Well, reader - I don't know how to tell you this, so I'll just come out and do it: today's my last day as Queerty's head homo.

Yes, after over two years, I'm moving on to other virtual pastures. Before I go, however, I must say it's been a pleasure writing this site everyday. Okay, it wasn't always a pleasure, but I can honestly say it's been a trip. We've had some ups, some downs, a lot of laughs, a few tears and other emotions that I'm assuming we've all experienced.

If you want to find me - and I hope you do! - head on over to wowOwow.com, where I'll be chugging away as the new managing editor.

As for Queerty - a swell new editor will be introduced on Monday, but you'll have to wait until then for the big reveal. Trust I wouldn't leave you in incapable hands.

I'm sure I'll be seeing you - have a few more tricks up my sleeve, if you will, and promise to write lots of love letters. Who knows? Some of them may be dirty…

xo,
AB

PS: Julie Andrews and those von Trapp brats say it best - after the jump…

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» Racism…

Pure, simple and ugly. [MG]

  7 Responses
» New Direction…

In their quest to bring back the base, should the Republicans embrace gay marriage? [HuffPo]

  9 Responses
» Blame (God) Game…

Should God be blamed for Proposition 8's passage? [San Francisco Chronicle]

  19 Responses
» No Defeat…

"Pop star Madonna said it was a shame the United States could put a black man in the White House but not allow same-sex marriage… 'If we can elect an African-American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat Prop 8! We will not give up!.'" [AFP]

  22 Responses
» R-E-S-Something…

Will Smith, who may or may not have hired male whores, really wants women to respect him. [Defamer]

  Respond
» Awesome.

Silverton, Oregon made a bit of history this week by electing the nation's first trans mayor, Stu Rasmussen. Says Rasmussen of his queer ways: "I identify mostly as a heterosexual male," Rasmussen said. "But I just like to look like a female. Some guys' mid-life crisis is motorcycles or sports cars or climbing mountains or trophy wives or whatever. I always wanted cleavage, so I went out and acquired some." Again, awesome. [KGW]

  7 Responses


Of all the gay-related debates, blood donations remain one of the most contentious and potentially important.

The world's blood banks claim the lavender set represent a health risk. While some gays are content to keep their cells to themselves, Australian national Michael Cain's not taking this shit lying down: he's filed a lawsuit against his nation's Red Cross for discriminating against his plasma.

And, rather than simply playing the gay card, McCain's lawyer's using actual logic:

Mr Cain’s lawyer, Peter Tree SC, told the Tribunal that there are gay men who have a much lower risk of HIV than many heterosexuals and that the blood from these men could save lives if it was accepted.

Mr Tree also accused the Red Cross of exaggerating the HIV risk associated with gay sex to “extreme” levels.

“The Red Cross has assisted in perpetuating the stereotype that gay sex is risky and unhealthy,” he said.

Mr Tree went on to say that the Red Cross has known since 2001 that there is no medical evidence to support a ban on men engaging in a range of sexual activities with other men, including oral sex.

“This alone should compel the Tribunal to find that the Red Cross policy is unjustifiable.”

The Red Cross' lawyers claim gay men could be more "altruistic" by realizing the risk they pose. That's some bloody bullshit.

» Silver Lining…

"Leonor and Armando Garzon, who came to Queens from Bogota in 2001 to be at the bedside of their son Edgar in the days before he died from a gay-bashing in Jackson Heights, have passed their citizenship exam and become naturalized citizens. They worked for seven years to see to it that the perpetrators of the murder of their son were brought to justice and, on October 17, John McGhee was sentenced to 22 years for that crime." [GCN]

  1 Response
» "Baffling."

"In spite of what seems to be sweeping approval for a progressive agenda, Latino support of Prop. 8 has exposed an entrenched bias against homosexuality at once profound and confounding… Yet even as civil rights in America have come so far, Latinos still suffer keenly under the heel of oppression… The irony of Latino support for Prop. 8 is sad. That a community that continues to struggle for basic rights would deny them to another is particularly baffling. A marginalized minority — Latinos — voting to take away the rights of another marginalized group — gays and lesbians — is like the kid who's picked on in the third grade and only makes some headway when a punier kid comes along to take the punches instead." [CNN]

  42 Responses
» Be Prepared…

"After a constitutional amendment banning gay adoption passed easily in Arkansas on Tuesday, Nov. 4, the leader of Texas’ statewide LGBT equality group said he fears a similar proposal here in 2009." [Dallas Voice]

  6 Responses
» Obviously…

"Rural and evangelical voters propelled Arkansas to adopt one of the nation's few bans against unmarried couples becoming foster or adoptive parents." [POQ]

  1 Response


Fey Friends piped up to offer their top ten of Congress' newest hotties. Martin Heinrich of New Hampshire Mexico has our vote! Dream boat central!

» O's Pink Push…

Gay media mogul David Geffen called Barack Obama after his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech and said, "You're going to run for president and I'm going to support you." Obama balked at the time, but finally agreed two years later. The gays can be very persuasive. [LA Times]

  2 Responses
» Not Understanding…

Canadian journalist Barbara Kay, who is white, argues that black people shouldn't feel bad about opposing gay marriage because anti-gay "discrimination" isn't discrimination at all: "In the collective black memory, "discrimination" meant a white man could prevent a black man from marrying altogether, or sell a black man's wife and children. Beside the true discrimination blacks have suffered, the lack of a symbolic piece of paper in an otherwise unencumbered life is as insulting as moaning and groaning about your sniffles to a cancer survivor." [National Post]

  34 Responses


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