



• What's more surprising: That a Beatles album tops a British magazine's "top gay albums of all time" list, or that they managed to get people to write about it? [Contact Music]
• Who, exactly, actually buys those Now That's What I Call Music CDs? [Slate]
• Mel Gibson's camp responds to his DUI behavior, which has been the source of an alleged police-led cover-up. Wait, what cover-up? [TMZ, Deadline Hollywood, AP]
• It's one thing for fellow Democrats to turn their backs on Joe Lieberman. It's another thing for the New York Times. [Salon]
• Shouldn't there be a law protecting bloggers who choose to air the sexcapades with public officials? [Slate]
• Prince's soon-to-be-ex-wife Manuela Testolini Nelson won't just walk away with a fat divorce settlement — she'll have a fragrance deal lined up, too. [Canada National Post]
4 out of 5 of these links have nothing at all to do with gays.
But at least you'll post more pics of half-naked men tomorrow morning!
"Me":
And interestingly, I was just reading up on the differences that caused fragmentation within the early gay-rights organizations that caused them to dissolve so easily: insistence that the focus of these organizations be so exclusively narrow that some people lost interest.
The GAA split off from the GLF because the GLF became too interested in missions that weren't explicitly gay-related, and then the GAA fell apart because the rank and file were interested in more street-level activism where the leadership was more interested in infiltration of the political machine.
And all through it, boys were more interested in sex than in changing the world. Some things never change.
Joe Lieberman is a schmuck - there are 100s of reasons to vote against him. The only back-turning done here is by Lieberman: he's turned his back on women and choice, on the thousands of American soldiers dying in Iraq, the 10s of thousands of Iraqis dying in an injust war and the entirety of the Democratic party, which includes many gay people.
Joe Lieberman betrayed us all and it's time for him to go.
Mel Gibson:
Famous anti-semite makes anti-semitic remarks when he gets drunk.
How is this a news story?
A news story, and how! Nothin jewsy-er than a nut outing himself and, in one single fowl swoop, destroying his career. hardly would there be a passion of the christ without the king of jews. and now the holocaust can be spared a retelling with help from hollywood's king anti-semite.