Here’s my pal DJ Dave Huge’s mix for Bear Week: 90 minutes of lovely deep house titled Beef Dip. Set list.

Posted on Friday before the cancellation. Watch Doyle collar unsuspecting tourists on the National Mall to ask them if they’ve ever heard of “ex-gays.” Then we meet a former drag queen who is now allegedly “ex-gay.” (Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

Via David Badash.

Source.

“Due to some anti-ex-gay extremism that has occurred since we first announced Ex-Gay Pride 2013, the July 31 Lobbying Day on Capitol Hill and Evening Dinner/Reception at the Family Research Council has had to be moved and postponed to an undisclosed location in September. The harassment has caused several security threats which has forced us to change plans, and that …

Via Blabbeando.

Over the weekend anti-gay Texas Attorney General officially kicked off his bid to succeed Gov. Rick Perry. Hundreds of sweaty supporters in Plaza Juarez near the famous River Walk cheered while trying desperately to cut the heat with yellow-and-blue paper fans bearing Abbott’s name over the words “Fast cars, firearms and freedom – it’s a Texas thing.” “With the money, …

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has rejected the wording of a proposed ballot measure that would repeal that state’s 2004 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The attorney general said the proposal by Arkansans for Equality contained misleading tendencies and a failure to include any mention of the proposal’s effect on the state’s current law, Amendment 83, which was approved with …

From their new album, Electric.

Christians in the Dominican Republic are being urged to wear black armbands today in a “Black Monday” protest over President Obama’s appointment of an openly gay man as the US ambassador to their nation. Christian leaders are asking people to wear a black arm band, to show a black banner or ribbon on cars, or to dress entirely in black …

From the New York Times editorial board: In Washington, the Obama administration is moving with commendable diligence and speed to extend benefits like health care, life insurance and immigration rights to gay and lesbian married couples. We took special satisfaction from the memo sent out by the chief administrative officer of the Republican-led House informing all 435 representatives and their …

Not only did uniformed members of the military march proudly in San Diego’s pride parade yesterday, the event saw its first-ever same-sex wedding. After seven years together, Liz and Tricia Woodley had waited long enough. Under the eaves of a simple, open-air gazebo, amid thousands of rainbow-hued celebrants, the Temecula couple exchanged vows. It was the first legal same-sex marriage …

As a gay Catholic group passes: “Shame on you. You will go to hell with those child-molesting freaks. No wonder you want to be a Catholic. Shame on you.”

(Tipped by JMG reader Israel)

Jezebel! Courtney had a demon with an attitude — and a cocky one at that — Jezebel was back! Courtney had watched Bob Larson help other people on YouTube — so she knew she had to come to the seminar! During the deliverance, Courtney, with tears in her eyes, yelled out to the audience, “Mom, don’t cry!” Jezebel didn’t want …