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My buddy Stephen, the former NY’er also known as blogger Kitchenbeard, was in town this weekend to officiate at his brother’s wedding, as Stephen is a bona-fide internet authorized minister. It appears that San Francisco is treating him well. That’s Stephen on the right of the three men standing in the middle of the picture, on the Christopher Street Pier …

From a poster in the 68th Street subway station under Hunter College: “Last year 1 out of 12 high school students was assaulted by a fellow student.” A short graffiti war follows: Snarky 1: That should be “were assaulted”. Snarky 2: No, “one….was” IS correct! Snarky 3: Y’all is funny! Snarky 4: Y’all ARE funny. Snarky 5: Dumb bitches. It’s …

The Transportation Safety Authority has removed lipstick from the list of items banned from carry-on baggage. And the drag queens of America rest a little bit easier.

“I don’t believe there is any expectation of privacy as it relates to going to a club.” – openly gay New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, commenting on the privacy concerns of gay activists regarding her proposed rules that would require NYC nightclubs to videotape and electronically record the IDs of patrons. Christopher Dunn, of the New York Civil …

Vasco snapped this for me yesterday from the Christopher Street Pier. The NYC Water Taxi makes stops all along the lower half of Manhattan and has special service from the South Street Seaport to Shea Stadium on game days. You can get a “hop-on/hop-off ” pass for $15 on weekends, which allows two days of unlimited use.

Friday, David and I attended the opening night of Kiki & Herb’s Broadway debut in their new show, Alive On Broadway, at the Helen Hayes Theatre, where the septuagenarian duo served up their fantastically twisted takes on Gnarls Barkely, Dan Fogelberg, The Cure, Public Enemy, and many others. The storyline is familiar at times to longtime fans, but Kiki’s (Justin …

As requested, here’s the JMG readers browser share. For the record, I use IE at home and at work. I know, I know, I am a luddite when it come to these things. I’m told I should switch to Firefox, but IE seems to work just fine. What are the advantages? (Clicky pic-y makey biggy).

Early testing of HIV therapy drug Viread as a preventive for HIV has shown promising results in a study funded by Bill and Melinda Gates. Single daily doses of Viread and a placebo were given to almost 1000 African women in the study. Only 2 of the women taking Viread contracted HIV, versus 6 of the women taking the placebo. …

Since Apple only has 5% of the market share, yet over four times that many JMG readers use Macs, my conclusions are: 1. The gays love Macs. 2. The gays use these Macs to read JMG. …so therefore… 3. The gays love JMG! It’s right there in the numbers people! (These stats only represent the last 100 JMG visitors, but …

Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) has rescinded his support of the GenderPAC/HRC Diversity Statement. Last week I blogged that he had signed the document, to organizers’ surprise. Put old Ricky back on the Santorum List.

-Wednesday, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC performed the national anthem at RFK Stadium, as part of Night Out At The National’s, the annual gay & lesbian night for DC’s pro baseball team. AOL Gay & Lesbian editor Kenneth Hill has the stirring video of their performance. Check out GayBaseballDays.com for gay nights at the ballpark near you. -Check …

OK, so the new drill is that we cannot carry drinks and toiletries onto a plane. Big deal. I have no problem with this. The biggest downside for me with likely be increased rage at non-compliant passengers, who already drive me to near-violence by insisting on bringing ginormous “carry-on” luggage into the cabin. From now on, I’ll just stow my …

Here’s the glass cube entrance over the subterranean Apple Store at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, which I go past every single day and will never ever ever shop in, ever.

The “world’s largest plasma” television (103 honkin’ inches!) is on display in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, as part of a promotion by Panasonic. In the crowd, mixed in with the reporters, cameramen, and Panasonic execs, are panting middle-aged couch potatoes like myself. For you, gentle readers, I pushed my way through the salivating thongs to get this almost unobscured shot …

I found this fun 30-second commercial for a gay owned Ace Hardware in San Diego’s Hillcrest gayborhood. I know when I think of power drills, I think of drag queens. Don’t you? Thanks go out to Hillcrest Hardware’s Bruce, for letting me post this.

As the sun set behind Rockefeller Center, I took this picture of Atlas, who carries the world on his shoulder as shoppers peruse the Banana Republic nearby. Originally, I wanted this shot to demonstrate how Atlas resembles Mussolini, which created controversy when the sculpture was built in 1937. When I got home, I realized that Atlas’ face was in shadow, …

I’m starving on this diet. Feed me with words. What’s delicious?

If you want to catch my interview on Pride Radio, you can stream it here. Clear Channel’s lovely Jared informs me that the show will play about 600 times over the next 5 days. Wednesday: 6pm & 10pm.Thursday: 1am, 9am, 5pm.Friday: 1pm, 5pm, 10pm.Saturday: 2am, 11am, 4pm.Sunday: 11am, 3pm, 11pm. Somebody get those folks some content, STAT!