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SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile is among a handful of folks who were sent advance JMG t-shirts by Pride Magazine. I’m told that the the first production run of shirts has been completed so pretty soon we’ll have some sexy JMG reader selfies. Don’t be shy!

Has Rick Santorum’s head exploded yet! He recommended the judge. #Pennsylvania #gaymarriage — Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) May 20, 2014

“Gay people need to be kissing more in public. There simply needs to be more queer smooching to desensitize the world. So with that, I hereby launch the Great Facebook Kiss-In, urging everyone — whether gay, straight or bi –to change their profile pics to two women kissing or two men kissing. Maybe it’s you and your husband or wife, …

“When given an opportunity to apologize for his Prop 8 donation after it got attention earlier this month, a week after he was named CEO, Eich refused, and even implied to The Guardian that he and people like him were an asset at the company since Mozilla is global and anti-gay regimes are prevalent around the world, using the example …

Yesterday Andrew Sullivan denounced the campaign against now-former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, declaring that if the Eich controversy represents the gay rights movement today, he no longer wants any part of it. Michelangelo Signorile responded to Sullivan this morning in a post which contends that it wasn’t Eich’s donation to the Prop 8 campaign that did him in. An excerpt: …

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: Lively told [SiriusXM host Michelangelo] Signorile that he never referred to Obama as the Antichrist or Putin as a champion of right-wing Christianity: “No I didn’t say that. Oh boy, that’s quite the leap you’re making. No, I’ve never said either of those things. In terms of the Antichrist thing, we need to …

“Let’s go for more speech, not less. Let Donohue march under his Straight is Great; banner if he truly wants. I mean, straights are great, even if gays are great too, right? Or as Pride Director David Studinski, put, ‘Straight is great — as long as there’s no hate.’  And let me march under a banner right in front of …

While there was definitely no shortage of ugly anti-gay declarations from the stages of CPAC last weekend, Michelangelo Signorile reports that NOM itself got little notice. Oh, those heady days of 2012 for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)! That was the year that Maggie Gallagher, the former president of NOM, walked the …

“Let’s not forget that in Arizona, it’s still legal to refuse to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in your bakery or your photo studio for religious or any other reasons, due in no small part to Jan Brewer’s hostility to LGBT rights throughout her tenure. It’s legal for a landlord in Arizona to turn away LGBT people. Except …

Michelangelo Signorile has tipped me that GOP Arizona state Rep. John Kavanagh, who was destroyed by Anderson Cooper on Friday, has refused to appear on Signorile’s SiriusXM show today, saying that he believes the hate bill will be vetoed by Gov. Jan Brewer. SiriusXM producer Sean Bertollo recaps the conversation for us: I reached out to his office and spoke …

“It’s not really a reversal [to reinstate Phil Robertson]. We think it’s actually a positive outcome, and we want to thank A&E for their attentiveness and collaboration over the course of the last few weeks. We’ve received assurances also that the Robertson family is now open to working with African-American and (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people to address the …

“Too many people are dismissing the action of A&E at reinstating Phil Robertson so soon after suspending him from Duck Dynasty. It’s just a TV show, they say, and we have all of these wins on marriage equality — and look at Utah! But this is not about, ‘Oh, we’re ‘winning,’ so who cares about Duck Dynasty?’ As long as …

“The Duck Dynasty controversy has become so ugly so fast. It’s time to just call it what it is. Religious zealots like Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson are using the Bible to defame a group of people and excuse horrible actions against that group in the name of their Bible, refusing responsibility for the hate their words condone and inspire. …

“The Advocate magazine put Pope Francis on its cover, proclaiming him the Person of the Year, offering a myriad of reasons why it passed up others, such as Edie Windsor. The best thing about this is that Francis has a ‘NoH8’ decal Photoshopped onto his face, and it’s driving poor Bill Donohue of the Catholic League into a blood-vessel-popping rage. …

Today at 3:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT news items, including Matt Barber’s call for Eric Holder to have me arrested. Mike’s channel is SiriusXM Progress 127 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What’s on your mind?

“Let’s cut the ageist crap. The ‘yuk’ is a display of nothing but disgust for someone older. Yes, [Dustin Lance] Black is old enough to be [Tom] Daley’s father. But he’s not. If Black were just a couple of years older than Daley, he could be his brother too. But he’s not. Shocking news for you: You’re all going to …

Yesterday Michelangelo Signorile interviewed Hawaii GOP state Rep. Bob McDermott, the anti-gay star of those horrible debates, who is still trying to use the courts to overturn the law. Hit the link for more from the interview.

“NOM had a terrible year in which the Supreme Court struck down a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act and invalidated Prop 8. Last week alone the group saw Illinois and Hawaii move forward on marriage equality. Its own fundraising appears to have dwindled from the days when NOM would make splashy announcements about big donors. NOM and …

“The fact that ENDA is unlikely to get a vote in the House gives us a chance to make sure the religious exemption comes out of this bill. That may make it harder to get it passed, and it may take a lot longer, but so be it. There are no shortcuts or bargains on civil rights. And quite honestly, …

Today at 3:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s new SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT news items. Mike’s new channel is SiriusXM Progress 127 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What’s on your mind?