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Pride Magazine 2007, the 10th annual issue of the official publication of gay pride nationwide, has shipped to gayborhoods, LGBT organizations, and local pride committees all over the country. Published in partnership with InterPride, the mentoring, networking, and education coalition of gay pride committees worldwide, by this weekend you will find Pride’07 stacked ass-high from Chelsea to Castro. Contact your …

On Tuesday, openly bisexual Micah Kellner won his special election to the New York State Assembly, defeating Republican, yet gay-friendly and progressive, Gregory Camp. Kellner is the first openly bisexual person ever elected to the state Assembly and joins as the fifth openly LGBT person presently serving in the state legislature. The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund released a statement: …

More information is coming to light about the past of Surgeon General nominee James Holsinger as steam builds in the campaign to oppose his nomination. Kids, Dubya has really out-twatted himself with this homophobic, unscientific, Christer nutjob. Kentucky.com: “In 1991, Dr. James W. Holsinger — a University of Kentucky professor who is President Bush’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general — …

Lady Miss Oracle spun her wheel yesterday, landing on commenter #49, Carl, of Boulder, Colorado who says, “This is so exciting! It will be a lovely break from reading medical journal articles. Maybe someday I can go there for the annual “Greyhounds on the Beach”. Carl wins Fay Jacobs’ bestselling As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir and Jacobs’ …

Birthday Party, Upper West Side, Monday, 8PMMomentarily abandoned by the two people at the party that I know well, I am engaged in conversation by a yellow Crocs-wearing, pop-collared, fauxhawked angertwink:Angertwink: So, Rob said you are a writer? JMG: Depends on your definition. I have a blog. AT: A what? A blog? Wait, is that on the internet? JMG: What, …

The Cooper-Hewitt, on the Upper East Side at 5th Avenue & 91st, is the national museum of design history and contemporary design. This main building was the former mansion of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. In 1972, the Carnegie Foundation donated the mansion and surrounding property to the Smithsonian, who opened the museum in 1976.

My apologies for the lack of posts yesterday. I wasn’t feeling well in the morning and couldn’t get to a computer for the rest of the day. Aside from a rare shirking of my duty to you, gentle reader, I was struck by the fact that since I’d also managed to misplace my cell for the day, I was completely …

Cpl. Adam Kokesh, Iraq vet, anti-war activist, UMSC reservist, and AMERICAN HERO, lost his case before the Marine Corps today as a three-member panel recommended that he be involuntarily released from the Individual Ready Reserves and have his honorable discharge from the Marine Corps downgraded to a “general”, or less-than-honorable discharge. Kokesh was brought up on charges that he had …

“One of the most annoying myths about celebrity is that it might get you laid. In fairness, the people I do sleep with are better-looking than the people I slept with prior to becoming famous. But I think it’s to do with being rich as well.” – Talk show host Graham Norton.

With Russian news cameras rolling, rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker and gay activist Brendan Fay poured Stolichnaya vodka into the street in front of New York City’s Russian consulate in protest of the treatment of Russian gays by their government. Under the wary eye of the NYPD (who did NOT want to be photographed) and U.S. State Department operatives (the …