In theory, equality means equal treatment, Jonathan, and in practice equality means that mindless, salacious, and moronic ads targeting specifically gay consumers shouldn’t be treated any differently than mindless, salacious, and moronic ads targeting targeting straight consumers. I agree that the stupid ManCrunch ad shouldn’t be “elevated to lunch counter status,” and I haven’t spilled […]
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The Superbowl Ad You Won’t See
Here’s the now famous commercial from gay dating service ManCrunch that CBS has refused to air during the Superbowl. And yet an anti-abortion ad is okay. Is it because two aborted fetuses weren’t making out over a bowl of Doritos?
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Obama on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: “Just Wrong”
This story in the NYT is heartening: But it was in Oval Office strategy sessions to review court cases challenging the ban—ones that could reach the Supreme Court—that Mr. Obama faced the fact that if he did not change the policy, his administration would be forced to defend publicly the constitutionality of a law he […]
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iPad and Home Cooks Sitting In a Tree, C-O-O-K-I-N-G
I was a bit down on the iPad before its unveiling on Wednesday. I said some cynical things at our weekly editor’s meeting, sure, but from the reaction of my co-workers, you would’ve thought I was suggesting the Pope Steve Jobs shove his pointy hat up his own ass (not that I’d ever say anything […]
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Half of All Gay Couples Non-Monogamous
See? Joy was right. From the NYT: New research at San Francisco State University reveals just how common open relationships are among gay men and lesbians in the Bay Area. The Gay Couples Study has followed 556 male couples for three years—about 50 percent of those surveyed have sex outside their relationships, with the knowledge […]
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Basic Rights Oregon Discontinues Strut
Basic Rights Oregon‘s big annual fashion show fundraiser Strut would have seen its fifth year in 2010, but according to this statement from organizer Jonny Shultz, it is no more. (For those of you who do not recall, he references his longtime partner Dan Callaway, who died in 2007.) According to Shultz, BRO “can’t hold […]
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Obama and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
The AP: Reaching out to a skeptical gay community, President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Congress to repeal the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, but he neither made a commitment to suspend the practice in the interim nor issued a deadline. Sullivan: Ending DADT: it’s the right thing to do. […]
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Gay Men, Monogamy and Joy Behar
Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper—a gay man in a monogamous relationship—is a bit annoyed with Joy Behar. When I was on Joy’s show on Monday night, we were talking about Tiger Woods and I tossed out my position on monogamy (it’s not natural, and people are going to want to sleep with others, even if […]
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Call Your Little Sister 30 Years Ago: ABBAWORLD’s Open!
The British love Abba. From what I can tell, they never stopped loving Abba. They love Abba so much that Mamma Mia! beat out Titanic as the UK’s highest grossing film ever. They love Abba so much that Matt Davis has a serpentine tattoo of an angelic Agnetha Fältskog wrapped round his right thigh. Take […]
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Manic Mondays: New, Free, Weekly Queer Night Debuts Today at Slabtown
Looking for something fun, gay, and free tonight? Sheeeit, who isn’t? Well look no further, because tonight is the first night of Manic Mondays, Slabtown‘s new Monday night Queer Night with DJ Life Partner, starting at 8 pm. Plus it’s $Free.99 and gives me the excuse to post this:
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Prop 8 Trial: The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
Among many fascinating things about the Prop 8 trial in California is that a prominent conservative lawyer, Theodore B. Olson, is helping to make the argument that banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. As Olson wrote recently in Newsweek: My involvement in this case has generated a certain degree of consternation among conservatives. How could a […]