Via my latest obsession: FAIL Blog. According to Wikipedia pork faggots are a specialty of southwest England and Wales. Who knew? Also: they are made of offal. Who picked Brit cuisine as their favorite in last week’s Open Thread Thursday? Anybody?

A Dallas gay strip joint has caused a ruckus by banning drag queens and transgendered women from its busy Tuesday nights. Fueled by cheap drink prices and nearly naked, toned men dancing for tips, Tuesday night bar-hopping on Fitzhugh Avenue is becoming a staple in the Dallas LGBT community. So much so that locals have even given the event a …

Yesterday I was watching a news story about a guy who was mistakenly arrested because he had the same name as a fugitive from a minor drug warrant. The arrested guy spent four days in jail waiting to be bailed out because he didn’t have anybody’s phone number memorized. That worried me because I too do not have a single …

I’ve been getting emails about this bizarre story all morning from people who were there. San Diego Harbor Police fatally shot a man late Saturday after he began fighting with officers who had just rescued him from the water. Harbor Police responded to a call from a boat chartered for a gay pride cruise about a man overboard about 11:50 …

The current Newsweek cover story on Lawrence King discusses gay kids coming out at a younger age and “defining the limits of tolerance” in public schools. What you might call “the shrinking closet” is arguably a major factor in Larry’s death. Even as homosexuality has become more accepted, the prospect of being openly gay in middle school raises a troubling …

Iranian rapper Hitch-Kas does a pretty good job copying American-style gangsta rap. Except that he’s rapping about God and the “martyrs of the war.” I think I understand rap in Farsi about as well as I do in English. Another bit of American imperialism: thug life.

Rex Wockner has some great coverage of this weekend’s protest outside of the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego. Last week a boycott of the hotel was announced by LGBT groups and a hotel employees union after the hotel’s owner, Doug Manchester, was revealed to have made a $125K donation to the campaign to overturn gay marriage. According to Wockner, …

Built on Chrisopher Street in 1955 as the Theatre Dy Lys, the Lucille Lortel Theater was renamed after the famed actress in 1981 as an anniversary gift from her husband. The first play I ever saw in NYC was Lynda Barry’s The Good Times Are Killing Me at the Lortel. That was 1991, I think. I was a complete freak …

Ahmet Yidlz, a 26 year-old old gay man, was murdered in Turkey last week in what some are calling the country’s first gay “honor” killing. In a corner of Istanbul today, the man who might be described as Turkey’s gay poster boy will be buried – a victim, his friends believe, of the country’s deepening friction between an increasingly liberal …

Yesterday afternoon, with even the lure of a free ticket unable to entice any of my Manhattan-centric friends to embark on the travel science project that is a trip to Nassau County on Long Island, I headed alone to the Donna Summer concert at Jones Beach. About 2 1/2 hours into my mistake-laden journey (6 train to the 7 train …

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is getting ready for 2012. A company associated with Hillary Clinton’s top presidential campaign advance staff has purchased a website domain that hints of a 2012 presidential bid for the vanquished senator from New York. HRC2012.com was bought by the Markham Group on June 8, according to whois.com Greg Hale of the Markham Group served as a …

The proposed George W. Bush Sewage Plant renaming that I told you about back in April? Yesterday the initiative qualified for the November ballot in SF. Congrats to the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco, whose board of directors includes drag star Peaches Christ and members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Bawdy 70’s game show The Newlywed Game is coming back to the airwaves. But via Good As You, check out the eligibility rules (PDF):I can’t imagine any self-respecting queer couple wanting to go on The Newlywed Game, but then again I didn’t use to think that people would eat worms for money on TV.

– 9 to 5: The Musical will begin Broadway previews March 24, 2009, at the Marriott Marquis Theatre following a Sept. 3-Oct. 19 tryout at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Joe Mantello directs a cast that includes Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty, Allison Janney and Marc Kudisch. – Whoopi Goldberg joins the cast of Xanadu on July 29th for …

Using the same language as the amendment, a new Field Poll shows that a majority of Californians continue to oppose Proposition 8. Pollsters expect opposition to grow. Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in California, is opposed by 51 percent of likely voters with 42 percent in favor, according to a new Field Poll. Those results …

Wednesday night Sen. Dole made Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person In The World” countdown at #3. Coming in at the top was that Florida billboard asshat.

The ACLU and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State have filed a joint lawsuit in a federal appeals court asking that government funding be refused to a Baptist childcare agency in Kentucky because the agency fires gay employees and proselytizes to the children. The lawsuit asserts that Kentucky Baptist Homes has no right to accept public funding …

Via Towleroad comes the story of Oklahoma politician Brent Rinehart’s homophobic comic book, which he is using to attack the people he thinks are trying to run him out of his OK County Commission office: The “liberal good ol’ boys,” gays and Satan are doing everything they can to get Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart out of office, a comic …

The Winter Garden was built in 1896 as the American Horse Exchange and was opened by the Schubert family as a theater in 1911. Just a few of the famed Broadway musicals that have played the Winter Garden: Peter Pan, West Side Story, Funny Girl, Mame, Follies, Gypsy, Cats. Since 2001 the theater has hosted Mamma Mia! The movie version …