Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Ninth in a monthly series.

From the My San Antonio news site: “So disgusting!” That exclamation escaped the lips of District 9 Councilwoman Elisa Chan on May 21 in her City Hall office, where she was meeting with members of her staff to discuss the city’s proposal to update its nondiscrimination ordinance, adding protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. In the course of the …

“Reince Priebus, when I got engaged, congratulated me at the White House Correspondents’ weekend. Last year, Sean Spicer congratulated me on getting married to my husband. Yet they incorporate into the platform of the RNC their stance against marriage equality. It’s odd, because why congratulate me? I didn’t bring it up, I didn’t say give me a congratulations, but they …

From Forbes‘ just-released 2013 rankings: 1. Calvin Harris ($46 million) 2. Tiesto ($32 million) 3. David Guetta ($30 million) 4. Swedish House Mafia ($25 million) 5. Deadmau5 ($21 million) 6. Avicii ($20 million) 7. Afrojack ($18 million) 8. Armin van Buuren ($17 million) 9 (tie). Skrillex ($16 million) 9 (tie). Kaskade ($16 million) 11. Steve Aoki ($14 million) 12. DJ …

Earlier this week a federal judge ruled that the NYPD’s infamous stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional.  Today the Bloomberg administration filed a notice of appeal of that ruling. Speaking Friday on his weekly radio show, Bloomberg blasted U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who earlier this week ruled the tactic was unconstitutional. “What does she know about policing? Absolutely zero,” Bloomberg …

Jezebel has some details: According to the letter, an unnumbered but significant amount of employees will no longer receive paid time off, will not be allowed to work more than 29.5 hours a week and will no longer have health insurance. The company has been inundated with numerous comments on their Facebook page from angry customers who say they will …

Groupon’s world headquarters is in Chicago.

More on this at Buzzfeed.

Another blow to the conspiracy theorists. A newly declassified CIA history from 20 years ago spills the story about Nevada’s Area 51 and its secret mission — which was not to study UFOs, but to test the U-2 and other spy planes. The CIA’s story about the legendary test site is contained in “The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: …

Earlier today the Republican National Committee approved a resolution calling for GOP presidential candidates to boycott CNN and NBC in 2016 because both networks are working on documentaries about Hillary Clinton.  The Democrats have fired back: “After last year’s electoral losses, the RNC pledged to do a better job reaching out to the voters they had systematically alienated – like …