Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The Farmboyz’ Connecticut home is filled with Father Tony and C’s original artwork, books, and at the momment, about a dozen men. Last night we attended the Hartford Men’s Social, a monthly cocktail party with its origins in a simple email list that began eight years ago. The party’s creator, a genial fellow named Dave, told me that the list …

No more blogging today, I’m off for an all-blogger sleepaway weekend up at the Farmboyz gracious Connecticut home, in celebration of Father Tony’s retirement. Attending: Eddie, Little Tom (whose blog is on hiatus), Aaron, Dr. Jeff, Little David, and Chris. Amusingly, the Farmboyz have added a new AirPort to support the blogging needs of their guests. Tonight we’re going to …

– Disney’s The Little Mermaid, now playing in Denver, opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 6th. The show features 11 new songs from 8-time Oscar winner Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater as well as the classic Alan Menken & Howard Ashman tunes from the 1989 movie, including the Oscar-winning Under The Sea. Ashman died of AIDS in 1991. …

Ted “Completely Heterosexual” Haggard and his family are moving into a Phoenix halfway-house where they will minister “in whatever capacity asked, whether it’s cleaning the building, hosting a visiting group, attending a meeting, or facilitating a study.” And despite that his former employers, the New Life Church, agreed to pay his $138K salary through 2007, Haggard has issued his former …

On Central Park’s east side, just off Fifth Avenue, is the Conservatory Water, where model sailboat enthusiasts while away their empty lives piloting little rented sloops. I kid, I kid.

Liberty University has used their portion of the proceeds of Jerry Falwell’s life insurance, $29 million, to retire their debt. Another $5M went to the congregation of his Thomas Road Church. What a country, when an elderly, morbidly obese man can be insured for $34M. If only the money had gone back to all the little old ladies whose pockets …

Last night Aaron, Damian, Dr. Jeff and I dropped in on Spit, where host Paul Short welcomes “prison punks, leather hunks, and hairy chunks” to his East Village monthly party, now relocated above a liquor store on a desolate stretch of Avenue B. The entire club is red – red walls, red wallpaper, red lights – with the only non-red …

“I’m honored WorldNetDaily.com has asked me to be a part of such a respectable organization. WorldNetDaily has some of the most talented people I’ve had the privilege of working with in the media since arriving in Iraq earlier this year.” – Gay porn star, prostitute, serial man-rimmer and right-wing darling Matt Sanchez, announcing that he has joined the writing staff …

This bronze 20 feet tall statue by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, “Adam”, stands in the lobby of the Time-Warner Center at Columbus Circle. The similar “Eve” stands Adam’s right. You can’t tell in this shot, but Adam’s genitalia have been rubbed so often by shoppers that they are comically much brighter than the rest of the statue.

Who are the nicest celebrities you’ve ever met? My list: Moby, Jerry Orbach, Bonnie Raitt. Who was the meanest? Mine: CeCe Peniston. (There’s a story there, one day I’ll blog it.).