Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Susan Komen vice president Karen Handel today resigned in the wake of the Planned Parenthood funding debacle. Handel, a former Georgia Secretary of State, is infamously anti-gay. From her resignation letter: “I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it. I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to …

The Minnesota Rabbinical Association has come out in opposition to the state’s pending constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The rabbis’ statement says the amendment “seeks to continue the practice of leaving individual families within the LGBT community vulnerable and unprotected by the law. To honor an individual is to fight against discrimination in society for any reason, including race, religion, …

Plain bagel and small coffee: $1.50.

The Hill reports: “Influential conservative blogger Erick Erickson said he would endorse the ‘sweet meteor of death’ over any of the current GOP candidates, but would back the party’s eventual nominee in the general election against President Obama.”

The Parents Television Council is outraged that nobody will take responsibility for M.I.A.’s flipping the bird during the Super Bowl. Because children saw it. Explanations and apologies by both the league and the network ring hollow, says Dan Isett of the Parents Television Council, seeing that both are essentially blaming each other. “NBC is blaming the NFL for having hired …

Kimmel told his viewers to record the reactions after unplugging the TV during a critical moment in the game.

Newt Gingrich’s communications director thinks there’s nothing wrong with his removal of embarrassing items from his boss’ Wikipedia page. As recently as last week, Newt Gingrich’s communications director has been criticized by editors on Wikipedia for dozens of edits he has made and requested in defense of his candidate. While some of the changes were minor, Joe DeSantis has removed …

Queen Elizabeth celebrated 60 years as monarch yesterday. Lots of photos.

Whichever design is selected for NYC’s proposed AIDS Memorial, it appears that no individual names will be included. There’s a petition to change that. I’m not sure how this could be accomplished, considering that the number of AIDS-related deaths in NYC already far exceeds the number of names on the Vietnam Memorial.