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04/19/2007
News: Moon, Amy Winehouse, Basking Shark, India, Jim McGreevey
New coalition of EVIL: Far-right and anti-gay groups joining forces.
NASA to release new images of Moon landing found on lost tapes?
Man creates life-size Lego replica of...Amy Winehouse.
Three charged in Monday night homophobic attack on Long Island woman.
REPORT: Michael Jackson's children aren't his biologically, nor are they Debbie Rowe's. Father is Jackson's dermatologist Arnie Klein.
5-year-old rescued after Airbus 310 from Yemen crashes into Indian Ocean while attempting landing with 153 on board.
Lt. Dan Choi's hearing over discharge is today.
Trevor Donovan: 90210 gets some beefcake.
Meghan McCain: I speak for GOP on gay issues. "The reason why I became so vocal about it is because it is so important to me and I didn’t see any politicians, even President Obama, doing anything. At this point, I don’t care what leader, what party, comes out and supports marriage equality, as long as somebody starts doing it. I hope that will be President Obama, I hope that will be my father, I hope it will be lots of people. I think it’s the type of thing that’s really coming to a fever pitch. People are really angry. People really want response. I hope President Obama can do that,
Inside the apartment Bernie Madoff will never live in again: "It's bye-bye forever to the $35,000 Lavar Kerman Persian carpet and the $20,000 Chippendale-style tea table in his art-filled four-bedroom duplex on the upper East Side."
An interview with the hottest gay Dungeons & Dragons geeks in D.C.
T.R. Knight to headline Broadway revival of Lend Me a Tenor.
One Life to Live actress Patricia Mauceri fired over refusal to participate in gay-positive character storyline: "Reportedly the soap opera wanted to go against stereotype and show Carlotta as a gay friendly Latina mother. The actress allegedly vehemently protested that story decision, resulting in show brass replacing her."
Basking Shark spotted cruising Long Island beaches.
Rescheduled: Marc Jacobs pushes wedding date to August.
Indian government ready to de-criminalize homosexuality? "The new Government that took power in May after the Congress Party’s surprise election victory has indicated that it is ready to change the law, which is at present being challenged in the Delhi High Court, according to Indian media reports."
More Madonna Louis Vuitton campaign images.
Chace Crawford slicks it back.
Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern working on getting state to approve a proclamation blaming gays for the recession.
Jim McGreevey's new mission: "McGreevey volunteers at Exodus Ministries at the Church of Living Hope in East Harlem, New York, which tries to help newly-released prisoners learn life skills and handle the significant challenges that ex-convicts face. It’s not just job-hunting.One of the photographs below shows Jim helping one young man figure out how to set up a free e-mail account on Yahoo. With limited access to computers, the guy had no idea how to do this. This is not atypical. We take this kind of knowledge for granted, assuming everyone knows how to set up free e-mail. They don’t. The gifts that McGreevey brings to these formerly-incarcerated men and women are vast."
Madonna Plays Mannequin in New Louis Vuitton Campaign
Shot in April by Steven Meisel. Same thing she wore to the Met Costume gala.
News: Maine, Gray Hair, Snow Leopard, Lady Gaga, Mercy, Apple
LIARS: Maine anti-gay marriage petitioners using duplicitous tactics.
Lady Gaga has a tit explosion in Toronto.
Sacha Baron Cohen plagiarized his pink nude Berlin bodysuits.
New York Bar Association stands behind marriage equality.
Provincetown film festival kicks off.
Hate crime outside Casey's Bar and Lounge in Portland under investigation: "No arrests have been made, but the case has been sent to a detective with the Biased Crimes Unit, which is examining whether the alleged victim was targeted because she was gay. Customers of the bar said they have experienced homophobic slurs from people in nearby apartments. They said some have tossed water balloons and spit at them."
T.R. Knight to star in Parade at the Mark Taper Forum.
Madonna's Mercy arrives in London.
Recently-out 86-year-old World War II vet served as grand marshal for this weekend's Gay Pride parade in Columbus, Ohio.
NYT: Why the gay rights movement has no national leader.
Apple sells more than a million iPhone 3GS in first three days.
More reason that clowns are evil.
Residents of Napa, California rally for Pride: "About 100 people walked Saturday in downtown Napa for Napa Valley Pride 2009, an event in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people."
AfterElton covers Broadway Bares 19.0.
Mulberry, Florida mayor and drag queen roommate in domestic dust-up.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon now wear matching outfits.
Is gray hair protecting us from cancer?
Gay rights group in Indiana plans July 2 protest in Bloomington against constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Canadian and U.S. researchers' new approach to fighting AIDS: "Treating HIV/AIDS with a combination of antiviral drugs and chemotherapy seems to destroy both the circulating virus and immune cells in which the virus hides, a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers has found. In Sunday's online issue of the journal Nature Medicine, Dr. Rafick-Pierre Sékaly of the University of Montreal and his colleagues report finding cells where HIV hides from existing treatments. Anti-AIDS therapies known as highly active anti-retroviral treatments, or HAART, target the virus's replication process but have been hampered by these reservoirs of immune system cells hiding the virus."
Male model fix: Jamie Dornan.
Cell phone leads police to gay man's killer. Likely an internet hook-up gone wrong: "Officials said they believe the stabbing occurred after Fermaintt visited Pecora's apartment and then hailed a cab to go to the Bronx, according to city police. But once in the cab, police said, Fermaintt explained to the driver that he did not have cash and offered a watch and a cell phone to pay for the ride. When Fermaintt left the cab, he left the phone on the backseat, where the driver later found it and saw a worried text message that was from Pecora's sister." NY1 report.
Quest for the snow leopard.
