The American Family Association has launched a boycott against McDonald’s (with its own website, no less) in protest that an openly gay McDonald’s executive has joined the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. From the site: What the boycott of McDonald’s IS NOT about This boycott is not about hiring homosexuals. It is not about homosexuals eating at McDonald’s. …

Barack Obama is defending his Thursday announcement that he may slow his promised withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, saying that he has said all along that he would work with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to effect a withdrawal timetable that would not destabilize Iraq further. After his first comments on slowing the withdrawal caused a firestorm in the …

Well, that didn’t take long. Florida Governor Charlie Crist became engaged today to Carole Rome, 38, a woman he met only nine months ago on a trip to New York. Rome has two daughters, 9 and 11 years-old, from a marriage that ended in 2007. She is president of the Franco-American Novelty Company, a century-old Glendale, NY-based Halloween costume wholesaler …

World-renowned “pregnant man” Thomas Beatie gave birth today to a healthy baby girl. The birth – at a hospital in Bend, Oregon – was natural, according to a source, who added that earlier reports that Beatie had planned a caesarean section are false. “She’s really cute, really pretty,” the source told ABC News Thursday afternoon. Born a woman, Beatie, 34, …

An eagle-eyed JMG reader has found Ted Haggard’s new business site, a mortgage reduction scheme company called United First Financial with the URL: KeepYourOwnMoney.com.Entering the company’s site through their main portal (not Haggard’s) one finds a link to another company site called ThinkBeyondMortgages.com. JMG reader David ponders: Glancing through the “agent manual” it appears to me to be something like …

Technically, I believe that Silly Stringing somebody might be construed as battery. On Sunday, an anti-gay pastor at Wichita Pride was charged with battery for throwing his admission pin at a Pride employee. Lawyers?

Hungarian nationalists fire-bombed a Budapest bathhouse yesterday as that city readied for this weekend’s gay pride events. A gay establishment in the Hungarian capital has been targeted, the second attack in a week. Four petrol bombs were thrown into sauna called Magnum in the early hours of yesterday morning. One man was slightly injured by fumes. The bombers had called …

According to a survey of 27,000 citizens of European Union nations, they’d rather elect a gay leader than one who is elderly, a minority, or of a different religion. According to the Eurobarometer study of 27,000 EU citizens across the bloc, just 17 per cent of Europeans would be totally comfortable with someone over the age of 75 in their …

A 25 year-old Boston transman had his profile removed from a bisexual dating site last week after revealing to the site’s operators that he had recently transitioned. When Nick Teich created a free account on the online personals site BiDatingNow.com last week, he decided to disclose that he is transgender. Perhaps he shouldn’t have. “They say, tell us about yourself …

The British government has told gay soldiers that they can expense their participation in gay pride parades, much to the dismay of straight soldiers. Gay troops have been told they can submit claims for their car mileage or train tickets to marches in London on Saturday and in Brighton next month. Heterosexual soldiers have criticised the move saying they are …

According to a press release from a porn industry group, the biggest beneficiaries of last month’s economy stimulus checks from the government may be porn sites. An unforeseen and surprising beneficiary of the Economic Stimulus Plan, a plan that George Bush contends will “boost our economy and encourage job creation,” has surfaced this week. An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult …

What was your first car? Mine was a 1971 Pontiac Lemans (although mine was mint green, unlike the car above.) When new, the car sold for about $3500, but my dad got it for me as a high school graduation present in 1977 at the low price of $1500 (thanks to a massive dent on the right rear fender.) No …

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Homegirl of the KKK, Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Duh), is making her third run at instituting a federal constitutional amendment banning marriage equality and has signed on as co-sponsor of the latest attempt. After more than a year of silence on amending the Constitution, and now facing a tough battle for re-election to a third term, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) …

Oh no! Now you’ll have to walk two blocks to find one! As many as 12,000 Starbucks workers will lose their jobs when the company begins closing 600 U.S. stores this summer. The Seattle coffee company is cutting 5 percent of its U.S. locations as part of a wide-ranging effort to boost its bottom line and its stock price. The …

Barack Obama has had his right-turn blinker on for several days. More backlash: Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most ardent supporters. Thousands of them are now using the same grass-roots organizing …

Remember during the 2004 Republican National Convention when anti-Iraq War activists were denied permission to use Central Park’s Great Lawn because it would damage the grass? Well, apparently peace activists are considered more likely to rip up sod than rock fans. Bon Jovi has just been given the OK for a July 12th free concert for 60,000 on the Great …

Riding high in popularity with the recent gay marriage triumph, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has filed the paperwork to begin his run for governor of California in 2010. Newsom, a Democrat best known for challenging California’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2004, is six months into his second and final term, which expires in 2011. Speculation over whether he …

One of Manhattan’s few remaining lesbian nightspots, Rubyfruit, is closing. RUBYFRUIT, the beloved West Village lesbian bar and restaurant, is closing after 15 years – a victim of rising rents and smaller crowds. “It was the first of its kind as a meeting place for local lesbians and those visiting New York from all over the world,” owner Debra Fierro …

Devo wants McDonald’s to whip it out and pay them for appropriating their iconic flowerpot hat costume for a Happy Meal toy. The U.S. rock band Devo is suing McDonald’s over the New Wave Nigel toy the restaurant chain is including in its Happy Meals. The New York Post said the new wave band, whose song “Whip It” was one …