Politico reports that the FBI investigated a group of GOP congressmen after their trip to Israel’s Sea of Galilee included an irreverent and allegedly drunken incident of skinny-dipping by Rep. Kevin Yoder, who, it turns out, cannot walk on water. During a fact-finding congressional trip to the Holy Land last summer, Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) took off his clothes and …

Gothamist has dug up a vintage 1980 television dance sequence in which Raquel Welch encounters some stereotypical New Yorkers on the subway. Jive-talkin’ blacks! Hot-blooded Latinas! Dancing leathermen! All the boys are gay gay gay, of course.

Today at 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What are your top five gay news items of the last week? I can think of one….

The mafia kingpin who ran dozens of NYC gay bars in the years before and after Stonewall has died at the age of 92. Matthew “Matty The Horse” Ianniello, the one-time acting boss of the Genovese crime family who was involved in the gay bar industry in New York City from the 1950s through at least the mid-1980s has died …

(Via Zack Ford.)

Scott directed many blockbusters including The Hunger and Top Gun. He was the younger brother of famed sci-fi director Ridley Scott.

A lesbian couple in Nevada say they were denied the right to make medical decisions for each other despite being in a legally recognized domestic partnership which grants them that right. When [Brittney] Leon, 26, checked into Spring Valley Hospital on July 20 with complications in her pregnancy, she assumed that her partner [Terri] Simonelli, 41, could make any necessary …

The operators of Burning Man, which begins next week, are suing their Nevada county hosts who have tripled their charge to provide police protection for the event. Though this year’s event, which runs Aug. 27 to Sept. 3, will not be affected, the 2013 festival is in jeopardy after Pershing County allegedly hiked the fees from $154,000 in 2011 to …

This is how Christianist media is spinning the Lisa Miller case.

Lots of cute gay couples and scenes of the city from San Francisco pop-rocker Matt Nathanson.(Tipped by JMG reader William)

Six years ago a New Mexico photography business refused to photograph a lesbian wedding, resulting in fines from the state Human Rights Commission and the martyrdom of the company to anti-gay groups nationwide. On Friday the New Mexico Supreme Court agreed to hear the company’s appeal from the Alliance Defense Fund. “Americans in the marketplace should not be subjected to …

Story.

According to the will of a recently deceased Manhattan businessman, his gay son must marry a woman to receive his inheritance. The son is already married to a man. A dear old dad left behind a final, unthinkable request for his gay son: get married — to a woman. The edict surfaced in the will of Manhattan businessman Frank Mandelbaum, …

Funny how this message comes while Ryan speaks to the world’s largest retirement community in Florida, innit?

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My new neighbors have been playing the new Pussy Riot single nonstop for two days, giving me a respite from the entire Skrillex catalog.