MTV promotes the upcoming VMA awards with a feline recreation of Madonna’s famed performance on the show’s 1984 edition. (Via – Boy Culture)

Brian Transeau (BT) was a large part of my weekend soundtrack in San Francisco. Pleasuredome daddies should hear something familiar in this track.

“Dear Joe, Yes, it’s true, homosexual activists are riding high. Homosexual marriage passed in New York; judges in Iowa threw out two hundred years of law and declared for homosexual marriage by fiat; a judge in California denies the vote of the people and declares homosexual marriage a ‘right’; and every day the drumbeat from the media and Hollywood culture …

Samuel Brinton, now a 23 year-old MIT graduate, tells Bay Windows about the “ex-gay” therapist his parents forced him to visit at the age of 13. During his first one-on-one appointment, the session leader―who Sam specifies was a “religious therapist” and not a doctor―told Sam, “I want you to know that you’re gay, and all gay people have AIDS.” The …

Hurricane Irene is a juicy gift to NYC’s tabloids (and local TV) who are running wall-to-wall breathless updates on the approaching end of the world.

In Toronto’s Phillips Square, hundreds of residents have created chalk tributes to the late progressive leader Jack Layton, who died of cancer last week at the age of 61. Layton was considered Canada’s most passionate and effective ally of the LGBT community and his passing has affected the gay political world like nothing in recent memory.

Michele Bachmann, who lately claims she is uninterested in discussing “frivolous topics” like LGBT rights, will nonetheless be the keynote speaker at the annual convention of the Florida hate group that funded the successful ballot measure banning same-sex marriage. Remember, she “respects your dignity,” even though you are “of Satan.”

For those unaware, the Black Israelites, who believe themselves to be the lost tribe of Israel, are probably the most vile and violent anti-gay street preachers in the nation. A recent expose revealed that many members are woman-abusing convicted felons with drug and alcohol addictions. Standing on street corners in their Earth, Wind & Fire costumes, they frequently rail against …

From Rick Perry’s 2008 book, On My Honor.

Next week a judge will decide whether recordings of last year’s Prop 8 trial may be broadcast. According to Focus On The Family, that will put Christians “once again” in danger of being murdered by radical homosexuals. Many pastors and other Prop. 8 supporters found themselves targeted by radical homosexuals during the campaign and afterward, prompting many to hire personal …

Hurricane forecasters have raised the threat level for the NYC area to “extreme,” although the most reliable model shows the storm making landfall somewhere around mid-Long Island. Fire Island residents are standing by for word of evacuation orders. In related news, my mom is emailing me hurricane preparedness tips. From Florida.

“There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office. What is unusual about today’s Republican party (I disavow the ridiculous ‘GOP’ nickname, because the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt has lately forfeited all claim to be considered ‘grand’) is …

What’s your absolute single worst personality trait?

Steve Jobs resigned today as CEO of Apple, spawning rumors that his health was once again declining. The company’s board of directors announced that COO Tim Cook (left) will take the position. You may recall that Cook was outed in January by the gossip site Gawker. In April, Out Magazine declared that Cook was the nation’s most powerful gay person.

Pat Robertson says he’s “brought 500 million people to Christ” via his cable program. That’s probably his most ridiculous claim since he declared that he could leg-press 2000 pounds, which at the time was 665 pounds more than the current record. Oh, but you TOO could leg-press 2000 pounds if you purchased “Pat Robertson’s Age-Defying Energy Shake,” which was, conveniently …

“If America doesn’t face judgment soon, God will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. And God doesn’t offer apologies. He does, however, offer second chances, third chances, fourth chances. He’s trying to get your attention. Are you paying heed? What will it take? Will your world have to be turned upside down before you recognize what’s happening? Would even …

In what may be a shot across the bow regarding the upcoming marriage ballot in Maine, today the Human Rights Campaign issued a memo detailing NOM’s unblemished record of court losses in their attempts to evade state campaign finance laws. The latest in NOM’s string of legal defeats came on August 11 when the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals rejected …

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