Tag Archives: celibacy

Enquirer: Palin Kids Users & Dealers

The National Enquirer continues their quest to dig up dirt on the Palin family, today revealing that daughter Bristol smoked pot on film and that her high school dropout boyfriend Levi dealt (and smoked) Oxycontin and shot up steroids. Last week the Enquirer reported that Track Palin also regularly smoked Oxy and broke into cars to support his habit. None …

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Let’s Talk About Pep, Baby

Last night Aaron and I attended the book launch party for Sandy “Pepa” Denton’s memoir of her life in Salt-N-Pepa, the five-time Grammy winning rap trio that rocked the airwaves and dancefloors of the world beginning in 1985, selling over 13 million albums along the way. As you can see, both Sandy (Pepa ) and Cheryl James (Salt) look fantastic …

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NOW Endorses Obama

The National Organization for Women, presumably a massive collective of Hillary supporters, has at last endorsed the Obama/Biden ticket. America’s largest women’s rights organisation delivered a snub to Sarah Palin’s history-making candidacy yesterday by endorsing Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s bid for power. The National Organisation for Women (NOW) is 500,000 strong and hugely influential. The feminist organisation almost never …

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Pray For Us, Sarah!

In response to Sarah Palin’s church’s recent “pray away the gay” event, filmmaker Sandi Bachom made this funny and heartwarming short in which gay New Yorkers speak directly to Palin. Watch the whole thing, Bachom found some wonderfully amusing and articulate people. (Tipped by JMG reader Jeff)

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HomoQuotable – Wayne Besen

“Log Cabin’s tragic endorsement of John McCain exhibits an obdurate denial of his anti-gay record and a stubborn unwillingness to admit that their one-time hero is now hopeless. McCain’s VP choice, Sarah Palin, a favorite of the fundamentalist fringe, should have lead to a reevaluation, if not reversal of their endorsement. Like Palin, they didn’t blink, and are shamefully in …

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The 10 Best Places To Be Gay

Also from The Independent: 1. San Francisco2. Sydney3. New York4. Mykonos5. Paris6. Barcelona7. Amsterdam8. London9. Copenhagen10. Berlin These lists can be rather silly, but the linked story does provide a paragraph of support for each of their choices. Here’s what they say about New York: The city of Quentin Crisp and Judy Garland is surely the gay capital of the …

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The Five Worst Places To Be Gay

Via The Independent, the five worst places in the world to be gay: Saudi Arabia: Homosexuality is punished with the death penalty or, occasionally, a severe whipping.Iran: In 2007 President Ahmadinejad declared that homosexuality did not exist in his country. Should the need arise, however, there is a law against it carrying a punishment of anything from jail to public …

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Train Crash Engineer Was Gay

Well, shit. The engineer of the commuter train that crashed in California, killing 24 people, was apparently texting teenaged boys rather than watching the track signals. And he was gay. You know where this is going. In the years before his death, Sanchez led a nomadic life, with public records showing addresses in Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska and California. …

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Under The Bus

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Obama Rolls Out Faith Swag

The Obama campaign has launched a religious voters outreach which includes lots of faith swag. The Obama campaign is preparing rolling out a new line of “faith merchandise” – the latest move in an ambitious effort to win over religious voters. “Check out the Believers for Barack, Pro-Family Pro-Obama, and Catholics for Obama buttons, bumper stickers and signs….” says Obama …

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Morning View – Central Park

Also shot from Top Of The Rock.

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Jon Stewart On Sarah Palin

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Ellen To Be New Face Of Cover Girl

Although the word leaked out a day or two early, today Ellen DeGeneres confirmed on her show that she would be the new spokesmodel for Cover Girl cosmetics. The campaign begins in January. This make two superstar lesbian models in a row for Cover Girl, if you count the still-closeted Queen Latifah.

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Not Lovin’ It

The ACLU has taken on the case of gay men who were called “faggots” by the employees of a Kentucky McDonald’s. Ryan Marlatt, Teddy Eggers, and three other friends had stopped for lunch at the McDonald’s restaurant on July 26, 2008, while visiting Louisville for the weekend. While they waited for their food to be prepared, an employee behind the …

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Advisor: McCain Created The Blackberry

An Al Gore-invented-the-internet redux: Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry. At least that’s the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain’s work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain …

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The West Village Cupcake Brigade

Five women and one man calling themselves the Cupcake Brigade donned matching pink dresses on Sunday to perform a mocking musical tribute to the perplexingly popular Magnolia Bakery in the West Village, where Sarah Jessica Sandinistas stand in long lines every day to buy the exact! same! cupcakes! from Sex And The City. They sang God Bless Magnolia (to the …

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October 12th: Remember The Red Party

Probably the best disco classics party in the universe is approaching. San Francisco’s seminal Trocadero Transfer holds it annual Remember The Party reunion on October 12th, with the supreme ruling DJ Jerry Bonham once again at the helm. Red Parties were all about the love of the party, and the passion for dancing. Songs would include expressions of love’s red …

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Jenga!

Via Gizmodo: Fresh off the billions of eyes that have been on the beautiful Beijing National Stadium, Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have set their sights on NYC with this incredible 57-story residential tower, unveiled today. It consists of 145 unique apartments that are stacked into the sky like a Jenga tower that’s already been well-poked by a party …

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When To Medicate?

An interesting opinion piece in today’s NYTimes discusses the difference between clinical depression and normal situational sadness and how today’s doctors may be too quick to recommend antidepressants. However, the psychiatrist author of the piece makes the argument that even a “jilted lover” or somebody whose spouse has died can benefit from drug therapy. A dozen years ago I suggested …

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Obama: How Can McCain Fix The Economy If He Doesn’t Understand It’s Broken?

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