Joe.My.God. LGBT News

A weekly recap of events that benefit the LGBT community…Orange County/CA: ECCO, a political action group for Orange County, California, holds its 2007 Awards Dinner at the Disneyland Hotel on October 13th. Honorees: Alicia Berhow, Lighthouse at Southern California Edison, California Teachers Association, Peg Corley, Ivy Bottini.NYC: The Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project will stage their 2007 Courage Awards at …

Bowing to pressure from Christian activists, Miller Brewing, the primary sponsor of Folsom Street Fair, has asked fair organizers to remove its logo from their Last Supper poster. Right-wing news outlets and forums like Free Republic (“Miller Supports Gay Sadomasochistic Orgies On San Francisco Streets!”) have been humming with “outraged” calls for a boycott of Miller and demands that readers …

Poland’s nascent gay rights movement is gaining steam as activists have filed charges against that country’s former Communist Party. Szymon Niemiec and Jacek Adler made history by formally filing charges against the former Polish Communist Party for human rights crimes against homosexuals in their native Poland. In the year 2000 after the formation of the Third Polish Republic a commission …

From yesterday’s HRC’s Backstory: This afternoon, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), one of the lead sponsors of the Senate hate crimes bill, took to the Senate floor to urge the Senate to pass the hate crimes bill (S. 1105) and for President Bush to sign the legislation into law. Earlier today, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) filed a cloture motion on the …

At last night’s Elton John AIDS Foundation fundraiser at the Waldorf-Astoria, Elton announced a $300,000 gift to NYC schools. The money is directed to buy computers to help teach HIV/AIDS awareness to low-income middle school students, part of a $3.1M grant to the National Urban Technology Center. The gift to NYC will allow the agency to double its service from …

Ugh. This morning I got a notice that my 30 year high school reunion is “officially” going to happen in November. I haven’t gone to any previous reunions, in fact, I’m not sure that there have even been any. I haven’t seen, much less thought about, any of my classmates from Colonial High in at least 25 years, so I …

The Roosevelt Island Tram casts a shadow on First Avenue.

Last month I mentioned Folsom Street Fair’s fabulous “Last Supper” poster for this year’s event. Now Matt Barber, alpha male for the mousy Xtian hausfraus advocacy group, the Concerned Women For America (CWA), is up in arms, petitioning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-SF), California Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, and Gov. Schwarzengger to “publicly condemn this unprovoked attack against …

A new monthly gay dating event called “HIV-, UB2” launches in December. In response to the recent upward trend of new HIV infections in our city, the time has come to support HIV- people who wish to meet other HIV- people. To offer support, empowerment, awareness and understanding so HIV- people can create the same support network that HIV+ people …

Photo via Free Republic’s “Homsexual Agenda” file, where the “No homos in Iran” quote is getting lively reaction. A sampling: “Knowing how Iran treats the homos, why don’t we send Barney Frank over?” “Sounds like a good destination for a “Rosie Cruise”!” “Sounds like a vacation hotspot… Love it! Just what I’m looking for.” “Besides, in the Arab world, men …