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While today's young San Francisco gay gent prefers to (pretend to) skateboard, spend the night frolicking at Bender's, and eschew the art of proper hygiene, there was a day when the effete dandy reigned supreme among the homo sect. (No, Rufus Wainwright doesn't count. Ever.) And those dandies, if only the days of yore had allowed it, would have put on their Sunday best and busted it up on the ballroom floor. Lots of swirling, lots of twirling: the way God programmed gay men.

As the nation stays turned to find out what's going to happen to balloon boy's parents -- the Heenes, if you recall. recruited their children to take part in a balloon hoax to promote a reality show -- a new attempt at d-listed stardom was revealed over the weekend. This video here, done in homage to the gangsta rap genre, has Richard Heene's kids, who should be getting a visit from CPS any minute now, singing a ditty called "Pussification." Which is not about feline transmogrification.

Oh geez.

Yesterday, rumors were swirling like a tweaker with glo-sticks that Energy 92.7, the city's preferred dance station with a gay bent, will come to an end. Turns out said rumors are, sadly, true. While calls to 92.7 have gone unanswered, word is that the station's new owner is a homophoobic meanie who stomps on puppies and rainbows. Or something like that.

"Where'd Cinderelly go?" by Darwin Bell.

Anti-gay rights advocate Miss California Carrie Prejean gets to keep her meaningless crown, said Donald Trump. After pageant officials sort of said they would let her keep her head bauble yesterday, even though it wasn't really their decision to make, Trump gave his final seal of approval, saying that the half-nude photos of Prejean, which were taken when she was a teen, were fine. Because she wasn't fat or old. And that he couldn't buy this kind of publicity. Also, regarding Prejean's famous anti-gay tirade masquerading as a sentiment of free speech, Trump said, "She gave a very, very honest answer at the pageant ... It's the same answer the President of the United States gave." Oh, snap! Anyway, case closed on the everyone's favorite lying whore.

Sometimes we feel bad for member of the Republican party. Because a few staunch albeit intelligent members of the GOP (like the formidable Melanie Morgan), not to mention plumbers, deserve better than this:

Well, would you look at that, California? A state known primarily for lobster rolls and Stephen King just signed into action a bill allowing same-sex marriage. Maine Governor John Baldacci had this to say after signing the landmark bill, "In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions. I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage." What startling logic and clarity, Baldacci. Kudos to you.

A federal judge ordered the Library of Congress to pay $500,000 to former Army Special Forces Commander Diane Schroer (née David Schroer) on Tuesday. Why? Well, after landing a terrorism analyst gig while she was still a man, the job was rescinded after Schroer told a library official that she was having sexual reassignment surgery to switch gender. This, to which many SFist readers can attest, is a problem transgendered folk face on a regular basis. "If [transgendered people] are fortunate enough to get something, it's well below their capabilities. It's not just about money, it's about knowing you are a valuable person," Schroer said after the settlement. After ruling in her favor in September, U.S. District Judge James Robertson wrote, "She experienced the emotional pain and suffering of losing her dream job merely because she was a transsexual," going on to point out, "She was well qualified for the job."

After allegedly being beaten, sexually assaulted, threatened by a Guatemalan congressman, and chronically harassed by Guatemalan police, gay Bay Area resident Saul Martinez fled to the United States in 1992. Now, after years of living in the U.S., the Feds are trying to send him back to his country of origin. According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights:

                     

The Sisters of Perpetual (over 200 of them!) are all over town this weekend. Thank God. On Friday, the nuns had a 30th birthday party at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Sure, it's preposterous. Amazing in its unbelievability. But the National Organization for Marriage (a truly vile organization) is something to take notice of, because people believe this shit -- powerful people; people you know; people you like; people you love; people who, let's face it, should be stopped. And the above ad, while riddled with inaccuracy, is the latest attack on civil rights and same-sex marriage. (In related news, you can find an updated map showing who donated to Prop 8, right here.)

If activists, like Michael Petrelis and other Castro frequenters, really wanted to focus attention on a part of the world where gays are suffering, maybe they could take a look at Iraq. Because this is, for lack of a better word, depressing. It's unreal but all too real. Iraqi gays will be "executed in batches" this week, convicted of the crime of being queer. UK Gay News has the details.

Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for poetry , was (allegedly) verbally harassed last week over in North Beach. After an evening of dinner, chocolate-orange gelato, and Taha Mohammed Ali, there was an altercation on Columbus after an elderly man was trying to get into his car. Some crazy lady lost her mind, got into a altercation with Doty. According to his blog, "the woman behind the wheel glared at me, flipped me off, glared some more, then called me a "fucking faggot." And then? It get good. The lady runs into some other restaurant, then Doty and his partner are chased by "two six-foot guys," and, well, you can read the rest of it here. Update: Uh oh. Yelpers are on the case.

What with the Academy Awards happening on Sunday -- the biggest night of the year, period -- the good folks over at The Sword have searched the internets to come up with a gallery of (almost) all of the best actor nominees sans shirts. Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Robert Downey Jr., and Heath Ledger are all in there. Michael Shannon, Frank Langella, and Richard Jenkins, however, are notably (mercifully?) absent from the list.

At the risk of allowing one day to pass without an American Apparel post: the good folks over at American Apparel (maybe you've heard of them?) have made these nifty "Legalize Gay" t-shirts. While homosexuality is not illegal, gay marriage is. (Not for long, we hope.) What's more, American Apparel donates zero percent of it's overturn-prop-8 proceeds to actually overturning prop 8. And why would they want to overturn it when it's helping them turn merchandise? We're sure there's a Valencia Street joke in here somewhere. Anyway, if you must have one, they run $17 a pop. And with that, this will be your the final AA-related post. Hopefully.

