After last week’s report that Chicago’s Howard Brown LGBT Health Center may be forced to close due to financial mismanagement, an anonymous donor has offered to match gifts from the public up to $100,000. The offer comes from a man who credits Howard Brown with saving his son’s life. In a news conference last Thursday, Howard Brown made an unprecedented …

Saying that Tea Party hero Sen. Jim DeMint is facing attacks from within the GOP because his support for anti-gay teabaggers cost them their Senate majority, the Family Research Council is asking for one million of their followers to pledge to pray for the asshat bigot every day. After what should have been a proud moment for all Republicans on …

MSNBC’s Cenk Uyguy devoted last night’s rant to gays that voted for the GOP. “That party is fighting against your rights every step of the way! What part of this don’t you understand? They’re just not that into you! They don’t like your lifestyle. They don’t like who you choose to sleep with, they don’t like who you choose to …

The ACLU has filed a class action suit against the Department of Defense because soldiers that are discharged for homosexuality are given only half of the separation pay given to other honorable dischargees. The ACLU notes that this policy is not stipulated in DADT legislation and can be changed without congressional approval. The lead plaintiff in the case is Richard …

World Bank, whose stated mission is ending poverty through loans to developing countries, has listed the “ex-gay” group PFOX as a suggested group for charity giving by its employees. World Bank matches employee donations at rates from 50-100% and places PFOX directly above PFLAG on its list of endorsed charities. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly: PFOX supports so-called ”conversion” …

Today is Veteran’s Day. Have you served in the U.S. military? Tell us where and when you were stationed and how you handled being gay. Would you serve today were DADT to be lifted? And if you aren’t American, tell us about your experiences in your own military.

According to the Washington Post, a Pentagon study group has found that there would be minimal effect on the military should DADT be repealed. The WaPo story confirms a similarly leaked report from last week. More than 70 percent of respondents to a survey sent to active-duty and reserve troops over the summer said the effect of repealing the “don’t …

Today the Department of Justice filed a brief in opposition to the Log Cabin Republicans’ request that the U.S. Supreme Court hear the LCR’s appeal of the Ninth Circuit Court’s indefinite stay on the overturn of DADT. Whew! Got all that? The Log Cabin Republicans respond to this latest bit of legal ping-pong. “It is unfortunate the Obama Justice Department …

Openly gay Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns writes to direct us to an online raffle for the boxer shorts given him by Ellen DeGeneres when he appeared to speak about his heart-wrenching video about LGBT bullying. Raffle tickets are only $5 each and all proceeds go to the Trevor Project! But do it right now because the winner will …

After test-running the feature in some markets, this week Time-Warner Cable officially launched its free “Look Back” feature, which is a sort of On Demand function that allows you to pull up shows that have run in the previous 72 hours. That’s handy if you forgot to set your DVR or see a bunch of raves about something on Facebook. …

Teabagger Joe Miller says that anybody who made the slightest mistake in spelling Sen. Murkowski’s name when writing her in should have their vote disqualified. And he’s suing the state to make that so.

For many years, a familiar sight for Manhattanites has been the giant inflatable rat stationed outside of businesses and construction sites using non-union labor. But in order to capitalize on the city’s eternal bedbug terror, the rat has been retired. Gothamist reports: Asylum spotted this giant inflatable bedbug outside the Affinia Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Let us hasten to report …

The Williams Institute today reported (PDF) that a small study of the adolescent children of lesbian mothers showed no reported incidents of abuse by either their parents or another caregiver. The paper finds that none of the 78 NLLFS adolescents report having ever been physically or sexually abused by a parent or other caregiver. This contrasts with 26% of American …

Kylie Minogue will perform at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (That sound you hear is half of Hell’s Kitchen rushing to claim a front row spot.) Also performing this year: India Arie, Big Time Rush, Betty Buckley, Ann Hampton Callaway, the casts of Broadway’s American Idiot, Elf, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, the Big Apple Circus, the cast and Muppets …

The Advocate reports that a coalition of Green and Labor Party legislators are readying a marriage equality bill for the state of South Australia. Tammy Franks of the Green Party and the Labor Party’s Ian Hunter will formally announce their plan to the state parliament. A similar bill was recently introduced in Tasmania, and one is waiting in the wings …

Tea Party hero Sen. Jim DeMint, who last month declared that gays shouldn’t be allowed to be school teachers, says that one cannot be a fiscal conservative without being a social conservative as well. Wait, we thought the teabaggers didn’t care about anything but shrinking government?

Remember how much I detest those self check-out stations at CVS and elsewhere? Well, I ran into the same thing at a hotel for the first time this weekend in Philadelphia and I must report with chagrin that I actually liked it. No line at the unstaffed front desk, just a quick credit card swipe and the machine spat out …

This morning Ryan Seacrest had a surprise for Mrs. Portia DeGeneres during a radio interview, announcing that she was under consideration to be Dancing With The Stars’ first same-sex contestant. “They’re planning to feature a same-sex couple. You’re at the top of the list,” Ryan told her. “Goodness, you really do break news,” Porita replied startled. But she didn’t pass. …

Spain’s right-wing People’s Party opposition leader Mariano Rajoy has filed a constitutional challenge to marriage equality and has vowed to repeal the law should he become prime minister in 2012. A drag queen showed up at Rajoy’s book launch to let him know what she thought. (Tipped by JMG reader Ejaaz)