“A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.” – Tom Ford, from his Five Easy Lessons On How To Be A Gentleman. I do agree on the flip-flops. But c’mon, summer in New York City without shorts? …

Fake Victoria Jackson, that is. (Via – Good As You)

Today NOM screams that the above “LGBT-funded poll falsely claims that most Catholics support same-sex marriage” and links to a story on CatholicVote.org. Who is driving the numbers behind the headline: “Catholic support same-sex marriage”? Catholics who are almost never in the pews. And yet, when it comes to the headlines, Catholics who can’t even trouble themselves to get to …

Perhaps to thwart the Westboro Baptist Church, who yesterday vowed to picket her funeral, Elizabeth Taylor will be buried today at the famed Forest Lawn Memorial Park, the final resting place of many Hollywood stars. I just checked the Twitter feed of Margie Phelps, who doesn’t yet seem to be aware of the speedy service. Story developing… UPDATE: E! Online …

In a ruling that is already being celebrated by NOM, by a 5-2 decision the Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled that election officials may no longer contest illegible signatures on referendum petitions. The Court of Appeals this week released its reasoning behind last fall’s decision on a Montgomery County ambulance fee referendum. The court decision will affect political efforts …

“We are gathered here today to look a gift horse in the mouth. It seems a majority of the American people now favor allowing gay men and lesbians to wed. That majority, according to a Washington Post survey released last week, is slender, just 51 percent. But even at that, it represents a significant increase from just five years ago, …

In a scare piece headlined “Military Indoctrinated On Gays Kissing,” today’s Washington Times notes the below scenario as laid out in a Marine Corps guideline to the repeal of DADT. “Situation,” it begins. “You are the Executive Officer of your unit. While shopping at the local mall over the weekend, you observe two junior male Marines in appropriate civilian attire …

Yesterday Karger filed the paperwork to become the first openly gay GOP candidate for president.

I guess it’s about time for my annual plea for forgiveness regarding my lousy email habits. I am very appreciative of all of your news tips and personal messages and I totally suck for not being able to get back to everybody. (Including on Facebook!) But this here website thingy, for now, is a one-man show. I’m pedaling as fast …

Wingnut sites are having a field day with this video of the president returning from South America to find several White House doors locked.

“For the first time in my life, when Barack Obama became elected, for the first time in my life, I am actually afraid that America may diminish to a point where it’s just unrecognizable. Not just on the economic front, but where he puts people on the Supreme Court that have no fealty or loyalty to the Constitution and weakening …

Yesterday Dan Savage appeared on the Gayle King Show to talk about bullying and the It Gets Better book. Savage points out that straight kids are often the victims of anti-gay bullying.

As expected, today the Colorado state Senate approved its civil unions bill by a vote of 23-12. Via press release from One Colorado: “Today is a tremendous victory for gay and lesbian couples across the state—and for all fair-minded Coloradans,” said Brad Clark, Executive Director of One Colorado, a statewide LGBT advocacy organization. “We look forward to working with House …

Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has been hired by The Daily Caller as a reporter. “We are thrilled to have Ginni Thomas join The Daily Caller as a special correspondent to interview both established and emerging leaders about the serious questions facing our country,” said Neil Patel, publisher and CEO of The Daily Caller. “Ginni …

NOM president Brian Brown is gleefully tweeting out the link to a story about the declining number of children living in San Francisco. Because them there evil homofascists are chasing all the families away. It certainly can’t be because San Francisco is one of the most expensive cities in the nation, can it? Families that remain in The City are …

“To me, Elizabeth Taylor’s importance as an actress was that she represented a kind of womanliness that is now completely impossible to find on the U.S. or U.K. screen. It was rooted in hormonal reality — the vitality of nature. She was single-handedly a living rebuke to postmodernism and post-structuralism, which maintain that gender is merely a social construct. Let …

Tea Party-backed GOP Rep. Kristen Hansen’s attempt to overturn all LGBT rights laws in Montana has been sent back to committee in the state Senate, probably never to be heard from again. The Senate Local Government Committee passed House Bill 516 last week. But the bill was returned to the committee Tuesday and chairman Sen. Jon Sonju says it is …

Prospective GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann showed up in Iowa yesterday to praise the anti-gay activists who unseated the “black-robed masters” in the state Supreme Court. Bachmann, speaking to a group of home school advocates, credited conservatives with sending a “shot across the bow” to judges throughout the country. “You said enough is enough and sent them …