News: Ryan Reynolds, Sao Paulo, Halloween, Kay Hagan, Viagra

Ron Reagan endorses Obama.

Ryan Reynolds beefs up the NYC marathon.

Two Swedish women married in India: "The young women, Sara and Sandra had been living together in India's national capital, New Delhi for past one year and 'solemnized' their marriage according to the Vedic rites and rituals. The newly married couple said that they were extremely happy to get married in the city of Taj Mahal, the monument of love and one of the Seven Wonders of the World."

Lesbian engagement on All My Children: "That day, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. And I knew that I wanted to have a home with you and Miranda, and a future together. And so today, I am asking you my beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Bianca... will you marry me?"

Will & Grace creator Max Mutchnick marries.

Harrison Ford dressed as a peapod for Halloween while Maroon 5's Adam Levine took a sexier route.

Hawaii verifies Obama birth certificate.

New play about gay Iranian teens executed in 2005 to open in Chicago: " The play tells the story of two boys coming of age, and struggling with their identities as Arab Iranians, and as typical teenagers longing to discover their place in the world. Ayaz Marhouni and Mahmoud Asgari, the two fifteen year old boys who may have been gay or may have been experimenting with their sexuality – like many teenagers do, get caught in a compromised position, publicly humiliated and tried in the Iranian legal system."

New York voters targeted with robocalls claiming to be Gay City News with an endorsement for the Democratic candidate in certain districts.

Students kiss for gay rights in Sao Paulo.

North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan is suing Elizabeth Dole for defamation over her "Godless" attack ad.

New McCain Keating 5 revelations on investigations on alleged leaks by the Senator: "All five senators--including McCain--had testified under oath and under the U.S. penal code that the leaks did not come from their camps. The leaks were also prohibited by rules of the Senate Ethics Committee; according to the rules of the Senate, anyone caught leaking such information could face expulsion from the body. These, then, were not the usual Washington disclosures: Discovered, they could have stopped the career of any Washington politician in his tracks."

Boy gunned down while trick-or-treating: "An ex-convict who thought he was being robbed gunned down a 12-year-old trick-or-treater, spraying nearly 30 rounds with an assault rifle from inside his home after hearing a knock on the door, police said Saturday."

Tom of Finland retrospective opens in Liverpool.

Joaquin Phoenix says good-bye to acting .

Homophobic attacks on the rise in Scotland.

Netherlands: Cannabis being laced with Viagra.

Straight man bringing discrimination suit against employer over "gay taunts" from colleagues who suggested he was gay because he lives in Brighton: "Stephen English, who is heterosexual, says he was called a 'faggot' and 'Mr Franglais' by fellow members of staff at the blind and awning firm where he worked. He alleges that the barbs began after a sales manager discovered that he went to boarding school and now lived in the Sussex seaside town, which has a large gay population. Mr English, who has been married for 20 years and has three teenage children, decided to take legal action after his attendance at Brighton's Gay Pride parade wearing "skin-tight Lycra cycling shorts" was mentioned in the Thomas Sanderson Blinds in-house magazine."

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Real-Life Witch Denies Halloween Candy to Kids of Obama Supporters

Meet Shirley Nagel, a real-life witch and McCain supporter from suburban Detroit.

Nagel refused to give out candy to trick-or-treaters who were children of Obama supporters.

As one YouTube commenter so aptly puts it, "Thank you SHIRLEY NAGEL for sharing your bitter ignorance with the world. You are the PERFECT reminder of the change we are voting for."

UPDATE: As one of our astute commenters points out, Nagel, who was a delegate from Michigan at the Republican National Convention this year, was interviewed by Triumph the Comic Insult Dog after a few glasses of Cabernet.

Watch both clips, AFTER THE JUMP...

And here's Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the Republican National Convention. Interview with Shirley the drunk comes at 4:16.

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News: Marilyn Musgrave, Banksy, Gay Kiss, Ben Barnes, Indiana

London gets World Gay Pride in 2012.

Bidding frenzy breaks out over British pub adorned with Banksy rat.

