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“This is deeply disappointing and concerning to me and the rest of the management team.” – PlanetOut CEO Karen Magee, announcing that the company, owner of Out, Advocate, and Gay.com, will be out of money by the end of the year without an infusion of cash. PlanetOut reported a first quarter loss of nearly $7M on Friday, sending its stock …

Nine years ago DaimlerBenz bought Chrysler for $37 billion. Today they sold the bulk of the company to a private equity firm for the bargain basement price of $7.4 billion. Ouch! Lee Iaccoca, who famously engineered a government bailout of Chrysler in 1979, is “broken hearted.” The new owners of Chrysler are faced with billions of dollars in employee costs …

Overheard: “Hi, mom! Happy Mother’s Day! I tried to call you this morning. What? No, I’m in the city. At a bar. A bar. The Eagle. You wouldn’t like it.” Traversing our usual haunts yesterday, we observed that teh gays must be good sons, because Mother’s Day really wiped out attendance at the bars. Good boys.

Several hundred thousand Italians protested proposed gay rights laws in Rome on Saturday, in a giant rally called “Family Day.” The rally was organized by a consortium of Catholic groups and was attended by many nuns and priests. The new law would give expanded rights to gay and unmarried couples in matters like welfare and inheritance rights, but does not …

Central Park and northward, from the Top Of The Rock yesterday, courtesy of Dr. Jeff. If you embiggen, you can make out the George Washington Bridge. The white square below the big lake is the Metropolitan Musueum, I live somewhat to the right of there.

For always and forever, you will be my Saturday love. Ah, that’s better. Another lazy Saturday afternoon in the park with my boys, attended by George, Aaron, the Farmboyz, Little Tom, Little David, Foxy, Rod, Mike, Chris C., Dr. Jeff, DC guys Todd and Joe, several friends of friends and a trio of doggies. The park is fantastically lush already, …

Did you hear the one about the dead sperm donor being forced to pay child support? In 1999 and 2000 a Pennsylvania lesbian couple created two turkey baster babies using sperm donated by the then-living father, a friend. The couple civil-unioned in Vermont in 2002, but broke up in 2006, with one of the women winning monthly child support payments …

As the leading Republican candidates continue to trip over themselves in a fight to the bottom, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has quietly relaunched the site he used in his last two mayoral campaigns. Term limits means that Bloomberg cannot be NYC mayor again. When asked if he plans on running for president, he usually waffles between “no” and “not likely”. …

From LOGO’s Big Gay Sketch Show:

He Who Shall Not Be Named is back up to his old tricks. Literally..