Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The building housing London’s G-A-Y nightclub, one of the biggest gay clubs in the country, is being torn down. A report from the Mayor of London released today has confirmed that London venue The Astoria will close as part of a redevelopment of the Tottenham Court Road area. The Astoria is best known as a live music venue and the …

Spitzer: “I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me. To every New Yorker, and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize. Over the course of my public life, I have insisted — I believe correctly — that people regardless of their position or power …

Last night Aaron and I went to the launch party for Tori Spelling’s new tell-all book, sTORI Telling. The slightly pregnant Ms. Tori looked fantastic, but the photographers’ mosh-pit seemed to scare her back up the stairs moments after I took this pic. Anyway, the party was the usual Manhattan book-art-design-fashion-homo mob scene and even the open bar couldn’t convince …

In college I had a roommate whose obsession with the Supremes was so consuming and such a non-stop topic of conversation that I began to resent them. And until then I had been a (much milder) fan myself. To this day I can’t hear Come See About Me without flashing back to that roommate. His cultish worship sort of ruined …

Dawn Wells, 69, who is Gilligan Island’s Mary Anne to you and me, was sentenced to six months probation for her October marijuana possession arrest. Wells spent five days in jail last month as part of her plea. Wells claimed she’d given three hitchhikers a ride and they’d smoked “something” in her car. Oh, Mary Anne.

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer will announce his resignation this morning. Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to resign and will begin notifying top state officials of his decision just after 9 a.m., The Post has learned. Word began circulating of his decision in state political circles just minutes ago, which came after what one source called “an agonizing night,” as …

Longtime JMG blogroll pal Johnny Is A Man does a raft of dead-on impressions for his boyfriend, Baby Chutney. Johnny’s Neil Tennant kills.

From the National Catholic Register: As a Christian, Elaine Huguenin is against efforts to legitimize same-sex “marriage.”[JMG: Scare quotes!] So, when the Albuquerque photographer was asked via e-mail in September 2006 to photograph a “commitment ceremony” for two women, Huguenin declined. That was the end of the matter, she thought. But Huguenin didn’t take into account New Mexico’s anti-discrimination laws. …

(Via – Dan Savage.)