Joe.My.God. LGBT News

This week’s Dear Prudence advice column in Slate deals with a bisexual married man who says his own (also opposite-married) father-in-law tried to hook-up with him on Craigslist. His letter reads, in part: The issue is, I am bi-sexual and have known so for quite some time. My quandary is, about a month ago I responded to a posting on …

Like much of what the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence do, this ceremony manages to be simultaneously silly and moving. I believe this is the local Cologne order.

The music kills me.

Young Turks host Cenk Uygur makes arguments that are quite familiar to us here, but are always great to see on national television.

An outfit called Campus Pride has issued their annual Campus Climate Index rating over 200 colleges for their friendliness to LGBT students. This year 19 schools received full five-star ratings. Note that only the schools that voluntarily returned their surveys were rated. In development since 2001, the Index has become a staple in student and faculty research, campus organizing efforts …

“John Townsend, a writer for Lavender magazine, wrote a commentary attacking me and the Catholic support group Courage, which I was attending. This is a group for Christian men who struggle to overcome same-sex attraction. Townsend had lied his way into this confidential group in order to attend and expose my presence there. This was done because of my public …

Former Virginia governor and present DNC chairman Tim Kaine created this clip ostensibly to answer questions from the LGBT community, but mostly he just cites recent successes on our behalf by the Obama administration. There is no mention of DOMA, but Kaine does promise that Democrats “will do everything in their power” to pass ENDA.

As many of you know by now, JMG reader Sam Storicks died unexpectedly ten days ago at the age of 30. Sam was a popular member of the West Coast’s bear community and was a well-known DJ in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Two memorial services are planned. The first will be Wednesday, August 11th at 6pm at the San …

Daily Show co-creator (and JMG reader) Lizz Winstead rips into Phyliss Schlafly. Lizz appears at Comix NY tomorrow night (Thursday) at 8pm. Get tickets here.

Paul McCartney is so impressed with Glee that he sent the show’s producers a tape of his music in the hopes of getting an homage episode like those recently given to Madonna and Lady Gaga. Paul McCartney sent a mixtape featuring his music to Glee creator Ryan Murphy in an attempt to convince Murphy to include some of the songs …