Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Monsters, time travel, parallel universes, Satan, body switching. No sci-fi cliche shall be ignored! Via Holy Taco: “The series finale of Lost airs on tonight, and fan excitement levels are at a boiling point. Luckily, we’ve come up with a way for you to simultaneously relieve your anxiety and get completely wasted: The Lost Finale Drinking Game!” (Via – Gothamist)

After weeks of controversy, Pride Toronto has decided to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from all its events. QAII, whom some claim is an anti-Semitic organization, opposes the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli government. They had marched in the parade for the last several years. Some city leaders had threatened to pull funding for Pride Toronto if the group …

Central Park’s famed Tavern On The Green, which recently closed in bankruptcy despite being the second-highest grossing restaurant in the country, is going to have a new life. As a snack bar and souvenir stand. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg envisions an unexpected, humble but most likely temporary destiny for the closed, bankrupt, once-glittering Tavern on the Green restaurant: a snack …

The nation of Georgia has seen several demonstrations and assaults over the publication of a book by a 20 year-old author which mocks the Orthodox Church and depicts several gay sexual encounters. Via the Moscow Times: The catalyst for the dispute was a provocative new book satirizing the church, the most respected institution in Georgia. Its title is an irreverent …

Late last month a Spanish matador was grievously injured in Mexico, prompting renewed calls around the world to ban the “sport.” And yesterday in Madrid another matador was gored so grotesquely that many newspapers in Europe are under fire for having published a [WARNING!] horrific photo of the incident. I won’t post the photo here, but some animal rights activists …

Slovakia’s first ever gay pride parade was canceled today after skinheads attacked the participants with rocks, eggs and a tear gas grenade. Organizers are blaming police for not providing adequate protection. Eight neo-Nazis were arrested and there were no serious injuries. Members of the neo-Nazi group Slovenská Pospolitosť attacked the participants at a pre-parade rally for LGBT rights. A tear …

You may recall that during the 2008 presidential campaign, Mike Rogers and Michelangelo Signorile outed John McCain’s Senate chief of staff Mark Buse, seen here in a photo provided to me at that time by a reader. Yesterday McCain named Buse as his new Senate campaign manager. Mark Buse is McCain’s new campaign manager. Buse is a veteran McCain aide …

“If you are responding to a sermon that I preached about gays I would like to render the following apology. Nearly 15 years ago I preached a sermon that promoted physically hurting gay people. I was young, stupid and immature. I didn’t even hold to the belief of hurting people when I wrongly made those comments. I regret those words …

Today is the first annual Harvey Milk Day in California and observances are taking place from the Castro to West Hollywood and elsewhere in the state.

Readers have been sending me clips by West Virginia-based Pastor Jeff Owens for several months now and this one went up on YouTube yesterday. “We need to stop burning flags and start burning FAGS! We need Hunt-A-Homo Week. We need to take ’em all out and shoot ’em with a scatter shotgun.” Owens is on a national speaking tour of …