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Over at Listverse they have counted down the best and worst Christmas specials of all time. Top Five Best: 1. A Charlie Brown Christmas2. How The Grinch Stole Chrismas3. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer4. Frosty The Snowman5. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town But my personal favorite will always be Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special. Gay, gay, gay. The guest list alone! …

Openly gay William White, currently the CEO of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, is being pitched to Barack Obama’s transition team as the right choice for Secretary of the Navy. Some top retired military leaders and some Democrats in Congress are backing William White, chief operating officer of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, to be the next secretary of the Navy – …

For the first time in almost 30 years, this week a Price Is Right contestant guessed the exact cost of his final round showcase. But watch how completely “meh” Drew Carey is about it. Rosie O’Donnell really should have gotten that gig.

Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force: “President-elect Obama campaigned on a theme of inclusivity, yet the selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation is a direct affront to that very principle. This was a divisive choice, and clearly not one that will help our country come together and heal. We urge President-elect Obama …

Last week openly gay politico Sean Patrick Maloney resigned his job as First Deputy Secretary with NY Gov. David Paterson. Maloney, an aide to disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer who continued to work for Governor David Paterson, resigned his post as first deputy secretary on December 9. The New York Post reported that Maloney had the title of “special …

On Anderson Cooper 360 last night, Roland Martin, Hilary Rosen, and Robert Zimmerman debated the choice of Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Obama’s spokesman: “This is going to be the most inclusive, open, accessible inauguration in American history. The president-elect certainly disagrees with him [Warren] on [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] issues. But it has …

Where will you spend the holidays?

Two weeks ago I visited a new exhibit from the SF GLBT Historical Society called Passionate Struggle: The Dynamics Of San Francisco’s GLBT History, which is housed on the corner of Castro and 18th Streets in a storefront that once was the site of Wolf Camera. This exhibit explores the dynamic tensions between passion and struggle that have forged San …

Infamous marriage equality opponent Rick Warren has been tapped to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration and outrage is ripping through the progressive blogosphere. Via Right Wing Watch: In 2004 Warren declared that marriage, reproductive choice, and stem cell research were “non-negotiable” issues for Christian voters and has admitted that the main difference between himself and James Dobson is …

A Georgia woman was cited for contempt of court and jailed after she refused to remove her headscarf before entering the courthouse. Lisa Valentine, also known by her Islamic name, Miedah, 40, was arrested at the Douglasville Municipal Court for violating a court policy of no headgear, said Chris Womack, deputy chief of operations for the Douglasville Police Department. Lisa …

Via Phillyist, here’s the Top Ten Rejected Names For Adolph Hitler Campbell. 10. Osama bin Ambulance Chaser Campbell9. Dahmer Amin Stalin Telemarketer Campbell8. Torquemada Hussein Waterboarder Campbell7. Progresso Chunky Minestrone Campbell (They enjoy soup; who knew?)6. Oswald Sirhan Booth Insurance Company Campbell5. Rove Cheney Bush Limbaugh Campbell4. Stained For Life Future Juvenile Delinquent Campbell3. Save Time And Arrest Me Now …

Today the Daily Beast takes note of Hollywood’s rediscovered love of hairy chests, something that happened in popular gay male culture at least a decade ago. Clive Owen, the brooding, British Sin City hunk (and my number one personal distraction) has unabashedly displayed his sexily untamed man fur. Aussie Hugh Jackman (the newly anointed Oscar host and People‘s latest “Sexiest …

The headline is a shocker but the conclusions of this Canadian survey make sense. Lesbian and bisexual youth are up to seven times more likely to get pregnant than their heterosexual peers, a study of British Columbia students has found. The surprising findings were published in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. The data used for the research were gathered …

Opinions? I like that the field of stars will grow with each victory. Source. Can anybody ID the flag’s creator? The person who pointed me to it on Facebook a couple of days ago has not yet responded about that. UPDATE: The flag is the creation of JMG reader Mark, who writes to explain. The flag is based in the …

Via press release: Please join CODE PINK: Women for Peace, AfterDowningStreet, and Democrats.com this Wednesday, December 17, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at Lafayette Square Park in front of the White House. We will have with us a large supply of shoes labeled with the names of Iraqis who have died in Bush’s war. We encourage you to bring your old …

Alan Colmes called Ann Coulter a hate crime herself for continually harping on Barack Obama’s middle name. (Via – Towleroad)

Seriously, who else could it have been? From the story: [I]f he has shown anything this year, Obama has made it clear that he knows how to write new playbooks and do things in new ways. Which is a compelling quality right now. His arrival on the scene feels like a step into the next century — his genome is …

Via By The Bayou we learn that there’s a new iPhone app that lets you track the menstrual cycles of women in your life so that you know when they’re PMS-ing. Colored lights advise when the women should be avoided, sort of like a Cubicle Homeland Security warning.

“The problem of saying ‘Gay is the new black’ poses the following problems for many African Americans: ● The Marriage Equality movement exploits black suffering and experiences to legitimate its own; ● The Marriage Equality movement’s rallying cry against heterosexist oppression dismisses its own responsibility when it comes to white skin privilege. ● The Marriage Equality movement appropriates the content …