All you legally gay-married folks will not be counted in the 2010 U.S. census. Census takers will ask same-sex couples who live together to define themselves as “unmarried partners,” as they did in 2000 before some states – currently only Connecticut and Massachusetts – allowed gay marriage. “This is all about the numbers. This not about lifestyle or anything else,” …

According to a new survey, the number of Americans that say they have “no religion” has almost doubled over the last 20 years to 15%. While the survey doesn’t identify these people as atheists, the unchurched in America now far outnumber all non-Christian sects combined. So many Americans claim no religion at all (15%, up from 8% in 1990), that …

Another dumbass aspect of the Bush regime has been wiped away. President Barack Obama said Monday he is allowing federal taxpayer dollars to fund significantly broader research on embryonic stem cells because “medical miracles do not happen simply by accident,” and promised his administration would make up for the ground lost under his predecessor. Fulfilling a campaign promise, Obama signed …

Here’s the full episode of last night’s Family Guy in which Peter got injected with the gay gene. Some of you were worried that the episode would reinforce swishy gay stereotypes, and yeah, it does. But at the core of episode is the lesson that gays are fine just as we are and any attempt to change us is doomed …

Remember, it’s the gay pride parades that are out of control displays of bacchanalia unsuitable for firemen and the righteous. Here’s how the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Hoboken, New Jersey went yesterday: People urinating from rooftops. TVs and bottles thrown from windows. More than 80 injuries, and reports of at least one couple having sex in plain view. Public …

According to the NY Post, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been placed under heightened security due to a death threat posted on a NAMBLA message board. A $10,000 Internet bounty was placed on Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s head by a suspected agent of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, The Post has learned. The shocking death threat by …

Here’s a lovely ad from an Argentine bank in which a transgender woman at last earns the respect of a neighbor. The clip was posted to YouTube in mid-2007, but has been making the rounds of gay blogs for the last couple of weeks, somehow I missed that. (Tipped by JMG reader Jeff)

Over at World Net Daily, five-time Hairpiece Olympics gold medalist Chuck Norris is stoking the secessionist movement, saying he may run for president of Texas. He’s only half joking. When I appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show, he told me that someone had asked him, “Do you really believe that there is going to be trouble in the future?” And …

Some time this month, openly lesbian Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) plans to introduce legislation to grant benefits to the domestic partners of federal employees. The bill would grant the partners of gay federal employees the same benefits that are available to the spouses of straight employees. Versions of the bill considered in the last session of Congress would have granted …

Yesterday’s NYT had an interesting story about the few taverns in NYC that have resisted installing televisions. While the New York State Liquor Authority permits the flow of alcohol in 10,320 bars, taverns and food-service establishments in the city, it does not track how many have rebuffed the Screen. But sales representatives of the Brooklyn Brewery report that televisionless bars …

I love it when The Rock camps it up, something he does very well. Wait for the end. Best line: “Did I say my trainer? I meant my choreographer/roommate.”

One bright light in all these economic woes – states are realizing that it’s cheaper to incarcerate a prisoner for life than to put them to death. Death penalty advocates have always argued that a single shot from a needle is “pennies per prisoner” justice, but that is light years from the truth and states are finally getting the picture. …

From Sunday’s upcoming episode in which Peter gets injected with “the gay gene” and leaves Lois for a man. (Tipped by JMG reader Alex)

How lazy is it that I’m resisting changing to a cheaper cable provider because I have all the Time-Warner channels memorized? Not to mention that I can run their remote without my glasses. Sheesh.

Coolest thing I’ve seen in ages. Mind blowing, even. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

Last night activist/author/radio host Michelangelo Signorile took on the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins on Anderson Cooper 360. Signorile takes the view that the court will indeed uphold Prop 8 and that we’ve got to go back to the ballot on this one more time.

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding says he will never allow homosexuality to be legalized, despite new pressure from foreign governments like the island’s former owners, the British. “We are not going to yield to the pressure, whether that pressure comes from individual organisations, individuals, whether that pressure comes from foreign governments or groups of countries, to liberalise the laws as …

I really like this. From the upcoming album Sounds Of The Universe, due out April 21st. TRIVIA: Depeche Mode’s first single, Dreaming Of Me, was released 28 years ago this week, eventually peaking at #57 on the UK pop chart. Performance clip from that year below.