Orlando Cruz weighed in for the bout wearing rainbow briefs and will wear rainbow trunks during the fight. He spoke to the Guardian about tonight’s featherweight world title match. Cruz understands how this fight will smudge the boundaries between the personal and professional. He even implies that Salido, as a Mexican, might be troubled by facing a gay fighter. “My …

Beyond disgusting. In an appalling bid to “own” the Dec. 14 anniversary of the Newtown slayings, a coalition of gun lovers has announced plans to declare that horrific date “Guns Save Lives” day. “We are going to use the day to get our views out,” said Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation. “We don’t want (pro gun-control groups) own …

The Vatican has suspended sales of a papal medal which heralds the world’s savior, Lesus. Four of the medals, which went on sale Tuesday, had already been sold. It has been suggested that because of the error these could become valuable. The medals were made by the Italian State Mint and should have carried the inscription: “Vidit ergo Jesus publicanum, …

E! Online has a recap: Alexander Skarsgård shirtless, just how we like him! In Cut Copy’s new “Free Your Mind” music video, the hunky True Blood star plays a cult leader (a super-sexy cult leader, that is!). Adding to Skarsgård’s cult-leader look is a long, blond wig. In the vid, Skarsgård is shown doing a number of unusual things: He …

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“It’s clear that the courts are going to shut down the marriage debate and impose gay marriage uniformly. There is not yet a unified sense of where we go from here, except for this: there is an accelerating awareness that the consequence of marriage equality is going to be extremely negative for traditionalist Christians. Refusing despair is a powerful political …

Remember when former Concernstipated Women head Sandy Rios predicted that “thousands of ex-gays will descend upon Washington DC.”? And then NINE showed up? She got more of the same yesterday at the FRC’s hate summit.

Breaking news from the Associated Press: The state’s highest court on Friday agreed to hear a case on whether gay marriage should be legal and whether same-sex weddings can be performed while it decides. A lower-court judge ruled last month that the state must legalize same-sex marriage starting Oct. 21, but Gov. Chris Christie’s administration said in a court filing …

The United States Olympic Committee today amended its official non-discrimination policies to include sexual orientation. At his annual address to the USOC Assembly on Friday, CEO Scott Blackmun said the federation is not in the business of trying to influence Russian policy. “The fact that we do not think it is our role to advocate for a change in the …

We’ll be holding the meet-up for JMG readers at Oscar’s, which I’m told is right around the corner from the giant Palm Springs Pride block party that night. Thanks very much to Oscar’s for hosting us and to Bud Light for sponsoring our meet-up. Hopefully I won’t get too hammered as I’m scheduled to be princess-waving the next morning. (I’ll …

From the Southern Poverty Law Center: Rep. Forbes cancelled his planned appearance today at a fundraising luncheon for an anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association, at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. Forbes’ decision comes in the wake of a petition and TV ad campaign by Faithful America, a progressive Christian organization. My organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, …

US Senate candidate Liz Cheney is super-upset about a campaign ad that claims she secretly supports same-sex marriage. And she wants that shit off the air. Cheney’s office sent letters to cable operators and TV stations in the Mountain West region and demanded the ad be removed from broadcast zones in the Denver, Cheyenne and Casper markets. The Cheney camp …

Tampa’s WTSP-TV reports: The video shows a woman repeatedly yelling “God, you’re my savior!” as the plane lands. The man narrating the video claims she told fellow passengers her mother recently passed away and asked for prayers, before she escalated into the screaming chant. The narrator says flight attendants asked that he make sure the woman didn’t try approaching the …

The reaction from you-know-who will be as delicious as a Betty Crocker cake. Thanks, Betty!

Brian Brown stopped by the Family Research Council’s booth at the Values Voter Summit today to chat with FRC vice president Peter Sprigg, who appeared on national television in 2010 to declare that Lawrence V Texas had been “wrongly decided” and therefore homosexuality should have remained a crime. Sprigg is probably congratulating Brown for his successful collaboration with the Russian …

Pink News reports: The Health Ministry of Kuwait has proposed that genetic tests for immigrant workers in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, be tightened to prevent transgender migrants from entering the job market there. This news follows an announcement earlier this week that Doctors in Kuwait and other GCC countries may subject men entering the county to screening tests …