Markey-Musgrave race in Colorado attracts big outside bucks: "Musgrave campaign manager Jason Thielman said much of the independent spending is driven by the incumbent's support of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. He said that's led wealthy gay-rights activists, particularly Denver philanthropist Tim Gill, to spend millions of dollars against her in the three most recent elections. 'The radical homosexual movement driven by Tim Gill hates Marilyn Musgrave, and they are willing to spend anything and everything to settle their vindictive agenda,' Thielman said."

McCain attack ad emphasizes "bLACKS". McCain surrogate bashes "the gay."

DNC responds to anti-gay mailing from Indiana Democratic statte senate candidate Andy Schemenaur. DNC: "While this flier is disappointing, it's a reminder that while we have made great progress to ensure equal rights and protections under the law for every American, clearly there is still more education that is needed even within our party."

Study of galaxies suggests we may live in a fractal universe.

Meredith Vieira is a liar!

LOSER: Gay meth addict lawyer who caused scene on Southwest flight goes to jail. "Moody, now 44, groped and fondled a flight attendant then picked up a 7-year-old boy, hoisted him over his shoulders and proceeded down the aisle...According to the arrest affidavit, the incident began in Indianapolis when Moody boarded the plane with three friends and loudly asked, 'Where is the gay section?' He then proceeded to drink heavily from a liquor supply in his luggage. The flight attended said Moody groped his buttocks, back and abdomen and invited him to the lavatory to have sex."

U.S. expects message from Bin Laden before election?

Jason Statham takes it off for Transporter.

Two gay men arrested for kissing in Mexico: "Eric Schroeder, 22, and Jose Mendez, 35, were accused of committing "a moral misdeed" (una falta a la moral), jailed for 15 hours and fined 2,000 pesos ($148). Schroeder told the paper that on Oct. 10 the couple was "resolving some differences that we had" and, as they walked out of the house, 'there were a few hugs and a kiss out front.' At that point, police arrived, handcuffed them, then drove them around while they 'picked up more people who presumably had committed other crimes,' he said."

Ben Barnes falls into The Gap.

Lance Bass gets handled by Chelsea Handler.

Cowardly act: D.C. police officer finds anti-gay graffiti scrawled on his locker.

Madonna and A-Rod helicopter to secret rendezvous in the Hamptons.

OUT: Jesse Oxfeld on gay reporters on the campaign trail "It’s a job that requires you to have some of the attributes of a loner -- few commitments, an ability to pick up and disappear from your life -- without having the personality of a loner. You have to be social enough and socially adroit enough to read people, talk to people, and get them to talk to you. 'Is it a total surprise to me, if I were to go and look at it analytically, that gay guys want to be political reporters, and might excel at it?' asks another reporter. 'No. Because to be a good political reporter you have to be interested in power and sophisticated in seeing where it works and how it shifts. And I buy into the theory that growing up as a kid who feels different, you get to be very sophisticated about where power is, just in your own experience. You feel outsiderish, and you have that critical perspective.'"

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #384

VOTE: Kids from the Ron Clark Academy performing "You Can Vote However You Like." This is just about the cutest thing I've seen all week.

JOE THE BIDEN: This is what happens when you've been spewing the same shit for far too long.

THE HADRON COLLIDER: Audrina from The Hills learns about this particle-smasher.

REGIS & KELLY: As Biden and Palin for Halloween.

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West Hollywood Gays Take Down Sarah Palin Hanging Effigy

Earlier this week I posted about the tacky Halloween display put up by a gay couple in West Hollywood featuring an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging by a rope. It's been taken down:

"Sheriff's officials say resident decided to remove them after discussing the situation with West Hollywood Mayor Jeffrey Prang. 'My understanding is that the mayor had a long talk with the man and convinced him to bring it down. The homeowner began to realize what they had done caused a little more of a reaction than they had hoped for,' Sheriff's official Steve Whitmore says. Earlier today, protesters put up a pair of white sheets on sticks in effort to hide the display from the street Tuesday. Whoever put up the sheets could be cited for trespassing or infringing on free speech rights, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Oscar Butao. However, nobody at the house has complained so far. The U.S. Secret Service recently looked into the display and said there was no threat. Deputy Special Agent in Charge Wayne Williams called the display unusual but said so far it seems to be harmless."

