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On early Saturday outside the Complex Nightclub on Chouteau Avenue in Saint Louis. Missouri Jacob Piwowarczyk and his friends became victims of a hate crime.
Jacob says, “They came up out of the car and they start calling us faggots.” There were four of them, men who had just left another bar that shares the parking lot.

“We kept telling them please leave us alone, we’re fine. From there, the one kid didn’t like what we told them and decided to punch me in the eye and I fell to the ground. And at that time my friend was laying on the ground and they started kicking him in the face.”

Security responded, then the police but by the time they arrived, the suspects were long gone. Police say they are searching for the men and call this an on-going investigation. And while police say it’s too soon to tell whether this will be categorized as a hate crime, the victims believe they were targeted because they’re gay.

What gave it away, when they were called “faggots?”

“I have a soft tissue bruise on my elbow. I have six stitches in my eye and I have a mild concussion.” Jacob said. But that did not stop him from joining more than 150 people took part in a rally Sunday outside the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica protesting the archdiocese’s use of $10,000 in “private gifts” in a campaign to overturn a gay marriage law in Maine.

Protesters chanted and argued that church dollars have no place in political campaigns, and local needs should have higher priority.

“Are the Catholic dollars placed in the offering basket behind us not private? Do you tell the donors what you are doing with them?” organizer Ed Reggi of Show Me No Hate told the crowd. “Why not fund love, archbishop?”

St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson released a statement in response to Sunday’s protest, saying the donation came from a “special needs fund” supported with “private gifts” that is not used for formal operations. The fund, used at the archbishop’s discretion, has provided help to other dioceses for such causes as disaster relief and abortion issues.

So Gay Marriage to them is a “disaster”? What about the message of HATE that the donation sends?

Show Me No Hate, which wants same-sex marriage legalized in Missouri, plans to rally outside the New Cathedral every Sunday throughout Advent — the period of preparation and waiting for Christmas.

The Roman Catholic Church led the successful charge to overturn a law that would have made Maine the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage. Leading up to the Nov. 3 vote, 45 dioceses around the country contributed a total of $180,550 to the effort, according to campaign finance records.

Tax-exempt religious organizations are not allowed to participate in political campaigns for candidates, but they can “engage in advocating for or against issues and, to a limited extend, ballot initiatives,” according to Internal Revenue Service regulations.

The archdiocese spends millions of dollars on programs helping the disadvantaged, Carlson said. “Following Christ’s teaching on marriage does not mean we neglect the poor.” (Which is funny because although I may not be a theologian I believe that NOWHERE in the Bible is Gay Marriage mentioned)

So if you are Catholic, (and right now any LGBT person who IS a practicing Catholic should REALLY re-examine and rectify thay situation.) before you dig deep into your pockets this holiday season and throw something in that colection plate remember you might just be funding your own defeat.

When Star Trek’s Captain Kirk kissed the lovely Lieutenant Uhura in 1968, the first black and white kiss on American TV, it was scandalous. (Also involuntary—telekinesis made them do it. Whoopsie! It was the best way to get it past the network censors of course.)

Now 40 YEARS later, a lame man-on-man kiss sparks greater outrage? So exactly how far HAVE WE NOT come?

Well about not this far. ABC received 1,500 complaints about Lambert, an openly gay man kissing another man on TV and promptly canceled a performance that Lambert was due to give on Good Morning America Wednesday.

ABC said it was too early in the morning for viewers to be exposed to “controversial” raunch like that. Now there are many things I don’t like seeing early in the morning. Sweaty joggers, trash cans emptied on the sidewalk, too-bright sunlight, and especially people who are cheerful and talk too much.

But two men locking lips? COME ON NOW! Even daytime soaps have featured gay and lesbian kisses. Haven’t we seen this all before? In 2003, Madonna kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. And we all know Katy Perry kissed a girl. Even the indomitable, glam-pop performance artist Lady Gaga, who performed earlier in the AMA show, has also sung about rough sex and says she is bisexual. She told an audience in Palm Springs, Calif., that the lyrics in “Poker Face” referred to fantasizing about sleeping with a woman while in bed with a man.

