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Double-Dicked Dude Writes A Book

Last year the man who reportedly has two ten-inch fully functional penises earned global headlines after he participated in an “Ask Me Anything” thread on Reddit where he revealed having had sex with hundreds of men and women. Now he’s written a book. From the Amazon description: He was featured on the front pages of RollingStone.com, Jezebel.com and was covered …

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New Book Compiles Religious Hate Mail

Bonnie Weinstein, wife of Military Religious Freedom Foundation head Mikey Weinstein, has published a compilation of the hate mail her family has received. Via Salon: As hard as it was to read in places, it’s important to read and understand. It offers an unflinching examination of a subset of American fundamentalism, created by a segment of our society that is …

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Open Thread Thursday

Quarterly book report time. What are you reading?

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NPH Has A New Book

From the Amazon description of Neil Patrick Harris’ new book: Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based-life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the …

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Open Thread Thursday

Time for our quarterly book report. What are you reading?

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Conservatives Are Literary

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Open Thread Thursday

Time for our quarterly book report. What are you reading?

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NOM Cheers Author Who Says That Gay People Are Worse Than Murderers

“After the person murders someone or looks at pornography, they come to see that what they did was actually wrong, they can’t excuse it and moral order is restored and they’re contrite for having done so. But what if you organize your life around something that is wrong? Then you must construct a more permanent rationalization that prevents your conscience …

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PHILADELPHIA: Nation’s Oldest LGBT Bookstore, Giovanni’s Room, Is Closing

The nation’s oldest LGBT bookstore, Giovanni’s Room, will close on May 17th. Via Philadelphia Gay News: Ed Hermance, who has owned the store for 38 years, announced his plans for retirement in the fall, planning to sell both the business and the two buildings it encompasses. He announced a potential sale agreement several weeks ago, but told PGN this week …

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Sex Study: Half Of Men Last Two Minutes

Via New Republic: Harry Fisch, author of the new book The New Naked: The Ultimate Sex Education for Grown-Ups, reports that “an astonishing 45 percent of men finish the sex act too quickly.” How quickly? Within two minutes, according to Fisch. This would seem to be bad news for those men’s partners and good news for the posthumous reputation of …

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Christian Persecution Marketing 101

Todd Starnes writes for Fox News: A Florida school district is giving teachers a refresher course on religious liberty after the parents of a five-year-old kindergarten student said a teacher told their daughter that she was not allowed to pray before eating her lunch time meal. Marcos Perez, of Oviedo, Fla., said the incident occurred earlier this month in the …

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First & Last Lines From Noted Gay Novels

Boy Culture blogger Matt Rettenmund has compiled the first and last sentences from nearly 100 well-known gay novels. Andrew Holleran’s Dancer From The Dance, for example, opens and closes this way: First: “Ecstasy, it’s finally spring down here on the Chattahoochee—the azaleas are in bloom, and everyone is dying of cancer. Last: “Go out dancing tonight, my dear, and go …

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Fox Anchor Greg Gutfeld’s New Book: The Left Uses Hipsters To Control Culture

Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post does its duty with a panting review which begins: Why are good things seen as bad, and why are bad things seen as good? Greg Gutfeld poses the question and supplies an answer in “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War On You” (Crown Forum). Gutfeld paints a picture of a coolocracy in which …

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Seen At CPAC

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How Seattle Pastor Mark Driscoll Bought His Way Onto The NYT Bestsellers List

Via the Christian site World Magazine: Seattle’s Mars Hill Church paid a California-based marketing company at least $210,000 in 2011 and 2012 to ensure that Real Marriage, a book written by Mark Driscoll, the church’s founding pastor, and his wife Grace, made the New York Times best-seller list. According to a document obtained by WORLD, ResultSource Inc. (RSI) contracted with …

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Open Thread Thursday

Time for our quarterly book report. What are you reading?

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BOOK TRAILER: Sean Strub’s Body Count

The book went on sale yesterday at Amazon.

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Linda Harvey Is Back On Amazon

Linda Harvey’s “ex-gay” book returned to Amazon on Friday, along with a dozen new 5-star reviews. Ten days ago Harvey claimed to have withdrawn the book from the site because evil gay bloggers were encouraging bad reviews from people who hadn’t even read it. Amusingly, some of the new reviewers freely admit that they haven’t read the book. A sample: …

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Linda Harvey: I Pulled My Book From Amazon Myself Because Of Gay Bloggers

“I saw the rotten reviews, a smear campaign by those who had not read the book, and the publisher attempted to get Amazon to pull the ad hominem reviews, but they were not immediately responsive.  So, since the book is brand new and I didn’t want it to be harmed by this uninformed and vicious campaign stimulated by ‘gay’ bloggers, …

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Linda Harvey’s Book Pulled From Amazon

Back2Stonewall reports that Linda Harvey’s book, Maybe He’s Not Gay, has been pulled from Amazon after complaining emails. Harvey has not promoted the book’s availability on Amazon and it remains on sale at Next Century, a small self-publishing outlet. Back in October, Amazon pulled thousands of “abuse-themed” e-books, some of which depicted rape, bestiality, and incest. That move was criticized …

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