Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Thanks to an avalanche of complaints from good folks like you, gentle reader, Google has deleted Kill Batty Man, the Jamaica-based anti-gay blog that spurned so much discussion here last Friday. Some of you forwarded me copies of your passionate emails to Google and I salute your work. Well done, Google, for making the call.

The East Village’s Cooper Union was founded in 1859 as one of the nation’s few all-scholarship colleges, and is one of the most selective, rejecting 88% of applicants. Students are not required to declare a major and are largely free to select courses from any discipline. Most of the school’s operating budget comes from alumni donations.

Circuit Noize, the quarterly magazine devoted to the circuit party scene, has relaunched as NoiZe, after its founder, Steve Kammon, died last year “due to complications from a long illness”. The rejiggered magazine will continue to be the go-to source for information about parties, events and music, with a new emphasis on feature articles. In the first issue of NoiZe, …

Reseachers at Ancestry.com have uncovered proof that political gadfly and relentless muckraiser Al Shapton is a descendant of a slave owned by the family of late Sen. Strom Thurmond, one of the most rabid foes of desegregation and civil rights. After his death, it was revealed that Thurmond had fathered a biracial child with his family’s housekeeper. Sharpton calls this …

“I have never been with a man in my whole life. I’m still a 55-year-old virgin.” – Personal finance guru and author Suze Orman, coming out in yesterday’s NY Times Magazine. Orman: “K.T. is my life partner. K.T. stands for Kathy Travis. We’re going on seven years.” Orman also says that she would love to marry K.T., adding, “Both of …

Another crazy, mobbed night with a bunch of hard-drinking bloggers and pals! Even more folks than last year, although we had a harder time herding the cats from bar to bar. As usual, I got way fewer usable pics than would like, with tons of blurry pictures of the floor. And next time we’ll have to set aside a specific …

After a nice brunch with Little David at the usual spot, Eddie, the Farmboyz and I ran across the 2007 Pillow-Fight NYC in Union Square, and paused to watch a few hundred mostly-NYU students beat each other over the head. Then we trekked a couple miles into the wilds of West Chelsea to Awakened, David LaChappelle’s new exhibit at Tony …

Long overdue, here’s the text from my performance at last week’s Worst.Sex.Ever show. My apologies for the delay. I misplaced my notes during the post-show drunkathon and had just resigned myself to rewriting it from scratch when I found the notes in the same coat I’d searched three times. Stupid beer. (Photo via emcee Chris Hampton.) Worst. Sex. Ever. Like …

A slim majority of Americans would vote for a gay or lesbian presidential candidate if he or she were “generally qualified”, according to a Gallup poll released today. Other results: 98% would vote for a Catholic (Giuliani), 95% for an African-American (Obama), 88% for a woman (Clinton), 72% for a Mormon (Romney). I’d like to see what the numbers are …

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news about the demise of NYC’s Roxy nightclub, comes word that the NY State Appellate Court has upheld the 80-year old “cabaret law” that bans dancing in bars and restaurants. The court’s ruling says, “Recreational dancing is not a form of expression protected by the federal or state constitutions.” In the 1960’s, NYC had …