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Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, dies
This Thursday, Nov. 15, 2001 file photo shows Roy E. Disney, vice chairman of the Walt Disney Co. and nephew of company founder and namesake Walt Disney at Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim, Calif. Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disn...
Short & Sweet – A Dog’s Story
Darcy at Her Days’ End This is something very near and dear to my heart. We have an aging miniature schnauze that is getting on in years. She just turned 8 this past June. Her eyesight and sense of smell is not as acute anymore, and she has devel...
Santa Spotted Smooching a Man at Gay Paris Kiss-In
Several dozen Parisian activists held a kiss-in against homophobia for five minutes on rue Caumartin near the Printemps shopping center during the busy holiday shopping rush on Saturday afternoon. Santa Spotted Smooching a Man at Gay Paris Kis...
Rootless for the Holidays
By JOHN DUVALL IN my early 20s, I worked for a tree care company as a climber and spent many happy hours pruning in upper branches. The company was often hired by homeowners to remove trees to open up a view or make way for a pool or driveway. If the...
The Brick
As a young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar, a brick smashed into the Jag’s side door. The angry driver slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the...
A Story of Money
The following story appears anonymously on a number of web sites and blogs. For me, it says what there is to say about money. The American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked...
What To Do When Your Whole World Is Falling Apart?
6 Support Ideas To Stop Anxiety and Give You Back Your Life - Jonathan Lockwood Huie What if you lost your job, your house burned down, the creditors were closing in, and your marriage had become hellishly confrontational? No, that’s not make b...
7 Secrets of Happy Couples
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie Why do some couples stay happy together for a lifetime, while others are in conflict almost from the beginning? Part of the answer is compatibility – making the initial choice of a partner with whom you share common va...
Marine reservist beats priest with tire iron; now claims “gay panic” defense
Jasen D. Bruce Photo by Jason Ludwig TAMPA – The priest was lost in the Channel District and needed directions to Interstate 275, so he tapped a U.S. Marines reservist on the arm and, in a thick Greek accent, asked for help. That’...
Center for LGBT Homeless Youth
Bea Arthur Via a press release: “The Ali Forney Center received a gift of $300,000.00 today from the Estate of legendary actress Bea Arthur. The Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth, a...
Take Charge of Your Life – 9 Secrets for Getting Un-Stuck
From the way most people live, one would never guess that humans are beings of free will. Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn’t. The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine day after day, year after year, has their eye on a ...
Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012
I don’t know about you, but I never thought I would live to see this. I can even remember when I didn’t think I would live to see thirty, but look at us now. Reuters 10:20 PM EST November 1, 2009 A company behind plans to open the first h...
Take Charge of Your Life – 9 Secrets for Getting Un-Stuck
- Jonthan Lockwood Huie From the way most people live, one would never guess that humans are beings of free will. Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn’t. The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine day after day, year after ye...
How vampires rose from myth to modern obsession
Books | Updated 11h 36m ago By David Colton, USA TODAY Compared with the neck-biting ecstacies of Twilightand True Blood, the vampires of Hollywood’s past are downright chaste. Not a drop of blood was shown in the original Dracula o...
Father of Palin’s grandson to pose for Playgirl
Levi Johnston to be featured in Playgirl By RACHEL D'ORO, Associated Press Writer Rachel D'oro, Associated Press Writer Thu Oct 8, 8:55 am ET ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Levi Johnston is going for the ultimate exposure — the 19-year-old father of Sa...
New Orlean Saints Linebacker Scott Fujita Speaks Up for Gay Rights
Scott Fujita New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita talks about why he is endorsing the National Equality March and why he supports gay rights in an interview with Dave Zirin in the Huffington Post: "By and large in this country the issue o...
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72
In this June 15, 2006 file photo, Mary Travers of the trio Peter, Paul and Mary arrives at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. STEPHEN CHERNIN By JAY LINDSAY (Associated Press Writer) September 17, 2009 3:19 AM EDT BOSTON...
Historic Auto Efficiency Rule
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:16 PM Moments ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed the first national standards to limit global warming pollution in U.S. history. T...
San Francisco is Named One of the “World’s Happiest Cities” by Forbes
San Francisco has been named one of “The World’s Happiest Cities” in an article posted on Forbes.com, the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau said Friday. San Francisco, which ranks seventh out of 10 listed cities, is the only city i...
Best-selling Bible to become more gender-inclusive
Associated Press The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text. The New Intern...
EXCLUSIVE: E-mails Show Bad Blood Between Carrie Prejean, Pageant Officials Before Controversy
Carrie Prejean filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Miss California pageant directors claiming they discriminated against her religious beliefs, caused her emotional distress and engaged in slander after she came under fire for her answer to a quest...
Pastor Planning Gay-Friendly Church for Bermuda
“Often people who are ¬authority at the church ¬demand more of their flock than they do of themselves. I would like to have a place where people feel free to be themselves – to live in their truth, whatever that truth may be. It’...
Make the Right Connections With Social Networks
By: Don Willmott | Source: AARP.org | July 2009 As places to exchange ideas today, book groups, political rallies, and private clubs seem quaint. But engaging discussions and lively debates haven’t disappeared, they’ve just shif...
Zac Efron: Shirtless in The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Zac Efron Is that Zac with his junk rattlin’ round in the front trunk of his sweats? That’s what The Hollywood Gossipsays. In The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, Zac Efron plays a character who mourns the death of his brother by ...
Please check out our new site
Please check out our new format and let me know what you think. The address for now is The Gay Boomer Post It took me a little while to design and is always a work in progress. I didn’t want to put in an automatic redirect so you would know whe...
Folk Art Auctions
Folk art auctions feature a wide range of objects that reflect the artist’s craft traditions, and traditional social values. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training. Folk artists usually use est...
The “New Gay” Sherlock Holmes
Robert Downey, Jr. I, for one, can’t contain myself until the movie Sherlock Holmes comes out on Christmas Day. The more I hear the same old, same old shit about how mainstream audiences wouldn’t care to see Robert Downey, Jr. and Jud...
Anne Heche Is “Playing It Normal”
By Layla Dhere Anne Heche In an interview with The New York Times Magazine Sunday titled “Anne Heche Is Playing It Normal Now,” Heche discussed her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and her rocky adolescence as the daughter of a sexually abus...
Regis Philbin to Return to ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’
Regis Philbin Regis Philbin will be returning to host “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” for an 11-night event. You’ve got to give Regis credit - he’s 77 years old and still going strong. When I’m 77 I’ll feel ...
Resveratrol
I have taken down the article I posted on Resveratrol by Cathy Diaz. She has been scouring the internet looking for her “expert advice” article on purchasing Resveratrol ever since I published it. Here’s why and here ( brought to my...
