Artist Don Bachardy met British ex-pat author Christopher Isherwood on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. Bachardy was 18; Isherwood was 49. Given their age difference and Hollywood’s then-repressive attitude toward homosexuality, their relationship came as a shock to many. Few expected their romance to last for years, let alone decades.
Their relationship is now the [...]
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State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry (SFGate.com)
Posted in gay, gay marriage, legal, marriage on May 15th, 2008
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
(05-15) 10:31 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.
In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental [...]
N.Y. Court Overturns Former Ruling Against Recognition of Canadian Same-Sex “Marriages” (LifeSiteNews)
Posted in gay, gay marriage, legal, marriage on Mar 31st, 2008
Pro-homosexual legal group hails decision as “another NY win on marriage”
By Michael Baggot
BROOKLYN, NY, March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last Tuesday, in a decision that follows the trend towards greater state recognition of same-sex “marriages,” the New York Appellate Division invalidated a lower court decision stating that Brady Davis was not entitled to New York [...]
Best Lesbian Erotica & Best Gay Erotica
Third Annual Joint Reading!
Get a double shot of hot smart queer erotica from some of New York City’s most provocative lesbian and gay writers. For the third year running, NYC-based contributors to the Cleis Press anthologies Best Lesbian Erotica 2008 and Best Gay Erotica 2008 will unite [...]
Bear boy band Bearforce1 sends some sexy holiday cheer this season! Via the Nerve Video Blog.
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Law prof. Dale Carpenter writes:
It’s hard to work up much sympathy for Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho). He had a perfect legislative score from traditional-values groups, a zero rating from gay civil-rights groups, supported the Federal Marriage Amendment, and refused even to commit to non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in hiring for his [...]
Rethinking Merv Griffin (Joe.My.God)
Posted in gay on Aug 17th, 2007
Joe writes about Merv Griffin’s legacy as a closeted gay man:
With enormous wealth, power, and prestige, comes enormous responsibility. Merv Griffin had a moral responsibility to publicly, with great noise, come to aid of his fellow queers, wielding his heavy checkbook. He had a moral responsibility to disavow Ronald Reagan, instead he carried Reagan’s casket. [...]
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Official Bearforce1 videoclip of their first single, Bearforce1
- July 25, 2007
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A boy band for my bear friends!
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Married Man Seeks Same for Discreet Play (New York)
Posted in gay on Aug 1st, 2007
By David Amsden
The man sitting across from me would like to tell me his name, but doing so is against his rules. He could tell me a fake name, he says, though not the one he typically uses when meeting a man in the middle of the day, since he has been using the [...]
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Folstom Street East
Posted in Folstom Street East, Leather Pride, events, gay, hunk, men on Jun 17th, 2007
I missed most of Leather Pride weekend. ;-(
But I did get to Folsom Street East late in the day and ran into some of my buddies from LJ, TES, and Cinekink. I got to meet Joe.My.God, who was judging the pie eating contest, and I was shooting next to Sean Osman of BigGayApple.com.
And I ran [...]
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Sugasm #83
Posted in bisexual, bondage, erotica, fucking, galleries, gay, intercourse, roundup, sex, sex blogs, sexblogs on Jun 11th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #84? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.
This Week’s Picks
Saying No (lafillemariee.blogspot.com…)
“Would saying no really make it all okay?”
Beyond slutdom (junohenry.wordpress.com…)
“My eclectic slutfest continues, [...]
NCSF Action Alert: Support the Palmer House Hilton, Host Hotel for IML
Posted in discrimination, gay on Jun 6th, 2007
Please write a short note of support for the Palmer House Hilton, host hotel for International Mr. Leather, thanking them for not discriminating against any guests or groups based on their sexual orientation. The anti-gay group, Americans For Truth, posted an action alert calling for people to protest the “homosexual orgies” that take place at [...]
Turner Classic Movies showcases 44 films covering six decades when it looks at gay pride and prejudice in cinema. Every Monday & Wednesday in June. Thornyc] says “this is probably the most amazing historical gay and lesbian film festival ever put together. . .Half of the films are not available [...]