Said a spokesman for Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca: "The sheriff made this clear: This is a country that has freedom of speech and we protect that right even when we think it's idiotic and stupid and in bad taste and wrong to do."

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Blood-sucking Vampire Moth Discovered!

Just in time for Halloween, a new moth has been discovered in Siberia, and it feeds on blood.

Let's hope it stays there.

It's thought to have evolved from a fruit-eating species: "Some researchers, [Entomologist Jennifer Zaspel] noted, hypothesize that blood-feeding in insects and animals evolved from behaviors such as feeding on tears, dung, and pus-filled wounds."

Lovely!

I'll take these guys, thanks.

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Amazon Had Obama Mask on Sale as 'Terrorist Costume'

Inexcusable. Apparently they've pulled the listing.

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Ashley Todd the Scariest Mask Yet This Halloween

Wonkette reports on a pumpkin which suffered the same attack as lying McCain volunteer Ashley Todd.

Todd's sick story was a small but satisfying victory against the racist scum which have perpetuated the hate in this election cycle. Jay Bookman at the Atlanta Journal Constitution notes: "So much of that story was unbelievable from the very beginning, yet certain people wanted to believe it so badly that they ignored all the warning signs and launched into full battle cry. Andy McCarthy at the National Review’s Corner responded with a post so embarrassing he has now taken it down so nobody can see it."

Below, clips of Brian Williams and Rick Sanchez reporting on the McCain campaign's steering of the incident to his political benefit. Sanchez calls out FOX and other outlets for carrying the story. The third clip shows the amount of time that FOX devoted to this false story. The fourth clip is a viral clip that went around over the weekend.

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McCain Campaign Volunteer's 'Assault' Wounds Self-Inflicted [tr]

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Gay Couple Puts Halloween Hate on Display in West Hollywood

Chad Michael Morrisette, a West Hollywood resident, and his partner are under fire for a Halloween display that depicts Sarah Palin hanging from a noose and John McCain emerging from flames out of a chimney. Of course Drudge is breathlessly flaunting it in red headlines.

Said Morrisette: "We see people stopping and taking pictures, and the tour buses are stopping and slowing down ... people reach out and take pictures...I know if we had done it with Barack Obama, people would've probably thrown things through our windows. The image of a hanged black man is a lot more intense than the image of a hanged white woman -- for our country -- in the history of our country...It should be seen as art and it should be seen within the month of October. It is Halloween. It's time to be scary. It's time to be spooky."

As much as I despise the GOP ticket, mimicking the hate and racist imagery that McCain supporters have been flaunting with regard to Obama isn't funny or original. It's just stooping to their level.

Halloween Palin Prop Sparks Controversy In WeHo - VIDEO

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In the Spirit of the Season: Barack O'Lanterns

The Barack O'Lantern above (based on the well-known Shepard Fairey image) was made using a stencil you can find here. Its creator then carved it into three layers with an exacto knife.

A slightly dorky and amusing clip of similar pumpkin-ganda, AFTER THE JUMP...

(via boingboing)

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Scary World

A disturbing Halloween ghost is on display in Fairfield, Ohio. Watch the clip, AFTER THE JUMP...

In related news, Politico's Ben Smith reported over the weekend on a recent poll: "The poll asked voters whether they agreed with the statement that 'African-Americans often use race as an excuse to justify wrongdoing.' About a fifth of white voters said they 'strongly agreed.' Yet among those who agreed, 23 percent said they’d be supporting Obama...Anecdotes from across the battlegrounds suggest that there’s a significant minority of prejudiced white voters who will swallow hard and vote for the black man. 'I wouldn’t want a mixed marriage for my daughter, but I’m voting for Obama,' the wife of a retired Virginia coal miner, Sharon Fleming, told the Los Angeles Times recently. One Obama volunteer told Politico after canvassing the working-class white Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown recently, 'I was blown away by the outright racism, but these folks are … undecided. They would call him a [racial epithet] and mention how they don't know what to do because of the economy.' The notion that there might be 'racists for Obama,' as one Democrat called them, comes against the backdrop of a country whose white voters largely accept the notion of a black president."

