Monthly Archives: May 2007

It Would Be, It Would Be So Nice

Shelley Winters plans on spending her holiday weekend pursuing her two favorite hobbies: spazzing out attacking random objects and creating pillow forts. Myself, I’ll be haunting the various gay blogger meet-ups that are scheduled for GB:NYC4, where I hope to run into lots of y’all that aren’t escaping to the beach.

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Queers Of The Piers

The Queer Justice League is staging their first action tonight: Celebrate the “Queer of the Piers” Meeting and Rally at the Christopher St. Piers. TODAY Friday May 25th at 8PM. Our action is to introduce who we are, our mission, gain support and bring visibility to a number of queer related issues occuring at the pier. Please come dance, kiss, …

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Gay Or Experienced?

Well, rats. I can’t lobby my state assemblyman to support the gay marriage bill because I don’t have one. Gov. Spitzer recently named Pete Grannis the state environmental commissioner, something I somehow missed. Today I got a notice that a special election to replace Grannis will take place on June 5th. But woohoo, the Democratic candidate to replace Grannis is …

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More Success For Clinton Foundation

Bill Clinton received a check for $1 million yesterday from the proceeds of Vienna’s Life Ball, money that will be used to continue his work to provide low-cost AIDS medications to third world nations. Recently Clinton struck a deal with Indian drugmakers that will allow Thailand to buy meds for a fraction of their normal cost. Earlier this month, the …

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Morning View – Keyspan

The ugliest blight on the NYC skyline is the Keyspan power plant on the East River in Queens. It’s loud too, crackling and humming.

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Acting!

Yeah, I’m not buying it either.

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Talking Truth

Truth Wins Out, an organization devoted to exposing the lies of the “ex-gay” industry, has a new internet video campaign called “Talking Truth” which features several video testimonies from former members of Exodus, including this one from a fellow named Shawn, who describes how his Exodus group would cruise the mall for hot men. Visit the Truth Wins Out site …

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Transmen Controversies

Transmen, female-to-male transexuals, continue to be barred from membership in Chicago’s Hellfire BD/SM club, the largest of some 400 such clubs in the nation. Despite some internal dissent, including the resignation of the club’s newletter editor, the membership recently voted to maintain their 10-year policy that “there must be a penal [sic] attachment.” Hellfire is one of the few BD/SM …

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Haliburton Junior, Jr.

Yesterday Mary Cheney and Heather Poe gave birth to a baby boy, Samuel David Cheney, seen here with his grandparents, Lynne and Shotgun. I have to agree with Rex Wockner, who says, “I have to hand it to the Cheneys. For more than six years now they have been PFLAG parents to Mary and Heather and also somehow kept the …

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The View Blows Up

In her waning days on The View, Rosie O’Donnell has become more aggresive in confronting Bush-loving co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck. After Joy Behar reads a rather comprehensive list of Bush trangressions, asking “Why can’t we get RID of this guy?”, Rosie and Elizabeth really get into it. The local news interviewed audience members after the show, most of whom expressed discomfort …

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HomoQuotable – Stephen Benjamin

“I was always discreet, I never considered it would be an issue. I thought if I don’t say anything, they’re not going to ask me. But it was more aggressive than I thought.” – Arabic languages specialist Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Benjamin, who was dismissed from the Navy in another round of DADT-related firings. Benjamin admitted sending his …

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Morning View – Little Singer Building

Built in 1902, the art nouveau Little Singer Building on Broadway in Soho, where Singer sewing machines were built, was converted to retail, artist and loft spaces in 1979. The 41-story Singer Tower, built nearby in 1908, was for a short time the tallest building in the world, but was demolished in 1968, making it the tallest building in the …

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They Want You As A New Recruit

This being Fleet Week in NYC, I’m reminded of a story from when I lived in Orlando, back when the Naval Training Center was open, circa 1982. Phone rings……Joe: Hello? Woman: Is this Joe? Joe: Yes, it is. Woman: Joe, you don’t know me, but I’m David’s mother. He’s sitting right here with me and he doesn’t want to talk …

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Open Thread Thursday

What are you doing this summer?.

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Evening View – 1st Avenue

First Avenue, looking northward from under the Queensboro Bridge at 59th Street. I live about 10 lights up, on the left.

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California Chaos

Lady Random’s wheel landed on #108, making this week’s Swag Tuesday winner Thomas, who blogs from California at Oh, Manchester. Thomas sez: “Holy s—, I never win anything! Wow. I’m very excited to have won this week’s Swag Tuesday – Edmund White is one of the best writers around and has been for decades, and should be considered a national …

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$6.8M For NYC AIDS Walk

I’m a couple days behind on this, but AIDS Walk New York raised a record $6.8 million on Sunday, with the proceeds headed for GMHC and over 50 other HIV/AIDS organizations. Celebrities taking part included Cyndi Lauper, Whoopi Goldberg, Alan Cumming, T.R. Knight, and Lance Bass. A massive crowd of 45,000 walked this year, also a new record.

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The Fleet Is In

Fleet Week 2007 begins today and the ships are beginning to pull in at Pier 90. Insert your tired “seaman” jokes below.

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Bombs For Phelps

A Liberty University student was arrested at Jerry Falwell’s funeral yesterday after police were tipped off by his family that he had brought bombs that he intended to throw at the Westboro contingent that was protesting at the event. The bombs were described as a soda-can sized “sort of napalm”. Man, the gentle loving people of the Lord are ready …

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PlanetOut Tumbles

Ouch. PlanetOut’s stock price has nosedived since last week’s earnings announcement, closing yesterday at $1.11, recovering slightly from an all-time low of $0.86 at midday. The 52-week high for the stock, which trades as LGBT, was $7.95.

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