Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Last night I attended Trippin’ On The Moon, the recurring disco oldies party for the members and performers of NYC’s legendary Saint disco. The featured entertainer was Tony winner and four-time Grammy nominee Melba Moore, who looked and sounded so amazing that I had to whip out my phone to confirm that it was, in fact, 42 years ago that …

The Gregory Brothers are BACK and this time they brought hottie Joseph Gordon-Levitt.(Tipped by JMG reader David)

During yesterday’s playoffs I idly wondered aloud when Nebraska had gotten a pro football team. I was tartly informed that the “NE” on the scoreboard actually stood for New England. Whatever. I liked the team in the purple blouses.

Clever prankster.

Talking Points Memo calls this “the chart Democrats don’t want GOP voters to see.”

It took 270 days for the last piece to be stolen.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has nominated an out gay black man to the state Supreme Court. Bruce Harris was just elected as mayor of Chatham, New Jersey in November, prompting the Victory Fund to declare him to be the nation’s first out gay black Republican mayor. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly. Garden State Equality executive director Steven Goldstein …

The Tennessee Tea Party is demanding that references to slavery be removed from history books. Because it makes the Founding Fathers look horrible! The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions …

(Via – Igor Volsky)

In April voters in Anchorage, Alaska will decide whether the city should adopt protections for LGBT residents. The ballot measure was forced by thousands of signatures on a petition drive backed by the local Catholic Church. Just joining the battle is the Alliance Defense Fund, who contends that businesses should have the right to deny employment to gay people. The …