Next Week, COL is off for a week.  Wish Jeff a Happy 30th Birthday on the 29th and we’ll see you all in 2 weeks.

Amazing Weekends

COL News

• Gay marriage no longer in California!
• NYC Gay bar threatened by NYPD.
• SLC LGBT Center hit w/ anti-gay grafitti
• HRC Drops Target and Best Buy

Feedback:

So where has Jon Jon gone? I miss our gaysian cub. He seemed very sweet and adoreable.
You guys rock. Love your podcast!
-Shawn in NH

Tim needs to come up with a COL cookbook. STAT.
-Russell

The cover story of Chicago’s free daily was titled “STR8 Guy for the Gay Bar.” Yes, I’m ashamed to admit that even a free newspaper in a major city would be running such a lame story on the cover. The long and short of it is many straight men are taking employment in area gay bars. I’m not really much of a gay bar sort, but I’m a little torn on the whole concept. Sure, pretty much every person in the service business is just playing you for the money, but straight men “playing gay” is a little different (or is it?). God knows that there are more than enough gay men in the food service trade to fill these jobs, so why are likely gay bar owners filling these jobs from outside of the tribe?

It got me to thinking about another article I read about bachelorette parties deciding on gay bars and some establishments banning them. Being annoyed by bachlorettes is probably one of the many reasons I turned homo and I would like to avoid them as much as possible. I feel that all should be able to go wherever they want, but we certainly can’t go into straight and get away with acting like the soon-to-be married girls do.
-ChiDiver

Topics:

• Str8 Guy for the Gay Bar
• Bachelorette parties in gay bars. -
• The New Gay
• The Huffington Post
• Bearnation.US about to go pay
• Most hated chores

Picks:

• Fu-Ki Plum Wine – Tim
• The Wheel of Time on Audiobook – Jeff
• Mint.com Goals Feature – Griff
• The Other Guys – Griff
• USA Today iPad App Crossword Puzzle – Griff
• From Chi-Diver
• Chinese animation of the Jet Blue flight attendant -

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ROT Rally (Biker Rally) in Austin

COL News:

• DOMA Defended by the Obama Department of Justice

• Gay-rights groups blast admin. brief
• Human Rights Campaign Statement on the Obama Administration’s Defense of the Defense of Marriage Act In the Smelt v. U.S. Case
• Obama’s Motion to Dismiss Marriage Case

Topics:

• Homophobia and Heterosexism

Borderline:

• Inmate Sues Over 55-Hour Erection – Jeff
• G1 gets e-mail from gmail faster than computer with cable modem – Tim

Picks:

• Free Concert of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Houston, featuring CCMC – Tim
• Tweet from tinybuddha: “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” Thich Nhat Hanh – Tim
• THE BIG FAT GAY COLLAB! set to Lily Allen – Tim
• Europe to get Windows 7 sans browser – Jeff
• Shady Grove – JJ

Topics:

• Jeff was on The Cubby House this week – http://www.thecubbyhouse.net.au/
• Griff’s clarification of comments made by him last week.
• Interview/commentary with Drew (Guinnesscub) to discuss issues mentioned by Griff last week.
• New feedback system and introduction of “be on COL”.

WTP:

• Griff
• American Spirit Cigarettes – http://www.tryamericanspirit.com/
• Drew
• Iraqi Militia Killing Gay Men with Painful Anal Glue Torture – http://www.towleroad.com/2009/04/report-iraqi-militia-killing-gay-men-with-painful-form-of-anal-torture.html

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