Joe.My.God. LGBT News

– NYC soup kitchens saw a 20% rise in hungry New Yorkers over the last year. New report: One out of six NY’ers, 1.3 million people, “cannot afford an adequate and consistent supply of food.” When the economy catches a cold, the poor get pneumonia. Those in need can now call 311 for a direct connection to a food bank …

Through the magic of Free Republic’s homo-obsession, I came across this 1993 article by Jewish theologian Dennis Prager. You may recall Prager as one of the “insider” architects of the Defense Of Marriage Act, in support of which he testified before Congress in 1996. Prager begins with this premise: To appreciate the extent of the revolution wrought by Judaism’s prohibiting …

Boy George O’Dowd is scheduled to stand trial in February for an April incident in which he chained a male escort to the wall of his London home. According to The Mirror, O’Dowd met the escort on Gaydar.com and invited him over for a £400 “photo session.” The next morning the hooker wriggled free from his bonds, ran into the …

Yesterday I set off the theft sensors in almost every store I visited. After the third or fourth time of opening my bags to prove I wasn’t a shoplifter, it began to really bug me and I said something rather unkind to the guard at Home Depot. And then this morning I noticed tiny magnetic stickers on the waistbands of …

Wow. Next year’s international gay rugby tournament, the Bingham Cup, which takes place in Dublin, has received a €100,000 sponsorship from Irish betting group Paddy Power, the largest sponsorship ever for a gay event in Ireland. Bingham Cup tournament director Richie Whyte: “Paddy Power have an innovative and risk taking approach to the market. We are delighted that they see …

Hmm, this is interesting. What’s brewing backstage at the Lott home? JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, plans to resign his seat before the end of the year, The Associated Press has learned. Lott, 66, scheduled two news conferences in his home state later in the day to discuss his plans. According …

Even when it’s freezing outside, folks love to stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ha ha haHo ho ho And a couple of tra la la’s Australian Labor Party Prime Minister candidate Kevin Rudd has trounced anti-gay Bush lackey John Howard. Howard lost so badly, he no longer even has a seat in Parliament. Rudd’s historic win means that Labor now runs the government in every Australian state and territory. Also for the first …

Two blocks from my place is Talent Unlimited High School, which tourists often photograph in the mistaken assumption that it was the location for the movie Fame. The movie was actually set at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School on the Upper West Side near Lincoln Center, but facts rarely get in the way of Manhattan tour guides.