The neo-Nazi affiliated Manif Pour Tous showed up at a high school in western France yesterday to protest an anti-sexism event called The Day Of The Skirt. And as with all things this week, Conchita Wurst was brought up. There were tense scenes outside a school in the centre of Nantes, western France, on Thursday, when around 200 supporters of …

Amy Kushnir: “If you are trying to maintain traditional values and views in your home and if you share them, you are going to get lambasted.” Kushnir says that since she stalked off the set of her Dallas show on Wednesday she has been subjected to death threats, rape threats, and petitions for her to be fired.

The right wing Hindu nationalist party that supported India’s recent recriminalization of homosexuality has swept to power in a landslide election. Via the Independent: India’s ruling Congress party admitted defeat this morning as the Narendra Modi wave washed over the country in a scale few had predicted. Initial counting in the country’s general election pointed to a massive victory for …

Via press release: On the eve of the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released an emotive, new video that focuses on the impact that each of us can have by sharing our own stories and by showing our support for our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender …

Via the Spokesman-Review: Thousands of couples have tied the knot at the Hitching Post, an institution in Coeur d’Alene right up there with the famous Hudson’s Hamburgers. But the popular wedding chapel across the street from the Kootenai County Courthouse will not perform marriages for same-sex couples, even if that means closing its doors after 95 years in business. “We …

The Liberty Counsel yesterday filed a brief with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in which they claim that Michigan must not allow same-sex marriage because it would somehow increase the incidence of STDs. Not only is there no bodily good or function toward which two same-sex bodies can coordinate, but there are in fact inherent harms associated with same-sex …

Below is a supercut of the Idaho GOP gubernatorial debate. About the guy dressed like a biker: Idaho GOP gubernatorial candidate Harley Brown is running as the “candid candidate,” and he rode the candidness to the end of the line during a debate Wednesday evening, calling political correctness “bondage,” and defending his right to impugn everyone from Jews to blacks …

Nobody seems to have noticed that millions of teabaggers are in DC today to overthrow the federal government. Phase 1 – Field millions, as many as ten million, patriots who will assemble in a peaceful, non-violent, physically unarmed (Spiritually/Constitutionally armed), display of unswerving loyalty to the US Constitution and against the incumbent government leadership, in Washington, D.C., with the mission …

After two years in Santa Fe, Armistead Maupin and his husband have moved back to San Francisco. They’re renting a ground-floor flat in a Castro cottage, both “craving village life again,” said Maupin. They’re going to keep their house in Santa Fe “because we love it, putting it up on Airbnb in hopes, of course, that it will pay for …

Moscow authorities have banned a parade that would have honored Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst. Although homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia in 1990s, animosity toward gays remains strong in Russia. The county last year passed a law banning the dissemination to minors of so-called “gay propaganda” and routinely rejects applications to hold gay rights demonstrations. Alexei Maiorov, head of Moscow’s security …

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Last night Debbie Harry held up the above sign at the end of a Daily Show “celebrity elevator violence” PSA.  Watch the clip here.

There won’t be any gay marriages in Idaho tomorrow. Via Chris Geidner: In a one-sentence order, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, “The district court’s May 13, 2014 order is temporarily stayed pending this court’s disposition of appellants’ emergency motions for a stay pending appeal.” The order follows the request from Idaho Gov. Butch Otter …

I would watch the hell out of that movie.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights has filed their motion in opposition to the stay demand made yesterday to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (seriously.) View the full ruling at my Scribd account and pull out the best parts. FUN FACT: Marriage defender Gov. Butch Otter’s first wife of 28 years was named Gay. …

Via the Associated Press: A judge cleared the way on Thursday for gay marriages to resume in Arkansas, striking down all state laws that prevent same-sex couples from wedding. A day after the state Supreme Court effectively halted gay marriages in the state, Pulaski County Judge Chris Piazza expanded his ruling striking down a constitutional ban to also include the …

Via CBS Dallas: Amy Kushnir will not appear on today’s airing of The Broadcast as she is not in the city. She’s actually on her way to New York to appear on Fox News to address her comments in front of a national audience. Steve Kemble has been in touch with Kushnir and producers of The Broadcast since yesterday to …

“If the Benham brothers are able to survive and flourish as home building faith filled reality TV stars, the dark curtain will have lifted a bit. The future will look brighter, new possibilities will open up, whether it is on traditional existing media, or whether we begin to fund and create our own networks of communication. For as the Benham …

Right Wing Watch pointed out that the image has been photoshopped from the Republicans For Obama sign. Barbwire blogger Pastor Jeff Allen says it was an “innocent mistake.” Tweet him a message about how much you believe him.