Watch the clip on the Fairfield ghost, AFTER THE JUMP...

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News: Glaciers, Jared Leto, Gay Nursing Home, Kevin Rudd

NYT: Civil unions not enough. "Though such arrangements were created, often under court mandate, with a promise of treating same-sex couples the same as opposite-sex couples, many gays and lesbians say they have not delivered and can never do so because separate institutions are inherently unequal. Many also resent being denied use of the word marriage, which they say carries intangible benefits, prestige and status."

Becks and teammate clutch the family jewels.

First stills of Britney Spears guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother.

Glaciers melting faster than at any time since records began: "The details are revealed in the latest report from the World Glacier Monitoring Service and will add to growing alarm about the rise in sea levels and increased instances of flooding, avalanches and drought. Based on historical records and other evidence, the rate at which the glaciers are melting is also thought to be faster that at any time in the past 5,000 years, said Professor Wilfried Haeberli, director of the monitoring service. 'There's no absolute proof, but nevertheless the evidence is strong: this is really extraordinary.'"

Inside Berlin's Asta Nielsen Haus, the first nursing home in Europe to cater specifically to gays and lesbians: "We just want people to be able to speak freely of their pasts. They shouldn't have to worry about reactions or prejudices. It's simple really: no one should be shocked to go into a man's room and see a picture of another man. No one should have to explain themselves to others at this stage of life."

Halloween in San Francisco's Castro District canceled forever.

Wentworth Miller goes to Jerusalem.

Nun urges Vatican to drop prejudice against gays and lesbians.

Gay Republican runs for seat on Plano, Texas City Council: "Justin Nichols is charting new territory in more ways than one. Nichols, 23, is already the youngest candidate ever to run for Plano City Council. If Nichols wins his race for the Place 1 seat on May 10, he’ll also become the first openly gay member of the body. 'I don’t know that one is harder than the other,' Nichols told Dallas Voice this week. 'I think that each is solved by letting people get to know you.' Nichols also faces a third challenge when it comes to gaining the support of Plano’s small but growing LGBT community: He’s a Republican."

Obama responds to controversial comments of Reverend Jeremiah Wright: "Let me repeat what I've said earlier. All of the statements that have been the subject of controversy are ones that I vehemently condemn. They in no way reflect my attitudes and directly contradict my profound love for this country."

Jared Leto packed on the pounds for his role as John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman.

Gay groups picket 'prayer breakfast' hosted by anti-gay Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle: "The featured speaker at the prayer breakfast, Jim Daly, president of the right-wing religious organization Focus on the Family, is among the most aggressive opponents of the gay rights movement. Daly’s organization is one of the primary backers of an anti-gay marriage amendment that goes before voters in November."

Australian PM Kevin Rudd forcing ministerial staff to list history of sexual partners, reveal extra-marital affairs and detail homosexual experiences before gaining security clearance: "More than 300 ministerial and electorate staffers have been ordered to fill in a 25-page form and attend an in-depth interview into their personal finances, drug habits and sexual history before gaining high-level security clearance. Senior staff say they have been told the security form is designed to protect them from blackmail. But several have told The Sunday Telegraph they were affronted at the personal information they had been forced to divulge."

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Michael Kors Sparkles on Halloween

Fashion designer and Project Runway judge Michael Kors showed up at Bette Midler's Halloween bash for the New York Restoration Project looking like his teeth needed restoring. Or is that just a stab at Elton and British dental hygiene?

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #192: Halloween Edition

UFOs: From last night's debate. Dennis Kucinich says he's seen a UFO, and more people in America have seen a UFO than approve of Bush.

THE WIDE STANCE EXPRESS: Key West recently had its Fantasy Fest. One of the entries in its parade was this tribute to Senator Larry Craig.

CAR TROUBLE: A creepy Halloween entry from the gay horror flick Hellbent.
(source: tottyland)

THE WITCH MIX: A treat from Eartha Kitt.

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News: Iran, Rosie O'Donnell, Halloween, Zagreb, Gay Ghetto

Amnesty: Death penalty imminent for gay youth in Iran. "Child offender Makwan Moloudzadeh, an Iranian Kurd, is believed to be at risk of imminent execution. He has reportedly been convicted of lavat-e iqabi (anal sex) for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old boy. Makwan Moloudzadeh was aged 13 at the time of the alleged offence. His death sentence has been passed to the Office for the Implementation of Sentences and he is due to be executed in public, near his home."

