Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Australian news outlets are abuzz with the arrest of a 48-year old man who had regularly been holding HIV “conversion parties” in his Melbourne home. I’ve heard of such parties in NYC and SF, in which the bizarre, unthinkable, unthinking world of “bug chasers” is celebrated, and HIV-infected men proudly label themselves as “breeders”, happily available to give “the gift” …

Yesterday I had a fun lunch with Matt Foreman and his partner, during which Matt told me about having attended the previous night’s Night Of 1000 Gowns, and we chatted about the similarities between the Imperial Court and International Mr. Leather pageants. Later in the afternoon, I arrived at the Dugout to find an Imperial Court victory party in progress. …

Seinfeld hangout Tom’s Restaurant is way up at 110th & Broadway, not in the mid-80’s, as was implied on the show, as no New Yorker would walk 30 blocks for a diner. I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner. Duh, duh, duh dah. Duh, duh, duh dah.

“For the first 10 years, the typical member was 17 to 22 years old. They’d come in saying: ‘I’m gay. My life is over.’ One literally hyperventilated walking through the door. But in recent years, the kids are 14 to 17 and more confident. They say: ‘Hi, I’m gay. How do I meet people?’”- Connecticut-based gay youth counselor Doug Woog, …

This giant contraption is the entrance to the 1,2,3 trains at 125th Street in Morningside Heights, just west of Harlem in Manhattan.

After a nice Bloody Mary brunch cooked up by Farmboy C, the three of us made a to-go Bloody and headed up Broadway for a stroll in this lovely spring weather. Somehow we kept going and going, first running into an anti-foie gras protest at Fairway Market, which was largely ignored by busy Seder shoppers. Then we stopped in at …

Father Tony took this great pic of Aaron and Jeff at Exit Art last week, perfectly capturing their opinion of performance art, or at least mine (usually). I was in hibernation for some pervy disco event and wasn’t along for the excursion, but I thought I’d post this pic anyway, for pure beefcake value. Jeff is taken, but our boy …

The Monica Geller in me compels me to mention the Fey Four, the penultimate round of Malcontent’s March Gayness, in which I’m bracketed against Outsports. The other two survivors are Towleroad and OMG Blog. The original 64 blogs in the playoffs yielded me a couple of new reads, I recommend scanning that list for some fun new stuff. Voting in …

The Christian Broadcast Network has set their sights on San Diego Pride, today publishing a news story accusing that city’s pride committee of targeting young children for recruitment, under the guise of family-friendly events, using “reformed” ex-gay, ex-con, and ex-drug addict James Hartline as their insider source. Little do many realize how aggressively homosexual communities pursue and recruit youth to …

“I absolutely believe that anybody in this generation who is at the forefront of social justice and making an impact on Judaism would care deeply about the role and the place of gays and lesbians.” – Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, just named by Newsweek as one of top 50 most influential rabbis in America, who placed Kleinbaum 19th overall and one …