Joe.My.God. LGBT News

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 …

This weekend New York state Attorney General sued Donald Trump for $40M, claiming that his Trump University is a bait-and-switch scam. In response, Trump’s camp has already launched a website attacking Schneiderman. From the site: “98% of Trump University students rated the program ‘excellent’ while only 4% of New York State registered voters rated Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s performance as …

“Last Wednesday, New Jersey Assemblyman Tim Eustace, who sponsored the bill and is openly homosexual, bombastically compared change therapy to ‘beating a child’ and suggested the government take children seeking change away from their parents. He told Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, ‘What this does is prevent things that are harmful to people. If a parent were beating their child on …