The Drag Queen Posse

So far, Dr. Murray has been willing to surrender himself to the L.A Prosecutor, but under certain pre-conditions, but given the case - that is highly unlikely. He truly wants to avoid being sought out by the L.A. police, so that they can hand-cuff him and parade him in front of the media, which will no doubt slap huge headlines around the world reading: Michael Jackson’s Doctor, Conrad Murray, Charged with Second-Degree Murder.

No doubt this will turn into an O.J. type media circus. We hope, for his sake, that if he is convicted (most likely - the jury will be out for blood), that he gets a private cell. We doubt he would last long in the general prison population before they start to crowd around him, once they figure out: this is the Dr. that killed Michael Jackson.

In other words: Good Luck, Bitch!

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The pipes that keep America’s drinking water circulating and the treatment facilities that keep it clean are falling apart.

Degrading water systems are now causing more than half of all waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S.  A common bacteria associated with leaking water pipes, fecal coliform bacteria, is not a merely unpleasant – it can be deadly for children and the elderly.

Sewage-contaminated water also sickens swimmers and poisons seafood, which when eaten by humans leads to more illnesses – as many as two million per year.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has given our water and wastewater infrastructure systems a D- grade (yes, our water system is as bad - if not worse - than Mexico’s!), and the Environmental Protection Agency reports we are falling short on water infrastructure spending by $22 billion per year.

In short, we’re facing a looming crisis of clean water.

Fortunately there is a solution: the Water Protection and Reinvestment Trust Fund, currently before Congress.  This bill would create a dedicated source of public funding so that communities across America can keep their water clean, safe and affordable.

Do something: here.

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ACORN Controversy: A Video Interview With CEO Bertha Lewis

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Is being truly tasteless for laughs and commercialism a good idea? Perhaps sometimes, however, with this video - there is no redemption.

Photographer and author Barbara Benjamin Marcus shot revealing portraits of forty drag queens, both in and out of drag. She also listened as each intimately shared stories about discovering their sexual identity as a gay man, their irrepressible desire to dress and entertain as a woman, and how it all intersects in their daily life.

“Hate is scorched in this book’s glaring sunshine…forty souls are featured who fought against hate, bigotry, sexual confusion and alienation in their journey to find peace in a world that would rather they just go away or go to hell.” ~Tom Gregory, Huffington Post, showbiztom.com

Winner of the San Francisco Book Festival Award, 2009: INSIDE-OUT.

Fantastic live performance - now where the hell is that next album?

Will the sophomore curse hit Lady Gaga?

The expectation for another breakout album might be too much to bear - like Michael Jackson attempting to break his own 65 - 110 Million+ records for Thriller. How can you break your own blockbuster success? Michael spent his entire life trying to recreate that watershed moment. Can Lady Gaga become even bigger? Does she have the staying power of our other queer idols?

Time will tell…

Love the fucking set…

Yes, she’s pretty good! Imagine with a live band and some backup singers - this girl can turn it. We highly suggest checking out her YouTube channel: Foxxy Roxy Wood.

Her MySpace account is: http://www.myspace.com/roxywood

Her Facebook account: Roxy Wood.

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics.

Be the change you wish to see in the world - M. Gandhi

In President Obama’s State of the Union address, he spoke about the grave threat our country faces from the influence of corporate money in politics.

The President spoke specifically about last week’s Supreme Court decision in the case Citizens United vs. FEC, which overturned over a century of precedent and opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate money to flow into our political system. Shockingly, the court’s decision may even allow foreign corporations and large multinationals to manipulate our elections.

Progress on any issue we care about depends upon our ability to stop the corporate takeover of our electoral process. If we do nothing, this ruling has the potential to undermine the very foundation of our democracy.

Click here to demand that Congressional leadership enact strong laws to save our democracy from the influence of corporate money.

Representative Alan Grayson has been one the most forceful voices in responding to this crisis. He has introduced a number of bills as part of a “Save Our Democracy” initiative to blunt some of the worst implications of the Supreme Court’s decision.

These bills would include a 500% excise tax on corporate contributions to political committees, prevent for-profit corporations that receive government money from making political contributions, and apply antitrust law to industry Political Action Committees. Click here for more information.

Without these types of laws, it will be even harder for candidates and elected officials to stand up to big business. Even before the decision, we too often saw the interests of Main Street subverted in favor of the interests of Wall Street. But with the Citizens United decision now law, large corporations have the power to spend unlimited amounts of money from their general treasuries to buy elections.

To put things in perspective, the roughly $745 million Barack Obama raised to run for President (which was the most money raised by any candidate ever to run for office in the U.S.) is dwarfed by the $45 billion in profits a single company (ExxonMobil) made in 2008.

We have heard that the Democratic leadership in the House and the Senate will be deciding in the next few weeks upon a legislative package to push in response to the Citizens United decision. We need to ensure they respond boldly.

Click here to tell the leaders of Congress that you support legislation to stop the flood of corporate donations in the political process.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

- The Change.org Team in partnership with CREDO Action

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While Glitz Glamour & Daisy Deadpetals didn’t make it to this season’s show, there are a lot of talented and fun girls on this season, and we look forward to all the shows!

Support your favorite gal, and if you know her - all the more support.

Gentlemen, start your engines, and may the best woman WIN!

Daisy Deadpetals - RuPaul’s Drag Race - Audition Video #1 from La Misteriosa on Vimeo.

A quick preview: When Wigs Fly!

What can we say? Gaga loves her gays…and we love her right back. Fierce, bitch!

HOT!

P.S. - LOVE the Veuve-Clicquot in the video, along with the Santeria candle for Jesus; drunk and blasphemous, we love it!

From Sloshspot.com

by Abbie Kopf

category: LGBT History

Published January 28, 2010 @ 03:48PM PT at Change.org

In the gay community, we’ve stuck with our little four-letter call sign, GLBT, as an inclusive midpoint to those who found “homosexual” too clinical and “gay” too broad. And leave it to us crazy feminists to turn the whole thing ‘round by insisting that we rename GLBT to LGBT as a signal that women are not always second to those gay boys.

Indeed, the longstanding and obstinate usage of GLBT as opposed to LGBT mirrors a sad truth: lesbians are often considered “less than” in the community. Nationally, the leaders of our most influential gay organizations are led by men including Jarrett Tomás Barrios of GLAAD, Joe Solmonese of The Human Rights Campaign, and Charles Robbins of The Trevor Project, among others. But really, I have to look no further than the gay neighborhood in my city to see approximately three establishments aimed at lesbians compared to approximately 15 for gay men.

Wandering down the GLBT initialism we see that, again, the order mirrors the segmentation of the gay community. Bisexuals and transgender individuals are the straggling cabooses to this leadership train. It’s a palpable sentiment that bisexuals are less than gays and lesbians for not being gay enough, are not truly gay, or are simply in gay limbo awaiting the ferry ride to Gaysville. And then there’s transgender individuals, tacked on the end to complete this sad hierarchy of those who matter in the gay community and those who are an afterthought.

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