Yearly Archives: 2008

Morning View – Tinsel Kitty

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Guest Post – Carl Siciliano
Executive Director, Ali Forney Center

Christmas is a bittersweet time for me. Ali Forney was murdered on the streets of New York City in December of 1997. He was the seventh homeless LGBT kid I knew who had been killed on the streets between 1994 and 1997. In those days there was no shelter for LGBT kids in New York City. The only youth shelter …

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Prayers For Bobby

On January 24th, Lifetime will air Prayers For Bobby, the true story of Bobby Griffith, the teenage gay boy who committed suicide because of his mother’s religious intolerance. The movie is based on Leroy Aaron’s best-selling 1998 book Prayers for Bobby: A Mother’s Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son.Via Queerty, here’s a clip:

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Rick Warren Does Damage Control

In a transparent move to bolster his image with LGBT people, Rick Warren visited an AIDS thrift shop in West Hollywood yesterday to pose for photos and buy some books (two of which were his own). TMZ reports: We got this pic, taken yesterday at Out of the Closet thrift store. That’s Warren on the right (naturally), his arm around …

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DC Blowoff Photo Recap

Sorry it took me a few days to get to it, but here’s the slideshow from Saturday’s Blowoff at DC’s 9:30 Club, featuring a guest appearance by Santa Bear. My favorite track of the night: a killer remix of Hey Champ’s Cold Dust Girl spun by Bob Mould. Full-screen versions of the photos are here. If you don’t want your …

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Asking And Telling

Former submarine captain Steve Clark Hall is making a documentary about gay and lesbian graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy. One captain in the Marine Corps had to sign the confining orders to send a lesbian to jail, but was so disturbed that the next day the officer, who was also gay, submitted his resignation papers. Another man, from the …

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Lesbian Gang-Raped In Bay Area

Somehow I missed this horrible story last week. A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday. Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore a rainbow gay …

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Warren: Bloggers Are Lying About Me

Rick Warren says that bloggers “really need to get a life” and stop lying about him. And then he goes right on to LIE that he’s never compared same-sex marriage to incest and pedophilia. Here are his exact words from his December 15th interview with BeliefNet. “The issue to me, I’m not opposed to that as much as I’m opposed …

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HRC Send 27,000 Letters To LDS

Yesterday was a busy day in the mailroom of the Mormon Church. President Thomas S. Monson: You have mail – boxes of it. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) delivered 27,000 letters to LDS Church headquarters Monday – all of them asking the Mormon leader to support legal protections for gay and transgender Utahns. The national gay-rights group has endorsed Equality …

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Sarah Get Your Gun

The Sarah Palin 2009 Calendar is now available. This high quality 13 month wall calendar features: Over 50 photographs of Gov Sarah Palin and her family Never before seen photos 13 pages of high quality gloss paper Closed dimensions: 9″x12″ Pre-drilled hole for hanging Cellophane wrapped Produced and printed in the USA (Via – Wonkette)

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You Turn Me On, I’m A Radio

Anybody remember the Orgasmatron, the phone-boothy thing that sent people into ecstasy in Woody Allen’s Sleeper? Scientists in the UK are developing an implantable brain chip that works in a similar way. The chip works by sending tiny shocks from implanted electrodes in the brain. The technology has been used in the United States to treat Parkinson’s disease. But in …

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Another Parting Shot From Dubya

Last week our ignoble leader issued a set of rules that would protect health care providers who refuse to provide treatment or medication based on personal objections. The Bush administration yesterday granted sweeping new protections to health workers who refuse to provide care that violates their personal beliefs, setting off an intense battle over opponents’ plans to try to repeal …

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The $3 Subway Ride?

Well, probably not. But the MTA has released its list of proposed fare increases for next year, listing a $3 subway ride as the top possible price under the new schedule. That way when it turns out to be $2.75, people aren’t so freaked. Via NY Times: The base subway and bus fare could go as high as $3 next …

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Mike Rogers Goes On Hardball To Talk About Rick Warren

Renowned LGBT activist Mike Rogers (BlogActive, PageOneQ) went on Hardball last night to debate Rev. Eugene Rivers about Rick Warren. Rogers gets some really good shots in, watch this. Digby’s take: Rogers took a very unusual tack and said that Rivers coming on the show to defend Warren shows how powerful the gay community is and that he was very …

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HomoQuotable – Harvey Fierstein

“A couple of boys were calling my best friend a faggot one unhappy day at summer camp. Courses of action seemed slim to my adolescent mind. I could stand up for Jack branding myself a fag as well and insuring myself a miserable summer, or I could join in with the name callers, lose my closest friend, but assure my …

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Morning View – Madison Square Garden

This is the 7th Avenue entrance to Madison Square Garden, which is actually behind the office building seen here. Underneath both buildings, Penn Station spans the entire block.

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Rick Warren Pulls Anti-Gay Message From His Church’s Site

Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church has just scrubbed its site of the above message announcing that unrepentant gays were unwelcome. John Aravosis wonders why: So does Rick Warren now welcome gays, all gays, as members of his church? Or is he simply embarrassed of his views – embarrassed of God’s views, per Warren’s own admission? And if Warren is embarrassed of …

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Diaz Fans The Flames

The above headline is from Elizabeth Benjamin’s excellent politics blog for the NY Daily News, where today she notes that renegade Democratic NY Sen. Ruben Diaz has issued a statement of support for Rick Warren. Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., who infuriated gay advocates for tying his state Senate leadership vote to the issue of same-sex marriage, released a statement yesterday …

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Pope: Protecting Humanity From Gays Is Like Protecting The Rainforest

In his latest and most bizarre anti-gay missive, Pope Benedict says it’s just as important to protect humanity from dirty homosexuals as it is to protect the rainforest. Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.” (The Church) should also protect man from the destruction …

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Not So Silent Night

It looks like Saturday’s Light Up The Night event was not quite the silent protest requested by the organizers at Join The Impact, at least in NYC. The clip below was sent to us by Richard Davis at NYC’s LGBT Center.Also check out Eric Leven’s coverage of the protest in Miami and Rex Wockner’s report from San Diego. Wockner says …

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