Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Today at 3:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT news items making headlines here on JMG. Mike’s channel is SiriusXM Progress 127 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What’s on your mind?

A couple of weeks ago I posted the lyric video to this track and today we get the production clip. I’ve already added this to my best-of-2014 playlist. The Brunhilde interlude is adorable and an extra point for the literal coming out of the closet.

Days after his shocking primary loss to a Tea Party challenger, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced that he was resigning his GOP leadership position. Today he announced that later this month he will leave Congress entirely. Cantor said he has asked Gov. Terry McAuliffe to call a special election for his district that coincides with the general election …

Whenever Porno Pete LaBarbera goes silent for a few days on Twitter, I usually figure that he’s out slithering around some kink event with his camera. And sure enough, his recent absence from the Twittersphere came because he was stalking the attendees of last weekend’s Up Your Alley Fair, the smaller version of San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair that precedes …

After President Obama mentioned the loss of HIV/AIDS researchers on the downed Malaysian Airlines flight, hate group spokesman Bryan Fischer declared that Obama was “politicizing” their deaths in order to legitimize gay relationships. Fischer went on to claim, “We know how to stop AIDS: persuade men not to have sex with men.” PolitiFact looked into Fischer’s bullshit and gave him …

Zack Ford has the story at Think Progress: After New Jersey passed its ban on ex-gay therapy for minors last year, two lawsuits were filed challenging the law, one by therapists wishing to continue to practice the harmful treatment and one by a family seeking to continue the treatment for their son. In November, a federal judge ruled against the …

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has personally officiated gay weddings, says the Court will definitely hear the same-sex marriage cases heading their way. Appeals courts in Denver and Richmond, Virginia, have upheld lower court rulings striking down state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage. Any of those cases could make their way to the Supreme Court in the coming …

Via the BBC: Uganda’s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed by MPs in December without the requisite quorum and was therefore illegal. Homosexual acts were already illegal, but the new law allowed for life imprisonment for “aggravated homosexuality” and banned the “promotion of homosexuality”. Several donors have …

“Blissed-out pop” from Toronto. Like a crunchier early Blondie.

Brokered by the UN and Secretary Of State John Kerry: In a statement released in New Delhi where Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling, the U.S. and U.N. said they had gotten assurances that all parties to the conflict in Gaza had agreed to an unconditional cease-fire during which there would be negotiations on a more durable truce in …