Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Media Matters notes: Starnes is one of Fox News’ most rabid purveyors of homophobia. He has urged fans to donate to anti-gay hate groups, endorsed anti-LGBT business discrimination, promoted the conspiracy theory that President Obama is secretly gay, and blamed “heterophobic bigots” for the withdrawal of an anti-gay pastor from Obama’s inaugural ceremony. While Starnes is keen to malign supporters …

This is the same guy that’s trying to get Staten Island to secede from New York City. Details.

After complaints from GLAAD, the A&E network has issued an “apology” from Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. Via press release: “I myself am a product of the 60s; I centered my life around sex, drugs and rock and roll until I hit rock bottom and accepted Jesus as my Savior. My mission today is to go forth and tell people …

“There is a move to legitimatize this type of blood. It’s been banned but the efforts to legitimatize it in my estimation are occurring because there is a lifestyle that is abnormal, that is the target of normalization. Meaning, if they can make it normal to circulate homosexual blood; if they can make it normal to have same genders marrying …

I wonder if the wingnuts will go after Fox for this.

From Oregon Public Radio: Eric Marcoux and Eugene Woodworth have been together since they the day they met in Chicago in 1953. “I am here today to be legally married to Eugene Woodworth, with whom I have had an intimate deeply committed relationship for a little over sixty years,” Marcoux says. Marcoux is 83 years old and Woodworth is 85. …

Openly gay singer Mary Lambert, who guested on Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis’ monster hit Same Love, is back with a truly lovely live take on the classic. I met Lambert at a GLAAD event a few months ago and she could not have been more charming.

“One reason why I chose to come out publicly is that I’m a gay guy in a gun world. Hunters, sport shooting enthusiasts, and collectors are too often stereotyped as part of efforts to politicize guns as we witnessed last week on the anniversary of the horrific Newtown tragedy. Take it from someone who in a single package is not …

Kmart has launched a holiday version of their “Ship My Pants” campaign and you-know-who isn’t going to like this.