Joe.My.God. LGBT News

HURRAY! The back story is over here. I told Dan they should make this a pay-per-view event and let each side sell tickets to benefit their cause.

Ban the gays! Or else God herself will kill the fuck out of you.

This may just be the most hypocritical reaction yet, when you consider the news story from March in which Dean’s group verbally abused LGBT people to an audience of high school kids. They all ran WEEPING from the room! (Not really, but spread that.) An Eastern Iowa superintendent is doing major damage control after an unexpected message in a school …

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s just-issued budget reveals massive cuts to programs that serve the city’s burgeoning homeless youth population. The $7M annual budget reduction means as many as 160 youth shelter beds will be eliminated. Ali Forney Center founder Carl Siciliano reacts: “These cuts create an even bigger crisis for the LGBT teens who are thrown out of their homes …

Slate writer Amanda Marcotte gets to the root of it: The American right is undertaking a huge project of trying to put right-wing politics beyond criticism by shouting “religious bigotry” any time someone gets in the way of their political agenda. If they can create a consensus that it’s somehow off-limits to criticize teaching that gay people are subhuman as …

“They used to arrest middle-aged perverts who get their jollies from talking dirty to children. Today, they get a television show, a nationally syndicated column, a lecture circuit and multiple visits to the Obama White House. You know: ‘Forward.’ The irony is palpable. Dan Savage, sex columnist and founder of the LGBT anti-bullying ‘It Gets Better’ campaign, has been outed. …

Two of the teenagers charged in the nation’s first-ever federal anti-gay hate crime case pleaded guilty today in a Kentucky court. Alexis Leeann Jenkins and Mable Ashley Jenkins, who goes by Ashley, pleaded guilty to one charge of kidnapping and one charge of aiding others in causing bodily injury to Kevin Pennington of Letcher County because he is gay. The …

GAP has is totally hoping that One Million Moms takes notice.

Multiple Grammy Award winning Beastie Boys member and social activist Adam Yauch has died of cancer at the age of 47. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 after discovering a tumor in his salivary gland. Yauch sat out the Beastie Boys’ induction to the Rock and Roll …