Monthly Archives: August 2007

Fortune 500: 93% Protect Gay Employees

Equality Forum reports that a whopping 466 of Fortune 500 companies now offer protection to their gay employees. Highest ranked of the holdouts is #2 Exxon Mobil, but you have to go all the way down to #95, Liberty Mutual, to find the next company still witholding protection. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Texas leads the list of states with the most non-compliant …

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Albert Gonzales Resigns

And the walls come tumblin’ down. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, effective September 17th. The Justice Department will be issuing a statement this morning. Talking heads are speculating Secretary of Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff will be tapped to replace Gonzales. During his Senate testimony earlier this year, Gonzales repeatedly “did not recall” key portions of his involvement in …

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Haggard Charity Run By Sex Offender

Adding another level of slime to the affair, Dan Savage emailed me on Friday to hip me that one of his readers has uncovered that the charity that Ted Haggard directed his former flock to donate to on his behalf, Families With A Mission, was “voluntarily dissolved” in February of this year and that the “registered agent” of the charity, …

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Morning View – Union Station, New Haven

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The Three Faces Of Father Tony

Father Tony has this wonderful self-triptych hanging in his great room. The backgrounds are made of NY Times headlines, Powerbar wrappers, and dozens of pics of C. The boys are scattered around the house, drinking coffee, reading newspapers, yakking on the terrace. A perfect do-nothing weekend. We visited the Mark Twain House yesterday (yaaaaawn) but other than that, the nine …

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Morning View – Chez Farmboyz

The Farmboyz’ Connecticut home is filled with Father Tony and C’s original artwork, books, and at the momment, about a dozen men. Last night we attended the Hartford Men’s Social, a monthly cocktail party with its origins in a simple email list that began eight years ago. The party’s creator, a genial fellow named Dave, told me that the list …

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Re-Chillaxin’

No more blogging today, I’m off for an all-blogger sleepaway weekend up at the Farmboyz gracious Connecticut home, in celebration of Father Tony’s retirement. Attending: Eddie, Little Tom (whose blog is on hiatus), Aaron, Dr. Jeff, Little David, and Chris. Amusingly, the Farmboyz have added a new AirPort to support the blogging needs of their guests. Tonight we’re going to …

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Broadway Friday

– Disney’s The Little Mermaid, now playing in Denver, opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 6th. The show features 11 new songs from 8-time Oscar winner Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater as well as the classic Alan Menken & Howard Ashman tunes from the 1989 movie, including the Oscar-winning Under The Sea. Ashman died of AIDS in 1991. …

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Ted Haggard: Send Me Cash (Again)
And You’ll Go To Heaven

Ted “Completely Heterosexual” Haggard and his family are moving into a Phoenix halfway-house where they will minister “in whatever capacity asked, whether it’s cleaning the building, hosting a visiting group, attending a meeting, or facilitating a study.” And despite that his former employers, the New Life Church, agreed to pay his $138K salary through 2007, Haggard has issued his former …

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Morning View – Conservatory Water

On Central Park’s east side, just off Fifth Avenue, is the Conservatory Water, where model sailboat enthusiasts while away their empty lives piloting little rented sloops. I kid, I kid.

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Windfalwell

Liberty University has used their portion of the proceeds of Jerry Falwell’s life insurance, $29 million, to retire their debt. Another $5M went to the congregation of his Thomas Road Church. What a country, when an elderly, morbidly obese man can be insured for $34M. If only the money had gone back to all the little old ladies whose pockets …

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Keep Feelin’ Fascination, Cuz Love
Will Tear Us Apart, Black Betty

Last night Aaron, Damian, Dr. Jeff and I dropped in on Spit, where host Paul Short welcomes “prison punks, leather hunks, and hairy chunks” to his East Village monthly party, now relocated above a liquor store on a desolate stretch of Avenue B. The entire club is red – red walls, red wallpaper, red lights – with the only non-red …

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HomoQuotable – Matt Sanchez

“I’m honored WorldNetDaily.com has asked me to be a part of such a respectable organization. WorldNetDaily has some of the most talented people I’ve had the privilege of working with in the media since arriving in Iraq earlier this year.” – Gay porn star, prostitute, serial man-rimmer and right-wing darling Matt Sanchez, announcing that he has joined the writing staff …

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Morning View – Adam

This bronze 20 feet tall statue by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, “Adam”, stands in the lobby of the Time-Warner Center at Columbus Circle. The similar “Eve” stands Adam’s right. You can’t tell in this shot, but Adam’s genitalia have been rubbed so often by shoppers that they are comically much brighter than the rest of the statue.

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Open Thread Thursday

Who are the nicest celebrities you’ve ever met? My list: Moby, Jerry Orbach, Bonnie Raitt. Who was the meanest? Mine: CeCe Peniston. (There’s a story there, one day I’ll blog it.).

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Not Married, Married – Just Lovers

Saturday, 1am, Hillside Campgrounds I’m chatting with a trio from Canada. A handsome muscular man walks past the bonfire…. Camper 1: Woof!Camper 2: Agreed.Camper 3: Married. Lives in Boston.Camper 1: Damn, too bad.Camper 2: No, he’s not married, but he lives with his lover.Camper 1: Oh, so I’ve got a shot.Camper 2: I didn’t say that. Just that he’s not …

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YouAds

The ad-free ride on YouTube has ended. Today Google is launching “overlay” ads that will appear 15 seconds after the clip begins, running for 10 seconds on the lower fifth of the playback image. Viewers will be able close the ads, let them play, or click thru to the advertisers. At the start, the ads will only appear on clips …

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About My Email Suckiness

I created the Gmail address for this blog last November and yesterday the inbox counter rolled over 10,000. Again. I mention this only as a really lame excuse for my sucky track record in responding to everybody. Usually I scan the inbox for familiar names and try to get back to those folks first. But I’m way behind on a …

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Pay To Play

The next-gen DVD wars are heating up and Blu-ray might end up the loser. Paramount is being paid $150M by the makers of the HD-DVD format to release its movies exclusively on HD-DVD for the next 18 months. Similar to the VHS/Betamax wars of long ago, the technologically superior (according to some) Blu-ray format, which currently enjoys higher sales, may …

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Allen Apologies To NAACP

Rep. Bob “Tearoom” Allen apologized to the North Brevard chapter of the NAACP in Florida yesterday to deny charges of racism raised when he told cops that he feared that he was about to be “made a statistic” by the black men loitering in the park he was cruising. Allen told the NAACP that he now that he’s been arrested, …

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