Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Lambda Legal and the ACLU are first in the coming wave of demands that SCOTUS review last week’s ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court.  From their Ohio petition: These cases are about love, from birth to death. The relationships at the heart of each case involve the love spouses share, with each other and with the children they jointly raise, …

Darth Vader lays the Holy Word on errbody.

No excerpt, no post labels. Just go read this.

Via Orlando’s ABC affiliate: A same-sex couple living in Florida who used their marriage license to change their names on their drivers’ licenses just received a letter from the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles warning them that they are both in danger of losing their licenses. The warning came in the mail after Channel 9 did a story on how …

JMG reader Jay Sheckley has sent us an alternative map to the Wikipedia version posted here several times a week in recent months. Embiggen for the details.

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Cosplay costume alert. Via IO9: Right now, Hot Topic is selling seven sets — Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Captain America, He-Man and Skeletor — for just under $20 each (new Batman Underoos definitely exist, but they seem to be sold out online). Happily, besides being for kids and adults, that’s a 50/50 split of characters for guys …

On December 3rd, Harlem Against Violence & Homophobia will hold a fundraising event for the Ali Forney Center in response to the continuing attacks on the LGBT community by crackpot Pastor James David Manning, whose church is on the same street as Ali Forney’s drop-in center for homeless LGBT youth. “We can’t sit back and ignore the hateful words on …

The Church of God In Christ (COGIC) has released a statement about the young man whose renouncement of his gayness went wildly viral this week: A video, which is now viral, of a young man stating his deliverance from a particular lifestyle does not, in any capacity, speak to all of the remarkable things that transpired during this great church …

Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: In a statement published Thursday and joined by Scalia, Thomas complained that, while the court has generally heard cases when federal or state laws have been found to be unconstitutional by lower courts, the justices “have not done so with any consistency, especially in recent months” — specifically pointing to the various marriage cases that …