Friday Geek Out: Pride

This weekend New York City closes out 2008 Pride Week with the March down 5th Avenue into the Village. The 2008 theme–”Live Love Be”–is quite appropriate in this year where California has taken a huge step forward with same-sex marriage. And, honestly, what more could you ask out of life than to be able to [...]

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Weddings Begin in California

Towleroad has some of the first pictures and video from California’s first same-sex marriages, which happenend yesterday at 5:01pm pacific time. Congratulations to everyone who is taking advantage of this new legal right!

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Drippy Saturday

It’s a great day to stay inside, and curl up with a book or just watch TV. It’s soggy, rainy, icky outside! The upside, if there is one, is that it at least feels like fall.
Jury Duty Completes: I completed jury duty in just two days. I was in a couple pools to potentially get [...]

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Happy Fall (almost)

Happy Fall! It is, as regular readers know, my favorite time of year. Crisp air, clear skies… and it means the snow will be here sooner rather than later (unless this year is like last when there was such a sad snow drought). It doesn’t feel very fall-esque today, but there’ve been hints of it [...]

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Only one week to go!!!

Ugly Betty premiers next Thursday. Check out the clips below… not only is the cast funny, but socially aware too!!!

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Saturday Ramblings

Divas Unite: Will posted yesterday, briefly, about the amazing union of Jennifer Hudson and Jennifer Holliday singing “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls on the 2007 BET Awards. For a few hours Will had the clip up from YouTube, but YouTube has been pretty vigilant about getting that clip pulled down [...]

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This day in history

It was 38 years ago today that, in the wee hours of the morning, the modern Gay Rights movement was born. As a quick refresher of the history of the Stonewall Riots, here’s a 3 minute clip from the incomparable Varla Jean Merman. Thank you Stonewall veterans and God bless!!!

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My two cents

The politics of outing is a complex issue that can’t be fully explored in a single blog entry, but I’d like to comment on a recent incident in the gay press. Earlier this month, certain members of the gay media were all in a tizzy when Out magazine put Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper on [...]

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Commentary from Harvey Fierstein

From the NY Times editorial page today… Harvey Fierstein speaks out on prejudice and Don Imus. You can read the whole piece, but I think his closing is something important enough to quote here: “Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if [...]

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Happy Holidays!

It’s hard to believe (and cliched to say) that 2006 has zipped by so fast. To already be writing Christmas letters, addressing holiday cards and doing all the shopping just seems odd. At least it has finally gotten cold, although perhaps a little too cold for it just being December. Yesterday morning it was 18 [...]

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