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Well, it was a fun distraction for a couple of weeks, but Open Left’s Mike Lux has won Air America’s “Favorite Progressive Blogger” contest. I came in second, which is pretty damn good considering I didn’t know about the contest until I was a semi-finalist! Congratulations, Mike! After five weeks of competition, dozens of tweets, emails, and blog posts — …

Entertainment/pop culture site After Elton has given JMG their 2009 Visibility Award as their “Website Of The Year.” Very nice! Like a little whiskey in your coffee and personality in your blog? JoeMyGod.com started out as an ever-changing Manhunt profile of cheeky observations that eventually started developing a following of its own, and became a full-fledged blog in March 2004. …

I did some long overdue housekeeping on my blogroll last week, taking out a few dead sites and a dozen others that haven’t been updated in several months. Newly added are some great sites that I recommend you check out.New Civil Rights Movement – By David Badash, a NYC-based activist and the creator of the Great Nationwide Kiss-In. LGBT news, …

Air America has posted on their Twitter feed that I’m “neck and neck” in the semi-finals for their “vote for your favorite blogger” thingamajiggy. Thanks for yanking me out of 11th place, y’all! Voting form here. This round ends today. And this comes to mind for some reason: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans…..”

On his way up to cover the Maine marriage battle last month, gay reporter Rex Wockner swung by my place to interview me about this here website thingy. The interview, just posted on Wockner’s site, is transcribed verbatim, which makes me realize that I clearly have a problem speaking in concise, complete sentences. Hello, run-ons. Also, I seem to have …

This is something of a shocker. Charles Johnson, author of the very popular conservative blog Little Green Footballs, has announced that he can no longer endure the hate of the right wing and is leaving the movement. Johnson’s manifesto: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) …

Apparently I am a semi-finalist in a contest I didn’t know existed. Air America Media is running a promotion asking you to vote for your favorite progressive blogger. The winner gets a week-long cruise to the Mexican Riviera with Air America hosts, including our heroine, Rachel Maddow. I’m way down at #11 in the semi-finals voting, which ends tomorrow. But …

Over on Mediaite, Michael Triplett of the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association covers the demise of the Washington Blade and other LGBT print titles and what physical gay newspapers have meant to us. Like other “minority” media, it is easy to underestimate the significance of the LGBT press for the gay community. For many of us, it was the …

The author of Belle du Jour, the anonymous online diary of a British call girl which was made into a television series and a string of best-selling books, has finally revealed herself as cancer researcher Dr. Brooke Magnanti. Her identity has been one of the great literary mysteries of the decade after the publication of bestselling books about her secret …

JMG reader Jon in DC is under attack by Fox News for his YouTube news clipping channel, which provides this and many progressive blogs with video proof of the right wing’s buffoonery. Several days ago Fox convinced Google to once again suspend Jon’s YouTube account, meaning that numerous posts in the JMG archives will have dead videos. So much for …

According to arch homophobe Peter LaBarbera, the Christianist legal firm Liberty Counsel has called the FBI to report “terrorist threats” made by JMG commenters. Dear Readers, Homosexual activist blogger Joe Jervis of “Joe.My.God” website contains a post attacking AFTAH founder Peter LaBarbera followed by a reader comment suggesting that “domestic terrorism” against pro-family leaders who oppose the homosexual agenda is …

Blogging will be relatively light for the next six days as the Key West Business Guild is bringing me down on a press junket to cover Fantasy Fest. I’ll get some posts up tomorrow morning before I leave and probably a couple more during my layover at MIA. After that, it’ll be intermittent poolside vacation blogging as the Guild has …

This is my 10,000th post. Unfuckingreal.

If you think your opinion of Perez Hilton couldn’t be any lower, you’ll probably change your mind after reading what he tells Advocate writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis about his dust-up with the Black Eyed Peas, during which he called their lead vocalist a “faggot.” But Perez tells me that, in the heat of the moment that night, he almost chose to …

We had a great group of NYC bloggers march with us in yesterday’s parade, but holy cow that thing took forever. We lined up at 11:30 am, didn’t make Fifth Avenue until 2:30pm and finally crossed the finish line in the West Village around 6:30pm. SEVEN HOURS on our feet. But the crowd reacted great to us, the announcers at …

If you haven’t been following Andrew Sullivan on the crisis in Iran, you are missing some of the most astounding blogging seen since the medium was invented. His coverage has been exhaustive, contemplative, and nothing short of Pulitzer-worthy, in my opinion. It’s a bit daunting just as a reader to follow his dozens of Iran updates a day, and while …

You know, as much “fun” as it is to write a hundred or so posts about LGBT rights every week, I could totally do with a nice fat juicy right-wing evangelical scandal right about now. Marriage equality, DADT, fierce advocate….blah, blah, blah. Right now I feel like praying to the Black Catholic Priestess Brenda Lee for something really really Haggard-y.

Father Tony reports that we’ve got quite a healthy group of bloggers signed up to march with us in this year’s NYC Pride March. We’ve got a banner, we’ve got t-shirts available, we’s all fancy and shit. Contact the good Father if you’d like to march with us. Pride season is getting into high gear all over the country, what …

Some of my favorites made the Advocate’s top 15 gay(ish) blogs list, although the list is a bit heavy on the gossip side. PamsHouseBlend.com AmericaBlog.com: Gawker.com DListed.com HuffingtonPost.com OhLaLaMag.com Signorile.com TowleRoad.com WorldofWonder.net PerezHilton.com Slog.TheStranger.com PinkIsTheNewBlog.com Popnography.com Rod 2.0 GoodAsYou.org (Via – Pam’s House Blend)

Noted LGBT activism blogger Pam Spaulding joins MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Christiane Amanpour as a winner of the first annual Women’s Media Center Awards. Spaulding won in the category of online journalism. The Women’s Media Center was founded in 2005 by Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan. Congratulations Pam!!