Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Two gay activists in Zimbawe have been arrested and charged with “undermining” the regime of the country’s notorious dictator, Robert Mugabe. The charge apparently arises from an anti-Mugabe letter from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, which was reportedly displayed in the pair’s office. Ellen Chademana and Ingatius Muhambi of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe pressure group were arrested …

It’s too late to matter, but a judge in Maine has at last ruled that NOM must reveal where they got the money to fund their successful campaign to overturn same-sex marriage. U.S. Magistrate Judge John Rich III said in a document dated Sunday that the National Organization for Marriage, which contributed $1.9 million to the campaign to repeal Maine’s …

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has issued a lukewarm endorsement of the DADT compromised reached yesterday by the White House and Congress. “Secretary Gates continues to believe that ideally the DOD review should be completed before there is any legislation to repeal the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law,” Gates’ spokesman Geoff Morrell emailed journalists this morning. “With Congress having indicated that …

Because wearing a chicken suit constitutes a polling place violation against GOP Senate candidate Sue “Barter Chickens For Medical Care” Lowden.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s lawsuit against DOMA will be heard tomorrow in a Boston federal district court. Via press release: Judge Joseph L. Tauro will hear oral argument from Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office, in the Commonwealth’s constitutional challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). On July 8, 2009, the Attorney General filed suit on behalf of …

CurrentTV’s Bryan Safi learns about Grindr. NSFW.

Right Wing Watch on the latest evil from Byran Fischer: The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer is one of those Religious Right activsts who takes the Bible so literally that he actually advocates that all of our nation’s laws should be based on and uphold Biblical values … so much so that he recently called for a whale at Sea …

Last week straight Australian football star Jason Akermanis got a lot of negative reaction from gay groups when he wrote a newspaper column telling gay athletes to stay in the closet. Yesterday he had his car and home egged. Jason Akermanis, who suggested in his column that the world of Australian football wasn’t ready for openly gay men, said it …

“I’d heard that a lot of professional actors were gay. Acting seemed like a chance for me to meet like-minded people. You know, at that time same-sex love in Britain got you into prison. Homosexuality was being completely hushed up. Gay teachers, politicians or firemen – that was something unthinkable. When I was young I thought I was the only …