Movember is the global cancer awareness campaign in which participants grow mustaches to draw attention to men’s cancers. Copyranter tips us to the above image being used in Singapore’s prostate cancer campaign. Hit the link for more images of the famously mustachioed and what they’d look like clean-shaven.

According to the New York Times, while he was a young boy in Indonesia, President Obama had a gay male nanny who later went on to join a troupe of drag performers. Mr. Obama’s family rented the guest house inside a compound belonging to a prominent physician. There, according to the neighborhood’s longtime residents, the young Obama, who had already …

Embiggen the above image to read the just-issued press release from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in which she joins Lieberman and Udall in urging the repeal of DADT via its attachment to the National Defense Authorization Act.

If he hadn’t already been found face-down in a pool of his own gravy, I’m betting Jerry Falwell would take a dim view of all the dick-grabbing. Right Wing Watch provides a partial transcript: Follow Christ ’cause he knows best, And this school is so blessed, Only college in the whole country with a Snowflex, Perfect is the aim and …

Courtesy of the author, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is an autographed copy of Boy Does World, the new memoir from Metro Weekly’s editor and publisher, Sean Bugg. Boy Does World is now available online and at booksellers. It’s a big world. Somebody’s gotta do it. As a kid in rural Kentucky, Sean Bugg dreamed of the day he would make …

(Via – Good As You)

The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a street preacher who was arrested and fined after screaming anti-gay epithets at a lesbian couple. Greenville Circuit Judge Edward Miller had previously upheld Joseph D. Bane’s 2008 conviction, but the Supreme Court said a city rule against remarks that “humiliate, insult or scare” was too vague. All five of …

“The gay community has been incredibly supportive of me. I wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for the gay community. So I have to say something.”

Dubya’s memoir launches today and The Daily Beast has ranked the best-selling books by politicians in the last ten years. Dubya’s publisher is shipping 1.5M copies for the initial run, but of course no one knows if those will actually sell through.

As is apparent to anybody who’s seen her dancing, for which she’s gotten the lowest scores from the judges on occasion, Bristol Palin remains on Dancing With The Stars thanks to the enormous GOTV effort that the teabaggers are running on Twitter. Even the show’s producer admits as much. The Tea Party wave that swept Republicans to a U.S. House …

Her clip from September has one million views now.

“Next year there’s no chance of anything happening. There’s zero chance. We got five Republican votes out of 179 to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ The Republicans have become much more anti-gay in their voting patterns. There is zero chance of anything good happening with Republicans in control of the House.” – Rep. Barney Frank, telling the Washington Blade that …

Because God is a teabagger! Or something!

On the same day that GLAD has filed a DOMA suit in Connecticut, today the ACLU has filed a similar suit in New York state on behalf of a woman whose partner recently died after 44 years of their being together. The ACLU’s case addresses the tax inequities inherent in DOMA. From their FAQs page about the suit: On November …

British scientists are working on a cell phone app that will let you pee on your phone to get an instant STD test. Sort of! People who suspect they have been infected will be able to put urine or saliva on to a computer chip about the size of a USB chip, plug it into their phone or computer and …

Clip description from Michelangelo Signorile: I asked listeners to respond to the prior day’s calls from gays who voted Republican (featured in the video I posted yesterday, consider this Part II). Todd from Phoenix, a gay man, called to tell me that he didn’t like my tone with the callers, that he too voted Republican and that gay issues (marriage …

Tomorrow the Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) will launch a DOMA lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of a Connecticut lesbian couple. Earlier this year, GLAD won a similar suit in Massachusetts in a ruling that the Obama administration is appealing. The New York Times reports: Joanne Pedersen tried to add her spouse to her federal health …