Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Posted today to NOM’s blog: Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak is launching an ad campaign encouraging Wisconsin same-sex couples to come to his town to ‘marry’. The campaign, which will start running in Milwaukee and Madison area publications, is already being called a shameless attempt at self-promotion, with the mayor simply using marriage to raise his own profile. Keep in mind, …

Via press release: Free weddings services for same-sex couples are now being offered by humanist celebrants for active duty military personnel. This national endeavor is in support of the Jan. 2014 implementation of full spousal rights for same-sex couples in the military. Scores of humanist celebrants certified by the American Humanist Association’s Humanist Society are waiving their ceremony fee as …

The plan to place marriage equality on Arizona’s 2014 ballot has been dropped. Equal Marriage Arizona, which filed paperwork in June to gather signatures for the ballot measure, announced Monday that it will shut down its campaign. “The various LGBT advocacy groups in the state and nationally announced they weren’t going to throw their support behind the initiative,” said Equal …

The daughter of basketball superstar Michael Jordan has come out via her Instagram account. On 29 August, Jordan’s only daughter Jasmine, 20, posted a photograph of herself and girlfriend Tyson-Thomas on the site with the caption: “This Little Closet Is Holding Me Back.” Responding to users’ questions on whether or not she was gay, she confirmed that it is true. …

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Here’s a live-stream of today’s iPhone announcement. UPDATE: The live-stream has concluded. Details about the new $99 phone are here.

New York Magazine reports that Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson has been fired over tweets like the ones above. Dickinson got in hot water yesterday over his most recent string of tweets about feminism, misogyny, and women in tech. A look at his tweets from over the years uncovered many more instances of Dickinson bashing feminists, gays, and the poor, …

The DCist provides a review: Deathfix—the Dischord Records supergroup comprised of [Blowoff DJ] Richard Morel, Fugazi’s Brendan Canty, and Medications’ Mark Cisnero, and new drummer Jerry Busher—released their debut self-titled album early this year, and it’s still a frontrunner for one of my favorite albums of 2013. Today, the psychedelic post-punk band put out a music video for their goofy, …