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(Via JMG reader Inga)

Yesterday in Central Park, performance artist and famed NYC activist Rev. Billy performed a group unmarriage ceremony for straight allies unwilling to partake of the institution until “love is the law.”

Popular performance artist and one-time NYC mayoral candidate Rev. Billy will stage a group unmarriage ceremony in Central Park tomorrow in which participants will vow not to get married until everybody can. Join hundreds of couples at The Bethesda Fountain in Central Park this Valentine’s Day for a mass ritual in support of the rights of ALL people to marry …

According to Queer New York, four members of the new LGBT activism group Queer Rising were arrested at this morning’s protest at the NYC marriage license bureau in Manhattan. Their statement, in part: On Friday, February 12 from 8:00-10:00am, LGBT activist group Queer Rising lead a crowd of impassioned protestors in a Valentine’s Day action outside the new 24,000 square-foot …

Casting has been announced for Broadway Backwards 5, the fantastic annual Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS show in which performers sing songs written for the opposite sex. Appearing this year: Nick Adams, Martine Allard, Gary Beach, Dan Butler, Tituss Burgess, Mario Cantone, Len Cariou, Raúl Esparza, Harvey Evans, Tony Goldwyn, Ann Haarda, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Aaron Lazar, Michele Lee, …

CNN is reporting that Bill Clinton has just been rushed to a NYC hospital after complaining of chest pains. Clinton underwent a quadruple bypass in 2004 and has been closely monitored for continuing heart problems ever since. Horrible news. I’ll post updates here immediately upon getting them. UPDATE: Clinton has undergone a stent procedure at Columbia New York-Presbyterian in Washington …

Brand new LGBT activism group Queer Rising will stage a protest tomorrow morning at the NYC marriage license bureau in lower Manhattan. This event is a public protest to highlight the fact that LQBTQI individuals in the state of New York and throughout America may not legally bind themselves into the institution of marriage with the person they love. There …

An explosion in Chelsea has blown out the windows of a seven story building and destroyed a ground floor Radio Shack. Firefighters are on the scene of an explosion on 6th Avenue and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The front of a Radio Shack store at 641 6th Avenue was smoldering in the aftermath. There was damage to several …

Currently only three* gay nightclubs in NYC have the necessary cabaret license that allows dancing: Chelsea’s medium-sized Splash, the basement room of the Monster in the West Village, and Escuelita, the Hell’s Kitchen drag and Latin club. This week, the highly anticipated reopening of the legendary Roxy was finally (and probably, permanently) shot down when the backers of a new …

Things are still in the “isn’t this pretty!” stage.

Lt. Dan Choi will be a Grand Marshall of this year’s NYC Pride March. Via Queer New York: This past Monday, February 8th 2010, at a meeting of NYC Pride (aka Heritage of Pride) it was announced that Lt. Dan Choi would be one of the Grand Marshals for the 41st Annual LGBT Pride March, which will occur on June …

NY Gov. David Paterson says the rumors of his drug use and womanizing are untrue and he has no intention of resigning. Governor David Paterson is fighting back as rumors continue to swirl about a still-unpublished New York Times article that some say could lead to his resignation. On Monday, Paterson told the Associated Press that allegations of recent drug …

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that billionaires gave less to charity in 2009. In purely financial terms, last year was a dismal one for megagifts. The donors on the Philanthropy 50, The Chronicle’s annual list of the most-generous people in America, gave a total of $4.1-billion to charity in 2009, less than in all but one year since the newspaper …

Another 10-20 inches of snow are forecast for DC over the next 36 hours. Washington’s public schools are closed today, the federal government is closed too. NYC doesn’t escape this one like it did over the weekend – we’re under one of them there red alert blizzard watches with 12″-18″ expected. I’m a bit disappointed that the NYC stations don’t …

Here’s a short slideshow from Saturday’s HRC gala in NYC, courtesy of my able photographer Dr. Jeff. Except for the HRC’s official photographer, media were kept tightly corraled in a roped-off pen in front of the HRC backdrop, so we were pretty much unable to photograph or interview attendees. After all the big shots were trotted off the pre-show stage, …

Linguists have long noted the slow demise of regional American accents, a phenomenon partially blamed on the “television accent” and partially blamed on the perception that such accents denote a working class origin, leading some to accent reduction training. The NYC accent in particular is thought by many to be especially crude, wrought as is with a uniquely colorful vernacular. …

NY Gov. David Paterson took to the media pit podium for some brief remarks in praise of the HRC prior to last night’s fundraising gala in the adjoining grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. My apologies for the shaky camera work, I was getting jostled by the CNN crew on my right. At the end of the clip, I pan …

At the Human Rights Campaign’s $400/plate black tie gala at NYC’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, last night Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced that she would be submitting an amendment to the federal budget that would block the use of funds to enforce DADT. Gillibrand, the evening’s keynote speaker, also praised Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen for last week’s declaration …

In advance of this weekend’s snowpocylpse, the Long Island Railroad has announced that service will be suspended if snowfall exceeds 10″. Meteorologists are indicating that there could be a significant snowstorm Friday evening, February 5 into Saturday, February 6. To ensure customer safety, the LIRR may suspend train service temporarily when snow accumulation reaches between 10 and 13 inches. Suspensions …

Duane Reade, 1st Avenue, 8:30am Hipster Dude 1: And then she said I was emotionally crippled, that my family is all freaks, that I’m going nowhere in my job, that I’m lazy, that I’ve got bad taste. She just went on and on. Hipster Dude 2: What did you say? Hipster Dude 1: I told her she’s fat. Hipster Dude …