Such a tough and terrible ending, but what a legacy. The powerhouse singer, known as “Miss Peaches,” lived an eventful life. She first hit the charts as a teenager, taking “The Wallflower (Roll With Me, Henry)” — an “answer record” to Hank Ballard’s “Work With Me, Annie” — to No. 1 on the R&B charts in 1955. She joined Chess …
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RADIO AD: Porno Pete Begs For Money
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Read More »Freedom To Marry Issues Impressive List: American Mayors For Marriage Equality
A Freedom To Marry press conference including Mayor Bloomberg and many others is underway at this writing. Video to follow, hopefully. If your mayor does not appear on the list, send him/her this statement to join.
Read More »BRITAIN: Guilty Verdicts For Three Men Charged With Stirring Anti-Gay Hatred
After distributing leaflets calling for the execution of homosexuals, three Muslim men have just been found guilty in the first-ever trial under Britain’s revised Public Order Act, which now outlaws inciting anti-gay hatred and violence. Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and Razwan Javed handed out the pamphlet, called The Death Penalty?, which showed an image of a mannequin hanging from a …
Read More »MILESTONE: Every Company On Fortune’s Best 100 List Protects Gay Employees
Google is the nation’s best company to work for according to the 2012 edition of Fortune Magazine’s annual rankings. And for the first time, every company in the list’s top 100 offers sexual orientation non-discrimination protections. “It’s been gathering strength over the 15 years that we’ve done the survey,” said Milton Moskowitz, a co-author of the list. Similar progress has …
Read More »Equality Plate For South Carolina
It’s not overtly gay and it doesn’t have a rainbow thingy like the one in Indiana, but we’ll take it. We are delighted to announce the SC Equality license plate! The plate will be available on Jan. 30, and is a wonderful way to show support for the LGBTQ community in South Carolina. This plate is not just for the …
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Tweet Of The Day – Andy Borowitz
Elmo – I’m Elmo And I Know It
Happy and sad to see Mr. Noodle. (Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)
Read More »Grindr Hacked In Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald reports: A popular “meat-market” smartphone app that spawned a sexual revolution in Australia’s gay community has been compromised by a Sydney hacker, potentially exposing intimate personal chats, explicit photos and private information of users. The location-aware Grindr app enables gay men to meet other gay men who may be just metres away, making use of their …
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