Joe.My.God. LGBT News

This all feels familiar from down here, doesn’t it?

Last week Mayor Janice Daniels of Troy, Michigan made national news when a six-month old anti-gay Facebook post surfaced. Now Daniels is facing the music at home. She is getting a short, not too happy, education in the facts of political life — specifically that the kind of sweeping stereotypes that fringe groups applaud don’t play well with the wider …

Elio Di Rupo, the openly gay head of Belgium’s Socialist Party, took the oath of office yesterday before King Albert II. Di Rupo becomes the world’s second openly gay head of government after Iceland’s Johanna Sigurdardottir. In a ceremony at the ornate royal palace, the son of Italian immigrants completed a remarkable personal journey that took him from an impoverished …

Thefts and robberies are soaring in NYC and the crooks are focusing on handheld electronics. An eCrime wave is sweeping the city with iPads, smartphones and other pricey devices now more popular with Big Apple thieves than even cold hard cash, cops say. Half of the nearly 16,000 robberies in New York over the first 10 months of this year …

Activists from Scotland’s Equality Federation are soliciting public opinions on marriage equality. Submissions will be reviewed by the government. Respondents do not have to be Scottish to express their opinion on the issue; the group can forward views from other countries in the UK and the world, which will then be looked at separately by the government. They say the …

The New York Times reports on yesterday’s historic move by the Obama administration, which is says was months in the planning. Mrs. Clinton anticipated the sensitivity of the issue for some more conservative countries, saying that “the obstacles standing in the way of protecting the human rights” of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people “rest on deeply held personal, …

“Believe me, I would like to talk about something else too. But the policies of the Obama administration have opened a Pandora’s Box of perversion. Maybe the White House couldn’t respond to the question, because it didn’t have an answer. After all, the administration has already welcomed at least one offender into its ranks. Last Thursday, an official with the …