Monthly Archives: February 2009

Snuggie Pub Crawl NYC

Sigh. I thought we’re supposed to be all post-ironic and shit now that it’s Obama time. Anyway, go sign up here if you want to take part in the NYC Snuggie Pub Crawl. Benefits an orphanage. In Tanzania. For realz.

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Obama Picks Gay Man To Head National AIDS Policy Office

Via the Victory Fund: Jeffrey S. Crowley, MPH, has been named Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, the White House announced today. Crowley is currently Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute. “Jeffrey Crowley brings the experience and expertise that will help our nation address the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis and help my administration develop policies that …

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Pentagon To Allow Photos Of War Dead

In another dramatic reversal of the previous administration’s policy, the Pentagon has announced it will now all allow video and photo coverage of the return of dead U.S. soldiers to American soil. At his daily briefing, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, “The president asked that the secretary of defense review our policy toward media and photos at Dover air …

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Colorado State Sen. Dave Schultheis:
No HIV Screening For Slutty Moms

Yesterday Colorado state Sen. Dave Schultheis voted against a bill paying for the HIV screening of pregnant women because only sluts get AIDS. Democrats were outraged Wednesday morning when Republican state Sen. Dave Schultheis said he planned to vote against a bill to require HIV tests for pregnant women because the disease “stems from sexual promiscuity” and he didn’t think …

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Maine’s Innkeepers Want Marriage Equality

Yesterday a coalition of Maine innkeepers lobbied the state capital in support of that state’s pending marriage equality bill. [Innkeeper Jim] Davitt, 67, said Tuesday he supports the bill for business and personal reasons. “We get people from all over the world staying here — straight and gay,” he said. “We’ve had gay and straight guests here at the same …

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Kenneth The Page Responds To Bobby Jindal’s Response To Obama

Bobby Jindal’s much lampooned response to Barack Obama’s speech has been compared to Jack McBrayer’s Kenneth The Page character on NBC’s 30 Rock. Last night on Jimmy Fallon’s new show, McBrayer responded to the response as Kenneth. (You’ll have to sit through a commercial first. Annoying.)

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Eight More Blocks Of Broadway To Become Vehicle-Free

Mayor Bloomberg is expanding his program of making Manhattan more pedestrian-friendly by closing eight more blocks of Broadway to vehicular traffic. Gothamist reports: Coming soon to Times Square and Herald Square: Vehicle-free Broadway! Starting on Memorial Day, two stretches of Broadway, from 42nd to 47th streets and from 32nd to 35th streets, will transformed into pedestrian plazas in an experiment …

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Gays References Edited Out Of Oscar Broadcasts For 300 Million Worldwide

Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn’s heartfelt Oscar speeches in support of gay rights were cut out of the broadcast by a satellite TV station which beams its signal to 300 million viewers in numerous Asian countries. The STAR satellite channel, which broadcasts to more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries, also cut the sound when Dustin Lane Black, …

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RuPaul – Let’s Turn The Night

JMG reader Wayne sends us his video mash-up of NYC’s recent Prop 8 protests with a RuPaul track from the upcoming album Champion. According to RuPaul, Let’s Turn The Night was written during the Prop 8 protests in West Hollywood. UPDATE: Eric Leven points out that there’s a shot of me at the 1:30 mark. I’m in a brown jacket.

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AIDS Funding Gets Chunk Of Stimulus

Peter Staley at Poz.com dug into the stimulus bill for the NIH and determined that AIDS research funding will likely rise substantially under Barack Obama’s plan. Tucked away in the massive stimulus package signed by President Obama last week is the largest budget increase in the NIH’s history. Thanks to Senator Arlen Specter, the budget of the National Institutes of …

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Arrest Made In Anti-Gay Murder Of Jose Sucazhanay, NYPD Gets Confession

Late Wednesday night, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the NYPD has made an arrest in the brutal murder of Ecuadorean immigrant Jose Sucuzhanay (left), who was beaten to death in Brooklyn two months ago when assailants mistook Jose and his brother for gay lovers because they were walking arm in arm. Hakeem Scott, 25, has confessed to the murder, but his …

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The Top Chef Winner Is….

I’ve never watched Top Chef until tonight, but my house guest insists that I post about the winner. Therefore click here if you want to know who won.

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Open Thread Thursday

Who would you switch for? When I last asked this question two years ago, I mentioned that I’ve always had a thing for butch rocker chicks like Joan Jett. I’ll update that to include butch-ish cable news anchors.

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Oklahoma House Passes Sovereignty Bill

Spurred by President Obama’s stimulus package, today the Oklahoma House passed a bill declaring the state sovereign from any rule of the federal government not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, the first shot in a growing national movement intended to give states the power to defy federal laws on a broad range of issues from abortion to gun control to …

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At The Hawaii Civil Unions Hearing

Here is the experience of lesbian blogger Keori outside the civil unions debate in the Hawaiian legislature. You know, it gets really tiresome to be called diseased and a pedophile and a rapist and an abomination and a threat to America three dozen times in one day. It infuriates me to hear that yes, heterosexuals have special rights (at least …

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Canadian Students Wearing Pink Today In Anti-Bullying Campaign

Ah, Canada. Nanaimo students will wear pink today, along with tens of thousands of British Columbians, to show they will not tolerate bullying. As part of a provincewide campaign, Wednesday has been recognized as a day to don pink to deliver the anti-bullying message. The protest started after an incident at a Nova Scotia school in September 2007, when a …

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Inside the Yes On 8 Campaign

Two key organizers of the Yes On 8 campaign, Frank Schubert and Jeff Flint, have written a fascinating assessment of the Proposition 8 battle. Here’s just a snippet of their Politics Magazine piece. Our strategy had anticipated that the No on 8 campaign would label as “shameful lies” any claim that gay marriage had anything to do with schools, so …

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Have Things Bottomed Out?

According to this graphic, the current recession is only slightly worse than the ’73-’74 event, at least in terms of the value of the stock market. And the Wall Street Journal -owned site MarketWatch says the recession has already bottomed out and recovery is now being seen in 21 leading economic indicator categories. (Graphic via – Andew Sullivan)

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North Carolina Considering Same-Sex Marriage Ban For 7th Consecutive Year

Same-sex marriage bans have failed in North Carolina’s legislature for the last six consecutive years. But the haters refuse to give up and have again proposed a constitutional amendment on the issue. The usual troglodytes have trotted out. “Moms and dads are not interchangeable,” says state Sen. Jim Forrester, R-Gaston County. [Pictured on right] Forrester is the lead sponsor of …

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Flush Yourself Thin

Another blow to the unregulated supplements industry – the FDA has revealed that dozens of top selling “natural” weight loss supplements are actually full of dangerously high doses of prescription laxatives and diuretics. The names of the weight-loss supplements say it all: 7 Day Herbal Slim, 2 Day Diet, and even 24 Hours Diet. Those are just three of dozens …

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