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Rick Perry walks on water, Barney Frank visits Texas, and Snoop Lion pours one out. Today's AggreGAYtor rinses and repeats. Read More | Comment »

Hey, jerk-offs. You’re using the power of the big O for a quick fix, and you’re doing it wrong. Read More | Comment »

The first openly gay female fighter takes on the UFC champ, Feb. 23. Yep, it's on pay-per-view, but ch-ch-check out the video below for the lead up drama. Read More | Comment »

Katt Williams names names, Newt Gingrich faces reality, and Mark Regnerus chokes the ideological chicken. Today’s AggreGAYtor’s back again, doin' a little east coast fling. Read More | Comment »

Fergie has a lesbian romp, Jan Paul is running scared, and Fred Karger is going after NOM. They say today’s AggreGAYtor is really sexy. The boys they wanna sex me. Read More | Comment »

I felt like a total charlatan with that Professional Reporter's Notebook in my hand. But I dabbed my pen with purpose along with all the other news jockeys in the press conference (everyone knows that pure reporting's not my real gig). So when I raised my hand to ask Gloria Steinem a question, things went a li'l woolly. Read More | Comment »

The Olympics get steamy, Rob Halford champs at the bit, and the Big Wheel keeps on turning. Today’s AggreGAYtor really, really, really wants to zigazig ahh. Read More | Comment »

We awoke to sad news from NOLA: The adorable Hubig's pie factory in New Orleans' Faubourg Marigny was taken out in an early morning fire. Read More | Comment »

One of Austin's biggest club owners faces federal indictment today after law enforcement raided four downtown venues. The FBI alleges that Hussein Ali "Mike" Yassine, his brothers Hadi and Mohammed, and assistant Marissa Marthe Ruales laundered over $200,000 "believed to be the proceeds of narcotics trafficking" through several businesses. Read More | Comment »

If you're my age (26) then you probably don't know who she is, but Victoria Jackson has come out of her food hole to spread homophobia on Showbiz Tonight. I, like you, are asking "Why should I give a @#$% what Victoria Jackson thinks?" Read More | 2 Comments »

Channukah is (sadly) over, but that means that I've already got what I wanted. Most of it was gifted to me… by me! I believe in treating myself right; sometimes I like to run a nice hot bubble bath, put on Barry White and (this blog is publicly searchable, right?!?)… sing along. Here's what I gave to myself: Read More | Comment »

Listen, last night two of your GPers (Kate and myself) were in Galveston watching the B-52's (didja see Kate X Messer's two-parter with shout-singer Fred Schneider?! OMGZ FOR DAYZ!!) and today we're taking our freakshow to New Orleans. Where it belongs. Read More | Comment »

[Editor's Note: Welcome our special guest blogger, UT prof Dana Cloud. We invited Dana to respond to Frank Rivera's post about Cloud's speech at last week's Vigil in Purple. – kxm] Read More | 3 Comments »

This left me wondering if I'd traveled back in time to the 1800s, only to realize I was reading it on the Internetz. Which obviously means that Sen. Jim DeMint is the one with time travel issues, not me. Apparently, the senator from South Carolina believes that gays and unmarried women should not be in the classroom. Read More | Comment »

Equality Texas blogger, Lindsay Marsh, says it better than I could, and she speaks from her position as a Catholic and St. Ed's alum. Whoa. Read More | Comment »

Are you a master of mashups? Can you whirl around music on your MacBook like a Pro? Does the electronica at most clubs seem puerile and basic? Well then, I have a mission for you. Megan Phelps-Roper (scion of the Fred Phelps, head of the Westboro Baptist Church) released a cover of Lady Gaga's "Telephone", and wouldn't you know it? It's delightfully hateful. Read More | Comment »

Dear BSG,
Whenever I have sex with my wife, I fantasize about having sex with my secretary (who's a guy), does that mean I'm gay?
signed,
"DOUBTING MYSELF" Read More | Comment »

Every straight girl has a fantasy. It centers around a man with deep soulful eyes. He is funny, he is kind, he will cheerfully accompany you to shop for a new pair of shoes. He is your best, gay friend. Read More | Comment »

In the mid-1920s, upper and middle-class white New Yorkers would go "slumming" in Harlem. New York's mayor had a royal box in a neighborhood which was, at that point, fast becoming a highly impoverished slum. White folks would be "brave" and journey into Harlem for chills and thrills and some amazing cultural creations – the music of Duke Ellington or the hoochie-koochie dances of Josephine Bakker chief among them. Whites were served and entertained by Harlem's residents all the while believing that they were getting an authentic Harlem experience, and in a way, they were. The years of socio-economic battery, symptomatic of racialized hierarchies, were just as present in the Cotton Club as outside it. The difference was that the Cotton Club's interior was gussied up to suit white patron's ideas of black culture, and so visitors left unchallenged, believing they had dominion over the slum. They could pop in for a visit, while the residents of Harlem didn't enjoy the same in and out privileges. At the risk of being an irresponsible historian, and of eliding racial and sexual politics (which for the sake of a usually snappy blog may be too overbearing), there is something to be gleaned from Harlem circa 1925. I'll give you a hint: Penis veil. Read More | 1 Comment »

Yup. It's true. 6-1! Prop 8 is being upheld in California. So sez the California Supreme Court. But, those who married in that window of gay marriage opportunity will be recognized as married. Say whaaaa…? Hard not to feel defeated at these moments, but the fact that the 18,000 couples who were married in CA get to legally stay married is both comforting… and troubling. This is where the real break-down of Prop. 8 is gonna happen, I think. You can't open the floodgates and nicely ask the waters to stop. Or as Chronicle news editor Michael King says, "It's Solomon cutting the baby in half!" Cali, for shame! Texas, for shame-er! Iowa, gold star. Read More | Comment »