Tag Archives: celibacy

Morning View – Air Rights

This new condo tower on the Upper East Side ekes out a dozen or so extra units by creeping out over the roofs of the buildings on both sides.

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Paris Gay Kiss-In

Towleroad tips us to a gay kiss-in against homophobia held at underground shopping center in Paris. Beautiful!

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Obama Acknowledges Gay Parents In Family Day 2009 Proclamation

Embiggen the image at left to read President Obama’s mention of gay families in his proclamation endorsing Family Day 2009. An excerpt: Our family provides one of the strongest influences on ourlives. American families from every walk of life have taught ustime and again that children raised in loving, caring homes have the ability to reject negative behaviors and reach …

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CNN On Right Wing Anger

GOP pollster Frank Luntz says that Americans are “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” How original. Personally, I’m mad as hell at Luntz’ terrible wig. And I’m not gonna take it anymore!

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Freepers On Folsom

Since Porno Pete LaBarbara just loves to repost JMG comments as proof of how gays are big horrible meanies, let’s take a quick stroll through the God-fearing, church going, hands-to-Jeebus crowd at Free Republic as they react to a San Francisco Chronicle photo essay about yesterday’s Folsom Street Fair. – “I’d rather die in Scranton than live in San Fagcisco.”– …

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Don’t Mess With Wolverine & Bond

Boy Culture tips us to this: Wolverine and James Bond are not to be messed with, especially when they’re doing the whole acting thing. Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig were trying to perform their play “A Steady Rain” Wednesday night in NYC — but some nitwit forgot to turn off his mobile phone. Jackman set the dude straight — staying …

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80’s Flashback

Psychedelic Furs, Love My Way, 1982. In 1980 I returned the P-Furs’ self-titled debut album to the friend who’d lent it, dismissing it as pretentious and unlistenable. He was very disappointed in me. The following year’s Dumb Waiters and Pretty In Pink singles from Talk, Talk, Talk made me reconsider, but it was 1982’s Love My Way that completed my …

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Cleve Jones Invites Obama To Attend National Equality March

Embiggen the below image to read Cleve Jones’ letter inviting the president to the National Equality March. As I mentioned here last week, Obama is tentatively scheduled to take part in the Presidents Cup golf tournament in San Francisco that weekend.

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Definitely A Glenn Beck Follower

JMG reader Clark points out this bit of Facebook assholery, which Clark says has been up “for some time” despite many hits on the “report as offensive” button. You guys have an excellent track record on getting stuff like this pulled, so have at it. And let’s hope Facebook recorded the IP of the author. UPDATE: The poll’s been pulled …

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New Ad From Protect Maine Equality

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Idiocracy, 500 Years Early

No, this is not an outtake from the best film of 2006. I doubt you’ll make it past the first minute. We are all truly doomed. (Tipped by JMG reader KatRose)

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80 Pastors Challenge IRS On Political Speech Rules

Wing Nut Daily is reporting that more than 80 pastors took part in “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” yesterday, a campaign launched by the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund to “preach Sunday sermons related to biblical perspectives on the positions of electoral candidates or current government officials.” That is in violation of IRS rules regarding tax-exempt churches and political speech. “Pastors have a …

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Empire Envy

The two shots below are computer renderings of the view from the Empire State Building and what the view would be, were the ESB as tall as the almost-completed Burj Dubai, which is over 1000 feet taller even though Dubai suffers no lack of available land, relative to Manhattan. More comparisons are here. As a skyscraper junkie, I’d love to …

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William Safire Dead At 79

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former Nixon White House speechwriter William Safire died this weekend at age 79. A columnist for the New York Times for more than 30 years, Safire won the 1978 Pulitzer prize for his writings on a now obscure scandal involving an appointee of President Jimmy Carter. He was on the Pulitzer board from 1995 to 2004. …

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NYC TV Host Says NYPD Refused To Investigate His Gay-Bashing

Blake Hayes, a NYC-based TV and radio host, says the NYPD refused to investigate after he and two friends were gay-bashed in Hell’s Kitchen. From Hayes’ blog: Two punches to the face. Thrown against a car, denting its body. Told we should die of AIDS. Is this what you should expect walking down 9th Ave with a couple friends? I’ve …

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Chicago’s Cabbies Want Hurling Fee

If you hurl, blow chunks, and/or spew in a Chicago taxi, the city’s drivers union wants to you have to pay them $50. “If somebody throws up in the back of a cab, it’s no laughing matter to that cabdriver, who now has to take a couple of hours to detail the cab. It’s hard to get that smell out …

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Time-Warner Selling Time Inc

One of Time-Warner’s biggest shareholders has revealed that the company is planning to spin off its namesake magazine publishing unit. “Time Warner just spun off their cable division, they are going to sell their print division, they are going to spin off AOL and they’re just going to be Warner Brothers, HBO and the Turner Networks,” said Crawford, managing director …

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Day Of Atonement

Anybody working today? The subway was the ghost town it always is on Yom Kippur. Even as a non-believer, I like the concept of a special day for forgiving your enemies and apologizing to those you’ve wronged, although it does feel somewhat 12-steppy. I like it, but not as much as the Airing Of Grievances. That’s more me, really.

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Joy Behar, FTW

Joy Behar says that Glenn Beck has replaced his drug and alcohol addiction with an addiction to crazy talk. Behar wins teh internets for today.

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But Zebra-Print Pants Are OK

East Village, Nowhere Bar, Sunday, 1:30am Fashion Victim: Oh, don’t get me wrong. He’s totally hot and funny and nice and all that. But I just can’t see myself ever loving somebody who thought knuckle tattoos were a good idea.

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