Confederate flag that hangs at site of Cheney's weekend hunting trip stirs up anger from Al Sharpton: "It’s appalling for the VP to be at a private club displaying the flag of lynching, hate and murder. It’s the epitome of an insult." The good news is, nobody got shot in the face.

Rosie O'Donnell ambushed at book signing by Bill O'Reilly team. (Rosie's Video, O'Reilly's Video)

NYT: Cancellation of Halloween fest in San Francisco a sign that gay ghettos risk becoming passé. "For many in the Castro District, the cancellation is a blow that strikes at the heart of neighborhood identity, and it has brought soul-searching that goes beyond concerns about crime. These are wrenching times for San Francisco’s historic gay village, with population shifts, booming development, and a waning sense of belonging that is also being felt in gay enclaves across the nation, from Key West, Fla., to West Hollywood, as they struggle to maintain cultural relevance in the face of gentrification."

Did Avril Lavigne dress as Chris Crocker for Halloween?

Miller Brewing apologizes for allowing its brand logo to appear on posters for San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair that parodied The Last Supper.

Opposing accounts offered at trial of Navy doctor accused of secretly taping midshipmen having sex: "A Navy doctor who served as a sponsor for U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen 'violated the trust' of the students by using surveillance equipment installed in an air purifier at his Annapolis home to make 'secret sex tapes' of them, a Navy prosecutor said yesterday at the start of the doctor's court-martial. But Cmdr. Kevin Ronan's attorney, William T. Ferris, said the tapes were made by a former midshipman who used them in an attempt to extort money from his client. Ferris said the tapes became public after his client refused to give money to the former midshipman, who had been dismissed from the Naval Academy for academic reasons and needed money for expenses. 'This was a plan to extort money from Commander Ronan that went awry,' Ferris said during his opening statement at the Washington Navy Yard."

Meet the first Mr. Gay Brazil, Luciano Lupo.

Frank DeCaro looks at Paul Lynde's Halloween Special from 1976, along with a clip of Margaret Hamilton dressed as the wicked witch introducing Paul to members of KISS.

Queer community at NYU holds drag ball.

Croatian man charged with hate crime in Zagreb for attack on gay parade: "The man, identified only as Josip S., is charged with endangering lives and property by an act of hatred toward the participants of the Gay Pride parade in July, the Zagreb district prosecutors' office said. The man is the first person in Croatia to face hate crime charges since it was introduced into the Penal Code last year. If convicted, he faces up to eight years in prison. No date for a trial was immediately set. Police spotted the man as he prepared to throw homemade Molotov cocktails — bottles containing gasoline — at the parade participants gathering at Zagreb's main square. He fled the scene, but was tracked down later at his home."

Best Week Ever's Top 10 most humiliating pet costumes, judged by the expression on the pets' faces.

Leak reveals Cheney's plan for Iran attack? "In the scenario concocted by Cheney's strategists, Washington's first step would be to convince Israel to fire missiles at Iran's uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Tehran would retaliate with its own strike, providing the US with an excuse to attack military targets and nuclear facilities in Iran."

1884: The oldest known photograph of a tornado.

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Who's the Gay Killer Clown?

Not for the coulrophobic.

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Holy Missing Banana Hammock Batman!

The Hills actor and model Brody Jenner was captured by Buzz Foto displaying what Robin's got in his utility belt for a Halloween party at Opera. His faithful sidekick Batman is friend Frankie Delgado.

In other Halloweenie News, a former Chicago Bull was spotted out doing what he does best:

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It's the dragalicious Dennis Rodman.

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Steelers Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is Delicious

At least according to this elephant at the Cincinnati Zoo that decided it would rather eat the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback than crush him. The Bengals face the Steelers this weekend.

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Senator Larry Craig Halloween Mask

It's a PDF you can download and paste to a grocery bag. Maybe your friend can dress up as Sergeant Dave Karsnia. Make sure not to forget to stick some toilet paper to the bottom of your shoe.

