Monthly Archives: December 2014

Taco Bell Ad Stars Gay Couple

This “leaked” Taco Bell commercial was posted to YouTube ten days ago. Has anybody seen it aired anywhere? (Via Towleroad)

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Happy Solar Flare

Via the Telegraph: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured dramatic footage of a powerful X-class solar flare erupting on the surface of the Sun. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however – when intense enough – they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals …

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Pat Robertson Tries To Keep Former VA Gov. Bob McDonnell Out Of Prison

Via the Associated Press: Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell should perform community service rather than serve prison time for his federal corruption convictions, an international relief organization said Tuesday. Operation Blessing International said it offered McDonnell jobs heading its hunger relief program in Appalachia or working at its orphanage and fish farm in Haiti if U.S. District Judge James Spencer …

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Headline Of The Day

Details.

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FRANCE: Magazine Ordered To Pay €20K For Outing Leader Of Neo-Nazi Party

France’s Closer Magazine has been ordered to pay €20K for invading the privacy of a neo-Nazi party leader when it outed him as gay. Via Pink News: Florian Philippot is the deputy leader of the French Front National – which was allied with the British National Party, and has been accused of fostering homophobic violence by aligning itself with aggressive …

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Salt Lake Tribune Names Marriage Plaintiffs “Utahns Of The Year”

Via the Salt Lake Tribune: These six people put their names to the lawsuit challenging Amendment 3. They stood up, stood together and helped history along. Through 2014, they rode the legal roller coaster — to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld Shelby’s ruling, and onto the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a stay on the ruling. …

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Queen Elizabeth Delivers Holiday Speech

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He’s Not Sir David Furnish

Sir Elton John married his partner of 21 years last week, but unlike the spouses of straight male Brits with a royally-bestowed title, David Furnish did not gain a courtesy title. Via Pink News: When a man with a title marries a woman, his wife automatically receives a female courtesy title – meaning that if he had married a woman, …

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Freep This FDA Poll

On the lower left side. (Tipped by JMG reader Spur)

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Open Thread Thursday

Where are you today? Who are you with?

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The Interview Is On YouTube

Available for renting at $5.95.

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Dance Of The Sugar Plum Lesbians

This story makes its eleventh annual appearance on JMG…. Grand Central Terminal functions as the mechanical heart of midtown New York City, pumping out several thousand workers and tourists on one beat, then sucking in several thousand more on the next. The rhythms of the terminal are fascinating. Beat. Four thousand, inbound from New Haven. Beat. Three thousand, outbound to …

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FLORIDA: Judge Gives State Until Monday To Respond On Marriage Motion

Via the Miami Herald: U.S. Judge Robert L. Hinkle has given Florida officials named in the federal gay marriage case until Monday to repond to a clerk’s motion for clarification whether she must marry one same-sex couple or all same-sex couples who come to her office Jan. 6.  “The Clerk requests clarification as to whether the Injunction requires that the …

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Headline Of The Day

Via the Tallahassee Democrat: Susan Hemeryck, 54, told two Florida Department of Law Enforcement Capitol Police officers that she was “sorry and had to take down the Satanic display,” because it was “not right” before she attempted to tear it about 11:30 a.m. Hemeryck then tried to remove the display. Officers stopped her and told her to put it back. …

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Merry Xmas From Brian Brown

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Happy Holidays From Teabagistan

Posted today to Matt Barber’s site.

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Equality Florida & NCLR To Clerks: You Are Compelled To Issue Marriage Licenses

Equality Florida and the National Center for Lesbian Rights today issued a joint memo to all 67 Florida county clerks. From the concluding paragraph: Florida county court clerks should follow Judge Hinkle’s ruling and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning January 6, 2015. The advice provided to the Clerks Association in legal memoranda from a private law firm is …

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The Most Wonderful Time to be Queer

From the morning radio team at Denver’s KS107 FM. (Tipped by JMG reader Don)

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Merry Christmas From NARTH

If there’s a message here, I’m not getting it. (Tipped by JMG reader Jay)

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Florida Surpasses New York In Population

Via the Orlando Sentinel: First it was this: Orlando beat New York City as the first city to top 50 million visitors. Census figures released Tuesday show Florida passed New York as the nation’s third largest state with an estimated population of 19.9 million. New York, now fourth, has 19.7 million. “There are a lot of benchmarks, but this is …

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