Monthly Archives: September 2007

Inevitable

Get your commemorative police brutality t-shirt now. What’d that take, two days?

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Loonies Now 1:1 Against USD

Your on-the-cheap Canadian vacations and shopping excursions are pretty much over, as the Canadian dollar hit one-to-one parity with the American dollar today, a benchmark it’s been inching towards for the last year. Loonies haven’t gone 1:1 against the USD since 1976. Topping that bit of bad news, the Euro also reached its all-time high against the USD today – …

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Review: Spiral Frog Mostly Sucky

Last night I tinkered around with Spiral Frog, the just-launched and super-hyped “free” music and video download service lauded on some sites as the music industry’s savior from illegal downloading. The site is supported by advertising (banners and sidebars, but mercifully – no rolling stock) and the ad revenue is shared with their music company partners. So far the only …

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San Diego’s Republican Mayor Changes His Mind About Gay Marriage

Just one day after pledging to veto Tuesday’s pro-gay marriage resolution by the San Diego City Council, Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders abruptly switched gears yesterday and signed the resolution, outing his lesbian daughter in the process. Fighting back tears, Sanders told reporters, “Two years ago, I believed that civil unions were a fair alternative. Those beliefs, in my case, have …

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Open Thread Thursday

Brag. Boast. Pimp. Bloggers, tell us what your blog is about. Link your favorite work..

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CA Gays Rally For Marriage

From the LA Gay & Lesbian Center: “Chanting ‘Sign AB 43, equal rights for you and me’ more than 200 activists on Tuesday marched to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame where they left pens and urged him to sign legislation ending discrimination against gay and lesbian couples who wish to marry their partners.” You can …

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Contempt, Jail Time For Adoption Attempt

The ACLU is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to intervene in the case of a local county judge who blocked an adoption after finding out that the adoptive mother lived with her lesbian partner of seven years. Elizabeth Hadaway returned the child to her biological mother, who upon seeing how distraught the child was at the separation, insisted that Hadaway …

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Caption This

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Chaka Khan Shouts Out To JMG

Chaka Khan sends a shout out to JMG readers to hype the Sept. 25th release of Funk This. It’s been ten years since Chaka’s last studio album and as the track that follows Chaka’s shout-out shows, we are in for a rare and overdue treat. Chaka is made of awesome. You baby mo’s out there – get schooled on what …

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Jesus Christ, Superstud

Dark Alley Media is releasing a porn version (NSFW) of the Jesus story. We can’t get a plot synopsis from the site for the movie, which mistakenly tells the plot of a previous Dark Alley movie, Gaytanemo, in which “an unsuspecting German tourist is mistaken for a terrorist, abducted, and taken to the sexiest secret military detention center ever.” However, …

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Q: Why Are Pirates So Hot?

A: They just arrrrrrrrr. You’re. Welcome. September 19th: International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

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Morning View – BOA Tower

The Bank Of America Tower at 6th Avenue and 42nd Street is coming along nicely since I first mentioned it last August. When completed, it will be the second tallest building in NYC, due to its spire, but will have only 55 floors. Being constructed with tax-free Liberty Bonds, intended to rebuild lower Manhattan after 9/11, the BOA Tower is …

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Good Work Wednesday

A weekly recap of coming events that benefit the LGBT community….. LOS ANGELES: The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force holds their Los Angeles Leadership Awards on Sept. 30th at the Beverly Hills Hotel. This year’s honorees: Christine Chavez, Judy Chu. Get tickets here. NYC: Today: 10am – 6pm, NYC’s first LGBT career fair, Out At Work, takes place today …

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Let Me Borrow That Top

YouTube gay favorite Kelly has finally done a video for Let Me Borrow That Top. The song’s title phrase will no doubt be heard many times at September 30th’s Folsom Street Fair where Kelly will be performing for the leathered masses alongside Imperial Teen, Ladytron, The Start, and many others. The musical lineup at Folsom has been just stellar for …

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UF Student Tasered And Arrested At John Kerry Speech

Andrew Meyer, a University of Florida student, was pulled away from the microphone and tasered by six cops after attempting to question former presidential candidate John Kerry regarding why he did not contest his loss to Bush in 2004 and about his membership in Skull & Bones, a secretive society at Yale University that counts Bush I and Bush II …

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Governator: The Veto Vill Be Bahck

I’m hoping this news won’t dissuade anybody from attending tonight’s marches and rallies, but the Governator has announced that he will once again veto California’s marriage equality legislation. Yesterday, Schwarzenegger said that he would only approve gay marriage if voters overturned 2000’s Proposition 22, which banned same-sex marriage, but which courts have said only applied to those married out-of-state. Geoff …

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Christine Pedi, Diva Impressionist

Little David hipped me to this hilarious clip of Forbidden Broadway’s Christine Pedi channeling a slew of divas as they would have performed And I’m Am Telling You. Pedi’s Little Edie and Bernadette Peters had me on the floor. Pedi’s one-woman cabaret act, Great Dames, recently played NYC’s Metropolitan Room.

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HomoQuotable – Rex Wockner

After Jerry Lewis’ “illiterate fag” flap, reporter Rex Wockner was reading an LA Times interview with GLAAD’s Marc McCarthy, who was asked by Times columnist Meghan Daum if it wasn’t time to “reclaim the f-word”. Daum: I asked McCarthy if GLAAD had given any thought to the concept of “taking back” words like the f-word. I mentioned, for instance, that …

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Self-Hate Crimes

A year ago, I wrote about the murder of gay New Yorker Michael Sandy, who died after being struck by a car as he ran from four gay-bashers who had lured him to a Brooklyn park by picking him up on a gay chat site. After Sandy died from his injuries, police upgraded the charges to second-degree murder with hate …

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Morning View – Lincoln Building

Across 42nd Street from Grand Central Terminal, the 55-story neo-Gothic Lincoln Building was completed in 1930. A contemporary of the Empire State and the Chrysler, the Lincoln is often overlooked due to its prettier, flashier neighbors, but is quite striking nonetheless. It’s hard to get a good shot of the Lincoln from the ground, as is frustratingly the case with …

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