Joe.My.God. LGBT News

It might seem impossible, but Congress has renewed the Patriot Act for another year. In the Senate, important privacy protections failed to be included due to the loss of the Democratic supermajority. Key provisions of the nation’s primary counterterrorism law would be extended for a year under a bill passed by the House last night after Democrats retreated from adding …

Here’s NY1’s story on former Rep. Harold Ford’s appearance at the NYC LGBT Center, in case you wanted to see all the shouting. (Via – Towleroad)

UPDATE: NY Gov. Paterson will announce today that he will not seek election in November. Embattled Gov. Paterson has pulled the plug on his election bid, a source close to the governor said Friday. Paterson will announce the decision later Friday. Paterson has been under fire for having contacted a woman who accused one of his top aides of domestic …

I never heard of this phenomenon until Rachel Maddow covered it the other day, but a quick search on YouTube reveals hundreds of clips of dogs howling to the Law & Order theme song. So strange.

Things got very heated on the House floor when Rep. Anthony Weiner shouted from the podium: “Make no mistake about it! Every single Republican I’ve ever met in my life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry!” Weiner was asked to stop speaking, then allowed to resume if he promised to change his words. Which he didn’t. OUR …

The bigots attempting to shield the names of the other bigots who signed the bigoted Referendum 71 petition in Washington state have written to the U.S. Supreme Court. Their message: “If you force the release of the names on the petitions, violent homosexuals will unleash their fury on us!” Writing the high court Thursday, proponents of Referendum 71 — which …

Two parents are suing the Alameda County school district in California because they don’t want kids to be taught that it’s wrong to beat up gay kids. Kerry Cook and Serena Dietrich filed a suit Feb. 18 in Alameda County Superior Court that seeks to nullify the school board’s Dec. 8 vote to readopt Lesson 9 for Alameda’s elementary schools …

We really got clobbered last night.

Dan Savage calls this the “worst tourism ad ever.”

A special EP of kd lang’s Olympics opening ceremony performance of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is now on sale on iTunes. The clip below is audio only.