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Soccer stars, Obama’s top gay, Prop 8
• Obama selects gay man, Brad Kiley, for White House role.
• Gay rights group pushes Fred Hochberg (photo) for commerce post.
• Gay-marriage opponents attack California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s argument to void Proposition 8.
• New study shows that African-American support for Proposition 8 lower than first reported.
• Portland’s new gay mayor sworn in amid flowers, celebration.
• Soccer stars to help fight anti-gay prejudice.
• Episcopal Church wins breakaway church suit in California.
• Connecticut looks set to pass trans protection law.
• Vandals desecrate pro-gay Catholic church.
• Oregon church to stop signing marriage licenses.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Jan 6, 2009 | 4:01 PM
Social Tuesdays back to Midtown tonight
Social Tuesdays wants a little “Steel” in their diet tonight.
The weekly gay networking event moves to a venue it first auditioned in November—Steel Restaurant & Lounge inside Plaza Midtown on West Peachtree. The event starts at 7 p.m. and runs until 11 p.m. Celebrate the new year with drinks and dinner. It’s a fun time of cocktails, conversation and connections.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Jan 6, 2009 | 2:53 PM
Tim Gunn talks ‘Project Runway,‘ role models
Tim Gunn has no idea what’s going to happen with “Project Runway.“
The show is mired in a legal mess between Bravo, its home for five seasons, Lifetime and its producers. It’s anyone’s guess if Season Six will ever air on Lifetime, which was supposed to be the new home of the hit show.
But in the meantime, Gunn is happy to maintain his perch as the gay style guru everyone loves to listen to. David magazine caught up with Gunn for a recent interview.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Jan 5, 2009 | 11:19 PM
Women’s league readies busy slate of sports
The ladies of the Decatur Women’s Sports League are jumping into the New Year full throttle.
In the coming weeks, they’ll be offering bowling, volleyball, softball and badminton. Yes, badminton—it’s the newest offering from the league.
First up is bowling, which opens its 10-week season at Suburban Lanes in Decatur on Jan. 7. Volleyball arrives on Feb. 5 and runs into late March. There’s also softball, which was the first sport the league offered when it launched nearly two years ago. That season opens March 20. Finally, there’s badminton, which runs April 2 to late May.
Check the league’s web site for additional details and costs for each sport. You can also Anne Barr, the league’s founder, for more information.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Jan 5, 2009 | 10:01 PM
Gay Atlanta City Council candidate apologizes for anti-trans comments
A gay man expected to formally announce his campaign for Atlanta City Council this week is apologizing for remarks he made three years ago when he said transgender people and drag queens were on the fringe of society and hurt the gay equality movement.
Charlie Stadtlander, a former Republican and leader of Log Cabin Republicans groups in Missouri and Atlanta, also said on Monday that his description of a drag show while a student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as pornographic came at a time when he was lobbying for two gay rights measures from within a conservative GOP and was concerned the show might impact those efforts.
Stadtlander also said comments attributed to him as expressing disgust with consensual sex between two men were not his and part of a satirical piece that he disavows.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (2) | Posted Jan 5, 2009 | 2:41 PM
Kathy Griffin’s potty mouth nails CNN
Oh, that Kathy Griffin.
She livened up an otherwise shaky performance with openly closeted Anderson Cooper on New Year’s Eve with an uncensored exchange with an apparent heckler outside the camera. As Cooper was taking the CNN show to a commercial shortly after midnight, she offered this with a shout:
“Shut up! You know, screw you! I’m working. Why don’t you get a job buddy! Ya know, I don’t go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth!“
Watch the video after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Jan 2, 2009 | 12:56 PM
Fauver picks up opponent in council race
Anne Fauver, a lesbian and two-term Atlanta City Council member for District 6, has picked up at least one challenger for the 2009 election.
Charlie Stadtlander (photo), a gay school teacher and former member of the Log Cabin Republicans, says the city’s current financial crisis is prompting him to step into the race. Stadtlander has most recently worked with the Purple Party, an effort aimed at fostering community between gay Republicans, Democrats and allies while raising money for the Human Rights Campaign.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 31, 2008 | 4:16 PM
Office banter: I’m just sayin’
Sometimes the office provides the best lines.
The new issue of David magazine hit the streets and inside is a funny wrap up of random bits of conversation from folks around their very gay office. Like this one:
“He can’t get somebody like that. Maybe a big girl, but not these lil’ chickens he’s chasing around the farm.”
