The first meeting of the Queer Justice League will take place at NYC’s Gay Community Center on Thursday, April 12th at 7:30pm. This meeting will be a space for long-term ACT UP members and new young activists to come together and discuss the future of the fight for LGBT equality. If you want to have a voice in the next …

There aren’t many above-ground subway stations in Manhattan, but these two “headhouses” are my favorites. The top station, on the south side of Broadway and 72nd, was build by George L. Heins in 1904, and is on the National Registry of Historic Places. Across the street, a second headhouse was added in 2002, providing crossover between the northbound and southbound …

With over 2 million views in its first day on YouTube, Alanis Morrisette’s take on the Black-Eyed Peas is just about the best thing in the history of the universe. This I say without hyperbole. (h/t – OMG Blog.)

Via Rex Wockner comes word that Outrage!, the UK-based activist group headed by Peter Tatchell, is reporting that gays are continuing to be executed by hit squads in Iraq, with the support and approval of Iraqi clerics. The dead men pictured here were suspected of being gay. OUTRAGE!: Iraqi lesbians and gays continue to be subjected a systematic reign of …

Five years ago, when NYC’s Eagle opened on West 28th in Chelsea, it was a lonely walk down a crack-head strewn sidewalk to reach the Eagle’s front door. Today W.28th is the epicenter of Manhattan nightlife, with a dozen or more major nightclubs popping up in the area over the last few years. With all that traffic comes a lot …

A new French train just broke the speed record for conventional trains, traveling between Paris and Strasbourg at over 350 mph. And I’m just happy when clunky old Amtrak makes it from NYC to DC without breaking down. The manufacturers of the French train were visited by a committee from California who are considering a state-long high speed line from …

China is launching its first ever gay television program, a weekly internet-only show called Connecting Homosexuals. Gay life has been steadily improving in China, with homosexuality decriminalized in 1997 and no longer considered a mental illness. According to the linked article, the official government stance on gays is called “the three no’s”. No disapproval, no approval, no promotion. I’ve heard …

The Dorilton, a glamorous Beaux Arts apartment building on the Upper West Side, was built in 1902 to the dismay of critics who derided it as “overblown Parisian ostentation.” Today it’s one of the hottest addresses on Broadway, featuring 59 apartments, many of which have balustraded balconies with sculptures. Of particular delight is the nine-story arch at the 71st Street …

Squeaking by Outsports with a scant 51.6% of the vote, this here website thingy has advanced to the final round of Malcontent’s March Gayness, in which JMG is pitted against OMG Blog for ultimate blog Daddyness. Check out OMG Blog, then vote here. There can be only one! Go Gators!

The Archbishop of Italy, Angelo Bagnasco, has compared the current battle in Italy for same-sex marriage to incest and pedophilia, saying, “Why say ‘no’ to forms of legally recognised co-habitation which create alternatives to the family? Why say ‘no’ to incest?” Why say ‘no’ to the pedophile party in Holland?” Italy is preparing for a vote on a civil union …

I promised that I wouldn’t write about Matt Sanchez anymore, but I’ve gotten 50 or so emails in the last 24 hours, wondering why I haven’t commented on the USMC investigating him for wrongfully soliciting “deployment funds”. From yesterday’s Marine Corps Times: The Corps on Friday was slated to wrap up an investigation into allegations that a corporal in the …

Australian news outlets are abuzz with the arrest of a 48-year old man who had regularly been holding HIV “conversion parties” in his Melbourne home. I’ve heard of such parties in NYC and SF, in which the bizarre, unthinkable, unthinking world of “bug chasers” is celebrated, and HIV-infected men proudly label themselves as “breeders”, happily available to give “the gift” …

Yesterday I had a fun lunch with Matt Foreman and his partner, during which Matt told me about having attended the previous night’s Night Of 1000 Gowns, and we chatted about the similarities between the Imperial Court and International Mr. Leather pageants. Later in the afternoon, I arrived at the Dugout to find an Imperial Court victory party in progress. …

Seinfeld hangout Tom’s Restaurant is way up at 110th & Broadway, not in the mid-80’s, as was implied on the show, as no New Yorker would walk 30 blocks for a diner. I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner. Duh, duh, duh dah. Duh, duh, duh dah.

“For the first 10 years, the typical member was 17 to 22 years old. They’d come in saying: ‘I’m gay. My life is over.’ One literally hyperventilated walking through the door. But in recent years, the kids are 14 to 17 and more confident. They say: ‘Hi, I’m gay. How do I meet people?’”- Connecticut-based gay youth counselor Doug Woog, …

This giant contraption is the entrance to the 1,2,3 trains at 125th Street in Morningside Heights, just west of Harlem in Manhattan.

After a nice Bloody Mary brunch cooked up by Farmboy C, the three of us made a to-go Bloody and headed up Broadway for a stroll in this lovely spring weather. Somehow we kept going and going, first running into an anti-foie gras protest at Fairway Market, which was largely ignored by busy Seder shoppers. Then we stopped in at …

Father Tony took this great pic of Aaron and Jeff at Exit Art last week, perfectly capturing their opinion of performance art, or at least mine (usually). I was in hibernation for some pervy disco event and wasn’t along for the excursion, but I thought I’d post this pic anyway, for pure beefcake value. Jeff is taken, but our boy …

The Monica Geller in me compels me to mention the Fey Four, the penultimate round of Malcontent’s March Gayness, in which I’m bracketed against Outsports. The other two survivors are Towleroad and OMG Blog. The original 64 blogs in the playoffs yielded me a couple of new reads, I recommend scanning that list for some fun new stuff. Voting in …

The Christian Broadcast Network has set their sights on San Diego Pride, today publishing a news story accusing that city’s pride committee of targeting young children for recruitment, under the guise of family-friendly events, using “reformed” ex-gay, ex-con, and ex-drug addict James Hartline as their insider source. Little do many realize how aggressively homosexual communities pursue and recruit youth to …