Gay couple barred from adoption site settle lawsuit (SF Chronicle)
Posted in adoption, adoption.com, discrimination, gay on May 24th, 2007
(05-22) 15:29 PDT SAN JOSE — A gay couple from San Jose have settled their lawsuit against an out-of-state Internet adoption service that they accused of violating California discrimination laws by refusing to post the men’s profiles on a Web site where prospective birth mothers could see them.
Michael and Rich Butler, domestic partners since 2000, [...]
A New Generation in the West Village (LA Times)
Posted in gay, greenwich village, lesbian, new york, youth on May 19th, 2007
The young gays and lesbians stream from subway stops dressed in their flashiest gear: rainbow sunglasses, 6-inch-high gold wedge sandals, a fatigue-printed hoodie, a rhinestone-studded pink Playboy bunny bag.
Hundreds of them make their way through the West Village — home of the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and ’70s — toward the pier overlooking [...]
House Passes Expanded Hate Crimes Bill (CBS News)
Posted in gay, legislation, lesbian on May 3rd, 2007
(AP) Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law.
The House legislation, passed 237-180, also makes it easier for federal law enforcement to take part in or assist local prosecutions involving bias-motivated attacks. Similar legislation [...]
New York Public Library Acquires Gay Rights Archive
Posted in gay, history, libraries, new york on May 1st, 2007
A major archive of papers relating to the early gay-rights movement in America has been donated to the New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division. The Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs consist of letters, photographs, handbills, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera accumulated over nearly 50 years by the late [...]
Anglicans Fully Open Human Sexuality Talks
Posted in Anglican, gay, religion, sexuality on Mar 29th, 2007
The Anglican Communion has fully opened discussions and study on human sexuality on Tuesday when it made individual reports from member churches across the globe available on the Internet.
Called “The Listening Process,” a 1998 mandate has led to the culmination of months of work on drawing upon public statements and research into the controversial issue [...]
Buck Angel (Outrate)
Posted in Buck Angel, Outrate, child porn, gay, transgender on Mar 28th, 2007
Buck Angel has made history as the world’s first female-to-male transsexual (FTM) Porn Star.
He’s an entrepreneur with a look and style all his own. Angel has gone from pioneering an entirely new adult industry genre (FTM Porn), to appearing in mainstream press on the Howard Stern Show, to working with major production companies including Titan [...]
Conservative Jewish Seminary Will Accept Gay Students to Train as Rabbis
Posted in Jewish, education, gay, lesbian, nyc, queer on Mar 27th, 2007
By THOMAS BARTLETT
The Jewish Theological Seminary, considered the flagship institution for Conservative Judaism, will begin accepting gay and lesbian students into its rabbinical and cantorial schools, effective immediately, the institution’s chancellor-elect announced on Monday.
The decision followed a ruling in December by the movement’s highest legal body that allowed the ordination of gay rabbis but left [...]
Gay in the NBA: British NBA Star Says It’s Time to Come Clean About Xenophobia
Posted in NBA, basketball, gay, homophobia on Mar 23rd, 2007
Former British NBA Star John Amaechi welcomes the controversy that his revelations have made in the world of Basketball.
Last month Amaechi made history by becoming the first NBA player to openly identify himself as gay.
The former Orlando Magic, Houston Rockets and Utah Jazz Center comes out in his autobiography “Man In the Middle” and is [...]
5 Questions about Blogging: Zed Sinclair
Posted in bloggers, blogging, gay, queer, sexbloggers, sugarbutch on Mar 21st, 2007
The introductory post for this series.
Chivalrous kinky writer, queer butch top, sex educator Zed Sinclair writes at Sugarbutch Chronicles.
When did you start blogging?in 1998 I started the only feminist blog there was called Feminist Media Watch. it was collaborative, and got extremely popular, at one point we had about twenty-five authors and had very high [...]






































