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NEW JERSEY NEAR GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

While I, like many New Yorkers, find it incredible that neither California nor New York were the first to allow same sex marriage (and if things keep going the way they have been, we may be among the last - after Alabama and Arkansas) it is fantastic that New Jersey is thisclose to passing the same sex marriage bill.

According to NJ.com, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill that would allow same sex couples to marry. The debate went on for seven hours and got quite heated. I guess they people protesting the move live in a bubble where the world hasn't ended in Massachusetts or Iowa (or in Vermont or in.. well, you get the picture).

Hold on to your hats, folks, it's not over yet ... it goes before the Senate on Thursday.......

PROTEST IN TIMES SQUARE AT 6PM TONIGHT

By now you know that same sex marriage was voted down in the NY State Senate and, as has happened so often in the past, people are ANGRY.... and are gathering to protest in Times Square tonight from 6pm to 9pm.

One smart blogger wrote, because of how Diaz, a Democrat, voted: "Dear NY Sen Rubén Díaz Sr. If it weren't for social progressives, you would be emptying trash instead of denying me my rights."

And in another instance, a facebook friend of mine wrote:  "today is a shitty day if you're gay, afghani, or in the military or all 3" I'd add in "or if you're an ex boyfriend of Meredith Baxter-Birney" but maybe people don't have a sense of humor at the moment.

And for those of you who are letter writers, HitBackDan has posted this handy emailable list to those NY State Democrats who voted AGAINST same sex marriage.

addabbo@senate.state.ny.us, kruger@senate.state.ny.us, diaz@senate.state.ny.us, shuntley@senate.state.ny.us, monserra@senate.state.ny.us, onorato@senate.state.ny.us, stachows@senate.state.ny.us

I will probably be at the protest at least for a few minutes before going to Bingo... see you at both I hope!

THE LOW BOW

I think Obama doing a scissor-step followed by a cartwheel would've been worthy of all the angst that the Repubs are giving him over this 'low bow' to Japan's emperor http://www.sphere.com/2009/11/16/the-point-obamas-bow-enrages-critics/ but you know when you have Palin as the only thing you've got going, the only option is to attack everything and anything and hope that something at some point sticks.

On an upbeat note, porn on Oprah in just a few minutes. Whoo hoo!

LEVI'S JOHNSTON ARRIVES IN NYC FOR PLAYGIRL SHOOT

What on Earth would make nightlife promoter and Playgirl spokesperson Daniel Nardicio go to Newark? Well, he went for a man. Why else do New Yorkers go to Jersey? (I kid because I love)

And not just any man but Levi Johnston. Specifically to meet future Playgirl model Levi Johnston on his plane as he arrived in Newark.

It's easy to dismiss the significance of the Levi Johnston Playgirl shoot but first Will Clark World welcomes Levi to New York City. Daniel Nardicio posted this pic this evening out at Newark and is part of the 'porno paparazzi' which tonight includes Entertainment Tonight. Will look forward to Mary Hart's effeverscence commenting on that.

Naturally, since everyone else is getting on the Levi train, I'd like to formally invite Levi to call numbers this Wednesday at Porno Bingo. Levi, I know you're in town, and while yes I know GLEE is on and that chick that plays Rachel is smokin' hot, consider DVRing it and joining Matthew Rush and singer Dudley Saunders in a night benefiting a great charity - the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

Anyway, this is a pretty big deal because it's putting porn in the national spotlight... and not just some woman showing her boobs (or a cartoon character baring her blue hair), but a male. Granted, it's not a gay man but it is a man nonetheless. There hasn't been this much hubbub about a man's member since Lorena Bobbit chopped one off of her husband and he re-emerged with a prostethic one in a porn. Yeah, the 90s were like that.

The NY Post got in on the act earlier in the week with a kind of cruel comment about the size of Levi's dick - as if the guy isn't self conscious enough (there are various reports about him hitting the gym) but thankfully Gawker (who are known for being a little on the snarky side themselves at times) were kinder. Gawker!!

Stay tuned for more updates as New York's Levi Johnston Watch begins!!!

CALL YOUR SENATOR NOW FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY

Statement by Empire State Pride Agenda Executive Director Alan Van Capelle November 5, 2009--“Marriage equality has been an issue Governor Paterson has long championed and we are thrilled he has called the State Senate back to Albany next Tuesday and put the marriage equality bill on the agenda. We now expect that we will get the respectful debate and vote that we’ve been waiting for since June. There is never a wrong time or inconvenient time to debate human rights legislation because it’s always the right time. As long as a group of New Yorkers are being denied equal rights, addressing issues like marriage equality must always be a priority. Support for providing equal rights to LGBT New Yorkers has always been bipartisan, and we expect that this bill will be no different. We look forward to hearing our lives and our families debated on the Senate floor next Tuesday. It’s now time that each of the 62 State Senators vote their conscience on this bill that has great implications for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in all parts of the state.”

via www.prideagenda.org

There IS something you can do.. give the Governor a call and let's get marriage equality in NEW YORK!!

