Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Newt Gingrich has signed the anti-gay pledge of Iowa hate group Family Leader. But unlike the other GOP candidates who have signed the vow to thwart civil rights for gay Americans, pundits are focusing on the pledge clause that commands “personal fidelity to my spouse.” Gingrich has issued a statement. (My bolding.) As President, I will vigorously enforce the Defense …

Just in via press release: Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and the law firm of Morrison & Foerster today announced that their client, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jase Daniels, discharged in April 2005 and again in March 2007 under the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) law, has been reinstated in the U.S. Navy and will return to active duty …

The world’s first off-leash park for cats has been proposed in Vancouver. It is quite common in most urban public parks these days to have a designated area for dogs. These areas allow owners and their furry companions to have the freedom they may not feel in other urban spaces. Well, according to a group of cat owners in Vancouver’s …

RELATED: The Twitter feeds of all GOProud staffers went suddenly and simultaneously silent over 48 hours ago. This is highly unusual, particularly in the case of Chris Barron, who typically tweets the mundane minutia of his day, like what he had for breakfast and which body part he’d just exercised at the gym. Perhaps a major post-scandal announcement is in …

Equality Matters asks the question we’ve been asking here for the last year. In November 2010, the Family Research Council (FRC) was added to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) list of anti-gay hate groups due to its “propagation of known falsehoods” about gays and lesbians. According to an Equality Matters analysis, FRC spokespersons – including Tony Perkins, Peter Sprigg, …

At a campaign stop in a New Hampshire diner, Mitt Romney slid into a booth to chat with a man wearing a Vietnam Veteran cap. What Romney didn’t know is that the man was sitting there with his husband. Things went quickly downhill after the introductions. Garon challenged Romney, saying, “If two men get married, apparently a veteran’s spouse would …

Today around 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What would be your top five gay news stories this week?

Whoa! This is the hardest in-house slam on Gingrich we’ve seen so far. “It’s about serial hypocrisy.” Burrrrn.

The American Family Association notes: “Part of the proceeds from the ‘One State Under God’ specialty plate will go to a private entity that supports youth and at-risk children.” What they fail to mention is that this “private entity” is a Christianist group.