Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Yesterday a Denver judge rejected a request to lower the charge in the case of murdered transwoman Angie Zapata, after her killer’s lawyer said that Allen Andrade was “provoked” into killing Zapata when she smiled at him after he demanded to know if she was male. Only when Andrade grabbed at Zapata’s crotch did he discover the truth. But when …

As predicted here a couple of days ago, check out the top story at the site of anti-gay marriage Christianist group Campaign for Children and Families. Because if we allow gay marriage, we will have a deadly train collision EVERY FUCKING DAY. (Image via – Good As You)

You may remember that during the 2006 Federal Marriage Amendment debate, Inhofe brought a giant photo of his family onto the Senate floor and crowed, “As you see here, and I think this is maybe the most important prop we’ll have during the entire debate, my wife and I have been married 47 years. We have 20 kids and grandkids. …

Answer: Arrrrr & B. You’re. Welcome. International Talk A Pirate Day is upon us again. Let the bad jokes commence.

Looking east on 42nd Street from Park Avenue. The next intersection is Lexington.

Perhaps driven by this week’s horrific financial news, Barack Obama’s polling numbers have him back in the lead (according to Gallup, at least) for the first time in two weeks. Separate Gallup tracking shows that consumer confidence has become significantly more negative as this week progressed, signifying that Americans are clearly paying attention to the major problems facing Wall Street …

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The Anchorage Press covers Wayne Besen’s protest at the “ex-gay” conference endorsed by Sarah Palin’s church: [T]he culture wars are raging in Anchorage, too, with Love Won Out descending on the town and the opposition it sparked evident both outside on the sidewalk and in a gay-friendly church that last week hosted speakers who were outraged by this promotion of …

California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s rewording of Proposition 8 may be having an effect; a new poll shows that support for the marriage ban is down by 4%. The poll found that just 38 percent of likely voters support the measure, while 55 percent intend to vote no. That compares with 42 percent in support and 51 percent opposed in …

Hilarious or terrifying? Yesterday John McCain was interviewed on the Florida affiliate of Spanish radio network Union Radio. And in the interview McCain appeared not to know who the Prime Minister of Spain was and assumed he was some anti-American leftist leader from South America. After the interviewer presses him a couple times on the point and tries to focus …