Care much?

So ABC lets get this clear. You think a girl kissing a boy is romance, a girl kissing a girl is titillation, and a boy kissing a boy is a controversial act of perversion? Get a fucking clue. What do people think gay men actually do when they like each other? And besides maybe you didn’t actually WATCH the AMA’s but Lady Gaga smashed whiskey bottles during her performance, Eminem rapped about rape, and Janet Jackson briefly groped a male dancer. Oh where is the outrage over that?

So CBS and all you gay on gay kiss haters this ones for you!

Back in 1986 The so-called future of the GOP, Glenn DRECK, mullet and all hosted a “morning zoo” format radio show with a chimpanzee as a co-host at WPGC radio in Phoenix. Beck was SO LOWSOME that back even then he once called while on-air, a rival DJ’s wife and joked about her miscarriage. (The DJ was Bruce Kelly who was that market’s leading morning show on rival station KZZP)

A couple days after Kelly’s wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, ‘We hear you had a miscarriage,’ ” remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. “When Terry said, ‘Yes,’ Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly] apparently can’t do anything right — about he can’t even have a baby

Well now we know why he is so good at acting like a jackass. Apparently, he has been honing those skills for years.

Quite frankly, I’m surprised that he didn’t repulse that poor chimp. The chimp….another thing he has in common with Ronald Regan.

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It’s cool…….It’s Creepy……It’s Funny……and bound to be one of the most used and abused Viral Holiday Sites this season! It’s called “ELF YOURSELF” and its presented by Office Max and powered by those jokesters over at JibJab!

Just go to the site, upload your photo….or anyones really, and build your own animated elf!

Below check out Christian Bale all elfed out. (Interestingly enough though. Elfed or not. I’d still do Bale in a heartbeat!)

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One of WKRP in Cincinnati’s best-known and most-loved episodes (”Turkeys Away”) is a comic account of a disastrous promotion initiated by Carlson. As a publicity stunt, the station drops live turkeys out of a helicopter over a shopping center as a Thanksgiving Day giveaway. The domestic turkeys, which cannot fly, plunge to their deaths as shoppers run for their lives. The entire event, however, occurs entirely off-screen, as the viewer only sees and hears Les Nessman describe the scene in words reminiscent of Herbert Morrison’s reporting of the Hindenburg disaster. A shaken Arthur Carlson later remarks, “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” It was named by TV Guide as one of the greatest episodes in television history.

Note: It really surprises me that here in Cincinnati they don’t tribute WKRP more. I mean there’s like almost NOTHING in the city about it. It’s even harder than HELL to find a WKRP tee shirt! Cincinnati needs to embrace it’s inner WKRP. Because really what else does Cincincinnati have going for it as a quirky tourist destination other than Nick Lachey and the fact that Charles Manson was born here. (No really, he was.)

So I say on this Thanksgiving I say pop a few bucks Cincincinnati and commission a struggling artist to make a WKPR statue to place downtown. (I mean surely if you can spend MILLIONS to move a fountain a few inches you could commission a struggling artist to make a WKPR statue.) Start WKRP tours! Hang some plastic turkeys from steertlights!

CINCINNATI!

IT’S TIME TO EMBRACE YOUR INNER WKRP!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Patrik, Age 1.5:
A Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is a 15-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a 15-year-old homophobic delinquent

AWESOME!

I’ve been sayng that for YEARS!

Adam Lambert went on CBS’s “The Early Show” this morning after his ABC’s “Good Morning America,” spot got cancelled in the wake of the “controversy” over his AMA performance.

“Sometimes I forget-’Oh, there’s a camera on,’” Lambert said. “I come from the theater….I was looking out in the crowd and saw some of my favorite pop stars and thought–I want to let loose. And it just kinda got the best of me.”

