Monthly Archives: January 2009

#1 This Week In 1970

This week in 1970, the first single by the Jackson 5, I Want You Back, topped the singles chart for one week. It was the only single released from their debut album, Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, although the group was actually brought to Motown by Gladys Knight after she saw them perform at Amateur Night At The Apollo …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of PR firm Penetration Inc., today’s swag giftie is Hide Nothing, the new album by gay singer/songwriter Matt Alber. Yesterday I posted the video for Alber’s new single, End Of The World. From a review on Electroqueer: If you like Darren Hayes, Casey Stratton, Jay Brannan or any other quality male artist singer/songwriter, then you’re going to lose your …

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No On 8 Says “We Messed Up”

Rex Wockner has posted a recapping of the Equality Summit now going on in California, where leaders of the marriage equality movement there have expressed regret over hiring professional lobbyists to run the No On 8 campaign. An excerpt: More than 400 gay activists gathered at the Los Angeles Convention Center Jan. 24 to organize and strategize to win back …

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Sam Adams Says He’s Staying In Office

Portland mayor Sam Adams released a statement last night saying that he will not resign. Tomorrow, I go back work as your mayor. I know I have let you down and made mistakes. I ask your forgiveness. I believe I have a lot to offer the city I love during this time of important challenges. Beginning tomorrow morning, I will …

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Just Issued: Guide To Your Rights As A Gay New Yorker Married Out Of State

The Empire State Pride Agenda, the ACLU, the NYCLU, and Lambda Legal have collaborated to create a document called Your Government Respects Your Marriage: Developments in New York State Agency Recognition of Same-Sex Couples’ Out-of-State Marriages. View the complete publication here. (PDF) From the NYCLU press release: “Couples in New York who have never known true security for their families …

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Matt Alber – End Of The World

Here’s the gorgeous new video from openly gay singer Matt Alber, who was once a member of the critically raved and Grammy-winning male vocal ensemble Chanticleer. I played this several times for friends over the weekend and we couldn’t decide if Alber sounds more like Ben Folds or Rufus Wainwright, but we all agreed we’d kinda fallen in love with …

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Google-Bomb Boomerang

Remember how hilarious it was to Google-bomb Dubya so that searches for “miserable failure” brought up his name? Now those same searches are finding our new president. In 2003, haters of President George W. Bush with a mean streak and tech savvy managed to Google-bomb him as a “miserable failure” — meaning that a rash of users linked Bush’s name …

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Job Losses Escalating

More grim news today on job cuts around the country. American companies announced job cuts totaling 43,000 this morning, as the global downturn slammed the profits of exporters like Caterpillar and a domestic recession hit hard at retailer Home Depot. As companies begin announcing their financial results for the end of 2008, they are also moving fast to cut costs …

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O-Tube

Here’s Barack Obama’s first weekly message via the White House’s fancy new official YouTube channel. It’s rather comical to read the usual YouTube quality of comments on an official presidential channel. “OMG! LOLOLS!1!! U totally pwnd Gitmo! URULE!1!”

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President Southpaw

Barack Obama is our eighth left-handed president. Oddly, four of the last five presidents have been lefties. James Garfield, 1881Herbert Hoover, 1929 – 1933Harry Truman, 1945 – 1953Gerald Ford, 1974 – 1977Ronald Reagan, 1981 – 1989George Bush, 1989 – 1993Bill Clinton, 1993 – 2001Barack Obama, 2009 Via Wikipedia: In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand, Chris McManus of University College London argues …

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Coming Soon: 3-D Porn

A Hong Kong film studio is about to release a Chinese-language porn flick in 3-D. Hong Kong film makers are preparing to leave filmgoers goggle-eyed by releasing the world’s first pornographic movie in 3D, a news report said on Sunday. Shooting on the Chinese-language film 3D Sex And Zen, budgeted at 4 million US dollars, is scheduled for April with …

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Mike Jones Is Pissed Off

Mike Jones, the man who first exposed Ted Haggard, just posted this emotional video to condemn the New Life Church and members of the gay community who have ostracized him since the scandal first broke. Most of my anger is at New Life Church. For over two years, I have suffered being all alone out there, taking all the heat …

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Texas Blocks Gay Divorce

The Texas Attorney General has blocked the divorce of the first gay couple to test state laws on the issue. Attorney General Greg Abbott said that since Texas law prohibits same-sex marriages and civil unions, the men could not be divorced in Texas since their union is not recognized to exist in Texas. The men, who have asked that their …

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TV Station Relents, Gay Families Ad To Air

Last week KABC-TV in Los Angeles refused to run pro-gay family PSA’s from Get To Know Us First during the inauguration, saying the clips were “too controversial.” After the intervention of GLAAD, the station has relented and will now run the commercials. Via GLAAD’s press release: Los Angeles television station KABC announced today, following a meeting with the Gay & …

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Civil Unions For Hawaii?

Hawaii is on the verge of becoming the next state to grant civil unions to same-sex couples. A majority in the state House has signed on to a bill that would legalize civil unions, giving the issue a genuine chance of advancing this session after years of stagnation. Same-sex couples who obtain a license could have their civil union performed …

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HomoQuotable – Roger Karoutchi

‘Yes, I have a life. I’m neither living a lie, nor flaunting anything. I discuss it naturally. I have a partner and I’m happy with him. As I’m happy, I see no reason why I should hide that.” – Roger Karoutchi, French Secretary of State for Parliamentary Relations, coming out to the press on Friday. Karoutchi is France’s first out …

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Truth Wins Out Calls For Resignation Over Hush Money Paid To Haggard’s Boyfriend

Truth Wins Out, the anti-“ex-gay” organization headed by Wayne Besen, is calling for an investigation into New Life Church for paying hush money to the young man who last week revealed a longtime sexual relationship with disgraced evangelical Ted Haggard. Besen further calls for the resignation of Haggard’s replacement, Pastor Brady Boyd. Truth Wins Out (TWO) today called on Colorado …

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#1 This Week In 1971

In 1971 Knock Three Times was the first #1 single for Dawn, topping the chart for three weeks after the #3 success with their debut single in 1970, Candida. Comprised of Tony Orlando, Telma Hopkins, and Joyce Vincent Wilson, the group’s name later morphed to Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando and finally, Tony Orlando And Dawn. Hopkins and Wilson didn’t actually …

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Beau Breedlove Talks

In an interview published in today’s Oregonian, Beau Breedlove tells his side of the Sam Adams story and says that their relationship “crossed the line” earlier than Adams has said. The former legislative intern at the center of the controversy involving Portland Mayor Sam Adams says Adams kissed him twice when he was 17 and that their relationship had “crossed …

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On Prayers For Bobby

Last night I watched Prayers For Bobby and while the movie stayed true to the schlocky Lifetime formula of crisis-dissent-tragedy-redemption, overall I thought the film was OK, but only for its primary intended audience – the bible-clutching housewives of middle America. Which is fine, of course. Gay folks probably did a bit of eye-rolling for some parts of the movie, …

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