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Christian activists are demanding an apology from NBC for portraying Christians as “violent Bible thumpers.” A recent “Law & Order” show portraying a leader in a college Christian ministry as anti-homosexual and Christians as “Bible thumpers” is drawing ire from a watchdog group for anti-Christian bigotry. In the opening of the NBC show’s episode last week, a leader in a …

I haven’t been paying attention. What’s this year’s “one more thing”? The Apple Store is currently down pending the announcement.

The deepening banking crisis hits Manhattan hard with this news from Citigroup. Citigroup plans to announce a writedown of as much as $24 billion and layoffs that could total as much as 24,000 due to subprime and credit-related losses, CNBC has learned. Citigroup plans to announce a $24 billion writedown and layoffs that could total as much as 24,000. Slightly …

Whoa, not so fast there, haters. Organizers of the ballot measure to ban gay marriage in Florida claimed in November that they’d succeeded in raising the necessary signatures to force the issue to a statewide vote. Turns out, maybe they haven’t. A proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Florida may not make it to voters this year, after …

PlanetOut, parent company of Out, Advocate, Gay.com, is looking for a financial savior again. Struggling gay and lesbian media and entertainment company PlanetOut Inc.LGBT] late Monday said it has retained Allen & Company LLC to assist it in evaluating strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company. For the first nine months of 2007, PlanetOut reported a loss of …

Doctors and hospitals are seeing a big surge in staph superbug infections in gay men around the country. San Francisco General Hospital researchers have been chasing the rogue strain of drug-resistant staph called USA300 since they first isolated it from a patient specimen seven years ago. With every turn, the aggressive and persistent bug keeps getting worse. Now, a new …

Today’s Swag Tuesday giftie is Memoirist Merritt (Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star) delivers thought-provoking fiction on the problem of being gay in the military. As Clinton begins putting the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy into place in the early 1990s, closeted and disturbed Naval Investigative Service Agent Jay Gared goes on a mission to catch violators of Article …

Congress returns from their holiday break over the next week with three major pieces of pro-gay legislation still to be resolved: the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, and the bill that ripped apart LGBT and progressive groups – the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). With so many issues facing this session of Congress (the …

Improv Everywhere, who last brought us the shirtless men invasion of the Abercromie & Fitch flagship store on Fifth Avenue, yesterday staged their 7th Annual No Pants Subway Ride, which had almost 1000 Gothamites riding the rails in their boxers and tighty-whities. Numerous cities around the world joined in with No Pants rides of their own. That’s my pal (and …

Brits from ages 1-100 beat a drum and announce their age. Strangely compelling.