Actor Kelsey Grammer is reportedly considering running for mayor of New York City. The very conservative Grammer would run as a Republican and is said to have a $100M personal fortune from which he could draw. The 56 year-old was most recently in the news when he married his fourth wife, age 29, after a very public and bitter falling …

A massive iceberg approaches the shore of Newfoundland.

Beginning today, Al Jazeera will broadcast (in English) on NYC’s Time-Warner Cable channel 92. Gothamist reports that this is the network’s “first distribution on any major cable or satellite system in the United States.” (The NYT points out that the network is also currently subleasing space on a DC cable system.)

Clip via No More Down Low TV. A partial clip description: The debate gets heated when the current NAACP president is asked how can the LGBT community take the NAACP seriously when its current board members are out saying that gay rights are not civil rights, referring to current NAACP board member Rev. Keith Ratliff recent statement: “Gay community, stop …

Andrew Sullivan points us to the above wedding announcement published by South Carolina’s largest daily newspaper. Rather than smile at the image of all those good ole boys freaking out over today’s paper, let’s wish the happy couple our best. (Whoops, smiling anyway.)

“Just got spam letter from M. Bachman! My reply: Woman go back to school take history! If I was on my deathbed & your best friend was JESUS, I wouldn’t vote for your gay-hating, bully-loving, poser Christian ass!'” – Cher, tweeting about Michele Bachmann. NOTE: I corrected a bit of Cher’s notoriously poor typing to make this more legible. The …

“The comment I made onstage at Warsaw could be further explained this way: Millions of beings are routinely murdered every single day in order to fund profits for McDonalds and KFCruelty, but because these murders are protected by laws, we are asked to feel indifferent about the killings, and to not even dare question them. If you quite rightly feel …

The full 1965 documentary. Interestingly, twenty years after this film’s release, famed newsman (and narrator) George Putnam came out publicly in support of gay rights. This movie was financed by Charles Keating, who later went to federal prison for orchestrating the infamous savings & loan scandal of the early 90’s.

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Ex-Gay Watch reports today that Peter LaBarbera’s SPLC-certified hate group, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), lost its tax-exempt status in 2010. Yanked by the IRS! According to the IRS, the tax-exempt status of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) was revoked on 5/10/2010 (PDF). The reason for this action is listed by the reporting organization Guidestar as a “failure …

Neither Perry nor Christie have declared their candidacies, yet they lead this Zogby list of GOP hopefuls who have been flogging the campaign trail for months.

UPDATE: Although this video was made by a gay activist in order to highlight the hateful speech of Chick Tracts, YouTube has pulled the clip due to complaints.

Even if we take Fischer’s number as accurate, that 1.5% represents millions and millions of Americans who go hungry every day. But that’s OK! Glory! Praise his name!

More anti-gay hate groups are piling on the petition drive to place a repeal of California’s LGBT history bill on the June 2012 ballot. Today, it’s the World Congress of Families. “When people have [voted], and Governor Brown knows that he has an issue that would fail when put to a popular vote, of course, they just go around the …