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Tue, Apr 24

Hundreds of Sacramento-area students rallied to support four students suspended for wearing anti-gay shirts. One participant said: "It's only going to get worse against Christians. We're going to get persecuted more and more. But those who stand to the end: God is going to save them." Um, right...

Sony's banking on Spider Man 3. Literally. Some insiders claim the flick cost $300 million to produce. No doubt, however, it'll make it back. And then some.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission will honor Nepal's Blue Diamond Society for all their hard activist work. Unfortunately, they will not be honored with actual blue diamonds.

Thu, Apr 12

We've never quite understood Kate Moss and Pete Doherty's relationship. Now we do. And they're kind of cute. Still total nutters, but cute...

The fuzz may have been investigating theft at Atlanta's airport, but they found a bunch of horny gay men, instead. Now they're looking for more.

Regional lawyers have ruled that Latvia's City Council acted unjustly in barring last year's gay pride parade. Hoorah!

Wed, Apr 11

Maryland's House has passed a bill requiring health insurance companies to extend benefits to same-sex partners and children. The bill now needs to be signed by the governor to become a law. (We totally just had a School House Rock flashback.)

GLAAD's celebrating the tenth anniversary of Ellen Degeneres' coming out with a month full of flag-waving faggotry.

Sri Lanka may forbid homosexuality, but that's not stopping gay activists from planning a pride event. Trouble is, they don't have any money. Do you?

In an effort to make a more single friendly album, Madonna has joined forces with Justin Timberlake and uber-producer Timbaland. If they can't help her sales, no one can...

Tue, Apr 10

The House Judiciary Committee isn't fucking around with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They've just issued a subpoena for more documents regarding the allegedly illegal firing of federal prosecutors. Nail him to the wall, kids!

New York has agreed to extend benefits to employee's same-sex partners. About fucking time, no?

Mario Vasquez still claims he's not gay. But, of course, the interview took place before that whole sexual harassment lawsuit, so who knows...

Don Imus may have called them "nappy-headed hos", but the Rutgers Women's basketball team has agreed to have a little sit-down. We hope they give it to him good.

Mon, Apr 9

Robbie Williams may have ditched Take That! to embrace his bad boy image, but some are saying the recently rehabbed singer's mulling a musical reunion. Um, is that supposed to be a career booster or a death rattle?

21-year old Akino George has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in the beating of gay singer, Kevin Aviance. Like his violent cohorts, George copped a plea. Smart fucker...

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Mark Morrisroe
Mon, Jan 8, 2007
Live Artist Remembers A Youthful Love Affair with Dead Artist

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Born in Boston in 1959, Mark Morrisroe led a brutally short life. After fleeing his drug-addicted mother at the age of 13, Morrisroe found a new home on Boston's streets, earning extra cash by taking up the world's oldest profession and following his dreams in the only way he knew how: tenaciously.

His dedication to photography earned him a spot at School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston alongside the likes of Nan Goldin, David Armstrong and Philip Lorca diCorcia. Founder of the punk 'zine, Dirt under the name Mark Dirt and known to embody a down on her luck drag-queen named Sweet Raspberry, Morrisroe's credited as Boston's first Punk.

Despite - or, perhaps, in conjunction with - his wells of talent, Morrisroe battled years of drug addiction and paralytic self-abuse. Like so many of his peers, Morrisroe's fast living got the best of him: he contracted HIV and died in 1989 at the tender age of 30. Though many may not have realized it, the world lost a legend and with that legend, the record of a life lived.

To celebrate Morrisroe's oft-ignored work, Andrew Belonsky caught up with another of Morrisroe's school chums and former boyfriend, Jack Pierson. Meeting at Pierson's Chelsea a fews days after Pierson returned from art basel Miami beasch, where he had been promoting his more recent collection, Desire/Despair, they chatted about the boys' first date, Morrisroe's unique culinary skills and what it really takes to make a legend.

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