UPDATE: One paragraph in the interview is bringing wide media attention. In it, Obama says that he won’t make the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” a “litmus test” for his potential Joint Chiefs of Staff appointees. The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund agrees with Obama’s position. Victory Fund spokesperson Denis Dison says, “In terms of any kind of litmus …

The Port Authority Bus Terminal, located on 42nd Street just west of Times Square, is the biggest bus terminal in the United States and serves more people than any bus station in the world, with over 7200 buses and 200,000 people passing through every weekday. For millions of people, the first steps they take in Manhattan are inside the Port …

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Playing to over 5000 fans, Elton John’s fundraising concert for Hillary Clinton raised over $2.5M at Radio City Music Hall tonight. Average ticket price: $500. “I’ve always been a Hillary supporter,” John, 61, said before launching into his 1970 breakthrough hits, “Your Song” and “Border Song.” “There is no one more qualified to lead America.” The English singer, composer and …

Debbie Harry and former Toilet Böys lead singer Miss Guy performed Kiss member Ace Frehley’s solo 1978 hit New York Groove at Monday’s NGLTF New York Leadership Awards. New York Groove will appear on Miss Guy’s upcoming album and you can stream the single on his MySpace page. And here’s Debbie Harry’s lovely latest single, If I Had You, from …

PlanetOut has announced the sale of Out and Advocate magazines to New York-based gay cable channel Here Networks for $6M cash, payable in monthly installments beginning this month. PlanetOut will retain Gay.com and PlanetOut.com, a mere fraction of its formerly sprawling holdings which included adult magazine publisher Spec Pubs and gay cruise company RSVP. Last month PlanetOut put Expedia in …

John Caldera, an openly gay HIV+ Navy veteran will carry the Olympic torch today for a portion of its route through San Francisco, the torch’s only U.S. stop. Caldera told the Bay Area Reporter Thursday, April 3 that he was unaware if any other torchbearers will be members of the LGBT community. So far the list of people selected has …

Next Wednesday, April 16th, I’ll be performing again at Rapture Book’s Dean Johnson’s Reading For Filth: Queer Writers Read About Queer Sex series. Joining me will be your favorite hairy hottie Eric Leven (left) in our fourth show together. Sadly, this will be the last installment in the series for now, as Rapture Books will be closing on April 24th. …

Just days after the Philadelphia Gay News published a large blank section on their front page to protest Barack Obama’s unwillingness to speak to the gay press, the Dallas Voice has confirmed that The Advocate has conducted an interview to be posted on their site tomorrow. It is Obama’s first interview with the gay press since he discussed the Donnie …

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund is announcing that their endorsee Rosemary Lehmberg has won the Democratic runoff for District Attorney of Travis County, Texas. With no Republican opponent in the fall election, Lehmberg is now the presumptive winner of the post. Lehmberg has worked in the Travis County district attorney’s office for 31 years and has said that she …

And they have the tape to prove it. Remember when we got all misty-eyed when PFLAG met with Sally Kern and reported that she told them that gay folks shouldn’t be fired for being gay? And then she denied having said it? On Wednesday, Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays will be releasing an audio recording of a …

Elton John is playing a fundraiser concert for Hillary Clinton at Radio City Music Hall tonight in a show that has raised questions about the Federal Election Campaign Act which seeks to limit “foreign intervention” in American elections. The FECA “prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in …

You may recall me posting a photo of my primary election vote for Hillary Clinton, in which I demonstrated by uncertainty with crossed fingers. I still think she would make a wonderful president. And I think Obama would too. But this cartoon expresses my feelings today. As some of you said in yesterday’s Ellen Degeneres post, I’d like to see …

Florida is going through its own version of the ENDA-T battle. Legislation that would prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians in employment, housing and public accommodations throughout Florida passed a key Senate committee on Tuesday. With the support of both Democrats and Republicans the Senate Commerce Committee approved the bill by a vote of 7 to 1. “Today’s vote is …

I don’t know how my brain is trained these days, but after I got about 20 feet past this ad in the 68th Street station, I had to turn around and go back because I thought it was for gay porn. Maybe because I’d been on Eighth Avenue in Chelsea last night.

Absolut is already back in hot water with the wingnuts, thanks to this new campaign which winks at cock size. Here’s what the Absolut rep says about this new “Ruler” campaign: “As a long-time supporter of the gay and lesbian community, we acknowledge that you can’t simply speak to gay men and lesbians as consumers, but instead need to make …

Here’s the video that Gov. Paterson sent to last night’s New York Leadership Awards. I think he’s fantastic.

David Vitter (the married, family values, hooker hiring, gay marriage ban voting, diaper fetishist Republican Senator from Louisiana) may be called to testify on behalf of the madam accused on running a DC-based prostitution ring. Deborah Palfrey is accused of racketeering and money-laundering. Also on Palfrey’s witness list is Harlan Ullman, the military strategist who came up with the “shock …

I’m being told by readers that the Beta version of Firefox 3 has fixed the bugs that were causing JMG to crash or freeze some of your browsers. I don’t know if the fix is related to the Blogger template or to the Javascript embedded in some video players, but whatever, yay. Y’all should upgrade if you haven’t already and …

From the NY Times: They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great …