Monthly Archives: March 2009

Maddow: GOP=D’OH

Rachel Maddow tears into the GOP’s proposed budget.

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OMG! Porn Boot Camp!

Oh…wait. Anyone with a computer, iPod or cell phone can download porn in private, with just a click of a button. Pastor Dr. Irv Woolf knows first hand just how easy it is. “I’ve been through sexual sin in my own life. I’ve been through sexual addiction,” said Woolf, who is the director of the National Coalition for Purity. So …

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Britney Spears In Sign Language

An adorkable deaf dude gives us a sexy ASL version of Britney Spears’ Womanizer. This has been floating around YouTube for a few weeks, but for some reason a dozen of you sent this yesterday. I live to serve.

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BUSTED: Sponsor Of TN Marriage Ban

Jeff Miller, the former Tennessee state senator who in 2005 successfully installed that state’s ban on same-sex marriage, was arrested Wednesday for defrauding his home county in his position as tax collector. A press release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says that Miller, 46, was indicted on one count of Official Misconduct, one count of Conspiracy to Commit Official …

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Teen Killer Pleads Not Guilty

Although he has confessed to brutally stabbing to death gay ABC newsman George Weber, 16 year-old self-avowed Satanist John Katehis plead not guilty to second-degree murder today. Katehis claims that Weber offered to pay him $60 and give him cocaine in return for rough sex. The troubled teen accused in the stabbing death of radio reporter George Weber is a …

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Obama: No To Legalizing Pot

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Germany Bans PETA’s Holocaust Ads

Germany has banned a series of ads by PETA which compares Holocaust victims to animals in slaughterhouses. The posters, sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), bear photographs of concentration camp inmates, both alive and dead, along with pictures of plates piled with meat and animals ready for slaughter, accompanied by the slogan: “The Holocaust on your …

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NH House Approves Marriage Equality

One step closer in New Hampshire. The House has voted to make New Hampshire the third state allowing gays to marry two years after they granted them the right to enter into civil unions. The House voted 186-179 to send the bill to the Senate. The first attempt to pass the bill fell one vote short, but opponents were unable …

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Uganda’s Gay Witchhunt Continues With The Help Of U.S. “Ex-Gay” Group Exodus

Check out this story from Uganda’s New Vision Online. EIGHT more men yesterday confessed involvement in homosexuality and gay activities, which they said they had abandoned. Speaking to journalists at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala, the youthful men described homosexuality as abnormal and anti-Christian, and declared war against it. The tough-talking men were accompanied by George Oundo, who earlier …

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HRC Says No To Gay-Only ENDA

In 2007 the Human Rights Campaign supported a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that did not include transgender citizens, setting off the biggest rift in the history of LGBT activism as a huge coalition of groups aligned against the HRC. Yesterday the HRC announced that they will not go down that road again. The board of directors of …

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Gay Icons Exhibit For London’s National Portrait Gallery

London’s National Portrait Gallery will open a show in July titled “Gay Icons”, but some of the folks you’d most expect to be on a list of that sort do not appear The late Diana, Princess of Wales, and former South African President Nelson Mandela are two of the personalities identified as “Gay Icons” in an exhibition bearing that title …

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NH House Votes On Marriage Today

Seems like everything is marriage-related today. One more item: the New Hampshire House makes their vote today on that states’s marriage equality bill. Two years ago New Hampshire legalized civil unions. Half of New England is in play this week, isn’t it?

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Open Thread Thursday

We’re just over two months into the Obama administration. What do you think so far?

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Bloomberg Calls For Gay Marriage Bill

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for the state legislature to pass a same-sex marriage bill last night in an appearance at the LGBT Community Center. Mayor Bloomberg said Wednesday night he stands ready to ask the Legislature to allow gay marriage in New York State, but doesn’t know when the time will be right. “We see that the tide is …

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No Civil Unions For Hawaii

After weeks of the most contentious public displays seen since Hawaii became a state, the Senate has killed the civil unions bill. An effort to force a vote on same-sex civil unions has failed in the Hawaii Senate, essentially killing the measure. Only six senators supported the legislative maneuver, short of the nine votes required for a full Senate vote. …

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Contact Vt. Gov. Jim Douglas

Vermont Freedom To Marry is asking everybody to directly contact Gov. Jim Douglas and express your outrage/disappointment with his threat to veto the Senate marriage equality bill, S.115.Do it here. UPDATE: Here’s Sean Chapin’s response to Douglas’ veto threat.

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Dubya Vs. Obama

I denounce myself for posting this. (Via – JMG reader Castro Craig)

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Q: Location? A: Right Behind You, Dude

The Washington Post writes about the latest iPhone app which uses the device’s geolocation function so homos can find other homos that happen to be nearby. We’ve seen a handful of dating applications that cater to the straight community, and today brings the launch of Grindr (iTunes Link), one of the first iPhone applications geared towards gay and bisexual men. …

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Adam Lambert – Tracks Of My Tears

Our boy Adam Lambert finally won over even Simon Cowell tonight, who called Lambert’s Tracks Of My Tears “the best performance of the night.” And a standing ovation from the song’s writer, Smokey Robinson, sure doesn’t hurt. Ridiculously amazing. UPDATE: The highly accurate Dial Idol site shows Adam in first place.

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Excuse The Mess

Our commenting system host is working through some programming bugs at the moment. A few comments may have been “eaten” today and I’m not sure if they’ll reappear or not. But nobody has been banned here in ages, so don’t feel like it was something you said if you find your comment gone. Carry on as usual.

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