Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Once again, MSNBC’s midday team gives the proper attention and reaction to an issue involving LGBT youth.

Four years ago today I brought Shelley home from the East Harlem ASPCA. She was 18 months old, very undersized, timid, and FIV+. Today she’s a chubby little lap snuggler and every visitor’s instant pal, despite the stern look she’s giving us above. As I like to do on this date, I encourage you to visit your local shelter and …

Lacking a single viable political candidate to rally behind, all the wingnuts really have is the retreading of the same old tired attacks.

After months of speculation, confirmation arrives today that the cast of Absolutely Fabulous will reunite for three new episodes. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley will reprise their roles as Patsy and Edina in three new episodes of the sitcom expected to begin filming later this year. The BBC said it was “putting the finishing touches to the deal” and is …

The FBI have made an arrest in connection with Lisa Miller, the “ex-gay” mother who vanished with her daughter in 2009 after courts awarded custody of the child to Janet Jenkins, her former partner. When Miller failed to surrender Isabella Jenkins-Miller, now age nine, to her ex, police issued a warrant for parental kidnapping. Metro Weekly reports: According to court …

Two 14 year-old middle school girls in Minnesota have hung themselves in a suicide pact brought on by bullying. The sexual orientation of the pair is unknown. Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz were found Saturday in the small town of Lynd. The two 14-year-olds hanged themselves and left notes in an apparent suicide pact. “I think they’ve had this for …

San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have fired back at hate activist Porno Pete LaBarbera, who yesterday circulated a press release denouncing the Sisters’ annual “Hunky Jesus” contest. An excerpt: First of all the Sisters would like to thank Peter La Barbaria for all the free publicity he is providing for our Hunky Jesus Contest. Even in the most reactionary …

Not to be outdone by Utah, who last month became the first state with an official gun, yesterday the GOP-dominated Arizona House voted to make the Colt revolver the state’s official murder weapon. Talking Points Memo reports: The Arizona House early Wednesday narrowly approved the Colt Single Action Army Revolver as the state’s official gun. The bill had been rejected …

Thanks to a truckload of money funneled to them by Newt Gingrich, last year hate groups were able to unseat three of Iowa’s seven state Supreme Court justices over their backing of same-sex marriage. Yesterday GOP lawmakers in the state House filed impeachment charges against the four remaining justices. Here’s an excerpt of the charges against Justice David Wiggins: By …

In his latest blog post, NOM defector Louis Marinelli reveals how Brian Brown told him to make sure that his photos made gay counter-protesters look “crazy.” According to Marinelli, that tactic backfired. What you don’t know is that in an e-mail I received from Brian Brown, he essentially instructed me to specifically take ‘crazy’ photos of gays and lesbians. His …