CNN: Ted Haggard, the megachurch pastor and former National Association of Evangelicals chief whose career was undone by a gay prostitution and drugs scandal in 2006, is expected to talk about the next step in his career Wednesday. With his family by his side at his Colorado Springs home, Haggard is expected to a make […]
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Alleged Gay Bashing on Burnside Sparks Fear, Anger
Queer community organizers are pulling together a public forum tomorrow night at the Q Center on Mississippi in response to an alarming gay bashing multiple people say occurred this weekend in the heart of downtown Portland. Drag queen Jeffrey Darling says he and four friends were leaving Red Cap Garage’s Leotard party at about 2 […]
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SOU Students Are Super Duper Sorry That They Got Caught Being Hateful
Two young men at Southern Oregon University got a pretty sympathetic piece in the Mail Tribune today for scribbling anti-gay graffiti on the walls of a gender-neutral dorm. They totally don’t hate gay people, though, they were just, uh, bored (?) “We already had markers in our hands and we started to draw stuff on […]
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Breaking News: Homosexuals Like Sex and the City!
Pictured above: Liza Minnelli in a totally straight scene from Sex and the City 2. Our subheadline for this week’s Sex and the City 2 review is “Sex and the City 2: The Gayest Fanfic Ever Filmed.” Which everyone here thought was fine… at least until this morning, that is, when I got a super […]
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Portland Pride 2010 Entertainment Is, Umm, Announced
Logan Lynn + The Gentry. Not officially part of the Portland Pride music line-up. But officially one of the badassest shows happening for Pride weekend. So, Pride Northwest has announced its headlining entertainment for the ever-popular Portland Pride Waterfront Festival festivities, June 19 and 20. Here are some of the names: Amber.Angie Evans.The Cliks.God-des & […]
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Gleegasm: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Don’t be afraid to express yourselves here, Gleeks. I’ve found a spot behind this jump where our wild theatricality won’t freak out the normals! Casting call for the live action “Heavy Metal” movie I’m an old grouch. I can literally think of dozens of performers I would rather see teach the kids at William McKinley […]
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“When are people going to stop getting fired?”
Dan Choi on this week’s DADT “compromise.” He’s not satisfied. GetEQUAL is not satisfied. And the protests continue. GetEQUAL co-founder Kip Williams was arrested for shouting at President Barack Obama in San Francisco last night. Obama was speaking at a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer at the Fairmont Hotel. Williams said he yelled at […]
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Field Report from the Queer Issue: Radical Faeries.
The Mercury‘s annual Queer Issue debuts this June, so that means issue editor Stephen Marc Beaudoin has already doled out the article assignments, ordering each writer to cover a different part of Portland’s queer subcultures. For me, Beaudoin saved a special assignment: the Radical Faeries. I had never heard of the radical faeries. In fact, […]
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Gleegasm: Dream a Little Dream of Artie
This is it, folks: the best episode of Glee yet. I was sold from minute one as Neil Patrick Harris smirked his way through “Daydream Believer” with a mullet and a bouquet of flaming flowers. I will lay out all the reasons this episode was awesome under the jump. Be warned: I’m using a lot […]
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God Hates Fags… in Portland, Oregon!
The dreaded Westboro Baptist Church is heading to Portland next week to wave some “God Hates Fags” signs and rattle on about anti-Christ Obama. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “But wait! Didn’t they protest our fags just like two years ago?” Yes, well, apparently the Kansas-based church has cleared its busy schedule of […]
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Obama Appoints “Proud Homophobe”
A scientist describes himself as a “proud white supremacist” or a “proud anti-semite” or a “proud sexist.” What are the odds that Barack Obama would appoint that guy to “an elite scientific panel”? Nonexistent. But Obama just appointed Jonathan I. Katz—a man describes himself as a proud homophobe, calls gays and lesbians “sodomites,” and who […]
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Glee Brings “Glorified High School Talent Show” To You
First of all, I’m actually really embarrassed to admit that I had no idea that “Gleeks” was an actual term for Glee fans. I must be the worst Gleeporter in the world to have that thought that I birthed that myself a couple of weeks ago as a lighter version of the more popular “Gleetard.” […]