Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Promising news out of Hawaii: Hawaii state House Democrats will meet this week to gauge whether they can come up with the votes to pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. If there is sufficient support, and if legislative leaders can agree on language that would withstand court challenges, Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) will call a special session to deal with …

A mayoral campaign press conference for New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn turned violent yesterday when an anti-Quinn protester slapped openly gay state Sen. Brad Hoylman in the face. The protester, seen above shaking his fist at openly gay former state Sen. Tom Duane, said that he blames Quinn for the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital in the West …

The Miss Universe pageant has responded to a Change.org petition which demands that this year’s event be moved from Moscow. Via press release: The Miss Universe Organization believes in equality for all individuals and is deeply concerned by the laws recently enacted in Russia and currently in place in several other countries. Both the law, as well as the violence …

The airline held New Zealand’s first-ever “same-sex marriage in the skies” yesterday and is promoting this clip with a sponsored hashtag on Twitter. (Tipped by JMG reader Russell)

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia blathered his usual crapola before a room packed with wingnuts in Montana yesterday. “It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Scalia said to the audience at a Federalist Society event in Bozeman, Mt., presumably talking about the Court’s recent rulings on marriage equality. When the Court ruled against …

A new poll out of Taiwan shows 53% support same-sex marriage. In 2003 the government proposed legalizing same-sex marriage but backed down after facing opposition from legislators.  More from the poll: Younger highly educated people without a clear religious background were the most likely to support legal marriage or to change a previous negative attitude, Chien said. Of respondents between …

Via the Columbus Dispatch: An amusement park here is canceling a wedding contest after a gay couple organized a protest against the promotion. Cedar Point amusement park initially limited the contest to heterosexual couples because it said state law doesn’t allow gay couples to legally marry in Ohio. A spokesman says the park decided to cancel the event once it …

“Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship. Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator; I believe I should be only an American. Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, because I left Calgary when …

Montreal Pride was this weekend with rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker as Grand Marshal. The host of this clip is Bugs Burnett, who is sometimes referred to as Montreal’s version of Michael Musto.