Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via Pink News: An online hoax has tricked thousands of people into calling the Westboro Baptist Church to ask about turkeys. An article from hoax site National Report claiming that turkeys were being recalled due to a dangerous strain of Avian flu went viral ahead of Thanksgiving this week, being shared thousands of times on Facebook. It claimed: “The CDC …

Finland today became the 12th European nation to legalize same-sex marriage. The vote was close. Via the Guardian: Gay couples in Finland have been able to enter into registered partnerships since 2002, but until now the country was the only in the Nordic region not to allow same-sex marriage. Finland is now the 12th European state to do so. In …

Even though a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was enacted by Slovakia earlier this year, an anti-gay group wants to make it super illegal and ban gay adoption at the same time. Via Gay Star News: Slovakian President Andrej Kiska has announced that the country will hold a referendum on same-sex marriage in early 2015. The conservative group, Alliance for …

Clip recap: James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves turn in subtle and brilliant performances in Merchant Ivory’s adaptation of E. M. Forster’s romantic, gay love story; “Maurice” (1987). Published after Forester’s death and hidden for decades, it concerns the romance of a two young men at Cambridge at the turn of the century, what their love affair costs them …

“We won’t have a faggot in our house.” Those are the words M heard after his mother died of cancer. He was 16. His mom had loved and accepted him. But not his aunt and uncle. They took in his little brother, but left M to fend for himself in the streets. M lived in a town in Florida that …

Strangely enough, this new clip is from last year’s Christmas album by Clarkson. Lovely track, nevertheless.

Brooks was scheduled to perform on the Tonight Show.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and state Attorney General Jim Hood this afternoon filed a motion with the Fifth Circuit Court which demands an indefinite stay extension on yesterday’s ruling by a federal district court. That court’s stay is scheduled to expire in two weeks and according to today’s filing, unless an emergency extension is granted, there will be another “debacle” …