A documentary examining masculinity and gay men titled The Butch Factor is scheduled to be released on DVD in December after having toured gay film festivals in recent months. One review from the film's site: The 87-minute feature explores gay men's complicated relationship with masculinity. The core segments of the film, and the freshest material here, are profiles of several gay men who play traditionally masculine roles: rugby player, construction worker, rodeo bull rider, and so on. Candid interviews about real people's lives often make for the best documentary material, and that's certainly true in The Butch Factor. Full story...
My late aunt used to say that you weren't a real New Yorker until you saw a dead body. Therefore I almost earned my Gothamite stripes last night when a smiling young man climbed down onto the subway tracks at 68th Street, then started taking off his clothes while walking back and forth on the wooden cover over the third rail.
Over on Mediaite, Michael Triplett of the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association covers the demise of the Washington Blade and other LGBT print titles and what physical gay newspapers have meant to us.
Fans of Sarah Palin staged a mini-revolt around her tour bus when they didn't get to meet her during a book signing as they'd been promised.
...Oh No They Didn't has a full leaked set of Levi Johnston's Playgirl photos. My review: "Eh."(Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)
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The Stonewall Family, a community of LGBT players in the massively popular World Of Warcraft game, has been honored by the site's operators as their "Guild of the Month.
After weeks of shamed silence during which NOM scrubbed all mention of Carrie Prejean from their website, Maggie Gallagher has at last commented on the Miss Ladyfingers USA scandal in a column published on the wingnut site Townhall.
A Brooklyn resident has launched a text message and Twitter based system of finding parking spaces in Park Slope, which car-owning locals derisively call "No Park Slope.
Good As You has posted the complete text of The Manhattan Declaration, the anti-gay screed issued today by a pan-denominational group of Christian clergy that vows disobedience of laws that protect gays from discrimination.
The Democratic National Committee has just posted this health care reform clip on President Obama's official YouTube channel.
"My burden is not to show that originalism is perfect but to show that it beats the other available alternatives.
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