Joe.My.God. LGBT News

A Philadelphia federal jury has ruled unanimously that the city violated the First Amendment rights of the Boy Scouts when it used the group’s anti-gay policies in an attempt to evict them from their city-owned building. “We can’t be kicked out of the building or evicted and we don’t have to pay any rent,” Scouts’ attorney William M. McSwain said …

I don’t care if this is real or not, I’m still laughing thirty minutes later. From the Tumblr blog How To Deal With Gay People, via JMG reader Luffy.

Marriage Equality New York, who created the below clip, has posted a donation page for Charlie Ramos, the 2010 opponent of state Sen. Ruben Diaz, our state’s most virulent and successful homophobe. Including in the below clip is footage of the 2008 anti-gay rally staged by Diaz, which brought 10,000 Hispanic evangelicals to Manhattan to scream anti-gay slogans and rail …

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered north of Ottawa was felt across the U.S. midwest and northeast this afternoon, shaking buildings as far as Boston, NYC and parts of Jersey. I felt nothing, but my super says it rattled some equipment in our building’s basement. Any here feel it? The New York Times wants your story.

This is Broadway star Jackie Hoffman, who is currently starring in the Addam’s Family and appeared in Broadway Bares on Sunday. Broadway hunk Nick Adams is in this too!

A high-ranking ayatollah in Iran has told police they are to fine anybody found a with a pet dog. Working dogs are exempt, praise to Allah. A senior Iranian cleric has decreed dogs are “unclean” and should not be kept as pets — a move aimed at discouraging Western-style dog ownership in the Islamic state, a newspaper reported on Saturday. …

“You don’t need a gun to protect kids” says Amber Watch Alert. Oh, but here’s a super slo-mo video of angry moms shooting off their automatic weapons, just in case that’s your bag. SRSLY, what IS the message here, exactly? (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

A just-approved hike in the state tax on cigarettes will raise the cost to around $12/pack in NYC, prompting Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin to claim that Gov. Paterson hates Israel. Because higher cigarette prices encourages bootlegging. Which is done by terrorists. “Criminals and terrorists will be further enticed to take advantage of the price differential between high tax and low …

The USA team just beat Algeria 1-0, moving them on in the World Cup playoffs. Apparently this is a very big deal. Landon Donovan scored in the first minute of stoppage time off a rebound, advancing the United States to the second round at the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Algeria. With the U.S. perhaps three minutes from …