Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Christie says yesterday’s vote in the state Senate was nothing more than “a good bunch of theater.” The Assembly votes on Thursday.

The same coalition of anti-gay Christian groups that led tens of thousands of raving Hispanic evangelicals through the streets of Manhattan is planning to repeat that repulsive event this Thursday in the capital of New Jersey. From the official state website of New York Sen. Ruben Diaz: New York State Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx) and fellow Ministers from the …

Rosanne Barr has launched a semi-serious run for the presidential nomination of the Green Party. Poll details.

JMG reader Robert suggests a different kind of freep in which we request anti-gay petitions from Preserve Marriage Washington. I don’t know if they’ll actually send petitions to out of state addresses, but at the least we’ll cause them a minor headache while they sort through the JMG avalanche to look for real requests. If you live in Washington, you’ll …

A Catholic Church near Charlotte, North Carolina has fired Steav Bates-Congdon, their longtime music director, for marrying his partner of 23 years in an upstate New York ceremony. On Jan. 19, just back from a honeymoon trip to Mexico, followed by an emergency stay at Carolinas Medical Center for a ruptured appendix, he checked out of the hospital and dropped …

They write on their site: This has been a big couple of weeks in the fight for the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. Yesterday, Washington became the seventh state to stand up for the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry. And last week, a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional. …

Cher: Female Force goes on sale tomorrow. Writer Marc Shapiro said Cher’s life and career “reads like a comic book.” “The clothes, the times, the attitudes of the decades she’s lived through. The different styles of music she’s been involved in. So much of what Cher has experienced is so flamboyant, over the top and just plain out there,” said …