To great controversy, yesterday British television aired a film titled Right To Die?, which showed a terminally-ill man committing suicide on camera. The film raises the usual questions about euthanasia and assisted-suicide, although the man did the job on his own, albeit with an audience in the room. The scene is difficult to watch, even for viewers inured to the …

I couldn’t resist sharing this old photo of me and Project Runway’s Chris March, taken at Wigstock West in 1996, the one year (I think) that Wigstock came to San Francisco. We used to see Chris at all the major events in outlandish costumes like this. I got the pic yesterday from my old SF roommate Eduardo, who’s now gay-married …

I had no idea this was happening, but ever since YouTube added advertisements to the clips of their most popular members, the creators of those clips are making big bucks, including gay gossiper Michael Buckley. One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning …

“If Christians and traditionalists want to preserve the “sanctity” of marriage as something between a man and a woman, with all the mumbo jumbo that entails, let them. They only hasten the collapse of marriage. Instead of demanding gay marriage, in effect trying to modernise an increasingly moribund institution, maybe lesbian and gay people should push for civil partnerships to …

You may have heard that in a historic first for our community, an LGBT marching band will perform in Barack Obama’s inauguration parade. Predictably, the wingnuts are going crazy. Yesterday the Catholic News Agency published a story that links the marching band to the “infamous lewd public acts” at Southern Decadence – because the band will also perform there. President-elect …

Gay pride organizers in Moscow remained defiant even after their mayor used a Eurovision ceremony yesterday to warn homosexuals to stay off the streets during the famously loved-by-gays song contest. The Mayor of Moscow has used a Eurovision Song Contest ceremony to warn gay people visiting the city for the event next year that they are not welcome on the …

This will be the first weekend in a month that I’ve been home and I was really looking forward to spending it on the couch with the DVR. “Catching up on my stories”, as we’d say in the South. So don’t you know the stupid cable box picked this week to crap out and erase four weeks of shows. I …

Gay City News’ Paul Schindler has written a great recap of this tumultuous week in the New York Senate. If you’ve been confused by the alliances, the deals, the un-deals, and where things stand at the moment – read the story. An excerpt: [Sen. Malcolm] Smith has taken a gamble – he and his fellow Democrats may well be consigned …

The Golden Globes nominees were announced this morning. Sean Penn is the lone representative from Milk. Here are the film categories: The nominees for best drama are “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “The Reader,” “Revolutionary Road” and “Slumdog Millionaire.” The nominees for best comedy or musical are “Burn After Reading,” “Happy-Go-Lucky,” “In Bruges,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Vicky Christina …

In what some are seeing as a sly middle finger to those on the right that continuously used his full name to instill fear, Barack Obama will include “Hussein” during his swearing-in ceremony. Obama says he’s not making a statement, just standing on tradition.

All those “best of” year-end lists will be upon us soon. What was your favorite song of 2008? Best new act? Best album?

This is the second major prize for Milk this week and first of what I predict will be many for Sean Penn. “Milk,” Gus Van Sant’s movie about gay rights leader Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn, has been named best film by the New York Film Critics Circle. Penn was also chosen as best actor by the critics, who announced …

The most accidentally funny headline of the day comes from TIME Magazine. (Via – Wonkette)

Wayne Besen’s Truth Wins Out has taken out a full-page ad to appear in tomorrow’s Salt Lake City Tribune to counter the anti-gay Beckett Fund ad that appeared in the NY Times last Friday. The ad uses direct quotes from the Beckett Fund ad’s cosigners in which they condemn the Mormon Church as un-Christian. Truth Wins Out (TWO) unveiled a …

From Things Bears Love. The other things are a bit gory. (Via – Chris @ Andrew Sullivan)

Barack Obama says disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich should resign. President-elect Barack Obama is calling for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to resign. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs says the president-elect agrees with other prominent politicians that “under the current circumstances, it is difficult for the governor to effectively do his job and serve the people of Illinois.” In response to questions …

UPDATE: I’m moving this post back to the top because of a breaking development. NY state Sen. Malcolm Smith now says he’s cut off negotiations with the anti-gay “Gang Of Three” because he’d “rather wait two more years to take charge of the Senate” than kowtow to a trio anti-gay Democrats. Sen. Malcolm Smith said today that he will cease …

Contrary to widely published reports yesterday, the more seriously injured brother of the two attacked in Brooklyn is not dead, but he has been found to have no brain function. The New York Times has amended the story I linked yesterday. Today the NYPD released the sketch at left in the hopes the public can identify the assailants. Police have …