The Advocate reported that last Thursday’s gay DNC fundraiser at DC’s Mandarin Oriental raised a record $1M, an amount widely reported in the blogosphere, including here. Skeptics about that figure abounded here and elsewhere. Michelangelo Signorile has been digging. Several Democratic insiders tell me that DNC officials have much latitude in moving money around and attributing funds from other fundraisers …

The above is Dan Savage’s translation of the Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead’s defense of his officers in the beating of Chad Gibson during a raid of the Rainbow Lounge on Saturday. Halstead: “You’re touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that’s offensive. I’m happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that.” …

An FDA advisory panel has recommended a ban on Vicodin and Percoset because of their damaging effects on the liver. The two drugs combine a narcotic with acetaminophen, the ingredient found in popular over-the-counter products like Tylenol and Excedrin. High doses of acetaminophen are a leading cause of liver damage, and the panel noted that patients who take Percocet and …

“Let’s call it what it is – Gay Apartheid. “Now some of you might think that is a loaded and unfair word. I have chosen the word very carefully and deliberately. Apartheid is when a group of citizens of a nation is by law separated from all other citizens and the rights, benefits and protections all others are granted. “Having …

This is what happens when you dig a new subway line under century-old brick buildings. For the second time in a month, a building near the Second Avenue Subway construction site has been evacuated, authorities said. Residents of the building, at 92nd Street and Second Avenue, said they were told to leave yesterday afternoon. “I definitely wish I had gotten …

Dan Savage appeared on Olbermann last night to say that he found it “shocking” that Obama received “polite applause” at the White House LGBT cocktail party, when everybody in the room knew he could end the discharges immediately if he wanted to.

A quote from Rahm Emmanuel in yesterday’s WaPo sheds some light on what’s not driving the White House to move on LGBT rights. Maintaining a sense of common interest across the party is a paramount goal. Early on, administration officials and Democratic leaders agreed they would steer clear of controversial social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. And to …

My favorite YouTube atheist gets it right.

Happy Canada Day to our JMG readers in the north! Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), is Canada’s national day, a federal statutory holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867 enactment of the British North America Act of 1867, which united Canada as a single country of four provinces. …

I love the anchors’ faces.

Yesterday a military tribunal recommended that Lt. Dan Choi be dismissed. Choi vows to take his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

JMG reader Sean Chapin forwards us this press release from the Minneapolis Police Department, who says that it wasn’t one of their officers ignoring the gay man being verbally harassed by a group of homophobic teens and children outside of Twin Cities Pride. June 30, 2009 ( MINNEAPOLIS ) Currently, there is a video on YouTube of an incident that …