Craig Brownstein, a gay McCain supporter in Washington DC, tried to order a banner for his home from McCain’s campaign site, where $250 will get you a personalized sign. However, the campaign refused to allow his message: “A Proud Gay Democrat For McCain.” Oh, pity. A rep from the campaign said they’d allow “Craig And Doug For McCain”, but that’s …

“Open your fucking minds. Open your minds. Be accepting of different people and let people be who they are. You know how many people came to me calling me gay cause I wear my jeans the fresh way? Or because I said hey, dude, how you gonna say ‘fag’ right in front of a gay dude’s face and act like …

“As a normative way of socializing for gay men, online cruising is a disaster. We need to recognize its effects — including its tendency to isolate us, encourage objectification, and diminish our sense of life’s nonsexual possibilities — as disasters. We need to recognize that too many of us, too much of the time, are cruising online because it is …

New on Coney Island’s boardwalk, the Waterboard Thrill Ride, where beach lovers can add torture to their mix of sun, surf, and sand. If you climb up a few cinderblock steps to the small window, you can look through the bars at a scene meant to invoke a Guantánamo Bay interrogation. A lifesize figure in a dark sweatshirt, the hood …

The UK Times Online tested some of the new electronic passports and discovered that they can be hacked and cloned in under ten minutes. In the tests, a computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader …

Gothamist points us to a Flickr group called “Rich People Rooftops”, which chronicles the high-roller apartments that crown some of Manhattan’s buildings. Let’s see, in this one we have a swimming pool, a playground. and a hundred feet or so of windows. It’s livable. But also seems like it could be a health club.

The American broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics will begin tomorrow at 7:30PM Eastern. Which events will you follow?

The skip they do’s the double dutch. That’s them dancing. Double dutch will become a varsity sport at New York City high schools this fall. Gimme a “ho” if you got your funky bus fare. Double dutch, an urban street staple that dates back centuries and, come next spring, will become the newest of 35 varsity sports played in New …

Drag queen Candy Samples gives us a preview of the Republican convention.

Tomorrow the New York Supreme Court will hear the petition of the Alliance Defense Fund, who is suing Gov. Paterson over his order that state agencies recognize out of state gay marriages. Hilariously, their suit claims that Paterson doesn’t understand the dictionary definition of marriage. The Alliance Defense Fund is suing Mr. Paterson, citing an online dictionary’s definition of the …

File under: cubicle life. Biodegradable cutlery pen-caps. I don’t know, I’d probably lose them immediately. I guess this is for you greenies who don’t want to use disposable plastic. But since the average delivered lunch in midtown seems to be a tray in a box in a paper bag in a plastic bag, you know you’re still killing the world, …

Via Valleywag: Maybe you haven’t heard about the $999.99 “I Am Rich” iPhone App by Armein Heinrich yet. We’ll catch you up, poor thing. Purchase this app for your iPhone 3G from the iTunes App Store now and it will do two things: display a glowing red gem for an icon and tell everyone who handles your iPhone 3G that …

Cable network LOGO has issued a press release touting what it calls a “striking shift” in gay demographics. According to LOGO, most young gays now want to live in the suburbs and raise kids. The full release: LOGO RESEARCH REVEALS STRIKING SHIFT IN GAY DEMOGRAPHIC NEW YORK, NY – August 5, 2008 – Logo, a division of Viacom Inc.’s (NYSE: …

Details has published a rather dumb story called What If You Only Thought You Were Gay? in which the author recounts the stories of a number of men who married women after years of living as gay men. It’s not a story about “ex-gays”, more a few anecdotal instances in which gay men fell in love with women. For Andrew …

And in the process, makes us like her a whole lot more. Seriously funny and totally the way to bite back.See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com

Last month Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of the Family Equality Council, wrote identical letters to both presidential candidates to ask about their positions on gay families. Barack Obama has responded with a letter (PDF) that mostly talks about his own family and offers some general platitudes about family life, but closes with this paragraph: [W]e also have to do more …

The Stonewall Democrats are reporting that a record 358 openly LGBT delegates will represent the community at the Democratic Convention. Via PageOneQ: A total of 358 participants from 48 states have signed on for this year’s Denver event, running from August 25 to August 28, directly after the Stonewall Democrats National Convention, also taking place in Denver from August 21 …

A man heckled Barack Obama from the photographers’ pit at an appearance in Ohio yesterday, causing some to question the Secret Service and their vetting of press credentials at Obama events. The man shouted down Obama as he began to speak, demanding that he lead the crowd in the Pledge Of Allegiance, which Obama did with the crowd joining in. …