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On Wednesday July 21st, the Ali Forney Center will hold a summer benefit party at Hudson Terrace. Get tickets here and help support AFC’s vital work for NYC’s homeless LGBT youth. Facebook event page here. RELATED: Visit Frank And Gabe today for a great interview with AFC’s mega-hunky executive director Carl Siciliano.

Last night’s 20th annual installment of Broadway Bares was nonstop gay gay gay insanity. Performers included Euan Morton, Kevin Chamerlin, Charles Busch, Lucy Lui, Cheyenne Jackson, Kristen Chenoweth, Katie Finneran, Alan Cumming, Bruce Vilanch, Vanessa Williams and about two hundred mostly-naked chorus boys (and gals). I never thought I’d see the Roseland Ballroom even more packed than during a Black …

The whole “gay boys lip-dub pop songs” meme is getting a little common, but this one is just too sweet to resist.

On the 20th anniversary of Ryan White’s death from AIDS, Elton John has written Ryan a letter. From the Washington Post, an excerpt: Ryan, I wish you could know how much the world has changed since 1990, and how much you changed it. Young boys and girls with HIV attend school and take medicine that allows them to lead normal …

On May 12th the NYC Eagle will host a benefit for Lambda Legal in solidarity with the Atlanta Eagle, who was the subject of a ridiculous raid last September. All patrons and employees were found not guilty last month, but Lambda Legal’s lawsuit against the city of Atlanta, their police chief, and 48 police officers will continue. The Atlanta City …

On Monday, gay activist and former Clinton White House adviser David Mixner was honored in NYC by the Point Foundation. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife couldn’t attend (volcano!) but sent the below message.

On last night’s episode of Celebrity Apprentice, Cyndi Lauper’s team won their makeover challenge, netting $20K for Lauper’s True Colors homeless shelter for LGBT youth. The subject of Lauper’s makeover, rising country star Emily West, then announced that she was donating 100% of the iTunes sales for her new single (below) to True Colors. Get it here.

The Imperial Court’s Night Of A Thousand Gowns took place in NYC last week. Lots of bold-face names in the below clip, including several contestants from the current season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The evening benefited Broadway Cares and God’s Love We Deliver. Oh, the spectacle.

The folks at amfAR have tipped JMG exclusively that gay icon Kylie Minogue will host their June 3rd benefit, The Inspiration Gala, which will be held at the New York Main Library on Fifth Avenue. In a first-time collaboration, amfAR and Josh Wood Productions are initiating a new event series—the Inspiration Gala—a celebration of fashion and creativity that will benefit …

The third season of Celebrity Apprentice debuted last night and She Wired reports that contestant Cyndi Lauper is once again fighting for the LGBT community. The Grammy-winning singer debuted on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice Sunday night and is creating a buzz about her LGBT charity, The True Colors Fund. One of the 56-year-old singer’s goals is to get the straight community …

Father Tony had the grueling assignment of covering this weekend’s Winter Party for The Bilerico Project. I don’t imagine you’d care to look at a slideshow of hotties in Speedos, so definitely don’t click here. The Winter Party is an all-volunteer annual fundraiser by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force which provides a boatload of money to local South …

On Monday night, official JMG staff photographer Dr. Jeff and I attended Broadway Backwards 5, the annual gender-reversal fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the NYC LGBT Center in which songs are performed by the opposite sex for whom they were written. Over 50 Broadway singers, dancers and a galaxy of Tony winners and nominees blew away the sold …

UK-based reporter Patrick Strudwick, whose “ex-gay” undercover investigation was mentioned here last week, has now launched a campaign to expose and end the damaging tactics of the evil reparative therapy industry. Strudwick’s group is called the Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT). Facebook page here. Their first target will be an “ex-gay” conference in Northern Ireland, but that’s just the beginning. …

Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper appeared on Good Morning America today to promote the MAC Cosmetics AIDS Fund, which has raised over $150M to date.

In a front page story, today’s San Francisco Chronicle notes the success of the SF Gay Men’s Chorus as it tours California’s central heartlands in a peace-making tour after the acrimony of Proposition 8. They came. They sang. They wore pink cowboy hats. When the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarked on its Freedom Tour into the heart of Proposition …

Housing Works CEO Charles King is in Haiti coordinating relief efforts for the country’s HIV-positive residents, many of whom are now cut off from their HAART medications. I recommend following King’s blogging from the scene. About 5 o’clock yesterday evening, Edner and I left the compound where we are storing the supplies in order to to rent a vehicle to …

Many of Haiti’s estimated 200,000 HIV-positive residents are now cut off from their critical HAART medications. NYC’s AID For AIDS, a group that sends unused or unneeded HIV meds overseas, tells us how to help, because individuals cannot send drugs directly there. And people can send medications directly to you in New York?If they’re in the New York City area, …

Voting for the finalists in Chase Bank’s $1 million “Big Idea” charity contest begins today. Three worthy LGBT organizations made the final cut. Go vote for your favorite: GLSEN, The Trevor Project, or the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

This Saturday, January 16th, Lady Gaga will host Hands Up For Marriage Equality in Atlantic City’s House Of Blues at the Harrah’s Showboat casino. In addition to the famed pop star, fans and supporters can take to the dance floor as DJ’s Micheal DeCero and Vito Fun will rock the decks at Club Worship. Admission is a minimum donation of …

The American Jewish World Service has created a fund to help grassroots LGBT groups in Uganda. Fantastic. In response to the terrible human rights violations against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Uganda, AJWS has created the URGENT LGBT UGANDA FUND to support local, grassroots organizations working to protect and advance human rights for sexual minorities. Your donation …