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Reminder: Queer Justice League Tonight

There will be a meeting of the Queer Justice League tonight at NYC’s Gay Community Center at 7:30pm, which is billed as “a space for long-term ACT UP members and new young activists to come together and discuss the future of the fight for LGBT equality.” Please consider joining the next generation of gay activists. You can subscribe to their …

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Your Car Is Gay

Today’s NY Times has a feature story about automotive marketers’ attempts to reach out to gay consumers and the perception in the market that some cars are “gayer” than others. Old news to us gay folks, of course, who have always known that the Mazda Miata, for example, is just about as gay as gay can be. Sadly, there is …

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Pulling Balls In Hell’s Kitchen

Porno Bingo turned out to be a lot of fun last night, the Ninth Avenue Bistro was packed to capacity. One of my own peeps, Little David, won a big goodie bag of porn including memberships to several of those dirty online streaming video sites, which by total coincidence happens to be one of David’s favorite pastimes. Also in the …

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Open Thread Thursday

My baloney has a first name. Sometimes you feel like a nut. Here’s the tricky part. Everybody doesn’t like something. If you’ve got the time, we’ve got the beer. You can trust your car to the man who wears the star. Oh, Fab. I’m glad. I miss catchy advertising jingles. All I hear anymore in ads is old pop songs. …

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Misery Extension

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced today that effective immediately, the 146,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq will have their tours of duty extended from one year to 15 months. Admitting that our forces have been “stretched” by the conflict, he denied that the tour extension is the result of poor stateside recruitment efforts. With troop morale in Iraq already said to …

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Ruling By Fear

Food Emporium, 1st Avenue, Tuesday 8pmA small boy is running in circles around a produce display, unspooling about 50 feet of plastic bags.Young Mother: You had just better start behaving right this minute or tomorrow morning I’m getting on the phone and calling in Mean Nanny for the rest of the week. Do you want that? Do you want to …

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HomoQuotable – Howard Bragman

“I think there are four kinds of gays in Hollywood. There’s the openly gay; the gay and everybody knows it but nobody talks about it; the married, closeted gay who doesn’t talk about it; and the screaming ‘I’ll sue you if you say I’m gay’ person. In other words, the no closet, the glass closet, the cast iron closet, and …

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Sanjaya En Español

You know, this whole “vote for the worst” thing isn’t going to be very much fun if Sanjaya turns out to be, you know, good. Dial Idol has him placing 5th out of eight.

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John Edwards Wants You

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards has begun aggressively courting the gay vote, releasing the names of 25 prominent LGBT Americans who are supporting his campaign. Edwards: “I am honored to have the support of so many well-respected LGBT leaders. They work hard every day to make our country a better place and I am proud to join with them to …

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Reminder: Porno Bingo Tonight

Tonight I’ll be calling numbers at Will Clark’s Porno Bingo, which will benefit NYC’s Gotham Knights gay rugby club. The event begins at 9PM in Hell’s Kitchen at the Ninth Avenue Bistro. What does one wear to porno bingo? I have a feeling that by the end of the night, I’ll be a little tipsy. “Beeee-ssssheven!”

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