Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Gregory Jones and Jonathan Howard have finished in second place in Crate & Barrel’s $100,000 Dream Wedding Contest. They and the other gay couples in the contest generated quite a lot of positive press for the marriage equality movement (as well as some internet nastiness, of course.) Today they write via email: To those of you who stood alongside us, …

On Saturday, YouTube yanked the now infamous clip in which Shenandoah Baptist Church Pastor Jeff Owens exhorted his flock to murder homosexuals. I was able to save the clip and upload it to Vimeo, who just sent me this message. Dear Joe Jervis: Your video ‘Shenandoah Baptist Church’s Pastor Jeff Owens: BURN AND SHOOT FAGS!(11950437)’ has been removed for violating …

Ben Smith at Politico is floating the rumor that Hillary Clinton is being considered to replace Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Gates, for his part, has saved Clinton from a different kind of marginalization by a powerful White House staff, which has a sometimes-rocky relationship with her own staff of loyalists, a residue of the bitter 2008 campaign. He’s …

“While many entertainers who profess an alternate sexual lifestyle are individually accepted and enjoyed by the public — when sexual behavior becomes their identifying trait in a specific broadcast, it limits the audience they will draw. Beyond that, it actually drives away a significant market share of parents and teens who used to watch the show together, until mom and …

Sean Hayes has been named as the host of this year’s Tony Awards. Via press release: Emmy and SAG Award winner and 2010 Tony Award nominee Sean Hayes, will host the 64th Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards® on Sunday, June 13th, live from Radio City Music Hall. The Tony Awards will air live on CBS from 8:00-11:00PM (ET/PT time delay). …

According to the Washington Post, the coming vote to attach the repeal of DADT to a defense authorization bill is too close to call. The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to vote by the end of the week on an amendment to the annual defense spending bill that would end “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which Congress passed in 1993. …

Last September we were all appalled by the brutal anti-gay attack on Jake Raynard, who underwent extensive facial reconstruction surgery after being attacked by a group of brick-wielding thugs outside a bar in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Raynard himself was charged with assault for kicking one of his assailants and last week he plead guilty. But wait a minute — how …

HillBuzz, the Hillary Clinton PUMA site founded by gay political gadfly Kevin DuJan, has got the wingnut blogosphere all aquiver over a claim that some mysterious MSM journalist is at last investigating their ridiculous claim that the president and Rahm Emanuel were once regular patrons of the Chicago-area bathhouse, Man’s Country. This has to be cloak-and-dagger for the time being, …

Speaking at a Harvey Milk Day celebration in San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed that DADT will be nothing but a memory by Christmas.

JMG reader Jim Brochu won the Drama Desk Award last night for Outstanding Solo Performance for his stunning turn as Zero Mostel in the one-man show, Zero Hour. At the podium, Jim thanked his husband of 25 years, Steve Schalchlin (also a JMG reader!) Congrats to both! Watch Jim’s funny and touching speech below. RELATED: Other winners are here. Of …