Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via the Boise Statesman Review: After years of denying a hearing for proposals to ban discrimination against gays, Idaho legislators decided Wednesday to let a committee debate the issue. On a 6-1 vote, the Idaho House’s leadership committee agreed Wednesday to introduce the “Add the Words” bill, a measure to amend the Idaho Human Rights Act to add the words …

“Ex-gay” crackpot David Pickup (real name!) has posted the above billboard in the Dallas area. Zack Ford reports at Think Progress: ThinkProgress spoke with Terry Kafka, president of Impact Outdoor Advertising, the small Dallas billboard company that is hosting the ad. Kafka explained that they had been convinced the ad was for couples therapy, having never heard the term “reparative …

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John Wright reports at Towleroad: The passenger who went on a drunken, violent, anti-gay rampage that was caught on video at DFW International Airport in October will pay $474 in fines for the incident, according to a court spokeswoman. McCleish Christmas Benham, now 28, of Shelbyville, Tennessee, assaulted two people while yelling anti-gay epithets, before other passengers tackled him to …

InTouch has angered transgender advocates with a photoshopped cover image of Bruce Jenner. BuzzFeed reports that the magazine appears to have superimposed Jenner’s face on that of British actress Stephanie Beacham, lipstick and all. Hollywood Life, an entertainment blog, also quotes an “insider” who claims that Jenner plans to come out as a transgender woman in a future issue of …

“After 30 years of distinguished public service, the mayor fired Kelvin Cochran because he self-published a 160-page book written for his church Bible study. This is not the first story we’ve heard about government’s attack on our religious freedoms. In this case, only one half of one page in his book discussed the Biblical view of homosexuality. This example provides …

UPDATE: Full list of nominees. Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash Best Director Alexandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman Richard Linklater, Boyhood Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game Best Actor Steve Carell, Foxcatcher Bradley Cooper, American Sniper Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game Michael Keaton, Birdman Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of …

Quarterly book report time. What are you reading?

“Dear Joe, I’ve just come from a meeting with top Washington leaders, and I had to contact you right away. Many conservative leaders are worried about the Republican leadership’s ability to resist the Homosexual Lobby. Even after pro-Family voters worked so hard to break the Homosexual Lobby’s stranglehold on Congress. GOP leadership is under tremendous insider pressure to throw conservatives …

“If I do it, I’ll be on all the ballots. I’m not doing it to make a statement. I’m doing it to challenge the country and offer what I have to offer to the American people and my party.”