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In a holiday piece written for Business Review, Richard Fausta recommends that companies keep Christmas music and Christianity-themed decorations to a minimum because there will likely be people of other faiths in the office.  Pretty standard advice, right? Not according to Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue. I asked our vice president about this. We can’t relate to that, Bernadette Brady …

Playbill reports: A Better Holiday Concert, a benefit for the It Gets Better Project, which was “created to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach,” will be presented Dec. 16 from 7-10 PM at XL Nightclub. The evening will raise funds for the Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest organization working on …

“We are disappointed by the ruling but very pleased that the temporary delay in implementing this important law applies only to the three plaintiffs who brought this lawsuit. The judge stressed that he was willing to issue the ruling in part because it is temporary and applies only to three individuals. We are confident that as the case progresses, it …

“Let’s stop the insanity by suspending the right to vote of any American who is on welfare. Once they get off welfare and are self-sustaining, they get their right to vote restored. No American on welfare should have the right to vote for tax increases on those Americans who are working and paying taxes to support them. That’s insane. In …

Today’s order of business in Uganda’s Parliament: NOTICE OF BUSINESS TO FOLLOW 1. THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL, 2012 2. MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT TO URGE GOVERNMENT TO BAIL OUT SEMBULE STEEL MILLS LTD FROM THE INTENDED SALE OF ITS PROPERTIES 3. THE PUBLIC ORDER MANAGEMENT BILL, 2012 4. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON THE STATUS …

Today Buzzfeed posted 45 photos in a recap titled “The Most Powerful Images Of 2012.” The compilation, which runs the gamut from horrifying to mournful to hopeful, includes two LGBT-related images, both of which appeared on JMG earlier this year. In the top photo, masked assailants stomp a Ukrainian gay rights activist. In the second, two Maryland women get engaged …

Towleroad tips us to this new Facebook group. The top entry at this writing: I met Brian in 2010 at an event in Allentown. We got to talking and he said he would like to take me to a Central Catholic boy’s wrestling match. I didn’t think much of it and said I would love to join him. At the …

“One thing our culture does not want if it wants to survive is to have its youth corrupted and this is happening in oh so many ways now, and homosexuality is one more. And here’s how it works with homosexuality: since no pregnancy threat exists, some people think there’s no reason to prohibit behavior in the young, even the very …

Via Gay Star News: A short film about trans women in Vietnam made by LGBT rights organization ICS has been watched over 200,000 times on YouTube. The film follows Yuki and her friends, showing the people behind the label ‘pêdê’ – the title of the film – a abusive term for trans women in Vietnam. ‘We decided to name it …

France’s First Lady says she is looking forward to being part of the wedding party of gay friends once marriage is legalized. Valerie Trierweiler, the girlfriend of French President Francois Hollande, has given plans to legalise gay marriage with her personal seal of approval by announcing she will be a witness at one of the first ceremonies. While her partner’s …

“This morning, I will begin living on a food budget of $30 a week / $4.32 per day.  This is the financial equivalent of the budget provided to people participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, in the State of New Jersey.  I will live only on a SNAP equivalent food budget for the next seven …

“Even though Congress made it very clear and it’s in the legislation that they intended the Defense of Marriage Act to be respected and honored on military bases, several times now the administration has allowed various branches of the service to disregard that. This is the most blatant example. I think West Point is going to disappoint many of its …

Last yesterday afternoon a federal judge issued a temporary injunction against California’s recently-approved ban in “ex-gay” therapy for minors. However the judge restricted his order (for now) to only the three individuals who filed lawsuits against it. U.S. District Court Judge William Shubb made a decision just hours after a hearing on the issue, ruling that the First Amendment rights …

CBN host to NOM spokesbigot Thomas Peters: “Do you feel like you’re trying to stop an avalanche with a picket fence?”

“Army officials are experts at following orders–except when it comes to federal marriage law. For the second time in two weeks, the brass at West Point opened its gates to lesbian ‘wedding’ ceremonies in direct defiance of the Defense of Marriage Act. Adding insult to the law’s injury, Saturday’s service was held in the Cadet Chapel, a 176-year-old house of …