This week’s Swag Tuesday booty is perhaps the most hotly anticipated gay lit release of the year, Armisted Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives, out today from HarperCollins. Is there any other series of gay books more beloved than Tales Of The City? It doesn’t seem possible. Maupin denies that this is a seventh volume of his beloved Tales of the City, …

The Human Rights Campaign has set up one of their easy-peasy letter grids for you to voice your opposition to Dr. James Holsinger’s nomination as Surgeon General. Click on the link and tell your Senators to vote “NO” on Holsinger. Here’s a few things Holsinger has done that proves his unsuitability to be the nation’s top doctor: In 1991 used …

“As the friends I once served with head off to 15-month deployments, I regret I’m not there to lessen their burden and to serve my country. I’m trained to fight, I speak Arabic and I’m willing to serve. No recruiter needs to make a persuasive argument to sign me up. I’m ready, and I’m waiting.” – Arabic translator Stephen Benjamin, …

Here’s some exciting Broadway news: Terrence McNally’s 1975 hit play The Ritz is returning to Broadway in October, with Rosie Perez playing the role of Googie Gomez, which was originally played by Rita Moreno. I never saw the play, but the 1976 movie version is one of my favorite films of all time, one of those classic gay films that …

The often confusing and always contentious argument between trangender activists and lesbians continues to grow, as lesbian rocker Bitch was removed from last Friday’s performance roster at the Boston Dyke March, due to complaints by transgender activists. The transactivists have a problem with Bitch having performed at the Michigan Women’s Music Festival, an event famous for the its long-standing restriction …

“To all those involved, sinners in spirit, and whoever helps and protects them, may they feel a curse on their souls, may it plague them and may evil pursue them; they will not be requitted of their transgressions from heavenly judgment.” – Orthodox Jews placing a curse upon Jerusalem Pride. Ooh, everybody scared now? Police are still debating allowing the …

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Friday that he was replacing General Peter “Gays Are Immoral” Pace as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff. Gates had planned on naming Pace to another two-year term as Joint Chief, but changed his mind after consulting key members of Congress who are working on 2008 election damage control for the Republicans. CNN is …

Here’s a tiny sliver of northern Manhattan as seen from the Queens-bound TriBorough Bridge. Embiggen for a small bit of clarity.

Somehow I managed to keep my eyes open during last night’s soporific unhosted Tony Awards, which may have been the most boring telecast in Tonys history and that’s saying something. Bring back Hugh Jackman! The two big winners each nearly swept their respective categories, with Spring Awakening winning eight musical awards and The Coast Of Utopia taking seven Tonys, a …

Gentle readers, this essay first ran on JMG in 2005, a couple of days after New York City’s Pride Parade. I got so many wonderful emails wishing that I’d made this post before Pride, rather than after it, that last year I ran it again, but on the Friday before the major Pride events around the country began. I do …

Well, I guess the homo rehab and that GLAAD-sponsored PSA didn’t quite do the trick, because ABC has fired Isaiah Washington from Grey’s Anatomy. He will not be returning for the fourth season of the smash hit show. McSteamy and McDreamy are just gonna somehow have to do without McShithead. I’m sure T.R. Knight will issue a polite regret about …

Officially renamed the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in 1994, the Central Park Reservoir was built in 1858. It covers 106 acres at a depth of 40 feet, but no longer provides fresh water to NYC. That’s the Upper West Side across the water, from the mid-80’s to mid-90’s. I took this photo from Runner’s Gate at E.9oth Street, where many …

Since Surgeon General nominee Dr. James “Asshat” Holsinger likes to use plumbing analogies to illustrate his opposition to gay sex as dangerous and dirty, I’d like to provide him with my top ten favorite gay plumbing terms. 10. Back vent9. Suction head8. Blow bag7. Hole saw6. Discharge tube5. Nipple clamp4. Manhole3. Rim hole2. Reamer And our #1 gay plumbing term: …

Pride Magazine 2007, the 10th annual issue of the official publication of gay pride nationwide, has shipped to gayborhoods, LGBT organizations, and local pride committees all over the country. Published in partnership with InterPride, the mentoring, networking, and education coalition of gay pride committees worldwide, by this weekend you will find Pride’07 stacked ass-high from Chelsea to Castro. Contact your …

On Tuesday, openly bisexual Micah Kellner won his special election to the New York State Assembly, defeating Republican, yet gay-friendly and progressive, Gregory Camp. Kellner is the first openly bisexual person ever elected to the state Assembly and joins as the fifth openly LGBT person presently serving in the state legislature. The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund released a statement: …

More information is coming to light about the past of Surgeon General nominee James Holsinger as steam builds in the campaign to oppose his nomination. Kids, Dubya has really out-twatted himself with this homophobic, unscientific, Christer nutjob. Kentucky.com: “In 1991, Dr. James W. Holsinger — a University of Kentucky professor who is President Bush’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general — …

Lady Miss Oracle spun her wheel yesterday, landing on commenter #49, Carl, of Boulder, Colorado who says, “This is so exciting! It will be a lovely break from reading medical journal articles. Maybe someday I can go there for the annual “Greyhounds on the Beach”. Carl wins Fay Jacobs’ bestselling As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir and Jacobs’ …

Birthday Party, Upper West Side, Monday, 8PMMomentarily abandoned by the two people at the party that I know well, I am engaged in conversation by a yellow Crocs-wearing, pop-collared, fauxhawked angertwink:Angertwink: So, Rob said you are a writer? JMG: Depends on your definition. I have a blog. AT: A what? A blog? Wait, is that on the internet? JMG: What, …

The Cooper-Hewitt, on the Upper East Side at 5th Avenue & 91st, is the national museum of design history and contemporary design. This main building was the former mansion of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. In 1972, the Carnegie Foundation donated the mansion and surrounding property to the Smithsonian, who opened the museum in 1976.