Monthly Archives: October 2009

Gay City News Disses Bloomberg, Endorses Bill Thompson For NYC Mayor

Saying Mayor Bloomberg’s actions on gay marriage “are at sharp odds with his words,” NYC’s sole remaining LGBT newsweekly, Gay City News, has endorsed City Comptroller Bill Thompson for mayor. One of the reasons for the snub of Bloomberg is his support for upstate Republicans who may have blocked progress on marraige equality. In 2005, at the same time the …

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Barney Frank On Wall Street Pay Limits

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Today In Gratuitous Beefcake

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Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) To Name Names (Of The Dead….)

Weeks after he announced that the GOP plan for health care reform was for people to “die quickly,” Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is unveiling a website titled Names Of The Dead, where families and loved ones can share stories about those lost due to lack of proper health care access. “Every year, more than 44,000 Americans die simply because [they] …

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Open Thread Thursday

Six months ago I asked, “How’s the recession treating you?” If you believe some of the talking heads, the economy has turned around a bit of late. Are you buying that? Has your personal situation improved or worsened in the last six months? How about your outlook?

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HomoQuotable – Rachel Maddow

“The women in American cable news look like a beauty pageant. I’m not very pretty. I sorta look like a dude, and I have short hair, and I wear boring gray jackets, and I have a big nose. No one’s gonna confuse me with a Fox News anchor. No one’s gonna call me the anything-Honey.” – Rachel Maddow, quoted by …

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80’s Flashback

Miquel Brown, So Many Men, So Little Time, 1983. As what some say was the first breakout hit of the post-disco Hi-NRG genre, So Many Men, So Little Time is considered to this day to be a gay dance classic. This, despite the fact that gay DJs nationwide ceased playing it upon the onset of the AIDS epidemic, as its …

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But Interracial Prostitution Is OK!

Sen. David “Diaper Boy” Vitter (R-LA) is the only senior elected official from Louisiana who has not denounced the local justice of the peace who refused to marry an interracial couple. And he won’t do it here, either.

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Absentee Ballot Requests Overwhelm Maine’s Election Officials

Election officials in Maine say they are being “overwhelmed” with requests for absentee ballots and that half of the state’s voters may have voted by election day. Political experts said the push to vote absentee is changing the way campaigns are run, and a whole new strategy has arisen because of it. “It’s possible now that half the voters will …

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Christianists Call For California School Boycott Over Harvey Milk Day

Christianist outfit Save California has issued a call for parents to “boycott” California’s public schools over last week’s approval of Harvey Milk Day by Gov. Schwarzenegger. Via the American Family Association’s “news site” OneNewsNow: Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, tells OneNewsNow he is calling for a boycott over a law designed to force students to honor a deceased homosexual activist. …

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Steak House Or Gay Bar?

Today’s time waster. Maybe a little unfair if you know a lot of gay bars. (Tipped by JMG reader Croft)

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New Ad For Approve R-71

A very strong new ad has just been released by Washington Families Standing Together.

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NY Gov. Paterson To Ask State Senate To Vote On Marriage Next Week

According to his aides, New York Gov. David Paterson plans to ask state Senators to finally vote on same-sex marriage during a special session he’s called for next week. Democrats continue to hold a slim 32-30 majority in the Senate after Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D) somehow evaded a felony conviction last week for slashing his girlfriend in the face, which …

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U.S. Census Reaches Out To Philadelphia’s Gays For 2010 Count

The U.S. Census Bureau has placed yellow stickers on the current issue of the Philadelphia Gay News in a test run of an ad campaign encouraging LGBT folks to participate. Via Advocate: The October 9-15 edition of the weekly paper features a yellow sticker advertisement placed prominently on the upper right-hand corner of the page. It reads, “By filling out …

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Adam Lambert – Time For Miracles

Here’s Adam Lambert’s first post-Idol single, the theme song from the coming apocalypse film 2012. Meh. Who wrote this, Diane Warren? Andy Towle warns that this clip may not be around on YouTube very long, so watch it now while you can. Maybe the inevitable dance remix will be better.

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NC: Country Singer Banned After Anti-Gay Song At City Festival

Pam Spaulding reports that country singer Matt Boswell and his Hillbilly Blues Band have been banned from future performances by the city of Reidsville, North Carolina after a live broadcast from a city festival where he performed an altered version of a Merle Haggard song that included the anti-gay lyric, “And you can’t get married, you stupid gays and queers, …

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Billy Elliot, With A Gay Twist

Ah, here’s a mental palate cleanser to all of the evil in the posts below. Two gays dads in Canada adopted a boy from an abusive home seven years ago. Today the kid is a dance prodigy headed for the National Ballet. Thomas Jones and Rob Gibson are acutely aware that they are setting themselves up for a barrage of …

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Guilty Plea In Upstate NY Gay Bashing

Just as his assault trial was to begin, gay basher Joshua Holts was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge and now faces seven years in prison. Joshua Holts pleaded guilty Monday to felony assault for beating a gay man outside a Springville bar last year, leaving the victim with facial injuries that required four surgeries. As Erie County …

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WWII Hero Speaks Out For Maine

I posted this clip back in May, but it’s rocketing back around the web this morning, so here it is again. Watch as an 86 year-old WWII veteran describes why he supports marriage equality in Maine. “The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be …

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Pat Robertson: Gays Don’t Want To Get Married, They Want To Destroy Marriage

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