Pure deliciousness: Gay rights activists plan to demonstrate outside Gov. Charlie Crist’s wedding to Carole Rome this month. The group Impact-Florida has called on its members to gather in pink T-shirts outside First United Methodist Church of St. Petersburg on Dec.12 to “congratulate” Crist and Rome while their wedding takes place inside. The demonstration will continue outside the wedding reception …

ABOVE: At the 1985 Xmas party described below: Me, Michael, and Barney. I also wrote about Barney here. Originally posted May 2004. Reposted for World AIDS DayMembership Michael didn’t look good. We were at his annual Christmas Luau party. Tons and tons of people in the house and the backyard. Standing in his kitchen, wearing a grass skirt and a …

The Christianist “news” site, World Net Daily is staging a pre-inauguration cruise for its readers who are depressed about the coming communist/socialist/Marxist government. Dear WND readers, I know. With all three branches of the U.S. government soon to be in the hands of the liberal-left, many of you are plagued by two giant-sized questions: 1. What can you do – …

Barack Obama just held a press conference to officially name Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. In order to finalize the deal, Bill Clinton had to agree to a major curtailing of his Global Initiative: Reports said Clinton’s long-rumored pick was cleared after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, agreed to hand over the names of every contributor to …

But not for the reason you think. Check out what a Catholic priest in California says about people who voted for Obama: A Roman Catholic priest has told parishioners they should confess if they voted for Barack Obama because the president-elect supports abortion. The Rev. Joseph Illo says his parishioners at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Modesto shouldn’t risk losing …

A new men’s “compression undergarment” that some are calling the “Spanx for men” is supposed to give the illusion that you’ve got a six-pack. From a product review in the Times UK: Every so often, something totally “lady” from the world of women’s fashion and beauty gets repackaged, dyed navy and sold to men. In this instance, it’s the turn …

Richard Davis at the NYC LGBT Center writes: On November 30, 2008, the eve of World AIDS Day, a small group gathered at Pier 49 on the Hudson River walk to dedicate the AIDS Monument. The project of the AIDS Monument Committee took 14 years to come to fruition. Located on the Hudson River Park at Bank Street, the memorial …

Sean Chapin made this fantastic clip which recaps the events that have taken place in SF over the last few days to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. From the clip description: The evening started out as a Memorial Concert and featured performances from the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the San Francisco …

The opening weekend grosses for Milk are very, very good. Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” scored a huge Thanksgiving opening, according to initial estimates from Rentrak early this afternoon. The Focus Features release, a biopic of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, grossed $1,381,484 on just 36 screens over the three-day weekend, for a $38,375 average. This ranks as the highest opening …

This photo embiggens nicely.

Here’s a slideshow of last night’s sweaty shenanigans. Go here for full-screen versions of the shots. If you don’t want your photo included here, please email me.

In the former location for Harvey Milk’s camera shop is the gift store Given, above which is a painting of Milk looking out his apartment window.

Castro Street, Saturday, 12:30 PM Leif and I are walking up the crowded Castro Street sidewalk when he calls out to a handsome bearded cub. Leif: Andy, you sexy motherfucker! Andy : Oh, hi….Leif….uh, these are my parents. Introductions were made to Andy’s tiny elderly parents who politely pretended not to have heard. I didn’t catch their names because I …

Serendipitilicious = happening to be in San Francisco on the same weekend that Blowoff is in town. The fur begins to fly at Slim’s at 10PM. Every single person we ran into on the street today said they’re going, it should be a crazy night.

New York Senate Democrats are now telling the press that they may not bring up marriage equality in the upcoming session and may not do so at all until after the 2011 election. This, after encouraging boatloads of campaign donations from the LGBT community with the attached promise of bringing same-sex marriage to a vote. “We want to get there, …

….so said our waiter as he took this picture after our big homo-family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. We were the last party to leave the dining room and I guess he finally felt safe to come out to us, although we’d instantly pegged him when we were seated. It was another wonderful holiday meal, our third consecutive year at this restaurant, …

It truly is Black Friday. A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said. The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m. Witnesses said the surging throngs …

I’m heading back to San Francisco this weekend to attend the SF Gay Men’s Chorus’ world premiere of New World Waking!, the latest work by my fabulous pal Steve Schalchlin, whom you may recall from his recent Off Broadway hit, The Big Voice: God Or Merman? Three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie will introduce the evening, which features Tony Award winner …

We had to watch Rosie Live two times yesterday just to convince ourselves how incredibly, mind-bogglingly bad it was. I loves me some Rosie, usually, but dayum. From TV Guide: If the TV variety format weren’t already dead, the ghastly ego trip of NBC’s Thanksgiving-eve turkey Rosie Live would surely have killed it. Like the pie Alec Baldwin predictably pushed …