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VIDEO: Madonna Booed in New Orleans After Endorsing Obama

Madonna was loudly booed after endorsing President Obama's re-election at a Saturday concert in New Orleans.

"Who's registered to vote," the MDNA singer asked. Much of the crowd applauded Madonna's remark but there were many audible and loud boos."I don't care who you vote for as long as you vote for Obama. Seriously, I don't care who you vote for," she added. "Do not take this privilege for granted. Go vote."

Who knew that Republicans were Madonna fans? The N'awlins homocons must be overjoyed with the fantastic job that Bush did during Hurricane Katrina. Or maybe it's ... something else.

The boos are heard after 2:30. Watch AFTER THE JUMP ...

VIDEO, PHOTOS: Madonna Performs During the Super Bowl Halftime

PHOTOS: Getty, Reuters

In case you missed it: Madonna's halftime show during the Super Bowl included Nicki Minaj, LMFAO and M.I.A, dozens of Spartacus-themed Roman slaves and soldiers, man-candy, a choir and a futuristic Viking-inspired costume ...

The performance by Madonna was so-so but the production was brilliant. And for extra camp value: Cee Lo Green joined her onstage wearing an oversized SEQUIN cape. Watch the drama AFTER THE JUMP ...

VIDEO: Documentary on Starlite Lounge, Historic NYC Black Gay Bar

It's been almost a year and a half since the July 2010 closing of the Starlite Lounge, the oldest Black-owned LGBT bar in New York City and one of the oldest such bars in the nation. Two filmmakers are producing a documentary about about the now-shuttered historic lounge in Brooklyn, reports the NY Daily News.

Watch a trailer for the fim AFTER THE JUMP ...

I instantly fell in love with the bar,” said “Starlite” co-director Sasha Wortzel who was quickly drawn to the bar when she moved to Crown Heights four years ago. She soon found out the Starlite’s building had been bought by a new owner who was threatening to boot the bar, and started working with co-director Kate Kunath on what they expected to be a short film about the fight.

Instead, they got so wrapped up that they ended up shooting months of footage they’re now working on turning into a feature-length film, expected to be completed some time next year.

For more than 40 years, the location at 1086 Bergen Street in Brooklyn's Crown Heights was home to the Starlite Lounge. The Starlite had been a fixture since the 1960s and became a rite of passage for many black LGBT New Yorkers. More on its fascinating history:

The bar was founded in 1959 by Mackie Harris, one of New York’s first openly gay black entrepreneurs. "It’s pre-Stonewall. It’s the same decade [as\] Brown v. Board of Education," said Kunath, 35. "Especially in Crown Heights, having a safe place for the gay community is significant. Because there are so few places for this community to go, when Starlite was open, they came from all over. It went from being a neighborhood bar in the 50s and early 60s into being really an institution in the gay black community...There’s a whole culture and community that has been displaced."

The filmmakers and owners hosted a Starlite reunion earlier this month that drew hundreds of regulars. The owners are raising money on the website IndieGoGo and hope to find a space in Crown Heights to reopen.

The site of the legendary bar on Nostrand Avenue is now a Metro PCS store.

Donate HERE to support the docmentary.

Watch a trailer for the fim AFTER THE JUMP ...

List of Golden Globe Nominations

The 69th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations were just announced. The full list WHEN YOU JUMP ...

The Wall Street Journal notes:

The Artist scored six nominations, more than any other motion picture this year. The Artist was followed by The Help (five nominations) and The Descendants (five nominations). The Help was expected to be a top awards contender and it lived up to its billing. The Help stars Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, and Octavia Spencer were all nominated. The movie has brought in $169,224,625 million at the domestic box office according to Box Office Mojo. The Ides of March, Midnight in Paris and Moneyball also garnered multiple nominations with four nods each.

The Golden Globes are awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The January 15 ceremony will be broadcast live and will once again be hosted by Ricky Gervais.

