Joe.My.God. LGBT News

A large group of supporters appeared at a Manhattan courthouse yesterday to hear a judge dismiss all charges against the four members of Queer Rising who were arrested last week in a marriage equality protest. Via press release: Four members of the group Queer Rising, a group which advocates for civil rights for the LGBT community accepted pleas of ‘adjournment …

UPDATE: Rob Tisinai has a few variations of this photo.

Former Nixon White House chief of staff General Alexander Haig died in a Baltimore hospital yesterday at the age of 85. Many credit/blame Haig with brokering the deal in which Nixon resigned the presidency in return for a pardon. Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter sent the four-star general to Europe as supreme commander of NATO. Ronald Reagan made him …

Keith Olbermann recaps yesterday’s crazies including Ryan Sorba’s GOProud meltdown.

Ryan Sorba of California Young Americans for Freedom got roundly booed by the CPAC audience after he denounced the organizers for allowing “GOPride” to attend. That’s a rather unexpected reaction on the part of the audience to be sure, unless in some very unlikely event, GOProud had managed to pack out the large hall with their own people.UPDATE: It turns …

(Via – Second Avenue Sagas)

Via JMG reader BStewart23, here’s a poster from a new campaign by the Vancouver Health Institute for Men called “Public Displays of Gay.” HIM has a new poster campaign that is being promoted during the Olympics. The campaign shows visitors the diverse and accepting side of Vancouver, while promoting public displays of gay affection. The posters will show images of …

“The Bible declares that the mind of person given over to homosexuality becomes depraved or spiritually worthless. This was on full display when pop star Elton John declared, ‘I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.’ This is an outrage and the height of blasphemy and an offence to all those who are Christians. “Sodomy …

– Carrie Fisher says the producer of her just-closed hit show Wishful Drinking hasn’t paid her what he owes and failed to move the show to a big enough Broadway house. The show had its entire run at the small and non-profit Studio 54. – South Pacific will close on August 22nd. – Women On The Verge Of A Nervous …