Lambert said there was lot of “very adult” content on the AMAs that night, and that stars like Eminem and Janet Jackson also performed material that could have been viewed by some as inappropriate for younger viewers.

He said there was a “double standard” because he was male and gay and that a female performer would not have faced as much criticism for the same stage moves.

“I’m not using that as an excuse, and I didn’t take any offense with those performers’ choices,” Lambert said. “I’m just saying I think it’s up to a parent to watch the television. It was almost 11:00 at night. If they’re concerned with certain material maybe TiVo it and preview it before your small child is watching it.”

When asked if he should apologize, Labert responded: “I’m not a babysitter, I’m a performer.”

You know whatever you think about Lambert we ALL should support him in this and be VOCAL about it. Because he is 100 percent RIGHT.

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Watch Adam’s NEW Music Video: ‘For Your Entertainment’ below.

On the popular BBC Debate Program called “Intelligence Squared” recently the question they put forth was: Is the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world?

Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdecombe MP.

Speaking against the motion, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry.

Watch the Video of Fry and Hitchens below.

VOTING OUTCOME:

BEFORE THE DEBATE: For: 678. – Against: 1102. – Dont know: 346.

AFTER THE DEBATE: For: 268. – Against: 1876. – Dont know: 34.

In other words, after hearing the speakers, the number of people in the audience who agreed with Hitchens’ and Fry’s opinion on the Catholic Church increased by 774.

I REALLY wish we had televison programs like this in America. But Noooooooooo. We get “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader”.

That says alot about us, doesn’t it?

→ Above. The decade recapped in 7 minutes. (And it an’t heaven)

→ ABC cancels Adam Lambert Good Morning America concert following complaints. Poor Adam. Last week we blasted him for NOT BEING gay enough and this week he’s being punished for being TOO GAY. You Homos better be supporting him!

→ Straight couple’s UK civil partnership bid rejected.

→ BANG! Hadron Collider produces first collisions. (Are we still here?)

→ D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier blasted for failing to take adequate steps to protect gays, lesbians, and transgender people from hate crimes.

→ The National Organization for Marriage calls its $500,000 investment in New Jersey’s marriage equality battle a “voter outreach” project. (Outreach MY ASS!)

→ Gay Couples Face Higher Estate Taxes – Of course only part of the RIGHTS and EXTRA TAXES – DO NOT PAY YOUR INCOME TAX! (Or at least cheat.)

SheWired Reports, Canada’s customs officers seized three lesbian and gay-themed films enroute to Canada’s Inside Out LGBT film festival.

While Canada legalized gay marriage several years ago, border officials have formerly, and notoriously snatched gay content as it crossed the border. Little Sister’s Bookstore successfully sued the agency in 2000 after customs’ officials pulled ‘pornographic’ titles intended to be stocked at the Vancouver-based bookstore.

All three films were “Here!” Media releases and included Director Shamim Sarif’s cross-cultural lesbian-themed comedy I Can’t Think Straight starring Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth, Adrian Shergold’s made-for-TV Clapham Junction, about a group of South London gay men, and Ella Lemhagen’s Patrik Age 1.5, about a gay couple who unwittingly adopt a teen thug.

Inside Out festivalgoers in Ottawa booed and hissed upon mention of the CBSA.

Back2Stonewall.com will be posting ALL 3 Movies over the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Wednesday 11/25 – Patrik, Age 1.5
Goran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a Swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past. (Swedish w/English Subs)

Thursday 11/26 – I Can’t Think Straight
In the upper echelons of traditional Middle Eastern society, Reema and Omar prepare for the marriage of their daughter Tala. But back at work in London, Tala encounters Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating Tala’s best friend Ali. Tala sees something unique in the artless, clumsy, sensitive Leyla who secretly works to become a writer. And Tala’s forthright challenges to Leyla’s beliefs begins a journey of self-awareness for Leyla as the two women fall in love.

Friday 11/27 – Clapham Junction
36 hours in the lives of a number of gay men in Clapham, South London.