The Alliance Defense Fund is seeking donations to train the coming crop of anti-gay attorneys. (I may have tweaked the above image.) RELATED: In March 2011 the ADF inducted Lisa Biron into their “Honor Corps.” Congratulations to allied attorneys Geoffrey Westmoreland, Kevin Snider, Mike Tierney, Rick Macias, Steve Sanders, Stephen Casey, Greg Terra, Steve Whiting, Steve Amjad, Steve Fitschen, Tim …

The shelves in my DC hotel’s gift shop are jammed with Inauguration 2013 swag of almost every imaginable type. Sadly, no snow globes. This will all be 80% off in two weeks, of course.

Staffers from Crazy Eyes’ presidential campaign say they never got all of the pay that is owed them. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is refusing to pay five Iowa staffers and asking that they sign non-disclosure agreements, a former campaign aide has alleged. Peter Waldron, who served as Bachmann’s national field coordinator, says that the former employees were repeatedly told they …

Today Truth Wins Out head Wayne Besen appeared on CNN to counter Family Research Council spokesdouche Peter Sprigg, who is ever so pissed about the Louie Giglio flap. Note that Sprigg doesn’t attempt to deny his calls for the imprisonment and deportation of gay Americans. UPDATE: Think Progress reporter Zack Ford reacts. Jeremy Hooper is right to celebrate this as …

Lifehacker tips us to Freshneck, a new website that it calls the “Netflix for neck ties.” If you put on a tie every day or the dress code at work is formal enough that you could use help keeping your wardrobe fresh, FreshNeck can help. It’s a subscription service that lets you select up to three ties, cufflinks, pocket squares …

Eugene Delgaudio today issued a press release claiming victory over the SPLC because a judge ordered them to take his home address off some portion of their copyright lawsuit against him. The SPLC put that address on there, you see, so that violent homofascists like the FRC shooter would know where to find him. After SPLC attorneys refused a request …

I watched this live last night and then played it again this morning. He nails it. Totally. (Via Towleroad)

Go read Chris Geidner’s wonderful interview with DOMA heroine Edith Windsor. No excerpts here, just go read it.

My second-favorite train station after Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station.

The New York Times yesterday noted our movement’s growing alphabet soup of abbreviations, which some say is necessary because of the young people that just “don’t identify along the LGBT spectrum.” After telling the stories of several gender non-conforming college students, the piece concludes: If history is any guide, the age gap won’t be so easy to overcome. As liberated …

“Think Progress, The New Civil Rights Movement, Right Wing Watch, how many other places, how many supported groups in what Bryan Fischer has aptly named the Big Gay movement, think themselves wiser, smarter, more proficient in life than God almighty or the great Apostle Paul. For they take anybody, even pastor Louie Giglio, with the influence that this man has …

Former Rep. Barney Frank, who still wants to be appointed interim Senator, has endorsed Rep. Ed Markey for the special election that will be held in several months assuming that John Kerry is confirmed for Secretary of State. Markey was the first candidate to announce that he is running in the special election. Frank’s endorsement comes days after Kerry, Victoria …

This happened yesterday afternoon.

Washington DC’s LGBT Community Center has launched a program to aid asylum seekers who are escaping anti-gay persecution in their home countries. Via Washington Blade: The program, called Center Global, is aimed at providing temporary housing, financial assistance and referrals to service providers for LGBT foreigners in the D.C. area who are going through the complicated process of applying for …

In a long Washington City Paper piece about the advent of bear culture, much of which will likely be familiar to many of you here, the author drops an interesting theory about the origin of “woof.” When I run into Tyler and Witzkoske, who are partners, I bring up their standard greeting among friends: the kiss, belly rub, and occasional …

From the sales materials: “Pussy packs a punch. Punch? Actually, it’s more like being gently placed on a huge velvet cushion then being carried around the whole night with a back rub and table service thrown in for good measure.” Pussy is grape flavored. So now you know. (Tipped by JMG reader Iain)

You may recall the video I posted in 2011 which clearly showed an Occupy Wall Street protester being sucker-punched by a member of the NYPD. Yesterday the victim filed a federal lawsuit. Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona punched Felix Rivera-Pitre — an HIV-positive activist — in the face, ripping an earing from his ear during an Oct. 14, 2011 protest in …