February 2010
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First Listen: Massive Attack's 'Heligoland' →
Screw watching the rest of the Grammys! The best parts are over with anyway (P!nk & Maxwell). If you love Massive Attack as much as we do here at daniel extra, you’ll be excited to find out that you can get an awesome first listen at NPR! (Photo: Hamish Brown)
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January 2010
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“Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.”
– Buddha Gotama
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Aiming for the Annals: An Interview with Isaac...
by Daniel WK Lee
If there is a word that artfully, if not culinarily, describes designer Isaac Mizrahi, it is “simmering.” When I first met Isaac Mizrahi at a birthday dinner just days before our interview, there seemed to be a kinetic energy being constrained inside him like a bubbling bouillabaisse in a great pot with its lid barely rattling. And like a bouillabaisse, Isaac is a marriage of...
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Obama's Queer Carrot of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
by Daniel WK Lee
When I read this morning in The Washington Post that repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would be a “several-year process” of review and implementation, I immediately thought of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” This news comes at the heels of President Obama’s declared...
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“Gay men have no lineage. Unlike straight men, who can be initiated into the...”
– John Preston
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WatchIf you’re one of the few progressives/liberals in the country who hasn’t seen President Obama’s Q&A session at the House Republican retreat in Baltimore, here is the clip. Even though I’m a Green, I truly appreciate him schooling the GOP about having an actual plan and not being an ideologue, among other things.
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Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad May Be Based On Falsehood →
Sneaky, evil, little Focus on the Family…the premise that had Pam Tebow made the “choice” (key word there, isn’t it) of having an abortion, Tim wouldn’t be alive today. But really, she didn’t have the choice, did she? Twisted truth = lie, Mrs. Tebow. Gloria Allred, we’re loving you for this right now. (Photo: GETTY)
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Same-Sex Marriage Doesn’t Mean Monogamous Marriage
by Daniel WK Lee
Under things we queers already knew but now have research that backs it up: A recent study from San Francisco State University called “The Gay Couples Study” showed that out of 556 males couples which were followed for three years, almost half claimed to have had sex outside the relationship with their mates knowing and approving. The New York Times quotes Colleen Hoff,...
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Blackwater's Youngest Victim →
An absolute must-read by The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill about Blackwater, their unlawful, in-discriminant killing of innocent Iraqis. (Photo credit: Rick Rowley, Bignoisefilms.org)
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F-Whitey: Chris Matthews
Sometimes white folks say the most egregious things when they think they are trying to pay some kind of compliment to people of color. What could be a better example of this this week than Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, commenting during MSNBC’s coverage of President Obama’s State of the Union address that Obama exemplifies a...
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A Contract for the Gay Guy/Straight Girl... →
We’re tired too of straight girls & their “this is my gay” or “he’s my gay” tanjyness. Sometimes, these bitches need boundaries and a signed, notarized agreement, ya know what we’re saying? Thankfully, Gawker has covered the bases in case you need some legal points.
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WatchCNN’s Ted Rowlands interviewed 3 active, gay U.S. servicemembers who spoke out about living under the repression of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” How long do you think it will take to repeal DADT now that Obama has called for it to be repealed?
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Obama's State of the Union address commentary: "We...
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in the below commentary are solely of the contributing writer.
by Matthew McMorrow
While I am certain that people will nitpick the details, I feel strongly that Obama did a great job last night. The most powerful tool a president has to effect change is the bully pulpit. Barack Obama has proved, yet again, that he is a master at using it. ...
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David Beckham Bashful About His Bangin' Bod?
(Photography by Cedric Bouchet)
International soccer star and style icon David Beckham revealed to UK’s 10 magazine that he gets “quite shy” when he sees a big billboard, or campaign poster like the magnificent ones he did for Armani Underwear (see below). He mentions, “It was a daunting experience stripping off in front of a room of people but after a while you get...
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Gay Dating Site Wants to Commercially Cozy Up Next... →
Gawker reports how gay dating site (hook up site?) Mancrunch has pulled off a supremely savvy publicity stunt by requesting their commercial be aired on CBS during the Super Bowl since Tim Tebow has decided to do an anti-abortion spot for the anti-gay group Focus on the Family:
The ad apparently features two guys watching a football game when their hands touch and they start making out. Aw, gay...
