Joe.My.God. LGBT News

It’s been a good week for the movement. -The ACLU claimed a victory in Okeechobee, Florida, a small town near the northern edge of the Everglades, where their federal lawsuit forced Okeechobee High School to recognize the Gay-Straight Student Alliance. The school had banned the group as a “sex-based club”, saying it violated their abstinence-only policy. -New Hampshire’s state house …

And moving to News Of The Deranged, Tom Cruise is coming to Manhattan next week to host a $100,000 per table fundraiser to benefit a Scientology “New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project”, which claims to be able to detoxify cops, firefighters and rescue workers who were exposed to poisons during the World Trade Center rescue. Crazy, right? Even crazier, this …

Walt Disney has announced that its Fairy Tale Wedding package will now be available to gay couples, meaning that LGBT folks can stage ceremonies at either U.S. resort or on their cruise line. No word on whether they are changing the name of the wedding package (which starts at $8000), but let’s hope they don’t. If I got married at …

Yesterday Malcontent announced the winner of this year’s March Gayness blogger showdown, and it am me. At first it appeared that I’d won by one vote, which would have been so Bush 2000, but it turns out that voting had closed earlier when I had a bigger lead. So thank you, my gentle, intelligient readers, that was good for a …

Grand Central Terminal looked ghostly and beautiful on this cool, cloudy morning. Embiggen for maximum spookiness.

Sanjaya having survived last night’s show, with Dial Idol correctly picking the bottom three, including this week’s reject, Gina, you might be amused by the website If Sanjaya Wins, which is selling t-shirts upon which you can make some sort of pledge to your reaction, should Sanjaya actually win the season. “If Sanjaya wins, I will ….” I can’t believe …

In response to the recent endorsement by the World Health Organization, the New York City Department of Health is also planning to promote circumcision for men at risk for HIV, asking community groups AND gay rights organizations to discuss the procedure with their members. This, despite WHO’s own statement that the procedure holds little value for gay men who practice …

AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed suit against the state of California yesterday, accusing the state of ignoring California law and refusing to provide care for HIV/AIDS patients. You may recall that AHF recently sued Pfizer, claiming that the pharmaceutical giant was promoting unsafe sex via its Viagra advertising. In the latest suit, AHF says that California is being deliberately slow to …

Last night me and my boy Jay-Z was chillin. Kickin it, ya dig? Fo realz! Y u trippin? Meh, I can’t even fake hip-hop slang. The real story is I attended a Def Jam release party for Ne-Yo’s new record, Because Of You. You may recall Ne-Yo’s hit from last year, So Sick. You may recall it, but I don’t, …