A federal judge will hear arguments to overturn Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage on October 16th. The challenge to Michigan’s ban was in play before the Supreme Court spoke, but attorneys for a pair of Detroit-area nurses believe the decision helps their case. “If marriage is a fundamental right, then logic and emerging Supreme Court precedent dictate that the legitimacy …

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AFER’s Ted Olson and David Boies, the team that brought marriage equality back to California, will today join the July lawsuit that seeks to overturn Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. The Washington Post reports: The addition of Olson and Boies to a case in Norfolk willprobably bring more attention to the challenges to Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriages. The state’s …

Blabbeando‘s Andres Duque reports a development in Colombia’s complicated journey towards marriage equality: In a surprising statement released on Wednesday, Colombian attorney and long-time LGBT-rights advocate Germán Humerto Rincón Perfetti announced that a civil court judge had declared Julio Albeiro Cantor Borbón and William Alberto Castro Franco “united in civil matrimony” in a ceremony that took place on September 20th. …

One wonders if the Olympic torch relay might see some protests this time around. It sure seems like a good opportunity. ABC News reports on today’s launch: Using the sun’s rays, the Olympic flame lighting for the Winter Games in Sochi went off without a hitch in southern Greece Sunday, ahead of its journey across Russia’s nine time zones and …

Clip recap: “Bob Larson and the Teenage Exorcists went to London recently, and encountered many demons of witchcraft. Beth had a curse going back 17 generations to Freemasonry. Watch as the Teenage Exorcists take over and tell the demon where to go!” Acting! The bit at 1:45 is especially funny.

Kirk Cameron’s new movie asks (and presumably answers) why God kills the fuck out of millions of people every year even though he loves them so fucking much. Here’s how things went when the movie debuted this week. Kirk Cameron’s latest independently financed faith-based film, Unstoppable — which ran on 700 screens Tuesday as part of a one-night live event …

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Via email: “Dear Joe, If possible, try to imagine the worst possible characteristics a mother could have. Then multiply that by ten, and you have the entire plot to one of the new TV shows airing this fall. The premiere of “Mom” aired this week, and it was shocking. The character playing the mom and actress playing the part of …

The buildings on the right and left house the main exhibits. In the middle today local artists were selling prints of their work.

Unlike the Garafalo ad we saw yesterday, this one is real. Via AdWeek: Barilla is struggling enough this week without its competitors piling on. But Bertolli doesn’t care. Seizing on comments made by Barilla’s chairman about how the company would never put gay couples in its advertising, Bertolli Germany quickly posted pro-gay imagery in its social feeds, happily taking advantage …

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The Positively Cleveland folks have had us on the go-go-go since the minute we arrived. Hopefully I’ll have time later today to recap some of the Gay Games items that we’ve learned. Tonight they have us finishing our evening at a club called Bounce. We’ll be there by around 10pm, so I hope to see some JMG folks there. Join …

For the third year in a row, yesterday the Serbian government banned Belgrade Pride, citing security concerns over threats of violence by neo-Nazi groups who battled hundreds of riot police at Belgrade Pride 2010. After Prime Minister Ivica Dacic announced the ban on state television, activists marched on his office. “After a long discussion on whether the march would pass …