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At the corner of Barrow and West in the West Village, the Keller Hotel opened in 1898 as lodging for sailors moored on Manhattan’s west side. Closed for almost a couple of decades, last year it was declared a landmark by the city in response to the “Campaign To Save The Far West Village.” The Keller is among over 100 …

Courtesy of the promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday giveaway is 37 Notebooks, the new album from Jeremy Schonfeld and a supporting cast of Broadway stars. 37 Notebooks is Jeremy Schonfeld’s follow-up recording to Drift and Blue Skies & All. Compared to Billy Joel and Jonathan Larson by the New York Times, Jeremy pulls together a veritable who’s who of Broadway performers …

I am a bad daddy because I totally forgot to mention that the one year anniversary of Shelley’s adoption was two weeks ago. Bad daddy, bad!

Perhaps it’s not very bloggerish of me to mention a good experience with a business, but I was quite pleased with 1-800-Flowers yesterday. The bouquet I sent my mother actually looked nicer than in the online photo and when the local florist making the delivery didn’t find her at home, they tracked her down by phone and made the delivery …

Almost too easy.

On April 18th, University of Toledo vice president of human resources Crystal Dixon penned an opinion piece in the Toledo Free Press in which she said: As a Black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo’s Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual …

Via Good As You, here’s the flyer produced by the Family Research Council in their attack on McDonald’s for joining the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.The FRC wants the flyer printed up and handed to managers at McDonalds outlets because: Apparently, serving McFlurries and Big Macs to the public is no longer enough to satisfy the hunger of …

Last night’s gay wedding on Brother’s & Sisters is considered by some to be the first on-air marriage of major characters in television history. However, I’d always thought that Pedro Zemora and Sean Sasser’s 1994 commitment ceremony on MTV’s Real World was the first. But I can see the argument made that MTV wasn’t/isn’t a “major” network or that Pedro …

In Moldova’s capital of Chisinau: Lesbian and gay activists in Moldova have begged the European Union and the Council of Europe to intervene after their attempt to hold a Pride event at the weekend was banned and then blocked by police inaction and violence. In the capital Chisinau yesterday a bus with 60 Pride marchers was surrounded by hundreds of …