Joe.My.God. LGBT News

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 …

The Supreme Court today quashed a wingnut demand that Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from the coming case to overturn Obamacare. Freedom Watch, a group led by Larry Klayman, asked the court for permission to file a brief on Kagan’s participation in the case. The court on Monday denied the request without comment, though it did note that Kagan did …

Randy Roberts Potts, the openly gay grandson of televangelist Oral Roberts, has launched a traveling performance art piece meant to demonstrate the normalcy of gay home life. Details reports: Randy Roberts Potts is pushing the gay agenda by watching TV. And by ironing a shirt. Also by doing a puzzle, vacuuming a rug, simmering stew in a slow-cooker, and intermittently …