For generations of gay men and LGBT folks, Donna Summer’s music was a big part of the soundtrack to their lives. Who doesn’t remember being in a bar when they played “Last Dance” at closing? What did Donna Summer’s music mean to you? Bring back any fond memories? So long Donna, you don’t need to worry about leaving your cake out in the rain any more.

Listen to an interview with the music legend taped in 2003.

My guess is that it had something to do with North Carolina voting against equality, upsetting big donors of the Democratic Party.

In an interview on ABC news airing tonight, the President said:

“When I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”

Obama likes to think about same-sex couples. Nice.

Like most men, I'm sure it's not the firs time Obama has thought about same-sex couples. Note to politicians: never pose for a photo op while eating a hot dog.

The president’s position became a hot topic this week, when Vice President Joe Biden said he himself was “absolutely comfortable” with allowing same-sex couples to wed, and that there’s nothing wrong with that.

We all thought it was just another Joe Biden mis-speak, when it turned out to be a calculated move by the administration to test the waters on this hotly debated issue.

This is why it’s important to hound politicians about your wants, because otherwise they don’t act.

Is Maggie Ghalalger happy about the news assuming she get more funding in her hate filled war on Equality or is she fetching a new pair of undergarments to hold the massive crap she just took in her stretchy pants?

Don’t get too excited, Obama also stated that he still believes that this is his personal position, and still supports the concept of states deciding the issue on their own. Will this part of the Democratic plank come convention time? We think so. Soon you can make a honest man or woman out of your fuck buddy.

We think he’d be better off by reminding voters that it would save the government a big headach, time and money if they just treated everyone the same.

McDonald, who was arrested, interrogated without council, and placed in solitary confinement facing second degree murder charges,  has been described by a friend as “wise, outspoken, cheerful, and with a history of handeling predjudice with amazing grace”.  Recently, the case garnered national media attention when author and activist, Kate Bornstein highlighted it during an appearance on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show.

An online community of support for McDonald and her defense has been growing.  As of this post, an online petition, hosted by Change.org urging the Hennepin County Attorney, Michael Freeman, to drop the charges against McDonald has already received over 16,000 signatures.  Leslie Feinberg has been drawing attention to the online call to #FreeCece through his Twitter feed and Free Cece, and Support Cece McDonald  have been established by McDonald supporters to disseminate information about the case.

McDonald is set to go trial on Monday, April 30th at 9:00AM for an estimate of up to two weeks.

– Marsian is a Los Angeles-based puppet artist, chanteuse, and high art drag personality. MarsianDeLellis.com

Whoop there it is.

It’s just a matter of time before this becomes the plot of a porn film, or these two guys get hired to be in one. Daddy likes to be on top! Obviously someone needed binoculars to see these guys, as even a digital photo doesn’t reveal as much as this sexy sasquatch photo:

I'm sure bigfoot would look hot if he clipped that body hair.

The lesson here is, don’t travel to anti-gay destinations, whether or not you’re prone to boning on your balcony. And if you’re bigfoot, don’t get caught humping a log.

Will the bushes be high enough for men to cruise there?

I’m totally behind this and can’t wait to see them pop up in my neighborhood of Andersonville and Edgewater here in Chicago.

Click here to pledge to the kickstarter campaign to make this dream into a reality.

Doesn't this look cozy?

Presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are now officially covered under Secret Service protection, making it a federal offense to disrupt a campaign stop. That means whether it’s by way of a glitter bomb protest or causing a disturbance on the same Holiday Inn hotel floor that Santorum is staying in, doing such could cause a bit of a legal battle for the persons involved.

Read more at RT.com

The launch took place from central Germany and reached a max altitude of 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367.

CLick here to watch the Prop 8 Trial play reading at 7:45 Pacific time with a pre-show at &;30.

The play reading has an all star cast including Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Jane Lynch and George Takei!

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With the wins in California and Washington, some Springfield legislators say they will now make a serious push for equal marriage legislation this year in Illinois.  As they do so, we can expect that the usual suspects to loudly bray about how “unfair” equal rights legislation is, and demonize LGBT people in the process.

Chief among them will be Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George.  George is already on record comparing lesbians and gays to the KKK, and repeatedly defended that insulting comparison before finally issuing what many considered an inadequate apology.  The “apology” implied that he still thinks that many lesbians and gays are fascists, and he justified his blasts against us as being motivated by his alleged fear for “the liberty of the church.”

George, as head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, spent tens of thousands backing the anti-gay referendums Proposition 8 in California and Question 1 in Maine.  After the passage of the civil unions bill in Illinois, George pompously predicted, “I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.”

As marriage equality moves forward this year in Illinois, look for Cardinal George to once again take his bigotry out from under wraps, trying to lean on Illinois legislators to vote against equality.

As a cover for this bigotry, look for him to try to play the victim role again, falsely stating that equal marriage legislation in Illinois would somehow force the Catholic Church to celebrate marriages it chooses not to.

Look for him to violate the church’s tax-exempt status by using its institutional power to advocate on legislation.

We can sit back and take it – as Californians fatefully did with the Mormon Church before the passage of Proposition 8 – or we can proactively push back against this bigotry now.

