Google has created a work-around for Egyptians cut off from the internet. Via the company’s official blog: Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet …

More than half of the nation’s AIDS patients who are on waiting lists to get medications are in Florida. Last week Sen. Bill Nelson wrote both the president and Florida Gov. Rick “Medicare Fraud” Scott, warning of a catastrophic public health crisis over the lack of ADAP funding. In the below clip, South Florida AIDS activist Mark S. King lays …

The right wing loathes those activist judges who are always imposing their agendas on the American people. Except when those judges are GOP appointees and do their bidding. A federal judge in Florida has struck down the Obama administration’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy health insurance, and questioned the constitutionality of the entire health care law. “I must reluctantly …

Gothamist notes: “One investigator was able to pay cash for a .9 mm semiautomatic even after telling the seller he probably wouldn’t pass a background check. Instead of refusing the sale, as required by federal law, the gun peddler pockets the $500 and directs his shady customer toward the tent with the cheap ammunition.”

“With the gay left it’s all stick and no carrot. Instead of working to change hearts and minds the angry gay left would rather go on witch hunts. The witch hunts by the professionally outraged gay protestor class may feel good, but I think they are incredibly counter-productive. To most of the world a chicken sandwich is just a chicken …

Exodus International invites you to pray away the gay at their upcoming Phoenix conference where the “ex-lesbian” wife of “ex-gay” former rentboy/drag queen John Paulk will speak. You may remember Paulk from the hilarious incident in which Wayne Besen busted him partying and chatting up menz in a DC gay bar, prompting Paulk to flee the room screaming as he …

Pespi is giving away boatloads of money to organizations that have “great ideas” and today is the final day to vote for the Gay & Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), who wants to place Safe Space kits in 10,000 public schools. Right now GLSEN is in third place to win a $250,000 grant for the project. Note: You can vote …

Over the weekend, Sharron Angle shared make-up and hair tips at a Las Vegas beauty show headlined as “An Evening Of Glamour.” Yup. (Via – Alan Colmes)

Five-time Oscar winning film composer John Barry has died at the age of 77. Here’s a few of my favorites from his lengthy filmography.

As Walmart ramps up its media blitz against the New York City government, hoping to finally gain a foothold in the nation’s largest market, the Stonewall Democrats have issued a statement denouncing the company as homophobic. “Walmart represents a culture of intolerance and insensitivity towards LGBT employees and issues that is unwelcome in New York. Just last year more than …

In recent years, Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) introduced a House resolution calling for the United States to recognize that it is a “Judeo-Christian nation.” Another Forbes resolution called on the federal government to recognize that “the Holy Bible is God’s word.” Now he wants the feds to acknowledge that “In God We Trust” is the nation’s official motto. Which it …

Led by activist Peter Tatchell, on Wednesday eight British couples, four gay and four straight, will file a challenge to Britain’s marriage and civil partnership laws with the European Court of Human Rights. Peter Tatchell is coordinator of the Equal Love campaign, which seeks to end sexual orientation discrimination in both civil marriage and civil partnership law.”Since November, four same-sex …

Improv Everywhere: “For our latest mission an ice skater stranded alone on the rink transformed from a novice into an expert in New York’s Bryant Park. The project was a collaboration with Ice Theatre of New York.”

The cereal brands at your grocery stores may soon be shouting and dancing at you courtesy of a new technology called eCoupling. An electric induction strip under the boxes powers the animation and records inventory levels as items are removed. Very Minority Report.

The LGBT activism group One Colorado and a coalition of gay-friendly faith leaders, unions, and education groups yesterday launched their campaign to legalize civil unions in Colorado. Box Turtle Bulletin blogger Daniel Gonzales sends us the below clip from the campaign’s kick-off press conference.

Infamous anti-gay activist Stephen Green, who is well known as a British version of Peter LaBarbera, has been divorced by his wife. Because he’d been beating her with a piece of wood. Caroline Green was often punished by her husband Stephen for failing to be a dutiful, compliant wife, but his final act of violence against her — the one …

Broadway legend Carol Channing turns 90 today and the three-time Tony winner has granted a rare video interview in which she reminisces about her career and her status as a gay icon. Hit the link for the clip.