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 …

Last night Aaron and I attended the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s New York Leadership Awards at the new New York Times building, where although the honorees of the evening were filmmaker John Waters, Gov. David Paterson, and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber Of Commerce, the night was really one long tearful goodbye to outgoing Task Force Executive …

With a new leather bar just opened and more on the way, the SF Chronicle is heralding a “return to SoMa’s lost glory.” “SoMa in those days was more than just a leather nexus – it was the epicenter of the gay sex scene at a time when it was still illegal for two men to hold hands. For the …

Hillary Clinton appeared on the Ellen Degeneres show yesterday where Ellen strongly urged Clinton not to drop out of the race, saying it was the choice of the voters, not Barack Obama’s campaign. Hillary then told the touching story about her parents’ gay neighbors and pledged to work for gay rights. And finally, in a dig at Obama, they bowled. …

This story has been brewing in Freeperland for a few days, but just hit the MSM. An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office. Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in …

The Park Avenue Armory (also known as the Seventh Regiment Armory) straddles an entire block on the Upper East Side from Park Avenue to Lexington between 66th and 67th streets. The Gothic Revival building was designed by Charles Clinton and was completed in 1881 with entirely private funding, the only such armory in America. The massive 55,000-square foot Drill Hall …

Are plain white button-down cotton shirts simply not made anymore? Yesterday I hit up every store on the Upper East Side – Bloomingdales, Gap, Banana Republic, and on and on – and found bupkis. Either the shirts were over-fancy with ridiculous buttons or they were of some open weave that would be suitable for tending bar in a poolside tiki …

As contrast to the North Carolina school board post earlier today, Lexington, Massachusetts school superintendent Paul Ash (left) is being threatened with physical violence by New Jersey radio host and white supremacist Hal Turner for advocating for LGBT youth. Turner posted Ash’s home address and phone number on his site. Police in Massachusetts are investigating. Lexington superintendent Paul Ash of …

Let’s just say that this weekend’s Blowoff was out of control, off the hook, off the chain, or whatever the kids are saying these days. The venue was behind schedule in turning the room over to Mould & Morel, so by midnight the line stretched from Western Beef all the way back to Ninth Avenue. But once everybody was inside, …

Oh, brother. Remember how the Jeesbus-folk are up in arms and plan to keep their kids home on the coming Day Of Silence in public schools? The Day Of Silence is organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GSLEN) and is meant to bring attention to bullying and violence against LGBT students. Well, now a member of the …

The London jury mulling the inquest into the death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed has ruled that the accident was an “unlawful killing”, saying that her death was the result of negligent driving by her chauffeur and the pursuing paparazzi vehicles. (And the world says, “Duh.”) The inquest found no evidence of a government plot to kill Diana, despite …

Our nation of wingnuts is severely pantie-twisted over the latest ad from vodka giant Absolut, which is now running in the Mexican press. The ad shows a map of the United States before Mexico “ceded” most of the western half of the country to us at the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848. The ad was created by a …

“The latest revelations on the torture front show the memo from John Yoo…means that Don Rumsfeld, David Addington and John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be, at some point, indicted for war crimes.” – Andrew Sullivan, on yesterday’s Chris Matthews Show. The recently declassified 81-page memo from John Yoo was “used as the …

By now you’ve surely heard that Charleton Heston died this weekend at age 83. Probably like most of you, I was a huge fan of Heston’s acting work (particularly Planet Of The Apes and Omega Man), but loathed some of the man’s politics. Heston marched on DC with MLK in 1963, but was occasionally less charitable towards gays. Here’s a …

Matthew over at Boy Culture found an amusing mistake in the new issue of Out Magazine, in which they list “Pastor” Donnie Davies’ Love God’s Way as “favorite website of the month”. I guess the folks at Out don’t know that Donnie was outed as a hoax here on JMG in January 2007. Matt notes: The most embarrassing thing I’ve …

Hillary Clinton has fired her top campaign strategist. Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential bid, left the campaign Sunday after it was disclosed he met with representatives of the Colombian government to help promote a free trade agreement Clinton opposes. “After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give …

This weekend I read that Andy Warhol’s Upper East Side townhouse (bought in 1974 for $310K) was on sale for $38M so I walked over a few blocks to grab a photo. (Oh, what a difference a few blocks make on the UES.) The little red plaque to the left of the door reads: “Andy Warhol: 1928-1987. The artist most …

As part of a large protest against Chinese human rights abuses, activist Peter Tatchell was detained by London police today after he attempted to interrupt the relay of the Olympic torch through the streets of London. As the torch continued westwards through London, pro-Tibet supporters waved banners and placards calling for Gordon Brown to boycott the opening ceremony, for an …

The NCAA Women’s Final Four basketball tournament is playing out in Tampa and the lady-loving-ladies are pouring into town. The Final Four games Sunday and Tuesday will showcase the nation’s best women’s basketball match-ups. But the tournament will also usher in what is widely believed to be the largest lesbian gathering in the history of the Tampa Bay area. Other …

A federal judge has placed a lien on the church and law offices of the Westboro Baptist Church, as a result of the recent multi-million dollar lawsuit won by the father of an American soldier whose funeral Westboro picketed. If the case presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett is upheld by an appeals court, the church, …