Monthly Archives: November 2009

Aging And Mental Problems Mount For Longtime Pozzers

David France has published a sobering and heartbreaking feature at NY Magazine that looks into the accelerated aging and mental problems that longtime HIV patients can suffer. An excerpt: Some fifteen years into the era of protease inhibitors and drug cocktails, doctors are realizing that the miracles the drugs promised are not necessarily a lasting solution to the disease. Most …

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Help Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)

Fellow blogger Mike Rogers wrote me this morning to request I help publicize the response to right wing attacks against Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), who has been targeted because of his now-famous speech on the House floor claiming that the Republican health care strategy is for Americans to “die quickly.” The GOP is especially seething over this Grayson quote about …

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The Teabaggers’ Rap

“People wanna go against the word of God and live alternative, the media wants to crucify conservatives, just cuz we live by a set of principles, to me liberals are sick individuals.” And more stuff about abortion, gay marriage, etc. I do like the bit about “patriotic people throw your hands in the air and wave ’em ’round like you …

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MLK’s Daughter Takes Reins Of SCLC, Called On To Renounce Anti-Gay Bigotry

Noted homophobe Rev. Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., has been named the first woman to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. And the calls for her to renounce her anti-gay bigotry have begun. From the Daily Voice, which bill itselfs as “black America’s daily news source”: She should renounce the anti-gay bigotry of her recent past. …

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Kalamazoo: More “Men! In Dresses!” Scare Tactics Over LGBT Rights Repeal Bid

The Family Policy Network goes for the tired “man in the ladies room” crapola in this last minute ad urging the overturn of Kalamazoo’s LGBT rights law.

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Anti-Homophobia Ad From Israel

JMG reader Sheepy sends us this anti-homophobia ad from Israel. Can someone translate?

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NYT Calls For Marriage Equality

Today the New York Times published an editorial calling on the NY state Senate to approve marriage equality and ticking off five other marriage battlegrounds, all of which should be familiar to you. Political battles this fall in six different parts of the country could have a profound impact on whether the United States will extend the promise of equal …

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Marriage Activists Vs. Maggie Gallagher

On Friday at Hofstra University, Cathy Marino-Thomas of Marriage Equality NY debated Maggie Gallagher, who sits there and smugly shakes her head as Marino-Thomas calls out her lies. (Via – Towleroad)

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She Got THE GAY All Over Her!

Listen as YouTuber Gwenda describes a horrifying incident in which she was hugged by lesbian coworker, then spent the next 45 minutes lusting after women. Because that evil lesbian got her homosexual demon all over poor Gwenda. (Tipped by JMG reader Diane)

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Dr. James Dobson To Step Down At FOF

After 32 years of spewing anti-gay bile and bigotry, Dr. James Dobson has announced that early next year he will step down from his leadership role at Focus On The Family. Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson will end his 32-year stint as the voice of the conservative Christian ministry at the end of February, the Colorado Springs-based …

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Nate Silver On Maine Vote

Statistics whiz kid Nate Silver is calling Maine’s Yes On 1 a 5-2 underdog in tomorrow’s vote. The Odds: A statistical analysis I conducted last month, which was based on the results from previous gay marriage referenda in other states, gave the Yes on 1 side just an 11 percent chance of prevailing, although the fraction rises to 32 percent …

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GLAAD On Hate Crimes Act Passage

GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios talks about the passage of the hate crimes act and what may be coming next from the Obama administration.

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days…Alabama: Pastor Ralph Lee Aaron charged with 152 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse, sexual torture and possession of obscene matter involving children.Manitoba: Pastor Raju Madanu pleads guilty to stealing church donations meant for an orphanage.Missouri: Youth Pastor Michael Joy arrested for aggravated indecent solicitation of pre-teen child. Bonus: Joy was employed by the church despite spending …

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Gayest Album Covers Ever

Go to Gayest Ever to vote on the gayest album cover of all time, of which the above two are selections. Not on their list is my personal pick, Rod McKuen’s 1977 campfest Slide Easy in…Disco, which includes the anti-Anita Bryant track, Don’t Drink The Orange Juice.

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CNN On Black/Gay Schism

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NJ Gov Race: Chris Christie Goes For Last Minute Anti-Gay Push

The Bilerico Project reports that GOP New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie, who is in a tight race with incumbent Jon Corzine, has sent voters a last-minute anti-gay mailer in order to push him over the top with the state’s bigots. Adam Bink: Not only does stuff like this make me furious, but there’s another wrinkle to this race. We …

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American Wins NYC Marathon For First Time Since 1982

Meb Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist, won the NYC Marathon today, the first American to do so in 27 years. A surprisingly strong contingent of Americans were trying to break a 27-year men’s drought in the New York City Marathon, with four Americans in the lead back for a long while.But as the race turned down Fifth Avenue with …

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Bette Midler At Her Hulaween Ball

Broadway Speaks OUT’s Marti Gould Cummings interviews Bette Midler at her Hulaween Ball at midtown’s Waldorf-Astoria. Also interviewed: Martha Stewart, Michael Kors, Judy Gold, Gloria Gaynor.

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