Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Second Avenue, 9am A group of people are running from the subway to the bus stop across the street. Homeless Man: Run FASTER! You’re not making enough MONEY!

In an interesting first-person story about the difference between gay and straight relationships, TIME writer John Cloud discusses the end of his 7-year relationship with his boyfriend. An interesting bit about the way gays fight: Research on gay relationships is young. The first study to observe how gays and lesbians interact with their partners during conversations (monitoring facial expressions, vocal …

“I open my mouth and bitchy things come out. I’m really trying to curb that. It doesn’t make me look good. I was reading some things I’d said and I sounded horrible. I had a big row with Elton John and David Furnish about some queeny remark I’d made. But I regretted it and apologised to David. He was so …

The CDC has issued a statement in an attempt to quell the “dirty gays spreading MRSA superbug” panic being fanned by right-wing Christianist websites and news organizations. The strains of MRSA described in the recent Annals of Internal Medicine have mostly been identified in certain groups of men who have sex with men (MSM), but have also been found in …

The web is buzzing about Bill Clinton’s exchange with an ABC reporter when he was asked about voting rules for Nevada’s caucus. Most reports are describing Clinton’s response as “heated” or “testy”. Clinton does give a pointed answer, but he seems to be his usual unflappable self to me.

Embiggens nicely.

In his seventh annual State Of The City address today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed his plan to ask Albany for the power to gather DNA from anybody arrested in New York City, innocent or guilty, for any crime, including simple misdemeanors such as participating in civil disobedience. Why this? Why NOW? We already live in the safest (by FAR) large …

Wednesday, January 30th, I’ll be appearing again at Rapture Books’ Reading For Filth: Queer Writers Look At Queer Sex series. Also on the bill that night is Eric Leven and Sherry Vine, with more to be added later. I’ll be reading an X-tra filthy new story and will post a reminder next week once the ad comes out. Next week’s …

Mike Huckabee, talking to Belief.net :” Well, I don’t think that’s a radical view to say we’re going to affirm marriage. I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and …

I met John Hughes, author of Johnny Is A Man and the fab 80’s music blog, Lost In the 80’s, back in the late 90’s when we starting chatting online about music after Johnny had been a winning contestant on the short-lived Rock-N-Roll Jeopardy. These days he’s also writing for PopDose. Check out his stuff, I dig his latest piece …