Just days after the Philadelphia Gay News published a large blank section on their front page to protest Barack Obama’s unwillingness to speak to the gay press, the Dallas Voice has confirmed that The Advocate has conducted an interview to be posted on their site tomorrow. It is Obama’s first interview with the gay press since he discussed the Donnie …

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund is announcing that their endorsee Rosemary Lehmberg has won the Democratic runoff for District Attorney of Travis County, Texas. With no Republican opponent in the fall election, Lehmberg is now the presumptive winner of the post. Lehmberg has worked in the Travis County district attorney’s office for 31 years and has said that she …

And they have the tape to prove it. Remember when we got all misty-eyed when PFLAG met with Sally Kern and reported that she told them that gay folks shouldn’t be fired for being gay? And then she denied having said it? On Wednesday, Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays will be releasing an audio recording of a …

Elton John is playing a fundraiser concert for Hillary Clinton at Radio City Music Hall tonight in a show that has raised questions about the Federal Election Campaign Act which seeks to limit “foreign intervention” in American elections. The FECA “prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in …

You may recall me posting a photo of my primary election vote for Hillary Clinton, in which I demonstrated by uncertainty with crossed fingers. I still think she would make a wonderful president. And I think Obama would too. But this cartoon expresses my feelings today. As some of you said in yesterday’s Ellen Degeneres post, I’d like to see …

Florida is going through its own version of the ENDA-T battle. Legislation that would prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians in employment, housing and public accommodations throughout Florida passed a key Senate committee on Tuesday. With the support of both Democrats and Republicans the Senate Commerce Committee approved the bill by a vote of 7 to 1. “Today’s vote is …

I don’t know how my brain is trained these days, but after I got about 20 feet past this ad in the 68th Street station, I had to turn around and go back because I thought it was for gay porn. Maybe because I’d been on Eighth Avenue in Chelsea last night.

Absolut is already back in hot water with the wingnuts, thanks to this new campaign which winks at cock size. Here’s what the Absolut rep says about this new “Ruler” campaign: “As a long-time supporter of the gay and lesbian community, we acknowledge that you can’t simply speak to gay men and lesbians as consumers, but instead need to make …

Here’s the video that Gov. Paterson sent to last night’s New York Leadership Awards. I think he’s fantastic.

David Vitter (the married, family values, hooker hiring, gay marriage ban voting, diaper fetishist Republican Senator from Louisiana) may be called to testify on behalf of the madam accused on running a DC-based prostitution ring. Deborah Palfrey is accused of racketeering and money-laundering. Also on Palfrey’s witness list is Harlan Ullman, the military strategist who came up with the “shock …

I’m being told by readers that the Beta version of Firefox 3 has fixed the bugs that were causing JMG to crash or freeze some of your browsers. I don’t know if the fix is related to the Blogger template or to the Javascript embedded in some video players, but whatever, yay. Y’all should upgrade if you haven’t already and …

From the NY Times: They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great …

Last night Aaron and I attended the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s New York Leadership Awards at the new New York Times building, where although the honorees of the evening were filmmaker John Waters, Gov. David Paterson, and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber Of Commerce, the night was really one long tearful goodbye to outgoing Task Force Executive …

With a new leather bar just opened and more on the way, the SF Chronicle is heralding a “return to SoMa’s lost glory.” “SoMa in those days was more than just a leather nexus – it was the epicenter of the gay sex scene at a time when it was still illegal for two men to hold hands. For the …

Hillary Clinton appeared on the Ellen Degeneres show yesterday where Ellen strongly urged Clinton not to drop out of the race, saying it was the choice of the voters, not Barack Obama’s campaign. Hillary then told the touching story about her parents’ gay neighbors and pledged to work for gay rights. And finally, in a dig at Obama, they bowled. …

This story has been brewing in Freeperland for a few days, but just hit the MSM. An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office. Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in …

The Park Avenue Armory (also known as the Seventh Regiment Armory) straddles an entire block on the Upper East Side from Park Avenue to Lexington between 66th and 67th streets. The Gothic Revival building was designed by Charles Clinton and was completed in 1881 with entirely private funding, the only such armory in America. The massive 55,000-square foot Drill Hall …

Are plain white button-down cotton shirts simply not made anymore? Yesterday I hit up every store on the Upper East Side – Bloomingdales, Gap, Banana Republic, and on and on – and found bupkis. Either the shirts were over-fancy with ridiculous buttons or they were of some open weave that would be suitable for tending bar in a poolside tiki …

As contrast to the North Carolina school board post earlier today, Lexington, Massachusetts school superintendent Paul Ash (left) is being threatened with physical violence by New Jersey radio host and white supremacist Hal Turner for advocating for LGBT youth. Turner posted Ash’s home address and phone number on his site. Police in Massachusetts are investigating. Lexington superintendent Paul Ash of …

Let’s just say that this weekend’s Blowoff was out of control, off the hook, off the chain, or whatever the kids are saying these days. The venue was behind schedule in turning the room over to Mould & Morel, so by midnight the line stretched from Western Beef all the way back to Ninth Avenue. But once everybody was inside, …