Thursday, November 19, 2009

Page 1 Consider (11/20)

  • Much Ado About Nothing: Is Levi Johnston the elephant in the room? I guess we'll never know. (Gawker)

  • Models Behaving Badly: Blackmail never looked so beautiful. (NYDN)

  • Haunted by the Ghost: Evan Chandler, the dashing Beverly Hills dentist whose son Jordan was paid $20 million by Michael Jackson to silence his claims of molestation, shot himself in the head at Liberty Towers in Jersey City. (NYPost)

  • Newspaper Men: The owner of a Northern Virginian newspaper says he made a last-minute attempt to save The Washington Blade, but to no avail. (365Gay) Not to fret, though. The Blade staff is already at work at a replacement. The D.C. Agenda will go to print this Friday.

  • Hate Crime: A man has been arrested in the slaying of a 19-year-old gay Puerto Rican man found Friday decapitated, dismembered and partially burned, police said Tuesday. (CNN)

  • Capitol Gains: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday voted 23-12 to pass the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act, which would extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal government workers. (Advocate)

  • The Indefensible Defense of Marriage Act: In a legal end-run around the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, a federal judge Wednesday ordered compensation for a Los Angeles man denied federal employee benefits for his spouse because they are both men. (L.A. Times)

  • Houston Spoilers: Things are getting ugly in Texas, where the hatemongers are coming out in full force to try to derail Annise Parker's bid for being mayor of the city of Houston. (Did I mention she's a friend of Martina?) (St8 Up With a Twist) Speaking of the Longhorn State. Did you hear that a clause in the state's gay marriage ban is said to forbid all marriages?(!)

  • 2 comments:

    Timmy said...

    Thank you for helping us spread the word about Annise!

    Timmy said...

    UPDATE: She received the endorsement from Houston Chronicle.
    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/6733416.html