Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Moments ago the Kentucky Senate voted 22-16 to approve a bill which would overturn all local LGBT rights laws in the state. Cities with LGBT protections include Covington, Danville, Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville, Midway, Morehead, and Vicco. Democrats have a slim 53-47 majority in the Kentucky House, but if the bill passes there, anti-gay Gov. Matt Bevin will surely sign it.

Failed 2014 US House candidate Clay Aiken, who was also the runner-up on both American Idol and Celebrity Apprentice, appeared on Fox News today where he declared, “Donald Trump is like your drunk uncle. You love him, but you never know what he’s going to do.” His comments spawned an immediate Twitter backlash and above is his response. Aiken is …

Watch live here. Just in from Fairness Kentucky: Senate Bill 180, Senator Albert Robinson’s “License to Discriminate,” is set for a vote by the full Kentucky Senate this afternoon. SB180 narrowly cleared the Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee two weeks ago, when the bill’s sponsor admitted his intent is to undo LGBT discrimination protections in eight Kentucky …

Today is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 83rd birthday and progressives are flooding Twitter with well wishes. The Huffington Post has published a compilation of RBG’s most famous quotes. Here’s one for us: “In recent years, people have said, ‘This is the way I am.’ And others looked around, and we discovered it’s our next-door neighbor — we’re very …

Via Rolling Stone: No matter how many delegates Hillary Clinton picks up during Tuesday’s primaries, the Democratic frontrunner will undoubtedly receive a bigger boost among young voters the next night: She’s making a guest appearance episode of Broad City. Comedy Central has released a preview clip of the candidate’s cameo, and — given the extent to which Abbi and Ilana …

Pundits are heralding today’s primaries as do-or-die for Marco Rubio, John Kasich, and to a less extent, Bernie Sanders. If you’re voting today, tell us about your experience at the polls. Also weigh in below with your forecasts. I’ll bump this post up a couple of times today and will be working tonight until we have all the results.

Right Wing Watch has the quote: “The person responsible for fomenting political unrest is not Donald Trump,” Starnes said, “It’s President Obama. For the past seven and a half years, this man has been stoking division and discord. You want to talk about creating controversy? Fine. Let’s talk about Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, and Trayvon Martin. President Obama is the …

Oh, brother. Via People Magazine: Caitlyn Jenner is ready to make nice. On Monday night, the reality star posted a photo of herself posing with presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and a group of pals, including actress Candis Cayne, who already endorsed the Democrat. A Clinton campaign source recalls for PEOPLE that the photo was taken in January in Iowa after …

Via Jezebel: It was never outright stated that our ’90s childhood icon Xena: Warrior Princess was gay, but plenty of subtext was given to those who watched the series religiously. Well, Xena will definitely be gay in the reboot. This time around, there won’t be any suggestiveness about Xena’s (Lucy Lawless) relationship with her sheroic partner Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor). Xena …

And once again, Donald Trump doesn’t seem to understand how videotape works. Via Mediaite: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has rewritten every rule in electoral politics this cycle, so why not simply rewrite reality? In one of Trump’s more stunning displays of gumption-encrusted chutzpah, Trump now claims that he never offered to pay the legal fees of supporters who roughed …