PETA has enlisted the granddaughter of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara for a new ad campaign. Lydia Guevara poses semi-nude in a PETA campaign that tells viewers to “join the vegetarian revolution,” said PETA spokesman Michael McGraw. The print campaign is expected to debut in October in magazines and posters, McGraw said. It will be launched first in Argentina, where Che …

Alexys Fermaintt, 30 (left), was arrested by Holyoke, MA police yesterday for the murder of Michael Pecora, 38, who was found stabbed to death in his Queens apartment last week after what police believe was an internet hookup gone horribly bad. The suspect was being hidden in his mother’s home, according to television reports. A NY Daily News story not …

Nope, still not tired of these.

Saying that putting the WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) logo at the top of their stationery “portrays the debtor as a sinner who is going to hell” and therefore violates the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, one debt collection agency is suing another and has filed a federal class action suit to force the removal of the logo. The agency …

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the fifth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. My apologies to those that have read it before. Have a wonderful …

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs actually gave an OK answer about the proposed counting of LGBT couples in the 2010 census.

Nestle has ordered a recall of all its Toll House cookie dough products after some customers contracted E. coli from eating the raw dough. In a statement, the FDA said there have been 66 reports of illness across 28 states since March. About 25 people have been hospitalized, but no one has died. E. coli is a potentially deadly bacterium …

More reaction from the Obama administration. The DOJ has agreed to meet next week with Lambda Legal, Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) and other LGBT orgs to “hash out how to proceed with pending DOMA cases.” Via Greg Sargent: The Obama Justice Department has reached out to major gay rights organizations and scheduled a private meeting for next …

YouTube has posted the full version of the 1984 documentary, The Times Of Harvey Milk. (Tipped by JMG reader Sean Chapin)

Yesterday NYC’s openly lesbian City Council Speaker Christine Quinn expressed doubts that marriage equality will come to New York this year. “I don’t know if we’re going to win this year,” Quinn said in opening remarks to the city council’s annual gay pride celebration, which she hosted. “But I do know we’re incredibly close.” That assessment sounded decidedly less optimistic …

Westboro Baptist Church claims that it will picket NYC gay synagogue Congregation Beth Simchat Torah this Sunday at its Bethune Street location. The synagogue responds: CBST will be holding a non-violent prayer vigil and service during the time of their protest. We cannot allow this group to go unchallenged as they engage in hateful speech at our synagogue. The most …

Towleroad points us to this after-the-series clip from the cast of Real Housewives Of New Jersey in which Danielle mentions having taken offense at a “that’s so gay” comment from earlier in the show’s run. Openly gay host Andy Cohen steps in to support Danielle. Click on the “that’s so gay” label in the bottom of this post to see …

“Dykes on bikes, Tarzana Trannies, Jewish Leather Daddies and Kathy Griffin’s mom. Don’t get me wrong. I love these people. Let’s call them the ‘Usual Suspects.’ They fought for my rights and taught me how to dance. But they should no longer be representing “the pride.” It’s a different time. For god’s sake, Larry Craig is a life-long homosexual. What …

The NYPD suspects that a man found stabbed to death in his Queens apartment last week was murdered by a man he met on the internet. Michael Pecora’s nude body was found in his Forest Hills apartment late Wednesday, hours after his sister called his cell phone only to have a stranger answer, the sources said. The man with Pecora’s …

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed the first amicus brief in support of Ted Olson and David Boies’ federal marriage suit. “The constitutional challenge to Proposition 8 in federal court persuasively argues that the measure’s only conceivable purpose was to withhold honor and respect from the relationships of same-sex couples, and to do so to them alone,” Herrera …

“I served the residents of Rhode Island as both Mayor of Warwick and a United States Senator, and in that time I have dealt with my share of controversial issues. I have seen people of diverse backgrounds and divergent political affiliations come together to do what is right when the best interests of our state’s citizens were at stake. Rhode …

In the second bone tossed to the gay community this week, the White House said yesterday it is looking into including same-sex marriages and partnerships data in the 2010 Census. The administration has directed the Census Bureau to determine changes needed in tabulation software to allow for same-sex marriage data to be released early in 2011 with other detailed demographic …