Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The right wing Hindu nationalist party that supported India’s recent recriminalization of homosexuality has swept to power in a landslide election. Via the Independent: India’s ruling Congress party admitted defeat this morning as the Narendra Modi wave washed over the country in a scale few had predicted. Initial counting in the country’s general election pointed to a massive victory for …

Via press release: On the eve of the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released an emotive, new video that focuses on the impact that each of us can have by sharing our own stories and by showing our support for our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender …

Via the Spokesman-Review: Thousands of couples have tied the knot at the Hitching Post, an institution in Coeur d’Alene right up there with the famous Hudson’s Hamburgers. But the popular wedding chapel across the street from the Kootenai County Courthouse will not perform marriages for same-sex couples, even if that means closing its doors after 95 years in business. “We …

The Liberty Counsel yesterday filed a brief with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in which they claim that Michigan must not allow same-sex marriage because it would somehow increase the incidence of STDs. Not only is there no bodily good or function toward which two same-sex bodies can coordinate, but there are in fact inherent harms associated with same-sex …

Below is a supercut of the Idaho GOP gubernatorial debate. About the guy dressed like a biker: Idaho GOP gubernatorial candidate Harley Brown is running as the “candid candidate,” and he rode the candidness to the end of the line during a debate Wednesday evening, calling political correctness “bondage,” and defending his right to impugn everyone from Jews to blacks …

Nobody seems to have noticed that millions of teabaggers are in DC today to overthrow the federal government. Phase 1 – Field millions, as many as ten million, patriots who will assemble in a peaceful, non-violent, physically unarmed (Spiritually/Constitutionally armed), display of unswerving loyalty to the US Constitution and against the incumbent government leadership, in Washington, D.C., with the mission …

After two years in Santa Fe, Armistead Maupin and his husband have moved back to San Francisco. They’re renting a ground-floor flat in a Castro cottage, both “craving village life again,” said Maupin. They’re going to keep their house in Santa Fe “because we love it, putting it up on Airbnb in hopes, of course, that it will pay for …

Moscow authorities have banned a parade that would have honored Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst. Although homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia in 1990s, animosity toward gays remains strong in Russia. The county last year passed a law banning the dissemination to minors of so-called “gay propaganda” and routinely rejects applications to hold gay rights demonstrations. Alexei Maiorov, head of Moscow’s security …

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