When Shelley is feeling needy (about every 15 minutes) she gets between me and my keyboard for her favorite game, Fang Roulette, in which I guess how many times I get to pet her before she (playfully) bites me. It doesn’t seem possible, but I’ve had her for six months this week. She’s morphed from being skittish around strangers to …
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Rumored: White House May Back ENDA
Wackjob closet case “Porno” Pete LaBabera, the guy who sends undercover camera crews to International Mr. Leather and Folsom Street Fair, is claiming on his Americans For Truth About Homosexuality site that White House staffers were involved in crafting the religious exemptions to ENDA, possibly signaling that President Bush would not veto the bill. Americans For Truth has learned that …
Read More »Italian TV In Gay Priest Frenzy
Italian television networks are breathlessly reporting that Vatican official Father Tommaso Stenico, who was suspended last week after being taped making advances to a young man, now says he has a long list of Vatican officials who are gay. On Friday, Italian television show Panorama revealed that Stenico has a “list of names and circumstances implicating a certain number of …
Read More »U.S. Senate Candidate Comes Out
Jim Neal, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, came out this weekend during an online chat on the liberal political blog BlueNC. When asked if he was gay, Neal replied, “I am indeed.” Neal is running against Sen. Elizabeth Dole. There has never been an openly gay U.S. senator. Saying he does not want to be …
Read More »Obama To Tour With Anti-Gay Preacher
In an effort to gain traction with black conservatives, Barack Obama will tour South Carolina with Pastor Donnie McClurkin, an “ex-gay” preacher and gospel singer. McClurkin, who says he was molested as a child, frequently rails against “the curse of homosexuality.” A choice quote: “There are countless numbers of people who are not happy in this lifestyle and want to …
Read More »Manhattan Monday
-Fuerzabruta, a show involving aerial, aquatic, acrobatic and dancing components opens on Wednesday in Union Square’s Daryl Roth Theatre. “Fuerzabruta (it means “brute force”) is a largely wordless physical and visual extravaganza inspired in part by Carnaval. It is built around a few major set pieces: a 45-foot clear-bottom tilting pool, hung from the ceiling and only partly filled; flying, …
Read More »ENDA Vote On Wednesday
ENDA comes to a vote in the House on Wednesday, when Republicans (and a few Democrats) will argue to send it back to committee, which would effectively kill it for the current session. If ENDA does indeed pass, Rep. Tammy Baldwin will then propose an amendment reattaching transgender protections. Wednesday promises to be nerve-wracking. I will be following the vote …
Read More »Morning View – Wicked Wolf
The decidedly unglamorous Wicked Wolf is a bit of an Upper East Side institution. Great burgers, grimy decor. And I love the name.
Read More »Matt Foreman On Logo
Here’s the video of Matt Foreman’s Friday appearance on Logo to speak about ENDA and Barney Frank.
Read More »Dumbledore Alley
Christianist websites are going ballistic this weekend with Harry Potter author J.K.Rowling’s revelation that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore is gay NEW YORK — Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing …
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Logo Tonight: Foreman Discusses ENDA
NGLTF director Matt Foreman will appear on Logo tonight to discuss Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), transgender inclusion and the new Baldwin amendment. Tune in tonight, Oct. 19, for an interview with CBS News on Logo’s Jason Bellini and Matt Foreman streaming online at approximately 6:30 p.m. (EST) followed by a television segment on CBS/Logo News at approximately 7:57 p.m. Logo …
Read More »Debbie Harry Announces Tour Dates
Shell-shocked supersonic blonde. Hyperphonic female, dark sunglasses on. Debbie Harry has announced the tour dates in support of her new album, Necessary Evil, which is her first album in 14 years. What’s your favorite solo song by Ms. Harry? My vote would be 1987’s freestyle (yes!) mix of In Love With Love. And we always loved mis-singing, Fresh Dressing In …
Read More »Crazy Clockin’
Duane Reade, 1st & 72nd, Thursday, 9PM A 20’s-ish goth chick, possibly homeless, definitely drug-addled, is singing a Suzanne Vega-ish stream-of-consciousness shopping song to herself. The final word of each line of her song is preceeded by a 2-second pause. I’m in the drug……store.But I don’t need….drugs.I need a soh….dah. (A woman walks past her.) There’s a lay…..dee.She’s buying hair…..spray.(I …
Read More »HomoQuotable – Ian McKellen
“I didn’t realize, as a gay man, that I’d be a criminal once I arrived – because it’s illegal for a man to make love to another man in Singapore. I was rather naughty because I was on an early morning show… At the end of the interview, they asked what was I looking forward to doing while I was …
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Taliban Down, Boy Sex Up
The ancient tribal tradition of sexually abusing boys is surging in northern Afganistan. The practice of “bacha baazi”, meaning “boy-play”, is enjoying a resurgence in the North of Afghanistan where ownership is seen as a status symbol by militia leaders according to Afghan news site, e-Ariana. While condemned by clerics and human rights groups, authorities are doing little to end …
Read More »ENDA Moves Out Of Committee
The trans-less version of ENDA passed its first legislative hurdle yesterday when the House Committee on Education and Labor voted 27-21 to approve the bill. Four Democrats, including presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich voted against the bill in protest of the removal of transgender protections, but with the votes of four gay-friendly Republicans, the measure passed. Republicans voting yes: Reps. Michael …
Read More »What? What?
FDA regulators have added “sudden hearing loss” to the list of possible side-effects for erectile-dysfunction drugs. In one-third of the cases, the hearing loss was temporary, but in the rest of the cases the loss is ongoing. Although the FDA reports that the condition only appears in about 1 out of 1 million users, FDA warnings are considered by some …
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Philly Lowers Boom,
Raises Rent For Boy Scouts
City leaders in Philadelphia have told the local Boy Scout chapter that they must now pay market rent for their headquarters because they refuse to allow gay Scouts. The previous rent, negotiated in 1928 when the Scouts built the building on city land, was $1 annually. The new rent: $200,000 a year. Philly’s Cradle Of Liberty Boy Scout Council adopted …
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