Science fiction legend, the world’s most famous futurologist, and gay man Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka, his adopted home for the last 50 years. I began devouring Clarke’s novels at the age of 12 when a friend pointed out that the spacey lyrics of David Bowie’s 1971 song Oh! You Pretty …

The New York Times editorializes on the non-stop “scandal” of philandering heterosexuals: You can accuse the disgraced ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of many things in his decision to flout the law by soliciting the services of a pricey prostitute: hypocrisy, egomania, sophomoric impulsiveness and self-indulgence, delusional ineptitude and boneheadedness. But one trait decidedly not on display in Mr. Spitzer’s splashy act …

The Pink Pistols, a group of gay gun owners, were among 68 groups that today filed briefs at the Supreme Court in its hearing to overturn Washington, DC’s ban on handguns. A Washington resident who wants to keep handguns at home for protection is challenging the 32-year-old ban as a violation of his constitutional rights. A federal appeals court in …

New from Kleerup featuring Titiyo (who is Nena Cherry’s sister), Longing For Lullabies is the sort of gorgeous morning music that I’m hoping DJ Joe Gauthreaux will provide for the final portion of this year’s Black Party. Fingers crossed. (Via – Habitat67)

In Philadelphia, Barack Obama has just delivered his highly-anticipated speech on race which addresses the swirling Rev. Wright controversy. An excerpt: On one end of the spectrum, we’ve heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it’s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap. On the …

The following message was just left in the comments of yesterday’s post and was also emailed to my YouTube account. To whom it may concern, I would first like to make it very clear that Kraljevic had absolutely nothing to do with the making of this video. They are being unfairly targeted. I am the person who made this video, …

As Shelley approaches her one year anniversary in Chez JMG in just a couple of months, I’ve been thinking more about getting her a companion. Logic seems to indicate that a second cat would also have to be FIV+, but that raises questions about the cats possibly giving each other infections. I’ve read some online about the issue, but remain …

The Pennsylvania Senate is trying one more time to pass a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality. Constitutional amendment legislation failed in the last legislative session but is being considered anew in the current session. During a Senate committee hearing, Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage, said an amendment to the state constitution would protect against a judge’s …

Worldwide Plaza lobby, Monday, 4pm Ad Guy 1: Wanna get a drink after work? Ad Guy 2: Is the governor blind? That didn’t take long.

According to a new study, “gay” is most-used insult among students in UK. Every generation of schoolchildren has them, the playground put-downs that can leave a pupil’s reputation in tatters among their peers. For the current generation, “gay”, “bitch” and “slag” are the most frequently used terms of abuse, according to a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers …

Today’s Swag Tuesday booty is two tickets to next week’s Saint-At-Large Black Party at the Roseland Ballroom. This year’s event is called Rites XXIX: The Dangerous Party For Boys, and stars DJs Stephan Grondin, Jonathan Peters, and Joe Gauthreaux, with a special “performance” by porn star Francois Sagat (below). Check out the Black Party’s promotional video (NSFW). As a benefit …

Well, this didn’t take long. The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs. In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky …

Another shop bites the dust at the gayest corner in Manhattan. I just don’t get it, that’s got to be the third place to die in that location in a couple of years. During the blackout in 2003, half of the Village was fed by the pizza joint that used to be there, thanks to their gas-fired ovens.

It’s actually an ad for a school in Brussels.

Jeremy at Good As You found this clip, just posted to YouTube under the title Homosexual Cleansing, in which two masked men mock their “ex friend Pete the homo” and smash a photo of Pete with a baseball bat while an off-camera man shouts “Eliminate the faggots!” through a bullhorn. Chilling and disturbing. There seem to be enough clues in …

I just watched our new governor, David Paterson, being sworn in at a joint session of the state legislature. Probably like most of the people of New York, this was the first time I’d heard Paterson speak and I found him quite charming. After taking the oath of office (which was followed by a standing ovation and chants of “David! …

About a hundred Hillary-supporting diarists are “striking” over at Daily Kos, refusing to blog at the site due to virulent anti-Hillary sentiment from the site’s Obama fans. From the originator of the strike: This is a strike – a walkout over unfair writing conditions at DailyKos. It does not mean that if conditions get better I won’t “work” at DailyKos …

(Via – Queerty)

The LA Times has an interesting piece on the continuing clash between Sacramento’s gay community and the thousands of evangelical Slavic immigrants who have relocated there in recent years. With as many as 100,000 newcomers from republics such as Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, the Sacramento region has one of the nation’s largest concentrations of Soviet immigrants. Most began arriving …

Wow. In a shocking deal reached on Sunday to save Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay a mere $2 a share to buy all of Bear — less than one-tenth the firm’s market price on Friday. As part of the watershed deal, JPMorgan and the Federal Reserve will guarantee the huge trading obligations of the troubled firm, which was …