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Our long national reality show nightmare is officially over. LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Striking Hollywood writers are going back to work. The Writers Guild of America said its members voted Tuesday to end their devastating, three-month strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill. Writers will be back on the job Wednesday after voting in Beverly Hills and …

Last night’s Reading For Filth show at Rapture was extra fun. Chadwick Moore opened with a strangely compelling story about a disabled boy having gay sex for the first time, Sam J. Miller followed with his tale (NSFW) about a runaway and his much older lover crashing a fancy party, then Eric Leven (pictured below) read his affecting tale of …

And since so many of you have asked, here’s the MySpace page of Nima Daivari, the model in the ad.

Here’s the ad that will appear in tomorrow’s bar rags for the next edition of Reading For Filth, in which I’ll share the stage with Eric Leven, Sam J. Miller, Chadwick Moore, Jonny “The Gay Pimp” McGovern, and Sherry Vine. And no, I don’t know who the model above is. Rapture Cafe & Books is located on Avenue A in …

Beloved-by-all JMG commenter and blogstress Lynette, author of Big Ass Belle, is the co-winner for 2007’s Post Of The Year for her heartwrenching AIDS memorial, Piano Music. Every week this year, a UK-based cabal of writerly bloggers selected a Post Of The Week, which Lynette won earlier this year with the above-linked entry. A short-list of the weekly winners was …

Last night’s Reading For Filth show at Rapture was a lot of fun, the house was packed. Xavier led off with a reading from Dean Johnson’s blog, followed by Eric Leven (left), who read a hilarious original story about a Craigslist spawned Daddy vs. boy encounter that didn’t turn out quite as expected. It was Eric’s first public reading of …

As today is National Coming Out Day, let’s do a special Swag Thursday giveaway with Steve Goula’s Wearing History: T-Shirts From The Gay Rights Movement. T-shirt activism has long been one of the most visible means of letting the world know who we are and Goula’s book covers the history of T-shirt activism from Stonewall to ACT-UP to today. The …

I’ll be reading tonight at Rapture in the East Village with Eric Leven (pictured), Miss Understood, Jake Shears, and Michael Cunningham. I hope to see some of you there. RELATED: Pop over to Bloggernista for a great interview with Eric Leven. The interview is cross-posted on The Bilerico Project..

I’ll be reading at Rapture next Wednesday with Eric Leven (pictured), Miss Understood, Jake Shears, and Michael Cunningham. Tonight’s installment will be a memorial to Dean Johnson, who was to host the series. From Rapture: “Please feel free to bring photos, music, writings or any other Dean Johnson-related memorabilia for the Honoring Wall which has already sprung up around our …

Wednesday, October 10th, I’ll be reading with Eric Leven (pictured), Jake Shears, Miss Understood, and Michael Cunningham at East Village hotspot, Rapture Cafe & Books, for Dean Johnson’s Reading For Filth: Queer Writers Read About Queer Sex. Egad! An international pop star, a movie star dragster, a Pulitzer winner, and a local activist/heartthrob. I’m gonna have to dig deep into …

Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick …