Joe.My.God. LGBT News

In his new campaign ad touting his years as a POW, John McCain has a go at Obama’s famed speaking skills. “John McCain’s doesn’t always tell us what we ‘hope’ to hear. Beautiful words cannot make your lives better. But a man who has always put his country and his people before self, before politics, can. Don’t hope for a …

Madonna and A-Rod. Samantha and Lindsay. There. We’re caught up.

Barack Obama’s latest statement on abortion has both sides angered, with right-wing Christians labeling him the “abortion President” and progressives screaming that he is planning to erode current abortion rights. From the Christian Broadcast Network: Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, says Obama would have “the most extremist policies on abortion of any President in history. …

Although local Pride organizers praised the Budapest police for their handling of last weekend’s violent anti-gay demonstration, the European Parliament is condemning the Hungarian government for not adequately ensuring the safety of LGBT citizens. The European Parliament’s Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights has accused the Hungarian government of being unable to guarantee the safety of their citizens and visitors …

Intrade, the online stock trading /gambling site that allows players to bet on social issues rather than sports, is currently showing California’s gay marriage amendment as selling at 40, meaning that only 40% of the site’s thousands of traders believe that gay marriage will be overturned. If you buy at 40 and the players’ opinions turn in the amendment’s favor, …

Is this funny? Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing – a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of “Borat” fame.”We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived,” said Dwight Duncan, president and …

At York Avenue & 70th Street, NewYork-Presbyterian is rated the 6th best hospital in the US, and its ambulance service is the most-used by NYC, hence the non-stop wail of sirens going up my street. Trivia: Richard Nixon, Malcolm X, and Jim Henson all died here. Dumber trivia: the proper spelling of the hospital specifies there be no space between …

Via Good As You comes word of a “Straight Pride Parade” to be staged in Brooklyn on August 31st. The parade is being organized by a reggae music label who is pissed off because a hit song by their artist Stapler, Hit Them Hard, has been banned by some radio stations because it encourages violence against gays. From the press …

“The news on Friday about Helms’ death was certainly satisfying for those of us who experienced his reign of terror, and I among others gave him a fitting send off. “But let’s not let history forget that a powerful gay man was instrumental to Jesse Helms, even as Helms was vilifying and demonizing gay men and allowing them and and …

In light of last month’s stories about sex arrests on Fire Island, it’s interesting that gay activists in the UK are calling the plans to raze a local cruising area “discriminatory.” Scrub clearance work on Bristol Downs has raised concerns among some gay men who use the area for sex, the city council has said. The authority’s lesbian, gay and …