The GayVN nominations we announced today. What are the GayVN Awards, you ask? They are the Oscars of male homosexual pornography. Up for Best Picture kudos are Ass Cruisin', Best Men Parts 1 & 2, Betrayed, Breakers, Endgame, Grind - Volume 1, Italians and Other Strangers, Paradise Found, The Porne Ultimatum, Return to Fire Island, Rio, Sex Hiker, Skin Deep, To the Last Man, and (our favorite title) Verboten 1 & 2.\

We have to admit that we've strayed from Battlestar Galactica in recent years. (Due in part to it having neither "Bad Girls" nor "Rock of Love" in the show's title.) But a few other fans are leaving the show for other reasons. Local novelist K.M. Soehnlein is not sure whether he likes Battlestar Galactica anymore after catching last week's episode, which features (SPOILER ALERT) the evil-ing and execution of the sci-fi show's only queer-ish character, Felix Gaeta. Soehnlein fumes that Gaeta "becomes the leader of a rebellion that is doomed to fail. He sends his former lover to the brig. He puts the popular president, in the midst of her own glorified love story, on the run. He is revealed at every step not to be up to the task of leadership ... They fight heroically, while the gay rebel, unable to follow through on his vision, gives up, is overtaken, and in the final minutes of the episode, is executed by firing squad." While we cannot get behind any series that purges itself of Alessandro Juliani's lovely visage, what say you, homosexual types of SF? Have you too given up on BSG?

Walnut Creek police are investigating an armed robbery at a Chevron gas station Sunday night, (Oh hey, speaking of Walnut Creek, did any of you catch Prayers for Bobby this weekend? It aired on Lifetime. It was about a Walnut Creek mother, Mary Griffith, whose fundamentalist Christian beliefs eventually lead to the suicide of her gorgeous, young, homosexual son. And it was good. Really good. It did a seamless job of addressing the biblical roots of homophobia, showing how effective said roots are at pulverizing the spirits of young gay men and women. But this prompts a crisis of soul searching, leading to Griffith's enlightenment and redemption via queer advocacy. Also, Sigourney Weaver plays the mother and she's typically remarkable in every scene. While it's cliched to say, Weaver commands the screen whenever she appears. Probably because she kills aliens. Anyway, Prayers for Bobby will be replaying on Lifetime for the next month or so, and we recommend you checking it out.) No arrests were made.

Oh this is rich. A Vatican office reports that U.S. Roman Catholic seminaries are seeing "improvements in halting what they call 'homosexual behavior' among students." Many Catholics have blamed sinful homosexual clergy members for the sex abuse scandal that rocked the church over the last few years. Which? True. Seeing as how many of the church's victims were/are boys, that would make sense. But, as experts point out, "gays are no more likely than others to molest children."

Oh joy. President Obama plans on repealing that childish "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has prevented lesbians and straight-acting/-appearing queer men from serving openly in the U.S. military. "Don't ask don't tell"s genius, enacted by the Clinton administration, lies within the idea that military folk should censor answers or declarations of their sexuality. And who's to blame for this jarring acceptance of homosexuality within the military? Will & Grace, claimed sociologist Melissa Embser-Herbert, author of The U.S. Military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy: A Reference Handbook. "It's the Will and Grace generation," she told the Chronicle. "They've grown up seeing gay people on TV and having friends in 10th-grade come out."

Transplant pride in SoMa.

The image above has a smattering of aimless queers all hot and bothered, and not in a good way. It seems at last week's Marriage Equality Community Forum, a forum to help get Prop 8 overturned, a few angry souls suggested calling the manager of Pottery Barn to complain about how their Castro window-display promotes heterosexual coupling.

We reported on the Yes On 8 truck parade earlier today, but it turns out this protest, if you will, was much more heated and hateful than anticipated. SFist reader Laura, who snapped up this image at noon-ish on Market Street, tells us about her encounter with the anti-gay marriage SUV brigade.

Sympathetic with the plight Jabba's gay uncle, Ziro the Hutt, as well as countless same-sex couples throughout California, Marin County resident and filmmaker George Lucas, plunked down a cool $50,000 to the No on 8 effort. But wait, there's more! Lucasfilm, George's company perched in the Presidio, donated an additional $50,000 to boot. In related news, Google co-founder and president and the most attractive man in the galaxy, Sergey Brin, donated $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign this week, while co-founder Larry Page added a $40,000 donation. (We'll take that as a personal shout out to SFist, Sergey. Sigh.) To find out more about stopping 8, go here. (SJ Merc)

Dueling neighbors found at the corner of Bush & Pierce.

Update! Fixed the email address. Sorry about that!

Sick of Prop. 8 ranting yet? Too bad. Because we're not. And how could we be with gems like this? See, body cavity cleansing device Bill Tam, a Chinese-American leading the effort in the Asian-American community to pass Proposition 8, is spreading lies amongst San Francisco's Chinatown residents. Tam tells the Mercury News:

What with last night's Yes On 8 ads (one that mocks SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, which: mean!) premiering on ABC's right-winged, white-trash television extravaganza, Google, last Friday, made a public stand against the same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8.

                                       

Photog extraordinaire Darwin Bell (for The Sword) managed to make it to yesterday's sex-and-fetish gala, the annual Folsom Street Fair. Lucky You. But let's skip the innuendos, explanation, and body-odor hate, and just get to the good stuff: fellatio, fisty sex acts, Sarah Palin drag, mommy parts, butts, boobs, bits, beer, same-sex sex, porta-potties, leather, and family fun. (Need some more Folsom Street Fair imagery burned into your brain?