Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Last night Father Tony and I attended the 21st annual edition of Broadway Bares, the bawdy and deliciously raunchy fundraiser by Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS in which dozens of buff chorus boys and girls writhe and expose it all to the delight of several thousand gay men. See Tony’s possibly NSFW slideshow here. Among last night performers were …

From Buffalo’s wingnut talk radio station. Already launched: a complaint campaign against the station.

Greg Sargent is optimistic. A historic day for marriage equality? The most important thing to watch today: New York’s state legislature is on the verge of voting to become the sixth state to legalize gay marriage. Proponents are one vote in the state senate short of making today a very big day indeed for marriage equality. The larger story is …

But the reported compromise includes “carve-outs” for religious objections, although it’s not yet clear what those exemptions might be. Gov. Cuomo and Senate Republican boss Dean Skelos could say, “I do” as soon as today on a historic gay-marriage bill that includes strengthened exemptions for religious groups. Negotiators for the Republican-run Senate privately admitted that a deal is near after …

Or tried to, anyway. I think this whole “glitter-bomb” thing is expired, folks. Mildly interesting the first couple of times, not so much anymore.

“In a Manhattan Court in 2005 Justice Doris Ling-Cohen ruled that gay marriage was legal in New York. At the time this ruling was celebrated as a victory for gay marriage rights advocates. New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided that gay marriage was wrong for New York and ordered New York City’s attorneys to appeal this decision. That appeal …

A bad week for the anti-gay industry.