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LEFT: Eric Leven, an organizer, shows off the flyer for Queer Justice League’s first action at the Christopher Street piers. Meant to “celebrate the queer presence on the piers”, most of the kids took a flyer and paid interest to the speakers for a bit before returning to their vogueing and cell phones. It was a good beginning, I think.

Today was Rosie O’Donnell’s last day on The View, she will not be returning for her final three weeks after Wednesday’s huge blow-up with co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck. The official reason for the early departure is that Rosie has requested “early leave”. Damn. I was really looking forward to watching Rosie finish out her contract, unrestrained and unapologetic. Rosie has long …

Shelley Winters plans on spending her holiday weekend pursuing her two favorite hobbies: spazzing out attacking random objects and creating pillow forts. Myself, I’ll be haunting the various gay blogger meet-ups that are scheduled for GB:NYC4, where I hope to run into lots of y’all that aren’t escaping to the beach.

The Queer Justice League is staging their first action tonight: Celebrate the “Queer of the Piers” Meeting and Rally at the Christopher St. Piers. TODAY Friday May 25th at 8PM. Our action is to introduce who we are, our mission, gain support and bring visibility to a number of queer related issues occuring at the pier. Please come dance, kiss, …

Well, rats. I can’t lobby my state assemblyman to support the gay marriage bill because I don’t have one. Gov. Spitzer recently named Pete Grannis the state environmental commissioner, something I somehow missed. Today I got a notice that a special election to replace Grannis will take place on June 5th. But woohoo, the Democratic candidate to replace Grannis is …

Bill Clinton received a check for $1 million yesterday from the proceeds of Vienna’s Life Ball, money that will be used to continue his work to provide low-cost AIDS medications to third world nations. Recently Clinton struck a deal with Indian drugmakers that will allow Thailand to buy meds for a fraction of their normal cost. Earlier this month, the …

The ugliest blight on the NYC skyline is the Keyspan power plant on the East River in Queens. It’s loud too, crackling and humming.

Yeah, I’m not buying it either.

Truth Wins Out, an organization devoted to exposing the lies of the “ex-gay” industry, has a new internet video campaign called “Talking Truth” which features several video testimonies from former members of Exodus, including this one from a fellow named Shawn, who describes how his Exodus group would cruise the mall for hot men. Visit the Truth Wins Out site …

Transmen, female-to-male transexuals, continue to be barred from membership in Chicago’s Hellfire BD/SM club, the largest of some 400 such clubs in the nation. Despite some internal dissent, including the resignation of the club’s newletter editor, the membership recently voted to maintain their 10-year policy that “there must be a penal [sic] attachment.” Hellfire is one of the few BD/SM …