Russian soldiers are being being forced into prostitution by their commanders, who are sending their underlings out into local parks and to the homes of clientele who order the soldiers by telephone. Among the reported customers are Russian army generals. According to the story, the favored location for picking up soldier hookers is St. Petersburg’s Catherine the Great monument. Russian …

“I think that the people care about issues like insurance premiums. They care about property taxes. They care about public safety, and I think it’s important that not only those of us in government, but the party focus on those issues, too.” – Closeted Florida Governor Charlie Crist, saying that the Republican Party shouldn’t pursue a statewide ban on gay …

Here’s the complete video behind the MTV News clip posted a couple of days ago. Homo aroma therapy! “Breathe out the homo!”

The website Politics 1 has a comprehensive list of declared and potential 2008 Presidential candidates from the major parties. There are numerous other candidates from outside the Dems and Repubs. REPUBLICAN PARTY: US Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas)Former Governor Jim Gilmore (R-Virginia)Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R-New York)Former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas)Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-California)US Senator John McCain (R-Arizona)Congressman …

Over at the Huffington Post, Susie Bright’s Ted Haggard Betting Pool is taking bets on how long it will be before Ted Haggard gets caught sucking another cock. Betting starts at $5, with 50% of the proceeds going to the winner and 50% going to LYRIC, the San Francisco-based “young, loud, & proud” gay youth group. Susie Bright rocks! If …

I guess I still haven’t earned my Manhattan cred, because last night friends wanted to take me to eat at the Times Square Olive Garden, and I agreed. I love their salad! Anyway, sitting there on the third floor of the restaurant, with the spinning light show of Times Square playing across our food, I found myself caught up in …

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“From a marketing perspective, if you’re a player who happens to be gay and you want to be incredibly rich, then you should come out, because it would be the best thing that ever happened to you from a marketing and an endorsement perspective. You would be an absolute hero to more Americans than you can ever possibly be as …

Pointing to his “non-slave” roots and his mixed parentage, some American blacks feel that Barack Obama isn’t an “authentic” black American. Today Pam Spaulding delivers an incisive and comprehensive entry on the issue. If you aren’t reading Spaulding every day, you should be.

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd’s Non-Violence stands near the entrance to the United Nations..

Gary Frisch, 38, the co-founder of Gaydar, the gay hook-up site, died this weekend at age 38, after a fall from his eighth story balcony in London. Suicide is being considered. Frisch was a South African national who emmigrated to the UK in 1997..

2006 Oscar – It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp. 2007 Grammy – My Humps.I formally withdraw my interest in pop music.

Viagra, the notorious party drug and HIV enabler, will be sold over the counter in British drugstores beginning (ahem) Valentine’s Day. At the outrageous cost of $25 per pill, purchasers must be males between 30 – 65 years old and must endure an hour-long “consultation” with the pharmacist. How is that “over the counter”?.

If I was a better writer, I’d pay more attention to William Safire.

The 6 train platform, Saturday 3PMWoman 1: I’m just sorry I slept with them. Woman 2: Well, you were drunk. Woman 1: Yeah, but now today I’m all red and itchy. Woman 2: Right? And you can’t put anything in there, cuz you’ll make it worse. (Horrified, the women realize I’m standing there.) Woman 1: Hey, we’re just talking about …

Obama-Clinton? Or Clinton-Obama?.

Homeland Security is going to post “nuke detectors” in a ring around New York City and in key city center locations, hoping to detect dirty radiation bombs before they can be detonated. Still, it seems that just about anybody with a dirty bomb and access to a small boat could set something off within a hundred feet of the world’s …

Father Tony tussles with a Whole Foods patron. – Perge Modo Gay penguins in love at the SF zoo. – B.A.R. A letter from the AIDS Quilt. – JMG More Bear411 drama. – Sluggobear & Aaron.Giuliani moves abortion stance rightward. – NY Times

Well, now I know why I ran into Erasure’s Andy Bell way up in Portland, Maine back in October, as today Billboard is reporting that’s where Erasure recorded their new album, Light At The End Of The World, due in May. We’ll get to see the new material performed in this summer’s Pride season True Colors Tour, which will comprise …