Monthly Archives: July 2010

Tiffany Vs. Debbie Gibson

(Tipped by JMG reader Michael)

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Study Claims Using HIV Meds As Preventive To Infection Is Safe For Negative Gay Men

A study released at the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna claims that using widely-prescribed HIV medications as a preventive for new infections (PrEP) is safe for HIV-negative men who have sex with men. Please note that effectiveness in preventing infection results have not yet been released on this study. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir (found in Viread, Truvada and Atripla) …

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NET NEUTRALITY: Sen. Al Franken Warns That Corporations Will Run The Internet

Calling it the First Amendment issue of our time, during his closing keynote at Netroots Nation, Sen. Al Franken warned that unless net neutrality is preserved, media corporations that are also internet providers will soon throttle the speeds of their competitors, an issue we’ve long been discussing here on JMG. (Via – Towleroad)

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We No Speak Americano

This has been out for about eight weeks and while in the airport on Sunday, I read that it’s gone to #1 or top ten in almost every country in the world. Super super infectious/annoying. The Venga Bus is coming and Crazy Frog is behind the wheel. By an Australian duo using a 1950’s Italian sample.

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The Internet Is Almost Full!

According to the American Registry for Internet Numbers, we’ll run out of internet addresses in about a year. The main reason for the concern? There’s an explosion of data about to happen to the Web – thanks largely to sensor data, smart grids, RFID and other Internet of Things data. Other reasons include the increase in mobile devices connecting to …

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Today In Crazy Teabaggers

Joe The Plumber is making and paying for the airing of ads endorsing fellow teabaggers.

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LANDSLIDE: Netroots Nation Attendees Want Sarah Palin As 2012 GOP Nominee

By a huge margin, attendees of Netroots Nation said they’d most like to see Sarah Palin as the GOP 2012 presidential nominee. Heh. An early release of the Netroots Nation straw poll taken from Thursday through Sunday and obtained by TPM shows that attendees of the convention in Las Vegas overwhelmingly want Palin to mount a presidential bid. Respondents were …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #41

Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train from 1951!

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Tweet Of The Day – Lizz Winstead

I met the hilarious Lizz Winstead (co-creator of the Daily Show) at Netroots Nation. She reads JMG! RELATED: Listen to a great interview Lizz did with Michelangelo Signorile at Netroots. (Mike interviewed me too, that goes up later this week.)

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Choi & Signorile Appear On CNN

The two discuss Choi’s recent official discharge, DADT-related activism, and where the movement is headed.

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NOM’s Solution To Gay Marriage?

Bilerico co-founder Bil Browning just posted this sign seen at today’s NOM rally in his hometown of Indianapolis. The maker of the sign agreed to an interview with the Courage Campaign team and just as the interview began, one of the NOM flacks rushed over to warn him, “We don’t want anything inflammatory.” Watch the clip, the hater says he’s …

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AUGUST 5TH: JMG-Sponsored LGBT Fundraiser For Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

If you are in NYC on Thursday, August 5th, please consider joining me, Jeremy Hooper, and Pam Spaulding at Therapy in Hell’s Kitchen as we co-host a special netroots fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. The event runs 6pm-9pm with a $20 donation. Facebook event page here. And please join Out For Kirsten’s Facebook page. Longtime readers will recall that …

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GetEQUAL & Las Vegas Activist Derek Washington Spar Over ENDA Protest

Via Karen Ocamb’s LGBTPOV, here’s an audio clip of GetEQUAL’s Robin McGehee and Las Vegas Stonewall Democrats chairman Derek Washington sparring over the effectiveness and purpose of GetEQUAL’s blockage of the Las Vegas strip during Netroots Nation. This was recorded during Washington’s local radio show and things get rolling at the 9:00 mark. Below are photos I later took of …

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Eric McCormack Talks To Rex Wockner

“Will had as much sex on camera as anybody on Friends had on camera. It’s a sitcom. Nobody has sex on camera. Will had lots of dates. Will was dating Patrick Dempsey and he married Taye Diggs. I think that a lot of the rhetoric in the kind of anti-Will & Grace press was misguided and was from people that …

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The Love Parade Is No More

Organizers of Germany’s Love Parade techno dance party have announced that the 21 year-old annual event is permanently canceled “out of respect to those killed and injured” on Saturday. Nineteen attendees were killed and hundreds were injured during a mass panic in the sole entrance tunnel to the event. Fearing further chaos, police instructed the DJs to continue playing for …

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Tens Appear At NOM’s Indianapolis Stop

Yet another in an unbroken string of NOM fails. More on this latest embarrassment at the Courage Campaign’s NOM Tour Tracker.

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A Little Slice Of Gay Vegas

I didn’t get to see much of Las Vegas’ gay scene as Netroots pretty much kept us busy day and night. But I did get out to Fun Hog Ranch for a couple of hours, where I saw the first cigarette machine I think I’ve seen in a gay bar in about 20 years. Nice place, just the sort of …

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NOM Hearts Justin Bieber?

I guess NOM is a fan because the kid has been hammered with so many gay rumors. But this is strange, even for NOM.

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Robyn – Hang With Me

(Via – Towleroad)

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Marriage Setback In New Jersey

In a 3-3 split decision (one seat is vacant), this morning the New Jersey Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging the unfairness of the state’s civil unions law. The case was brought by Lambda Legal and Garden State Equality. Metro Weekly’s Chris Geidner quotes GSE: “Because of the legislature’s inability to act and the Supreme Court’s decision today, …

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