Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Singapore’s nascent LGBT rights movement staged its second annual Pink Dot event this weekend, where over 4000 folks in pink clothing jammed a city park for a day of music and celebration. And for the first time, the media took positive notice. The 30-second clip on Singapore-based Channel NewsAsia showed participants in a carnival-like atmosphere and cultural performances at Hong …

While desperate American mail their gold jewelery to corporate scamsters in return for cash, a hotel in Abu Dhabi has installed an ATM machine that dispenses tiny gold bars when you feed it money. Because there’s so little conspicuous consumption in the region. (Tipped by JMG reader JM)

Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann says that Arizona’s new immigration law “codifies existing federal statutes into state law” and “does nothing new.” Except for that whole “Deine Papiere, bitte” thing.

I believe that cloaked sign is the long-overdue arrivals clock. Of course, it won’t be all that useful since the S train shuttle can never be more than one stop away.

Mere hours after the gay blogosphere reacted in disgust to the appointment of “proud homophobe” and physicist Jonathan I. Katz to the Obama administration’s oil spoil team, the Department of Energy has canned him. Chris Geidner at Metro Weekly reports: The news came after what the [DOE] spokesperson, Stephanie Mueller, termed ”controversial writings” – which included a ”defense of homophobia” …

All that pressure from the Vatican was useless. Today Portugal’s President Anibal Cavaco Silva announced that he WILL ratify his nation’s marriage equality law, which was bound for approval whether he vetoed it or not. Interestingly, Silva’s decision comes on the International Day Against Homophobia. The head of state’s decision to permit the enactment of a bill passed by Parliament …

According to this clip’s description, one-third of all trips in Utrecht, Netherlands are made by bicycle. The U.S. average is less than 1%.

Lebanese immigrant Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA in Las Vegas last night, becoming what may be both the first immigrant and first Muslim to win the 60 year-old pageant. Fakih was born into a powerful Shiite family in a village in southern Lebanon that was heavily bombed during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. But she and her sister said the …

As part of the today’s International Day Against Homophobia observations, activists in Jamaica marched with signs at a busy intersection in Kingston. And for once, nobody got beaten up. From the anti-gay Jamaica Observer: Held between 8:00 to 8:30 am the protest was intentionally short to avoid a disturbance, said one human rights activist to whom the Observer spoke. He …

Via the Awl comes this graph which charts the age range of “socially acceptable” dating partners. According to this, I won’t be shunned if I date a 32 year-old, nor would an 86 year-old be mocked for dating me. It’s nice to know that I have a 54 year range to work with. I guess.