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This weekend’s New York Times Magazine features a lengthy Benoit Denizet-Lewis piece on kids that come out in middle school. An excerpt: Though most adolescents who come out do so in high school, sex researchers and counselors say that middle-school students are increasingly coming out to friends or family or to an adult in school. Just how they’re faring in …

(Tipped by JMG reader Matt)

“If there’s a push for a socialist society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together living collectively off one pot of resources earned by everyone, this is one of the goals they have to go to, same sex marriage, because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their …

Paul Kirk, a longtime aide to Ted Kennedy, has been chosen by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to be Kennedy’s interim replacement in the U.S. Senate. Kirk was a longtime senior aide to Kennedy and served as chairman of the national Democratic Party in the late 1980s. Patrick is to announce his selection for the Senate seat at 11 a.m. at …

National Equality March founder Cleve Jones spoke long and passionately to an enthusiastic overflow crowd at NYC’s LGBT Center last night. Numerous well-known activists were in attendance, including Brendan Fay, Gilbert Baker, Lt. Dan Choi, Brandon Brock, and Jeff Campagna, but the only real dissent came from Gay City News’ Andy Humm (pictured above on the right, Father Tony on …

Barney Frank spoke as bluntly as always at yesterday’s House ENDA hearings. Watch this. Good As You has many more clips.

Scientists in Thailand are reportedly “surprised” by their finding that an AIDS vaccine actually appears to work, reducing the risk of infection by 31%. For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might …

San Francisco City Supervisor Bevan Dufty has announced his bid to become San Francisco’s first openly gay mayor. Via the Bay Area Reporter: Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who will be termed out of his District 8 seat in January 2011, will officially declare his candidacy to be San Francisco’s next mayor when he pulls papers to enter the race this morning, …

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Despite the delays, the cancellations, and the dangerously overcrowded skies, a newly-released poll shows that two-thirds of the residents of the 31-county NYC metropolitan area don’t support the building of a new airport. The survey found, over all, that respondents tended not to prioritize lower airfares or increasing the number of destinations reachable from the area’s airports. In fact, a …

Mory Kante, Yeke Yeke, 1988. With this global #1 hit, Guinean Mory Kante became the first African to score a million-selling single. The remix was a monster smash in gay clubs; my late pal Daniel literally broke his foot dancing to it at Miami’s Cheers, where DJ Danny Tenaglia often made it a cornerstone of his sets. In 1994 the …

“We get what we fight for. And we are not fighting. Every single one of us is not fighting. They fight better than we do. There is a concerted and never ending vein of hate in this country and in this world dedicated to keeping us in our place. It is evil to force people to be what we are …

The United States’ ban on immigration for HIV+ persons is finally about to be history. The Customs and Immigration Service has advised workers to stand by for the ruling. Currently HIV qualifies as an exclusionary communicable disease, and applications may be turned down by the US authorities if a person wishing to travel to the country, or settle there permanently, …

A company called Herobuilders has rushed out a Joe Wilson action figure. Other figures in the line include Sarah Palin, Joe The Plumber, and Obama The Joker. HuffPo rants: Look who got an action figure! South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, that’s who! Thanks to the good people at HeroBuilder.com, if you are looking to part with a cool $39.95 on …

John Aravosis at AmericaBlog tips us to this strangely hypnotic demonstration of sand painting by a contestant on Ukraine’s Got Talent. There seems to be a lot of Soviet references, some of which I don’t get, but it really gets cool after the first minute.

As I mentioned yesterday, the streets of Manhattan’s East Side are completely gridlocked this week due to the UN General Assembly. Notices of street closures have been posted everywhere for weeks, but that doesn’t matter to the heavily botoxed woman who at this writing is completely blocking all three lanes of Second Avenue with her SUV “until someone in real …