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Last night Pet Shop Boys kicked off their North American tour at Miami Beach’s Jackie Gleason Theater where the New Times described the sold-out audience as “mostly elder gay men, with about 20-percent women and music nerds.” That seems about right, actually.  Pet Shop Boys concerts are always a giant singalong, as the below clip from last night shows. The …

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Yesterday New York City hip-hop radio star Mr. Cee acknowledged having sex with a transgender sex worker in a tearful 30-minute interview on his own station, which then published a statement accepting his resignation and wishing him well. But almost immediately, there was another development. On Thursday afternoon, following the urging of Mr. Darden during the morning interview, Mister Cee …

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that will protect journalists from being forced to testify about their work. But there’s something of a catch. The new legal protections will not extend to the controversial online website Wikileaks and others whose principal work involves disclosing “primary-source documents … without authorization.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) insisted on limiting the legal …

“We must shame and cut off taxpayers’ money from the groups that killed the American family, including feminists, judges, legislators, public school teachers and administrators, so-called child protection agencies, professors, psychologists, college courses, government handouts and Democratic politicians who want big-government spending in order to win votes. The problem cannot be remedied by prohibiting same-sex marriage (even by a constitutional …

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to remove “In God We Trust” from US currency. Judge Harold Baer Jr. of the Southern District of New York ruled Monday that a suit brought by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and others should be dismissed. “The Supreme Court has repeatedly assumed the motto’s secular purpose and effect, and all …

JMG reader Dave unearthed this 2005 clip of Anita Bryant performing Oklahoma and then telling the audience that the devil has tried to kill her since she was born. “Hey! Does anybody here remember Florida orange juice?”

Last night GLAAD held a fundraiser in Manhattan, where the usual coterie of stars from television, movies, fashion, and nightlife worked the red carpet. But the real buzz in the press pit was over the attendance of a group of West Point cadets and their officer handlers. I pulled aside GLAAD’s Seth Adam to congratulate him on the nice surprise. …

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Deadline reports: The CW is taking on a controversial subject with ZE, a drama project centering on a transgender teenager. Written by Brooklyn-based writer-playwright Kyle Jarrow and executive produced by Michael London (Milk), ZE is described as a raw, quirky family drama about a FTM (female-to-male) teen and his family. A personal choice takes on controversial public significance when a …