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The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will hold its annual fundraising gala on Sunday, October 14th at the Four Seasons Hotel on Market Street. Crescendo delights with a classic Sunday champagne brunch, silent and live auctions overfilled with faraway exotic destinations, extra special events, wines, distinctive food experiences and rare treats. Guests will the mix and mingle with family, friends …

Openly gay actor Ron Palillo died of a heart attack today at the age of 63. Some of you will remember him as Horshack on the hit 70s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. TMZ has the story: We’re told Palillo was found by his partner of many years Joseph Gramm around 4:00 AM. Gramm called an ambulance and Palillo was rushed …

An interesting conspiracy theory has been floated on Yahoo. While every measurable indicator favored an Adam Lambert victory around the nation, back in Conway, Arkansas Chick-fil-A mounted a campaign to change that outcome. Week after week people gathered to vote at Chick-fil-A sponsored events. It was not just ordinary voting, but power texting with multiple phones and after hour voting …

Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, openly bisexual Jessie J, and a full stadium singalong with Freddie Mercury on center-stage screens. I don’t think we could have asked for much more.

An anthology of the popular web-comic series is now available for the iPad and its reissue benefits LGBT comics creators. Get it on iTunes.

The four-track release for Pet Shop Boys’ latest single Winner includes the below tribute to Bee Gees vocalist Robin Gibb, who died of colon cancer in May. While Neil Tennant’s plaintive voice seems quite well-suited for this song, I’m afraid it doesn’t approach the beauty of Gibb’s anguish-drenched original. Available now on iTunes.

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“Everybody in this country has the right to say what they think and feel and what best represents them. The people at Chick-fil-A have the absolute right to say and do what they want. It doesn’t matter that all of these people disagree with their opinion. The question was how would the people that agree with what that man said …

We don’t get much girl-on-girl pop music around here. Reminds me a bit of Lisa Lisa.

Below is a track from Bob Mould’s coming album, Silver Age, which ships on September 4th. The Descent is available today from iTunes.

Most Americans may not know the name of Chavela Vargas, but foreign film buffs will recognize her distinctive voice from the soundtracks of Pedro Almodavar’s movies. Vargas died yesterday at the age of 93. Vargas rose to fame flouting the Roman Catholic country’s preconceptions of what it meant to be a female singer: singing lusty “ranchera” songs while wearing men’s …

At this weekend’s Lollapalooza concert in Chicago’s Grant Park, newly out R&B star Frank Ocean generated cheers when he launched into his latest hit, Bad Religion, by saying, “This next song is pretty important for me, because of some of the things I’ve said in the last month. I’m taking some freedom for myself, you know?” Unfortunately the clip below …

“Why is she such a nightmare? Sorry, her career is over. Her tour has been a disaster and it couldn’t happen to a bigger cunt. If Madonna had any common sense she would have made a record like Ray Of Light and stayed away from the dance stuff and just been a great pop singer and make great pop records, …

After years of telling the press that he hated sexual labels and preferred that people consider him bisexual, British pop singer Mika now says he’s gay. Earlier this week, in a world exclusive, Mika sat down with Instinct to set the record straight (so to speak): “If you ask me am I gay, I say yeah. Are these songs about …

The man who spray-painted “Tastes Like Hate” on a California Chick-Fil-A franchise has voluntarily come forward and he is openly gay NYC-trained artist Manny Castro. His online bio reads: After studying at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, Castro launched his fine art career with his first solo show being the main window installations for Saks Fifth …

From the coming album Elysium.(Tipped by JMG reader Dwight)

There’s a lot of news about gay rocker Bob Mould to report. First off, on September 4th his new album Silver Age will be released. Reviewers are calling it “punishingly loud, melodically sparkling pop/rock” much like his critically-raved 90s band Sugar. And speaking of Sugar, their catalog has just been remastered, reissued, and is now available on Spotify, finally lending …

I’m really digging this.

Popular gay crooner Matt Alber has released a cover version of Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody with proceeds to benefit San Francisco’s Larkin Street services for homeless LGBT youth. Get it now on iTunes or at CD Baby. Below is an acoustic version of the track Alber performed earlier this year.