Gay activist Tim Gill has got the Christian right positively shaking in their pews. Gill, the wealthy founder of software giant Quark who was recently named the fifth most influential gay person in America by Out Magazine, was “exposed” by Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcast Network this week as the “stealth” activist behind many recent advances for the LGBT movement in …

Hillary Clinton Rap: Taking Back The White House is yet another candidate music video, but this one is cuter than most. Includes a nice bite on Biggie Smalls. And at the end she totally nails the Hillary cackle.

For the third straight year, Moscow’s mayor has banned gay pride. The homophobic Mayor of Moscow has banned this years gay pride event. The Mayor, who has referred to gay rights marches as “satanic” has outlawed the march which was due to take place next week. The move comes amidst a growing number of violent threats from members of the …

Horrible survey from England’s Independent: A shocking new survey has uncovered that the international community of Aids scientists are giving up hope of finding a vaccine for the virus. The growing pessimism of scientists comes after the disastrous failure of a trial vaccine. The trial drug, manufactured by pharmaceutical company Merck, has been found not to work and in some …

A study conducted in NYC claims that a majority of young gay people expect to raise children and be monogamously partnered by age 30. What is believed to be the first major study of the hopes and aspirations of gay young people has found most want to spend their adult life in a long-term relationship raising children. More than 90 …

CNN host Larry King remembers murdered gay teen Lawrence King in his PSA for tomorrow’s Day Of Silence in public schools.

Tonight at Rapture Cafe & Book’s closing party: a rare opportunity to see legendary performance artist Karen Finley. 8PM, 200 Avenue A. Free admission! Karen Finley performs a work-in-progress: Impulse To Suck. Rapture celebrates its final “transition” tonight beginning with a performance of a work-in-progress by the highly acclaimed and controversial performance artist Karen Finley. One of the legendary NEA …

An electronic speaker that emits a high-pitched tone which only young people can hear is being used to clear out unwanted teen hangouts. The Mosquito, which targets loiterers, projects a shrill noise audible only to teens and young adults. Almost 1,000 units of the device, called the Mosquito, have been sold in the United States and Canada after the product …

Actually I don’t have a Morning View for today, but it’s a good excuse to show you SnakeMonkey, a funkified East Village shop that sells neither snakes nor monkeys.

Tell us about your first time in a gay bar. Bar name, city, year.

Insult to injury: Donna Summer’s I’m A Fire was #1 last week and I didn’t even hear about it. It was her 17th song to top Billboard’s dance chart and 31st to make the top ten.

Here’s a preview of what we’re in for this fall. To his credit, John McCain has written the North Carolina Republican Party and demanded that they pull the ad. Dear Chairman Daves, From the beginning of this election, I have been committed to running a respectful campaign based upon an honest debate about the great issues confronting America today. I …

Yesterday’s food rationing story has gotten much wider play. From USA Today: The global food crisis is hitting consumers in the USA, with the nation’s top retailer announcing that it’s rationing rice because of “supply and demand trends,” according to Reuters. “We are limiting the sale of Jasmine, Basmati and Long Grain White Rices to four bags per member visit,” …

Last night I finished watching HBO’s superb John Adams mini-series, which is based on some Pulitzer Prize-winning book that I’ve never read. Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney are typically fantastic and I learned quite a bit more about the American Revolution. However, aside from so much of the dialog being delivered sotto voce that by the second episode I had …

Will the same people that leapt on Rev. Wright denounce this asshat? On his radio show yesterday, right-wing talker Dennis Prager asked Hagee to respond to “the various charges made against him” in a fact sheet put out by the Democratic National Committee. Asked about his comments on Hurricane Katrina, Hagee said “the topic of that day was cursing and …

From the New York Times: The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — …

I was talking to a pharma insider the other day who told me that Orasure is getting ready to roll-out an over-the-counter version of their rapid oral swab HIV test kit, possibly as soon as this summer. Home Access currently sells a $35 home kit which requires a blood sample; Johnson & Johnson sold a similar product at one time, …

I was going to headline this post Cock-Jacking, but that might have been misleading. From Kinshasa, Congo: Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft. Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, …