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doctorswithoutborders:
Brigg Reilley is an...
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Obama's Union Will Come in Second Place
by Daniel WK Lee
After eight years of total revulsion when the voice of George W. Bush leaked out of his smirky mouth during his State of the Union addresses (and any other act of public speaking for that matter), it was an odd feeling to be anxious to hear President Obama address the nation. But given his track record of oratory skill, even if the substance of his speech had been an epic fail,...
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Poltergeist Actress and AIDS Activist Zelda...
Zelda Rubinstein, the 4’3” actress most memorably known for her role as Tangina Barrons in Poltergeist had died of natural causes at the age of 76, reports CarnalNation.com. But what a lot of people may not know or remember is that Rubinstein appeared in a groundbreaking HIV/AIDS prevention campaign for L.A. CARES in 1985, appearing in print ads like the one below and television spots...
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As Hong Kong’s Political System Stalls, So Does... →
(Photo: Vincent Yu/Associated Press)
A very good piece from Keith Bradsher of the NYT surveying the political challenges in Hong Kong today, including efforts by the pro-democracy movement.
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WatchWatch delusional Gayle Haggard tell nation that her male escort-hiring hubby Ted Haggard is no longer gay. Uh…yeah…um…righ…
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Wise Guys: Long Hair vs. Short Hair →
It’s my latest posted advice on EmandLo.com regarding the Sophie’s Choice of hair: keep it long, or cut it short.
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danielingo Lesson of the Day: "douchefag"
Submitted by La Potluri Pronunciation [dooshfag] –noun. Slang. 1. an impolite, rude or mean-spirited homosexual. 2. a Log Cabin Republican.
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“I would like to say to you that everyone in MSF, all over the world, shares your...”
– MSF’s international president, Dr. Christophe Fournier, came to Port-au-Prince to offer the organization’s deepest condolences to Haitian colleagues who have continued working despite tragedies on both personal and national levels. (via doctorswithoutborders)
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Interactive Hate Group Map →
Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Group map is an eye-opening tool that helps you identify extremist groups in your state. PDF version of the map can be downloaded here.
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Being "Kinky" Can Get You Fired
Michael Verdugo, a former Florida police officer and ex-contestant on HGTV’s Design Star, will file civil suit against the Hollywood Police Department for wrongful termination and discrimination because believes he was sacked as a result of the department finding out he had done s gay bondage porn called Rope Rituals under the name “Jeremy Wess” three years prior to joining the...
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10 Ways to Stop the Corporate Dominance of... →
azspot:
Amend the U.S. Constitution to declare that corporations are not persons and do not have the rights of human beings. Since the First Amendment case for corporate spending as a free speech right rests on corporations being considered “persons,” the proposed amendment would strike at the core of the ruling’s justification. The push for the 28th Amendment is coming from the grassroots,...
Reasons to Go Vegan: The Industrial Dairy Industry →
Tara Lohan of AlterNet exposes the merciless conditions for cows in the majority of dairy operations in the US. Got Soy, yet?
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F-Whitey: South Carolina Lt.-Gov. Andre Bauer
As if there were any competition this week for this week’s dishonor. Here’s the key passage from remarks he made during a town hall meeting in Fountain Inn, SC where he compares people on government assistance to “stray animals”: “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re...
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Further Victimizing a Rape Victim →
A 16-year old girl in Bangladesh got 101 lashes for getting pregnant from her rape. Her father got fined and was threatened with ostracization if unwilling to pay. In the meantime, the rapist was pardon by village elders. Absolutely sickening.
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Suspected Murder of Hell's Kitchen Gay Man Caught
Justin Waller, the ex-roommate and ex-lover of brutally slain gay event planner John Lea, was arrested in Vermont this weekend, reports the NYDN. Waller, who will be charged with second-degree murder and awaits extradition to New York after Lea’s body was discovered in his apartment in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, was tracked down through his pea-brain use of...