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Doug Murphy, 41, the owner of the venerable Castro gay bar Moby Dick, died of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus while visiting Palm Springs on Friday. Last month Murphy and his business partner opened another Castro bar, the Blackbird, to positive reviews.

Famed as some of the best Latin food in NYC, a fleet of food trucks line one side of Red Hook Park in Brooklyn, where each vendor flies the flag of a different Central American country. So far, I can only vouch for the pictured Salvadoran truck, where whatever is in a #9 was very, very, very good. Sadly, I’ve …

Ted Kennedy, friend and hero to LGBT folks, people with HIV/AIDS, minorities, the disabled, liberals, and progressives over his decades in the U.S. Senate, succumbed to brain cancer late Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. This is a tremendous loss for the nation, losing what many Americans, including myself, consider to have been the greatest elected official …

Today when Sen. John McCain cautioned the crowd at his town hall meeting to be respectful of the president, saying that he believes Obama respects the Constitution, McCain’s audience booed him. In the second clip, the crowd gives a standing ovation to a woman who demands that illegal immigrants not receive any health care.

“We all need to consider that in God’s timing that he may have allowed us, as members of Congress, to be in the position that we’re in just for this specific issue right now. Everything that all of us have worked together and labored for over the years, all of it could be undermined with this one bill. President Obama …

The boycott of Whole Foods doesn’t seem to be going away. I noticed quite an angry crowd outside of the Union Square store a few days ago. RELATED: A massive new two-story Whole Foods opens on the Upper West Side this week, right in the belly of the progressive beast, as it were. The UWS location will feature the largest …

Sylvester, Someone Like You, 1986. Not my favorite Sylvester track and definitely not one of his better live vocal performances, but this clip is worthwhile for the post-song chat he has with Joan Rivers, who was subbing for Johnny Carson on New Year’s Eve. Rivers fawns over Sylvester’s jewelry and he drops the bomb (on national TV! In 1986!) that …

Remember how we all snickered when Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) filed a lawsuit against the NEA, demanding that “ex-gay” be recognized as an sexual orientation and therefore subject to employee protections? Well, they won. In a case with potentially far-reaching implications, the superior court of the District of Columbia has ruled that individuals who formerly identified as gay …

A just-released report from the Centers for Disease Control says that gay and bisexual men contract HIV/AIDS at a rate fifty times higher than the general population. To my knowledge, the CDC has not previously made such a comparison, instead relying on the raw data of confirmed cases. CDC official Dr. Amy Lansky announced today at a plenary session of …

Today the Governator inducted Harvey Milk and ten others into the California Hall of Fame. In other news, there is a California Hall of Fame. The 2009 California Hall of Fame inductees are: entertainer Carol Burnett, former Intel CEO Andrew Grove, governor and U.S. senator Hiram Johnson, decathlete and philanthropist Rafer Johnson, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, philanthropist and peace activist …

“Bullshit! God has horns.” Silliest. Episode. Ever. What happened to the Fellowship of the Sun story? And there’s a Queen of Louisiana? Points for Hoyt’s mama’s hilarious freak-out. Otherwise…

“It’s time for these new, even risky approaches, and it’s time to ask for it all — now. That’s why I’m going to Washington for the National Equality March — called for by legendary activists David Mixner and Cleve Jones — even though, like others, I wasn’t initially down with the idea. It’s time the rest of us showed up …

We may be adding yet another letter to the LGBT alphabet soup as asexuals are coming out of the closet and joining Pride parades to announce that they are perfectly OK with their lack of interest in sex. “It does raise questions about the nature of love,” said Anthony Bogaert, a sexologist at Brock University in Ontario who estimated the …

Thanks to LGBT activist Jeremy Hooper at Good As You, who first brought him to blogospheric attention, the violent words of babbling madman Pastor Steve Anderson have been picked up by the national press.

Smelt Vs. United States, the case that caused all of the DOJ-DOMA brouhaha earlier this year, has been dismissed by a federal judge on the grounds that the litigants had failed to identify any personal harm they had suffered under the institution of the Defense of Marriage Act. Assistant Atty. Gen. Tony West, in his brief filed before U.S. District …

Objecting to the way disruptive town hall teabaggers have been characterized as “brownshirts” by some in the media, a man in the audience tells Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA), “If Nancy Pelosi wants to find a swastika, maybe the first place she should look is the sleeve of her own arm.” More Nazi analogies ensue. Cue righteous applause.

Since Sally Kern blames LGBT folks for the bad economy and thinks we’re worse than terrorists, I find it more than a little bit delicious that her just-announced 2010 opponent for her Oklahoma House seat is Brittany Novotny, a young transgender attorney. Novotny operates a private law practice specializing in employment and civil rights law in downtown OKC. She represents …

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The Soldiers and Sailors Arch in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza serves as the main gate to Prospect Park, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the same team that created Central Park. The arch, meant to evoke Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, was designed by John H. Duncan, who later created Grant’s Tomb. It was formally unveiled by …

The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide, making it likely that criminal charges against his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murphy, will be forthcoming shortly. Reportedly, Murphy left Jackson unattended after administering a powerful anesthetic. More later on the continuing death of Francisco Franco.