Boy George O’Dowd is scheduled to stand trial in February for an April incident in which he chained a male escort to the wall of his London home. According to The Mirror, O’Dowd met the escort on Gaydar.com and invited him over for a £400 “photo session.” The next morning the hooker wriggled free from his bonds, ran into the …

Yesterday I set off the theft sensors in almost every store I visited. After the third or fourth time of opening my bags to prove I wasn’t a shoplifter, it began to really bug me and I said something rather unkind to the guard at Home Depot. And then this morning I noticed tiny magnetic stickers on the waistbands of …

Wow. Next year’s international gay rugby tournament, the Bingham Cup, which takes place in Dublin, has received a €100,000 sponsorship from Irish betting group Paddy Power, the largest sponsorship ever for a gay event in Ireland. Bingham Cup tournament director Richie Whyte: “Paddy Power have an innovative and risk taking approach to the market. We are delighted that they see …

Hmm, this is interesting. What’s brewing backstage at the Lott home? JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, plans to resign his seat before the end of the year, The Associated Press has learned. Lott, 66, scheduled two news conferences in his home state later in the day to discuss his plans. According …

Even when it’s freezing outside, folks love to stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ha ha haHo ho ho And a couple of tra la la’s Australian Labor Party Prime Minister candidate Kevin Rudd has trounced anti-gay Bush lackey John Howard. Howard lost so badly, he no longer even has a seat in Parliament. Rudd’s historic win means that Labor now runs the government in every Australian state and territory. Also for the first …

Two blocks from my place is Talent Unlimited High School, which tourists often photograph in the mistaken assumption that it was the location for the movie Fame. The movie was actually set at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School on the Upper West Side near Lincoln Center, but facts rarely get in the way of Manhattan tour guides.

Hosted by actor B.D. Wong (left), the NYC LGBT Anti-Violence Project held its 2007 Courage Awards on Monday. New York State Assemblyman Daniel J. O’Donnell and Verna Eggleston, Former Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration and Executive Director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, now with the Bloomberg Family Foundation were both honored with awards for their work on …

Last night Eddie and I tried to attend the blowing up of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons on the Upper West Side, something we’ve never done. What I’d naively presumed would be a casual stroll down Central Park West amidst bustling parade workers turned out to be a gigantic clusterfuck, as the mild weather (60 and clear) brought out …

What’s your favorite holiday movie?.

In you are in the metro NYC or Philadelphia areas this Saturday, please consider attending the 34th Annual Santa Saturday in the popular queer arts enclave of New Hope, Pennsylvania. Hosted by the Bucks MC at the Raven Resort, join over 1000 festive folks from the bear, leather and drag communities (and a few from all three) and help raise …

I can’t imagine that many of you were going to in the first place, but the HRC has issued an alert requesting that teh gays not patronize Wal-Mart this holiday season. The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights group, is giving Wal-Mart (WMT) a red “do not buy” rating in its new consumer guide, bestowing a lump of …

You’ll have to embiggen to read it, but the list of the top ten most viewed pages on Conservapedia is sickly fascinating. Uh, “gay bowel syndrome”? Wasn’t that term rightfully drummed out of the medical lexicon ages ago?.

All that beer and all that testosterone in one place have created a bizarre halftime ritual at New York Jets home games. At halftime of the Jets’ home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps at Gate D. Three deep in some areas, they whistled and jumped up and …

Pam Spaulding reports that the Virginia DMV has relented and will allow one-time Larry Craig trick David Phillips to keep his “POOFTER” vanity plate. Phillips: “This morning the Virginia DMV notified me by phone that I can keep my POOFTER plates. This after I returned directly to the head of the DMV the generic plates supplied with their hate letter, …

Here’s how the Dems are preventing Bush II from appointing Dr. James Holsinger as Surgeon General during the congressional holiday recess: Three senators have been tapped to remain in Washington: Sens. Jim Webb (D-Va.), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), and Jack Reed (D-RI). Twice a week they will go into the chamber. The gavel will be banged down, and the Senate declared …

The Huxtable family of The Cosby Show supposedly lived in Brooklyn, but the house used for the exterior shots is actually in the West Village at 10 Leroy Street, between Hudson and Seventh Avenue. In warmer weather you can hardly see the first floor of the house for all the vines.

Chicago: Thursday, Nov. 29, the Chicago AIDS Foundation holds its annual World Of Chocolate fundraiser in commemoration of World AIDS Day. At this festive event, guests will sample scrumptious chocolate creations from many of Chicagoland’s finest restaurants, caterers and chocolatiers.The vendors creating the delicacies will compete for top honors in several categories as judged by local celebrities. Other components of …

Yesterday Amazon’s Jeff Bezos launched Kindle, their new $400 e-reader that he claims will become the iPod of books. Previous e-readers have failed to catch on, but the Kindle, which can hold 200 books, does have some nifty features, including the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines (Time Magazine: $1.99/mo), and newspapers (New York Times: $13.99/mo.) New content is …