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The Village Voice’s Steven Thrasher tips us to Queer Rising’s plan for Sen. Ruben Diaz this weekend. The kids over at Queer Rising, whose actions for marriage equality have been some of the more entertaining protests we’ve covered lately, were incensed when they heard of Diaz’s plans to hold an anti-gay rally during the annual AIDS Walk. Faced with a …

This Saturday at the Stonewall Inn, Flotilla DeBarge will host a screening party for gay fans of the Eurovision Song Contest, which airs live from Germany at 2pm. Go Serbia!

A man having some kind of psychotic episode got naked on the 6 train while yelling racist slurs. After begging a cop to shoot him, the man attacked other passengers on the platform. And of course, instead of fleeing this clearly seriously deranged person, some folks rushed forward with their iPhones to record the entire sordid scene. Others helped the …

The Village Voice’s Steven Thrasher tips us to Queer Rising’s plan for Sen. Ruben Diaz this weekend. The kids over at Queer Rising, whose actions for marriage equality have been some of the more entertaining protests we’ve covered lately, were incensed when they heard of Diaz’s plans to hold an anti-gay rally during the annual AIDS Walk. Faced with a …

“Sponsored by Senator and Reverend Ruben Diaz—a true hero in the fight to protect marriage in New York—the rally will bring together marriage supporters from across the state as we join together across racial, ethnic and religious lines to affirm the truth of marriage. I am excited to be there, and to have the opportunity to share a few thoughts …

Bootleg copies of the clip are leaking onto YouTube, hence the lower quality of the video. Watch it now if you’re interested, this will likely get yanked. From their coming album Panic Of Girls.

New York City-based LGBT marketing executive Scott Seitz is spearheading a group working to win the right to administer the proposed top-level internet domain (dot)gay. What’s most interesting about this effort is that Seitz’ group has pledged to donate two-thirds of the potentially considerable .gay domain registration profit back to the LGBT community. That promise has earned Seitz the endorsements …

I haven’t yet heard of any organized plan to counter-protest at Diaz’ hate rally this Sunday. I plan on being there. If you are attending, please consider signage with respectful messages in Spanish. There were so few of us at Diaz’ 2009 rally, most of the counter-protesters ended up in the press materials of our enemies.

Openly gay Broadway legend Arthur Laurents has died at the age of 93. Theater Mania reports: Laurents was best known for his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim, including writing the books for West Side Story and Gypsy (earning Tony nominations for both), Anyone Can Whistle, and Do I Hear a Waltz. Early in his career, Laurents wrote such plays as Home …

UPDATE: The ceremony has concluded.

“Everyone should realize that we’re not hiring Ricky Martin, Elton John or Rosie Perez to attract people to our event. There won’t be any paid superstars or celebrities to draw crowds. Whoever joins us will do so because they support traditional marriage. It’s important to know that whoever comes to this rally will be there because they support the growing …

Starts at 7:40.(Tipped by JMG reader Sean Chapin)

One week after 9/11, I rescued the above unsigned painting from the front wall of the elementary school on my Chelsea street. It was one of hundreds affixed there in what doubtlessly was a group therapy project for the children. A violent rainstorm had just begun when I removed it and by morning the hundreds of other drawings lay ruined …

The New York Post reports that the NYPD has issued a warning that teams of muggers are targeting gay men leaving bars in the West Village area. Some of the recent attacks: Between April 11 and 27 at least five men were mugged in five separate incidents in the area around Seventh Avenue South and Christopher Street typically in the …

Hometown girl Lady Gaga has pledged to donate $1M to the Robin Hood Foundation, which will distribute the funds to five NYC-based organizations that support impoverished LGBT youth. Among the beneficiaries is the Hetrick-Martin Institute, where many of Ali Forney Center’s homeless gay kids go to school. Visit Gaga’s Facebook page and vote on your favorite charity. The top vote-getter …

More trivia: Exterior shots of Tom’s Diner, made famous by Suzanne Vega, were used for the diner on Seinfeld. (Source)

A lesbian-owned maternity shop in Brooklyn’s Park Slope is offering a discount to lesbian moms only, although the owner doesn’t ask patrons to “prove” that they are gay. While a few people have looked “questioningly” at the placard advertising the unique discount, Paperno says the overall response to the lesbians-only promo is positive. “People are tickled by it,” Paperno says, …

The wall of skyscrapers across the top of this photo sort of define the eastern boundary of Hell’s Kitchen, which is mostly low-rise. For now.

Airing tonight at 9pm on PBS’ American Experience: When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the …