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This clip comes from a Canadian site whose description says: The Size Doesn’t Matter (SDM) campaign is a cutting-edge social media experience that includes videos, an interactive website and promotional give-aways. Aimed at highlighting the multitude of Israel’s accomplishments and contributions in a new, fun and attractive way, this campaign has quickly become Canada’s most successful of its kind, reaching …

Clip description: “The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble group Lollipop Guild, Too Straight Polka, arranged by Deke Sharon, words by Paul Saccone.”(Tipped by JMG reader Sean Chapin)

Pride Magazine 2012 is online in its entirety. Click on the link and hit full-screen to click through the title page by page. And keep an eye out for a piece (page 77) from our own Father Tony!

A gay take on the boy band hit.(Tipped by JMG reader Justin)

2009’s word is definitely much older. Naughty language.(Via Bilerico)

Details at the Kickstarter page: The Rockland Palace was a famous event hall at the corner of 155th street and Frederick Douglass Avenues in Harlem, where political rallies, sport events, concerts, and elaborate dragballs were held during the Harlem Renaissance. It was torn down in the 1960’s and is now a parking lot. On Sunday July 1st, 2012 we plan …

Two minutes of self-affirmation from John Waters, Mink Stole, and the I Am Divine Foundation. “Be your own filth god or goddess!”(Tipped by JMG reader Fritz)

Details.

Via Andrew Belonsky.

The decline of gay nightclubs commenced well over a decade ago with the advent of AOL chat rooms. And further spurred both by the rapid gentrification of urban areas that once hosted multiple gay dance palaces and the increased social integration of LGBT youth with their straight peers, the first decade of the new century saw the demise of even …

Yesterday New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn became the highest-profile legally married gay politician in the nation. Quinn walked down the aisle in a cream-colored gown designed by New York-based Carolina Herrera, with a one-of-a-kind decorative hair comb by Lulu Frost, fashioned out of family heirlooms. Catullo wore a silk suit designed by Bronx native Ralph Lauren. Both women, …

“When Summer died from cancer yesterday at the age of 63, the straight world lost a superstar, but gays of my generation lost an emblem of our lives that we may never experience again, even at a time when everything is marketed more and more brazenly to us. We’ll probably never have another open secret like Summer again because a …

Andy Towle writes: Shane Bitney Crone has marked the one-year anniversary of his boyfriend of six years, Tom Bridegroom, with a devastating video, It could happen to you, chronicling what happened to him after Tom’s sudden death. If there’s anyone in your life who doesn’t understand the familial rejection, the institutional discrimination, and the bias that gay couples face every …

More number crunching from the 2010 census.

I don’t usually mention these sort of events unless I’m going myself, but since I illogically consider Fort Lauderdale to be my home town… (Plus lots of my besties are going to attend.)

What does gay pride mean to you in 2012?

The Daily Beast reports on the surging number of anti-gay murders in Brazil: Though the overall crime rate is down sharply in major cities, murders of gays and lesbians are on the rise. It’s especially acute in the most populous areas: Bahia, Minas Gerais, and the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo—precisely where police have made their biggest …

Yesterday the New York Times published a column lamenting that Judy Garland is not an icon to the youngest generation of gay men. An excerpt: I asked Brodie if he’d ever heard gay guys refer to themselves as “Friends of Dorothy?” “Why would they do that?” “Because gay men once identified, very powerfully, with Judy Garland: her wit, gravitas, glamour.” …