Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Back April, Hercules & Love Affair teamed up with gay singer/songwriter John Grant, whose 2013 hit Pale Green Ghosts topped my year-end list of favorites, for a song about coming out as HIV-positive. That video featured smoking hot dancers, as does this one. Via press release: The inspiration for the video came from Hercules & Love Affair’s founder Andy Butler …

Lyle Denniston writes for SCOTUSblog: The same-sex marriage constitutional controversy reached the Supreme Court on Monday in its simplest form, testing the constitutionality of a state’s denial of a right to marry for same-sex couples. That is the sole issue raised in a new petition filed by a Michigan lesbian couple who want to marry and want the right for …

Same-sex marriages commenced yesterday in Kansas following the three-day waiting period that began on Thursday. However nearly 100 of the state’s 105 counties continue to refuse gay couples as state Attorney General Derek Schmidt presses his claim that last week’s ruling only applies to two counties. Therefore, Wikipedia’s marriage map monitor has regressed his map and applied the red stripes …

From the Family Research Council: Are you ready to make your voice heard to the Arkansas Supreme Court about the sanctity of marriage? Are you tired of judges running roughshod over the will of Arkansas’ voters? If you are, then I want to invite you to an important rally on the Capitol Steps in Little Rock. On Wednesday, November 19, …

Via CBS Miami: Rodrigo Lehtinen grew up in a household grounded in Republican politics. His mother, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, was the first Cuban-American elected to Congress and has served in the House for the last 25 years. His father, Dexter Lehtinen, is the former US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who oversaw the indictment of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. …

John Smid, former leader of the “ex-gay” group Love In Action, married a man in Oklahoma on Sunday. Via the Memphis Flyer: Smid has been living as an out gay man for several years now, and he’s been in a relationship with [Larry] McQueen for one year. Gay marriage just became legal in Oklahoma last month. The couple live in …

“This is something the people of the state of Mississippi voted overwhelmingly to support, and now a judge is saying it’s unconstitutional. It’s in the courts and we certainly turn to the Attorney General to put up a vigorous defense and appeal.” – Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, on the likely overturn of his state’s ban on same-sex marriage. The ruling …

The American Family Association, which says it wants corporations to “remain neutral” in the culture wars, has launched a boycott of PetSmart for remaining neutral. For years, PetSmart has refused to use the word Christmas on its website, in television commercials, newspaper ads and in-store promotions, despite tens of thousands of consumer requests to recognize Christmas and in spite of …

UPDATE: Swaggart has had the clip pulled via a copyright claim. Here’s how Right Wing Watch recapped the clip: During the show, Swaggart asserted that, like ISIS, gay rights activists in America would publicly behead Christians if they could get away with it. “All of this is to shut the Bible up,” Swaggart declared. “They want the Bible gone. And …