My erstwhile hometown paper, the Orlando Sentinel, has come out against the Florida ballot amendment to ban gay marriage. The state’s voters will face an array of six questions on the Nov. 4 ballot, the most notable of which is Amendment 2 — the cleverly labeled “Florida Marriage Protection Amendment.” Who wouldn’t want to protect marriage? Trouble is, this amendment …

I must confess that I got a chuckle over this graphic I found in an OUTRAGED Freeper post about Miller beer again sponsoring Folsom Street Fair. You may recall that the Christers got in a major snit last year over the official Folsom poster, which was a leather take on the Last Supper. The poster brouhaha turned into a boycott …

I guess the earlier ads were net only. I really like this one.

Famed director Steven Spielberg and his actress wife Kate Capshaw have followed Brad Pitt onto the straight-celebrities-do-right list. By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation. Such discrimination has NO place in California’s constitution, or any other. We’re still waiting …

Central Park’s Tavern On The Green is the second highest grossing restaurant in the United States, serving 500,000 meals last year to the tune of $38M. Originally a sheep barn built in 1870, it became a restaurant in 1934. And since it’s Bette Midler day, I must mention that scene in Stella where she doesn’t want to ruin her estranged …

Courtesy of her promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday booty is Jackpot: The Best Bette, a 19-track collection of Bette Midler’s greatest hits which hits stores and online retailers nationwide today. Rhino’s new career-spanning compilation from the “Divine Miss M” features nineteen tracks including hits and favorites culled from her Atlantic, Warner Bros. and Columbia Records years. The disc also serves up …

In what they are calling a “hypocrisy bombshell”, today SiriusXM radio host Michelangelo Signorile and DC-based LGBT activist Mike Rogers jointly revealed that Mark Buse, John McCain’s chief of staff, is a gay man. From a story just posted on Signorile’s blog: Over the past month I’ve been contacted by three different individuals (two of them members of the Log …

Gotham is on super-extra-deluxe security lockdown today for the 63rd annual United Nations General Assembly. All of your favorite whackjobs are in town: Mugabe, Imadinnerjacket, Chavez, and Dubya. Mubage speaks today, tomorrow our ignoble leader makes his final (!!!) speech to the Assembly. Right now the streets of the East Side are crawling with cops, feds, Secret Service, and the …

From Proud Parenting, here’s a lovely “No On 8” ad featuring the children of gay parents. It’s a simple and humanizing message to have kids say “I have two moms.”

Sarah Palin is ready for the believers of the world to be lifted up to Jeebus. Via Newsweek: Palin’s spiritual colleagues describe themselves as part of “the final generation,” engaged in “spiritual warfare” to purge the earth of “demonic strongholds.” Palin has spent her entire adult life immersed in this apocalyptic hysteria. Ask yourself: Is it a good idea to …

This weekend brought word that both Xanadu and [title of show] will be closing in a few weeks. [title of show], which only opened on July 5th, will close on October 12th after 13 previews and 102 performances. Xanadu, which opened on June 26th last year, also closes on October 12th, after 49 previews and 528 performances. Both shows have …

Religulous, Bill Maher’s movie that tears into religious belief, officially opens in New York next month, although it had a brief run in one small theater here in August in order to qualify for the Academy Awards. A new ‘documentary’ by the man behind Borat – and made using the same hit-and-run techniques – will open in New York at …

Well, capitalism was nice while it lasted, wasn’t it?

“Barack Obama says he wants universal health care. Health care for the entire universe? Including Osama bin Laden? I think we’ll pass.” Good stuff.

Andrew Sullivan appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to rip apart the Palin candidacy. “She is a farce. It is a joke. It is absurd. It is something [McCain’s pick] that should dismissed out of hand as the most irresponsible act any candidate has any made.”

Yesterday the final game was played at Yankee Stadium, the most venerated sports venue in American history. It will only grow with time, like Lou Gehrig’s farewell, Don Larsen’s masterpiece and Reggie Jackson’s third home run in a World Series game. Untold thousands will say they were there the night the curtain fell on baseball’s grandest stage. It happened Sunday …

Here’s the latest ad from the No On 8 campaign.

According to a New York Times story, Barack Obama’s immense popularity among black voters in California may hurt the marriage equality movement. Could Senator Barack Obama’s popularity among black voters hurt gay couples in California who want to marry? That is the concern of opponents of Proposition 8, a measure on the November ballot that would amend the state constitution …

Openly gay pop superstar George Michael was arrested for possession of crack cocaine on Friday night near London’s infamous Hampstead Heath cruising ground. Police released him at the station with a “caution.” Michael, 45, was cautioned by the Metropolitan Police for possession of Class A and Class C drugs after being arrested in public lavatories near the heath, in northwest …