We will NOT lose in New York!!

MAINE VOTE TOMORROW, WHAT HAPPENS WEDNESDAY?

With the LGBT community eyeing Maine's election tomorrow, people are bracing for Wednesday's reaction. It's been a year since the infamous Prop 8 vote in California, could reaction be as heated after Maine with the March on Washington still fresh in our minds?

Here's a new ad from the No on 1 people refuting homophobic crap that the Yes on 1 people are spouting.

And am I the only one who gets annoyed that we always have to vote NO to for FOR our rights?? I think people get confused and vote "yes" when they really are supposed to be voting 'no'. aggghhh!

TOO BEAT TO BEAT IT

I love MCing events. A lot. But doing the Mr/Ms NJ Leather contest last Saturday in Assbury, Bingo in NYC on Wednesday and the Mighty Men event at Secrets (thanks to Alex for sending me the picture on the left) on Friday in Washington DC and THEN heading up north to Woodstock NY for a reading of a new show last night and back to NYC today (filled after a delicious burrito brunch..mm!) anyway, I'm fucking beat. 3 events, four cities, smelly laundry and a banana I've been carrying around in my coat for five days. UGH (I should also mention here that while I had excellent accommodations all the way around, I always have trouble sleeping in strange beds whether it be at hotels or friends' houses...although you'd think that by now I'd be used to it.. because I've been MCing for so long!.... uh sure <G>)

For the moment anyway, I'm too tired to kvetch that once again the aforementioned Facebook has made even more useless changes (although click here to find out how to revert back to the 'old way') and I'm definitely too tired to get upset that once again Obama has apparently again defended DADT (thanks to Micheangelo Signorile for posting it on his Facebook feed). You know I'm exhausted if I can't work up righteous anger. But oh did you see the picture of Obama in today's New York Times? A fine looking butt (and I'm not an ass man). What do you say, is he a boxers or briefs guy? (I know, it's a shallow thing to even mention after the DADT thing but hey, do you really come here for in depth political coverage?)

I'm unpacking, I'm mixing a drink, I'm turning on my DVR and watching Thursday and Friday's One Life to Live and then maybe rockin my bad self out with my elbow grease, if I even have the energy to unzip my pants. I might need some help. Just sayin.

TERMS OF ENFEARMENT

In this short video, a mother reenacts Shirley Maclaines "give her the shot" scene from Terms of Endearment.. it's not til towards the end that you realize what this is really about and it'll blow you away.

Watch, learn, pass along to your friends especially those in Washington state.

Terms of Enfearment (a dramatic parody) from Jason Ganwich on Vimeo.

HOW WILL YOU SAVE THE WORLD? #BAD09

How can you (yes you you lucky dog) can save the world in this era of rapid climate change? 

Here's a few thoughts:

1. Save water, take a shower with a buddy
2. Carpool with friends and their friends. You'll meet new people and maybe get to have car sex along the way.
3. Recycle your bottles of lube.
4. Buy only the food you know you're going to eat; if you're finding you're consistently throwing out food, maybe cut back a little. In any event, eating smaller will also help your waistline and trim is in and may help you get laid. (I'm just saying)
5. Support 'green' technology by hooking up with a solar powered rent boy. (whaaa?)
6. Recycle boyfriends.
7. Public transport is a great place to check out guys.
8. There is something seriously attractive about crunchy granola types. Flannel is 'in'.
9. Take your new dildo home from the sex shop in a canvas bag.
10. and finally, don't waste protein!!

Unfortunately as long as there are processing plants dumping tons of carbon emissions into the sky and as long as we are dependent on oil as a fuel source we're kinda fucked... on the other hand, I do believe that each of us can make a difference!!

Today is the annual Blog Action Day where thousands of bloggers simultaneously write about a single topic .. as they say, "One day, one issue, thousands of voices"

GLENN BECK GETS IT ON COLBERT

There's a reason why Glenn Beck is 'everybody's favorite punching bag', it's because he's a big ol' gasbag that needs someone to knock some sense into. Here on the Colbert Report from Thursday, he gets a little bit of what he deserves for his idiot savant comments on FauxNews.

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