Joe.My.God. LGBT News

As I mentioned earlier this month, St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan’s West Village is set to close in bankruptcy very shortly. New York Magazine’s David France reflects on St. Vincent’s role in the early years of the AIDS pandemic. The obituary for St. Vincent’s, when it is finally written, will recall that the hospital’s greatest moment—and its darkest—came in the …

Here’s the full length of the teaser I posted last week. Words NSFW, starring Margaret Cho.

Yesterday the Missoula, Montana city council voted 10-2 to approve of adding LGBT people to the city’s employment and housing discrimination laws. “Most of us can’t remember civil rights in action,” said Councilwoman Stacy Rye, an ordinance sponsor. “This is it for us. This is our lifetimes.” In front of citizens who sat through a nearly seven-hour meeting, the council …

Courtesy of the show’s promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to the brand new Broadway revival of the legendary La Cage Aux Folles. THIS DEFINITIVE NEW PRODUCTION received glowing reviews in London, where it was honored with the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival. Now, JERRY HERMAN and HARVEY FIERSTEIN’s glittering musical comedy arrives in New York …

The Pope’s number two man, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose home archdiocese has recently imprisoned priests for molesting young girls, is blaming the Catholic Church’s problem with child fuckers on gay men. The Vatican’s second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of …

Olympic equestrian medalist Darren Chiacchia has been charged under Florida’s rarely-used law against failing to disclose HIV+ status to sex partners. Chiacchia’s former boyfriend notified the police after finding personal medical documents in his home. Mr. Chiacchia, who pleaded not guilty in February, faces up to 30 years in prison under a Florida law passed in 1997 that makes it …

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is demanding that the Treasury Department closes a loophole allowing airlines to charge for carry-on bags without paying taxes on the added revenue. Spirit Airlines’ $45 charge for carry-on luggage is the last straw for put-upon air travelers, said Sen. Chuck Schumer. He’s demanding that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner close a loophole that makes the fee …

Stonewall Uprising is making the festival rounds and will open early this summer around the nation. Schedule here. Synopsis: “It was the Rosa Parks moment,” says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot …

Tonight the city council of Missoula, Montana will consider an LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance that has brought out the typical “men in ladies rooms” screams by God’s Gentle People™, who last week marched with signs prompted by the NotMyBathroom.com website. NOTMYBATHROOM.COM is an action to defeat the Missoula anti-discrimination ordinance or more accurately called THE PEEPING TOM PROTECTION ORDINANCE. A review …

After the debacle that was his exit from NBC, Conan O’Brien has landed a new late night show at TBS. The Turner Entertainment president, Steve Koonin, laid out the network’s offer to give Mr. O’Brien a show at 11 p.m. weeknights, but Mr. Polone said that the Conan side had an immediate reaction: “You guys already have an 11 p.m. …