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A holding company that invests the wealth of Bill Gates has bought a 56% controlling stake in failing PlanetOut Partners, owner of Advocate and Out magazines, Gay.com, and RSVP Cruises. Cascade Investments LLC joined with several other private equity firms in the rescue of PlanetOut stock, more than doubling its stock value from its 52-week low of $0.86. Shortly after …

You’re on death row. What’s your final meal?.

No blogging for me today, I’m heading out to the annual madness known as the Fire Island Pines Invasion. This is the 31st Pines Invasion and the 231st birthday of America. I don’t know if there will be any fireworks in Fire Island, but there will be an explosion of feathers and glitter. Have a great holiday!

The Riverside Drive Viaduct, located in northern Manhattan near Washington Heights was built in 1900 and runs over 12th Avenue from 127th to 135th streets. This pic embiggens nicely.

Negotiating a sidewalk flotilla of nanny-powered strollers this afternoon, I heard a toddler beg, “Mommy! Pick me up! I don’t wanna ride anymore!” And watching the young woman pulling her kid up out of the stroller, I had to laugh at myself for thinking, “Aw, that’s sweet. She’s taking care of her own baby!” It was totally one of those, …

“Homosexuality came easy to me, because I was already weak.” – Noted gay activist and founder of Young Gay America magazine, Michael Glatze, who announced in a first-person column today on WingNutDaily that he is now an “ex-gay”. WND crows in a separate story, “‘Gay’-rights leader quits homosexuality.” Apparently Glatze came to know Jeebus thanks to eating some expired ass, …

A butch lesbian was ejected from a West Village restaurant after last week’s Pride parade for using the ladies room. Khadijah Farmer, 27, was confronted in the restroom of the Caliente Cab Company by the restaurant’s bouncer, who escorted her back to her table and forced her party to pay their tab and leave. Farmer, who says she is occasionally …

David Ritcheson, the Texas youth who at 16 was the victim of a brutal hate crime at the hands of neo-Nazi skinheads, leading to his becoming a passionate and articulate advocate for hate crimes laws, jumped to his death from a cruise ship on Sunday. He was 18. At a party in 2005, Ritcheson was beaten and sodomized with a …

Rumors are flying around the intraweb that prospective Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson may about to be outed. Or not. Andrew Sullivan sez: “Outside the extremist, activist base, regular GOP voters turn out to be relatively tolerant when it comes to sexual minorities and private sex lives. They’re not well represented by their party leaders, as far as policy is …

Here’s the Upper East Side’s York Avenue at 63rd Street, as seen from one of the many student housing buildings for the area’s numerous teaching hospitals. Rockefeller University is just next door, from whom we got the AIDS cocktail, methadone, and the discovery that viruses can cause cancer. York Avenue is the easternmost north-south street in this section of the …