Tag Archives: blogging

Fake Lesbian Bloggers Get Animated

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Morning View – Netroots Boys

The first familiar faces I ran into here in Minneapolis were Washington Blade staffers Chris Johnson and Phil Reese.

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Evening View – MSP Light Rail

I barely had ten hours back home after Key West and now I’m in Minneapolis all week for Netroots Nation 2011. The weather here sucks and this is the ugliest fucking hotel in the history of the universe. And of all the parallel universes. (I’m guess I’m a little travel-fatigued.)

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New Blog

I’d probably have to name the dad on Flipper as my first gay crush.

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Lez Get Real Blogger Also A Man

On the heels of Gay Girl In Damascus scandal comes news that the author of the popular Lez Get Real is also a man. Just one day after the author behind a popular Syrian lesbian blog admitted to being a married, American man named Tom MacMaster, the editor of the lesbian news site Lez Get Real, with the tag­line “A …

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Quote Of The Day – Tom MacMaster

“I never expected this level of attention. While the narrative voıce may have been fictional, the facts on thıs blog are true and not mısleading as to the situation on the ground. I do not believe that I have harmed anyone — I feel that I have created an important voice for issues that I feel strongly about. I only …

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NYT: Is Syrian “Kidnapping” A Hoax?

The New York Times warns that not one person can report having actually met or spoken to the lesbian blogger allegedly kidnapped yesterday in Syria. In fact, some recent entries on her blog may have first been posted in 2007. Although it remains possible that the blog’s author was indeed detained, and has been writing a factual, not fictional account …

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SYRIA: Lesbian Blogger Amina Addalla Allegedly Kidnapped In Damascus

Details are sketchy, but here’s what’s being reported: As the anti-government uprising in Syria has unfolded, Syrian-American blogger Amina Abdallah has attracted readers and been noticed by The Washington Post, CNN, Time,and The Guardian for her musings on the protest movement and what it’s like to be gay in Syria. But her blog–A Gay Girl in Damascus–broached a very different …

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Daily Grumble

For those unaware, Google/Blogger experienced a global outage for the last (approximately) 24 hours, taking down tens of millions of sites and doubtlessly losing them zillions in ad revenue. For now, things appear to be working. You’ll notice, however, that all of my 25 or so posts from yesterday have vanished. We’ll see if they reappear. Thanks for hanging in …

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Did You Miss Me?

Hello, is this thing on?

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Queerty Relaunches “Without Snark”

Several weeks after announcing its own demise, Queerty has relaunched this morning with the below promise. While we are committed to maintaining the best of Queerty, we also recognize that you have demanded change. In recent months the Queerty patented wit devolved into predictable snark, eviscerating everyone and everything in its path. Some of the comments simply piled on. We …

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JMG Blog Year Eight Begins

Today is the seventh blogiversary of this here website thingy. As is tradition for today, here is my very first post. April 27th, 2004 I was born and raised in rural North Carolina. My fondest childhood memory is of playing in the dense, acrid, poison fog that was belched out by the county mosquito control truck during its daily dusk-time …

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The End Of Queerty

After spending the last week offline due to “technical difficulties,” it appears that the long-running and popular LGBT news/gossip site Queerty is no more. Gay porn site The Sword (NSFW) has an email from the site’s founder which reads in part: As many of you know, last year Queerty partnered with the folks at 353Media to handle its operations. I …

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New Blog

Where girls submit photos of their gay high school boyfriends.

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Email Overload

I guess it’s about time for my annual plea for forgiveness regarding my lousy email habits. I am very appreciative of all of your news tips and personal messages and I totally suck for not being able to get back to everybody. (Including on Facebook!) But this here website thingy, for now, is a one-man show. I’m pedaling as fast …

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JMG Wins 2011 GLAAD Media Award!

Tonight this here website thingy won the first-ever Outstanding Blog category at the 2011 GLAAD Media Awards! The word went out on Twitter hours ago while I was still working the red carpet downstairs and I totally didn’t know I’d won until at the after party when I congratulated another winner on the escalator and they said, “Oh, you too!” …

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CNN Covers Born This Way Blog

Nice piece from the author of Born This Way Blog, which posts childhood photos that seem to predict the subject’s future gayness.

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“The chance to be part of a whole new experiment in online and print journalism, in the Daily Beast and Newsweek adventure, is just too fascinating and exciting a challenge to pass up. And to work with media legends, Barry Diller and Tina Brown, and with the extraordinary businessmen Sidney Harman and Stephen Colvin, is the opportunity of a lifetime.” …

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Born This Way

Born This Way: “A photo/essay project for gay adults (male and female) to submit pictures from their childhood (roughly ages 2 to 12) – with snapshots that capture them, innocently, showing the beginnings of their innate LGBT selves. It’s OUR nature, our TRUTH!” Hit the link for adorable baby queers.

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Regarding Yesterday’s Post About Iran…

Many of you have noted that I have removed yesterday’s post regarding the pending executions of two young gay men in Iran. Shortly after that post went up, both Andy Towle and I were contacted by Jessica Stern at the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, who was very concerned that fragile communications being made on the men’s behalf …

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