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PARIS — Thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday to show their support for a same-sex marriage bill that lawmakers will begin to debate on Tuesday. Demonstrators waved banners emblazoned with phrases like “Equality of rights is not a threat” and chanted: “What do you want? Equality! When do you want it? Now!” Another placard showed a version of the French government’s seal, but with two Mariannes kissing. Under the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” was the slogan “No more, no less!” According to the police, the march attracted about 125,000 people, twice the number that took part in a similar demonstration in mid-December. Two weeks ago, a rally by tho…

I knew it!! TotallyOz is finally making his screen debut in 2013. . .

The Boy Scouts of America, one of the nations largest private youth organizations, is actively considering an end to its decades-long policy of banning gay scouts or scout leaders, according to scouting officials and outsiders familiar with internal discussions. If adopted by the organizations board of directors, it would represent a profound change on an issue that has been highly controversial -- one that even went to the US Supreme Court. The new policy, now under discussion, would eliminate the ban from the national organizations rules, leaving local sponsoring organizations free to decide for themselves whether to admit gay scouts. The chartered organizations tha…

Betty White can do no wrong. . .

Please take a couple of minutes to watch this moving photo montage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRaMaQZ4MEY&feature=player_embedded

Going to see Movie 43 in a little bit. Will report back after the movie..

I'm pretty sure this is a gay club (I seem to remember a friend talking about it) CNN - Breaking News Alert A fire swept through a nightclub in southern Brazil, killing at least 90 people early Sunday, officials said. The fire started around 2 a.m. at the Kiss nightclub in the city of Santa Maria. Firefighters were still pulling out bodies, and Col. Adilomar Silva, the regional coordinator of civil defense, expected the death toll to climb. Officials could not immediately say what caused the fire.

The Heterosexual Awareness Community. They regularly post pictures of AIDs victims, say that gays live in shit and similar awful stuff. I've reported them for hate speech and now you can too! http://www.facebook.com/HeteroAwarenessMonth?ref=ts&fref=ts

Need to measure your junk for your Grindr or Rentboy profile to be more accurate? There's an app for that.

PARIS Thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday to show their support for a same-sex marriage bill that lawmakers will begin to debate on Tuesday. Demonstrators waved banners emblazoned with phrases like Equality of rights is not a threat and chanted: What do you want? Equality! When do you want it? Now! Another placard showed a version of the French governments seal, but with two Mariannes kissing. Under the words Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was the slogan No more, no less! According to the police, the march attracted about 125,000 people, twice the number that took part in a similar demonstration in mid-December. Two weeks ago, a rally by those opposed to th…

Remember AOL? The one-time internet darling actually had the audacity to takeover one of the oldest, most established and far larger media companies back in 2000, Time-Warner. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say Time-Warner willed all that to happen. Whatever, that little escapade was hailed at the time as a vision of the future. It died pretty quickly when shares in the merged company tanked. More than tanked, in fact. As the New York Times pointed out, it “essentially vaporized $200 billion of shareholder money.” At the time of the merger, its architect, Gerry Levin of Time-Warner, was arguably the most powerful media executive in the world. Levin seemed to love power. …

Simply beautiful. http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/

Earlier, I made a post on the other site in a thread on the gun control issue. My views were very much informed by a couple of posts that AdamSmith made here a few days ago: one on How the gunmakers own the NRA and one on How the NRA went from pro-gun-control to where it is today. I read his posts, then the articles, then some more articles, did a bit of thinkin', and then a bit of postin', first there and then here. When I posted over there, my first impulse was to link to AdamSmith's threads over here. He had some things to say which were very insightful and would have been of benefit to the folks over there. But, while I praised the poster, and his posts, I dec…

Without divulging anything too personally revealing, have you had your "15 Minutes of Fame?" If so, what was it? Mine was an appearance on Judge Judy back around 1998.

A group of foreskin protestors took on Oprah in Vancouver because she endorses a facial cream made from foreskins. Technically, they're cultured foreskins, but the visual on the other is too good to deny.

Oh Zachary. . .

It's been years since I braved a Saturday night out to the movies, but I had a free pass about to expire, so last night I went to see Parker. The movie stars the hunky Jason Statham, but his character has suffered so many wounds that it is a map of his prior battles. But it is hunky, and he is shirtless at points. Jennifer Lopez is also in the movie, an almost embarrassingly bad actor. The guys around me didn't seem to mind. Parker starts out with a caper that is quite fun to watch, and then it ends with a caper that is good but not quite up to the first one. In between we watch preparation and planning (yawn) with the occasional fist fight. But, it was free right? I h…

The big news today is that The Boy Scouts have taken another leap towards irrelevance. The leaders of the soon to be defunked Boy Scouts must be totally blind to what is happening in America.

To be honest, my heart is weak and when it gets attached to someone, it rarely lets go. I had my mind set on this boy I met a few years ago in Sao Paulo and he worked at Lagoa. Well, his brother did and he was there with him a few times when I started to see him. He would go to my hotel daily and I just adored him so much I took him to Rio with me. I have not been here in Sao Paulo in a long time and had lost touch with him. I went to the sauna every day this week hoping he would show. I asked for him by name and no one knew him. Even the guys that I knew for years did not know him. I sat in a chair and waited everyday for him. Every time the door opened, my eyes …

You really need to go read the interview with 17-year-old Joe Schwartz, son of New York Times writer John Schwartz. There's so much there about his father's decision to write a book about supporting their gay son. The kid is incredibly self aware, and worth listening to. My personal favorite quote was about why someone with supportive parents like his would seek out support at the local LGBT center. "There's a difference between having people who support you and having people who are like you. No matter how close my family was to me, I needed to...well, find my culture. These people were having the same problems as me, and many of them had already gotten through them. Tha…

The hugely successful author and gun owner, Stephen King, has added his weight to the debate with a passionate, angry essay pleading for gun law reform in the US. Titled “Guns", it was completed only on Friday and is available on Kindle for 99 cents. King, who owns three hand guns - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/25/stephen-king-gun-control-essay-amazon-nra

A good friend of mine from Tel Aviv is trying to convince me to go to the Xlsior Festival Party in Mykonos this year in August. It runs from 20-26. He said it is fantastic. Looking at the photos from them, it looks fun. Anyone been to this? Heard about it?

I often see reviews written by business owners and their associates to promote business. Some reviews are rigged and using "science". Is there anything we can trust any more???