Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via Queerty comes this image from a new ad campaign by an Argentine condom company. What say you, readers? Over-the-top scare tactics or brutal truth? If I recall correctly, San Francisco tried a safer-sex campaign featuring photos of facially wasted men, much to a local outcry from pozzers who complained that such images unfairly presented them as ghoulish-looking. Is this …

As an antidote to today’s onslaught of double-dumbass news, here’s a great photo of Manhattan (and Queens) today, freshly snagged from Gothamist. I live about ten blocks to the right of the Queensborough Bridge (at the center-right of the photo). See me waving? That long green strip is Central Park. (Photo credit: Joe Schumacher)

Citing laws against hateful acts, Canadian border officials turned back members of the Westboro Baptist Church yesterday, saying that they may not enter the country to make their planned protest at the funeral of the man murdered on a Greyhound bus last week. Members of an anti-gay group which describes itself as a church have been barred from entering Canada, …

The first gay couple to marry in Fresno, California has already filed for divorce. Same-sex couples are once again making history in Fresno. They got married in June but now at least one couple is seeking a divorce. Two women are believed to be the first-same sex couple in Fresno to file for divorce. They married days after the state …

Under the headline “California Legislature Approves Gay Day in Public Schools” the Campaign for Children and Families is objecting to Harvey Milk Day, which the California legislature has approved as a state holiday, pending Gov. Schwarzenegger’s approval. “If signed into law, AB 2567 will mean an official day commemorating homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality in California government schools,” said CCF President …

A New York man has kidnapped the boy he and his husband adopted together and fled to Israel. Authorities are calling it the first such case ever involving a married gay couple. A baby boy adopted by two gay men whose marriage soured was abducted and spirited away from New York to Israel by one of the parents, who’s now …

The 14 year-old killer of gay teen Lawrence King pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder and a hate crime yesterday in a ploy to have the charges reduced to manslaughter. Brandon McInerney entered the plea in Ventura County Superior Court on Thursday. McInerney is charged as an adult with first degree murder and a hate crime for the Feb. 12 …

Christianist group Focus On The Family is asking its members to pray for rain during Barack Obama’s outdoor speech at Denver’s Invesco Field at the end of the Democratic convention.

This curious notice was in yesterday’s New York Times: LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS STREET FAIR, Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Greenwich Avenue, from Avenue of the Americans to Seventh Avenue. Is this for real? Anybody know anything about it? There doesn’t seem to be any mention on the LCR’s main site.

Shit! Georgia’s president said Friday that his country is under attack from Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilian populations as tensions over the breakway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict. Russia’s Channel 1 shows heavy tanks purported to be on their way to South Ossetia. “All day today they’ve …