Joe.My.God. LGBT News

I wasn’t going to going to mention this story, as it’s rather old news, but more information is coming to light about the Pentagon’s so-called “gay bomb” via Berkeley’s Sunshine Project, an activist group dedicated to uncovering the military’s bio-weapons research.

This is my 2000th post. Good grief, what have we all been going on about?

I hate to say this, but I think I’m totally going to have to go upstairs and knock on my neighbor’s door to say, “DUDE! Lay off the fucking bong!” When my air conditioner is on, it must just suck all his smoke right into my apartment. The smell of weed has always nauseated me, which sucks for me in …

“Who I’d like to meet: Any conservative college student in the DC area who is interested in fighting the left” – From the MySpace page of 18-year old Tyler Whitney, the webmaster for rabidly homophobic Republican presidential candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO). Whitney was outed this week by Michigan gay newspaper Between The Lines. Whitney is also affiliated with the …

This week’s Swag Tuesday booty is perhaps the most hotly anticipated gay lit release of the year, Armisted Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives, out today from HarperCollins. Is there any other series of gay books more beloved than Tales Of The City? It doesn’t seem possible. Maupin denies that this is a seventh volume of his beloved Tales of the City, …

The Human Rights Campaign has set up one of their easy-peasy letter grids for you to voice your opposition to Dr. James Holsinger’s nomination as Surgeon General. Click on the link and tell your Senators to vote “NO” on Holsinger. Here’s a few things Holsinger has done that proves his unsuitability to be the nation’s top doctor: In 1991 used …

“As the friends I once served with head off to 15-month deployments, I regret I’m not there to lessen their burden and to serve my country. I’m trained to fight, I speak Arabic and I’m willing to serve. No recruiter needs to make a persuasive argument to sign me up. I’m ready, and I’m waiting.” – Arabic translator Stephen Benjamin, …

Here’s some exciting Broadway news: Terrence McNally’s 1975 hit play The Ritz is returning to Broadway in October, with Rosie Perez playing the role of Googie Gomez, which was originally played by Rita Moreno. I never saw the play, but the 1976 movie version is one of my favorite films of all time, one of those classic gay films that …

The often confusing and always contentious argument between trangender activists and lesbians continues to grow, as lesbian rocker Bitch was removed from last Friday’s performance roster at the Boston Dyke March, due to complaints by transgender activists. The transactivists have a problem with Bitch having performed at the Michigan Women’s Music Festival, an event famous for the its long-standing restriction …