should be/ You ain’t coming home/ No you ain’t coming home/ Til you walk …

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RNC Chairman Michael Steele And Topless Lesbian Bondage Dancers

Yeah, that headline is correct. RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s expense reports reveal some rather interesting expenditures. While Steele has not purchased a plane, he continues to charter them. According to federal disclosure records, the RNC spent $17,514 on private aircraft in the month of February alone (as well as $12,691 on limousines during the same period). There are no readily …

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Priest Off!

(Tipped by JMG reader John)

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A Major Whoopsie For Oklahoma’s Haters

Remember when Oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill declaring the state exempt from the Matthew Shepard Act? It turns out the asshats cited the wrong federal bill number in their legislation and Oklahoma is actually now exempt from federal laws about reporting racial and religious discrimination. In trying to strip gays and lesbians of their rights, the Oklahoma State Senate inadvertently …

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Sassy Gay Friend: Othello

Does Moor mean more? Episode 3 of the series.

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Kelis – Acapella

The milkshake lady is back. I like this.

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Minister Faces Church Court For Performing Same-Sex Marriages

Retired Presbyterian minister Jane Spahr may face a church court trial for officiating same-sex marriages. Even though the marriages were legal at the time. This is the second time Spahr is facing church sanctions. Spahr, who lives with her son and 6-year-old granddaughter in San Francisco, freely acknowledges the church’s allegations that she married a lesbian couple in June, 2008, …

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Teabaggers Gather In Nevada Desert

In what organizers billed as a “Tea Party Woodstock,” thousands of teabaggers gathered in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas this weekend to scream about overthrowing the government and listen to Sarah Palin.

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