Towleroad calls out Joe.My.God for “Dirty Tricks” in LGBT Weblog award links

The popular gay blog Joe.My.God last night and tonight posted photos hot guys and linked them to the Weblog award voting webpage, leading viewers to believe they were about to be shown larger photos. Towleroad, the current leader in the voting, mocked the tactic with their own post named “Dirty Trick” including a photo of a hot model linked to the voting with the caption, “Click the photo to see more of this dirty trick we picked up from Joe.My.God.”

Is Larry Flynt serious or is this some political message?

“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt is quoted as saying on TMZ. “It’s time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”

Porn kings Larry Flint and Joe Francis go begging for a bailout

NPR: Is Gay Marriage The ‘Right Fight’?

Is Gay Marriage The ‘Right Fight’? I have been asking myself that for a bit now, and I’m leaning to think we are fighting the wrong fight. We are losing on their turf. I haven’t listened to the audio yet, but this promises to be an interesting conversation:

Tell Me More, January 7, 2009 · In recent years, the gay rights movement has been largely defined by the fight for gay marriage. But with the passage of Proposition 8 in California, making it unconstitutional for gays to marry, some question whether the fight for same-sex marriage is right fight, right now.

Gay Marriage: Is It The ‘Right Fight’? : NPR

How to Tell Whether You Are Celebrating Mid-Atlantic Leather or the Inauguration

It used to be that if you were part of the leather community, you lived it. You lived in a leather neighborhood, went to the leather bar, had leather sex, hosted leather parties, joined leather clubs. Nowadays a lot of the gays in this city live a suit-and-tie lawyerly governmental type life on the surface, while experiencing leather at home in their closets (like McCain’s chief of staff’s closet with the sling) or during special weekends like MAL, where they get to come out and parade in their finest gear.

This being the case, it may be confusing to remember just which cocktail party you are attending at any given moment, especially if the hit of poppers you just did leaves you light-headed. In that case you should just hand the little brown bottle back to the senator and try chatting up Ariana Huffington at the corner bar.

How to tell whether you are celebrating Mid-Atlantic Leather or the Inauguration.

If you’re wearing a tux from an expensive cow, you are at MAL.
If you’re wearing a tux by an expensive designer, you are at the Inauguration.

If you wait in line for a coach, which all look the same, you are at an Inaugural Ball.
If you wait in line for a coat, which all look the same, you are at Leather Cocktails.

If you will be the next leader of the free world, you are the center of attention at the Inauguration.
If you will be in the next line at the free clinic, you are the center of attention at MAL.

MAL Leather Puppy

If you brought a 21-year-old puppy, you are at MAL.
If you brought a 21-week-old puppy, you are Joe Biden.

If Larry Barat is directing the media, you are at MAL.
If Larry Craig is deceiving the media, you are at the Inauguration.

If your hotel is full of hungry tourists looking to whip up something to eat, you are at the Inauguration.
If your hotel is full of horny tourists looking to whip someone, you are at MAL.

If you shop for souvenir T-shirts, you are at the Inauguration.
If you shop for souvenir J-Lube, you are at MAL.

If Mike Rogers is there taking notes, you are at the Inauguration.
If Mike Rogers is there taking notes, you may also be at MAL.

If a bunch of white men are losing their jocks, it’s MAL.
If a bunch of white men are losing their jobs, it’s the Inauguration.

If you are solemnizing, you are at the Inauguration.
If you are sodomizing, you are at MAL.

And finally, this simple rule:

If you fist bump a friend, you’re at the Inauguration.
If you fist a friend, you’re at MAL.

Time Out: The Only Gay Eskimo

I am from Poland. That’s where my adorable accent comes from…

Pam’s House Blend Host Hacked: SoapBlox Closing Up Shop

Pam’s House Blend Host Hacked

See PageOneQ story

Host SoapBlox Closing Up Shop

Fate of the Blend at stake. Pam says she’s “feeling like I want to hurl.”

It was a good ride, but it’s over.

Thanks for all the fish.

All these hackers messing with our stuff, and we here at SoapBlox have no clue what to do. We don’t have enough knowledge, time, money, or care to fix it.

So I hope the Hackers are happy.

If you want the data from your blog, we will get it. But we are not going to try and restore anything.

Consider this the “We’re Out of Business” post.

Most of the servers have been taken off line because they were being used to hack and exploit other websites. The hackers install this crap on servers after they get in. SoapBlox’s ISP then takes the servers off line.

We do not know when they will come back online.

We do not know if they will come back online.

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