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BROOKLYN: Hanging With The Gay Foodies

I recently trekked out to Crown Heights, Brooklyn to hang out with the gay foodies, a world in which many of my friends (and you, maybe) are deeply immersed, but one that is, regrettably, rather alien to me. The event was called Gay Food 101, where self-publishing giant Blurb Books hosted LGBT chefs, food columnists, and authors who explored the …

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Open Thread Thursday

Your book report is long overdue. What are you reading?

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Critics Savage Morrissey’s New Novel

Morrissey has followed up his much talked about autobiography with a short novel that’s getting wide notice for all the wrong reasons. From a scathing review in the Guardian: Morrissey’s ego remains untrammelled. That, surely, is the only reason for the publication of List of the Lost in this form. It appears to be unedited, the curse of the writer …

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Open Thread Thursday

Quarterly book report. What are you reading?

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Stop Silencing Ryan Anderson!

Two days ago Heritage Foundation spokesman Ryan Anderson declared victory over the review “trolls” at Amazon when his new anti-gay book hit #1 in a niche category nobody had ever heard of. But that victory was apparently empty boasting as today the Heritage Foundation itself published a furious reaction to those negative reviews in an article which includes screencaps of …

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Ryan Anderson: I Beat The Trolls

Ryan Anderson would like you know that despite all those meanies who gave his book poor reviews, he’s made it to #1 in the hot-hot-hot Amazon category “Sociology Of Marriage & Family.” Also on that yes-there-is-such-a-thing bestsellers list is the riveting sounding 101 Questions To Ask God Before You Get Engaged, which is probably the condensed version of 1001 Questions …

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Brian Brown: Internet Meanies Are Trolling Ryan Anderson’s New Anti-Gay Book

“An important new book has been published today that we highly recommend to you. Authored by Ryan Anderson, a great friend of NOM’s and a scholar at The Heritage Foundation, the book ‘Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom’ is a tour-de-force examination of the issues in the marriage debate and an enlightening reflection on what is at …

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Ryan T. Anderson: The Book

The new book by Heritage Foundation spokes-hater Ryan T. Anderson has launched on Amazon. From the product recap: Attacks on religious liberty–predicated on the bogus equation of opposition to same-sex marriage with racism–have already begun, and modest efforts in Indiana and other states to protect believers’ rights have met with hysterics from media and corporate elites. Anderson tells the stories …

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Matt Baume: The Book

From the Amazon recap: Baume provides rare, behind-the-scenes access to personal conflicts around the national struggle. While furious protestors clash on the steps of the Supreme Court, we are ushered inside to witness the same debate playing out amongst the Justices. Readers witness gay political leaders locked in desperate, emotional struggles to pass marriage bills in the back halls of …

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New York Times: Cruz Is Off Bestsellers List Due To “Strategic Bulk Purchases”

Via Politico: This week, HarperCollins, the book’s publisher, sent a letter to The New York Times inquiring about Cruz’s omission from the list, sources with knowledge of the situation said. The Times responded by telling HarperCollins that the book did not meet their criteria for inclusion. “We have uniform standards that we apply to our best seller list, which includes …

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“Stop My Abortion” Site Was A Hoax

Via the Friendly Atheist: Remember the anonymous woman who said she would go ahead with her planned abortion unless pro-lifers raised $1 million (which she said would be put in a trust fund for the child)? Turns out it was a hoax. A great big publicity stunt. The website ProLifeAntiWoman.com no longer has the woman’s plea. It’s now a website …

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LIST: America’s Most Well-Read Cities

Via Business Wire: Amazon.com today announced its fifth annual list of the Most Well-Read Cities in America – just in time for summer reading season. The ranking was determined by compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format from April 2014 to April 2015, on a per capita basis in cities with …

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Former Escort Service Owner Pens Tell-All: Sen. Larry Craig Liked His Hookers Butch

Former DC escort service owner Henry Vinson pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges back in 1990 and served five years in a minimum security prison. Twenty years later he’s penned a tell-all memoir in which he claims that then-Rep. Larry Craig preferred that his rent boys be “quite masculine.” Vinson employed up to 20 escorts on a given night in …

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Lambda Literary Awards: June 1st In NYC

John Waters and Rita Mae Brown will be honored at the 2015 Lambda Literary Awards in Manhattan on June 1st. On the list of attendees: Gloria Steinem, Liz Smith, Michelangelo Signorile, Janet Mock, Alan Cumming, Justin Bond, Susie Bright, and many others. Get tickets here.

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Here Are The Winners Of Signorile’s Book

Michelangelo Signorile’s latest book It’s Not Over goes on sale nationwide today. The publisher provided us with three copies to give away and the winners of last week’s swag contest are JMG readers TimCA, Mike In Texas, and David Milley. The winners were selected using a random number generator and have been notified via Disqus.

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Special Swag: Mike Signorile’s New Book

Michelangelo Signorile’s latest book, It’s Not Over, goes on sale nationwide on Tuesday and we’ve got three copies to give away to JMG readers. From the Amazon description: Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement …

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J.K. Rowling On Dumbledore Being Gay

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Meet The Bears Of Sweet Paul

The foodies among you may already be familiar with Sweet Paul, which began years ago as Paul Lowe’s personal cooking blog and has since grown to become a wildly popular print and online magazine. Lowe (above left, also known as “the gay Martha Stewart”) does the kitchen work while the business side of the enterprise is handled by “the other …

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Quote Of The Day – Alex Malarkey

“Please forgive the brevity, but because of my limitations I have to keep this short. I did not die. I did not go to heaven. I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible. People have profited from lies, and continue …

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Open Thread Thursday

Quarterly book report time. What are you reading?

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