Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Faced with a boycott by an anti-gay Christian group, British supermarket chain Tesco will end its funding of Pride London. Tesco does not plan to sponsor Pride London again after next year, PinkNews.co.uk can confirm, only days after the Christian Institute called for shoppers to boycott the retailer. The company, which employs nearly half a million staff, told PinkNews.co.uk its …

The Washington Post goes to the same place most of us did when first viewing the top photo. The tenderness of Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta and her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, echoes Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous image of a soldier kissing a nurse on V-J (Victory Over Japan) Day in Times Square, 1945. …

Per MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts.(Via – Think Progress)

Progress Iowa has called for a federal investigation into the allegations that a local hate group leader demanded payment for his endorsement of Rick Santorum. The group has launched a petition to the Federal Elections Commission. “Any coordination between a campaign and an outside group on campaign expenditures such as advertising is illegal. Progress Iowa’s petition calls on the FEC …

The Victory Fund’s Denis Dison notes: Last week’s news that Southhaven, Miss., Mayor Greg Davis informed a local newspaper that he is gay means just two U.S. states remain on the list of those with no openly LGBT elected officials–Alaska and South Dakota. That doesn’t mean these states aren’t served by LGBT elected officials, just that none have self-identified publicly …

Donald Trump has officially left the Republican Party in a move that may advance his threat to run for the nomination of the online-only Americans Elect. “Couple Donald Trump’s name recognition with his extraordinary wealth and Americans Elect truly becomes a viable force in determining who the next president will be,” Trump’s top political adviser Michael Cohen told ABC News. …

1968’s The Lion In Winter, starring Katherine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, and Anthony Hopkins. Father Tony can recite the dialogue verbatim and often will without prompting.