Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Recorded in the summer of 1975, ABBA’s only U.S. chart-topper didn’t achieve its lone week at the summit until the spring of 1977. Dancing Queen’s glory as ABBA’s biggest and most enduring American hit was besmirched last year when it the media learned it was Newt Gingrich’s ringtone. TRIVIA 1: Dancing Queen was written just months after ABBA won Eurovision …

Via press release: Today Freedom to Marry announced the Win More States Fund to raise at least $3 million dollars, every penny of which will be spent directly on the work of winning in five 2012 marriage battleground states: Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Washington. “Winning marriage at the ballot in even one state will take away the …

You can look at any old photo of Madonna and instantly know about what year it was taken. You can’t say that about about anybody else. Billboard Magazine has a 50 photo trip down memory land. My favorite period was the Erotica years. Least favorite: the Guy Ritchie years.

Legal questions are being raised after an Ohio gay couple was granted a divorce there after marrying in New York state. Jonathan E. Baize, 31, and Stephen J. Wissman, 31, were granted a divorce last week by Judge Donald A. Cox after a 10-minute, “unremarkable” hearing, said attorney Thomas J. Addesa. He represented only Baize in the case. Baize and …

The Tennessee Senate has approved a bill that will allow teachers to advocate for creationism and against climate change. The bill’s wording is couched in terms of “protecting the right to open discussion.” Senators voted 24-8 to pass a bill that says schoolteachers cannot be punished for “helping students to understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the …

On the first full official day of NOM’s boycott, yesterday Starbucks’ stock price plummeted soared by $1.41. SNORK!

A former student at Manhattan’s exclusive Calhoun School is suing the school and his tormenting bully for abuse that he suffered in 2004. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Eric Giray — now a sophomore at Brandeis University — accuses Daniel Dworakowski — now a sophomore at Cornell — of taunting him for years before shoving him into …

Panels from the NAMES Project will be on display as part of this summer’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival on Washington DC’s National Mall. The exhibit runs June 27th to July 1st and July 1st thru July 4th. When last measured, the AIDS Quilt weighed 54 tons in its entirety. It’s the largest piece of community folk art in the world. Bring …

I took this just after 7AM.

(Tipped by JMG reader Wilson)