Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Posted to CNN.com early this morning: A national group opposed to same-sex marriage aimed to fight it by driving “a wedge between gays and blacks” and identifying “glamorous” Latino artists and athletes to advocate traditional marriage, according to newly released confidential memos. The strategies were among several pursued by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which has actively campaigned against …

People For The American Way reports that Maryland state Sen. Anthony Muse, one of NOM’s allies in the battle to repeal marriage equality, has published the above sample ballot in his bid to move up the to U.S. Senate. PFAW writes: Muse, an African American minister in the Washington suburbs, is challenging Sen. Ben Cardin in a Democratic primary election …

The White House has launched a new Facebook page titled “I Like Obamacare.” The move is meant to take ownership of the name which was once meant to disparage the Affordable Care Act.

GLAAD points out this tidbit from NOM’s secret documents: “Hollywood with its cultural biases is far bigger than we can hope to be. We recognize this. But we also recognize the opportunity – the disproportionate potential impact of proactively seeking to gather and connect a community of artists, athletes, writers, beauty queens and other glamorous non-cognitive elites across national boundaries. …

Not only is Newt Gingrich so broke that he’s taken to charging $50 just to be photographed with him, print reporters have given up on him. Newt Gingrich has lost his last embedded print reporters, reporters on the trail confirm. The last two print reporters covering Gingrich full-time on the trail — from POLITICO and the Atlanta Journal Constitution — …

Slaggie Gilamonster ignores the firestorm that has erupted across the internet to single out Buzzfeed, which actually links and credits the source of her shame, HRC Exposed.

“Black folks, this is a message for you: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the country’s preeminent group fighting against same-sex marriage, really, really likes you. They even want to make some of you famous! Have NOM’s principal leaders, former president Maggie Gallagher and current leader Brian S. Brown, stood up for African Americans before? Well, not so much. But …

The second time for this kind of thing this month. A JetBlue captain went berserk on a flight from Kennedy Airport to Las Vegas today in an incident that forced the plane to make an emergency landing, passengers and authorities said. “Say your prayers!” the crazed pilot screamed as he ran up and down the aisle, a passenger told The …