Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Courtesy of A&M Books, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is a double-whammy of beach reading pleasure. Take a peek inside the beach culture of fabulously gay Rehoboth Beach via bestselling author Fay Jacobs’ two compilations of stories about gay life on the summer playground for Washington DC’s homos: the bestselling As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir and Jacobs’ …

From a 1st Avenue bodega, where the rain has soaked their newspapers. Most of the papers they sell are in Hebrew, Arabic, or Russian. I’m not aware of a big Arabic community on the Upper East Side, so I’m guessing those papers might be racked for the cab drivers that favor this bodega.

“I do feel like I live a fabulous life. And I know that’s why a lot of the critics get so mad at me sometimes, because they’re just really jealous.” – Rufus Wainwright, talking to the NY Times, adding that his fans have “a tinge of sadness to their devotion. It relates with the alienation that I bring up. So …

Yesterday my mother’s neighborhood association performed a ritual burning of a banner bearing the names of this year’s hurricanes. This new tradition began last year, which turned out to be the first in several years that Orlando was not clobbered. Mom’s not claiming that this bit of homeowner voodoo worked, mind you. But it does make everybody feel a little …

Private equity sharks are circling the near-dead carcass of Bally’s Total Fitness as the gym chain prepares to enter bankruptcy with its shares trading at 31 cents. Bally’s has been for sale since last year. If no buyer emerges before bankrupcty, all common stock will be wiped out and the owners of the company’s debt will become the new owners …

AOL’s Queersighted is running a neat promotion: How were gays portrayed in classic Hollywood? Find out this month when Turner Classic Movies airs 44 films covering six decades of gay pride and prejudice in cinema. Starting with Algie the Miner from 1912, the series takes viewers through the film eras of Pre-Code, Classic Hollywood, Code-Busters and ends up in the …

You gotta hand it to the Red Sox fans for their evil taunting of Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, who made the tabloids over the weekend after being photographed cavorting with a chestally-enhanced blonde stripper who was Not His Wife. Hundreds of fans at Boston’s Fenway Park showed up with these masks during this weekend’s game in a promotion run by …

The Human Rights Campaign has released the results of its questionnaire (PDF) posed to all Democratic presidential candidates, where they express universal support for ENDA, the hate crimes bills, gay adoption, same-sex spousal immigration rights, increased AIDS funding, the repeal of DADT, and science-based sex education and disease prevention. All candidates also support changes in how the federal government recognizes …

President Bush has nominated an anti-gay religious whack-job to be U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. James Holsinger, the man to be put in charge of the health of all Americans, runs a little side project with his wife called Hope Springs Community Church in Lexington, Kentucky, where in addition to helping those with alcohol and drug problems, he ministers to people …

Exit at the grubby 14th Street station for the LGBT Community Center.