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No More “Porn Days” For SF

SF Mayor Gavin Newsom can’t stay out of the news these days. Marital infidelity, a gay stalker, and now the right-wing is coming after him for designating last Friday “Colt Studios Day“, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the legendary SF-based porn studio. Rev. Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition says, “San Francisco has proven yet again why …

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Better The Drag Queen You Know

Is nobody else terrified by the concept of 250 marching Kylie Minogue-impersonating drag queens? Can somebody please send me a picture of this? I want to file it in my ever-burgeoning Signs Of The End Times folder. Similar to my feelings on Madonna, I’m not a Kylie fan, but I’m not not a fan. Got that? Never having attended Sydney’s …

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Morning View – Central Park

Aaron took this shot from the top of Belvedere Castle on Saturday, as we had a nice afternoon strolling through Central Park with the Farmboyz. That’s Turtle Pond on the lower right, with the Delacorte Theatre just above, home of the Public Theatre’s annual production of Shakespeare In The Park. In the distance is Emery Roth’s masterpiece, The Beresford, one …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“When you see her in such a context, you realize that she truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism, especially among the young. The standing ovation for Romney was nothing like the eruption of enthusiasm that greeted her. . . . She is the new Republicanism. The sooner people recognize this, the better. – Andrew Sullivan, speaking …

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Coulter Fallout

The major Republican candidates are distancing themselves from Ann Coulter’s attack on John Edwards. A spokesman for Mitt Romney, who claims that although Romney introduced Coulter, he was not in the room when she spoke, says, “It was an offensive remark. Governor Romney believes all people should be treated with dignity and respect.” Rudy Giuliani said, “The comments were completely …

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Coulter Calls John Edwards A “Faggot”

“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word “faggot”. -Scumbag Ann Coulter, speaking at a conference televised on C-SPAN for the Conservative Political Action Conference. The crowd roared its approval. (Video clip.) In the audience: Dick Cheney, …

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Ziploc

Wednesday, 10PM, E.63rd & 2nd AveI was on 2nd Avenue, walking home from dinner, when a young man came running down the sidewalk towards me. We didn’t collide, but when he tried to get around me, he slammed into a diner’s menu board, sending it flying. The guy kept running, like he was being chased. I watched him nearly wipe …

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The Tudors

On Tuesday, Little David accompanied me to a screening of Showtime’s upcoming series, The Tudors, where we saw the first two of ten episodes. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey, and a very attractive cast, The Tudors takes a liberty here and there with the historical record, for example depicting Wolsey as a scheming …

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