Here’s a low-rez (including crowd noise) leak of the first single from Madonna’s coming greatest hits package. Over at Boy Culture, Matthew Rettenmund has all the details about the release, including artwork and track listings.

Christianists in Texas are trying to create a history curriculum for public schools that says the United States would not exist were it not for the divine intervention of God. Members of a panel of experts appointed by the [Texas school] board to revise the state’s history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a …

A small shipment of Pride ’09, which features my cover story interview with Rachel Maddow, was seized by Belarus authorities who don’t want gay magazines in their country. Customs officials in Belarus have seized 25 copies of the magazine Pride, which is published by the international Pride group InterPride, whose membership includes Project GayBelarus. Siarhei Androsenka, he head of Project …

Remember the Christian group that wants to burn a gay-themed book that they found in their Milwaukee-area library? The battle rages on and the Christianists now want the library to stock books by “ex-gays” in order to “balance” any books that positively depict homosexuality. Residents have sparred for months on blogs, airwaves and at meetings, including one where a man …

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has given up on her proposed bill to suspend the enforcement of DADT, saying she cannot find enough support for passage. Via Washington Blade: Matt Canter, a Gillibrand spokesperson, told the Blade on Wednesday that the senator determined there weren’t 60 votes available for a vote of cloture on the amendment. “She was working for about …

Here’s last night’s complete health care reform press conference. I have no idea if Obama’s plan will work, not the slightest clue.

Some strange is going on across the river in Jersey. This morning the feds made a massive corruption sweep and arrested the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, the deputy mayor of Jersey City, a state Assemblyman, several rabbis, and other politicians. Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano has been arrested by the FBI as part of a wide-reaching investigation that is swooping …

“Men have been imitating me for as long as I can remember. In fact, most of the impersonations I have seen have had a five-o’clock shadow. I imagine, when or if Johnny should portray me, he will succeed. Because a true artist, such as himself, is one who loves his or her creation and therefore represents their honest view of …

Technically this was in La Jolla, if that matters to anybody.

The Nashville Scene has gotten some of the delicious details into the scandal surrounding Tennesee state Sen. Paul “No Queer Adoptions” Stanley. According to court documents, here’s what happened: Stanley, who is married with two children, was accused of having an affair with a 22-year-old legislative intern, McKensie Morrison, by the woman’s boyfriend. The boyfriend, Joel Palmer Watts. 28, discovered …

A TIME Magazine poll shows that Jon Stewart is America’s most-trusted newscaster, now that Walter Cronkite has died. Personally, I’d put him neck-and-neck with Rachel Maddow. Brian Williams comes in second, winning the retiree-heavy states of Arizona and Florida.

“Being gay is somehow an indulgent choice? It infuriates me. You’re either Graham Norton or George Michael getting arrested in parks and I’m neither of those things. I think it appeals to the lowest common denominator that basically there are two types of gay men, the slut, or there’s the straight acting guy. Neither of these things have anything to …

Lene Lovitch’s New Toy, 1981. Written by her keyboardist, Thomas Dolby. Best line: “I’m sick of the Hoover!” I think I’ll make this a daily post for a while, just so we can feel all old and shit.

Even though two Honolulu-based newspapers printed Barack Obama’s birth announcement in 1961, the loons at World Net Daily aren’t buying it. Because knowing he would one day be our president, the vast liberal conspiracy planted those birth announcements 47 years in advance. Or something.

The Alliance Defense Fund, a U.S.-based anti-gay group, claims to have guided Romania’s parliament to a ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions. Roger Kiska, a member of Alliance Defense Fund’s legal counsel, is stationed in Europe. He tells OneNewsNow that Romania adopted a strong civil code enshrining traditional marriage in law. “It’s defined throughout the code — spouse as …

Discount Irish airline Ryanair made the news last week when they suggested they might start selling standing-only tickets for some of their shorter flights. A poll of the airline’s customers shows that almost half of their passengers would be willing to stand if the fare were cut by 50%. Under the proposal, passengers would lean on a stool or ledge …

Researchers believe they have found an important missing link in the study of simian AIDS, a discovery with implications for human research. Up until now, scientists had believed that the 40+ known strains of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) did not make the animals ill. But two colonies of chimpanzees infected with a particular strain of SIV have been found to …

I was watching an old Twilight Zone (or something) the other night in which people could elect to learn the exact date of their future natural deaths, just in case they didn’t want to go on burdening a crumbling society and decided to end it all now by their own hands. If you could find out your expiration date, would …

The 2010 Firefighters Of New York calendar is out. Times Square was on fire Tuesday night as 13 smoking hot firefighters unveiled the 2010 calendar to benefit a city burn center. “They’re really hot!” gushed Allyson Shankmann, 23, of Queens. “I want to start a fire, I was thinking about lighting a match so they can come put it out. …