From The Editor: You truly do learn something new everyday!

For example, I just ran out to the CVS near Queerty HQ and stumbled across a very important message scrawled on a phone booth: “Gays give deadly rabies.”

Either rabies is new slang for “head,” or we’re all about to be frothing at the mouth. Prepare accordingly.

Maria Passannante Derr, a community activist who is running for City Council out of NYC District 3, offers her thoughts on gay pride, civil rights in New York and how she would use her powers for homo good - after the jump, of course…
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Not everyone was feeling gay this weekend.

A reader just wrote in to inform us that he and his partner were attacked on the subway after leaving a pride event at their church. Here are the gory details, via Gothamist: The guy kept asking us to move because he didn’t like us and that we made him sick. There was no place else for us to go. He started hitting me and then his girlfriend started clawing me with her nails…I took a cab to St. Vincents, filed a police report and got two black eyes, 7 stitches, multiple chipped teeth, broken glasses. The assailant remains at large, so look alive on your … Continued…

NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a big lesbian, will unveil her new budget proposals today. These reforms will not, however, give spending approval to the mayor’s office, which some council members felt would undercut their power. The move comes after the Speaker admitted to knowing that the council was funneling money into fake organizations and using it for undeclared purposes. Quinn better hope she hits it out of the park today: her own mayoral hopes are on the line. [Observer]

Talk about a letdown!

Our - um - interest was piqued this morning when we read about a “pervert” who secretly films men’s crotches on the subway, posts the videos on YouTube and provides dirty, lecherous commentary, like this: “The bulge on him just brings so much to the imagination . . . and the fact that he was oblivious to my filming is so great.” Indeed…

Lawyerly types told the New York Post that since the crotches are already “public display” and the man isn’t making any money, there’s nothing illegal about the videos. Someone else must have convinced the filmmaker otherwise, because the account - the appropriately entitled “househead7d5,” which also included … Continued…

Singer Mariah Carey celebrate her continued world domination yesterday by turning the Empire State Building pink, which now makes NYC the gayest city in the world. Hoorah! [CGL]

Homo-politico Christine Quinn finds herself in an unflattering spotlight this morning. New York Post reports that federal investigators are taking a closer look at the City Council Speaker’s book keeping. Records show that Quinn and her staff stuffed about $4.7 million into phony non-profits, thus saving the money for later, unspecified use.
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Forget those blasted binaries and get down with some intersectionality this Thursday at the Schomburg Institute in Harlem.

Get all the post-modern details, after the jump…
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We don’t travel in stockbroking circles, but we imagine one of you crazy kids may know the answer to this stinky guessing game: “Which former stockbroker who was known for good looks and charm has let himself get fat and worse? A recent male date complained that the former hunk was also suffering from halitosis.” [NY Post]

Silver-haired homo Tim Gunn had a solitary Thursday night, poor thing: “[Gunn] was at The Townhouse last night. Not very friendly. As I walked over to say hello, (he was alone and looking lonely) he mouthed ‘go away.’” [Gawker]

Manhattan Judge Laura Drager made a lesbian’s tear-soaked dreams come true today!

Drager ruled that “Beth R” can sue her longtime labial love, “Donna M” for divorce. The once happy couple were married in Canada on Valentine’s Day (dumb!) back in 2004, but things fell apart once they got back here to America. Donna M wanted the marriage voided, but Drager invoked the recen decision to honor out-of-state gay nuptials.

We don’t know why the women don’t want to be named, but this story’s got “blind item” written all over it: of Donna M.’s lawyers, Bettina Hinden, noted the ruling also allows Beth R. to seek custody of Donna M.’s two daughters, … Continued…

A New York-based trans lass got the green light for a lawsuit against the city’s transit authority. The woman alleges that MTA staffers hurled epithets at her after she complained that her metrocord had malfunctioned. The MTA attempted to shield itself by saying the state’s Human Rights Laws don’t apply to them - we’re not exactly sure why. A Brooklyn judge disagreed, saying, “By riding the subway, a transgender person doesn’t become less of a person and lose the protection of the Human Rights Law.” [NYDN]

Finally, a Michael Lucas feud we can endorse! The pugnacious porn producer launched a fresh crusade today against - gasp! - himself!

Russian born Lucas sent out an open letter today questioning why one of his flicks, The Intern, won more GAYVN honors than another title, Gigolo. He complains that Gigolo received “raging” reviews and basically pleads that the GayVN’s recognize the penis-heavy piece as the masterpiece he perceives it to be. Be sure, however, that Lucas does not want to raise the comparative bar too high: My company has many questions about this situation. I do want to be clear: I am NOT comparing “Gigolo” to any other company’s work. I am making a simple comparison to this movie and “The Intern.” Even a retard wouldn’t make the mistake that “Gigolo” is on a totally different planet. It’s like comparing champagne to Coca-Cola, like comparing a diamond to a rock. What sort of rock? Something hard and craggy, we’re sure…

Read the entirely narcissistic conspiracy after the jump…
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Remember novelist Neil Smith? Well, he’s here in NYC this weekend and doing some readings. The first one is tonight at 7:30 at the Barnes & Noble on 6th Avenue and 8th Street [396 Avenue of the Americas]. Smith’s also reading tomorrow at 7pm in KGB Bar, which can be found at 85 East 4th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenue. A Fraction of the Whole author Steve Toltz will also be making a literary appearance.

Hi, readers! Editor Andrew Belonsky here. I rarely write in first person unless in interview mode, but there’s something I’d like to discuss with you - something very important that requires your undivided attention. (Not pictured.)

Now, you may be surprised to hear this, but my penis got grabbed three times last week. Three times! That’s pretty incredible for someone who rarely leaves his desk and hasn’t had sex since 1873.

Under different circumstances I would have been thankful for such a high volume of phallic attention, but none of the aforementioned gropes were invited - or welcome.

Boy can’t catch a break in this town…
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