After he once again ranted about gay sex in city’s parks, this time in a column in the city’s official monthly magazine, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission has voted to delete Mayor Jim Naugle’s regular column. Instead, a group column from the entire commission will appear. City Commissioner Cindi Hutchinson brought up the column at Tuesday’s city meeting, and her …

In Montgomery County, Maryland, the right-wing is using their usual scare tactics to fight the new local ordinance that protects transgenders. From a “prison fellowship” blog, of all places: Mary Ann Andree was drying her hair in the Rio Sport and Health Club in Gaithersburg, Maryland, last month when the door to the women’s locker room suddenly opened. In came …

Father Tony has created a cute little video slideshow of our weekend at the Winter Party, in which I only look slightly hammered most of the time. Good editing. There’s some bare butts in this thing, so it’s possibly NSFW. Featured are our visits to Surfcomber’s pool party, the Aussiebum fashion show on Lincoln Road, the leather dance at Fort …

Yesterday the appropriately named Iowa House Minority Leader Christopher Rants failed in his attempt to force the state legislature to vote on a proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage. Rants tried a procedural vote that would have moved the measure, House Joint Resolution 8, out of committee and before the full House for a possible debate. Rants’ maneuver failed on a …

I meant to mention this one a few weeks ago, but check out Flickr’s song chart meme, where members are using pie graphs, spreadsheets, and other dizzy data methods to chart out the meanings of pop songs.

Just in via press release: The True Colors Tour will hit the road again this summer with an exciting new line-up of legendary and up and coming artists including headliners Cyndi Lauper, The B-52s, Rosie O’Donnell with host Carson Kressley and many more. After receiving rave reviews and a successful debut in 2007, the True Colors Tour is expanding to …

The class action suit against cold remedy fraudsters Airborne has been settled for $23m, after its makers admitted that the “science” behind their “preventive” was a study conducted by non-professionals. Customers of the fizzy snake oil can turn in their receipts and be reimbursed for the cost of up to six boxes. As part of the settlement, Airborne must take …

Oh brother. Whether or not Dina Matos McGreevey knew her husband, former Gov. James E. McGreevey, was gay should not matter because there was a marriage that produced a child, and thus no fraud was perpetrated, McGreevey alleged in divorce papers released today. But Matos McGreevey contends there was fraud, and wants to be paid $605,999 in damages based on …

The producers of American Idol say they have no problem with David Hernandez. American Idol executive producer Ken Warwick told TV Guide they’ve had many erotic dancers on their show, and Hernandez’s past is his business. “We’ve had strippers on the show before. We’re never judgmental about people who do things like that,” Warwick said. “If it were some sort …

With anti and pro-gay demonstrators outside, in yesterday’s arguments the California Supreme Court seemed to be split in their opinions on marriage equality, with some legal experts predicting a loss for our side. Dale Carpenter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, issued this opinion: [T]the most likely result is that the gay-marriage litigants will lose 4-3 or …

It was good night for Hillary Clinton: Sen. Hillary Clinton got her campaign back on track with projected wins in the Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island primaries. Delegate-rich Texas and Ohio were considered must-wins for her campaign. In Ohio, Clinton received 54 percent of the vote compared to 44 percent for Clinton’s Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama. In the Texas …

Huckabee: “We stayed in until the race was over. We kept the faith, that for me has been the most important goal of all. I’d rather lose the election than lose the principles that got me into politics in the first place.” Tomorrow John McCain visits Bush at the White House where Dubya will show him where he keeps his …

It looks like Americans get less sex that just about anybody. Americans are not getting enough action. The United States is one of the world’s most undersexed countries, according to a new study released Monday. Just 53% of Americans having regular, weekly sex according to results from the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey of 26,000 people in 26 countries, tying …

Over on his Village Voice blog, Michael Musto has posted this bizarre old Debbie Reynolds clip in which she destroys folk hero Pete Seeger’s If I Had A Hammer. Delightfully freaky and camp beyond words.

Via Canada’s Globe And Mail: Researchers in Canada and the United States have made a breakthrough discovery in the fight against HIV infection: a protein that can limit the viral attack. The study, published in the online edition of Nature Medicine, found that the protein FOX03a not only can limit the deterioration of certain disease-fighting immune cells, but could help …

Pope Evilictus Valdemort is looking forward to his April visit to the United States, where Jeebus’ people are fighting the good fight against queers. “The American people’s historic appreciation of the role of religion in shaping public discourse and in shedding light on the inherent moral dimension of social issues is reflected in the efforts of so many of your …

From Vote For The Worst: And… we were right! Check out the story in the Associated Press today that confirms what we’ve been saying for a while now. David Hernandez stripped at a gay club called Dick’s Cabaret up until September of last year, meaning he was still stripping when he tried out for American Idol. We have no problem …

There’s a short interview with me in this month’s Junior Magazine in a feature titled “Blogger Power.” While I don’t speak Portuguese, Junior seems like a Brazilian mash-up of Out and Instinct. There sure is a lot of eye candy there in between the stories. Besides JMG, the story mentions Queerty, Made In Brazil, Andrew Sullivan, Towleroad, Ooh, La La …

Hillary Clinton appeared on The Daily Show last night in what may turn out to be her last such occasion as a presidential candidate. It’s all up to Texas and Ohio today.

The California Supreme Court will hear the long-awaited gay marriage case today. Locals can watch live on the California Channel from 9am – 12pm Pacific. For the rest of us, there will be a live webcast. In briefs submitted to the court, same-sex marriage supporters argue that California’s Constitution leaves no room for denying gay men and lesbians the right …