1 Year Anniversary After Closing of Starlite, NYC's Oldest Black Gay Bar

Today is the one year anniversary of the closing of the Starlite Lounge, the oldest Black-owned LGBT bar in New York City and one of the oldest such bars in the nation. The location is now a Metro PCS store.

For more than 40 years, the location at 1086 Bergen Street in Brooklyn's Crown Heights was home to the Starlite Lounge. The Starlite had been a fixture since the 1960s and became a rite of passage for many black LGBT New Yorkers. After the building was sold in late 2009, many feared the lounge was doomed and a neighborhood group applied for landmark status to avoid closure. The application was denied. The bar closed on July 31, 2010.

There is still no local substitute, reports Patch.com.

"You have to travel into Manhattan or other parts of Brooklyn to go to a gay-specific bar or club now, and it’s just unfortunate," said Crown Heights resident and former patron Robert Simmons. "Starlite didn’t close due to a lack of interest. The bar was successful and the community wanted it here."

Crown Heights has experienced a string of anti-gay attacks in recent years, including one just last month and a murder in 2007, and patrons had to be buzzed into Starlite Lounge by the bouncer after a handful of homophobic incidents took place inside. But those who frequented the bar say it was a place where they always felt safe and free to be who they are.

"The place held the promise of an America where people were judged not on their sexual orientation, but on more meaningful criteria," Norman Green, a member of Gay Man of African Descent (GMAD) in Downtown Brooklyn who first frequented the bar in the early 1970s, said via e-mail. "There was always a strong connection between the owners and staff of Starlite and the community at large,."

Fans of all ages, races, and orientations flocked to Starlite Lounge on Thursday nights in particular for their karaoke parties that were often filled to capacity, and celebrities including Madonna and RuPaul had visited the bar during its history.

Starting in the mid 1990s, a trio of sisters tended bar at the Starlite. The Lenear Sisters opened their spacious Bed-Stuy brownstone to black LGBT youth who needed a place to crash. Their weekend-long New Year's Eve parties were legendary and Madonna even popped her head in once or twice. Fabulous, fabulous, times.

Since the Starlite's closing, the legendary Chi Chiz on Christopher Street in Manhattan has also closed. After several raids and closures lead to a protracted legal battle and charges by the New York State Liquor Authority, the owners announced they would close the bar on January 3, 2011. The bar's closure marked the final chapter of Christoper Street's once-fabled reputation of being home to a number of Black gay-owned bars such as Keller's and Two Potato.

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NEWS: iPhone, WikiLeaks, Tyson Beckford, Texas, Honey Dijon

Verizon iPhone to become available later this month.

Will Smith to become a judge on the new U.S. X Factor.

Not-so-happy ending: T.I. reprimanded after caught getting hand job from wife in prison  visitation room.

Listen/download: Fierce new tracks by Miss Honey Dijon.

Justice Department subpoenas Twitter accounts of WikiLeaks, founder Julian Assange, several supporters and and U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, suspected of leaking "hundreds of thousands" of confidential documents released last year by Wikileaks. Subpoena includes an Iceland MP's Twitter account. 

Beefcake: The year in sports.

Madonna banned from Piers Morgans new CNN show.

Chicago: Neo-Nazi convicted of threatening gay jury foreman.

Mark Walberg, Channing Tatum and Tyson Beckford have the most-coveted abs.

Spain: Catholic youth group sells naked calendar to raise funds.

Andrew Christian includes bulges in new "enhacing" underwear.

Texas appeals court upolds divorce of lesbian couple and rules Attorney General Greg Abbott cannot intervene. The ''decision does not affect Texas' ban on gay marriage but lets stand for now the divorce of two women who were married out of state.''

Medicaid cuts become deadly in Arizona. At least two people have died since November when 1000 people were dropped from the organ transplant list. "The state decided it could no longer afford to pay for some transplants which can cost $200,000," reports AMERICABlog.

NEWS: Swerv, Darryl Stephens, Nathan Williams, Krystian Legierski

Tyler Perry's mansion burglarized by teens.

Suspect arrested in slaying of Florida gay couple.

