Monthly Archives: June 2007

Gay Rape Hotline Set Up In SF

In a joint venture with the gay support group Community United Against Violence, San Francisco has unveiled a new campaign encouraging gay men to come forward and report rapes. With a hotline and a website, the groups hope to reduce the stigma and increase the reporting of the attacks, the majority of which take place in the Castro. In 2007, …

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Blender.com: Gayest Moments In Music

Head over to Blender.com for their list, The Gayest Moments In Music. I’m not crazy about their picking Village People’s YMCA as their number one, but there’s some great stuff on there. RuPaul’s talk show, Madonna’s kiss with Britney, and some seriously classic moments like Sylvester’s You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) all make the list. I’d have to think …

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Radical Homos Zap Speaker Quinn

Yesterday the activist group Radical Homosexual Agenda staged a protest at City Hall during the speech of openly lesbian City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, claiming that Quinn was the “civilian agent” of a new NYPD policy that subjects to arrest the members of any group of 49 persons or more that gathers without an approved NYPD permit. Activists claim this …

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Gaydarade

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Shelter Kitty: Week Seven

Shelley Winters has discovered climbing and there is no height in my apartment that she has not scaled. I came home yesterday to find her crying on top of the cabinets over my kitchen sink, which I presume she got to by a counter to microwave to cabinet route. Her favorite perches are the back of my desk chair (but …

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Eggs & Excrement At Jerusalem Pride

Jerusalem’s Pride parade was this morning, where marchers encountered hundreds of Haredi, Israel’s bizarre Ultra Othodox sect, who arrived with eggs and bags of human excrement to hurl. Just before the parade kicked off, police arrested a 32-year old man carrying a bomb which he said he’d planned to detonate near the parade to “scare people away.” Two hundred Haredi …

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Curb Alert

There’s a fascinating article in today’s NY Times about “freeganism” – folks who try to reject capitalism wherever possible by using thrown-away products such as damaged food or items found in dumpsters. The article talks at length about the perfectly good furniture and personal items tossed out by New Yorkers. If you go into just about any of my friends’ …

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Morning View – Empire State Building

The Empire State Building, viewed from 14th Street at Union Square.

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Open Thread Thursday

A couple of posts down you’ll find my rant regarding those in our own community who heap scorn and insults on gay men that don’t meet their twisted personal standards of masculinity. Longtime readers of this here website thingy know that I regard that sort of divisive self-loathing as perhaps the greatest internal challenge that gay men face, both as …

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He’s Jon, The Winner, He Is

Shortly after last call at the Bada Bing, Lady Randomocity finished her lap dance to text me the winner of this week’s Swag Tuesday, Jon of Jersey City, who wins an advance box set of Showtime’s hit series The Tudors and Tudors t-shirt. Jon gushed: “Holy crap, that’s fantastic! You are awesome, Your web site is awesome and I can’t …

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How To Not Win Friends
And Influence Bears

You may recall the huge brouhaha a few months ago when complaints arose that the bear-themed hookup site Bear411 was routinely refusing membership to men whom the site owner felt did not meet his personal ideal of “bearness”, namely non-hirsute or smaller guys. Asian men in particular seemed to bear the brunt of the rejections, although some were allowed to …

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“Truth” Ministry Zinged

Remember all the fun we had here last year with photoshopped parodies of the “ex-gay” billboard campaign? Somebody is having fun again with a new campaign from them wacky totally-not-cocksuckers and the doctored version is flying around the web.From the Truth Ministry site: A photo of our Greenville billboard has recently been doctored by someone and posted on a national …

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A Global Swell Of Anti-Gay Hate

What a strange Pride Month it has been so far for LGBT folks around the world. On the sort of plus side, Colombia tried but failed to grant gay couple similar rights to those of straight couples and Costa Rica is contemplating a similar attempt. On the downside, we’ve got Russia with banned Pride marches, violence against gays, and an …

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A Little Respect For Tainted Love

My UK blogger pal Mike Atkinson, AKA Troubled Diva, has really been making a name for himself as a music journalist. Head over and check out his interview with the rarely heard from Vince Clarke of Erasure, in which Clarke talks about his “monogamous loyalty” to singer Andy Bell and what it’s like to be one of the few surviving …

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Bishop Harry Jackson Takes Out
Anti-Matthew Shepard Act Ads

Bishop Harry Jackson: “Gay activists around the country are getting nervous that they are about to experience an embarrassing political setback. Instead of amending the hate crimes legislation that protects churches in a substantive way, they are simply crying out in a louder, more threatening manner. Gay advocates are not looking for fairness; they are looking for an upper hand. …

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Morning View – Times Square

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HomoQuotable- Matthew Titone

“I have my partner here on the phone and he just asked me to marry him. My answer, Madam Speaker, is yes.” – New York State Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D-Staten Island), cellphone in his hand, moments after the Assembly passed its same sex marriage bill. The chamber gave Titone a round of applause. One day after passing through the Assembly …

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Here We Perot Again

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg threw a huge honkin’ monkey wrench into the presidential campaign today when he stunned politicos by announcing he was no longer a Republican. Bloomberg told the press today that he was now independent after switching his voter registration last week. With a personal wealth estimated at over $5B, he could easily underwrite his own presidential campaign, …

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Smooth/Soften

Paging the Conde Nast art department: Father Tony (NSFW) has some mad photoshop skillz, evidenced here by the creamy complexions of Superdaddy and myself. My skin hasn’t looked this baby-smooth since spring break ’81 when I passed out drunk in the Marlin Beach Hotel and awoke to find that my friends had entertained themselves by giving me a cucumber-avocado facial. …

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LGBT Center Gala Surpri$e

At last night’s Garden Party, the NYC LGBT Community Center’s annual Pride kick-off gala, the audience got a wonderful surprise when Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer (above, right) announced a $1 million grant to the center’s capital improvements fund. Nice, huh? But heads really swiveled when City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (above, left) announced an additional $8 million dollar grant …

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