Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The House of Representatives has passed the compromise repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” after long and rancorous debate. I’ll post highlight clips from the debate shortly and will update this post with the vote’s roll call. Ten reps did not vote, 26 Democrats voted “NO” and only five Republicans voted “YES.” UPDATE: The five GOP “Yes” votes: Charles Djou …

I just got an email from the DNC’s Organizing For America asking if I would send a thank you letter to Senator Senior Name for standing up to Wall Street. It concludes, “Please show Sen. Name that support for reform isn’t going unnoticed.” I’ll wait to see how Sen. Name votes on DADT.

The vote was 16-12 and now moves to the full Senate. And it wasn’t televised, despite the demand made by John McCain earlier today. The Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday voted to let the Pentagon repeal the ban on gay men, lesbians and bisexual people from serving openly in the military, a big step toward dismantling the Clinton-era policy …

The wingnut-o-sphere is positively quivering with outrage today over a report that an Indiana school bus driver berated a girl for continuing to preach against gays and Obama to fellow students. The driver was recorded admonishing the student over the bus PA system. Keep in mind that the below news story and video are from a Fox News affiliate. The …

CA state Sen. Roy Ashburn (R), who was outed earlier this year after being arrested for DUI leaving a Sacramento gay bar, may slowly be seeing the light. Yesterday he voted for one of the two LGBT rights bills put before him and talked about being gay while doing so. Two months after announcing he was gay, state Sen. Roy …

“Ultimately, as in all military matters I defer to the Pentagon and to the Generals and what the Senate is doing today is giving them the ultimate authority to do what is best for our military. So, I would be inclined to support the Senate’s action on this.” – Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist, reversing his previous position on …

Vowing that BP will have to “pay dearly” for the Gulf oil spill, the president also acknowledged that the federal government did not move quickly enough at first. “We are relying on every resource and every idea, every expert and every bit of technology to work to stop it,” the president said. “We will take ideas from anywhere but we …

Today the president promised that the White House would “very shortly” address GOP claims that he illegally offered a job to Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee Joe Seestak if he would drop his challenge to Arlen Specter. UNRELATED: I always want to write “Sestak” as “sleestak.” Too much Land Of The Lost as a kid!

You’ve really got to be a scumbag when other scumbags won’t be seen with you. After being disavowed by the Family Research Council (which he co-founded) and by NARTH, for whom he wrote extensively and sat on their board of directors, Dr. George Rekers has now been dumped by that fake pediatricians group fronted by NARTH members. Wayne Besen reports …