Tag Archives: New York Times

The New York Times observes that there appears to be “little passion” among LGBT voters regarding the outcome of California’s gubernatorial race. And that’s curious because Meg Whitman has vowed to attempt to defend Proposition 8 in the Ninth Circuit Court, should she be elected. Intervention would be an “unprecedented situation,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at …

“How much longer can they continue without a fresh batch of bona fide female stars to draw inspiration from? Since the 1960s, such role models have been scarce. Sure, there have been beautiful-freak performers like Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli, with their surreally emotive song stylings (descended from the patron saint of musical drag queens, Minnelli’s mother, Judy Garland). “But …

Today the New York Times published an editorial advising President Obama not to appeal the recent federal court ruling that DADT is unconstitutional. President Obama, the House and a majority of senators clearly support an end to “don’t ask, don’t tell,” but that, of course, is insufficient in the upside-down world of today’s Senate, where 40 members can block anything. …

The New York Times will cease production of its print edition relatively soon according to its publisher. “We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD,” Arthur Sulzberger told an audience at a London media summit Wednesday. Sulzberger’s statement came in response to a prediction that the newspaper would go out-of-print by 2015. “This sounds …

Today the New York Times does what numerous other publications have tried and failed to do, they’ve gotten the guys behind Christwire to come clean. Christwire has lately reached new levels of popularity, in part thanks to an Aug. 14 column, “Is My Husband Gay?” Written by Stephenson Billings, the piece is a 15-point checklist to help wives diagnose possibly …

New York Times op-ed editor Tobin Harshaw has compiled bloggers’ reactions to Ken Mehlman’s coming out, quoting Pam Spaulding, Melissa McEwan, and this here website thingy on the left, and the usual Quisling apologists on the right. Pam Spaulding nails it: “While it’s nice that Ken has finally come out of the closet as an advocate, it’s really hard to …

Check out how the New York Times reports Ken Mehlman’s history with the GOP. Mr. Mehlman was in Mr. Bush’s inner circle in both presidential campaigns and ran his campaign in 2004, when the party courted Christian conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage. But Mr. Mehlman, in his work as chairman of the Republican National Committee and as head of Mr. …

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight makes its debut as part of the New York Times today, where he gives us the above predictions for this year’s Senate races. It looks like Silver is predicting that the Democrats will lose about seven seats, yet retain a slim majority.

A hilarious and very NSFW spoof of the New York Times Weekender commercials. Get da fuck outta heeyah.

“As partners cultivate romance, and particularly as they move toward erotic involvement, there are things each should reveal, things they would not mention to a casual acquaintance — any history of S.T.D.’s, for example, or the existence of any current spouse. Even before a first kiss, this person should have told you those things that you would regard as germane …

The New York Times has taken over hosting of FiveThirtyEight, the popular elections prognostication site run by statistics guru Nate Silver. Mr. Silver, a statistical wizard, became a media star during the last presidential election season for his political projections based on dissections of polling data. He retains all rights to FiveThirtyEight and will continue to run it himself, but …

From the New York Times‘ Paul Schmidtberger: If there were any truth to the idea that a particular name can guarantee a particular character trait for the child — or vice versa — most people would be named Vaguely Dissatisfied. Or Kinda Bitter. In my case, my parents could’ve just named me Unemployed and saved everybody a lot of trouble. …

This weekend’s feature article in New York Times Magazine deals with homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Here’s an excerpt: Various forms of same-sex sexual activity have been recorded in more than 450 different species of animals by now, from flamingos to bison to beetles to guppies to warthogs. A female koala might force another female against a tree and mount …

Towleroad reports that the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue has published an ad in today’s New York Times blasting them for coverage of the global child molestation scandal and claiming that gay men are the true cause of the problem. The Times continues to editorialize about the ‘pedophilia crisis,’ when all along it’s been a homosexual crisis. Eighty percent of the …

The New York Times continues to uncover evidence of the Pope’s complicity in the cloaking of pedophile priests. The future Pope Benedict XVI was kept more closely apprised of a sexual abuse case in Germany than previous church statements have suggested, raising fresh questions about his handling of a scandal unfolding under his direct supervision before he rose to the …

Last night Perry Vs. Schwarzenegger lead attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies spoke before about 150 journalists at the New York Times headquarters in Manhattan in an event called “Unlikely Allies.” In attendance among the print journalists were uber-blogger Andy Towle, activists Corey Johnson and Brendan Fay, former Clinton advisor David Mixner, and former GLAAD director Neil Giuliano. Olson and …

In a front page editorial, today the New York Times called for the resignation of Gov. David Paterson unless he can “account for his actions.” Gov. David Paterson gave New Yorkers his “personal oath” on Friday that he had never abused his office. It now seems clear that, at the very least, he tried to arrange a ham-handed cover-up to …

After Business Insider today published a claim that NY Gov. David Paterson will resign tomorrow upon the publication of an expose’ in the New York Times, Paterson’s office has denied the resignation rumor, but acknowledged the existence of the NYT story. And now, according to the latest rumors from media insiders, the NYT will not be publishing the story tomorrow …

Reliable political reporter Elizabeth Benjamin reports at the NY Daily News that a potentially career-ending personal scandal will shortly be divulged about NY Gov. David Paterson. Recent claims have been made that state troopers walked in on Paterson and an unidentified woman in a utility closet at the executive mansion. According to Gothamist, the big story (which may or may …

“Here’s the question I keep asking myself about the Uganda controversy: just what is it that qualifies the United States of America to lecture the Ugandans about homosexuality? Is it our public policy that enshrines immoral sexual behavior (oops: “sexual orientation”) and gender confusion (er…”gender identity and expression”) as a “civil right”? Is it our homosexual “marriage” laws that make …