In another step forward towards marriage equality, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed a law on Friday which mandates paid family leave for same-sex partners as well as married heterosexuals. Under the New Jersey law, workers can apply for up to six weeks off to care for a newborn or newly adopted child, or a sick parent, child, spouse or …

Fellow blogger Jess, the official photographer of the Gotham Knights, sent me along the link to his photo gallery of last week’s match against Landsdowne. (Gotham is in the blue and gold uniforms.) Next week Gotham plays in the Long Island Rugby Tournament in Lido Beach.

“I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie. The relationships I’m aware of, apart from one … it’s as though there’s some kind of emotional inadequacy or narcissism, where they feel emotionally inadequate and need more validation, from either a father figure or a …

Early Saturday morning I was at the Manhattan foot of the Brooklyn Bridge just as the fog lifted enough to see the Manhattan Municipal Building.

Openly gay Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick (left) failed in his longshot bid to become London’s mayor on Friday, losing to Conservative (Tory) candidate Boris Johnson. Paddick ended a 30-year career with the Metropolitan Police last year, a job he left as one of the top-ranked openly gay police officials in the world. Had Paddick been elected, London would have …

Via BBC: The first recognizable e-mail marketing message was sent on 3 May, 1978 to 400 people on behalf of DEC – a now-defunct computer-maker. The message was sent via Arpanet – the internet’s forerunner – and won its sender much criticism from recipients. Thirty years on, spam has grown into an underground industry that sends out billions of messages …

Via the New York Times: At 12:04 P.M. on April 25, a skirmish broke out on Jezebel.com. It began when the upstart Web site for women, whose slogan is “Celebrity, sex, fashion. Without airbrushing,” posted a photo of Angelina Jolie in a low-cut yellow dress. As part of a popular feature called Snap Judgment, readers offered biting comments on everything …

No matter which candidate you prefer, this is damn funny. (Via – Spamwise)

A new survey from Hunter College suggests that the number of gay people in America is lower than previously thought. A new poll published in the United States on Wednesday claims that there are considerably less gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans than previously estimated. A Hunter College poll of 768 people who took part online found that just 2.9% identified …

Here’s the audio of Eric Leven’s appearance on Michelangelo Signorile’s show on Sirius OutQ yesterday in which Eric talks about his HIV/gay youth activism. He’s got some great ideas. Eric has a wonderful radio voice, maybe Sirius should offer him a show too. Eric gives me a kind shout-out at the 9:30 mark.

Somebody got cute with the audio track of a recent Anderson Cooper piece on bears.

Twice the size of the Pentagon at 240 acres, Beijing’s new airport terminal, takes the title of world’s largest building*. Adorned with the colors of imperial China and a roof that evokes the scales of a dragon, the massive glass- and steel-sheathed structure, designed by the renowned British architect Norman Foster, cost $3.8 billion and can handle more than 50 …

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has indicated that he will sign the anti-bullying law which passed in Florida’s Senate yesterday after being approved by the House earlier in the year. The legislation mandates that school districts throughout the state must put in place specific policies to deal with bullying that includes methods of investigating and punishments. It also bans cyber bullying. …

According to a minister quoted on WingNutDaily, the second coming of Jeebus has been nailed down to the the time of a rare “blood moon eclipse” in 2015. Biltz began focusing on the precise times of both solar and lunar eclipses, sometimes called “blood moons” since the moon often takes on a bloody color. He logged onto NASA’s eclipse website …

Carly Simon outs herself, sort of, to the Bay Area Reporter: Bay Area Reporter: After speaking with you this morning, I’m going to be interviewing Cyndi Lauper regarding her True Colors tour, which features gay and straight artists performing to raise money for the Human Rights Campaign and other LGBT organizations. I’m wondering if Cyndi called you and asked you …

– The Second Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant saw five musical theater hunks compete as the show raised $10,000 for the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s homeless shelter for LGBT youth. The winner: Xanadu’s Marty Thomas, who reportedly performed the showstopper of the evening, a take on Tina Turner titled Proud Marty. – Kiss Of The Spider Woman returns to Broadway in …

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, the infamous “DC Madam” was found dead in a shed outside her mother’s trailer near Tampa today. Police are calling it suicide. The woman convicted of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring that snagged a senator killed herself Thursday, police said, weeks after she was convicted on charges she vowed not to go to prison for. …

Young NYC-based gay activist, writer, and filmmaker Eric Leven will appear on Michelangelo Signorile’s show on Sirius OutQ today at 3:30PM. Tune and hear about Eric talk about gay youth and HIV activism. UPDATE: Courtesy of my favorite Sirius insider, here’s a pic of Eric and Michelangelo in the studio today. I’ll have audio of Eric’s interview later.