About 500 of you lovely folks have loaded your mug into my Reader’s Photos thingy in the sidebar. Cool! Keep ’em coming and keep the photos safe-for-work, por favor. Longtime JMG readers might recall the interstate romance that was struck up between two readers who met via those photos. Those guys emailed me last week to say that they celebrated …

Last night the lovely Manhattan Offender and I went down the The Box, a beautiful new/vintage theatre/nightclub in the Bowery, for a screening of Schwarztwald: Rites XXVII, filmmaker Richard Kimmel’s fascinating part-fantasy, part-documentary about NYC’s immortal Black Party. All the leatheratti were in the house, including Testosterone photographer Joe Oppedisano, New York Boys Of Leather members Christian and Blaze, and …

My houseguest is a cranky, cranky old man.

Mike Jones emailed me last night to tell me that after letting it run for 9 days, eBay has pulled his “Ted Haggard massage table” for “violation of charity policy”. Before the auction posted, Jones spent 30 minutes on the phone with an Ebay representative ensuring that he met their criteria. But the fundies rallied to deluge eBay with complaints …

I didn’t comment on last week’s mini-furor about A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor’s Salon.com essay that seemed to slam gay marriage, because knowing Keillor’s deadpan delivery so well, I thought the piece was pure satire. The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men — sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped …

Three North Carolina men were sentenced to time already served for performing at-home castrations on six men who willingly submitted during SM/dungeon scenes held in a remodeled carport. “Master Rick” and “Slave Danny” will now have three years of supervised probation. I wonder if that means they can still go to IML this year?

Other than TV Guide, this is all my Christopher Street barbershop offers to waiting customers.

Blogger St.Murse attended the Donnie Davies concert at SXSW yesterday. Check out his review. Donnie and his band Evening Service were on the same bill as the Buzzcocks, a nice little bit of pairing for the homo-interested.

I was thinking about writing a post soliciting your recommendations for some new blogs for us to check out, but Matt over at Malcontent has come up with a creative and fun game that has the same result. Check out his March Gayness, a take on basketball’s NCAA March Madness, in which Matt has created a 64-blog playoff system where …

ABOVE: Irish Queers member JF Mulligan sets up. (Embiggen to read the banner.) Forget “Erin Go Bragh”, the real chant of today’s NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade was “Queers can march in Dublin! Queers can march in Cork! Why can’t queers march in New York?” Or at least that was the favored chant in the Queer Corral, which is what …

From Boys To Men, which includes my story Terrence, has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best Anthology. Congratulations to the editors, Ted Gideonse and Rob Williams, and my fellow writers.

Hillary Clinton continued her campaign for gay support yesterday, speaking at the GMHC 25th anniversary gala at Chelsea Piers. The event, which raised almost $900,000 for GMHC, was also attended by former NJ governor Jim McGreevey, Larry Kramer, Rosie O’Donnell, and other luminaries. Among the evening’s honorees was Matilde Krim, founding chairman of AMFAR.

Openly gay Iraq vet Eric Alva appeared on CNN’s Paula Zahn Wednesday night to challenge Gen. Peter Pace on DADT..

New York Governor Elliot Spitzer has announced that he will not march in tomorrow’s NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the first NY governor to skip the parade in over a decade. Although Spitzer doesn’t specifically cite the parade’s ban on gays as his reason, his refusal to participate is consistent with his vigorous support of LGBT rights. Spitzer has promised …

“It ain’t gonna happen.” – Kenny Goss, partner of George Michael, saying he absolutely would not participate in the British version of TV show Wife Swap. Producers are said to be considering approaching Elton John and David Furnish instead. Maybe Goss is just upset at being the “wife”? I was looking forward to seeing how George Michael’s replacement wife dealt …

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman and Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum were arrested for civil disobedience in today’s ACT-UP/Queer Justice League demonstration against the “immoral” comments of Joint Chief’s Chairman Peter Pace. ABOVE: Foreman and Kleinbaum block Broadway, moments before they were handcuffed.ABOVE: The NYPD closes in.ABOVE: Minutes earlier, Foreman and Larry Kramer attempted to gain entrance …

One night last summer, I had a hard time sleeping so I took an Ambien. When I got up in the morning, on my kitchen counter I found an untouched bag of Chinese food and a delivery ticket. Apparently, during my sleep, I got up and called the Chinese joint on my corner and had some pork lo mein delivered, …

After being criticized yesterday by gay groups for her weak condemnation of Joint Chiefs Chairman General Peter Pace calling gays “immoral”, Sen. Hillary Clinton issued a more strongly worded follow-up statement: “I disagree with what he said and do not share his view, plain and simple,” the Senator said. “It is inappropriate to inject such personal views into this public …

Sex without love or love without sex?.

Press release: Who: Members of ACT-UP and the newly formed Queer Justice League. Where: 43rd Street and Broadway, Manhattan. When: Thursday March 15th, at Noon (12pm) What: The group will demand General Peter Pace’s immediate resignation. Why: We cannot tolerate top U.S. military officials making public statements of such a homophobic nature; such statements endanger all LGBT citizens currently serving …