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I missed this story on Friday but it’s too cute to pass up.

(Tipped by JMG reader Scott)

At the close of its annual convention on Saturday, the Texas GOP formally approved a party platform plank that endorses “ex-gay” therapy. The new anti-gay language was pushed through without debate at the Fort Worth conference as roughly 7,000 delegates ratified a party platform that tea party groups succeeded in pushing further to the right, including winning a harder line …

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For what is believed to be the first time in American history, an armed services color guard marched in a gay pride parade yesterday in Washington DC. Via Stars & Stripes: While no policy has precluded a U.S. armed forces color guard from participating in gay-rights events since the 2011 repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, gay-rights organizations from D.C. …

Only four years after its launch, the company behind the car service app Uber is now worth more than Avis and Hertz combined. Via Forbes: Uber’s meteoric rise has led to a recent round of valuation-guessing, which started at $12 billion and edged up to Friday, when the Wall Street Journal reported the company said it’s raising $1.2 billion — …

Clip description: Each year, in celebration of the past, present and future of our city’s musical legacy, Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony commission world-class composers to write orchestral world premieres inspired by bands and artists that launched from, or are related to, Seattle. In addition to writing a brand new composition inspired by Seattle’s own Sir Mix-A-Lot, composer Gabriel …

Via the Associated Press: A Salt Lake City police officer has been placed on leave after refusing an assignment to work at a gay pride parade. The officer was among about 30 officers assigned to provide traffic control and security for the annual Utah Pride Parade on Sunday in Salt Lake City, said department spokeswoman Lara Jones. “We don’t tolerate …

JMG reader Dave Evans has compiled an hour of gay-related news reports that aired in the 1980s. Among the topics: hate crimes, housing rights, HIV/AIDS, immigration rights, pride parades, Barney Frank, Ronald Reagan, the 20th anniversary of Stonewall, the NAMES Project,  and rather interestingly, Houston’s 1985 battle for LGBT rights. PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Compilations of gay news in the 1970s …

Since $5 from the sale of every JMG t-shirt goes to the Ali Forney Center, it’s only appropriate that our first model is AFC founder Carl Siciliano, seen here with his pet pig Sophie, who has her own Facebook page.  Get your own shirt here – you don’t get a pet pig, but you do get a copy of the …