March 11, 2009
Look at that photo. Disgusting, huh? I'm not exactly sure what particular demographic statistics make up an Absolutely Fabulous fanatic, but I know I'm part of it. The episode in which Saffy is sold into white slavery in Morocco by Patsy taught me oh, so much about how the world really wor...
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March 10, 2009
When the history of the gay rights movement is written – hopefully sooner rather than later – the story of Prop. 8's damage to gays and lesbians may be overshadowed by the way the California gay marriage ban transformed the gay movement. In a survey conducted by Queerty of several h...
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March 06, 2009
Now the waiting game begins. In a three-hour long oral hearing yesterday, justices grappled with the fate of Prop. 8 as gay and lesbian rights attorneys, civil rights lawyers and representatives of both the City of San Francisco and the Attorney General's office asked them to overturn the ban. ...
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March 05, 2009
Hey hey! It's your special day, gays and lesbians, as the California Supreme Court listens to arguments on whether to overturn Proposition 8, which outlawed gay marriage in the state of California only months after that same court declared marriage "an inalienable right". Crowds are g...
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February 27, 2009
It's Tuesday night at Unwind, a Los Angeles ladies night for professional lesbians run by Dawnita Moore. "I'm the type of person that, even when I'm going out, I'm looking for the next thing I'm going to do. So to combine personal with pleasure works well for me", ...
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February 24, 2009
With the economy ever tanking, now is as good a time as any to take stock of where your gay dollars are going. You may not have much (or, thanks to prudent investing in gold and shares in Mr. Hobo J. Poverschmidt's Hobo Sticks Emporium, you may have quite a bit), so why spend it on companies wh...
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February 23, 2009
"I hate Sean Penn, keep your politics to yourself Mr. Penn, actors are entertainers not politicians. Sean Penn is a jerk, he cheated on his beautiful wife last year with a model, why… WHY did the academy give him an Oscar…Down with Gay rights! Down with Sean Penn. Mickey Rourke shou...
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February 20, 2009
Last week it happened again. I was at a dinner party at The Standard, downtown L.A.'s hipster-by-way-of-Ikea boutique hotel and what was originally supposed to be an intimate group of four had become, by the time I showed up fashionably late, a massive table of sixteen, thanks to the hostess. T...
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February 19, 2009
While Milk is unique in that its gay characters are not terrifying sociopaths, murders, criminals, dying or horribly closeted, it's hardly the first gay film to nab Oscar gold for actors willing to don a shade of lavender for the limelight. Here's a brief history of gay for pay, Oscar-nom ...
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February 18, 2009
On August 2, 2006, Robert Wone, the happily married general counsel for Radio Free Asia and president-elect of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association-D.C., was found stabbed to death in the apartment of a prominent D.C. gay couple. Police reports later said that Wone had been drugged, stabbed wi...
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