“There’s one indulgence every man should try in his lifetime: If you’re straight, sleep with a man at least once, and if you’re gay, don’t go through life without sleeping with a woman. Either way, you might be surprised at how natural it will feel if you can get past the mind-fuck of stereotypes. In the end, it’s just another …

Jewish culture site Nextbook dissects Boys In The Band and its “Jew fairy” character Harold, noting the interesting parallels between the gay and Jewish worlds and how both deal with the issues of assimilation and acceptance with self-deprecating humor. Harold may not be entirely at ease with either his sexual or religious identity, but he refuses to downplay or mask …

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Last week evangelical leader Richard Cizik told NPR that he now backs civil unions for gays and was “shifting” on the issue of same-sex marriage. Yesterday he resigned his position with the National Association of Evangelicals after an internal uproar over his comments. An outspoken and polarizing voice in conservative Christian politics resigned effective Thursday from the National Association of …

Soap-opera-in-space Battlestar Galactica will out two characters in webisodes that will run prior to next month’s season debut. (Stop here if you don’t want to be spoiled.) The webisodes are meant to bridge the gap between the mid-season finale and the January 16 premiere, but that’s not the only interesting thing about them. Galactica Sitrep reports that two male characters …

Bettie Page, 1950s bondage model and inspiration to goth kids everywhere, has died at 85. Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85. Page suffered a heart attack last week in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, her agent …

The auto industry bailout fell apart late last night. A bailout-weary Congress killed a $14 billion package to aid struggling U.S. automakers Thursday night after a partisan dispute over union wage cuts derailed a last-ditch effort to revive the emergency aid before year’s end. Republicans, breaking sharply with President George W. Bush as his term draws to a close, refused …

From the Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics In Washington comes the “most embarrassing re-elected members of Congress.” Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released its 2008 Most Embarrassing Re-Elected Members of Congress report. The list incorporates those elected officials who have misused their position through illegal, unethical or just plain outrageous conduct. Members are not ranked, but …

Some guy in Russia has trademarked an emoticon. How much would you pay for a ;-)? A Russian businessman has trademarked the emoticon or combination of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages and e-mail. Oleg Teterin, president of the mobile ad company Superfone, said Thursday he doesn’t plan on tracking down individual users following the decision …

Man, you really know Wall Street has been hit hard when Scores, Gotham’s jiggle-titty mecca, is closing. It’s the last lap dance for Scores, the strip club empire whose comely babes attracted A-list celebs and money-burning execs. Once the highest-grossing strip club chain in the world and a hangout for Madonna, Howard Stern, Russell Crowe, Jason Giambi and countless others, …

The memorial vigil for Jose Sucuzhanay, the victim of Saturday’s brutal anti-gay, anti-Latino attack in Brooklyn, will take place Sunday at 2pm at the scene of the hate crime. Facebook link here. Let’s hope the “gays don’t get beaten up enough” crowd has taken notice. Embiggen the image for instructions.

New Orleans is covered by a heavy snowstorm and here in Gotham we still got nuttin’. Craziness. And somebody feel free to correct my Franglais.

To great controversy, yesterday British television aired a film titled Right To Die?, which showed a terminally-ill man committing suicide on camera. The film raises the usual questions about euthanasia and assisted-suicide, although the man did the job on his own, albeit with an audience in the room. The scene is difficult to watch, even for viewers inured to the …

I couldn’t resist sharing this old photo of me and Project Runway’s Chris March, taken at Wigstock West in 1996, the one year (I think) that Wigstock came to San Francisco. We used to see Chris at all the major events in outlandish costumes like this. I got the pic yesterday from my old SF roommate Eduardo, who’s now gay-married …

I had no idea this was happening, but ever since YouTube added advertisements to the clips of their most popular members, the creators of those clips are making big bucks, including gay gossiper Michael Buckley. One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning …

“If Christians and traditionalists want to preserve the “sanctity” of marriage as something between a man and a woman, with all the mumbo jumbo that entails, let them. They only hasten the collapse of marriage. Instead of demanding gay marriage, in effect trying to modernise an increasingly moribund institution, maybe lesbian and gay people should push for civil partnerships to …

You may have heard that in a historic first for our community, an LGBT marching band will perform in Barack Obama’s inauguration parade. Predictably, the wingnuts are going crazy. Yesterday the Catholic News Agency published a story that links the marching band to the “infamous lewd public acts” at Southern Decadence – because the band will also perform there. President-elect …

Gay pride organizers in Moscow remained defiant even after their mayor used a Eurovision ceremony yesterday to warn homosexuals to stay off the streets during the famously loved-by-gays song contest. The Mayor of Moscow has used a Eurovision Song Contest ceremony to warn gay people visiting the city for the event next year that they are not welcome on the …

This will be the first weekend in a month that I’ve been home and I was really looking forward to spending it on the couch with the DVR. “Catching up on my stories”, as we’d say in the South. So don’t you know the stupid cable box picked this week to crap out and erase four weeks of shows. I …