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TODAY: SiriusXM At 4:30pm

Today around 4:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What would be your top five gay news stories this week?

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Soul Train Was My First Gay Bar

My family moved to Orlando in 1971 when I was eleven years old and that presented me with a horrifying dilemma. You see, American Bandstand and Soul Train played in that market at the same time. It was only a thirty-minute overlap, but oh how that 1:00pm to 1:30pm period tortured me. There were no VCRs (much less YouTube), so …

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Cristie Apologizes For Marriage Remarks

Last week civil rights activists went ballistic when Gov. Chris Christie said that blacks “would have been happy” to have their rights voted on and therefore so should gay people. Yesterday, he (sort of) apologized. “I also recognize that my job, one of my jobs as Governor, is to clearly communicate to people what I’m thinking, every time I open …

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One Million Moms Against Ellen

UPDATE: Readers note that JC Penney is tracking the responses to this complaint. Use the AFA-provided numbers: “Make a personal phone call to JC Penney’s customer service department. Their numbers are 972-431-8200 (customer service) and 972-431-1000 (corporate headquarters).”

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For Your Dildo Emergencies

If you have an urgent need for sex toy, Brooklyn’s Babeland will dispatch one immediately via bike messenger. “This is New York City. You can get anything delivered,” said Pamela Doan, a spokeswoman for the purveyors of all things that vibrate and lubricate. The door-to-door of service works like this: whoopie-makers can scope out items online, then call Babeland to …

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