Take a look and enjoy the laughs.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 31, 2008 | 4:01 PM
Social Tuesdays goes bowling for a cause
Social Tuesdays is back after a week’s rest and ready to start the New Year’s celebrations a little early.
The gay networking group—ok, it’s a mix of cocktails, conversation and connections—sets down in Ten Pin Alley. The upscale nightspot sits in the heart of Atlantic Station above Dolce Restaurant. So get your pump on at the gym down the street, grab your friends and join the fun this evening. It’ll be a nice warm up to the bigger parties tomorrow.
And the evening has a charitable side, too. There’s a raffle to raise money (and awareness) of Joining Hearts, the 21-year old event that benefits AID Atlanta and Jerusalem House. (The 2009 rendition is set for July 26.)
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 30, 2008 | 11:45 AM
Girdles for guys? Yes, that’s right
In a development that pushes even limits of even metrosexuality, girdles for guys are catching on.
Australia-based Equmen comes out Jan. 10 with its Core Precision Undershirt, a body-slimming shirt designed to trim a few inches off around the middle through engineered compression technology.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 30, 2008 | 11:23 AM
Rick Warren is trampling on MLK and it’s OK
It’s not so much that Rick Warren is coming to Atlanta next month that bothers me. It’s that he’s trampling all over the annual services celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. and doing so with the blessings of those entrusted with protecting King’s legacy.
A new chapter in Warren-gate is being written, this one with a setting in the South. Long before President-elect Barack Obama invited Warren, the evangelical mega pastor from California, to deliver the invocation at his swearing-in, organizers of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Commemorative Service asked Warren to headline their event at Ebenezer Baptist Church where King once preached. News of the Atlanta invite hadn’t surfaced until Warren-gate became a national story and now gay activists here are plotting their next steps.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 30, 2008 | 11:03 AM
Atlanta mulls impact of its ‘boring’ nightlife
Here’s a news story rife with irony.
The city of Atlanta, mired in a budget deficit and hurting to keep its hospitality industry afloat during a recession, now says its lacks a nightlife attractive enough to keep out-of-town guests coming back. To be completely accurate, it’s the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau telling folks that downtown needs an after-hours component.
Kind of ironic, since it was the current City Hall administration, Buckhead business leaders and others—including a few Midtown residents bordering on homophobic and racist—that shuttered over the last several years much of what used to be a vibrant and fun nightlife in the city. Now, those actions are coming to haunt them as convention-goers, which help feed the hospitality industry key to Atlanta’s economy, are turning to places with better 24/7 options.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 30, 2008 | 10:41 AM
A little heavenly help for Atlanta’s pro teams?
Those muscular NBA refs couldn’t figure it out on Saturday. But longtime fans of Atlanta’s pro sports team know what it is — the Sports Gods are smiling on us again. It’s about time.
On Saturday, the Hawks dropped Chicago in a wild ride to hit 19-10 and remain in second place in the Southeastern Division. The Falcons notched a win today, boosting their record to 11-5 and taking the fifth seed in the NFC. What a long road it’s been.
It was just last season that the Falcons finished 4-12 and were nearly laughed out of the league, what with the Michael Vick scandal and the embarrassing break up of owner Arthur Blank and coach Bobby Petrino. Now they are in the playoffs for the first time in three years.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 28, 2008 | 5:47 PM
Gay producer brings ‘Cirque Dreams’ to ATL
The fancy circus is coming to town. Two, in fact.
Gay producer Neil Goldberg brings his “Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy” to the Cobb Energy Centre in Tuesday, while the bigger and more well-known Cirque du Soleil opens its “Kooza” in January at Atlantic Station.
But the two are not related, notes Southern Voice theater critic Jim Farmer.
There’s more, including a video from the show, after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 28, 2008 | 1:25 PM
Creating a gay escape in Morningside
It’s always fun to peek inside the home of folks who know how to decorate. That’s what HGTV is all about, right?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution took a look inside the Morningside home of designer Chip Cheatham and realtor Ken Covers, who created an escape within their 3,500-square-foot through a fusion of Asian design and natural materials.
A sense of restfulness washes through the couple’s Morningside home, starting with the neutral color scheme and clean design and flourishing in thoughtful details like the pitter-patter of a backyard waterfall and the mix of natural materials and soothing background music that suggests it’s time to exhale.
There’s more after the jump.
read more | Comments (0) | Posted Dec 28, 2008 | 1:09 PM
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Winter Wallop 2009 with the Hotlanta Volleyball Association
Three divisions and up to 18 teams will take part in this one-day tournament.
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