Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Clip recap: “We have a major setback this week in Australia, but there’s still a glimmer of hope. Marriage equality hearings are coming up in two unlikely states: Arkansas and Texas. An Oregon ballot measure passes a major hurdle, and organizers launch a new public outreach campaign on the east coast.”

An insurance company provides the above ranking based on per capita tickets for speeding, careless driving, and failure to obey traffic signals.  Other rankings have yielded different results by calculating the per capita rates of DUIs and fatal crashes. (Tipped by JMG reader Jack)

Via Broadway Cares: The 25th anniversary celebration of Gypsy of the Year, the culmination of six weeks of extraordinary fundraising by 56 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies, raised an amazing $4,343,234 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. On December 9 and 10, 2013, the show’s energetic opening number featured Klea Blackhurst as Ethel Merman comparing gypsies of her day …

In fact, nowhere in the judge’s 91-page ruling do the words “same-sex marriage” appear.  What the judge DID cite is Lawrence V Texas, which overturned statewide bans on sodomy by declaring that all consenting adult Americans have a right to sexual privacy in their own homes. But the pesky truth is unimportant over at Breitbart, not even to “senior legal …

“This decision is a real war on women and children as polygamy is a practice that has historically devalued the role of women and undermined the equality of a husband and wife that has become the standard in Western Civilization. The increasing awareness of the collateral cultural and religious carnage that accompanies the redefinition of natural marriage will cause the …

Media Matters notes that Louisiana’s major newspapers have so far largely refused to report on hate group leader Tony Perkin’s vile anti-gay history and his associations with white supremacist groups as he considers a run for the US House. As he contemplates taking his extremist act to the halls of Congress, it appears that Perkins won’t have to worry about …

Shrieking harpy Pam Geller is battling yet another transit agency. The Jew-haters are at it again. The relentless Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) has launched another vicious Goebbels-style blood libel against the Jews in Seattle. Yes, this is Seattle where we are moving forward with our lawsuit against Seattle transit for their refusal to run our FBI Global Faces of …

There are thousands of wild chickens all over Key West and this little family unit started to follow me back to Island House after I shared some of my brioche from Old Town Bakery.  There have been periodic attempts to round up the chickens, but it’s against the law here to kill them. Because voodoo. Seriously.

Via press release: ‘Tis the season to share the joys of what it means to be a family. In 34 states, some couples can’t marry because of who they love. Tell the governors of those states that all families should be protected. Share the holiday photos of your family — whether you’re LGBT or an ally — with the governors …