Google Street View provides some useful evidence after a weekend building collapse in Brooklyn in which three were injured.
Youth Radio to cover 40th anniversary of Stonewall.
Major spelling error at Pat Buchanan conference to promote "English-only" initiatives.
Washington Post under fire for publishing 7,000 word piece on the murder of gay D.C. lawyer Robert Wone online only and not in print edition.
News: Civil Disobedience, Mariah Carey, iPhone 3GS, O.J.
Savage: One year Civil Disobedience plan for gay rights.
Schwarzenegger: Prop 8 challenge should be decided by the courts.
End sign?
Listen: Mariah Carey's new single "Obsessed".
Portland Mayor Sam Adams woes continue: home payment default.
Gizmodo's review of the iPhone 3GS.
Madonna's new kid Mercy and her peeps.
Biologists: Same-sex relationships may drive evolution. "Same-sex sexual behaviors are flexibly deployed in a variety of circumstances, for example as alternative reproductive tactics, as cooperative breeding strategies, as facilitators of social bonding or as mediators of intrasexual conflict. Once this flexibility is established, it becomes in and of itself a selective force that can drive selection on other aspects of physiology, life history, social behaviour and even morphology."
Australian poll: 60% support marriage equality.
It's the 15th anniversary of the O.J. chase.
Thousands flock to Banksy show. "During the show’s opening weekend, almost 8,500 people flooded the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, about eight times what the venue would normally expect."
Sex change in China could require permission from the police: "The proposed guidelines, posted Tuesday, say candidates for surgery must show an agreement from police to change their sex on their identification cards once the procedure is complete. The ministry posted the draft guidelines to invite public and professional opinions before July 10. China has no laws against sex change surgery, and the ministry says the guidelines are necessary to regulate the procedure."
Jamie Dornan all buttered up for new Calvin Klein campaign.
Anti-gay attack on College Street in Toronto: "Around 2:30am on the morning of Jun 7 — after a night out at El Convento Rico dance club on College St — Corey John and Takonda Majikwa were walking west toward Ossington when a group of men approached them. 'They were drunk and had open beer bottles in their hands,' says John. 'When they approached us they were making remarks as 'faggot,' 'fudge packer' and 'you and your girlfriend.'"'
Why people tend to enjoy Cristiano Ronaldo's time off best.
Larry Kramer praises book on pre-Oscar Wilde gay sex in Britain: "Certainly nothing like this has appeared in America, thus allowing queer and gender studies to pretty much swamp, nay drown, the gay history field with their gobbledygook theorizing of what might have happened. This ludicrous state of affairs prohibits making statements such as: "they did then what we do now," without the wrath of queer theorists raining down insults of an uncommonly vitriolic nature. You don't have a right to say that! say they. You can't prove it! say they. It's been here all along since the beginning of history, say many others of us. Well now it can be said, and proved, in Britain at any rate, thanks to Upchurch."
News: Tel Aviv, John Berry, Betty White, Miami, Lobster, Mercy
Five gay couples wed in ceremony on Tel Aviv beach as Pride celebration climaxes.
Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson tape for No H8.
WATCH: Betty White plays beer pong.
City of Miami passes Domestic Partner ordinance: "The domestic partners benefits measure extends to unmarried gay and straight employees of the city who register their relationships with Miami-Dade County's domestic partner registry."
White House Office of Personnel Management head John Berry delivers impassioned speech at Justice Dept: "My family has never known divorce. Were we married? No, but I dare anyone to say that we were not in love.... Where do you stand? Honoring love as precious and true wherever you find it, or with those who would demean or deny it? I urge you: Stand where you can be proud. Stand with service and truth. Stand with love. Stand for liberty and justice for all."
San Diego County school district apologizes for refusing to let student deliver report on Harvey Milk during class time: "In a letter to Natalie and her parents, Supt. Robert Graeff and Mt. Woodson Principal Theresa Grace apologized and said they had acted out of an abundance of caution for the 'tender sensibilities' of Natalie's fellow students. 'It is our hope that -- together -- we can all view this incident as a learning experience and emerge wiser from the entire experience,' wrote Graeff and Grace, on behalf of themselves and the school board."
Bret Michaels releases lengthy statement on Tonys mishap that left him bloody.
Yellow lobster is 1 in 30 million.
On the bus to Kayseri, Turkey: "Kayseri is home to a group of gay men and lesbians who have fled Iran and are now waiting in Turkey to be resettled in a Western country. The government of Turkey does not allow non-European refugees to stay in Turkey, and it is the responsibility of UNHCR to find a host country to take them in. Currently there are over 18,000 refugees in Turkey, some of whom have been waiting for over 2 years to be resettled elsewhere. While in Turkey, the authorities insist that refugees can only stay in one of 30 designated small cities. These locations are assigned based on the asylum seeker’s nationality, gender, age, and reason for seeking asylum."
Madonna confirms Mercy adoption.
Anti-gay hate graffiti under investigation in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Hate crime charges against Staten Island man dropped: "A spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan would not comment because the case is sealed, but confirmed the hate crime case against James Champagne, 24, of Stapleton, has been dismissed. Champagne had been accused of beating up another man in West Brighton July 29, and during the attack he allegedly yelled, 'we don't like faggots on Barker Street.'"
Beyond Hatred: PBS to air documentary about French gay man murdered by skinheads.
The Daily Beast interviews openly gay Iraq vet and candidate for Congress Anthony Woods, who was discharged under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': “I knew getting into it that if I took a stand, it would be a costly decision and it certainly has become one. But people have to take a stand for what's right. There's a reason this policy is on the front burner now... We're a country fighting two wars, having trouble recruiting, yet we want to turn away some of our most talented, most well-trained soldiers?”
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