NYC-based gay activist Wayne Besen appeared on CNN last night as the Heinz Deli Mayo story continues to grow. Why oh why do all the anti-gay callers on these shows have to have country accents?

On Tuesday, Arizona’s state Senators narrowly voted down a bill that you put gay marriage on the November ballot. But wait, the bill isn’t quite dead yet. A proposed amendment that would limit marriage in Arizona to opposite-sex couples has more lives than a cat and still could appear on the November ballot. Each time the measure comes to a …

He’ll be preaching to the converted, but it looks like Obama’s gonna get to put some ads on MTV after all, thanks to a reversal of long-standing policy at Viacom. “MTV Networks will accept political advertising that is national in scope, sponsored by a legally qualified candidate, a candidate’s official campaign committee, a nationally recognized political party, or the official …

This is the reverse shot of yesterday’s Morning View. The ramp on the left takes cars on a elevated dogleg around Grand Central and drops them back on Park Avenue behind the fugly MetLife Building. Under the ramp’s arches is a pretty good restaurant called Pershing Square, as long as you don’t mind dropping $40-$50 on lunch. I recommend their …

A Colorado Springs television station has obtained an email sent by disgraced former televangelist Ted Haggard to a personal friend in which Haggard for the first time admits having had sex with escort Mike Jones and having used unspecified drugs on several occasions. But considering what the thus far unimpeached Mike Jones has said, Haggard’s email doesn’t tell the “hole” …

With the economy the way it is and where it seems to be heading, how secure do you feel your job is?

Someone has finally YouTube’d my favorite New York commercial. The collagened-to-fuck lips! The hair extensions! And the nails! My god, the nails! So you should cawl us! Linda Richman should sue.

Without a lawsuit, the ACLU has won a broad list of measures to protect LGBT students in a northern California school district. The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) has reached a settlement with the Upper Lake Union School District that contains a comprehensive series of steps the district will undertake to protect students from anti-gay harassment and discrimination. The agreement …

A DC-based gay cowboy dance troupe advanced to the finals in Las Vegas on last night’s episode of America’s Got Talent. Cute guys, but their self-description of their act as “Brokeback meets Broadway” is a groaner. (Via – Queerty)

Richard Davis at the NYC Gay & Lesbian Community Center sends us this wonderful clip about the very first gay pride march in June 1970: The Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March. Watch members of SAGE reminisce. It’s lovely. Watch the entire show here. Tomorrow night the SAGE members featured in this clip will appear on a panel to discuss …

Last night FX aired the first episode of the third season of Morgan Spurlock’s dickwad switcheroo series, 30 Days. For those unfamiliar with the show, for most episodes the premise is to take somebody who espouses hate for a particular group of society and immerse them among the people they most detest, ostensibly to show how once the seemingly strange …

Rea Carey, deputy executive director under Matt Foreman for the last four years, has been tapped to replace Foreman as executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. Foremen left the Task Force four months ago to helm the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. Foreman reacts to Carey’s appointment: “Rea is an extraordinary leader, a brilliant thinker …

Well, now there’s an online petition to get Heinz to put the New York Deli Mayo ad back on the air in the UK. At least 205 people have so far complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about an advert featuring two men kissing. An ASA spokesperson told PinkNews.co.uk they had also received around 50 emails and calls from people …

You probably best know Dubya’s BFF and major asshat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) from his 2004 quote about the Federal Marriage Amendment: “It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right … [N]ow you must raise your children up in a world where that …

Coming soon: The Irish government moved a step closer Tuesday to legalizing civil partnerships for same-sex couples, unveiling details of the proposed legislation. The bill to be presented to Parliament later this year will allow same-sex couples over the age of 18 to enter into civil partnerships. They will not be open to opposite-sex couples. Nor will they be available …

Former mayor and current Washington DC City Councilman Marion Barry has come out in favor of gay marriage there. D.C. Council Member Marion Barry said that he would vote for a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the city, if such a measure is introduced. It’s the first time the former mayor has publicly revealed his position on a marriage bill. …

The Murray Hill Tunnel drops two lanes of Park Avenue traffic underground from 33rd Street to 41st Street, rising back to street level just in front of Grand Central. Built in 1834, it originally carried the New York and Harlem Railroad (now Metro-North) and years later, that company’s streetcar line. The tunnel was originally an “open cut”, but was roofed …

Now this is what I call generous. Barack Obama asked his finance committee this afternoon to help Senator Hillary Clinton retire her debt. On a conference call that lasted about 45 minutes Obama made a personal plea to his top donors, telling them he considered it a personal imperative now that Democrats are all “one big family,” a donor who …

Tech blogs like Gizmodo are all over this Japanese mobile phone company’s ad in which a monkey (long their official corporate mascot) appears as an Obama-like figure exhorting the crowds to “Change!” to their phone. Totally racist. Unless it isn’t. Maybe we shouldn’t expect a local Japanese ad campaign to be sensitive to America’s racism trigger points. Unless we should. …