Today’s gay history lesson: Fort Lauderdale’s Marlin Beach Hotel, the place that caused so many men to move to Fort Lauderdale in the 70’s and 80’s. Busy in the winter, but not so much in the summer, the Marlin’s famous t-dances on its Poop Deck packed the boys in every day during the 6 weeks of spring break. It’s where …

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The beef, gentle readers, will be hoofing down Avenue A to Big Lug tonight for DJs Paul & Damian’s 80’s & electro party. See y’all there. And please folks, ease off on the promo requests. I usually only mention events here if a) I am going to be there, and/or b) it’s being run by meatspace friends. Tonight, I’m requesting …

Cafe Metro, Madison & 42nd, 8:45am (In line in front of me at the omelet station.) Girl 1: I never know what to wear out anymore. Everything changes so fast. I’m so behind on what’s cool.Girl 2: I know, right? I totally almost put on a poncho the other day. It’s like you can’t even trust what they wear on …

Mike Rogers of blogACTIVE and Proud Of Who We Are has released an ad parodying the race-baiting ad used by the Republican National Committee in Tennessee’s senatorial race, in which racist miscegenation messages were played up when a white woman blows a kiss into the camera and suggest that the black Democratic candidate “call me.” In this blogACTIVE spot, Rogers …

Seven people were shot during last night’s annual massive Halloween celebration in San Francisco’s Castro district. Police also reported a stabbing and a sexual assault. For years, local gay activists and merchants have been complaining about the “unofficial” event in the Castro, as it brings up to 500,000 mostly-straight people into the gayborhood, some of whom are aggressive and violent. …

Sort your browswer history by “most visited”. Aside from your own sites (your blog, your MySpace, etc.) what are your three most-visited sites? Mine: Technorati, SFGate, New York Times. (Thanks to Chris at Boy’s Briefs for this week’s Open Thread idea.).

The view from my hotel room, looking west. At 9pm last night, I had to walk ten NYC-blocks just to find a single place open and selling any kind of food. Ten blocks! Manhattan can sure spoil you.

Still no sign of lobster, rock or otherwise.

“The email exchanges in question between former Congressman Mark Foley and a House page have been in the possession of bloggers and media outlets for some time now. Yesterday, it came to our attention that an HRC employee, hired just last month to work for us in Michigan, was responsible for initially posting these emails on his blog. We investigated …

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today that gay couples are entitled to civil unions under the state’s equal protections guarantees. Activists on both sides are disappointed. Bloggers on both sides are disappointed. And the rest of New Jersey goes back to burying their enemies in the backyard.

Big Lug’s opening was a roaring success, judging by the huge line of hairy men waiting on Avenue A when I light-weighted out of there at 1130PM. A regular JMG blogroll who’s-who was on hand: Mark (The Mark Of Kane), Eric (We Like Sheep), Jeff (Cynically Optimistic), Paul (Habitat 67), Bryce (Plastic Music), Neil (Diary Of A Dandy) Foxy (Fox …

She suffers for her art. UPDATE: Video from the Washington Post of last night’s Dupont Circle High Heel Drag Race.

Fox News’ morning show today reported the critical news that scientists have discovered that among scents that heighten sexual arousal for men, the strongest reaction is from a combination of lavender and pumpkin pie. Mention that to Grandma, next time you see her.

This morning, your view is the Bamm Automat, NYC’s new and only automat, since the last one closed on 42nd Street in 1991. I finally got a look at Bamm in the East Village last night and while I understand the retro-kitsch of the joint (and the place is very neat looking in a pink-Hello Kitty-7/11 kind of way), the …

Big Lug opens in the East Village tonight, kicking off what looks like a pretty interesting schedule of theme nights. Big Lug is in the basement under Tigerland, across from Sidewalk on A between 5th & 6th. From uptown take the 6 to Astor Place, walk east. From the West Village/Chelsea, take the L to 1st Ave. Map.

When the Foley page scandal broke in late September, it was due to the anonymous blogsite Stop Sex Predators, who posted copies of emails that Foley had sent to a 16 year old page. The authorship of Stop Sex Predators has been a source of widespread speculation, with accusations aimed at both the Democrat and Republican parties. Since last week, …

If you were a powerful Republican senator who’d been falsely accused of cheating on your wife with men you’d met in train station restrooms, wouldn’t you come out swinging against your accuser? Press conferences, lawyers, lawsuits, chat shows? Well, maybe you wouldn’t, if you thought that the story would scarcely be touched by the MSM. That’s been largely the case …

A new sign in the subway today admonishes riders not to run for the train: “75% of passenger injuries are the result of slips and falls!” Injury stats were rounded out by a this graffito: “Stabbings: 1%. Stank: 24%.”