Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Maryland-based carpetbagger Bishop Harry Jackson appeared on the radio show of Minnesota hate preacher Bradlee Dean to declare that gay marriage is part of Satan’s plot to “destroy our seed.” Whatever that means. Bradlee Dean, who has appeared at fundraisers for Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann, routinely calls for the death penalty for homosexuality. We can now presume that Jackson …

Baume recaps the attempt to keep the Prop 8 trial footage out of the public eye and last week’s civil unions vote in Delaware.

After weeks of demonstrations, yesterday Catholic protesters in France destroyed NYC artist Andres Serrano’s classic and controversial Piss Christ. The UK Guardian reports: The work has previously been shown without incident in France, but for the past two weeks Catholic groups have campaigned against it, culminating in hundreds of people marching through Avignon on Saturday in protest. Just after 11am …

After spending the last week offline due to “technical difficulties,” it appears that the long-running and popular LGBT news/gossip site Queerty is no more. Gay porn site The Sword (NSFW) has an email from the site’s founder which reads in part: As many of you know, last year Queerty partnered with the folks at 353Media to handle its operations. I …

“I challenge that ACLU to explain why children shouldn’t be taught what the Founding Fathers meant when they said ‘We are endowed by our Creator.'” According to Gingrich, “every state legislature should adopt a law” ordering such lessons.

A new study out of Oregon indicates that gay kids that grow up in a supportive environment are 20% less likely to attempt suicide. We knew this, of course, but now there’s some science behind it. About 1400 — or between 4 and 5 percent — of teens surveyed identified themselves as being gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Of those students, …

At first I thought this was meant to mock her. Sadly, no.

Over at Wonk Room, our pal Zack Ford has compiled some of the testimony from last week’s House DOMA hearing. Ford quotes Maggie Gallagher’s usual nonsense: If, in fact, marriage, as a public and legal institution…is oriented towards protecting children by increasing the likelihood they have a mother and father, then same-sex couples do not fit, and conversely, if same-sex …

“I’ve received a message or two from Brian [Brown], who basically has – he’s trying to intimidate me to stop talking. He’s saying that if I don’t remove the posts I’ve posted on my site and I don’t stop telling the truth about who they are he may pursue legal action. I considered it an intimidation tactic. On two occasions …

As he prepared to introduce Sarah Palin over the boos of Wisconsin’s pro-union protesters, wingnut blogger and GOProud backer Andrew Breitbart told labor supporters, “Go to hell!” Because “class warfare” (which, hello, is what the Tea Party stands for) is “un-American.” Raw Story has a much better clip (non-embeddable) taken from the rear of the crowd.