Joe.My.God. LGBT News

From the BBC: A new trailer for Star Wars spin-off Rogue One has been released, offering fans a fleeting glimpse of Darth Vader. The trailer concludes with a shot of Vader and the sound of his trademark heavy breathing. Felicity Jones stars in Gareth Edwards’ film as the leader of a Rebel mission to steal the plans for the Death …

Here we go again. From the New York Daily News: Maybe Donald Trump doesn’t know what sarcasm means. The GOP presidential nominee blasted the media early Friday for allegedly misunderstanding the sarcasm in his assertion that President Obama founded ISIS — and just hours after he claimed he really meant what he said. “Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that …

Clip recap: Shocking news: gay people are having sex at the Olympics. And now a reporter has outed some of them — with potentially serious consequences, since some may face persecution back home. Is there any chance we can turn this into an opportunity to do some good, by talking about the changes we need to see around the world?

JMG reader Chris points us to a just-posted Hulu clip in which the Triumph The Comic Dog team shows a focus group of Trump supporters a series of increasingly insane fake campaign ads. As you might expect, the Trumpbots not only do not object to the ads, they offer sincere suggestions on how to make them even crazier.  Watch below.

USA Today reports: Gannett Co., — the parent company of USA TODAY — and The New York Times Co. asked the New York Supreme Court Thursday to unseal the records of Donald Trump’s 1990 divorce from Ivana Trump. The divorce was granted on the ground of “cruel and inhuman treatment” but Donald and Ivana Trump later reached a settlement. The …

The Globe & Mail reports: As early as this autumn, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will apologize on behalf of all Canadians to those who were imprisoned, fired from their jobs or otherwise persecuted in the past because of their sexuality. That apology is a key element in a broad range of reforms that will collectively represent one of the greatest …

The Clinton campaign this afternoon forwarded to the media a blistering Huffington Post article which denounces Donald Trump for his address today to a group of anti-LGBT activists hosted by the Liberty Counsel. Here is the article in full: Donald Trump has said he’s the best ally to the LGBT community in this election cycle. The best, just the greatest. …

At today’s Liberty Counsel event. Bloomberg reports: Trump implored Christian conservatives gathered at a Pastors and Pews event in Orlando, Florida, Thursday to go “spread the word” about why he’ll be a good president. “This may be the most important election that our country has ever had. So go out and spread the word,” an unusually soft-spoken Trump said at …

Any professional fundraiser will tell you that the best way guarantee donations is to tell your supporters how much they suck for not sending enough. From Brian Brown: NOM began our critical Summer Membership Drive on July 22nd. We’re now three weeks into our drive — the halfway point — and we have only received 256 contributions from our members. …

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: The folks at Homeschoolers Anonymous recently got their hands on some old workbook pages used at the Institute of Basic Life Principles. That would be the Christian ministry founded by Bill Gothard, a man who resigned as President a couple of years ago after 34 women accused him of sexual harassment. In these …