Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Somehow last week I forgot to mention the latest news from the Bilerico Project, the Indiana-based LGBT activism blog which has relaunched with an impressive array of top-rung contributors: Over thirty prominent LGBT community members have decided to make The Bilerico Project home including Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Matt Foreman …

“This president talks a lot about good and evil and the need to seek out evil doers. But he doesn’t seem to recognize the evil in hate crimes. The right to live without the fear of being murdered for whom we love is not a special right.” – Elizabeth Edwards. Why isn’t SHE running?

This weekend I ran into Lady Randomocity while she was tossing back at a few during happy hour at the Regal Beagle, where she told me that Adam of Ellsworth, Maine was the winner of Swag Tuesday’s Weeds prizes. Adam: “My guy and I just started watching Weeds, and I’m totally hooked…I can’t wait to get my ticky-tacky lil’ hands …

This 8th Avenue porn shop reminds me of how hundreds of NYC businesses have kept the World Trade Center image in their signage.

Yesterday the Farmboyz and I headed down to Schubert Alley for Broadway Barks, the 9th annual pet adoptathon created and hosted by Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters and presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The casts and stars of virtually every Broadway show made appearances, from Xanadu’s studly Cheyenne Jackson (left) to Tony winners David Hyde Pierce, Beth Leavel, …

Last weekend I hosted DC blogger/rugby stud/sci-fi geek Jimbo and of course we had to bring him to Central Park for our regular roller-disco picnic. Tons of mobloggeratti attended, including this winsome four with Jimbo. L-R: Farmboy C, Jimbo, Glenn, Chris, Father Tony.

“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 …