Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Openly gay Maryland Del. Luke Clippinger writes to give us the heads up that today’s marriage equality hearing should begin around 1pm. CORRECTED LINK: Live listen HERE.

He certainly left no wingnut talking point untouched. Briefly: Poor people should just fucking die when they get sick. Scientists are faking climate change. Obama is a dictator who wants to shove birth control pills down the throats of children. And so on…

The Ali Forney Center’s annual Broadway Beauty Pageant pits the Great White Way’s best chorus boys against each other in a celebrity-judged night of gay gay gay hilarity. I never miss it and you shouldn’t either. Pick up discounted tickets now through Valentine’s Day for the March 19th event.

“The Ninth Circuit Court in California has decided to overrule Proposition 8, a ballot measure that added a provision to the California Constitution that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California”. You should know that this Ninth Circuit Court panel of unelected judges has decided that they know better than the will of …

(Via – Copyranter)

Three Muslim men have been sentenced to prison for handing out “death to gays” pamphlets in the British town of Derby. Last month the men were found guilty of inciting hatred under the recently revised Public Order Act, which now forbids such anti-gay actions. Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and Razwan Javed were found guilty of stirring up hatred on the …

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“I am hoping that they have called President Obama’s bluff here, because what’s the alternative now? Are they going to go in and start shutting down Catholic hospitals? Start shutting down Catholic schools? Start fining them inordinate amount of money? Start throwing priests in prison, pastors in prison, organizers and CEOs of Christian hospitals around the country in prison? They …