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SAN DIEGO — Beginning today at 7 a.m. The San Diego Foundation gives you the chance to make online donations to Townspeople and then have your gift matched*. Nearly 400 nonprofits in San Diego are participating in this online event. We hope you will support our work and help house many in San Diego. Townspeople…
GQ apologizes for tweet dissing Adam Lambert and gay community
GQ released its annual Year In Style fashion report Tuesday, which documents the year’s best and worst fashion faux pas. In tandem with the report, the men’s fashion mag took to Twitter to promote the looks. And in an unfortunate faux pas of their own, GQ tagged Adam Lambert in a tweet that read: GLAAD…
Attorney tells public to call gay sex line if doubtful on Sandusky’s innocence
A lawyer representing Jerry Sandusky in the Penn State sex scandal has made a rather embarrassing flub. Attorney Joseph Amendola, who represents Sandusky, told the media Tuesday that if anyone believed university officials on allegations against his client, they ought to call 1-800-REALITY. Sure enough, 1-800-REALITY is a gay sex line. It’s the “the hottest…
Transgender woman Chrissy Polis arrested on charges of disorderly conduct
Earlier this year, Chrissy Polis, 23, was attacked in a Baltimore McDonald’s after using the women’s restroom and is now making headlines again for her unrelated Dec. 3 arrest for disorderly conduct. Police arrested Polis after she “became disorderly and shouted obscenities at a police officer who arrived at her apartment after she called police,”…
Discharged U.S. Navy officer reinstated after dismissal under defunct DADT policy
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd class Jase Daniels, 29, was reinstated as into active duty as a linguist after the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and the law firm of Morrison & Foerster pushed for his return to duty. He was sworn in Monday. “Today, I took an oath and affirmed to defend the Constitution…
Gay war veteran on Mitt Romney: ‘He’s not going to be my president’
Bob Garon, 63, a war veteran from Epsom, N.H., went head-to-head with presidential candidate Mitt Romney on same-sex marriage during friendly banter at a local diner, the Boston Globe is reporting. After asking the Republican candidate on whether or not he supports the repeal of New Hampshire’s same-sex marriage law, Romney said he did. The…
‘Harry Potter’ star to portray gay poet
Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe is set to portray Allen Ginsberg in a new play about the poet’s life. Kill Your Darlings, a new independent drama about poetry, gay stalkers and murder in 1940s New York directed by John Krokidas, will chart the gay poet’s relationships with Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr,…
Wall St. to West B St.
Influenced by the protests and removal of former Egyptian president Muhammad Mubarak, Canadian anti-consumerism group Adbusters (best known for its self titled magazine) makes a public proposal to occupy Wall Street Sept. 17 with the demand for President Obama to create a presidential commission to end the influence of money on politics and government. Less…