“When I started out in music, going from acting to singing, that transition was very successful, but I also got flack for it. Many hurtful things were said. It wasn’t easy. I was only 19 and I think the gay audience kinda picked up on that and decided to defend me and adopt me. They saw I was being criticised …

Paula Sheppard, Me And My Rhythm Box, 1983. From Liquid Sky, one of my favorite bad movies ever, in which microscopic aliens land in the East Village to harvest the chemicals in human brains created at the moment of orgasm, which kills the human. The acting is spectacularly bad, especially from Anna Carlisle, who plays the male and female leads. …

“The tornado in Minneapolis was a gentle but firm warning to the ELCA and all of us: Turn from the approval of sin. Turn from the promotion of behaviors that lead to destruction. Reaffirm the great Lutheran heritage of allegiance to the truth and authority of Scripture. Turn back from distorting the grace of God into sensuality. Rejoice in the …

If you donate to No On 1/Protect Maine Equality from now until tomorrow, an anonymous donor will match your gift dollar-for-dollar.

Sen. Ted Kennedy is worried that he will die or be too ill to vote on health care fall this fall and has asked the Massachusetts legislature to speed up the process for replacing him. Kennedy’s request comes in the midst of the heated national debate over health care, which has been the senior senator’s focus in Congress for decades. …

In a humanitarian move, the UK has released the terminally ill man believed to have placed the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270. The White House, which has urged Britain to keep al Megrahi behind bars, said it “deeply regrets” the decision. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill told a news conference …

“Barney Frank spends most of his time living around Uranus.” I know you are, but what am I?

As the rate of bad Referendum 71 signatures continues to rise, Washington state’s wingnuts are accusing LGBT activists of pressuring election officials to speed up the process, thereby causing errors. The Faith and Freedom Network’s Gary Randall bleats: The hurry-up plan was put in place as the homosexual lobby discovered that the faster the checkers checked, the more names were …

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) wants to create a “loser pays” system for civil lawsuits so groups like the ACLU will be “dissuaded from intimidating Christians and conservative groups.” “They’ve done a lot of harm,” he states bluntly. “They’re the group that constantly attacks the Boy Scouts for having ‘God’ in their pledge and wanting to set their own standards. The …

“Will you ask the president to show me his gift certificate?”

Teenage South African sprinter Caster Semanya “came out of nowhere” to set records at the track and field world championships in Berlin this week. But everybody is waiting for the result of a “gender test” given three weeks ago to determine if Semanya is literally woman enough to compete in female events. About three weeks ago, the international federation asked …

Turns out wingnut radio host Ernest Hancock, the guy who staged the assault rifle stunt at Obama’s event in Arizona, has ties to militias who may be linked to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

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A federal judge has set January 11th, 2010 as the start of the Olsen/Boies suit to overturn Proposition 8. The ACLU, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Lambda Legal were all denied in their request to be a party to the action. The judge did allow San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera to take part, but only to assess …

Emboldened by his recent high profile as DC’s most angry homo hater, Bishop Harry Jackson is taking aim at health care reform, saying it’s “reverse classist” (huh?) and racist. I don’t know who the woman with the terrible wig is, but dig her giving Jackson those Nancy Reagan eyes.

Good As You points us to this just-posted “sermon” by Pastor Steven L. Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona. The clip is audio-only and NSFW as the good gentle Christian pastor screams things like “Faggots run this country!” He also accuses Barney Frank of being a pedophile and lies that Frank has been arrested for it. …

2 Live Crew, Me So Horny, 1989. Using the music of Mass Production’s 1979 hit Firecracker and a vocal sample from Full Metal Jacket, this track took the Miami-based rappers to the top of the charts, to jail, and eventually, to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that freedom of speech protected the group from charges of obscenity. The album …

Protesters waved anti-Christine Quinn signs outside of an event where the openly lesbian NYC Council Speaker debated two other candidates for her seat. While City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn’s campaign experience showed in a debate among three of the Democrats vying for her seat, it was Maria Passannante-Derr who brought the heat to the August 13 event. “You’re the …

Hurricane Bill was just upgraded to Category 4 and is forecast to begin affecting the NYC area sometime Sunday morning. By then colder waters should have reduced its wind speed to a mere 115mph. Reverend Pat Robertson has not yet said whether he intends to pray Bill away from New York.