Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The Washington Blade reports that the military ban on sodomy will not be repealed by an amendment attached to the National Defense Authorization Act. The Senate version of the bill included a repeal, but that item did not survive the reconciliation with the House version. Anti-gay hate groups had found themselves in an unusual alliance with PETA in opposing the …

“I was undecided. But I’m totally convinced today that he’s not going to be my president, at least in my book. At least Obama will entertain the idea. This man is ‘no way, Jose.’ Well, take that ‘no way, Jose’ back to Massachusetts. Because I’m gay, alright? And I happen to love a man just like you probably love your …

In what’s being seen as a major blow to the fight against climate change, Canada yesterday formally withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, the greenhouse gas reduction agreement among most of the world’s nations. The United States signed the treaty in 1998, but the GOP has successfully blocked its ratification ever since. Environment Minister Peter Kent said that Canada is invoking …

In order to address bullying that has resulted in the suicides of several gay students, a local school board in Michele Bachmann’s Minnesota district is considering allowing teachers to address “controversial topics” like homosexuality. And nobody is happy is about it. At a standing room only school board meeting, district officials introduced a new proposal Monday night that in theory …

Two lesbian moms brought their kids to the city council meeting in Troy, Michigan so that homophobic Mayor Janice Daniels could see an actual gay family in person.

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Mike Myers is turning the Austin Powers franchise into a Broadway musical. At this stage it is thought that he will not actually star in the musical, but is simply developing it with The Book Of Mormon co-director Casey Nicholaw. The musical will tell the tale of how the buck-toothed spy got his mojo, and will be set to the …

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Above is Bob Garon, the gay-married Vietnam Vet who grilled Mitt Romney on his vow to support the repeal of same-sex marriage in New Hampshire. I’m posting Garon’s photo because his face didn’t appear in the clip we saw yesterday. Listen to the NPR report on Mittens’ flip-flopping on LGBT rights, which includes an interview with JMG reader Ned Flaherty.

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