Joe.My.God. LGBT News

“The U.S. Senate is expected to vote within the next few days on legislation that could ultimately cost Christians their freedom to share their biblical beliefs on homosexuality.” – 2007 Combover Olympics gold medalist and Southern Baptists Convention head Richard Land, lying once again.

Argh! I hate the current vogue for reshooting famous scenes from movies with the original actors reciting advertising copy. I must therefore register my extremely anguished reaction to the new DirectTV spot that uses Signourney Weaver’s iconic Caterpillar fight scene from Aliens, my favorite sci-fi movie. No, no, NO! Stop that right now, Signourney! What are we gonna do now, …

On Sunday at 1pm the Queer Justice League will be protesting in front of the West Village’s Caliente Cab Company restaurant in response to their Pride Sunday ejection of a butch lesbian for using the ladies restroom. They plan to repeat this action every Sunday until the restaurant “resolves the situation favorably”, which I presume means agreeing to QJL’s demand …

It looks like John Mackey, the CEO of the Mecca of urban angertwinks nationwide, Whole Foods, is about to lose his job after having been exposed for posting anonymously on Yahoo! Finance forums for the last seven years under the alias “Rahodeb”, an anagram of his wife Deborah’s name. In over 1000 forum postings as Rahodeb, Mackey blasted the operation …

Only Rep. Tom Tancredo showed up at the NAACP’s forum for Republican presidential candidates. Dig how they had Tancredo field questions amid nine other empty lecterns. Eight Dems showed for their portion.

The Floating Pool Lady, a new swimming pool on a barge moored in the East River just off of Brooklyn Heights under the Brooklyn Bridge is drawing capacity crowds. A sand beach has also been installed, although I personally cannot imagine dipping a toe into the East River. The 4-foot deep pool has a capacity of 175 and there are …

– R&B singer Brian McKnight takes over the Billy Flynn role in Chicago on October 8th. – Xanadu broke box office records for the Helen Hayes theatre after receiving an extremely positive review from the New York Times. Olivia Newton-John attended Tuesday’s official opening. Gay hottie Cheyenne Jackson (United 93, All Shook Up) has temporarily stepped into the lead, replacing …

I can help it, but every time I see the Staten Island Ferry I still think of Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. There are nine ferries making the 25-minute trip and it’s the best free ride in the country, bar none.

Armistead Maupin has launched a blog. Interestingly, he mentions wanting to meet Mike Jones, saying, “Hustlers, for my money, do far more good than pastors.” Testify! I sent Mike an email to nudge him to drop by and say hello to Mr. Maupin. You should do the same. I was rereading a bit of Michael Tolliver Lives last night, and …

“I wouldn’t be surprised if she made that African boy into a coat and wore him … for 15 minutes, and then threw it away.” – Morrisey, speaking about Madonna at his concert yesterday in Norfolk, Virginia. (via – Huffington Post.) Should this have been a HomoQuotable?