Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Clay Aiken appeared on The View yesterday to talk about why he came out when he did and about being a new dad. This clip concludes with Aiken’s performance of Unchained Melody, which is from his new album, Tried & True.

Among the nine people killed during Israel’s raid on the flotilla headed to Gaza was 19 year-old Furkan Dogan, a New York-born man with dual U.S.-Turkish citizenship. According to one report, Dogan was shot four times in the head. And not that it’s necessarily relevant to this tragedy, I’ve gotten three emails today speculating that Dogan may have been gay. …

“The law needs to change. Fundamentally, it’s an issue of our values. It’s very critical for us as an institution, and I’m hard-pressed not to support policy and a law that forces individuals to come in and lie everyday. I have every expectation that not only we will do this, but we will lead in a way [so] it gets …

Defend The Law has launched a petition campaign asking all of the 2010 candidates for New York Attorney General if they will pledge to sue the federal government to overturn DOMA, as is being done by Massachusetts AG Martha Coakley. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice and candidate for Attorney General voluntarily said two weeks ago that she would sue …

In a major reversal, the Internal Revenue Service has recognized California’s community property law for registered domestic partners. The decision, which was issued in a private-letter ruling on Friday, reverses a position the IRS took in 2006, when it said California’s registered domestic partners should each report on their own federal tax return only the income they personally earned, not …

A new online magazine for men (including gays) has launched. From their press release: Good Men Media today announced the launch of The Good Men Project Magazine, a timely and provocative online publication that explores issues facing modern men and that seeks to answer the question, “What does it mean to be a good man?” The Good Men Project Magazine …

“Knockoffs are tiring; how many impromptu-but-choreographed flash mobs can there be before the idea is finally given a rest? Worse though, are the copycats that try to be something they’re not. Instead of putting forth something brilliant and groundbreaking, they recycle something, put a new brand on it and try to spin it to the consumer as superior to the …

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has written a letter to Congress demanding that they vote against ENDA. An excerpt: While the Church is ardently opposed to all unjust discrimination on the grounds of sexual inclination, whether homosexual or heterosexual, it does teach that all sexual acts outside of a marriage between one man and one woman are morally wrong. …

“Ex-gay” group PFOX is stamping their widdle footies because the PTA says they don’t allow hate groups to come to their national convention. PFOX says they called and emailed for eight months, requesting a booth at the convention, only to finally be told they don’t meet the PTA’s standards. Via Christian Newswire: “Why is it gay groups meet the PTA …

Fight Back New York, the action PAC formed to fight anti-gay New York legislators, has launched an amusing attack on state Sen. Ruben “Reverend” Diaz. Go play here.