Yearly Archives: 2009

Rihanna’s Dollar Store

A music industry friend of JMG tips us that Rihanna is selling her complete new album, Rated R, on Amazon for only $3.99. He points out that if you apply Amazon’s $3.00 off coupon promotion, which runs until November 30th, you get the full album for 99 cents. Something tells me that a certain music industry friend of JMG is …

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Quote Of The Day – Billy Arnone

“If they were put in front of me I’d probably watch it.” – Billy Arnone, the brother of Miss Ladyfingers USA, telling Radar Online that he’d watch her sex tape. What IS it with that family? (And note Billy’s “Loose Lips” t-shirt.) He goes on to slam same-sex unions, saying, “I’m all the way against gay marriage. I don’t feel …

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Martha Stewart: Sarah Palin Is Dangerous

Martha Stewart thinks Sarah Palin is “dangerous and boring.” It’s a good thing.

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The Joans – Mad At The Dirt

On YouTube since September, missed it until now. (Tipped by JMG reader Calvin.)

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HomoQuotable – Jarrett Barrios

“I think most people are fair-minded. I think that in sports, what matters most is someone’s talent and his or her ability to help a team win. Sports are about people competing together on a team. It’s not about what divides us or what makes us different. It’s about what we all share in common, and what an athlete brings …

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Australia’s Labor Party Challenges Its Own PM To Approve Same-Sex Marriage

The Labor Party of Australia is challenging its own Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to pass marriage equality legislation. Rudd has threatened to veto a recently approved law making same-sex marriage legal in the Australian Capitol Territory. The Australian Labor Party in the state of Victoria passed a resolution in support of marriage equality last weekend. It is supported by ministers …

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Katie Couric Drops It Like It’s Hot

Gawker has posted a gallery of photos of Katie Couric getting on down with her bad self. (And with another lady dancer.) Wingnuts will probably screech about this un-anchorly behavior, but Katie seems like a fun gal to take to a party.

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Massachusetts: Openly Gay GOP State Sen. Richard Tisei To Run For Lt. Governor

Moderate GOP candidate for governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker has named openly gay state Sen. Richard Tisei as his running mate. “Richard has years of experience fighting for the taxpayer on Beacon Hill and I’m thrilled to have him on the team,” Baker said in a statement posted on his campaign Web site. The Web page contained on CharlieBaker2010.com included …

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DC’s Catholic Charities Complains About Bad Press Over Same-Sex Marriage Threat

Good As You reports that DC’s Catholic Charities placed a message in yesterday’s Sunday bulletin of St. Peters’s Cathedral to complain that the press was misreporting their threat to suspend social services if same-sex marriage is approved. Take it away, Jeremy Hooper: It would be one thing if they came right out and said, “Look, we simply don’t wanna serve …

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Mark DeMoss Calls Me A Liar

Yesterday I posted that the DeMoss Group, the powerful Christian right publicity firm hired to promote the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, had also been hired to work on the 2008 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney. I wrote the post after finding numerous accountings of DeMoss’ work on behalf of Mittney. Today DeMoss Group founder Mark DeMoss writes to call me a …

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Thousands Of Anglican Priests Defect To Vatican Over Gay-Friendly Policies

Last month Pope Palpatine invited the world’s Anglican priests to join the Catholic Church if they disagreed with new gay-friendly Anglican policies. This weekend the first avalanche of thousands of defecting priests was announced. Over 4,000 Anglican priests all over the world, including married ones, are expected to join the Catholic Church, Bishop Matthias Ssekamanya announced on Friday. Ssekamanya, who …

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Mrs. Betty Bowers: Less Is Mormon!

More brilliance from American’s best Christian!

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Missouri Billboard Calls For Revolution

JMG reader Arthur, who blogs at AmeriNZ tips us to the above billboard just posted along I-70 in Lafayette County, Missouri. Arthur writes: There are two problems with all this rhetoric, beyond the sedition and violence they espouse. First, and most obviously, they will encourage the legendary “lone wolves” to commit acts of actual, real violence (there’s really no such …

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Hundreds Gather At NYC Memorial For Murdered Gay Teen Jorge Mercado

Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered on the chilly Christopher Street Pier tonight to honor the memory of murdered gay teen Jorge Mercado and to call on the federal and Puerto Rican governments to charge his killer with a hate crime. A broad coalition of LGBT, Hispanic, and progressive groups were represented by numerous speakers who spoke in English and Spanish …

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Slideshow: Instinct Magazine’s Leading Men Of 2009 Party

Thursday night’s party for Instinct Magazine’s Leading Men Of 2009 issue was a blast. Editor Mike Wood and publisher JR Pratts were genial hosts, the open bar flowed copiously and the room swelled with bold face names, much to the delight of my loyal companions Dr. Jeff and Father Tony. Jeff intro’d me to some Project Runway dude (Velvet?) and …

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November 30th: A Very MARY Holiday Benefit For Ali Forney Center

Next Monday, November 30th, Broadway Speaks OUT hosts A Very MARY Holiday concert to benefit the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s homeless LGBT youth center. WHEN: November 30, 2009, 8 p.m.-10 p.m. VIP Afterparty: 10 p.m.-11 p.m.WHERE: Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street, NYCTICKET INFO: $25 mezzanine seating, $50 orchestra seating (includes passes to VIP after party) HOSTED BY: Martin Gould Cummings …

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Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, 19

Via Andres Duque at Blabbeando, the mother of murdered gay teen Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado shares her grief. (Mercado’s mother is pictured above with activist Pedro Julio Serrano. They are recreating Mercado’s signature salute, seen below.) “When my son told me he was gay, I told him, ‘Now, I love you more’. I want to tell the world that hatred …

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Slideshow: Blowoff NYC

Friday’s final NYC Blowoff of the decade was its usual cavalcade of carousing and nonsensery. Some were worried that the word about the new venue, Tribeca’s Canal Room, had not gotten out, but the joint was beyond capacity for most of the night. The club’s lower lighting (compared to the Highline) seemed to influence DJs Bob Mould and Rich Morel, …

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Quote Of The Day – Roger Cohen

“It’s funny how we crave the authentic, the unspoiled, the genuine — the un-globalized and un-homogenized and un-gentrified — only to destroy them. And then, as if in remorse, attempt to create unthreatening Disney versions of the authentic, the unspoiled and the genuine. It’s funny how the rich, tired of grilled tuna or Chilean sea bass, weary of New York …

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PR Firm Used By Mitt Romney Now Promoting Anti-Gay Manhattan Declaration

The PR firm hired to promote The Manhattan Declaration, a vow of disobedience to gay rights laws signed by about 150 Christian leaders, is the DeMoss Group, the wingnut outfit hired by Mitt Romney for his 2008 presidential campaign. From their about page: The DeMoss Group is the nation’s first and largest public relations agency exclusively serving Christian leaders, organizations …

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