Monthly Archives: March 2007

Stella Wants Her Dough Back

Best-selling author Terry McMillan is suing her gay ex-husband (who is now a hairdresser) for $40 million, saying he tried to defame her during their divorce. She originally settled her divorce for an “undisclosed sum”. What will the sequel be called?.

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Uncivil Servants

An interesting story in today’s NY Times reports on a new website, Uncivil Servants, which allows NYC residents to upload photos of city employees, cops, and film crews who are violating city parking regulations using their city-issued permits to park just about anywhere they want. The rules for using government-issued parking permits are complex. But the permits are intended for …

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Open Thread Thursday

Spring is here, sort of, and I’m dying for a road trip. I really need to get off this tiny island. What’s your favorite quick getaway destination?.

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Justice For Kevin Aviance

All four assailants charged in last summer’s brutal assault of drag entertainer Kevin Aviance pled guilty in NYC court today, receiving prison sentences ranging from 6 to 15 years in plea agreements that included hate crimes embellishments. The four young men, who range in age from 17 to 21 years old, had faced up to 25 years each for the …

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LGBT-Inclusive Hate Crimes Bill Introduced In Congress

Yesterday, with the support of a broad coalition of professional organizations, including many law enforcement groups, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) introduced the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which will extend hate crimes protection to the LGBT community. Today the American Family Organization issued an action alert to stop the legislation, saying that the hate crimes …

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Azis

Azis, the fascinating Bulgarian bear, drag queen, pop singer, politician and Eurovision 2006 semi-finalist, was recently voted by his countrymen as the 2nd greatest living Bulgarian and 21st greatest of all time. Check out his smokin’ hot new video, which is probably safe for work as long as your co-workers don’t mind you checking out some really, really hot men …

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JMG Hits 2 Million

Pam Spaulding’s mention that her vital site recently hit 2 million visitors reminded me that I meant to mention that this here website thingy recently did the same, last Sunday or so.Crazy!

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Wayne Besen On The Daily Show

Wayne Besen, founder of Ex-Gay Watch and Truth Wins Out, appeared in a Daily Show segment Monday night called Diagnosis: Mystery, which hilariously lampoons looney Richard Cohen, the “conversion therapist” and author of Coming Out Straight. One of the funniest Daily Show bits ever! Well done, Wayne!

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Homophonics

The Eagle, Sunday, 10PMMan 1: Well, sure, you are kinda nelly, but some guys like that. Man 2: What are you talking about??!! Man 1: What? Man 2: You asshole, I said I was a feminist, not effeminate! Man 1 (shrinking): Oh….. Man 2: And I am NOT nelly! (Man 2 stalks away.) Man 1 (to himself): Whatever, girl..

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Few NJ Civil Unions So Far

Early figures are showing that gay couples in New Jersey aren’t exactly rushing to be civil unioned. Only 229 couples have applied for licenses in the first month (although not all municipalities have reported in), which some activists say is indicative of a feeling that gay marriage will eventually come to the state, causing many couples to wait. If true, …

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Still In The Two-One

I’ve already posted too much about the rents on the Upper East Side, but I’ll mention this too. Today I wandered across the street on my way home from the subway to peek at the signs in the lobby of a new apartment building almost ready for tenants. The posted rents are pretty much in line with the neighborhood, but …

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Iraq: Year Five Begins

Yesterday an anti-war vigil in the East Bay marked the 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. In San Francisco 57 demonstrators were arrested in a massive die-in. Our hearless leader marked the anniversary yesterday by warning Americans not “pack up and go home” and demanding that legislators immediately approve additional war funding.

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Larry Kramer Interview

Veteran reporter Rex Wockner has posted an interview with Larry Kramer, done after last week’s ACT-UP Army demo in Times Square, in which Kramer talks about the new ACT-UP Army and rails against the HRC and the Clintons. Kramer: I want this new ACT UP to be an army confronting this hate in every way we can, whether it is …

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Two Daddies Or Ten Daddies

Here’s a bit of YouTube nastiness courtesy of British fundies who are planning to protest Parliament’s plan to enact a “Sexual Regulations” bill allowing schools to educate children about gay families. Unbelievable.

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Facehook

About 500 of you lovely folks have loaded your mug into my Reader’s Photos thingy in the sidebar. Cool! Keep ’em coming and keep the photos safe-for-work, por favor. Longtime JMG readers might recall the interstate romance that was struck up between two readers who met via those photos. Those guys emailed me last week to say that they celebrated …

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Buck In The Box

Last night the lovely Manhattan Offender and I went down the The Box, a beautiful new/vintage theatre/nightclub in the Bowery, for a screening of Schwarztwald: Rites XXVII, filmmaker Richard Kimmel’s fascinating part-fantasy, part-documentary about NYC’s immortal Black Party. All the leatheratti were in the house, including Testosterone photographer Joe Oppedisano, New York Boys Of Leather members Christian and Blaze, and …

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Ow Ow Ow

My houseguest is a cranky, cranky old man.

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Ebay Pulls Jones’ Massage Table

Mike Jones emailed me last night to tell me that after letting it run for 9 days, eBay has pulled his “Ted Haggard massage table” for “violation of charity policy”. Before the auction posted, Jones spent 30 minutes on the phone with an Ebay representative ensuring that he met their criteria. But the fundies rallied to deluge eBay with complaints …

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Garrison Keillor Apologizes

I didn’t comment on last week’s mini-furor about A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor’s Salon.com essay that seemed to slam gay marriage, because knowing Keillor’s deadpan delivery so well, I thought the piece was pure satire. The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men — sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped …

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No Hangers

Three North Carolina men were sentenced to time already served for performing at-home castrations on six men who willingly submitted during SM/dungeon scenes held in a remodeled carport. “Master Rick” and “Slave Danny” will now have three years of supervised probation. I wonder if that means they can still go to IML this year?

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