Monthly Archives: November 2007

The Lesbionic Woman

“Back off, breeder! Now where the hell is my Subaru?”

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LA Gay Center Gala Draws Stars

Hosted by comedian Alec Mapa, Saturday night’s Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center’s 36th Annual Gala brought out more than 1000 supporters to hear Linda Ronstadt, Jenifer Lewis, and the LA Gay Men’s Chorus. (ABOVE: George Takei, Center CEO Lorri L. Jean, Alec Mapa, Jane Lynch, . Photo by David Arenas. BELOW: Alex Mapa and LA Gay Men’s Chorus, Jenifer …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Universal Motown, today’s Swag Tuesday giftie is an autographed poster for the Scissor Sisters’ new performance DVD, Hurrah! A Year Of Ta-Dah, due out December 4th. This 2 disc DVD set is essential for all Scissor Sister fans!! Included is a DVD of a full live concert filmed at O2 Fest in London including “Take Your Mama”, “She’s …

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UN To Reduce AIDS Count By Six Million

Saying they have overstated the reach of the AIDS pandemic, the United Nations’ AIDS agency will release a report today reducing their count of total AIDS cases worldwide by six million, to 33.2 million. The statistical changes reflect more accurate surveys, particularly in India and some populous African countries. Some epidemiologists have criticized for years the way estimates were made, …

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Today: 9th Annual Transgender
Day Of Remembrance

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder …

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HomoQuotable – Richard Rothstein

“AOL made a tremendous noise about its commitment to the GLBT community and to its queer readers in particular. AOL trades on the important and valuable role it plays in the various communities it serves through its many pages and themes. Partly, I walked away from my original blog, Proceed At Your Own Risk because AOL convinced me that I …

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Simplifly

It’s really too bad that there’s a writers strike right now, the Daily Show and Letterman would have a field day with this.

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Please Don’t Squeeze The Coffin

Dick Wilson, AKA Mr. Whipple, dead at 91. Remember he also played the drunk guy on Bewitched who was always seeing Samantha’s magic?

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Time Machine

Dr. Jeff and I ran into this kid begging on 14th Street near Union Square last night. While he doesn’t appear homeless or especially needy, we still both gave him a buck. Probably because of his clever sign and not at all because we are shallow he was funny and cute. And certainly not because we were hammered slightly drunk.

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Taking The Piss

An interesting ad campaign to promote British tourism has appeared on Belgian street corners. The above cubes are positioned so that approaching pedestrians see the pissing punk first, then the delicate teacup into which he is so accurately aiming. The ad agency who created this ad for the Eurostar train says they’ve received no complaints because the images hit on …

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Manhattan Monday

– The nine day old Broadway strike will continue though the Thanksgiving weekend as negotiations were broken off again on Saturday. No new talks are scheduled. Analysts are now describing the strike as a “disaster” for holiday tourism. Unrelated: the vanity plate on this car parked in front of my building. – The feds have approved $1.3B for the construction …

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Catching Up With The Joneses

A new analysis of the last U.S. census reveals that for the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the ten most common last names in the country. I can’t embed it here, but in the linked story there’s a neat scrollable graphic of the 5000 most common last names. The new top ten: 1. Smith2. Johnson3. Williams4. Brown5. Jones6. …

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Deadline Looms For Philly Scouts

Philadelphia has given the Boy Scouts until December 3rd to rescind its policy of excluding gays or forfeit the right to continue renting its headquarters from the city for $1 a year, as the Scouts have done since 1928. Market rent on the massive Beaux Arts building, which was constructed by the Scouts themselves, is thought to be about $200,000 …

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The Naugle Effect

In an effort to stem public sex on the beach, officials in Martin County, Florida are considering installing “talking” motion-detecting surveillance cameras. Upon detecting movement, the cameras would flash a bright light and play a pre-recorded announcement that the area was under surveillance. Recording would begin 30 seconds later. Martin County arrested six men in an undercover beach sex sting …

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Homosex To Be Legal In Nicaragua

Surprising international observers, the Nicaraguan National Assembly has announced the decriminalization of gay sex, effective next March. Under the current law, gay sex is punishable by one to three years imprisonment, as is providing sexual health information or services and advocating for LGBT rights. The new civil code does away with all of those restrictions. Most Central and South American …

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Bob Allen Resigns

Disgraced Florida Republican legislator Bob Allen resigned late on Friday shortly after his conviction for soliciting tearoom sex from an undercover cop. Allen was sentenced to six months probation and must pay court costs and fines. The judge ordered Allen to undergo tests for HIV and STDs and to take a class on HIV awareness. He was also told to …

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Morning View – Bedpan Alley

Looking north from the Queensboro Bridge, this area of the Upper East Side is called “Bedpan Alley”, as many of the buildings you see here are hospitals. I got this shot last week before winter clomped into town on wet, gray boots. Today’s random trivia: the East River is not a real river, but a salt-water estuary, or tidal strait, …

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MetroBike

I guess this guy likes the MetroCard logo. Discovered in Hells Kitchen near 10th Avenue.

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Spitzer Promises Gay Marriage For NY

NY Governor Elliot Spitzer preached to the choir at a private fundraiser in the West Village on Wedneday. “One of the first things we’re going to do when [Senate Minority Leader] Malcolm Smith is [majority] leader is gay marriage,” the witness recounted Spitzer as telling some 60 people who paid up to $10,000 each to attend the event in Greenwich …

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Hillary: I Don’t Play The Gender Card

I was fairly impressed with Hillary Clinton’s performance at last night’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas. But claiming that she doesn’t constantly stress that she’s a w-o-m-a-n seems a little dishonest.

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