Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Even if you aren’t a regular viewer of RuPaul’s Drag Race, you may want to set your DVR for tonight’s episode when Henry Rollins guest judges.

Gay singer/songwriters Matt Alber and Tom Goss team up on This Is Who We Are, which they are offering for download in return for a donation to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. Last month I posted a early version of the song. Singer-songwriter buddies Matt Alber and Tom Goss teamed up recently with videographer Zack Rosen of Washinton DC’s TheNewGay.net …

The New York Times reports today that the city is one step closer to shuttering the popular M2 Ultralounge nightclub over smoking law violations. The club is on trial this week. If the closure happens, it will be the first NYC business shut down because of smoking. The Bloomberg administration is moving closer to shutting one of the largest and …

Nice counter-point to that “A free thinker is Satan’s slave” sign. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

A new LGBT activism group founded by the organizers of last fall’s March On Washington has launched. Via press release from GetEQUAL: It is 2010 in the United States of America, and nearly every day we see reminders of a simple, sad fact: LGBTQ people are not equal. Since 2008’s momentous election, many of us feel like we have been …

Visit Our Families Count for information on why it’s so important that LGBT Americans take part in the 2010 U.S. Census. Queer The Census has more.

According to a strange Kinsey Institute survey published in the Journal of Sexual Health, what a lot of gay people call sex, a lot of other people don’t. Via 11 Points: -Anal sex, with a condom – 18% don’t count that as having sex. -Anal sex (no caveats) – 19.1% don’t count that as having sex. -Receiving oral sex – …

Mississippi teen Constance McMillen appeared on the Wanda Skyes Show to talk about her canceled prom. (Wanda surprises Constance by asking to her to be the presenter of Wanda’s upcoming GLAAD award.) There has been a huge national outpouring of support for Constance, with many offers of money and venues to host a gay friendly prom. The ACLU is suing …

“You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage — now get this — it defined marriage as simply, ‘the establishment of intimacy.’ Now how dangerous is that? I mean, I don’t mean to be absurd about it, but I guess I can make the point of absurdity with an absurd point …

Classmates.com has settled a class action lawsuit for $9.5M for tricking people into signing up for memberships by falsely telling them that old schoolmates were trying to contact them. The problems for Classmate.com began back in late 2007, when San Diego resident Anthony Michaels received an email from the social networking company informing him that his old classmates were trying …