Monthly Archives: July 2013

Tweet Of The Day – Gregory Angelo

As the rest of us know, the man arrested in Seattle is a straight, married, multiple felon. I suspect that fact is known to Log Cabin Republicans head Gregory Angelo.

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GOProud To Capital One: Fire Alec Baldwin

Led by former GOProud head Jimmy LaSalvia, two dozen wingnuts outfits are calling on Capital One to fire Alec Baldwin for “homophobic speech.” “We urge all Americans to ask themselves, ‘What’s in your wallet?’ We hope they will reject Alec Baldwin’s homophobia by cutting up those Capital One cards in their wallets,” said gay conservative strategist and GOProud co-founder Jimmy …

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ESB Gets Fancy For The Fourth

Here’s a great clip of the Empire State Building’s fab new LED light show during the finale of last night’s fireworks show. The musical choices were “curated” by pop star Usher.

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Satanists Back Texas GOP

My headline is just one take on the above tweet regarding the claim that pro-choice activists chanted “Hail Satan” as Christians sang Amazing Grace in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol.  In Teabagistan this tweet is being touted as evidence that “Texas Democrats are too evil even for Satan!”

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Totally Not-Gay Rep. Aaron Schock Cheers Anti-Gay Group For Their Work

The Thomas More Society is representing two downstate Illinois county clerks who are defending against the ACLU’s lawsuit to legalize same-sex marriage.  Totally not gay US Rep. Aaron Schock is very sorry that he couldn’t be there for the group’s annual function, but he recorded the below video clip to congratulate them for their hard work to deny civil equality …

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CRAIGSLIST: MTV Issues Casting Call For Reality Show About Young Gay Athletes

JMG reader Dean noticed this Craigslist posting: NOW CASTING — MTV’S TRUE LIFE: I’M A GAY ATHLETE (USA) Is being gay affecting your game? Is your love for sports interfering with the love of your life? Is your desire to be the MVP keeping you from coming out to your coaches and teammates for fear of losing their acceptance? Are …

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COSTA RICA: President Signs Bill That “Accidentally” Legalizes Gay Unions

On Monday the national legislature of Costa Rica approved a bill that some claim “accidentally” legalizes civil unions or marriage for gay couples. Most had expected the president to veto the bill and that it would be rewritten.  But she has signed it. Via Google Translate: Chinchilla signed the law that was not raised to give rights to homosexuals, but …

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Pope & Ex-Pope: Straight Marriages Only

Today the Vatican released an 82-page document co-written by Pope Francis and former Pope Benedict in which the pair says that marriage is only blah blah blah. Francis paid tribute to pope emeritus Benedict XVI in the encyclical, saying that the ex-pontiff had “almost completed” the text before stepping down in a historic resignation this year and that he himself …

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Vatican: Gays Want Special Privileges

“In the American language you have a distinction between the word ‘homosexual’ and ‘gay’. A homosexual is a person who has, to some extent, this homosexual condition. Somebody may have this difficulty, and his friends, his neighbors will not know about this. He’s dealing with this in cooperation with the grace of God and may come out of this difficulty …

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At The 2013 Drag Invasion Of The Pines

Yesterday my pal Jerry accompanied me to the Invasion Of The Pines, the 37th annual marking of the day in 1976 when a drag queen was denied service at a restaurant in Fire Island Pines. Every Fourth of July since then, hundreds of drag queens board a chartered ferry in Cherry Grove and “invade” the Pines for a day exploding …

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American Street Preacher Arrested In Britain For Homophobic Speech

The religious right has a new martyr in former Los Angeles County police officer Tony Miano, who was arrested in Britain earlier this week for allegedly using homophobic speech as he preached to passersby on the street. Via the Christian Post: He was found to be in violation of Public Order Act Section 5, for “using homophobic speech that could …

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Yesterday’s Headlines In Teabagistan

These headlines refer to this.

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SF Chorus Celebrates End Of Prop 8

JMG reader and filmmaker Sean Chapin writes: Moments after Prop 8 fell and the first same-sex couple wed in San Francisco City Hall, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus celebrated the marriage of Prop 8 Plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, singing to then an excerpt of a new song called “San Francisco” from Andrew Lippa’s oratorio “I Am Harvey …

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NBA Star Tim Hardaway Becomes First To Sign Florida Marriage Equality Petition

The Huffington Post reports: A former NBA star who once declared “I hate gay people” became the first person to sign a new petition seeking to legalize gay marriage in Florida. Tim Hardaway signed the first petition Wednesday night for Equal Marriage Florida, a fresh effort to repeal a 2008 state amendment banning same-sex unions. He added his name while …

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New Record: 69 Hot Dogs

Easily the most bizarre NYC holiday tradition.

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Street Preacher Vs Gay Pride Attendee

The preacher writes on YouTube: This discussion is very revealing into the mind of many (maybe all) homosexuals. This gay man revealed the enshrined secret, spirit and teaching behind the gay community: Christians are not allowed and should be fought against, perhaps wiped out. This man openly says it is RUDE for a Christian to be at the public parade. …

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Arkansas LGBT Couples Sue For Marriage

And now, Arkansas. Several LGBT couples have taken a stand against Arkansas Amendment 83, saying that the amendment denies them the benefits and privileges given to married heterosexual couples. The lawsuit filed against the state of Arkansas declares that while the US Supreme Court recognized marriage as one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ the Arkansas Constitution prevents gay …

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Putin Signs Foreign Gay Adoption Ban

President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill that bans foreign married same-sex couples from adopting Russian children. The new law prohibits adoption by same-sex foreign couples whose homeland recognizes their union as marriage, as well as by single people or unmarried couples from those countries. A Kremlin statement said the measure is intended to guarantee children a “harmonious” upbringing and …

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Anderson Cooper: I’m A Creepy Cher Fan

“You try keeping a 46 year-old gay man away from Cher.”

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Linda Harvey Went To Columbus Pride

“I attended a recent ‘gay pride’ parade in Columbus. I’d been to one a few years earlier, and the bad news is that the event has grown much, much larger. Corporate support is everywhere. Macy’s, J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, JC Penney, Chipotle, Frito-Lay, and many others. Local Ohio banks, Fifth-Third and Huntington. American Family Insurance. All had sizeable …

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