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Larry Craig’s new defense is two-pronged. 1. The cop started it. 2. It can’t have been disorderly conduct because the law requires two or more victims for a disorderly conduct charge. The undercover police officer who busted U.S. Sen. Larry Craig in a gay-sex sting in an airport bathroom stall couldn’t have been offended by the senator’s notorious foot-tapping – …

Defying pollsters and pundits who had all but crowned Barack Obama, yesterday Hillary Clinton pulled off a stunning upset in the New Hampshire primary, winning narrowly with 39% of the vote to Obama’s 37%. McCain repeated his 2000 win in NH, besting Mitt Romney by 5%. Clinton’s own team had been prepared for a loss. It appears that Obama actually …

The New Republic today dug up more of Ron Paul’s loathsome old newsletters. They are almost unimaginably offensive and no one is immune as the newsletters attack gays, blacks and Jews with equal relish. From the lengthy New Republic post: The newsletters were particularly obsessed with AIDS, “a politically protected disease thanks to payola and the influence of the homosexual …

The U.S. Supreme Court today turned away a challenge to the trademark application by Dykes On Bikes, the traditional lead group at gay pride parades nationwide. The trademark was challenged by a men’s rights advocacy lawyer who claimed the term denigrated men and was “scandalous and immoral” – grounds for denying a trademark. Dykes On Bikes applied for a trademark …

NAACP head Julian Bond has joined the fight against Florida’s coming statewide ballot on marriage equality. Julian Bond, an icon in the civil rights movement for nearly 50 years and longtime national Chairman of the NAACP, has stepped into a leadership role with the Fairness for All Families Campaign the statewide coalition effort to defeat the deceptively named “Florida Marriage …

Well, sorta kinda. Ish. Very ish. Years ago I belonged to an online chat forum populated by aspiring writers, artsy types, and other regular mo’s. One of the forum members I befriended was Steve Schalchlin, the award-winning musical theater writer and performer that I have mentioned here many times. Some of you know Steve from his hit Off Broadway shows …

Alycia Lane, the Philadelphia CBS newscaster arrested last month during a traffic altercation in which she called a female cop a “dyke bitch” has been fired. From the KWY-TV president: “After assessing the overall impact of a series of incidents resulting from judgments she has made, we have concluded that it would be impossible for Alycia to continue to report …

Via Duncan Osbourne at Gay City News comes word of a six-page internal memo from the NYC Department of Health which explores the city’s options in closing down bathhouses, sex clubs, and commercial sex parties. After saying for years that new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men are high, but stable, a city health department memo given to Gay …

A front-row heckler interrupted Hillary Clinton’s speech to supporters in New Hampshire last night, shouting “Iron my shirt!” and waving a sign with the same message. An unseen man in the rear of the auditorium did the same. Clinton handled the man with aplomb and sent him off with, “If there’s anybody left in the auditorium who wants to learn …

In a switch from our usual media giveaways, today’s Swag Tuesday booty (heh) is Boy Butter, the popular lube from the company owned by friend-of-JMG Eyal Feldman. Boy Butter has made quite a name for itself in the few years since Eyal created it. History was made in December of 2005 when Boy Butter’s chemists created an industry first; the …