Joe.My.God. LGBT News

I think I’ll send y’all off for the weekend with the worstest most earwormish song since the Crazy Frog. Itt Van A Gummimaci is the original version (in Hungarian), but there’s others: Jag Är En Gummibjörn (in Swedish), and Osito Gominola (in Spanish). You can also hear it in French, English, and German. Crazy Euros and their pop music. You. …

Remember the guy who sued the Massachusetts Bar Association after he failed their entrance exam because he refused to answer the question about gay marriage? Stephen Dunne’s federal suit prompted a national discussion on First Amendment rights, predictably garnering him support from the religious right. Well, he’s now apologized to the gay community in an email to Boston’s Bay Windows. …

Speaking freely during his last week working for the New York City Department of Health, Joshua Volle, the director of community HIV prevention planning and programs, predicts that NYC will in fact move to close down the city’s commercial sex establishments. “They are very much looking at this from a medical model and the medical model says shut them down. …

Interesting news on Alzheimer’s research: An Alzheimer’s patient improved “within minutes” of being injected with a new drug in a scientific breakthrough against the disease, it has emerged. After being injected in the spine with a treatment for arthritis called etanercept, the 89-year-old could remember the date and his doctor’s name and say where he was – which he had …

Rosanne Barr’s blog is mysteriously “suspended” after the following quote appeared yesterday. barak obama is an empty suit selling “hope” in lieu of Truth. Oprah Winfrey helped to elect Arnold Swartzenegger. I have no doubt that she voted her purse by doing this, as she is a large land owner in California, and that ilk fears Dems because they do …

McDonalds, First Avenue, 8:30am Customer on cell: He just jealous cuz I got all kinds of bitches and ho’s ridin’ my jock. I got all these bitches cuz I show them respect, you know what I’m sayin’? He just don’t know how to treat a bitch. I’d guess the customer was about 10 years old.

Salt Lake City’s new mayor’s first action is to enact a domestic partners registry. Salt Lake Mayor Ralph Becker is wasting no time making good on a campaign promise. In his first official action as mayor he has proposed a domestic partner registry for same-sex couples and for opposite-sex couples who cannot or chose not to marry. The measure will …

It appears that U.S. courts are about to reverse a 2006 ruling that customs officials cannot search the laptop computers of travelers without probably cause. The government contends that it is perfectly free to inspect every laptop that enters the country, whether or not there is anything suspicious about the computer or its owner. Rummaging through a computer’s hard drive, …

I just like the name of this place. The Bellydelly Deli is on Broadway near 50th Street.

[From a March 17, 2007 column in the L.A. Times. Pertinent, in light of recent commentary regarding Barack Obama.] “As every carbon-based life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over …