Joe.My.God. LGBT News

JMG reader Sean Chapin sends us his video of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus celebrating California’s first Harvey Milk Day with a concert in Fresno, far away from the gay-friendlier Bay Area. The chorus has been touring California’s heartland in a campaign to bring the LGBT rights message to the places that most opposed Proposition 8.

OMFG. Faces are red at CNN today after the network played a rap song containing the word “nigga” during a human interest piece about an elderly black woman who still drives her car at the age of 103. The network returned minutes later to offer an apology. My guess is that the producer who selected Coolio’s Fantastic Voyage had only …

The GOP is hammering away at their accusation that the president offered Senate candidate Joe Sestak an administration job in return for quitting his ultimately successful Pennsylvania primary bid to unseat Arlen Specter. “I think it’s looking increasingly like there’s something that they’re trying to hide,” said former Rep. Pat Toomey (R), who is running against Sestak for the Senate …

Adam Bink is reporting on Open Left that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) has agreed to be the final necessary vote to move the DADT repeal out the Senate Armed Services Committee and onto the floor for a full vote. I was told Sen. Nelson’s message is going to be that this isn’t about the next election… what the [Lieberman-Levin] amendment …

An armada of U.S. military ships began arriving in New York’s harbor today for Fleet Week 2010. The city’s titty bars are bracing for record business.

A proposed 13-story mosque and Muslim visitors center to be built near the former World Trade Center site has many in the city taking sides. Last night a Manhattan community board endorsed the project over the loud protestations of 9/11 survivors and others. The 29-to-1 vote, with 10 abstentions, followed a four-hour back-and-forth between those who said the community center …

Yesterday protesters jammed a Pride Toronto press conference held to address the swirling controversy over their decision to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from their events. About 80 QuAIA members and supporters turned out to protest the move, chanting “Whose Pride? Our Pride!” and “Resign! Resign! Resign!” Though Pride Toronto insists the action isn’t “directed at any one group,” the …

Queers United points us to the below ads from Miller Lite which mock men as skirt-wearing, purse-carrying sissies if they don’t “man up” and drink their brand. Transphobia? Homophobia? Funny? Queers United suggests contacting the company to express your displeasure.

John Mark Karr, the creepy loon who falsely confessed to the murder of pre-teen beauty queen Jon-Benet Ramsey, is undergoing gender transition. And some are saying the plan has ulterior motives. The man who claimed to have killed JonBenet Ramsey has legally changed his name to Alexis Reich and is reportedly preparing to undergo gender reassignment surgery. A former student …

JMG reader Blake in Sydney sends us the latest from the Australian classical sextet, Aston. More classical interpretations of pop hits from Aston are here.