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Carl Paladino Made Money Off Son's Gay Club

Kevin Spak — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:35:00 CDT

Carl Paladino may be really concerned about gay men grinding against each other, but it didn’t stop him from cashing the rent checks paid by Cobalt, a Buffalo gay club his son William ran and co-owned from 2004 to 2005, the New York Daily News reports. The club—which was...

Glenn Beck, Greg Gutfeld Talk Gay Bar Names

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:29:41 CDT

Greg Gutfeld is sticking by his proposal to open an Islam-friendly gay bar next to the Ground Zero mosque, telling Glenn Beck it "might be the greatest idea I've ever had." But what's a hot club without a catchy name? Gutfeld and Beck review some options: G-Hot, G-Hunk, Infidelicious, Turban...

Fox Host: I'm Building Gay Bar Next Door to Mosque

Caroline Miller — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:22:39 CDT

Go for it, Greg Gutfeld of the Fox News show Red Eye tells those backing the Ground Zero mosque. You have every right to build a mosque there (or anywhere) if you own the land and follow the law, he writes in his blog, dailygut.com . And I have every...

Atlanta Tops Gayest-Cities List

Will McCahill — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:54:00 CST

Using criteria like the number of same-sex-couple households per capita, gay elected officials, gay bars and gay films among Netflix favorites, the Advocate crowns Atlanta as the gayest city in the US. Some reasons why, and the rest of the top five: Though “Georgia isn’t the most gay-friendly state,” Mike...

Gay Bars Lure Straights to Stay in Biz

Drew Nelles — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:09:21 CDT

Gay bars across the country are facing an unexpected dilemma, the Anchorage Daily News reports: Attract straight customers or close down. With Americans growing more tolerant and gay connections moving online, one gay activist says "it's like 'mission accomplished.'" But bars from Pittsburgh to San Francisco are shutting their...

Can RuPaul Revive Drag?

Kevin Spak — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:00:00 CST

RuPaul is back, and starring in—what else?—a reality show, hoping to bring back the glory days of drag. And it’s almost certainly going to hit a false note, Thomas Rogers writes in Salon. Drag is, in RuPaul’s words, “a punk rock reaction to our masculine culture.” But for...

Despite Warren, Calif. Gays Celebrate Obama

Harry Kimball — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:27:23 CST

A crowd gathered today at West Hollywood’s premier gay bar to celebrate Barack Obama’s inauguration, but also to watch with dismay as Rev. Rick Warren took the Capitol stage, the Advocate reports. Many in the community were shocked by Obama’s choice of the anti-gay marriage pastor to deliver the invocation—...