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Shell-shocked supersonic blonde. Hyperphonic female, dark sunglasses on. Debbie Harry has announced the tour dates in support of her new album, Necessary Evil, which is her first album in 14 years. What’s your favorite solo song by Ms. Harry? My vote would be 1987’s freestyle (yes!) mix of In Love With Love. And we always loved mis-singing, Fresh Dressing In …

Duane Reade, 1st & 72nd, Thursday, 9PM A 20’s-ish goth chick, possibly homeless, definitely drug-addled, is singing a Suzanne Vega-ish stream-of-consciousness shopping song to herself. The final word of each line of her song is preceeded by a 2-second pause. I’m in the drug……store.But I don’t need….drugs.I need a soh….dah. (A woman walks past her.) There’s a lay…..dee.She’s buying hair…..spray.(I …

“I didn’t realize, as a gay man, that I’d be a criminal once I arrived – because it’s illegal for a man to make love to another man in Singapore. I was rather naughty because I was on an early morning show… At the end of the interview, they asked what was I looking forward to doing while I was …

The ancient tribal tradition of sexually abusing boys is surging in northern Afganistan. The practice of “bacha baazi”, meaning “boy-play”, is enjoying a resurgence in the North of Afghanistan where ownership is seen as a status symbol by militia leaders according to Afghan news site, e-Ariana. While condemned by clerics and human rights groups, authorities are doing little to end …

The trans-less version of ENDA passed its first legislative hurdle yesterday when the House Committee on Education and Labor voted 27-21 to approve the bill. Four Democrats, including presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich voted against the bill in protest of the removal of transgender protections, but with the votes of four gay-friendly Republicans, the measure passed. Republicans voting yes: Reps. Michael …

FDA regulators have added “sudden hearing loss” to the list of possible side-effects for erectile-dysfunction drugs. In one-third of the cases, the hearing loss was temporary, but in the rest of the cases the loss is ongoing. Although the FDA reports that the condition only appears in about 1 out of 1 million users, FDA warnings are considered by some …

City leaders in Philadelphia have told the local Boy Scout chapter that they must now pay market rent for their headquarters because they refuse to allow gay Scouts. The previous rent, negotiated in 1928 when the Scouts built the building on city land, was $1 annually. The new rent: $200,000 a year. Philly’s Cradle Of Liberty Boy Scout Council adopted …

–Deborah Kerr, star of Broadway and films, died yesterday in Suffolk, England at age 86. Kerr made her Broadway debut in 1953’s Tea and Sympathy in which she spoke the most famous line of her career: “Years from now when you talk about this — and you will — be kind.” Kerr was nominated for six Oscars and received an …

For their latest stunt, over 100 male “agents” of Improv Everywhere gathered in Central Park last week before descending shirtless on the Fifth Avenue flagship Abercrombie & Fitch store to test the reaction of store employees and shoppers. The store features numerous oversized photos of shirtless men and often has a shirtless model wandering around the store, but after a …