Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Deadspin has what may be the biggest scoop of last night’s opening ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics, noting that NBC edited out IOC president Thomas Bach making a “strong statement against ‘any form of discrimination’ and in favor of tolerance.” Everybody else in the world heard Bach’s statement, but Americans did not.  Below is the edited-out portion of the speech. …

The artist, who goes by the handle ida4, tells me on Twitter that the image can be seen on Newcastle’s Scotswood Road next door to the Eagle nightclub.

Yesterday’s Dilbert comic strip outed the long-running Indian intern character Asok in panels that criticized India’s recent recriminaliztion of homosexuality. As several JMG readers noted, the gay-themed strip did not appear in some newspapers around the country, where older strips were rerun. The Sandusky Register yesterday wrote about the substitution: Today and Saturday, the syndicate distributing “Dilbert” — in an …

“Dear Joe, Governor McAuliffe’s auditors are still bearing down on your Public Advocate. As you might have heard, ever since our protest of Virginia’s gubernatorial inauguration Public Advocate has become the center of a media storm. As a result of our activism, Public Advocate has been targeted by bureaucrats for the first time ever. In addition, the allies of the …

Their performance didn’t make it into NBC’s edited coverage of the opening ceremonies, but yesterday the Russian Ministry Of Internal Affairs Choir (yes, there’s such a thing) covered Daft Punk’s global smash Get Lucky. Truly bizarre. Entertainment Weekly has a amusing set of screencaps. Watch the performance at NBC’s Olympics site.

Earlier today ten LGBT activists were arrested for waving rainbow flags in Moscow’s Red Square. According to text messages from the arrested Russians to a Swedish activist who was also arrested but was released first, the police beat two of the activists still in custody and threatened them with sexual assault. A text message transcript via Buzzfeed: Me:: “We didn’t …

After her moving and eloquent speech about homophobia went viral, a campaign was launched to name Irish drag queen Panti Bliss as the grand marshal of Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. But the chance of that happening appears to be slim. Organisers have said that the process to select who leads the parade “is well underway and this year’s Grand …

GLAAD cheers via press release: Earlier this week we saw the first gay families included in a Super Bowl ad, and tonight we see the first gay families included in an Olympics Opening Ceremony. “Chevrolet has nailed it with ads that truly reflect the fabric of our nation, which today includes gay and lesbian families,” said GLAAD President and CEO …

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Via Huffington Post: Canadian bobsledder Justin Kripps says his personal website has been censored in Russia. Kripps tweeted Friday that he could not access his site from Krasnaya Polayna, where some of the Sochi Olympic events are being held. Others who tried to access the site from Russia got the same message, which says it has been blocked because of …