Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The second attempt to get Apple to accept a retweaked version of the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration iPhone app has failed. And the Christianists are so not happy. “Inasmuch as the Manhattan Declaration simply reaffirms the moral teachings of our Christian faith on the sanctity of human life, marriage and sexual morality, and religious freedom and the rights of conscience, Apple’s …

Yesterday the below Russian-language clip appeared on YouTube directing Christian youth to send off for anti-gay stickers to be plastered anywhere it may be legal to do so. The linked site was registered in Ukraine in 2009 and doesn’t appear to have been recently updated, but includes numerous testimonials that reference Exodus International’s “ex-gay” conventions. Since we haven’t heard about …

It’s a long interview, but worth your time.

Yesterday the BBC ended a story about the birth of Elton John’s son with an “opposing view” from the head of a Christianist hate group that has endorsed Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals. Today Pink News reports that even in face of widespread condemnation, the BBC sees nothing wrong with their action. Here’s their terse statement. The practice of surrogacy …

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A website has sprung up with instructions for Democrats on how to vote for Sarah Palin in states that will hold open primaries in 2012. From the site’s FAQ page: Our purpose is to have Democrats and Independents help to nominate Sarah Palin as the Republican candidate for president in state primaries. In numerous head-to-head polls, Palin is the only …

Bobby Farrell, the male member of Germany’s legendary 70’s disco act Boney M, has died in Russia at the age of 61. While most of Boney M’s many hits were led by its female chorus, it was Farrell’s flamboyant dancing and stage antics that drew the most attention. Years after the band’s peak, it was revealed that Farrell had contributed …

“Recent headlines that heralded taking medication as a means of preventing transmission of HIV among gay men were applauded by many AIDS experts. The news came in a study of nearly 2,500 men in six countries that found that an average man taking the medication was 44 percent less likely to become infected than a control group taking a placebo. …

From an editorial in today’s Los Angeles Times: We can’t peer into President Obama’s soul, but his statement last week that he is “struggling” with whether to endorse same-sex marriage is open to an unedifying interpretation. Given the president’s support of gay rights in other contexts, his opposition to marriage equality raises the question of whether the struggle Obama referred …