The soundtrack to this summer’s True Colors tour is available now for download with the physical CD due on August 7th. The highlight (to me) is Morel’s Pink Noise remix of Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors. You probably know Rich Morel from his smash remixes of tracks by Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, and many others – not to mention his …

In the wee hours of the morning, Lady Randomocity called me from her mahjong game in Brighton Beach to slur the name of this week’s Swag Tuesday winner, Manhattan Bill, whom she thinks is the first Gothamite to win so far. Bill sez: “Now I’m feeling the groove!” Bill wins four remastered double-disc CDs from Universal Music Enterprise’s Gold Series, …

The just finished new headquarters for the New York Times, a 52-story tower on 8th Avenue across from the Port Authority, touts itself as one of the most energy-efficient skyscrapers ever built. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE Architects, the tower is covered with ceramic tubing meant to “screen the double glazed, spectrally selective, low-emissivity, full-height glass wall …

My good friend Jerry is staying with me for a week while he’s here for work. We’ve been pals since the late 80’s. Tonight he came home from a long day of meetings and noticed my passport sitting out. “Oh, where are you going?” “I just need a renewal. I’ve been meaning to do it forever. It’s been expired for …

Shelley’s new favorite place to nap is on top of my stove, which longtime readers will know I disabled years ago – so no worries about her getting burned. I guess she figures that if she’s right there next to the counter, there’s no chance in missing out any possible roast beef sandwich preparations. She’s warming up to friends a …

“My only ask was that if his daughter doubted my tolerance to her orientation that I would hope that he would help make it clear to Mary that this is a–I was just worried about–the reason I’d federalized the issue is because I was worried about the courts’ defining the issue and that we’d end up with de facto marriage …

My pal Little David just penned a lovely and amusingly sarcasm-laden tribute to his friends Mark (pictured) and Dan who have just adopted an infant girl, Ella. Go read David’s dissection of his friends’ “flagrant attack on the American family”, resulting in their getting Ella via a “godless municipal government in thrall to the homosexual agenda.” Good stuff.

The Flush Naugle campaign has energized Fort Lauderdale’s sleepy activist community and in a way, we should thank Mayor Robo-john for that. Living in what many consider to be the nation’s gayest city, Fort Lauderdale’s LGBT folk have long been lulled into a sort of quiet bliss, enjoying the robust gay tourism trade that has been heavily courted by the …

“I believe I’m Elijah, called by God to be a prophet. I believe with all my heart that I was doing the right thing.” – Terry Mark Mangum, 26, (left) arrested for the murder of 46-year old Southwest Airlines flight attendant Kenneth Cummings, Jr. (right), whose charred remains were found in a shallow grave on the Texas ranch of Mangum’s …

On West 44th just off Times Square, Sardi’s restaurant opened in its present location in 1927, six years after opening just a few doors from where it is now. Sardi’s is famous for the caricatures of celebrities that cover its walls – gaining a spot on Sardi’s wall is considered by some to be the mark of having “made it” …

Courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises, this week’s Swag Tuesday haul is a collection of four digitally remastered double-disc CDs from Universal’s Gold Series, and they are a queen’s dream: Patti Labelle, Olivia Newton-John, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and Carpenters, comprising 150 hits in all. These four releases are now available, with additional titles added to the series all the …

The HRC has relented and given Sen. Mike Gravel a belated invitation to join their upcoming presidential debate to be aired live on LOGO. Last week Gravel wrote a Huffington Post column blasting his exclusion and with the support of some LGBT bloggers, the HRC reconsidered. Today Gravel wrote an open letter of thanks to the gay community for backing …

The ACLU is battling an Alabama RV park for banning a 2-year old boy with HIV from using their swimming pool, a violation of the Americans with Disablities Act. The child’s foster mother had mentioned at the park’s office that the boy had HIV and management told the family that the child could not use the pool, shower, or common …

It took three visits to the 42nd Street Quik-E Mart, but I finally scored me some Krusty-O’s. A shipment had arrived just before we did and the place became a bit of a madhouse as the word got out. The boxes bear this disclaimer: “Product shown is not representative of product inside.” Because people would totally expect their cereal to …

Somehow last week I forgot to mention the latest news from the Bilerico Project, the Indiana-based LGBT activism blog which has relaunched with an impressive array of top-rung contributors: Over thirty prominent LGBT community members have decided to make The Bilerico Project home including Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Matt Foreman …

“This president talks a lot about good and evil and the need to seek out evil doers. But he doesn’t seem to recognize the evil in hate crimes. The right to live without the fear of being murdered for whom we love is not a special right.” – Elizabeth Edwards. Why isn’t SHE running?

This weekend I ran into Lady Randomocity while she was tossing back at a few during happy hour at the Regal Beagle, where she told me that Adam of Ellsworth, Maine was the winner of Swag Tuesday’s Weeds prizes. Adam: “My guy and I just started watching Weeds, and I’m totally hooked…I can’t wait to get my ticky-tacky lil’ hands …

This 8th Avenue porn shop reminds me of how hundreds of NYC businesses have kept the World Trade Center image in their signage.

Yesterday the Farmboyz and I headed down to Schubert Alley for Broadway Barks, the 9th annual pet adoptathon created and hosted by Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters and presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The casts and stars of virtually every Broadway show made appearances, from Xanadu’s studly Cheyenne Jackson (left) to Tony winners David Hyde Pierce, Beth Leavel, …

Last weekend I hosted DC blogger/rugby stud/sci-fi geek Jimbo and of course we had to bring him to Central Park for our regular roller-disco picnic. Tons of mobloggeratti attended, including this winsome four with Jimbo. L-R: Farmboy C, Jimbo, Glenn, Chris, Father Tony.