Library of Congress Staffer Says He Was Fired for Being Gay: VIDEO
Peter TerVeer, who was hired as a temporary employee at the Library of Congress' office of inspector general in 2008 and promoted several levels before being fired, says he was fired for his job after...
View ArticleSexually Lost in 'American Translation': VIDEO
French director Pascal Arnold's road trip thriller American Translation is to be released on DVD later this month and a sexual (and dark) trailer precedes it. If you're into films featuring bisexual...
View ArticleNew: Thomas Kinkade, Palm Springs, Ben Bradshaw, Buenos Aires
Thomas Kinkade, iconic Christian painter of kitsch landscapes, dead at 54. "His paintings are hanging in an estimated one of every 20 homes in the United States." Oh, just a praying mantis riding a...
View ArticlePorn Stars vs. Rick Santorum: VIDEO
It's on! Porn stars against Rick Santorum! Rick Santorum doesn't like pornography, and porn, like many an embattled industry before it, has marshalled its moxie to influence the American presidential...
View ArticleEx-Gays Of Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald today published a small feature on pray-the-gay-away cults around Sydney, Australia. It's a good read, and it bears good news: The ex-gay movement in Sydney, like ex-gay...
View ArticleVD Is For Everybody: VIDEO
aKudos to BuzzFeed for unearthing a truly bizarre anti-VD PSA from 1969. In it, a sultry-voiced so-and-so sings a vaguelly Weillian song about VD -- it's "for everybody!" -- that makes gonorrhea sound...
View ArticleGoodbye, John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire's career is over. The polemecist, novelist, and National Review writer -- who long ago made the admission that he was a "homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though...
View ArticleMike Wallace Dies: VIDEO
Mike Wallace, late of CBS's 60 Minutes, died last night at age 93. He perished in an assisted care facility near New Canaan, CT. From the New York Times: A reporter with the presence of a performer,...
View ArticleNEWS: Nazis, Mega Millions, Nick Cage, John Cage, God, Surveys, Science
Armed neo-Nazis patroling Sanford, FL: Neo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are "prepared" for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols...
View ArticleThe Vale of Death: The Night Lands on Game of Thrones
"Sometimes those with the most power have the least grace." What is the difference between a threat and a promise? Whether in this world or the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, the only true promise in this...
View ArticleHIV Vaccine Study Offers Up Possible Antibody Protection Clues
Scientists continued to unravel clues as to why a combination of two preventive HIV vaccines—ALVAC HIV and AIDSVAX B/E—may have worked for some but not others in a large scale clinical trial reported...
View ArticleFOX Affiliate Calls Neo-Nazi Group Patroling Sanford, Florida a 'Civil...
Late yesterday, Brandon made note of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest and most prominent neo-Nazi groups in the United States according to the SPLC, which is patrolling Sanford,...
View ArticleNew Zealand Man Crowned 'Mr. Gay World' in Johannesburg: PHOTOS
Andreas Derleth, a stationery store manager from New Zealand, won the Mr. Gay World 2012 competition in Johannesburg over the weekend, StuffNZ reports: The Mr Gay competition took place over four days...
View ArticleTim Tebow on Using the Broadcast Sports Platform for Jesus: VIDEO
On Saturday, I mentioned that 30,000 were expected for a Tim Tebow Easter appearance at a Texas megachurch. About half that number showed up. The Easter "sermon", Tim Tebow-style: "I have actually had...
View ArticleCargo Ship 'Breathing Fire and Bringing Good Stuff' to the International...
American Astronaut Don Pettit tweeted the stunning photo you see above of the European Space Agency’s ATV-3 cargo ship docking at the International Space Station with the lights of Earth below. Wrote...
View ArticleWhat if Jesus Christ Was a Bullied High School Teen? - VIDEO
Bullies, punks, and a Pontius Pilate principal are the players in this bullied teen as Jesus Christ music video from NYC-based recording artist Danny Blu for his new track "Set Me On Fire". Check it...
View ArticleAnne Rice: 'Happy Easter, Gay People of the World'
Anne Rice's Easter Facebook message: "Happy Easter, Gay People of the World: you have indeed risen in the last few decades from centuries of persecution and oppression. May this be a great holiday for...
View ArticleAndy Cohen, 'Watch What Happens Live' Get Spoofed on SNL: VIDEO
Andy Cohen's Bravo show format is pretty ripe territory for parody. How did SNL do? P.S. - that's Kate McKinnon, SNL's first out lesbian cast member, as Tabatha Coffey. WATCH, AFTER THE JUMP...
View ArticleThe Pursuit: Fever Dreams on Mad Men
"You loved it." What does it mean to be a good man? Is it the ability to uphold one's vows--constancy, fidelity, honesty--or is it that one's actions echo forever in a relationship? We're given a prism...
View ArticleJohn Mayer Covers Lana Del Rey's 'Video Games', Instrumentally: AUDIO
John Mayer's vocal cords are still giving him problems, so this is instrumental, with a Ry Cooder twang. "Video Games (dub solo electric) w/Binson Echorec" Listen, AFTER THE JUMP...
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