Chaka Khan sends a shout out to JMG readers to hype the Sept. 25th release of Funk This. It’s been ten years since Chaka’s last studio album and as the track that follows Chaka’s shout-out shows, we are in for a rare and overdue treat. Chaka is made of awesome. You baby mo’s out there – get schooled on what …

Dark Alley Media is releasing a porn version (NSFW) of the Jesus story. We can’t get a plot synopsis from the site for the movie, which mistakenly tells the plot of a previous Dark Alley movie, Gaytanemo, in which “an unsuspecting German tourist is mistaken for a terrorist, abducted, and taken to the sexiest secret military detention center ever.” However, …

A: They just arrrrrrrrr. You’re. Welcome. September 19th: International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

The Bank Of America Tower at 6th Avenue and 42nd Street is coming along nicely since I first mentioned it last August. When completed, it will be the second tallest building in NYC, due to its spire, but will have only 55 floors. Being constructed with tax-free Liberty Bonds, intended to rebuild lower Manhattan after 9/11, the BOA Tower is …

A weekly recap of coming events that benefit the LGBT community….. LOS ANGELES: The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force holds their Los Angeles Leadership Awards on Sept. 30th at the Beverly Hills Hotel. This year’s honorees: Christine Chavez, Judy Chu. Get tickets here. NYC: Today: 10am – 6pm, NYC’s first LGBT career fair, Out At Work, takes place today …

YouTube gay favorite Kelly has finally done a video for Let Me Borrow That Top. The song’s title phrase will no doubt be heard many times at September 30th’s Folsom Street Fair where Kelly will be performing for the leathered masses alongside Imperial Teen, Ladytron, The Start, and many others. The musical lineup at Folsom has been just stellar for …

Andrew Meyer, a University of Florida student, was pulled away from the microphone and tasered by six cops after attempting to question former presidential candidate John Kerry regarding why he did not contest his loss to Bush in 2004 and about his membership in Skull & Bones, a secretive society at Yale University that counts Bush I and Bush II …

I’m hoping this news won’t dissuade anybody from attending tonight’s marches and rallies, but the Governator has announced that he will once again veto California’s marriage equality legislation. Yesterday, Schwarzenegger said that he would only approve gay marriage if voters overturned 2000’s Proposition 22, which banned same-sex marriage, but which courts have said only applied to those married out-of-state. Geoff …

Little David hipped me to this hilarious clip of Forbidden Broadway’s Christine Pedi channeling a slew of divas as they would have performed And I’m Am Telling You. Pedi’s Little Edie and Bernadette Peters had me on the floor. Pedi’s one-woman cabaret act, Great Dames, recently played NYC’s Metropolitan Room.

After Jerry Lewis’ “illiterate fag” flap, reporter Rex Wockner was reading an LA Times interview with GLAAD’s Marc McCarthy, who was asked by Times columnist Meghan Daum if it wasn’t time to “reclaim the f-word”. Daum: I asked McCarthy if GLAAD had given any thought to the concept of “taking back” words like the f-word. I mentioned, for instance, that …

A year ago, I wrote about the murder of gay New Yorker Michael Sandy, who died after being struck by a car as he ran from four gay-bashers who had lured him to a Brooklyn park by picking him up on a gay chat site. After Sandy died from his injuries, police upgraded the charges to second-degree murder with hate …

Across 42nd Street from Grand Central Terminal, the 55-story neo-Gothic Lincoln Building was completed in 1930. A contemporary of the Empire State and the Chrysler, the Lincoln is often overlooked due to its prettier, flashier neighbors, but is quite striking nonetheless. It’s hard to get a good shot of the Lincoln from the ground, as is frustratingly the case with …

Courtesy of here! Networks, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is an advance DVD copy of Nine Lives, the sexy new here! movie starring out actor Steve Callahan. Nine Lives will be released October 2nd. View the trailer here. Based on Michael Kearn’s play “Complications”, this sexually provocative and tenderly executed film focuses on nine individuals whose lives intersect emotionally, sexually, …

Brett Somers, whose cigarettes, wigs, and bawdy wit were ever-present on 70’s game show Match Game, turning her into a minor gay icon, died Saturday at 83. Viewers of the show may recall that Somers herself was often the subject of the show’s questions, as in “Brett got so drunk at the party, that she tried wear her _____ as …

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Marriage Equality has posted a list of cities across California who are also staging marches and rallies on Tuesday, September 18th. Click here to find your city and where to stage for the demonstration. Tuesday, September 18th (tomorrow), the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center will sponsor a march and rally in support of the recently approved California …

The ACLU has filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of disgraced Republican Sen. Larry Craig, urging that the toe-tapping legislator withdraw his guilty plea because the restroom sting that resulted in his arrest was unconstitutional. “The real motive behind secret sting operations like the one that resulted in Senator Craig’s arrest is not to stop people from …

For several months I’ve been meaning to suggest here that somebody should consider entering Orlando’s under served gay bar scene. In the last six months, three very long-running Orlando institutions have closed: Faces (a lesbians-only bar), Southern Nights (a disco/drag bar that I haunted regularly in the early 80’s), and Full Moon Saloon (the country/disco/bear bar and host of the …

Yesterday, Little David and I attended Broadway On Broadway, the annual free concert in Times Square that showcases the casts of hit shows. Weather was great, a little chilly at times, but we were miles away from the stage. The sound system was fine in our location, but quite annoyingly the video screens were out of sync with the sound …

Air New Zealand has announced a promotion aimed at the gay market. Passengers departing San Francisco for Sydney’s gay Mardi Gras on February 26th will be treated to an in-flight drag show, pink cocktails, and other “in-seat” (ahem) entertainment including gay-friendly movies. There will be a pre-boarding party called “Get on board, girlfriend.” Groan. Still, sounds like a riot. The …

The last remnants of fall’s Fashion Week remain at Bryant Park where the massive lawn is covered twice a year for three weeks at a time. It takes ten days to set up the tents, the events run for eight days, then it’s another five days to restore the park. This was supposed to be the last year that Fashion …