Nine members of ACT UP have just chained themselves across Wall Street as the opening bell rang on New York Stock Exchange floor. Protesters are demanding that a tax be added to all stock transactions in order to fund HIV/AIDS treatments worldwide. The above photo was sent to us from the phone of famed NYC club promoter Chip Duckett. Stand …

Beautiful! Pink News is promoting the clip and the accompanying petition campaign to the government. The filmmaker tells them: “One day I would like to marry my partner of almost 5 years. And the celebration of our commitment should mean no more or less than any other straight couple. I made the film to promote change and also inspire others …

The American Family Association is promoting a website that calls on Christians to pull their kids out of the homo-friendly abortion-loving Girl Scouts.

Several Kansas towns are considering adding sexual orientation and gender identity to their list of protected classes. Which means that churches will be forced to host “drag queen parties”, ladies’ locker rooms will be flooded with Spankx-wearing men, and all Christian children will be given mandatory sex change operations. Obviously! Word on the latest effort comes from Liberty Counsel Action, …

When Santorum dropped out of the race, we saw a surge of evangelical consolidation behind Romney. But that short grace period appears to have expired. Hurray!

In a show being filmed at the University of North Carolina, the president dropped in on the Jimmy Fallon show to “slow jam the news.” Great bit!

The Victory Fund writes us to announce that yesterday Pennsylvania elected its first-ever openly gay member of the state legislature. Brian Sims tonight has won a decisive Democratic primary in his Philadelphia district and will become Pennsylvania’s first openly gay state representative. Sims defeated a longtime incumbent to capture the Democratic nomination in the heavily Democratic District 182, and will …

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Eurovision 2012 contestants performed for a press preview in Amsterdam this weekend. Below is a snippet of each act. I still like France’s Anggun, the Moldovan Ed Norton lookalike, and the Netherlands’ folkie. It doesn’t look like the Russian grannies, my pick to win, made it to the press event. By the way, I heard the Jedward single in a …

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Last week I reported that the Florida Family Association plans to fly a banner plane over Disney World to warn attendees about this year’s Gay Day. Somebody has a plan to counter that message. We’re average Americans against hatred, or, as we like to call ourselves, the Non-A-Holes. Let’s fly a banner above Orlando that reads “WARNING: Homophobes Loose in …

“The Republican choice will be a member of the satanic Mormon cult who will never have to say a word for his cult to take advantage of their ultimate goal since they were founded 200 years ago, and that is to gain mainstream acceptance, giving them all the ammunition they need to aggressively seek converts to their cults beliefs. Conservative …

Gay GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger’s latest clip, Sexy Frisbee, lasted less than 24 hours on YouTube, no doubt due to a flagging campaign by anti-gay nuts. Sort of like what was planned by that secret Facebook group, right?

The nation’s fourth-ever case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been found in California. The carcass was at a Baker Commodities Inc. rendering facility in Hanford, California, according to Executive Vice President Dennis Luckey. The company renders animal byproducts and had randomly selected the animal for testing last Wednesday, he said. “We are in the business of removing dead animals from …

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And here’s her first ever charting single, People. The clip below is from her Oscar-winning performance in the 1968 movie version of Funny Girl, but the single reached #5 on the Billboard pop chart when it was first released from the 1964 original Broadway cast recording. Yes kids, Babs had her first hit record 48 years ago.

Gays don’t deserve marriage because not many have kids.

Details. You’ll remember him from this 2011 message to Playgirl Magazine editor Daniel Nardicio: “You only want me because of my fame, so you can go fuck yourself. Calvin [Klein] is my partner — you don’t understand because you don’t have that. I am famous now, and people want me for my fame, and you should be careful ’cause of …

Photo by Dr. Jeff.

The New York City Department of Records has spent the last four years digitizing hundreds of thousands of images in its photo archive, which stretches back to the 1880s. That project is still underway, but beginning today the archive is open to the public for (mostly) free use. Amazing. The Online Gallery provides free and open research access to over …