Monthly Archives: May 2010

IRAQ: Soldiers Show Support For Gays In The Military With Sexy Dance Video

Via Towleroad, soldiers in Iraq show support for gays in the military with a silly and sexy routine set to Ke$ha. From the clip description: “Created by Codey Wilson and his elite step team of volunteers. Don’t give us a hard time for this, please? We’re just a few good men trying to enjoy ourselves and get this deployment over …

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Ted Haggard Incorporates New Church

The world’s second-most famous rentboy patron (for the moment) has incorporated a new church in his hometown of Denver. Ted Haggard, the deposed founder of the New Life megachurch, told the Gazette newspaper on Tuesday that the incorporation of a new church on April 29 was done for accounting purposes — tracking reimbursement of travel costs as they speak at …

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PUERTO RICO: Guilty Plea In Murder Of Gay Teen Jorge Mercado

Juan José Martínez Matos has pleaded guilty to the murder of gay Puerto Rican teenager Jorge Mercado (left), whose decapitated and burned body was found by a roadside last November. Mercado’s murder caused an international outcry and forced activists to pressure the federal government to ensure that the case was prosecuted as a hate crime by Puerto Rican authorities. Michael …

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PhoboQuotable – Peter Sprigg

“There are many jobs for which personal appearance is a legitimate and relevant characteristic. Yet even Anne Lawrence, a male-to-female transgender who has written several academic papers on the issue, has admitted that many transgendered people do not make a convincing appearance in their chosen gender identity. It is simply inevitable that when they see a brawny 6′ 2” man …

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Military Bloggers Call For DADT Repeal

Ben Smith reports at Politico that a coalition of military bloggers have called for the repeal of DADT. The community of “mil-bloggers” — often hawkish, critical of White House and military leadership, devoted to both the First and Second Amendments — isn’t easy to define politically, but has proven an increasingly powerful voice from the ranks. The statement, which says …

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STOCKHOLM: Violence Erupts At Panel Featuring Muhammad Cartoonist

Andrew Sullivan tips us to this: Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Muhammad enraged many Muslims, was head-butted today while giving a lecture about freedom of speech. Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog in 2007, said he was assaulted by a man sitting on the front row as he spoke …

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E-Z JMG Tips

We’ve gained a lot of new readers at this here website thingy over the last week, welcome! You can subscribe to JMG via any RSS reader, my feed link is also in the left sidebar. (I recommend Google Reader for its simplicity.) New posts are also automatically pinged to my Twitter feed and I’ll often post breaking stories to my …

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Rep. Louis Gohmert: Skimpy Beauty Pageant Outfits Lead To Economic Chaos!

“And if a guy was to dress like that, he’s covered under the Hate Crimes Act.” Uh, what?

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Palm Beach Post Questions Bill McCollum Over Rekers Recommendation

Equality Florida’s Nadine Smith tips us to the below Palm Beach Post grilling of Attorney General Bill McCollum over his backing of Dr. George Rekers as the state’s “expert witness” in their bid to maintain a ban on gay adoption. Smith says she is having their legal team investigate the possibility of compelling the state to sue Rekers to force …

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Rep. Steve King On ENDA: Gays Shouldn’t “Flaunt It” If They Don’t Want To Suffer From Discrimination

Speaking on the Family Research Council’s radio show, yesterday Rep. Steve King (R-IO) warned FRC execudouche Tony Perkins that gays were going to commit “sting operations” against their employers by showing up at work in a dress and then suing for discrimination. According to King, gays wouldn’t suffer so much discrimination if they just wouldn’t be so damn GAY.

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Gay-Baiting Elena Kagan

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a front page photo of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan playing softball. Because that’s what lesbians do, you see. Eliot Spitzer, of all people, has announced that Kagan is not gay because he knows men who have dated her. “I did not go out with her, but other guys did,” Eliot Spitzer said of …

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Joy Behar Takes On Author Of “Gays Can’t Play Straight” Newsweek Article

With Dan Savage, Amanda Bearse, and the author himself.

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Leon County FL Passes LGBT Rights Law

Facing a packed chamber of opponents, yesterday Florida’s Leon County, home to the state capital, passed a sweeping LGBT rights law. In a 5-2 vote, the Leon County Commission approved the controversial changes to the county’s current human-rights ordinance. The changes are designed to deter discrimination and include more protection for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community. …

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Arizona, It’s Not For Everybody

(Via – Americablog)

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NARTH Is Purging Rekers From Their Site

At Pam’s House Blend, Autumn Sandeen notes that NARTH has begun purging their site of documents that reference Dr. George Rekers, including his article about the evils of gay adoption. Man overboard!

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Olbermann & Michael Musto On Rekers

And a national news show drags Bill McCollum into the story.

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OutCast Austin Radio Interview

If you missed the live stream of my interview with Austin’s KOOP-FM last night, they’ve now posted a podcast of the show on their site. Hopefully I don’t sound like a tool.

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Mistrial For Second Defendant In Brooklyn’s Brutal Anti-Gay Murder Trial

The judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Keith Phoenix, who was on trial for the anti-gay, anti-Hispanic murder of Ecuadorean immigrant Jose Sucuzhanay. According to Phoenix’s lawyer, the jury was deadlocked over convicting him of murder or manslaughter. The victim was beaten to death with a metal baseball bat in Brooklyn in late 2008 after Phoenix and …

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Laura Bush Comes Out For Gay Marriage

You may recall that in her memoir released early this month, Laura Bush wrote that she had asked Dubya not to make gay marriage an issue in his campaign, considering how many gay friends they had. Last night on Larry King, Laura expanded on that, saying she supported gay marriage and that it would eventually be legalized as the issue …

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How George Rekers Was Paid $120K

My pal Steve Rothaus at the Miami Herald breaks down how Dr. George Rekers ended up with twice what the state agreed to pay him for his “expert testimony.” Anti-gay psychologist George Rekers charged Florida $300 an hour to testify as an expert witness in a trial defending Florida’s ban on gay people adopting. The state planned to cap Rekers’ …

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