Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Today’s court case in New Mexico ended with a WIN: Judge Alan Malott ruled Monday afternoon that state law doesn’t prevent same-sex couples from marrying in New Mexico. Malott ruled that the Bernalillo and Santa Fe county clerks must grant marriage licenses to gay couples who apply for them. The court ruling concerns a lawsuit filed on behalf of three …

JMG reader AC sends along this quote from Mary Lambert, who also sang on Mackelmore’s Same Love, which used the chorus from this song. “Two years ago, I [searched] YouTube for a main-stream music video that depicted a lesbian relationship. I was disappointed, shocked and a little hurt that I couldn’t find a single one. Sure, there were hot girls …

As you probably know, earlier this summer the most infamous “ex-gay” group, Exodus International, shut down after declaring that “ex-gay” therapy is a crock of harmful bullshit that doesn’t work.  “Ex-gay” activist Christopher Doyle now says Exodus owes people like him an apology and has even written the apology letter that he feels Exodus should issue. From the letter: Dear …

Yesterday Charlotte held its first gay pride parade in 19 years. Since the last parade in 1994, the celebration had been limited to a festival in a city park.  Attendance for the weekend of festivities was 70,000-75,000, including 20,000 for the parade, said media chairman Matt Comer. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police don’t typically release crowd sizes for public events. The parade was …

Clip recap: This week’s all about New Mexico, where we’ve got surprise weddings, new lawsuits, old lawsuits, and emergency orders. Meanwhile there’s a hearing coming up to determine whether those Pennsylvania weddings actually counted, new organizing in Tennessee and Arkansas and Indiana, and a special session in Hawaii.

Slate today announced the launch of Outward, a new section of the site that “won’t be just another one-note, mainstream ‘gay news’ blog.” Um, ouch? Being made of the same ornery stuff as the rest of Slate, Outward will be a haven for passionate expressions of underrepresented and controversial points of view that we hope will make you think, make …

Australian snowboarder Belle Brockhoff, 20, who hopes to compete at the Sochi Olympics, has come out, but is worried about being open at the Games. “I have a feeling that I would have to kinda go back into the closet a little bit because I don’t want to risk my, like, you know, safety, being arrested or deported. I want …

Via Good As You.

Russia Today reports that the lower house of Russia’s parliament is working on a bill that would allegedly provide “ex-gay” therapy to anybody who asks for it.  David Badash ponders the possibilities at New Civil Rights Movement: The “therapy” supposedly would be anonymous and voluntary. But given Russia’s current war on the LGBT community, how long would it be before …

After the wedding photography ruling in New Mexico last week, anti-gay and Christian groups predictably screamed about the (mythical) right of businesses to refuse service to anyone. Raw Story reports on a South Carolina restaurant exercising that “right”: A group of customers at a Wild Wing restaurant in Charleston, SC were forced to wait two hours for their table and …