Please come to Freedom to Marry Day 2012 at 10:30 AM this Sunday, Feb. 12 in front of Holy Name Cathedral, 735 N. State Street, and stand with the majority of lay Catholics and others of good will who support equal rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people.

This protest was initiated by the Gay Liberation Network and is supported by the 8th Day Center for Justice, Dignity-Chicago, Equality Illinois and the Rainbow-Sash Organization.  For more information, email LGBTliberation@aol.com

See you on Sunday!

(L) Madonna at the 2012 Superbowl Half Time Show, (R) David La Chapelle's 1993 Portrait of Jocelyn Wildenstein

Is Madonna finally embracing her inner Wildenstein?

If you’re like me and have a Google Alert on the Bride of Wildenstein, then your inbox is flooded with daily comparisons between the Material Girl’s (as of late) pumped up features and plastic surgery poster-victim, Jocelyn Wildenstein.  But at today’s halftime show, I seriously began considering if Madge was openly embracing these recent comparisons to the cat woman.  Her initial Cleopatra-look (complete with leopard print) bore a striking resemblance to a 1993 David La Chapelle portrait of Wildenstein.

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Police respond to fight on Hollywood Blvd between Catwoman, Ozzy Osbourne and an Alien. Spiderman and batman just watched… I can’t make this stuff up!

Flikr: Audery Sel

On FOF #1504 Trends and Predictions for 2012, I predicted that in bio-technology, scientists would start performing foreskin restoration using stemcells from the discarded foreskins of circumcized babies.  And now, just days later, the Huffington Post, is reporting that scientists have been testing stem cells on lab rats in the race to make a better rat penis. How long will it be before a stem cell penis cream hits the shelves?

– Marsian is a Los Angeles-based puppet artist, chanteuse, and high art drag personality MarsianDeLellis.com

Francis George said in his “apology” that he never meant to smear “all gays and lesbians” with the KKK analogy.  So, by implication, and by earlier statements, we take it that George did intend to liken some gays to the Klan, particularly some gay activists. In fact, his original Klan remark was directed at something he vaguely called the “gay liberation movement.” This sounds like a specific reference to our organization, the Gay Liberation Network, which he has previously singled out for attack when we have had the audacity to picket the Church hierarchy, including himself, in front of Holy Name Cathedral (George’s charges against us for being “anti-Catholic” have always been disingenuous and incendiary because he knows very well: Our disagreement is with him and other church leaders, not with the Catholic laity which, in poll after poll, backs equal rights for gays and lesbians).

In his apology, George claimed further that his KKK analogy was “motivated by fear for the church’s liberty.”  This, too, is completely disingenuous. No one was challenging the church’s “liberty,”  unless by this George means something like the right of the Catholic Church hierarchy to be free from frank and open criticism for its advocacy of discrimination against women and gays.

Finally, and most importantly—and missed by those individuals and groups who are now heaping undeserved praise on the Cardinal—Francis George’s “apology” contained not a word about the church leadership’s long-standing and aggressive opposition to all equal rights legislation for LGBT people, nationally and in the state of Illinois.

George’s anti-gay animus did not begin by his comparison of gay activists to the KKK.  When the Catholic Church leadership, including George, ceases doing everything it can to oppose our equal participation in society, then we can accept an apology from that leadership

While canceling the January 8 protest, we are redoubling our efforts to secure participation in the Freedom to Marry Day demonstration scheduled for Sunday, February 12 at 10:30 AM in front of Holy Name Cathedral, 735 N. State Street, Chicago.

Watch the video here: wlfriends.org

Posted by Marsian, a Los Angeles-based puppet artist, chanteuse, and high art drag personality www.MarsianDeLellis.com

Throughout the various articles published on her life and death, she is alternately referred to as “transgender” and “drag performer”, and occasionally by the Maori term “whakawahine” (fah-kah-wah-HEE-nay) which refers to ‘one who lives as a woman’ (compare to the Samoan “fa’afafine”).

However you define her, Carmen was a colourful boundary-breaking character, a former street worker turned dancer and entertainment entrepreneur, and once ran for Mayor of Wellington (a position later won by the world’s first openly trans MP Georgina Beyer, also of Maori descent), all during an era still marked by retrograde and phobic attitudes towards homosexuality and rigid gender roles.

A karakia (prayer) for the dead follows, in te reo Maori, the language of the indigenous people of Aotearoa-New Zealand. Phrased so that it is appropriate for pakeha (people not of Maori descent) to say:

Tena Koutou i o koutou tini mate
No reira, haere e nga mate
Haere ki te wa kainga
Haere, haere, haere.

Translated into English:
Greetings to your many dead
Therefore, farewell the dead
Go to the home of all time
Farewell, farewell, farewell.

Perry, current Governor of Texas, is running for the Republican Presidential nomination and currently has the most hated video on YouTube – topping the prior most hated video “Friday” by Rebecca Black.

As of this posting, more than 350,000 people officially “dislike” Perry’s video where as a mere 254,000 people hate Rebecca’s video.

Way to go Gov!

Not one to judge, though, Barrowman’s already forgiven the teenager for his crime and wants to offer him a job working behind the scenes on a Christmas panto, to give him something honest to do rather than rob folks. Say it with me now: awwwwww!