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Pack Up Your Show Tunes and Leather Harnesses: It’s Over

From the Associated Press:

Vatican: ‘Homosexual behavior’ on decline

WASHINGTON (AP) – A Vatican office that evaluated U.S. Roman Catholic seminaries says the schools have made improvements in halting what they call “homosexual behavior” among students.

The Vatican also says seminaries are doing well in teaching about celibacy and are generally effective in screening candidates for the priesthood.

The [...]

Why?

I don’t know why I was choking back a tear as I watched blogbuddy ELeven’s safer-sex, anti-barebacking PSA but I did. This is important, this is vital and this is a message not delivered often or loudly enough. vital. Love this, love Eric…

Why are we… from Eric Leven on Vimeo.
(Mostly SFW, but deals with [...]

If Gays Were Allowed To Get Married, It’d Be Like That Atom Bomb We Dropped On Nagasaki

From the always, always hilarious A.D. Miles and the kids at 23/6:

Brilliant.

Bigot Pride

Bigotry Wears a Wal-Mart Top

Two things caught my eye first thing this morning. First was the significant rise in the number of visitors to my Yes on 8 Endorsers page, a list of those folks who parted with hard-earned cash to take away the legal rights of same-sex couples in California.

And the other was [...]

The Previous Two? Not So Good At The Detecting.

(Link courtesy Consumerist.)

What Kind of Bigoted Motherfucker Hates Us SO MUCH As To Tear These Families Apart?

I mean, apart from bigoted motherfuckers like Ken Starr and the bigoted motherfuckers who supported Prop 8 who, not satisfied with merely preventing gay and lesbian couples to celebrate the institution of marriage enjoyed by every other American, want to actually make null and void the completely legal marriages of over 18,000 Californians?

And bigoted motherfuckers [...]

The Saddest Music in the World is Also the Happiest

Cocteau Twins have been in heavy rotation on my iPod lately, and I couldn’t quite figure out why that is. Of course, the obvious reason is that their albums are lush, sweeping, gorgeous documents of a certain time and place, not just for me but, well… everyone who’s a fan seems to possess a similar, [...]

Alessandro Calza

Alessandro, a.k.a. “ahunter“

The first thing you need to know about Italian graphic designer, actor, model, photographer and writer Alessandro Calza is that to describe his masculine beauty you must begin with “breathtaking”. Whichever direction you go following “breathtaking” is for you to decide, of course, but here’s a further tease:

“Hash”

Say what you will [...]

Day Without Lies

Sure, it’s supposed to be Day Without a Gay but, for a variety of reasons — some of which I discussed here — I was at my exceedingly gay job at my exceedingly gay employer until I cut out to be exceedinly gay with my exceedingly gay boyfriend. We’re drinking exceedingly gay eggnoggs right now, [...]

Best Movie Entrance Ever

Harold (Leonard Frey) responds to Michael’s admonishment for being high and late, The Boys in the Band, 1970

San Francisco, Thirty Years Later

Harvey Milk, 1978

Thirty years ago today, Dan White, a former member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, emptied a handgun into Mayor George Moscone. White calmly left Moscone’s office, reloaded his weapon, walked to the Supervisors’ offices and pulled former colleague (and rival) Harvey Milk aside with a “Harvey, can I see you a minute?”

A [...]

Thanks

I’m not sure whether it’s because I’m gearing up to bawl my eyes out at Milk today or not, but this remarkable, heartfelt speech in support of same-sex marriage equality by (Republican and former police chief of) San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders had me reaching for the Kleenex.

I’m not going to weigh the effectiveness of Sanders’ powerful [...]

Love for All

From Joe (Another One) — via Joe.My.God. — comes this sweet ad from… tennis icon Björn Borg? For real:

The ad, for Borg’s Love for All dating site clothing line, debuts today on Swedish TV. If I had a bazillion dollars, this ad would be on heavy U.S. television rotation throughout the Thanksgiving holiday. Just [...]

“Twilight” Review

Like I’m going to see it. Ever.

But if I did, this would be my review:

If I wanted to watch horny, not-overly-attractive, immature drama queens not having sex for 122 minutes, I’d rather spend a couple of hours in the sauna at my gym.

“Every Gay Person MUST Come Out!”

Following the spectacular success of the worldwide demos last weekend, in which hundreds of thousands of lesbians and gays and their friends and families protested the passing of California’s Proposition 8 (and three other antigay measures in other states), the folks at Join the Impact now propose that on December 10th we all call in [...]