August 2008

Gay prison romance is a subject generally best left to Dateline NBC, porn films, and the Times‘ Modern Love column, but when it intersects awkwardly with the California gay marriage boom, it’s a hard subject to resist.

Who said Republican politicians are the only ones trolling bathrooms for sex?  With Manhunt deserted after the McCain-Crutchley debacle, ever-horny gay delegates are flocking to Denver Craigslist
M4M — some even posting from the convention floor (!) — looking for nearby bathroom and post-speech hotel room action. And you thought the Olympics was a sex-fest! Some local Democrats are even showing their unity by offering up ass in return for tix to Obama’s big speech tonight. (Now that’s what we call a super delegate.)

Del Martin, one of the two elder lesbians who were first to be married by SF Mayor Gavin Newsom back in the Valentine’s Day Uprising of 2004 and again in June 2008 when the CA Supreme Court finally legalized same-sex marriage, died today at age 87.  She was admitted to UCSF Hospice care after breaking an arm two weeks ago, however the San Francisco Chronicle reports that she had been experiencing “a long period declining health.” Her wife and partner of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon, was by her side.  Ms. Martin was a co-founder of the groundbreaking lesbian rights organization The Daughters of Bilitis in 1955.

How can you not love Barney Frank: the left-handed gay Jew is an ardent supporter of medical marijuana and has an established predilection for twink hookers. But during an interview with Corey Johnson of Towleroad TV, he talked tough about two issues facing the LGBT community: the increasing conservatism of urban gay men and lazy trannies.

An Australian private school teacher has resigned after his students discovered his profile on a gay hookup site and passed it around the entire school. While logging into an educational website on an overhead projector during a class, the teacher used an odd word as a username which some clever student then typed into Google and out popped pictures of said teacher jacking his cock. He advertised himself as “40-year-old cuddly bear who is looking for fuckbuddy/friend for fun.” Though his face was not visible in the photos, he must have had some tats on his arms or something because students were readily able to identify him.

Madonna kicked off her Sticky and Sweet Tour this weekend to swarms of screaming queens and teens at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.  And in typically sensational, borderline retarded fashion, a video montage that played during the opening of a “Like a Prayer” remix “showed flashing images of destruction followed by pictures of Hitler, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and then Senator John McCain.”  Later in the show, a more peaceful montage featured images of Ghandi, John Lennon and, naturally, Barack Obama.

A new Zogby poll conducted for the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute found that among 1,089 likely voters, 60% said they “strongly” or “somewhat” agreed they could support a lesbigay for President. 71% said they would support a lesbigay as cabinet-level secretary (ahem,  Condoleezza). As much as we despise polls and believe that you can get the resulting data to say whatever you want them to say (just stop polling as soon as you get the answer you want!), this falls under the category of “somewhat” compelling snooze-flashes and we’re willing to give the Zogby people the benefit of the doubt today.