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A “cockumentary” that asks, “Does size matter?” Including an appearance by Dan Savage. (Tipped by JMG reader TeeJay)

Things are moving fast after Friday’s news. The Australian Capital Territory’s government has announced that it will introduce a bill this week to legalise same-sex marriage in the territory.  The territory’s minority Labor government will present its Marriage Equality Bill to the Legislative Assembly on Thursday. The proposal will make the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) the first Australian jurisdiction to …

“I have suffered more discrimination and intolerance as an ex-gay than I ever did when I was gay. Many ex-gays are afraid to come out of the closet because of the harassment they will receive. Transgenders are celebrated for changing their gender but former homosexuals are ridiculed for changing their sexual orientation.  Ex-gays are denied their pursuit of happiness because …

Get Lucky, the first single from Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, went to #1 in two dozen countries. Today the group issued the video for the follow-up single. Chic’s Nile Rodgers appears on guitar. I like this a lot more than Get Lucky, which was hyped into the stratosphere.

“After the incident at the Golden Globes everything just fell apart. It literally stopped. Whatever the agenda, whatever the plan was it worked. I lost everything. I couldn’t afford to have an agent. I couldn’t afford to have a publicist for the crisis management to continue. I couldn’t afford to continue. I went from 2 million dollars a year to …

Speaking yesterday in Iowa….

UPDATE: My earlier post below may be moot, according to a tweet just published by the New York Times. It’s almost one week after New York City’s mayoral primary and we still don’t know if Bill De Blasio got the 40% needed to avoid a runoff with Bill Thompson. On Sunday, workers continued checking the vote tallies in the lever …

Manif Pour Tous, which startled the world with its massive anti-gay rallies across France in the spring, has posted a video retrospective of their failed movement. Not seen in the clip, of course, are the many violent street battles with riot police. Also absent from the clip are the neo-Nazi and fascist groups that regularly marched alongside Manif Pour Tour …

From Christopher Doyle’s outfit, Voice Of The Voiceless. In celebration of Ex-Gay Awareness Month, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) and Voice of the Voiceless (VoV) are urging the American Library Association (ALA) to include ex-gay books in advance of its “Banned Books Week,” September 22-28, when the ALA publicizes unpopular books censored by libraries and schools. ALA …

Stephen Crohn, the openly gay man who had been dubbed by the press as the “man who couldn’t catch AIDS” due to his genetic mutation, committed suicide last month at the age of 66.  Crohn’s passing was revealed on Friday by his sister. His boyfriend was dying of a disease without a name. Beginning in 1978, Stephen Crohn cared for …