Politico reports: Every January for the past 40 years, a large group of anti-abortion advocates has gathered on the National Mall and then marched to the Supreme Court to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Organizers say their participants in the past few years have numbered from 200,000 to 400,000, a large part of whom are young people, and …

You wouldn’t think it possible, but it’s getting even worse in Nigeria. Via the Associated Press: Thousands of protesters threw stones into the Shariah court in a north Nigerian city Wednesday, urging the speedy convictions and executions of 11 men arrested for belonging to gay organizations. Security officials fired into the air to disperse protesters in Bauchi city so the …

If you don’t have HBO, the network has posted the full first episode of Looking to YouTube. Embedding disabled, of course. (Tipped by JMG reader Bernard)

Yesterday the GOP speaker of the Indiana House made the “highly unusual” move of switching the marriage equality ban bill to a new committee after it appeared to be failing before the House Judiciary Committee. Today Bilerico reports that a local gay House candidate has quit the Republican party in response. Andy Markle writes on his Facebook page: It deeply …

AMC Theatres has banned patrons from wearing Google Glass after Homeland Security yanked a patron wearing the device out of one of their Ohio multiplexes. Via the Guardian: Writing anonymously on The Gadgeteer blog, the man explained that halfway into the screening at an AMC in Columbus, Ohio, he was hauled out by police and officers from homeland security’s ICE …

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Earlier this month a high-rise fire in Hell’s Kitchen took the life of a newlywed gay man and critically injured his husband after they attempted to flee their 38th floor apartment via an emergency stairway. The New York Times reported yesterday that even people who knew that they should have stayed in their apartments did the same thing. A fire …

Via the Tampa Bay Times: Say you’re a rookie political candidate eager to raise your profile. Here’s one sure way to do that that you DO NOT want to try: Publicly call for the president of the United States to be hanged. That’s what Republican state House candidate Joshua Black did on Twitter yesterday. It generated an widely read article …

On the lower right of the page. (Tipped by JMG reader Kris)

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity is very upset about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s comment about “extreme conservatives” and says he’s leaving New York and taking his millions with him.

There’s a new porn app for Google Glass users. The first attempt, an app called Tits and Glass, allowed Glass users to stream pornographic images to their headset. The app was promptly banned from Google’s app store, but was recently reinstated. Now a new app for Glass developed by Lebanese product design student Sherif Maktabi and called Sex with Google …

Via the Telegraph: Another video of scandal plagued Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has appeared online, in which he appears to be inebriated. The mayor slurs and swears at staff, while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent. The person who uploaded the video to YouTube wrote that it was shot at a fast-food restaurant in Rexdale in the northwest area …

“Anytime I talk about Detroit, it will not be positive. Therefore, I’m called a Detroit basher. The truth hurts, you know? Tough shit. I made a prediction a long time ago, and it’s come to pass. I said, ‘What we’re gonna do is turn Detroit into an Indian reservation, where we herd all the Indians into the city, build a …

Illinois GOP state Sen. Kyle McCarter has introduced a bill to repeal same-sex marriage before it even goes into effect. Buzzfeed‘s Tony Merverick points out that McCarter’s bill is going nowhere. With a Senate and House controlled by Democrats — who just voted in favor of marriage equality in November — and a governor who pressed for equal marriage rights …

This should be interesting.

Anti-gay GOP former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who routinely opposed LGBT rights in his state, was today charged with accepting illegal gifts from a local businessman. McDonnell’s wife was also charged. Authorities alleged that for nearly two years, the McDonnells hit up executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr. again and again, lodging near constant requests for large loans, clothes, trips, golf …

Via the Indianapolis Star: In a highly unusual move, Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma today moved a controversial same-sex marriage ban to a new committee after the measure stalled in a previous committee. Bosma said the proposed amendment to the state constitution, known as House Joint Resolution 3, will be moved from the House Judiciary Committee to the Elections and …