Joe.My.God. LGBT News

From Australia’s Daily Telegraph: Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he will “do the right thing” and attend his gay sister’s wedding but could never support the marriage. And his sister Christine Forster’s engagement to partner Virginia Edwards will not dim his Government’s fight against the country’s first same-sex marriage laws in the ACT. “If there’s a ceremony of some kind, …

From the Newark Star-Ledger: Wrapping up a historical week for same-sex couples in New Jersey, Jersey City’s Pint Bar will be hosting a “Big Gay Wedding Reception” on Saturday at 5 p.m. Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop conducted eight marriages at 12:01 a.m. and other couples have been married across the county Monday, the first day that same-sex couples could …

Celebration from Lambda Legal.

According to Britain’s New Music Express, The Smith’s 1986 album, The Queen Is Dead, is the greatest of all time. In his number one best-selling book Autobiography, Morrissey attacks the NME and accuses the influential magazine of conspiring to “get” him. But it seems that any grudge once held by the alternative music publication’s staff has long since passed, as …

“The citizens of this great Commonwealth should be revolted that a politician such as Rep. Metcalfe is attempting to thwart an independent Attorney General from doing her job by using such a measure. I have never been afraid of or backed down from bullies. In fact, bullies strengthen my resolve to protect those who need it the most – the …

Boy George today posted his coming album, This Is What I Do, in full on YouTube.  The album opens with the truly lovely first single, King Of Everything.

Via the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Democrat Terry McAuliffe leads Republican Ken Cuccinelli 46 percent to 39 percent among likely Virginia voters while 10 percent back third-party candidate Robert C. Sarvis, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, less than two weeks before the election. Though 47 percent of the voters say the federal government shutdown hurt the defense-heavy state “a …

Will you be dressing up for Halloween this year? Also tell us about your favorite costumes from years past. RELATED: NYC’s famed Village Halloween Parade (above) will be back this year, in part thanks to a generous donation from the grand marshal Kelly Ripa. The event nearly went under after being canceled last year due to Frankenstorm Sandy. Organizers reportedly …

For those unaware, those statues are part of George Segal’s Gay Liberation monument in Christopher Park, which is in Sheridan Square in the West Village. Stewart had a scene with the statues in the 1995 movie, Jeffrey. (Via Towleroad)

Please don’t shoo away disgusting, disease-carrying flying rats just because they shit all over everything. You wouldn’t like it if they did that to you.