Monthly Archives: January 2009

Fox Runs “Magic Negro” Ticker

Via Think Progress: Throughout last night’s New Year’s eve broadcast, Fox News Channel allowed viewers to send in New Year’s greetings and wishes via text message. The messages were then scrolled across the bottom of the screen, replacing Fox’s normal crawling news headlines. While most messages were cordial, Fox allowed at least one racist message directed toward President-elect Obama to …

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Prince Doesn’t Even Vote

Despite Prince’s anti-gay and anti-marriage equality stance revealed by New Yorker in November, now he tells the LA Times that he doesn’t even vote at all because his religion forbids it. He did not vote for Proposition 8. In fact, he didn’t vote at all. “I didn’t vote for Obama either,” he explained. “Jehovah’s Witnesses haven’t voted for their whole …

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Portland’s Gay Mayor Sworn In

Portland, Oregon’s new openly gay mayor Sam Adams was sworn in shortly after midnight yesterday with his partner and mother looking on. Portland is now the nation’s largest city with an openly gay mayor.

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#1 This Week In 1978

Contrary to popular opinion at the time, Chic’s 1978 smash Le Freak was not written to capitalize on the freak dance craze then sweeping the world. The song actually came about when the band was turned away at Studio 54 because Grace Jones forgot to leave their name at the door. Walking home that night, bandmates Nile Rodgers and Bernard …

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UK: AIDS Charity Head Given Knighthood

Nick Partridge, the head of UK’s oldest HIV/AIDS charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust, was knighted yesterday. A leading UK HIV campaigner who has strived to transform attitudes towards HIV/Aids and to the role of gay men and women in society has been knighted. Nick Partridge, chief executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust, was recognised for his 20-year service to healthcare. …

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Homo Office

NYC Eagle, Thursday, 2am Bear 1: I need to find a more gay-positive working environment. Bear 2: Oh, really? Where do you work? Bear 1: At home.

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Facebook/Twitter/RSS

Another of my New Year’s resolutions for JMG was to update my Facebook status and Twitter feed more frequently, particularly when there’s a big news story involving LGBT folks. Y’all feel free to follow along. I’m also publishing my complete posts via RSS if you use a reader to follow your favorites.

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Polar Bear Plunge 2009

Hundreds of New Yorkers made their annual Polar Bear Plunge into the icy waters off Coney Island yesterday despite the near-zero temperatures.

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Best Or Worst DUI Excuse?

Retired NBA superstar and ardent LGBT rights supporter Charles Barkley was arrested for DUI in Arizona on Wednesday after he told cops he was in a hurry to get a blow job. According to the officer who wrote the report, “He told me that he ran the stop sign because he was in a hurry to pick up the girl …

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Four Arrests In SF Rape Case

Four arrests have been made in the case of the Bay Area lesbian who was gang-raped last month. Two men and two teens have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman last month in the San Francisco Bay area while allegedly taunting her for being a lesbian, police said Thursday. Officers arrested Humberto Hernandez Salvador at his Richmond home …

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Kathy Griffin Goes Blue On CNN

On last night’s live New Year’s Eve show from Times Square on CNN, Kathy Griffin dealt with some off-camera hecklers in her typical fashion, not realizing her microphone was still live. Wait for the end. RELATED: The CNN reporter in New Orleans had to deal with some obscene gestures from the crowd himself. UNRELATED: How cool was it that the …

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#1 This Week In 1970

Someday We’ll Be Together was the last #1 single for Diana Ross & The Supremes. TRIVIA: This song was co-written by Harvey Fuqua, who went on to discover Sylvester and to produce/co-produce Sylvester’s first hit albums. Someday We’ll Be Together was originally a minor hit for Bristol and The Beavers. Lead singer Johnny Bristol went on to record 1974’s proto-disco …

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Open Thread Thursday

Where were you at midnight last night? Did you make any resolutions? My resolution for 2009 is to post more original short stories here on JMG. I’m going to start by pulling out some oldies that were removed from archives years ago for use elsewhere, as well as some relatively unread stuff from the early years, then start sprinkling in …

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