It is pretty scary.

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San Francisco Officials on Halloween: "There Will Be No Party"

Following violence at last year's annual massive Halloween event in San Francisco's Castro district, city officials have announced that there will be no party in the Castro, nor will there be one at AT&T Park, which organizers had been considering as an alternate site. There will be no party at all.

At last year's Halloween in the Castro, several people were injured as gang violence broke out and shots injured nine people. At the time, a security guard at the event told the Chronicle: "When the shooting happened, people just dove to the ground like a wall of water."

The celebratory event has lost its luster, Dufty told the SF Chronicle: "It's not a holiday in the Castro. It's a night in which the neighborhood is overrun by people who come to gawk, not celebrate, and unfortunately it turns into gang night out in the Castro."

Supervisor Bevan Dufty has sent a letter to 110 businesses in the area, requesting that they be closed the night of the event to discourage partygoers from gathering. five have already agreed to close, including popular outdoor cafe Café Flore. There will be no road closures, no barricades set up, but police presence will be as strong as ever and say there will be "zero tolerance" for misbehavior.

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Up to 10 Shot at Castro Halloween Fest in San Francisco

Up to ten people were shot last night when a gunman opened fire on the crowd as the massive Halloween bash that occurs each year in San Francisco's Castro district began to wind down.

According to the SF Chronicle, "Police officer heard shots fired around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday, as they began dispersing thousands of revelers under a new curfew that was aimed at controlling the traditionally raucous event in the city's gay and lesbian community. They arrived on Market Street, about a block from the main stage, to find victims scattered along about two blocks."

Increased police presence due to climbing levels of violence and gay bashing in recent years apparently made no difference. One security guard for the event told the Chronicle, "When the shooting happened, people just dove to the ground like a wall of water."

The early number of injuries (two life-threatening) was thought to be seven, but officials later identified three additional victims.

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Alan Turing Jack O'Lantern Cracks the Halloween Code

Check out this great Alan Turing Jack-O'Lantern. It was created using a stencil taken from a blog that posts them for graffiti artists. While I've posted about Turing here before, I think that the creator of the Jack O'Lantern, Meryl, sums up the points of Turing's tragic bio quite nicely:

"The gentlemen depicted is Alan Turing, who is considered the father of modern computer science... maybe you've heard of the Turing test for artificial intelligence? He was British and worked for the British secret service as a mathematician and cryptographer until he was convicted of being a homosexual (which he was and which was considered a mental illness under the law). To avoid being sent to prison, he had to agree to undergo estrogen hormone therapy and he did for a year, but the homosexuality conviction caused him to lose his security clearance and therefore to lose his job. He killed himself a year later by eating an apple poisoned with cyanide, which seems a little ornate, I think. It's quite a sad story, but he makes a delightful pumpkin."

I'd have to agree.

For more on Turing read our previous post about the codebreaking machine he devised during World War II that has been recreated at Bletchley Park, England.
(via boingboing)

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Is This Pumpkin Gay?

It has been reported to me that gay men have been scouring pumpkin patches in New York and other cities for white pumpkins in an attempt to make their Halloweens more upscale, minimalist, and as much like Ian Schrager hotel lobbies as possible. This trend is rumored to have been spawned by an article in the most recent issue of Martha Stewart Living, though I don't read that publication so I wouldn't know.

What I do know is that two Halloween homos (friends of mine) in New York who really try to go all out for the holidays have found that the demand has driven the price ($50 per pumpkin) of white pumpkins out of reach even of gay men with...disposable income!

So — they were only able to purchase one white pumpkin and had to settle for surrounding it with a bunch of tired orange ones and other assorted warty gourds. They probably even had to pull out that most dreaded of autumn cliches, the wicker cornucopia. Poor boys. I feel so sorry for them.

I would try to maybe FedEx them another, but because we've had striking grocery clerks in L.A. for a week now and I don't want to be a scab, I haven't had the chance to check out if there are any white pumpkins at the uber-gay Pavilions supermarket in West Hollywood. The only thing I can say for certain is that this Halloween, WHITE IS THE NEW ORANGE. You heard it here first.

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