Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Rhode Island’s notoriously anti-gay Gov. Don Carcieri has vetoed a measure that would have added transgender protections to the state’s hate crimes law. The Family Research Council is thrilled. “Given the challenges facing America, it’s troubling that any legislature would invest time and taxpayer monies to consider such a superfluous agenda-driven maneuver, much less pass it through both Houses,” said …

Australia’s new prime minister Julia Gillard says she’s against same-sex marriage. Labor policy on gay marriage will remain the same under her prime ministership, Ms Gillard told Austereo show today. “We believe the marriage act is appropriate in its current form, that is recognising that marriage is between a man and a woman, but we have as a government taken …

Definitely the oddest moment of the day.

Nevada local television covered a group of senior citizens calling themselves the Alliance For Retired Americans as they protested outside the campaign headquarters of teabagger loon Sharron Angle. But the group’s “spokesman” is actually Richard Miller, the head of Reid’s Southern Nevada Steering Committee. I guess they thought those terrible handmade signs made them look all for realz and shit.

(Via – Flavorwire)

Two people were shot last night at a memorial vigil for the young man shot to death at San Francisco’s Pink Saturday street party in the Castro. The shooting was reported at about 8 p.m. near the intersection of Third Street and Quesada Avenue during a neighborhood vigil being held for 19-year-old Stephen Powell, who was shot and killed Saturday …

So says the Maine Family Policy Council. The shining whiteness of the bridal gown, symbolizing purity and the power that purity conveys, has been stained — or smudged, if you will — by pornography, sex before marriage, marital infidelity, divorce, abortion and, now, so-called marriages between people of the same sex. Like the dirty oil that pours uncontrollably into the …

The National Organization for Marriage is launching a 23-city bus tour to bring their message of bigotry and civil inequality throughout the country. Over 33 days, we’ll travel more than 6000 miles, holding rallies in 23 cities from Maine to Minnesota to Atlanta and Tampa before heading back to Washington, DC for the tour finale on August 15th. Many of …

Markos Moulitsas, founder of the progressive blogging powerhouse Daily Kos, has issued a quite scathing denouncement of his site’s longtime polling partner Research 2000, alleging unspecified skullduggery in their methods. Research 2000 polling results were heavily cited across the blogosphere (including here) during the 2008 elections and beyond. We contracted with Research 2000 to conduct polling and to provide us …

Two weeks ago openly gay New York state Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell sponsored an addendum to the state budget that would allow legally married same-sex couples to jointly file their state income tax returns. Senate Democrats need their full one-vote majority to approve the budget, but arch homophobe Sen. Ruben Diaz threatened to derail the entire mega-billions funding package unless O’Donnell’s …