Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The Washington Post’s David Weigel has picked up my post about the Family Research Council lobbying against a congressional condemnation of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. Gay City News and blogger Joe My God dug into the lobbying records of the Family Research Council and found that among the “Civil Rights/Civil Liberties” issues that the FRC’s Tom McCluskey and David Christensen …

Today is National Donut Day and the freebies are flying. Free donut with beverage purchase at Dunkin Donuts. And one free donut at Krispy Kreme, no purchase required. National Donut Day was created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the volunteers who fed donuts to soldiers during World War I. Mmm, forbidden donut.

Florida’s newspapers are keeping the pressure on state Attorney General Bill McCollum. Today the Sarasota Herald-Tribune revealed that McCollum hired Dr. George Rekers even though his own staff warned him strongly against it. Which proves, again, that McCollum is a liar, as he’s previously he claimed that he only hired Rekers because his staff told him to. E-mails released Thursday …

Ford Motor Company has announced that this will be the last year of production for their Mercury line. Mercury’s demise follows a string of famous American nameplates that have been dropped over the last year, including General Motors Co.’s Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer. Ford plans to focus on the design and marketing of its more upscale Lincoln brand — including …

Remember when Classmates.com agreed to pay $9.5M to settle a class action suit claiming deceptive marketing practices? Yesterday current and former members of the site got their settlement notice: $3 cash money. Or $2 in site credit! Funny, yeah, but I’m more concerned that I was notified about my fat settlement at all, because I totally don’t remember ever joining.

Openly gay conceptual artist and notorious art prankster Tobi Wong committed suicide on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 35. Mr. Wong first came to the attention of the design press in 2001 when he turned a Philippe Starck Bubble Club chair into a lamp, softly glowing from within. Adding spice to the stunt, “This Is a Lamp” was shown the …

Hit the Boston Globe’s series of photos of doomed sea birds along Louisiana’s oil-soaked coast, if you can bear it.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s request for accreditation as a consulting group to the United Nations has been blocked by Egypt. The group, which had applied for “consultative status” at the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) three years ago, is an international NGO and advocacy group focusing on protecting the rights of homosexuals and lesbians worldwide. …

“Happy sexual deviance month–or, as this President likes to call it, Gay Pride Month. Under this administration, every month feels like one long same-sex parade. For the second year in a row, however, the White House decided to make it official, weighing in with its second proclamation for ‘Gay Pride Month’ detailing how homosexuals and cross-dressers have “enriched’ American life. …