Monthly Archives: May 2010

LOST Finale Open Thread

It was all a dream in a snowglobe with Suzanne Pleshette. Or something. Explain away, if you can. Spoilers within, obvs.

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… New Jersey: Pastor Moises Cotto charged with forcing two underage girls to videotape him having sex with a female parishioner.New York: Youth Bible teacher Samuel W. Langley arrested for molesting a five year-old girl.Texas: Pastor Mark Stewart arrested for shooting another pastor over a construction contract dispute.Australia: Archbishop Philip Wilson accused of covering up crimes …

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LOST Bingo

Monsters, time travel, parallel universes, Satan, body switching. No sci-fi cliche shall be ignored! Via Holy Taco: “The series finale of Lost airs on tonight, and fan excitement levels are at a boiling point. Luckily, we’ve come up with a way for you to simultaneously relieve your anxiety and get completely wasted: The Lost Finale Drinking Game!” (Via – Gothamist)

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Pride Toronto Boots Anti-Israel Group

After weeks of controversy, Pride Toronto has decided to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from all its events. QAII, whom some claim is an anti-Semitic organization, opposes the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli government. They had marched in the parade for the last several years. Some city leaders had threatened to pull funding for Pride Toronto if the group …

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Tavern On The Weenie

Central Park’s famed Tavern On The Green, which recently closed in bankruptcy despite being the second-highest grossing restaurant in the country, is going to have a new life. As a snack bar and souvenir stand. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg envisions an unexpected, humble but most likely temporary destiny for the closed, bankrupt, once-glittering Tavern on the Green restaurant: a snack …

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TBILISI: Gay Book Controversy Roils Nation Of Georgia

The nation of Georgia has seen several demonstrations and assaults over the publication of a book by a 20 year-old author which mocks the Orthodox Church and depicts several gay sexual encounters. Via the Moscow Times: The catalyst for the dispute was a provocative new book satirizing the church, the most respected institution in Georgia. Its title is an irreverent …

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It’s A Bad Year For Matadors

Late last month a Spanish matador was grievously injured in Mexico, prompting renewed calls around the world to ban the “sport.” And yesterday in Madrid another matador was gored so grotesquely that many newspapers in Europe are under fire for having published a [WARNING!] horrific photo of the incident. I won’t post the photo here, but some animal rights activists …

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SLOVAKIA: Skinheads Attack, Force Cancellation Of First Gay Pride Parade

Slovakia’s first ever gay pride parade was canceled today after skinheads attacked the participants with rocks, eggs and a tear gas grenade. Organizers are blaming police for not providing adequate protection. Eight neo-Nazis were arrested and there were no serious injuries. Members of the neo-Nazi group Slovenská Pospolitosť attacked the participants at a pre-parade rally for LGBT rights. A tear …

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ARIZONA: John McCain Hires Gay Man As Senate Campaign Manager

You may recall that during the 2008 presidential campaign, Mike Rogers and Michelangelo Signorile outed John McCain’s Senate chief of staff Mark Buse, seen here in a photo provided to me at that time by a reader. Yesterday McCain named Buse as his new Senate campaign manager. Mark Buse is McCain’s new campaign manager. Buse is a veteran McCain aide …

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Quote Of The Day – Pastor Jeff Owens

“If you are responding to a sermon that I preached about gays I would like to render the following apology. Nearly 15 years ago I preached a sermon that promoted physically hurting gay people. I was young, stupid and immature. I didn’t even hold to the belief of hurting people when I wrongly made those comments. I regret those words …

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Happy Harvey Milk Day!

Today is the first annual Harvey Milk Day in California and observances are taking place from the Castro to West Hollywood and elsewhere in the state.

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God’s Gentle People, Part 87

Readers have been sending me clips by West Virginia-based Pastor Jeff Owens for several months now and this one went up on YouTube yesterday. “We need to stop burning flags and start burning FAGS! We need Hunt-A-Homo Week. We need to take ’em all out and shoot ’em with a scatter shotgun.” Owens is on a national speaking tour of …

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Jews For Jesus Founder Dies

Moishe Rosen, founder of the controversial group Jews For Jesus, died this week at the age of 78. Jews for Jesus was officially founded by Mr. Rosen in San Francisco in 1973. In the decades since, its missionaries have been a familiar presence on street corners in cities around the United States and elsewhere. Mr. Rosen was the group’s first …

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Andrew Cuomo Announces NY Gov Bid

It’s been coming for about a year, but today New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo finally announced formally that he is running for governor. “New York is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance,” said Cuomo. My campaign is this simple: I represent the people of the great state of New York and we want our government back.” …

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Janelle Monae On Letterman

I posted the production video of this song last month, but for the last few days I’ve been coming back to Janelle Monae’s wonderful performance on Letterman this week. The band is amazingly tight and and I love how Monae bites on James Brown’s cape schtick at the end. She blows me away. Play this loud!

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Signorile Interviews Donna Milo

Michelangelo Signorile has interviewed transgender candidate for Congress, Donna Milo. And she’s not too great on gay issues. At all. While she confirmed to me that she is in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (“of course”), it turns out she is opposed to marriage equality, giving the religious line on marriage being between “a man and a woman.” On …

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Weekend Mix – DJ Paul Ferrer

Turn up the volume on your weekend with this pumping vocal house mix from popular NYC DJ Paul Ferrer. Setlist. Website. Podcasts. Facebook. RESIDENCY: The NYC Eagle every Sunday from 5pm to 10pm on the roof in the summertime. (Or down and dirty on the first floor when weather doesn’t permit.) PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: DJ Shane Stiel. DJ Paul Goodyear. …

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Not The New Kanye Record

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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Too Ashamed To Mention His NARTH Pal, Porno Pete Attacks Ellen DeGeneres

We’re into our third week of radio silence about Dr. George Rekers from Porno Pete LaBarbera, despite Petey’s voluminous history of citing the “scientific” work of NARTH. Wassamatta, Petey? Rentboy got yer tongue? Or something else? Instead of manning up to the scandal enveloping his colleagues in the hate industry, today Porno Pete attacks Ellen DeGeneres because she had a …

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Crazyland At The Texas Textbook Debate

The battle to rewrite the textbooks used by school districts all over the nation is nearly over as Christianists attempt to revise history. The Fox clip below is, of course, full of assholery.

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