Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the sixth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. My apologies to those that have read it before. Have a wonderful …

As he did for gay moms in his Mother’s Day message, President Obama mentions gay dads in his Father’s Day proclamation. An excerpt: Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. We owe a special debt of gratitude for …

Get your weekend pumping with this kicking vocal house mix from SF’s DJ James Torres. Setlist. Podcasts. Facebook. UPCOMING GIGSGhettoDisco@ End Up, San Francisco, June 18thMain Stage @ SF Pride, San Francisco, June 27thMain Stage @ Up Your Alley, San Francisco, July 25thMain Stage @ Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, Sept. 29th PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: DJ Bill Pfeiffer. DJ Mike …

According to Hawaii’s anti-gay Lt. Gov. James Aiona, his boss is going to put the state’s pending civil unions bill on the potential veto list on Monday. Aiona said that does not mean the governor will veto the bill that would give all the rights of marriage under Hawaii law to same sex and heterosexual couples. “It will be a …

Calling it a “scandal” that “pro-homosexual politicians” are not expelled from the Knights of Columbus, the Concerned Catholics of America are calling on attendees of an upcoming convention to demand just that. Oh, and everyone in charge should resign. For all their good works, the Knights’ national leadership stubbornly harbors enemies of unborn babies and man-woman marriage. This past January …

Now that BP CEO Tony Heyward has rightfully become the punching bag of the worldwide press, the oil giant is booting him out of their cleanup operation. And very interestingly, the new guy is an American. A day after Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, was pummeled by members of a House committee over the company’s role in the …

The Cedar Brook Cafe in Westport, Connecticut, thought to be the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States, is closing after 71 years. Clem Bellairs, who has owned the club for 12 years, said his reasons for closing the Cedar Brook were financial. “The landlord died and the people who bought it doubled my rent,” he said. “I …

The whole “gay boys lip-dub pop songs” meme is getting a little common, but this one is just too sweet to resist.