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Progressive blog Talking Points Memo had all of its ad space taken over by Yes On 8 ads yesterday via Google Ad Sense. Despite a massive outcry from readers and despite opposing Prop 8 in their editorials, TPM took no action. Josh Marshall’s reasoning: When we started accepting paid advertisements in 2003, I instituted a clear policy that we would …

The interwebs are buzzing over whether Margaret and Helen, the hilarious pro-Obama blog purportedly written by two 80-something women, is real or not. No conclusions yet, but check out this post from one of the authors, Helen Philpot. I am surprised that some of you are up in arms about my calling Sarah Palin a bitch, or John McCain an …

Something odd appears to be afoot at Andrew Sullivan’s blog. He typically posts numerous times a day, but nothing appeared on Monday. (Sullivan always advises his readers when he’s taking time off and has guest bloggers fill in.) Yesterday he posted a short note reassuring his readers that “nothing was wrong” only to follow it up with a cryptic quote …

Holy crap! Post 5000 already? We only hit 4000 in April. A quick recap of the last thousand posts: Hillary, Obama, McCain, Crist, veepstakes, Manhunt, bears, ENDA, asshats, Prop 8, Jeebus. (What did I leave out?) There JMG newbies, yer all caught up.

KJMG, broadcasting live from the DC-bound BoltBus. If you embiggen this photo from last fall, you’ll notice that boarding conveniently takes place outside of Peep World on 33rd Street. I’ve mentioned BoltBus here a few times before, but this is the first time I’ve actually used them. Chased here, I was, by my last seven-hour Amtrak-to-DC debacle. It’s not too …

Check out LGBT For Obama, a new community blog where LGBT activists, politicians, celebrities and other notables get together to advocate for an Obama presidency. You should recognize most of the names of the contributors.

This Friday I’ll be heading down to DC for the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association’s annual convention. I’ll be speaking on a Saturday panel defending my support here for a trans-inclusive ENDA. As panel moderator Michael Triplett pointed out to me, I have “lots of very vocal” readers who didn’t agree with my position, so we’ll be talking about …

The Catholic League wants Andy Towle to be stricken from the list of credentialed bloggers attending the Democratic convention. “Towleroad describes itself as ‘A Site with Homosexual Tendencies.’ Accordingly, it shows men in jock straps and underwear. It also has a post on Pope Benedict XVI that takes him to task for wearing a cape with ermine. Some of those …

Michael McCarthy, a vice president at Citigroup, was fired last week because the company took issue with his popular blog, Take A Report, which often features homophobic and sexist commentary. McCarthy had been blogging from his office. To the community of 60,000 who keep his company each day, Michael J. McCarthy looms large enough to be chosen as next month’s …

Obviously the comments counter has been broken all day. Your comments are being saved but the counter isn’t updating. Haloscan’s new owners, JS-Kit, have been unresponsive to emailed requests for status info and to comments placed on their help forum. It’s seriously time to get another commenting system. I’d hate to lose a half-million comments or whatever, but what are …

Oh, gentle readers, what a twisted, fascinating, maddening, saddening place is this thing called Teh Internets. Remember Cooper? The firefighter gay dad of two adopted boys who pulled his widely-loved blog after an “attack” of malicious comments and emails from the readers of this blog? Causing me to get extremely bent of out shape and offer Cooper a heartfelt (really) …

Vince Sandoval, a 25-year-old gay New Yorker, is going without sex for 100 days in a “social experiment” to find things to do in and around New York City that are “better than sex”. From his email to me: I started it a little more than a month ago as a social experiment and a way to explore the art …

Pam Spaulding and her team of co-bloggers are among the very short list of LGBT activists on the Democratic National Convention committee’s list of officially invited bloggers. Pam’s House Blend is also the only blog with press credentials with a transgender blogger on its roster. Since the sanctioned bloggers have to pay their own way, please consider contributing to Pam’s …

Room Eight, a blog about NYC politics co-founded by popular Politico.com columnist Ben Smith, has been quietly fighting a subpoena from Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson’s office. The subpoena demanded to know the identity of the Room Eight anonymous blogger “Republican Dissident” who had criticized Johnson’s office. The subpoena carried a warning in capital letters that disclosing its very existence …

Bil Browning’s Bilerico Project, the LGBT community group blog where just about every gay activist you’ve ever heard of participates, is celebrating their first anniversary. Head over to Bilerico today and participate in their anniversary giveaway where you can win signed movie posters from John Waters and Margaret Cho and a package of 11 gay-themed DVDs. The contest runs like …

My deepest thanks go out to my dear friend Aaron for helming this here website thingy for the last week. While it was hard to stay away, I managed to get in some pretty decent and much needed down time, both physically and mentally. I should probably do this more often. So as many of you have suggested, I’ve asked …

The Democratic Party has released their list of bloggers credentialed to cover the convention in Denver. The LGBT blogs represented are Towleroad, Pam’s House Blend, and AmericaBlog. Congrats to all!

Cody Lyon of Edge New York has posted short interviews with several Gotham-based gay bloggers including myself, Eric Leven, Lady Bunny, Andres Duque, and Josh Meltzer, who speaks for the Empire State Pride Agenda’s blog. Lady Bunny in particular has an excellent point to make. Check it out.

Via the New York Times: At 12:04 P.M. on April 25, a skirmish broke out on Jezebel.com. It began when the upstart Web site for women, whose slogan is “Celebrity, sex, fashion. Without airbrushing,” posted a photo of Angelina Jolie in a low-cut yellow dress. As part of a popular feature called Snap Judgment, readers offered biting comments on everything …

UPDATE: A retraction of this post can be found here. You won’t believe the REAL story. In Tuesday’s post about gay parenting, many of you weighed in on this growing phenomenon and what it means in the larger picture of our rapidly changing gay culture. Overwhelmingly, you expressed support for gay parents, with small minority expressing strong distaste for gay …