QUIET END OF AN ERA Are you sitting down? Good.  Because I have something to tell you: the public can be very uninformed.  Are you still sitting?  Good.  Because I also want to tell you that celebrities hold a startling amount of power over the public’s attention. Now that the room has stopped swimming for [...]

IS ELENA KAGAN THE BEST CHOICE? It is looking extremely likely that President Obama will bring Solicitor General Elena Kagan before Congress as the potential replacement for departing Chief Justice Stevens. Now, all things considered, is this a good thing for gays? Yes.  But, actually, maybe not.  But that’s only because Obama can’t nominate Kristen [...]

THAT MOVIE WAS SO GAY Well, that went fast!  I am back, after missing last week’s Gay News Monday, as I was in Miami Beach.  I got to attend the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and let me tell you this, child– We ain’t never gonna get respect until we respect ourselves. I saw [...]

Today’s Gay News Roundup will not be as varied.  The reason is because I literally have no room is my heart today for stories other than the one of Harold Scull and Clay Greene.  My heart is so heavy that I can’t think of anything else.  I can’t comprehend anything else.  I can’t comprehend this [...]

The Good, the Bad & the Ominous today, folks.  Ooh, let’s start with Ominous! Ominous! *Via THE ADVOCATE: The April & May session for Congress has been officially designated Do-or-Die time for LGBT Issues.  Will we see our momentum gain or get cut off at the knees, the first big victim of the Stupid, Stupid, [...]

*A creepy neighborhood perv solicited a rub and a hug from his twinky music student this weekend— what? Oh, sorry, that’s one of the Jonas Brothers performing at Angels Stadium for Saddeblack Ranch’s Easter Sunday Service.  The older gentleman (who looks like he lost out to Stanley Tucci for the role of the child murderer [...]

*VIA THE ADVOCATE: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has enacted provisions to the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy that take effect immediately on future and presently open cases of expelling gay soldiers.  The three main provisions: 1) An upgrading of the ranking of an officer (which would mean General or flag officer like an Admiral) [...]