Beginning in 1999, the Fashion Center Business Improvement District began selecting honorees for the Fashion Walk Of Fame, which runs along the east side of Seventh Avenue from 35th to 41st streets. To meet the criteria for the Walk, fashion designers must have had a “clear and significant New York presence”, must have owned their own business for ten years, …

After his widely-panned performance in Wednesday’s debate in Philadelphia, Barack Obama has decided that 21 debates with Hillary Clinton is enough. Sen. Barack Obama suggested Thursday that he doesn’t see any point in having another debate with Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton. Wednesday’s debate on ABC may be the final face-off between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. At an …

– On April 28th, Xanadu star Cheyenne Jackson will host Live Out Loud’s 7th Annual Gala, a benefit dedicated to empowering LGBT youth. Hundreds of community leaders will be on hand as scholarships are awarded to four high school seniors who have “demonstrated outstanding leadership skills.” Tickets start at $85. – The Catered Affair, starring Harvey Fierstein, is getting generally …

After a complaint from GLAAD, Hanes has apologized for the “Lipstick” campaign, which came to national attention last week after a JMG reader tipped us when he found the images on a website dedicated to overseas advertising. The ad was created by a Bombay-based division of McCann Erickson. Via GLAAD: According to a press release from Hanes dated April 15, …

I spend an fair amount of my job dealing with ad and PR agencies, attending dreary riveting meetings in over-austere offices. And while underwear models are more Towleroad or Queerty territory than JMG, since I spent an hour at the launch party for 2(x)ist’s new Liquid Cotton line today, I hope you won’t object to a little beefcake on the …

The Liberty Counsel, a right-wing group that provides free legal defense on issues of religious liberty and “family values” has issued a counter-protest advisory in advance of next week’s National Day Of Silence, the annual protest of anti-gay bullying in public schools, and is asking students who feel discriminated against to contact them. Liberty Counsel is encouraging students to mount …

Speaking of foreign currency, I found a 1000 Bolivar (Venezuelan) note on the floor of the subway yesterday and thought, “Ooh. Sweet.” Turns out to be worth about 46 cents. Oh well.

Calling it “counterproductive to military readiness”, yesterday Ronald Reagan’s former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence J. Korb pleaded for an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” before a joint meeting of the House Armed Services Air and Land Forces Subcommittee and the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee. “First, repeal the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy,” Korb told the joint hearing. …

Big hugs to all my sweet peeps who came out for last night’s final installment of Reading For Filth at Rapture Books: Little David, Dr. Jeff, Eddie, George, Chris, Craig, Wolf and everybody else. Thanks to the lesbian performers last night was easily the filthiest Filth that every filthed. (And usually it’s the men who talk about fisting and watersports.) …

BoltBus, the new mega-cheap bus line operated by Greyhound that I mentioned here last month, earned a rave review from my friend Eddie last night. Eddie reports that for his $5 fare from Philly to NYC, he got a brand new bus with wi-fi service and power outlets at each seat. AND the driver even detoured from her route to …

In 1872 the Bloomingdale brothers moved their business uptown from the Lower East Side, opening the East Side Bazaar in in a row house at Third Avenue and 56th Street, moving in 1886 to the location of the current Bloomingdale’s at Third and 59th. After expanding over decades to cover the entire block, in 1930 was building was redesigned to …

In the comments of this week’s story about the rising cost of medication co-pays, a reader suggest this week’s open thread topic: What’s your health insurance situation?

“This has been a long time coming. I’m in a place where I’m at peace with my faith, friends, family and more importantly myself. I know this will end my career in Christian television, but I must now live my life openly and honestly with everyone. This is my reason for doing this. “I know I will be cut off …

This year’s GB:NYC5, the fifth annual gathering of gay bloggers in NYC, is under the management of Father Tony and Little David and they report that attendance from around the country will be even greater than last year. As in previous years, there will be drink-up/meet-ups in a Hell’s Kitchen bar, a picnic in Central Park on Bear Hill, and …

Please consider dropping by tonight’s final installment of Dean Johnson’s Reading For Filth: Queer Writers Read About Queer Sex at Rapture Books at 200 Avenue A in the East Village. The show starts at 8PM. Tonight I’ll be performing a piece that appeared on JMG several years ago, but was taken down in 2005. It’s a tough story and quite …

The other (economic) shoe is starting to drop in the wake of all the bad press Sally Kern’s homophobia has brought to Oklahoma. A San Francisco Bay-area financial services company has not yet ruled out Oklahoma City for a major office relocation, a vice president of a real estate search firm confirmed. A decision is expected in three to four …

MTV’s newest Rock The Vote PSA includes a gay interracial marriage (and kiss!) Fantastic. (Via – Visible Vote 08)