Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Gay Politics reports that CA state Rep. Roy Ashburn came out on a Sacramento radio station today. But he says he’s going to continue his anti-gay voting ways, because that’s what his constituents want. “I am gay. Those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long. It is something that is personal, and I don’t …

“I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never. I believe that nobody owes anything to anybody. Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don’t know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life? “I feel like …

Queerty tips us to this achingly cute performance by a University of Rochester a capella group, the Yellow Jackets, in which they do a gay take on Taylor Swift’s video for You Belong To Me. The clip within the clip was shown to the audience while the group performed. Here’s the original Taylor Swift video in case you haven’t seen …

A woman in Queens is suing the maker of her big floppy clown shoes because when she dressed up as Bozo for Halloween, her defective big floppy clown shoes caused her to trip and injure herself. Presumably this isn’t the Queens woman of the Diana Ross wig head fame.

The co-ops behind my apartment building are removing several thousand square feet of concrete patio in order to put in a community garden, probably so they can feed themselves during the coming End Times. So I’ve got a month of 30-feet-away multiple all-day jackhammering coming. I am rather cranky about this.

Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) says that the male sexual harassment investigation that forced his resignation announcement was a revenge plot by fellow Democrats for his opposition to health care reform. “Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,” Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. “And …

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has launched DOMA Storybook, a series of real stories about gay families who are being hurt by the Defense of Marriage Act. An excerpt from today’s story: “We’re a very ordinary family,” says Rebecca, who runs the public education program at a genetics center at Partners HealthCare. “Boring, actually. And we like that.” …

A study just published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review concludes that racism is not only more prevalent in Christian communities than in the general population, its incidence rises in correlation to a religious group’s dogmatism. The Center For Inquiry breaks it down: The February issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a meta-analysis of 55 independent …

Even though Karl Rove’s stepdad was totally gay, he doesn’t like people saying it. From a review of his new memoir: The attack dog rears his head, however, when Rove deals with questions about his stepfather’s sexual orientation. He blasts journalists for raising the issue at all — in his eyes it’s purely a liberal gambit to criticize him for …

Dance diva and former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland headlined at the big dance party at Sydney Mardi Gras yesterday. Unless it was tomorrow. #datelineconfusion.