Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö this morning signed his nation’s marriage equality bill into law, but marriages will not commence until March 2017. The signing was an historic occasion also in respect to the fact that this will be the first piece of legislation brought to Parliament as a citizens’ initiative and approved as the law of the land. Now that …

Via the Associated Press: An HIV-positive man who told a partner that they could safely have unprotected sex should face a misdemeanor reckless endangerment charge, not a felony, New York’s highest court ruled Thursday. The Court of Appeals said Terrance Williams didn’t expose his partner “out of any malevolent desire” to give him the virus that causes AIDS, though he …

Judging by the tweets of those in the courthouse, things went very well at yesterday’s marriage hearing in Nebraska. Via Omaha’s NBC affiliate: A federal judge is promising quick action on a request to tell the state of Nebraska that it immediately must recognize same-sex marriages while a lawsuit challenging the state’s gay marriage ban proceeds. A hearing before U.S. …

Via the Independent Online: A lesbian and gay rights campaign organisation has hit out at the Cape Town Pride, saying the celebration does not represent the black homosexual community and it will not be supported. “Free Gender has made the decision to continue to suspend its support for the upcoming Cape Town Pride 2015,” said Funeka Soldaat, who is the …

“Let’s think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings.  Let’s think also of genetic manipulation, of the manipulation of life, or of the gender theory, that does not recognize the order of creation. With this attitude, man commits a new sin, that against God the Creator. The …

Via the Guardian: Voters in the Irish Republic will decide whether to approve same-sex marriage on 22 May after the Taoiseach announced the date for a referendum. Enda Kenny announced the date that voters in the republic will cast their ballots during an interview on RTÉ television on Thursday night. He said the referendum would underline Ireland’s reputation as a …

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“Tech giant Apple was outed for firing an Alabama lobbyist who had supported natural marriage when he was a state legislator! Like FRC’s Craig James, who never mentioned his views on the job, Jay Love got the boot for voicing his opinion years earlier as a state legislator. A local Alabama newspaper smoked Love out in a hit piece that …

Via Rolling Stone: If there’s a riot grrrl poster child for the 21st century, it’s Tina Belcher, the 13-year-old, butt-loving, self-proclaimed “smart, strong sensual woman” at the heart of Fox’s animated show, Bob’s Burgers. And if she needed an anthem, she got one in the form of Sleater-Kinney’s “A New Wave.” Sleater-Kinney teamed up with the Bob’s Burgers crew for …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tonight declared that the marriage performed this morning in Travis County is “void” due to this afternoon’s ruling by the state Supreme Court. Via USA Today: “The Court’s action upholds our state constitution and stays these rulings by activist judges in Travis County,” Paxton said in a statement. “The same-sex marriage license issued by the …