Monthly Archives: May 2009

NOM Goes After Governor “Flinch”

Hey, everything seems to be spelled correctly. For once.

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Free David Byrne

David Byrne will perform a free show in Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshell on Monday, June 8th at 6:30pm. In this free concert, David Byrne will perform Music of David Byrne and Brian Eno, featuring material spanning his collaborations with Brian Eno: three Talking Heads albums, 1981’s groundbreaking My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and last year’s Everything …

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All The Single Ladies

Gothamist tips us that a Mennonite choir was spotting singing in the Union Square station yesterday. The Amish are a splinter group of the Mennonites, but they probably don’t ride the subway. (Photo by Zach Klein)

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Adam Lambert Likes To Be On Top

Really cute moment at the 1:20 mark; check out the look on Kris Allen’s face. (Via – Durban Bud)

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Olson & Boies On Their Prop 8 Suit

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How He Really Said It

Context and tone is everything. This clip showing how the president said what he said about the protesters outside yesterday’s DNC dinner in Los Angeles might make some of us feel better. UPDATE: The Brightcove server is overloaded this morning. Watch the clip here.

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PA Newspaper Takes Ad Calling For Assassination Of President Obama

The Warren, Pennsylvania Times-Observer has apologized, saying that the person who approved the ad “didn’t recognize the significance of the names” and that they have “notified the authorities.” Seriously? Garfield and McKinley…sure. But Lincoln and Kennedy?

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The Defenders Of Marriage

If I had a jillion dollars I’d run this during the evening news every night.

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Anti-Gay “Journalist” Dragged Kicking And Screaming From Air Force One

The Secret Service had to drag Georgia-based “journalist” Brenda Lee (!) away from Air Force One in Los Angeles today when she refused to leave, saying she had to personally deliver a letter to the president urging him “to take a stand for traditional marriage.” Lee, who claims she has White House press credentials, said she writes for the Georgia …

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Wingnuts Call SCOTUS Nominee Sonia Sotomayor “Racist” & “Dumb”

Right-wingers nationwide are calling SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor every name in the book.

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NYC Tops List Of Tops

The guys over at The Sword (NSFW) emailed me the results of their extremely scientific compiling of Craigslist M4M ads in ten American cities. According to the stated preferences of postings in those towns, NYC comes out slightly, er, on top. Houston, not so much. A lot, not so much.

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Rob Tisinai -Talking Equality

Another winner from Rob.

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NOM Spelling Fail

Via Jeremy at Good As You, who notes: “And we’re the ones endangering schoolkids?”

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Obama Acknowledges Protesters

But not in the way we’d like. A gaggle of sign-waving protestors milled around outside The Beverly Hilton, the sprawling hotel on Wilshire Boulevard. They must have caught the president’s eye when he arrived at the hotel from an earlier stop in Las Vegas because he relayed one of their messages to the crowd. “One of them said, “Obama keep …

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Sergio Garcia, Prom Queen

Another openly gay student has been elected Prom Queen of his graduating class. Sergio Garcia stood in the gymnasium and told the senior class at Fairfax High School not to worry: If he was elected, he wouldn’t wear a dress. “I will be wearing a suit,” Garcia said, “but don’t be fooled, deep down inside, I am a queen!” Garcia, …

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Toys R Us Buys FAO Schwarz

Toys R Us has purchased Manhattan landmark FAO Schwarz, arguably the most famous toy store in the world. The FAO Schwarz brand will live on for internet and catalog sales.

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Does This Make You Feel Better?

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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Iraqi Militias Step Up Murders Of Gay Men

ABC News is reporting that six more gay men have been found murdered by Iraqi militias as the genocide of homosexuals there continues. Two gay men were killed in Baghdad’s Sadr City slum, and police confirmed they found the bodies of four more men, all killed during a 10-day period after an unknown Shiite militia group urged a crackdown on …

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NY Sen. Diaz Takes Credit For Poll Dip

NY state Sen. Ruben Diaz is claiming that his recent anti-gay evangelical rally is responsible for this month’s 7-point dip in marriage equality polling. “I would take credit for the demonstration that we had in front of the governor’s office on May 17,” the Bronx lawmaker told Fred Dicker this morning on Talk 1300 AM. “Before that demonstration, it was …

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Time Warner Dumping AOL

Almost a decade after the most famously failed merger in history, Time Warner is finally casting off AOL. The divorce, announced Thursday, will spin out AOL as a separate Internet company run by former Google Inc. advertising executive Tim Armstrong. He was hired in March to try to restore the luster to a brand once known as America Online. Time …

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