SWERV, the new Black LGBT publication from publisher Michael-Christopher, features the "Stars of the Black Gay 'Net": B. Scott, Pam Spaulding and Rod 2.0.  L. Michael Gipson on B. Scott and R20, Lisa Joyner chats up Pam. More later ...

Bulging baller Matt Kemp is available.

Rapper DMX admitted to prison psychiatric unit.

India: Police arrest 13 men at a gay party

Gay marriage boosts Mexico City tourism.

Pommel horse hotness Louis Smith wins another gold medal.

Bernie Wilson, one of the last surviving members of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, dies at 64. With this year's loss of Teddy Pendergrass "Lloyd Parks [is] the sole surviving member of legendary band."

Newly-elected Warsaw City Council member Krystian Legierski: "Being gay in the U.S.A. is [easier] than in Poland—not because of law but because of the population's mentality. I know personally maybe 10 Black people in Poland."

Latina lesbian activist to run for Chicago City Clerk

Pharrell announces new collaboration with Madonna.

Darryl Stephens tweets from the set of his video shoot for "Envious Moon." It's now available at iTunes.

Patrik-Ian Polk and band Fol Chen to tour in January 2011.

The Billion-Dollar Blizzard: Bloomberg "facing increasing criticism" over the slow pace of cleanup. Newark Mayor Cory Booker praised for using Twitter to "rescue snowed-in residents with his own shovel."

Modelizer: Well-fitted briefs.

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie vows to end birther controversy.

Segregation revisionist Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour using state planes for personal use?

 Nathan H. Williams in Chicago Tribune on his casting in Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys. "A lot of the images of African-American gay men on television are one-sided and stereotypical ... [I]t was time for America to see that we don't come in just one shape and one size. It was time to show a different face about what it means to be a black gay man."

WATCH: Madonna Opens Hard Candy Gym in Mexico City

Madonna launches her new brand of "Hard Candy Fitness" gyms in Mexico City, where the rich, thin and beautiful can aspire to workouts inspired by Madonna's fitness routines. If that's not enough, there are always the gigantic Warhol-inspired posters watching you a la Big Sister when you check in. Get ready to pump, don't ever look back, oh baby ...

Watch a report WHEN YOU JUMP ...

News: Oakland, Mike Rogers, Madonna, Trey Songz, DADT

What was "involuntary" about Oscar Grant's murder?

Former BART police officer "apologizes" for Oscar Grant shooting. Family unimpressed.

LAPD announces arrest in the murder of Paulina Ibarra, a transgender woman.

Small "riot" erupts at Taste of Chicago as restless crowd awaits Trey Songz. " Five people waiting in line for the concert were treated for heat-related illnesses and multiple ambulances [were] dispatched. As the jammed throng grew increasingly agitated before a line of mounted police, one Chicago policeman muttered, 'There’s a riot going on.'"

Wanda Sykes' HBO special receives two Emmy nods.

Security guards at New Orleans hospital accused of "punching and tasing" Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' epileptic nephew.

Über-blogger, gay political gadfly and Outrage star Mike Rogers covers Metroweekly. 

Politico on the political implications of next week's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" trial for the Obama Administration.

Right-wing: LeBron James chose Miami Heat because "taxes are too high" in Illinois and NY.

First look at D&G's new FW 2010 ad campaign featuring Madonna by Steven Klein.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and fiancée refuse to wed in NYC and will marry in Connecticut to "protest New York’s failure to legalize gay marriage."

WATCH: Kelis' "4th of July"

Kelis has debuted a luxe new music video for her "4th of July (Fireworks)" where the she literally lights up the night sky with fireworks. It's a midtempo track and the beat is hot. Oh and the "Milkshake" singer looks all kinds of fabulous. The track is the second single from her upcoming album Flesh Tone that will be available on July 6 .

Kelis will appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday. Watch the new "4th of July" video, as well as the ferosh Madonna vs "Milkshake" mash-up she performed at Los Angeles Pride and London's G-A-Y, WHEN YOU JUMP ...