Joe.My.God. LGBT News

ABC News is reporting that Florida law enforcement officials are building a possible case against disgraced former Rep. Mark “measure it for me” Foley (R-FL) for sending lewd messages to minors on the internet. The decision on whether to bring charges is said to be a month away and will depend on the testimony of the former congressional pages who …

The Human Right Campaign, Nike, ESPN, and the Women’s Sports Foundation are jointly hosting a discussion panel on LGBT athletes at the NCAA Final Four competition in Atlanta on Friday. Openly gay athletes expected to appear include former NBA star John Amaechi, former pro baseballer Billy Bean, former NFL players Esera Tuaolo and Dave Kopay, and others. The press release …

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to ban plastic shopping bags, the first major U.S. city to do so. Mayor Gavin Newsom is expected to approve the legislation, similar to laws already enacted in many foreign cities. The ban is expected to save 450,000 gallons of oil and reduce the annual amount of landfill SF creates by 1400 …

JMG survived the first three rounds of Malcontent’s March Madness gay bloggers playoffs, somehow squeaking by Queerty in the third match. Go vote for your favorites in the Big 8 round, this time I’m up against 2007 Bloggies finalist Scott-O-Rama. I think the Final Four round will come at the end of the week. Go Ohio State! I mean, Towleroad!

Lead by openly gay Andre Boisclair, yesterday the Parti Quebecois suffered a huge setback in Quebec’s provincial elections, winning only 36 out of 125 seats. This means that the long-festering Quebec separatist movement will not get another referendum anytime soon. One of the things I don’t miss about living in South Florida was having to endure incessant news babble about …

“I would never fail to tell anyone before we got home that I am a man with a pussy. That is not cool at all.” – Buck Angel, in an interview with Outrate (NSFW). Having seen Buck in action several times now, he certainly doesn’t lack for amorous attention from gay men, but the disclosure issue is certainly Topic #1 …

Yesterday Hillary Clinton said that if she were president, she would definitely sign the House bill that demands total pullout of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by summer of 2008. But she also said that a continued indefinite American presence was necessary to sweep Iraq for terrorists, continuing her strategy of making absolutely no one happy about her policy on …

Aside from the clever OKGo treadmill video, I was unfamiliar with any of the winners of the 2006 YouTube Awards, announced yesterday. I just can’t believe Mr. Pregnant didn’t win anything.