Joe.My.God. LGBT News

I’ve got a five-day conference in Portland at the end of the month. Not the “good” Portland, as my boss hastened to mention. Portland, Maine. I’ve never been to either, so what do I know? This is the same conference that took me to Minneapolis last year, which loyal readers may recall, I ended up loving. So, then. What’s the …

Cheese and rice! It’s getting crowded in here. Will you thousands of folks who came here looking for this please make some room for the regulars? UPDATE: Over 20,000 Googlers by 5pm and not one has questioned the last three lines of the transcript, which I totally made up. It’s comedy gold, Jerry!

Brazil, inarguably one of the most progressive countries in the world when it comes to LGBT issues such as homophobia, HIV, and gender identity, is spearheading a move to expand its Brazil Without Homophobia program into Spanish-speaking South America and has obtained the agreement of all ten Mercosur nations to include sexual orientation and gender identity within their overall human …

A couple of months ago, Eddie surprised me with this beautifully framed poster of the Warsaw Ballroom, knowing that that the Warsaw remains my all-time favorite gay nightclub, out of the hundreds that I’ve haunted over the last 30 years. Sadly, the Warsaw location is now a Jerry’s Deli, a sight which I hope to never see and probably won’t, …

Good stuff from my pals: Foxy tells a great story about a close encounter at the Salvation Army. Guys in underwear. Text messages. Mark Kane delivers another achingly poignant tale of 70’s gay life in NYC. I walk through a freighted city, heavily populated with ghosts.Waremouse’s Folsom photo essay, which includes a sneaky shot of me at the Blowoff show. …

“Pages are the fluffers of liberty.” – Samantha Bee, Senior Washington Correspondent, The Daily Show.

I’ve been back from San Francisco for a few days now, but I still find myself daydreaming about the visit, drifting back to the Cool Grey City Of Love. I’ve been second-guessing my decision to move to New York City since day one of my arrival here. For the first year or so, I started every morning by logging into …

Youree Dell Cleomili Harris, native of Los Angeles, better known as Miss Cleo, fake native of Jamaica, comes out of the closet in this week’s Advocate. Start jokes on how we should have seen this coming: now.

The Empire State Building, as seen from 40th Street and Fifth Avenue, six blocks away. I cropped the rest of the shot out, but if you embiggen, you should get some OK detail. I’ve been waiting for a cool crisp fall day to try and get some shots from the top, free of the haze that usually restricts the view …

I’ve been getting emails all morning asking what I think of this new campaign from the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center. And my answer is….I’m not sure. All of the old issues of stigmatization and shaming come back to the surface, yes. But I’m also very mindful of the recent stats on infection rates and with that in mind, …