Monthly Archives: January 2011

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season Three

Stay out of the comments if you haven’t yet seen tonight’s premiere episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, season three. Otherwise jump in and dish this year’s crop of contestants and tonight’s challenge. Not pictured above – the surprise second chance of one of last season’s cast-offs.

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Cenk Uygur Vs. Chris Barron, Round Two

Chris Barron says the CPAC boycott is insignificant because most conservatives totally welcome having gay people on their side. Yeeeeah.

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Peruvian Bishop: Call Them “Faggots”

Clip description via Andres Duque: “Speaking to reporters about efforts to bring a same-sex civil unions bill to the Peruvian Congress, homophobic Bishop Luis Bambarén tells reporters they should use the word ‘faggot’ instead of calling homosexuals ‘gay’.”

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Wyoming House Passes Anti-Marriage Bill

Thanks to a newly-elected Tea Party-backed GOP majority, the Wyoming House today passed a bill banning the recognition of out of state same-sex marriages and civil unions. Similar bills had failed twice in recent years. State Rep. Owen Petersen, R-Mountain View, the bill’s sponsor, said the legislation is needed to resolve a conflict in Wyoming law, which defines marriage as …

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High School Senior Comes Out At Assembly

It’s a lovely and astoundingly articulate speech. Watch this.(Via – Queerty)

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Crazy Eyes Rewrites History

Wonkette suggests you skip forward to 9:00 in the below clip and listen in amazement as Rep. Michele Bachmann does a rewrite on American history. One example: 9:30—Thomas Jefferson would be very interested to find out he plagiarized whole-cloth, without crediting those weirdo pilgrims, some sort of prayer thing from the Mayflower Compact. But it’s her word against his, and …

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Robert Gibbs Nearly Ends Press Conference Over Obama’s Position On Marriage

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today nearly cut his press conference short after Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson pressed him about the president’s 1996 support of same-sex marriage, a position Obama later reversed. Gibbs resumed taking questions after other reporters complained. Johnson has been relentless on LGBT issues with Gibbs for the last couple of weeks.

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“Ex-Gay” Linda Jernigan: Jeebus Will Punish Illinois For Passing Civil Unions

The Illinois Family Institute, an SPLC-certified hate group, has been trickling out videos of last week’s press conference where black pastors honored Martin Luther King by denouncing civil rights. In today’s clip, so-called “ex-lesbian” Linda Jernigan rants against the media and Illinois’ godless lawmakers for the passage of civil unions. Jeebus is totally gonna get them for that. Wait, maybe …

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Matt Baume: This Week In Prop 8

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Dan Savage Lands MTV Pilot

Entertainment Weekly reports: Savage Love may be coming to MTV. Columnist Dan Savage is working on an advice show for the network. MTV has ordered a pilot that follows Savage as he tours college campuses giving his brand of brutally honest (and sometimes graphic) sex and relationship advice. In the format, Savage takes questions from an auditorium audience (similar to …

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Court Rules Rahm Emanuel Ineligible To Run For Mayor Of Chicago

Opponents to former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s run for mayor of Chicago have won their appeal of an earlier court ruling that he was eligible. Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel, a stunning blow to the fund-raising leader in the race. An appellate panel ruled 2-1 …

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NYC: Better To Rent Than Buy

According to a real estate study quoted by Gothamist today, it makes more financial sense to rent in New York City: “The median list price (for the top 50 cities) is $140,201.37, but the median price for a 2-bedroom apartment in NYC is $1.3-1.4 million! Median rent (for the top 50 cities) is $1,871.65, but it’s $3500-4000 in NYC for …

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Do Nothing For Two Minutes

A new website encourages you to do nothing for two minutes and take a break from your multitasking digital frenzy. I got a “FAIL” notice for moving my mouse to take the above screen shot.

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World Net Daily: Gay Parents Are Going To Abort Their Straight Babies!

Even though all good Christians know that homosexuality is a choice, today World Net Daily warns that thanks to “mushrooming genomic advances,” it won’t be long before gay parents are going to selectively abort heterosexual babies. If two homosexual men want to use in vitro fertilization to conceive a baby and then use genetics technology to ensure the baby is …

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PhoboQuotable – Bryan Fischer

“The last thing in the world young males in troubled home settings need is to be put in a situation where there is a heightened chance they will be sexually molested by their next door neighbors. These HUD housing projects will become hunting grounds with easy prey for homosexual pedophiles. These young boys have enough obstacles to overcome as it …

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Sen. Jim DeMint Joins CPAC Boycott

Sen. Jim DeMint has joined the boycott of CPAC 2011 because of GOProud’s sponsorship, prompting the above image by Facebooker Tracy Knauss. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has also backed out of attending, although he won’t say why. At the current rate of defections, the nation’s “largest annual conservative conference” will by attended by nobody but GOProud and the NRA. …

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BBC’s Big Picture Covers Britain’s Anti-Gay Christian Hoteliers Case

This weekend the BBC’s Big Picture covered the recent decision against the British hoteliers who had refused to rent rooms to gay couples. Good discussion here.

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Kentucky TV On Last Night’s Game

Surely just an unfortunate typo, right?

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RUSSIA: Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens, Injures Over 100 At Moscow Airport

A reported suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport today has killed dozens and left more than 100 injured. Russian news agencies, citing witnesses, said airport halls were filled with smoke, so much so that it was difficult to count the number of dead. International arrivals were being diverted to nearby, according to local media reports. The explosion occurred at 4:32 …

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GEORGIA: Arson At Gay Man’s House

Police are investigating an arson fire at the home of a Carroll County, Georgia gay man after the victim reported having a rock hurled through his window with an anti-gay death threat attached. Chris Staples said someone threw a rock through his window with a piece of paper attached that was covered in anti-gay slurs. “I was watching TV and …

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