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Perhaps as penance for his recent “gay face” controversy, Tonight Show host Jay Leno will appear at a gay marriage rally at a West Hollywood gay bar tonight. Jay Leno will be among the boldfaced names at a gay marriage celebration and rally tomorrow night at the Abbey in West Hollywood. T.R. Knight will join the Matthew Shepard Foundation’s Judy …

This just in: California’s highest court has refused to stay until after the November election its decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. Conservative religious and legal groups had asked the California Supreme Court to stop its order from becoming effective until voters have the chance to weigh in on the issue. An initiative that would amend the state constitution …

The 12th annual installment of Folsom Street East takes place on June 22nd in West Chelsea on W.28th Street. Folsom Street East is New York’s premiere s/m-leather-fetish themed street festival. Produced by Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA), Folsom Street East is the largest outdoor event of its kind on the East Coast attracting nearly 10,000 visitors. Performances already schedule this …

In advance of his August full-length release, The Death Of The Paperboy, house music kingpin Rich Morel has issued a 5-track EP titled Flawed, which is now available on iTunes. Stream Morel’s Pink Noise Mix of Flawed below. Morel’s last full-length, Lucky Strike, remains one of my favorite albums ever and I’m besides myself waiting for Paperboy.

JMG reader Lee in SF sends this to us. If millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth as the opening act for Armageddon, Threat Level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-mail. But if they do log in, now they can be treated to some post-Rapture needling from …

Take the MoveOn.org Bush-McCain Challenge.

Via the Empire State Pride Agenda: Today the New York State Assembly voted 102-33 to amend the state’s human rights law to include anti-discrimination protections based upon gender identity and expression. The bill (A.6584a), known as the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) bans discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment, credit, public accommodations, and other areas of everyday life. “The …

“I’m totally off the States now. The reaction to 9/11 and then George Bush – really, they’ve got very blobby as a nation. Now they are whiny victims whose language is entirely taken from two TV shows – Friends and Sex And The City – and there’s nothing sexy about them any more. And that kind of semi-blindness about the …