Monthly Archives: July 2008

Violence, Arrests At Budapest Pride

Neo-Nazis disrupted the Budapest Pride parade this weekend, pelting marchers with stones and eggs and hurling fire bombs at police. Police were forced to use water cannons and tear gas to disperse the protesters. Right-wing extremists hurled stones and eggs at a Gay Pride procession in the Hungarian capital on Saturday before clashing with police called in to protect the …

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Pride 2008 Photo Recap

I finally found my memory stick from Pride 2008, so here’s a quick photo recap of the day. Our gang gathered at the corner of Christopher & Gay, as always, and while the intermittent rainstorms drenched the crowd and the marchers, each crack of thunder only brought a joyous roar from attendees and nobody seemed to flee. Below are the …

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Jesse Helms Is Dead Dead Dead

Former Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), the most notoriously racist and homophobic politician in the history of the United States, has died at the age of 86. Happy Independence Day!!! And now for some choice quotes from DEAD Jesse Helms, the greatest embarrassment to my home state of North Carolina and the nation: – On threatening the life of a sitting …

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Broadway Friday

– Critics are predicting that next month’s opening of All My Sons starring Katie Holmes will be a major flop. Advance sales have been abysmal. The cast includes John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest. – Spike Lee will film Tony winner Passing Strange over several performances later this month for release as a feature film. The movie will likely air on …

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Wingnuts Launch McDonald’s Boycott

The American Family Association has launched a boycott against McDonald’s (with its own website, no less) in protest that an openly gay McDonald’s executive has joined the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. From the site: What the boycott of McDonald’s IS NOT about This boycott is not about hiring homosexuals. It is not about homosexuals eating at McDonald’s. …

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Obama In Another Flip-Flop Flap

Barack Obama is defending his Thursday announcement that he may slow his promised withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, saying that he has said all along that he would work with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to effect a withdrawal timetable that would not destabilize Iraq further. After his first comments on slowing the withdrawal caused a firestorm in the …

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Charlie Crist “Engaged” For Fifth Time

Well, that didn’t take long. Florida Governor Charlie Crist became engaged today to Carole Rome, 38, a woman he met only nine months ago on a trip to New York. Rome has two daughters, 9 and 11 years-old, from a marriage that ended in 2007. She is president of the Franco-American Novelty Company, a century-old Glendale, NY-based Halloween costume wholesaler …

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Thomas Beatie Gives Birth

World-renowned “pregnant man” Thomas Beatie gave birth today to a healthy baby girl. The birth – at a hospital in Bend, Oregon – was natural, according to a source, who added that earlier reports that Beatie had planned a caesarean section are false. “She’s really cute, really pretty,” the source told ABC News Thursday afternoon. Born a woman, Beatie, 34, …

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Has Ted Haggard Found A New Way To Fleece People?

An eagle-eyed JMG reader has found Ted Haggard’s new business site, a mortgage reduction scheme company called United First Financial with the URL: KeepYourOwnMoney.com.Entering the company’s site through their main portal (not Haggard’s) one finds a link to another company site called ThinkBeyondMortgages.com. JMG reader David ponders: Glancing through the “agent manual” it appears to me to be something like …

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Hater Gets Silly Stringed At SF Pride

Technically, I believe that Silly Stringing somebody might be construed as battery. On Sunday, an anti-gay pastor at Wichita Pride was charged with battery for throwing his admission pin at a Pride employee. Lawyers?

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Sauna Bombed In Budapest

Hungarian nationalists fire-bombed a Budapest bathhouse yesterday as that city readied for this weekend’s gay pride events. A gay establishment in the Hungarian capital has been targeted, the second attack in a week. Four petrol bombs were thrown into sauna called Magnum in the early hours of yesterday morning. One man was slightly injured by fumes. The bombers had called …

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European Union Citizens: We’d Rather Have A Gay Leader Than A Grey One

According to a survey of 27,000 citizens of European Union nations, they’d rather elect a gay leader than one who is elderly, a minority, or of a different religion. According to the Eurobarometer study of 27,000 EU citizens across the bloc, just 17 per cent of Europeans would be totally comfortable with someone over the age of 75 in their …

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Transman Booted From Bi Dating Site

A 25 year-old Boston transman had his profile removed from a bisexual dating site last week after revealing to the site’s operators that he had recently transitioned. When Nick Teich created a free account on the online personals site BiDatingNow.com last week, he decided to disclose that he is transgender. Perhaps he shouldn’t have. “They say, tell us about yourself …

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Brits To Pay Gay Troops To March In Pride Parades

The British government has told gay soldiers that they can expense their participation in gay pride parades, much to the dismay of straight soldiers. Gay troops have been told they can submit claims for their car mileage or train tickets to marches in London on Saturday and in Brighton next month. Heterosexual soldiers have criticised the move saying they are …

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Trickle Down Economics

According to a press release from a porn industry group, the biggest beneficiaries of last month’s economy stimulus checks from the government may be porn sites. An unforeseen and surprising beneficiary of the Economic Stimulus Plan, a plan that George Bush contends will “boost our economy and encourage job creation,” has surfaced this week. An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult …

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Open Thread Thursday

What was your first car? Mine was a 1971 Pontiac Lemans (although mine was mint green, unlike the car above.) When new, the car sold for about $3500, but my dad got it for me as a high school graduation present in 1977 at the low price of $1500 (thanks to a massive dent on the right rear fender.) No …

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Haloscan On The Fritz

Sorry folks. Looks like Haloscan is having its semi-annual meltdown today. Hopefully commenting will be back up soon.

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Marilyn Muskrat Back To Hating

Homegirl of the KKK, Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Duh), is making her third run at instituting a federal constitutional amendment banning marriage equality and has signed on as co-sponsor of the latest attempt. After more than a year of silence on amending the Constitution, and now facing a tough battle for re-election to a third term, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) …

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Starbucks To Close 600 Outlets

Oh no! Now you’ll have to walk two blocks to find one! As many as 12,000 Starbucks workers will lose their jobs when the company begins closing 600 U.S. stores this summer. The Seattle coffee company is cutting 5 percent of its U.S. locations as part of a wide-ranging effort to boost its bottom line and its stock price. The …

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Backlash On Obama’s FISA Flip-Flop

Barack Obama has had his right-turn blinker on for several days. More backlash: Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most ardent supporters. Thousands of them are now using the same grass-roots organizing …

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