Joe.My.God. LGBT News

“The fact of the matter is, I think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South. It was our political institutions that were holding things back. I don’t think there’s anything necessarily so special about this particular issue that it must be handled by a …

The audio player for yesterday’s St. Etienne track seems to be crashing some Chrome browsers, so it’s been removed. My apologies.

“There was a time when homosexual so-called ‘marriage’ was beyond the pale, even for liberal corporate types. But now we see Microsoft, Starbucks, and other major corporations backing this perverse redefinition of marriage. It’s very sad. They ignore that the majority of states oppose same-sex marriage — not only oppose it, but they put it in their constitutions to keep …

This is different.

Sao Paulo’s Metro has launched an LGBT respect campaign. Its objective is to increase respect towards, and decrease discrimination against, LGBT people living in South America’s most populous city. The first stage of the project aims to combat discrimination and prejudice against transgender people, as well as dissemination of a law that punishes homophobic behaviour and discrimination within the State …

“I shudder to think what would have happened if the civil rights gains, heroically established by courageous lawmakers in the 1960s, were instead conveniently left up to popular votes in our fifty states. Equal protection under the law – for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation – should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day. Marriage …

An old school disco t-dance at the old school t-dance time. That’s almost revolutionary for Manhattan. The promoter also brings us the fantastic Trippin’ parties that I love so. XL’s grand opening is Friday. It’s the first large new exclusively gay club for NYC in years.

The Archdiocese of Newark has issued a letter denouncing New Jersey’s pending marriage equality bill. It begins: Marriage as a union of a man and a woman has its roots in natural law. Throughout all of human history marriage has been held to be a union of man and woman. Marriage as a union of man and woman existed long …

NOM’s Brian Brownshirt is interrupting dinner time in the Garden State with demands to call legislators and denounce the pending same-sex marriage bill. “There’s an attempt by wealthy activists to force same sex marriage on New Jersey without a public vote. It’s urgent that you call your state senator and urge him to vote no on same sex legislation,” the …