Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Boing Boing is reporting on a first-person essay on a body-modification aficionado site called BMEzine, in which the author claims to be in possession of Karl Rove’s adoptive father’s cock ring. And while Louis Rove is well known to have been gay, apparently he was also very into genital piercing (NSFW), having participated during the 70’s in “piercing parties.” So …

Leona Helmsley, the anti-gay billionaire “queen of mean”, died today at 87. Aside from having gone to prison for tax evasion, you may recall Helmsley losing a discrimination lawsuit after firing the gay manager of her Park Lane hotel. The manager, Charles Bell, won over $11M but the judgment was later reduced to $554,000. Bell told the court that when …

This inscrutable tile mozaic adorns the entrance of a subway stop in Brooklyn.

Isn’t it funny that we have wi-fi out here in the boonies? It poured all the way here (screw you Weather.com) and it poured most of last night. But things let up around 10PM and we were treated to spectacular skies as we gathered around the rec hall bonfire. I had forgotten about stars. There’s a lot of ’em. It’s …

I’m off for three days of gay gay gay camping in the Poconos at Hillside Campground with Aaron, Chris, and the Thruple. It happens to be their “Hog Ranch” weekend, a prospect which would have thrilled me ten years ago, but today makes me rather apprehensive. Strange. As my back has been wrecked for several days, I’m planning on parking …

Spurred by Michelangelo Signorile’s withering appraisal of Merv Griffin’s legacy as a closeted gay man, the Hollywood Reporter yesterday published a column posthumously outing Griffin, something the mainstream media had failed to do definitively, despite some making references to Griffin’s sexual harassment and gay palimony lawsuits. After reading Signorile’s post and stewing over it a couple a days, I appeared …

During the summertime, Central Park’s Hans Christian Anderson statue is the location for authors reading live from new original works.

Over the last year, I’ve written a couple of times about Manhattan Mini-Storage’s billboard campaigns, which comment amusingly on a broad range of social and pop culture issues, ranging from the government’s wiretapping to Paris Hilton and the Queer Eye guys. Their latest series, which started a few months ago, is beginning to cause a lot of upset among pro-lifers, …

Left-wing activists MoveOn.org are circulating this 1994 Dick Cheney interview in which he correctly predicts the quagmire of a potential invasion of Iraq. Listen to our prescient VP play Nostradamus, predicting exactly what DID happen.