It’s a given that Larry Craig / restroom stalls will be the #1 topical costume this Halloween. What else will be big? Bald Britney? Crying Chris Crocker? Miss Teen South Carolina? What will you be this year? I’m thinking: Charles Nelson Reilly. Gotta find the right ascot. Here’s some tips on your Larry Craig costume, via The Hill: •Sport a …

Just in time for Halloween comes a zombie parody of Kelly’s Shoes, still the best thing to ever come out of YouTube. “What’d you expect, intest-tynes?” Love it.

Yesterday Russian president Putin warned against outside military interference in Iran’s nuclear program. In response, today our ignoble leader ratcheted up the war-with-Iran rhetoric, saying, “If Iran had a nuclear weapon, it’d be a dangerous threat to world peace. So I told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested …

In an effort to avoid a repeat of last year’s lawlessness and gang-related violence, a concerted public relations effort is underway to let the public know that the Castro will be closed for Halloween. Will this work? The city has previously attempted to end Halloween in the Castro, most notably with a failed counter-event at Civic Center Plaza, but every …

New data from the CDC reveals that more Americans die annually from complications of drug-resistant staph infections than from AIDS. A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday. …

Much ink has flowed since yesterday’s Ellen Degeneres show in which she broke down and sobbed for the first five minutes of the show. Ellen had overlooked the “must keep” proviso of her shelter puppy adoption agreement and when she gifted the puppy to the children of an employee, the shelter repossessed the dog. I happened to catch the show …

I watched Sen. Craig’s interview with Matt Lauer last night, watching Lauer lob softball after softball and through Craig’s denials, I just sat there thinking “Gayface, gayface, gayface.” I’m terrible. Here’s the complete transcript of the interview. From Tom Shales in the WaPo: One thing, at least, was made painfully clear by Matt Lauer’s interview with Sen. Larry Craig on …

From the Village Voice’s Best Of NYC 2007: Best Place For Gay Men Of A Certain Bent To Smoke, Cruise, And Maybe Even Get Their Wescos Polished – The Eagle Despite AIDS, changing fashions in sex and sexuality, and the West Side real-estate boom that continues to devastate area nightlife, crowds of he-men still flock to New York’s sole serious …

SF: PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support) hosts their 20th Annual Celebration tonight, October 17th, at the Federal Reserve Building. “The evening will include a sit down dinner for 400, entertainment, a special Founder’s Award presentation, a full-color program with a detailed narrative of the PAWS story, a live auction with select high-end packages to be auctioned off by San Francisco’s …

Two men convicted of killing are being allowed to marry in a Canadian prison. (Montreal, Quebec) Two men in federal prison in Quebec will marry later this month in the first same-sex marriage at the Cowansville Penitentiary. David Bedard, 22, is serving a 10-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter. Sony Martin, 26, serving a life term for second-degree murder. The two …

“The removal of protection for transgender people, in addition to allowing continued discrimination against transgender people, would open the door to the court’s weakening of statutory protections under ENDA for all members of the LGBT community. Over the past two decades, many federal courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court—have adopted astoundingly narrow constructions of anti-discrimination statutes. We would be foolish—and irresponsible—to …

This week’s Swag Tuesday giveaway is the soundtrack to RuPaul’s new movie, Starrbooty, due out on DVD on October 30th. I caught a screening of Starrbooty back in June, just before the movie opened at NYC’s Newfest and the music was killer. There don’t appear to be plans to release the physical soundtrack separately at this point (although it is …

59th Street, 9am…..Woman 1: So I just looked her in the face and said “Fuuuuuck You!”Woman 2: Wow! Then what happened?Woman 1: She just shrugged and walked away. Sad.Woman 2: Yeah. “Fuck you” just has no power in this town anymore.Woman 1: Yeah, sad.Woman 2: Yeah..

I’ve started this post several times over since I got back from last week’s Trocadero Transfer 30th anniversary Remember The Party event in San Francisco. I usually get my event reviews up pretty quickly, but not this time. Part of the delay was due to difficulties in getting the video below uploaded from my camera, but I think that a …

– DRV-IN, a one-car “drive-in” movie theatre has opened on the Lower East Side. For $75, you and your pals can sit in a 1965 Falcon convertible while films are projected on a pull-down screen. Three shows a day, concession stand available, reservations required. The theatre is sold out for days in advance. $75 to sit in a car and …

JMG reader Rob hipped me to the Richmond, Virginia mayoral candidacy of Donnie Corker, aka Dirtwoman, a locally-reknowned transvestite who has promised to dress in drag every day if elected. I’m going to get all the prostitutes off the street,” says Corker, who once made his living alongside them. “I’m going to work with the City Council people. And I’m …

Photography fans should drop in on my buddy Aaron’s blog, Meanwhile, for some stunning images of his trip to Berlin. Aaron begins each post with a photo of his morning cup of coffee before he heads out for a day of sightseeing. If you’re an art fag or a foodie or a foodie art fag, you’ll love his work.

Despite a massive national outcry among gay activists and the work of an unprecedented coalition of progressive organizations, congressional leaders will move ahead with the version of ENDA that does not include transgender protections. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she has committed to presenting a second transgender-inclusive bill “the minute” enough votes have been secured to pass it. (In …

“It’s all false; it was a trap. I was a victim of my own attempts to contribute to cleaning up the Church with my psychoanalyst work.” – Vatican official Tommaso Stenico, who was suspended after he was caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man. Stenico claims that he is not gay and only visited gay chat rooms …

As he’d promised he would, Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed California’s same-sex marriage bill on Friday. He vetoed a similar bill in 2005. Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, which sponsored the bill: “This will be part of his legacy. He single-handedly is standing in the way of lifting the cloud of discrimination for millions of Californians.” Schwarzenegger announced the veto …