Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Andy Towle writes: Shane Bitney Crone has marked the one-year anniversary of his boyfriend of six years, Tom Bridegroom, with a devastating video, It could happen to you, chronicling what happened to him after Tom’s sudden death. If there’s anyone in your life who doesn’t understand the familial rejection, the institutional discrimination, and the bias that gay couples face every …

“Log Cabin Republicans stand with many conservative North Carolinians in opposing Amendment One, including Representative Renee Ellmers (R-NC), John Hood of the John Locke Foundation, and former Charlotte mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate Richard Vinroot. These conservative and Republican leaders know that Amendment One goes far beyond marriage, banning the basic domestic partner protections that North Carolina voters support and …

The polls have only been opened for a few hours and already the Courage Campaign has a report on possible election fraud. Via Adam Bink: All, we’re getting reports here in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Raleigh (which are base areas for us, e.g. anti-Amendment 1) of precincts handing out INCORRECT ballots. In North Carolina, 17-year-olds can vote in the statewide …

Photo by Dr. Jeff.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson won the nomination of the Libertarian Party last week, less than two months after officially ditching the GOP. Speaking on the radio yesterday, Johnson proclaimed himself the strongest candidate on same-sex marriage. “I think I do better than Obama on civil liberties, I think I crush him when it comes to dollars and cents,” …

Gallup reports: Fifty percent of Americans believe same-sex marriages should be recognized by law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages — down slightly from 53% last year, but marking only the second time in Gallup’s history of tracking this question that at least half of Americans have supported legal same-sex marriage. Forty-eight percent say such marriages should …

Fascinating to see such stiff-legged pomp and circumstance. It all almost feels like a parody of the Soviet era.

Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak has died at the age of 85. Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated …

Two months ago Mitt Romney was the “worst Republican in the country” according to Rick Santorum. Surprising no one, yesterday Romney got his endorsement. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania and a newly minted celebrity among conservatives, said that the one-time rivals would unite to deny President Barack Obama’s re-election. But in a nod that the wounds had not yet …

Led by bejeweled elderly men wearing elaborately embroidered gowns, on Sunday thousands of Catholics took part in a “rosary march” against civil equality in Minnesota. More photos at the link.