Joe.My.God. LGBT News

North Carolina’s marriage vote is May 8th and the good guys need dough to get their message out.

Today around 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What would be your biggest LGBT news items of the last few days?

The Southern Poverty Law Center ranks the New Black Panthers as a hate group. The New Black Panther Party is a virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law enforcement officers. Founded in Dallas, the group today is especially active on the East Coast, from Boston to Jacksonville, Fla. The group portrays itself …

The Turkish Army grants a waiver of the mandatory service requirement if you are gay. But you have to prove it to them. Ahmet, a young man in his 20s, told officials he was gay at the first opportunity after he was called up, as he and other conscripts underwent a health check. “They asked me if I liked football, …

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“I have concluded through careful, empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me. Keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less then I ought, giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I am capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think and they …

Business Insider also notes this message from Ruger: “Despite the Company’s continuing successful efforts to increase production rates, the incoming order rate exceeds our capacity to rapidly fulfill these orders. Consequently, the Company has temporarily suspended the acceptance of new orders.”

The interview was live-streamed on Facebook to a potential audience in the hundreds of millions. No word on how many actually tuned in.

Mickey Rouke has pulled out of the biopic for openly gay rugby star Gareth Thomas. The 59-year-old actor had reportedly taken a method approach to playing Thomas, even tearing a bicep by arm-wrestling with rugby players while on drunken nights out. Now though, according to Thomas himself, Rourke has handed in his notice and the producers are on the lookout …