Boy Scouts of America

Seth Rogen's This Is the End: The Apocalypse With Dick Jokes

Let Me Get One Thing Straight About The Gays

There's controversy about there being a gay guy in major league sports? But there have always been gays in major league sports. There's hoopla about whether gays can be in the military or the Boy Scouts? But gays have always been in the military and the Boy Scouts.

The Boy Scouts Are In A Really Hateful Bind

They're still clinging to their long-rehearsed routine of selective hate, even though the country has been significantly moving beyond that. John Aravosis says it best: "So the Boy Scouts are in a pickle. They've spent all these years saddling up to hateful far right bigots, and now that America ... More >>

Boy Scouts Seem About To Undo Their Ban On Gays

Be prepared, freedom seekers. It seems as if the public outcry, withdrawal of support, and nonstop dissing of the Boy Scouts for their gay ban policies have led to serious results. CNN has picked up this story: "The Boy Scouts are 'discussing potentially removing the national membership restrict ... More >>

NAUGHTY OR NICE

Remembering when 
St. Nick lived in NYC

When Rightbloggers Tell You the Battle of Chick-fil-A Isn't About Gay Rights, It's About Gay Rights

In years to come, rightbloggers will tell their grandchildren many stories of the glorious summer of twenty-twelve. They'll tell 'em how they warned America about the socialist menace of the Olympics. They'll tell 'em how, in the wake of the Aurora shooting, they defended assault weapons against Dem ... More >>

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Boy Scouts Decide They Still Hate The Gays!

After a two-year review, the Boy Scouts have decided to reinforce their ban on gays (out gays, that is). It took them two years to look through the evidence and consider all the protests and confirm their own hideous bias by saying,"Yep, still hate gays."

Chuck Norris' Personal Code Of Honor! How Many Of These 10 Rules Does He Pay Attention To?

He's a conservative who touts family values and is against gays in the Boy Scouts, to name just one place where they might turn up. But there's a method to his madness. Here is the former film star's conduct code--from his martial art Chun Kuk Do--which is so inspiring I might have to start breaki ... More >>

Chuck Norris Wants Boy Scouts To Stay Anti-Gay! Lesbian Ex-Den Mother Fights Back!

A righteous vigilante onscreen and off, Chuck Norris is determined to keep openly gay people out of the Boy Scouts while propping up his imaginary gun and tracking down just who's trying to undo that bit of wacko wisdom. But a feisty lesbian is fighting back! This release says it all: "Chuck Nor ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher's listing of the 100 most powerless New Yorkers. Among them: weed-delivery guys and the transgendered sex workers of Hunts Point. Maura Johnston notes the many aesthetic links between David Lee Roth and Kanye West.

Wild Animals You Should Know Heads Into the Woods

Thomas Higgins's boy scout outing at MCC is no big adventure

The Five Worst Sexual Techniques

​These five boudoir activities are such hideous turnoffs they'll guarantee you end up a spinster going blind. In ascending order of awfulness, they are: (5) Biting Ouch! You may be a dog, but sorry, I'm not a doggie toy! (4) Pleasuring yourself, then just rolling over or leaving How nar ... More >>

Boy Scouts of America Do Not Appreciate Jokes About the Hitler Youth

​On one final April Fool's Day note, our local blog buddy Bucky Turco at Animal New York pulled a pretty fast one on a time-honored national group. First, he grabbed images like the one you see to the right from the Boy Scouts' official website. Then he plastered his blog with the images in pl ... More >>

Fashion Week: Herchcovitch Trails in the Wind, the Blonds Stage a Chinese Extravaganza, Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. Goes Six Ways 'Til Sunday

style.comL.A.M.B.​If there were a venn diagram of the final three shows we saw for Fashion Week, the central overlap would simply read "these are clothes" - because beyond the very basic scale of function, these designers had absolutely nothing in common in terms of aesthetic, quality, or succ ... More >>

"The School of Tomorrow," Miss Teenage America vs. hippies, and other wisdom from Boys' Life circa 1968

​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. Boys' Life, September, 1968 Publisher: Boy Scouts of America The Cover Promises: In the future, ghostly kids will don aluminu ... More >>

That Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Gave Its Life for You, Okay?

Never forget: This tree, that one year.​About that Rockefeller Center Christmas tree -- this year's is a 74-foot Norway spruce from Mahopac, New York, to be lit up this very evening to the delight of 2.5 million holiday gawkers. The tree in Rock Center is one of those things that New Yorkers t ... More >>

Dustin Dominiak: The Guy Who Sleazed Christine O'Donnell, Says Friend (Updated)

​Remember that time earlier this afternoon Gawker took some guy's sleazy story about the time three years ago on Halloween he hooked up with Christine O'Donnell, the would-be Senator from Delaware, and published it anonymously after paying the guy off?

I am the body, I am the blood, I am dessert: 1970's most astonishing cakes

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ A stack of Mail Box News magazines Date: 1970 Publisher: Maid of Scandinavi ... More >>

Senator Thomas Duane Wants a Spaceship, Bad

​New York Senator Thomas Duane really wants a space shuttle in New York. And so do the Boy Scouts. Who are we to say no? Yesterday the Senate unanimously approved a resolution Duane spearheaded that endorses the Intrepid Museum's application to permanently display one of NASA's three retiring ... More >>

Thousands in Fines for One Poster Only the Latest Sanitation Law Scam

​That the campaign of mayoral candidate Bill Thompson would be fined heavily for illegal postering makes sense -- such campaigns cover a lot of city property. But the city wants out of Susan Hager, owner of the Sketch & Hammer deckmaking business, thousands of dollars in fines for putting up ... More >>

Pixar's Up Soars in Entirely Unexpected Ways

!Ask a Mexican! Know Nothings Take Over

Loving the legal, hating the illegal

Letters 7.16.08

Hugs and Kisses #33: Be Your Own Pet, El Perro Del Mar, Black Kids

The Man Scout

It's eternal puberty in Rattlestick's latest

Panty Play for Men and Women

Keep your undies on for a hotter time in bed

Land Doesn't Pay

The city's $7 billion-a-year property tax gap—no wonder we're broke

Naked Lunchbox

It's a strange, twisted, perverse, threatening, sinister world. Here comes Crumb!

Bring Binoculars

Outpost of Argentine pampas persists on the Lower East Side

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Sex-A-Go-Go

No Man's Language

WWII Love in Lapland

Press Corps

War Journalists Go to Boot Camp, Get Hazed

Bug Out

Flights of Clancy

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Left Out in the Cold

The Year in Queer

What Went Down in the Cabaret of Contradictions

Horoscope

The Gay Marriage Bomb

By Amending the Constitution, the Right Hopes to Ban What It Can’t Stop

Porn, Chicken, and Boy Toys

Pee Prepared

Acting Out in the '80s

Welcome to the Club

Discrimination Is Sometimes Right

The Year in Queer

The Gay Exception Comes Back to Haunt Us

Supreme Court vs. Harold Levy

An Association Is a ‘Voice’

Should the Boy Scouts Be Pariahs?

Must the NAACP Include Racists?

Scouts Dis-Honor

Antigay Policy Could End City and Corporate Support

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I Hate Older Men

Lay Off Me! I'm a Boy, Not Your Toy, and I Want To Be With Another Boy