HBO is developing a biopic about the life of Anita Bryant, the infamous beauty queen and orange juice spokesperson who successfully spearheaded the 1977 campaign to overturn Miami-Dade county’s new gay rights law. “Sex and the City” creator Darren Star is on board to direct the film, which is being written by “Runaway” creator Chad Hodge. Star also is executive …

This year there are ten Best Picture nominations rather than the traditional five. Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead the pack with nine noms each.Best Picture“Avatar”“The Blind Side”“District 9”“An Education”“The Hurt Locker”“Inglourious Basterds”“Precious”“A Serious Man”“Up”“Up in the Air”Best ActorJeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”George Clooney, “Up in the Air”Colin Firth “A Single Man”Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”Best ActressSandra Bullock, “The …

The Christian right is campaigning in Georgia in opposition to a state bill that would place teen prostitutes in treatment programs rather than imprison them. Opponents claim that the bill constitutes the legalization of underage hooking. The weight of the state’s Christian right movement just came down in opposition to a pair of bills that would steer young girls under …

“Thirteen months before 9/11, on the day New York City passed homosexual domestic partnership regulations, I joined a group of Rabbis at a City Hall prayer service, pleading with G-d not to visit disaster on the city of N.Y. We have seen the underground earthquake, tsunami, Katrina, and now Haiti. All this is in sync with a two thousand year …

The full repeal of DADT will take years, according to the Pentagon’s top brass. In fact, it will take a year just to plan on how to get started. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen also are expected to announce the creation of a group …

It looks like we’re not getting a break from this lousy winter. Punxsutawney Phil has emerged before revellers in Pennsylvannia to predict that winter will last another weeks. The Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club annually announces Phil’s forecast at dawn on Gobbler’s Knob, northeast of Pittsburgh. The tradition dates back to 1887 and follows a German idea that …

In the below clip, the president takes unscreened video questions from YouTube members. Interesting concept, hit and miss results. Definitely worth viewing.

As longtime readers know, there are four or five JMG entries that I repost every year. This is one of them. My dear friend Daniel Johnson, who threw the most kickass Groundhog’s Day birthday parties for himself, would have been 53 years old today. His was a life that burned brightly and I am illuminated still. Daniel Johnson, 1957-1997. I …

British investigative reporter Patrick Strudwick, an out gay man, went undercover in the UK’s network of “ex-gay” outfits to see how they pretend to pray the gay away. Here’s how just one of the “therapists” worked. She begins her wound hunt by asking about my family. I tell her that I have a close relationship with my parents and that …

Season 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race debuts tonight on Logo at 9pm. We all got a little too wrapped up in last season, with some of you screaming bloody murder when we discussed the eliminations before you got around to watching your damn ass DVR. (I’ll admit that I screamed a little when I ran into Nina Flowers on the …

Here’s an hour-long verbatim re-enactment of excerpts from the first day of Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, courtesy of the folks at MarriageTrial.com.

In a front page story, today’s San Francisco Chronicle notes the success of the SF Gay Men’s Chorus as it tours California’s central heartlands in a peace-making tour after the acrimony of Proposition 8. They came. They sang. They wore pink cowboy hats. When the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarked on its Freedom Tour into the heart of Proposition …

The National Lampoon guys are quick with a parody of the gay dating site Super Bowl ad nonsensery. “If Jesus had BroHarmony, he’d probably still been alive because Judas would’ve been screened out….that’s how good it is.” (Via – Queerty)

Gothamist has a great set of photos of the work being done 150 feet beneath Grand Central Terminal as the $8B project to connect the Long Island Railroad to the GCT continues. When completed, LIRR commuters will enjoy a 90,000 sq.ft concourse including shops, restaurants, and connections to the subway and Metro North. And you’ll be able to get to …

Calling it a recruitment tool for “the shadowy Fellowship Corporation,” aka The Family, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington is calling on President Obama not to attend next month’s National Prayer Breakfast. The Fellowship, also known as “The Foundation” and “The Family,” is run by Doug Coe, a spiritual advisor to past government officials who uses …

Via Towleroad, an amusing home video that finally settles the Star Trek vs. Star Wars question.

“Your country is well known for its firm commitment to equality of opportunity for all members of society. Yet as you have rightly pointed out, the effect of some of the legislation designed to achieve this goal has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs. In some respects it …

Goldman Sachs, favorite whipping boy of the teabaggers (and just about everybody else), is said to be considering a bonus for its CEO Lloyd Blankfein that may reach $100M. Goldman Sachs, the world’s richest investment bank, is facing a potential political storm over how much it pays its chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein. Bankers in Davos for the World Economic Forum …

For those of you still stinging from last night’s atrocious Taylor Swift-Stevie Nicks duet at the Grammy’s, JMG reader Jimbo tips us that tickets have gone on sale for the 20th annual Night Of A Thousand Stevies, NYC’s famed drag homage to the White Witch. Night of a Thousand Stevies is probably the best-known STEVIE NICKS fan event in the …

Out transman and Cliks lead singer Lucas Silveira has won an interesting poll of the readers of Chart Attack, which bills itself as Canada’s premiere music magazine. Via After Ellen: Lucas Silveira, the openly transgender lead singer of Toronto alt-rock band The Cliks, became the first transman to win the “Throw Your Underwear Award Male” (Sexiest Canadian Man) in the …