Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Facebook has received notice that they are about to own the trademark on the word “face” whenever it is used in a social media context. There goes your idea for GayFace.com. The trademark covers the word face only in the context of “telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users …

(Via – The Friendly Atheist)

By a 6-1 vote, yesterday the commissioners of Orange County, Florida banned sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. Equality Florida reports that red-shirted supporters of the measures filled the commission’s chambers prior to the vote. Congratulations to my home county!

Sarah Palin wants to “clean up journalism.”

So who’s cutting out early today? Where are you headed?

John Berry is the highest-ranking openly gay appointee of the Obama administration. Watch this, it’s actually really great!

Speaking on Friday at the University of Richmond, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia denounced the concept of a “living Constitution” and said the 14th Amendment was not written with the intent of granting equal protection to ALL Americans. Just the heterosexual ones. “The due process clause has been distorted so it’s no longer a guarantee of process but a guarantee …

And as everyone in the world with a computer knows by now, Bristol Palin came in third. Confession: I’d been secretly hoping that Bristol would win. You know why. Snork! Anyway, homocon Tammy Bruce went all Lady Miss Sour Grapes on Twitter once Bristol was eliminated.Bruce followed up that bit with this: “While LibProgs were obsessing on #dwts…Ohio judge allows …

Dan Savage called me this afternoon (shortly after this post went up) to let me know that I’d totally misread the reaction of the CNN host to his calling out of the network for giving airtime to anti-gay bigots. It turns out, CNN knew exactly what he was going to say. Dan writes tonight on Slog: Did I ambush CNN? …