The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against a local school district, alleging that they failed to protect a gay student from physical and verbal harassment. The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against the Mohawk Central School District in Herkimer County for failing to protect a gay student who does not conform …

A gay nightclub/restaurant has opened on Staten Island, the borough’s first gay club in over a decade. Q-SINY’s owners Jim McKernan, 44, and his partner of 16 years, Ray Carr, 48, say they opened their venue in response to the LGBT community’s gaping need for a regular place to rock out. “They’ve been screaming for it,” says McKernan. The Castleton …

While speaking to Miss California USA owner Donald Trump last night, David Letterman said, “Anybody who wants to get married ought to be able to get married,” garnering some supportive applause from his audience. Nice, but earlier during his monologue Letterman made some tired cracks about the rumored split of Rosie O’Donnell and her wife Kelli, saying that in the …

NAACP chairman Julian Bond has joined the list of high-profile endorsements of the National Equality March. Via press release: Most notably, recent endorsements for the NEM have come from allies representing organizations not usually thought of as part of the immediate LGBT community. US Representative, Danny K. Davis, of Chicago, Illinois; Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the …

Democrats seem ready to give up on trying to achieve a bipartisan consensus on health care reform and say they are ready to wield their Congressional majorities to push the bill through on their own. Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans’ purposely strident tone against health care legislation during …

After enduring a firestorm of criticism and demonstrations over their violent raid of the Rainbow Lounge, Fort Worth police are completely revising their rules on conducting inspections of nightclubs. The Fort Worth police chief said Tuesday that he is revising bar inspection policies in the wake of a raid on a gay bar that left one customer seriously injured and …

Led by a drag queen, the Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu hula troupe last weekend performed a “hit n run” piece at the corner of Castro and Market in San Francisco. The music is History Repeating by the Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey. (Tipped by JMG reader Leif)

Recently fired Miami ABC News anchor Charles Perez has been granted a restraining order against his ex-boyfriend, saying Dennis Pena had physically threatened and sexually assaulted him. Miami-Dade County Judge Rosa Figarola ordered Dennis Ricardo Peña to stay at least 500 feet away from Perez for the next 24 months. Peña, an unemployed paralegal, has 30 days to appeal and …

Split California literally, that is. Duncan Osborne at Gay City News reports that the lawyers backing the litigants in the Smelt case, the one that has caused all the DOJ-DOMA furor, have a master plan other than marriage equality. The attorney representing two gay men who sued in state court and now in federal court in southern California to win …

Finally, a Congressman fucking PWNS a teabagger.

Or so screams the headline on Christianist site OneNewsNow. But here’s what the article says: Mike Farris with ParentalRights.org is drawing attention to Title IX, Subpart 3, section 440, on page 837 of Obama’s healthcare plan (HR 3200). That section deals with the creation of a government bureaucracy that would establish and expand “programs providing voluntary home visitation for families …

At a Las Vegas town hall meeting, a woman yells “Heil Hitler!” at an Israeli immigrant speaking about his home country’s national health care. She does this while the man is live on the air with a local television station. This country is lost. UPDATE: The woman’s name is Pamela Pilger. It’s hard to tell, but it seems like she’s …

It turns out that the man with the assault rifle who appeared outside of the president’s town hall event in Arizona yesterday was planted by a teabagger Libertarian wingnut internet radio host. Shocker! The host, Ernest Hancock, says, “We’re up against a tyrannical government that will rob the next generation as long as they can get away with it. If …

Here’s a very Godley & Creme-ish morphing of the faces of male actors of the last 80 or so years. I was surprised that I could name almost every single one. (Via – Slog)

Coil, Tainted Love, 1985. Real life boyfriends John Balance and Peter Christopherson created one of the most sobering and creepy depictions of AIDS ever in their cover of Gloria Jones’ 1964 soul hit. Soft Cell’s Marc Almond, whose own cover of Tainted Love was a global hit three years earlier, makes a cameo here as the Angel of Death. Coil’s …

Courtesy of Fly Life Inc, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Rufus Wainwright’s new live CD, Milwaukee At Last!, which comes out nationwide on September 22nd. Recorded at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater in August 2007 this 10 song CD highlights selections from the full concert DVD that will be released simultaneously. Having wowed and dazzled audiences on his acclaimed and celebrated 2007 …

The producers of a film to be called Bear City has issued a casting call for extras for scenes to be filmed over three nights at the NYC Eagle. CASTING BACKGROUND BEARS & CUBS!!! Casting call for indie feature “BearCity,” a gay romantic comedy set in New York’s gay “Bear” scene. Being developed/produced in association with TLA Releasing (Another Gay …

On Sunday word rocketed around the intertubes that the Obama administration was dropping the “public option” portion of the health care reform plan – government-sponsored insurance for the poor or uninsurable. The word came from Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, who now says she “misspoke.” Sounds like the outrage from progressives caused some furious backtracking, eh? (Via – AmericaBlog)

The murderer of Syracuse, New York transwoman Lateisha Green has received the maximum sentence of 25 years. Dwight DeLee, the defendant in Onondaga County’s first hate-crime homicide prosecution, was sentenced this morning to the maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. DeLee, 20, of Gifford St., was convicted last month of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime for fatally shooting …

Conservative columnist Robert Novak, known as the “Prince of Darkness” to his enemies, has died of brain cancer at the age of 78. Novak’s remarkable and long-running career made him a powerful presence in newspaper columns, newsletters, books and on television. On May 15, 1963, Novak teamed up with the late Rowland Evans Jr. to create the “Inside Report” political …