Genre Magazine’s new editor, Neal Boulton, says he’s the victim of an odd sort of gay-bashing: “Former Men’s Fitness editor Neal Boulton, who sprinted out of the closet this year when he publicly made out with Jann Wenner outside the Time Warner Center, is being harassed – for acting too straight. ‘Some p – – – ed-off gay-activist types bombarded …

At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Pfc. Johnny Lamar Dalton, 25, has been sentenced to 40 months in military prison for having unprotected sex with an 18 year-old male he met online. Dalton had tested positive last year and was ordered by his superiors not to have unprotected sex. After the teenager tested positive, his mother notified the military. Dalton was …

By now you’ve no doubt heard about Duane “Dog” Chapman, star of A&E’s Dog, The Bounty Hunter, whose racist phone tirade about his son’s black girlfriend was leaked to the press. The transcript: Duane “Dog” Chapman: I’m not taking the chance on some motherf**ker. I don’t care if she’s a Mexican, a whore, whatever…it’s not because she’s black. It’s because …

Veteran gay reporter Rex Wockner, a San Diego resident, has filed a heartwarming report about the amazing response of the gay community to the fires that have ravaged Southern California. An excerpt: None of San Diego’s gayest areas was hit by the massive wildfires that roared around the county and the city last week, but GLBT people stepped up in …

I never win these things. Although there was that Malcontent thing..

This is the new seatback GPS screen that has Gotham cabbies so upset, claiming the device is an invasion of privacy. Dr. Jeff was riding with me and he looked at the screen and said, “If this was Tron, we’d be dead in one block.” By the way, that red line isn’t only our trip, we’d just gotten in.

-Broadway’s lights were dimmed on Wednesday in honor of Grammy and Tony Award winner Robert Goulet, who died on Tuesday of lung disease. In 1968 Goulet won the Tony for Best Actor In A Musical in The Happy Times. He last appeared on Broadway in 2005 in La Cage Aux Folles. -Maxwell Caulfield and Jeff McCarthy will be the next …

From Barely Political, the people who brought us I Got A Crush On Obama, comes Perfected, a musical rip on Ann Coulter’s recent remarks that Jews need to be “perfected” by becoming Christians. (Via- Queerty.)

“I am a lesbian, which my mom still does not get. She just says that I am confused. I realized in around eighth grade, but I was in denial for quite some time because I was scared due to my mother constantly saying that homosexuality is wrong. How can it ever be wrong to love though? That’s what I’d like …

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was elected president of Argentina a few days ago. She’s a Senator and the wife of a still-popular former president. Sounding familiar? Some in Argentina are concerned that Kirchner and her husband plan on alternating presidencies – Argentina has no term-limit law but does not allow consecutive terms. Here in Ammurrica, we only alternate families. With …

Today is the first day of Whiskerino, the bi-annual beard growing contest. You must begin by being clean-shaven and trimming/sculpting is “highly frowned upon” during the growing season. The contest ends on February 29th, 2008. Here’s the Flickr group for the 2005 contest. I’d probably play along, but I haven’t been clean-shaven in about 10 years and I don’t wanna …

A new survey of evangelicals shows that 55% would consider a third-party candidate if Giuliani becomes the Republican nominee. The finding, in a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, was the latest reading of discontent among one of the GOP’s cornerstone voting blocs. Giuliani, the leading Republican contender in most national polls, is a former New York mayor whose …

Tropical Storm Noel is causing waves to crash over Fort Lauderdale’s meager little sea wall, covering A1A with sand. There’s going to be significant erosion of LaDeDa’s already narrow beach. Up in Palm Beach County, beachfront structures are losing their foundations. But in the spring, the sand machines will dredge up some new beach somewhere. Still, it seems like the …

San Francisco’s campaign to end the Castro Halloween party was surprisingly effective. “People are behaving well. We’re happy,” Neville Gittens, a police spokesman, said late Wednesday evening. “All of the city’s planning and notification is paying off.” By midnight, city workers had taken away the metal police barricades that had lined parts of Castro and Market streets and the crowds …

Created by sculptor Thomas Ball, this statue of Daniel Webster stands near the W. 72th Street entrance to Central Park, where it was dedicated in 1876. The original plan was to put the statue on Central Park’s Mall, but it was too big. Webster served as a Senator, Congressman, and as U.S. Secretary of State to two presidents.

What’s your damage?.

The Drudge Report is first with this breaking news: JURY HATES PHELPS: The father of a fallen Marine awarded $2.9 million by jury that found leaders of a fundamentalist church had invaded the family’s privacy when they picketed the Marine’s funeral. Developing… UPDATE: More from the Associated Press. BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal jury on Wednesday awarded the father of …

Carl Siciliano, Executive Director of the Ali Forney Center, New York City’s homeless shelter for LGBT youth, was yesterday awarded the 2007 Brooke Astor Service Award. Siciliano (right) is seen here accepting the award from New York Public Library president Paul LeClerc. The Brooke Russell Astor Award honors Mrs. Astor’s commitment to the role of individuals in improving the quality …

The Rhode Island legislature has overridden Gov. Don Carcieri’s veto of a bill providing domestic partners of state employees access to state pension and retirement benefits. The legislation includes all employees with pensions managed through the Employee Retirement System of RI – teachers, judges, and other state and municipal employees. To qualify, partners must have lived together for one year …

I usually only get approached by hookers when I’m in the vicinity of fancy midtown hotels, where well-dressed young women will smile as if you’re an old friend and say brightly, “Hey, you havin’ a good night?” Maybe they think I look like an expense account-toting bidnizman, but I usually say flatly, “I live here” and they go on their …