Joe.My.God. LGBT News

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, …

Maf54: You in your boxers, too?Teen: Nope, just got home. I had a college interview that went late.Maf54: Well, strip down and get relaxed. Maf54: What ya wearing?Teen: tshirt and shortsMaf54: Love to slip them off of you. Maf54: Do I make you a little horny?Teen: A little.Maf54: Cool.Maf54: By the way, right now I’m sitting on a dildo shaped …

While I am well aware that I’m not exactly within their target demo, in the few months I’ve been using MySpace, the site has gone from just slightly interesting, right on over to pretty damn annoying. If you get 10 emails, 8 of them are from “barely-legal girls” who are “personally inviting you to share in their online modeling show”, …

YOU are an important person. A rare individual. Today’s is Sting’s 55th birthday. And in honor of the rock’s sexiest senior, here’s a song he co-wrote with rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith, Adventures In Success, as part of Goldsmith’s 1983 Will Powers project, Dancing For Mental Health, the “first and only comedy self-help dance record.” That’s Goldsmith’s computer-altered voice on the …

When will I remember what a waste of time it is to come in to the office on major Jewish holidays? Midtown is deserted. There’s a line-up of about 50 unclaimed cabs in front of Grand Central. It’s spooky, seeing the streets relatively empty like this. Now put down that donut, shouldn’t you be fasting today? I am one of …

Built in 1929 above Grand Central Terminal to serve as the headquarters of the New York Central railroad companies, the Helmsley Building was sold a few months ago to the royal family of Dubai.

Could you live without your cellphone?.

The Powerhouse, San Francisco, 1999 I’m at the Powerhouse for the Mr. Powerhouse Leather contest, whose winner will compete in Mr. San Francisco Leather during the Leather Week buildup to Folsom Street Fair. My buddies Doug and Leif are standing with me on our “perch”, the little raised platform on front of the second floor of the bar, from which …

Folsom StreetOn the way to Polk and CastroYou don’t find them finerFreedom, freedom is in the air, yeahSearching for what we all treasure : pleasureCycles, cycles in the night shining brightBright neon nights tell a glory storyLeather! Leather! Leather! Leather, baby!Levi’s and T’s are the best now all right Dress the way you please, and put your mind at easeIt’s …

One of the neat little features of my click-tracking program is that it tells me how many times a particular link is clicked or how many times a photo has been embiggened. This morning I’m a little amused to see that of the eight photos of yesterday’s Iran/Iraq/Pakistan protest at the UN that I posted, so far 611 of you …