Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via ABC News: During his appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday night, Bernie Sanders remained amenable to debating Donald Trump — a proposition raised by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee during his visit to the late-night talk show the previous evening. “You made it possible for us to have a very interesting debate about two guys who look at the …

Via press release from Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood: “Last year, the Office of Attorney General joined a lawsuit in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Department of Justice from interfering with the way in which local schools operate their restrooms. For that reason, I chose not to join the Texas lawsuit. I also have concerns on …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Earlier today, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, put a new spin on his “gay island” story, arguing on the House floor that the push for LGBT rights is wrong because we would never choose to send gay couples or gay animals into space to start a new colony like in the Matt Damon movie …

Religion News Service reports: For years, seminaries and monasteries around France sent students and novices to Monsignor Tony Anatrella, a prominent French priest and therapist who has written disparagingly of gays, if their superiors decided the young men were struggling with homosexuality. Now Anatrella, who argues that gay men cannot be ordained as priests, is facing mounting allegations that he …

From the San Diego Union-Tribune: Major League Baseball completed its investigation of Saturday’s national anthem mixup involving the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus and Thursday reaffirmed the Padres’ findings that it was the result of human error. Shortly after the announcement, Padres President and CEO Mike Dee tweeted that the Padres have reinstated DJ ArtForm, the third-party contractor they terminated …

Mediaite recaps: The last time Marco Rubio and Jake Tapper spoke on CNN, Rubio said he has some concerns about Donald Trump. When they reconvened today, Rubio said he wants to help Trump however he can to defeat Hillary Clinton. Yes, Rubio no longer appears to be simply passively for his party’s nominee. He told Tapper today he’s committing to …

From the Facebook page of noted HIV/AIDS activist Peter Staley: “Feeling used and abused by the Sanders campaign right now. They just issued a press release making it sound like our meeting was about his endorsement of AHF’s drug pricing ballot initiative in CA. Senator Sanders never brought the issue up during our meeting. WE brought it up near the …

From the New York Daily News: Walmart, the country’s biggest retailer, is staying silent about its transgender bathroom policies. The Arkansas-based corporation repeatedly refused to reveal its stance about transgender bathroom use for its shoppers and employees, despite requests by the Daily News every day for the past week. Inquiries to Walmart’s media relations team were first sent last Tuesday, …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On his television program last night, Glenn Beck sat down with Rabbi Daniel Lapin to discuss Lapin’s contention that Donald Trump represents the only hope for saving America. Beck, of course, has been a consistent and vocal critic of Trump and has repeatedly vowed never to vote for him, but Lapin did his …

Yikes. From the Washington Post: For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean “the end of the road” for antibiotics. The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania …